• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.255-265
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• 2020

This study examines whether the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has increased financial statement comparability among firms and reduced undervaluation of Korean firms in the capital market by enhancing financial statement comparability. The so-called Korea Discount, which indicates an inefficient allocation of capital, has been attributed to lack of transparency and comparability of accounting information. Therefore, an efficient distribution of capital in the market was intended when IFRS was first adopted in Korea, but such progress is based on a premise of enhancement in Korean firms' accounting information comparability. This study conducts empirical analysis by using a comparability measure by De Franco et al. (2011). More specifically, it analyzes differences among comparability of domestic firms following IFRS adoption, with firms in the EU, which adopted IFRS in 2005, and with firms in the U.S., China and Japan that do not follow IFRS. The analysis of changes in domestic firms' comparability finds that their comparability improved following IFRS adoption. Meanwhile, the examination of cross-national differences in comparability demonstrates that, although there has been no significant change in comparability with firms in the U.S. and the EU across Korean industry since IFRS adoption, comparability with China has decreased while that with Japan improved.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.193-212
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• 2021

Purpose - This study investigates the effect of auditor change on client firm's accounting (financial statement) comparability. Design/methodology/approach - The comparability of accounting information is measured by the difference in accruals between the two firms. Additionally, the study uses earnings-stock return relationship as another proxy of accounting comparability. In particular, the paper examines whether there is a systematic difference between initial audit years and the other years with respect to the client firm's accounting comparability. Moreover, current study tests how changes in auditor size or industry expertise before and after the switch of auditors affect the accounting comparability. Findings - The results show that the level of accounting comparability is lower in the year of auditor change than in the other years. Furthermore, this lower level of comparability is derived by the observations that switch their auditors from non-Big4 to non-Big4 or from non-specialist to non-specialist. These results are consistent when accounting comparability is measured by different proxies. Research implications or Originality - The findings of this study provide important policy implications for the regulations related with auditor selection.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.225-233
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• 2015

To understand the fluctuation of global carbon levels caused by the biogeochemical cycle within the ocean interior, it is essential to achieve comparability of global oceanic nutrient data to a fairly high degree. The Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) commissioned a working group (WG147) to establish a system for achieving comparability of oceanic nutrient data within 1% among laboratories around the world. The introduction of international activities for improving nutrient comparability will facilitate the use of nutrient reference material of seawater by researchers within Korea, which will help in meeting international standards of nutrient comparability and promote international cooperation.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.455-468
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• 2011

We introduce the notion of refinement rings, and generalize some comparability properties of regular rings to the setting of refinement rings.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.25-29
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• 2003

LQ actuator selection problem for multi-input system discussed in this paper is to determine optimal actuator out of many actuators and input sequences so as to minimize the quadratic control performance. The solution of this problem depends on initial values and has a combinatorial property, so it is extremely difficult to get an optimal solution. For this difficulty, we proposed the concept of comparability of actuators and showed the uniqueness of the solution[1] . Further, to get general optimal solution for LQ problem with actuator selection strategies, we derived the equivalent condition for the comparability of actuator in single-input system . In this paper we extend this result to the case of multi-input system. The derived sufficient condition is applicable in the case of positive semi-definite comparability matrices.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.150-160
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• 2010

Statistics Korea has been diagnosis national statistics every year since 2006. They diagnosis over 200 kinds of national statistics. They have 7 quality dimension used for quality diagnosis. That is relevance, accuracy, Timeliness, Comparability, Coherence, Accessibility. Since we are interest in how well they produce national statistics, comparability has become the most important dimension recently. In this reason, Statistics Korea try to rating quality level and development comparability index for national statistics. This paper propose the practical method of grading the quality level and developing the comparability index of the national statistics.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.259-281
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• 2018

