Executives' attitudes to business slang

On cover: Commentaries and applied research for practitioners and educators. The Lincoln series of papers are designed to inform professionals and educators of developments and issues in finance and accounting today. The papers cover both commentaries and applied research. Professionals and educators who would like to share their views and research findings are welcome to contribute to the series.The purpose of this study was to go beyond the mountain of anecdotal evidence on this subject. and survey what the attitudes of executives were business slang. The finance directors, or their nominees, of 200 of Australia's largest 1000 companies were asked to complete a questionnaire designed to seek information about actual attitudes toward business slang expressions. It was considered that finance directors would be unlikely to have vested interest in this area, unlike Public Relations Managers who are often the professional wordsmiths for their organisations. For this study, the term "business slang expression" refers to a word or phrase usually ephemeral, often nonstandard, rarely included in dictionaries in its specific business sense - which is nonetheless used frequently in business to communicate on the job

Tertiary education strategies for accounting in developing societies - the South-West Pacific as a case study

On cover: Commentaries and applied research for practitioners and educators. The Lincoln series of papers are designed to inform professionals and educators of developments and issues in finance and accounting today. The papers cover both commentaries and applied research. Professionals and educators who would like to share their views and research findings are welcome to contribute to the series.All societies face constraints imposed upon their development by the limited availability of economic resources. The development that a society achieves depends, in large part, upon the efficient utilisation of its economic resources. The resource allocation exercise is therefore crucial to all economies, but particularly so in the low per capita income countries of the third world, where scarcity of resources persists and can be particularly acute