본 연구는 해외 기업과 비교가능성이 높은 정보를 제공하는 우리나라 기업을 외국인 투자자가 선호하는지 분석함으로써 IFRS의 도입효과를 살펴보고자 착수되었다. IFRS 의무도입 지지자들은 국제자본시장에서 단일의 회계기준에 대한 요구가 증가하고 있는 상황에서 IFRS 의무도입의 확산이 중요한 대안이 되고 있다고 주장한다. 그들은 IFRS가 확산되면 서로 다른 국가의 기업들이 동일한 회계기준을 사용하게 되고 단일 회계기준에 의해 생산되는 회계정보의 비교가능성이 향상으로 이어질 것이라 주장한다. 나아가 비교가능성이 향상은 외국인 투자자의 'home-bias'를 약화시켜 해외에 대한 투자를 증가시킬 수 있으며, 궁극적으로 국제자본시장의 자원배분 효율화를 가능하게 할 것이라고 주장하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 IFRS 도입 이후 국내 기업의 국제적 비교가능성과 외국인 지분 사이에 어떠한 관계가 존재하는지 분석하여 IFRS 의무도입 지지자들의 주장을 검증하는 한편, IFRS의 도입이 국내 자본시장에 어떠한 영향을 주고 있는지 분석하였다. 연구목적의 달성을 위해 Barth et al.(2012)이 제시한 모형을 통해 해외 기업과 국내 기업 사이의 비교가능성을 측정하였으며, 주요 가설검증모형의 종속변수로는 기말 시점의 외국인 지분율과 기중 외국인 지분율의 평균을 모두 사용하여 연구결과에 초래될 수 있는 편의를 완화하고자 하였다. 2011년부터 2015년까지 우리나라 유가증권시장에 상장된 기업 1,817개 기업-연도 표본을 이용하여 분석을 실시한 결과, 외국인 투자자들은 해외 기업과의 비교가능성이 높은 우리나라 기업을 상대적으로 선호하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 비교 가능성과 외국인 지분율 사이의 관계는 IFRS 도입 이전에 비해 도입 이후 기간에 더욱 강화된 것으로 관찰되었다. 이러한 분석결과는 IFRS를 도입하며 회계의 국제적 정합성을 확보하고 국제자본시장에서 우리나라 기업이 상대적으로 저평가되고 있는 Korea Discount를 해소하고자 한 금융당국의 IFRS 도입 취지에 긍정적인 영향을 주고 있음을 실증적으로 보여주는 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.65-75
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• 2007

A graph G is self-complementary (sc) if it is isomorphic to its complement. G is perfect if for all induced subgraphs H of G, the chromatic number of H (denoted ${\chi}$(H)) equals the number of vertices in the largest clique in H (denoted ${\omega}$(H)). An sc graph which is also perfect is known as sc perfect graph. A comparability graph is an undirected graph if it can be oriented into transitive directed graph. An sc comparability (scc) is clearly a subclass of sc perfect graph. In this paper we show that no two non-isomorphic scc graphs with n vertices each, (n<13) have same spectrum, and that the smallest positive integer for which there exists hyper-energetic scc graph is 13.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.903-913
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• 2007

A ring R has weakly stable range one provided that aR+bR=R implies that there exists a $y{\in}R$ such that $a+by{\in}R$ is right or left invertible. We prove, in this paper, that every regular element in an exchange ring having weakly stable range one is the sum of an idempotent and a weak unit. This generalize the corresponding result of one-sided unit-regular ring. Extensions of power comparability and power cancellation are also studied.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

Consumers earn a number of points for every purchase and then they can exchange a specified number of points for a desired reward in a typical loyalty program. The immediate payoff of their effort given as points is not the real reward they actually care about. It is merely an instrument (or medium) which has no value in itself. In a real world, consumers frequently choose the option with a bigger medium even though the economic value of the option is not changed by the medium. We call it 'medium effect.' In this study we explored if the size of medium affects consumers' preferences. For this we controlled the reward options with three types of medium (small, medium, big) and measured the magnitude of preference difference among the three types of reward options. In addition, we manipulated comparability of reward options with wine and gas discount coupon. We confirmed that choosing one of two wines was easier than that of the two gas coupons. 123 respondents were allocated into three experimental groups. In three experimental grounds, the ratios of the focused reward option's medium to the compared reward option's medium were different. For example, the focused reward option has 10 million points whereas the compared reward option has 10 million points for 1 million won purchase amount in the first group. Then each respondent was asked to choose one of two loyalty programs (focused program vs. compared program) in two different conditions (comparability between reward options. easiness vs. difficulty). To compare the medium effects among the experiment conditions we used chi-squares tests. The empirical results show consumer preference increases and then decreases as reward mile-ages/points given according to purchase amount increase. Additionally, they let us know that comparability of alter natives affects change of consumer preference by reward mileages/points.