Sustainability assessment

Part 2 book "Fundamentals of materials for energy and environmental sustainability" includes content: Wind energy, energy efficient buildings, insulation science, materials availability and recycling, life-cycle assessment, consequences of high-penetration renewables,... and other contents.

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This study aims to explore the current understanding of transformative education and clarify its impact on learners. To address the gap, the authors assess the status of higher education in Vietnam and propose why transformative education can be a solution to improve the quality of higher education.

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Ebook "Proceedings of the fifth international Conference on finance and accounting for the promotion of sustainable development in the private sector (FASPS5)" is a collection of articles about: asymmetric impact of public debt on credit supply to private sector in Vietnam - a NARDL model approach; impact of the pandemic shock on the Vietnamese stock market and policy implications; assessment of effeciency of agribank’s support policies for private sector operations in field of agriculture, forestry and fisheries; financial resources for cooperative development in Vietnam; corporate social ...

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The primary objective of this study is to examine the uneven effects of state debt on loan provision for the private sector in Vietnam. This study employs the NARDL model to assess the extent to which public debt affects the provision of credit to the private sector. Additionally, it incorporates control variables such as private sector capital demand, the expansion of the broad money supply, and the economic growth rate. The data were collected at a quarterly frequency over the period spanning from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2021.

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This article aims to analyze the effectiveness of the support policies of the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam (Agribank) to support the private sector operating in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fisheries. By using the comparative method, the author has used two factors affecting the effectiveness of the above support policies, namely total outstanding loans and overdue loans.

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The study was conducted to evaluate the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on tax avoidance in Vietnam, when having moderating effect of chief executive officers’ power (CEO power). The study uses a data sample of 499 listed non-financial companies in the period 2016 to 2022 with 3,493 observations. We use the feasible generalized least squares model to assess the impact of CSR with the moderating effect of CEO power on tax avoidance.

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This study assesses factors affecting the intention to apply modern management accounting (MMA) in manufacturing enterprises in central Vietnam. SPSS and SmartPLS software are used to process data collected from 150 senior leaders and chief accountants in manufacturing enterprises. Research result shows that there are eight factors affecting the intention to apply MMA, including Perception of usefulness, perception of the application’s ease, manager’s attitude, subjective norms, factors belonging to the business, low-cost strategy, differentiation strategy, and business environment.

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This research delves into the assessment of Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) among Joint-Stock Commercial Banks (JSCBs) in Vietnam from 2015 to 2022. It investigates the variations in CAR over this period and explores its association with key financial metrics, including Return on Assets (ROA), Deposit Ratio (DEP), Liquidity (LIQ), Loan-to-Asset Ratio (LOA), Loan Loss Reserve (LLR), Non-Performing Loan Ratio (NPL), Leverage (LEV), bank size (SIZE), and the scale of board governance (BoardS).

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This paper uses the discriminant analysis method to build a discriminant function with measurments of liquidity on different aspects including traditional liquidity ratios, cash conversion cycle and operating cash flow ratios to measure and assess a company’s corporate liquidity. At the same time, through the discriminant function to determining the value of liquidity score (LS) to classifying companies with good liquidity and companies with poor liquidity.

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This research explores the influence of various factors on the effectiveness of financial analysis methods and processes employed by enterprises in commercial banks. Financial analysis plays a crucial role in assessing the health and performance of businesses, making its efficiency of paramount importance. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, this study investigates internal and external factors that may impact the efficacy of these processes.

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The study was conducted to assess the role of financial development in addressing income inequality in developing economies through a sample of 36 developing countries from 2008-2020 and the Bayes approach. The results of the study show that financial development increases income inequality, but when reaching the threshold of 121.965% of GDP, it will have an impact on reducing income inequality. This is consistent with Greenwood & Jovanovic’s (1990) hypothesis that the relationship between financial development and income inequality follows an inverted U-shape.

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The study was conducted to assess the impact of FDI inflows on investment activities of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Research results show a crowding out effect of FDI inflows, which implies that localities need to focus on the quality of FDI inflows instead of quantity. In addition, the study also considers the impact of internal factors of SMEs, Bayesian regression results show that the size of SMEs, SMEs with e-commerce activities tend to promote investment activities; while the number of years of operation of the business has a negative impact on this activity.

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The study assesses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and institutional quality on the environment, while also determining the role of institutional quality in the environmental effects of FDI in developing Asian countries. By analyzing panel data from 10 developing Asian economies for the period 1996-2021 using the System Generalized Method of Moments, the research finds evidence confirming the negative impact of FDI on environmental quality in these countries.

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This study aims to assess the effectiveness of marketing communication activities at universities in the digital era. In the empirical study, the data were collected from 396 students studying courses at the University of Finance and Accountancy (UFA). The data were analyzed descriptively. The dependent variables included Aware, Appeal, Ask, Action, and Advocate (5A). The data were calculated using Purchase Action Ratio (PAR) and Brand Advocacy Ratio (BAR).

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This study assesses the relationship between board independence and board size on the business performance of state-owned enterprises in Vietnam. With a dataset of 50 state-owned enterprises listed on the stock market during the period from 2016 to 2020, the research employs Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixedeffects, and Random-effects regression models to examine the relationship.

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ESOP is an Employee Stock Ownership Plan that has been introduced and implemented quite commonly by Vietnamese enterprises in recent times. However, the instructions for recording, measuring, and disclosing information about these transactions lack comprehensiveness/are not comprehensive and consistent/do not align with international practices. This has resulted in companies recording and presenting financial statements that are not genuinely useful.

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Part 2 of ebook "Sustainability improvements in the concrete industry: Use of recycled materials for structural concrete production" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 4 - Electric arc furnace slag concrete; Chapter 5 - Sustainability of recycled concretes through life cycle assessment; Chapter 6 - Experimental database of EAF slag use in concrete;...

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Part 2 of ebook "Engineering for sustainability" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 6 - Tailoring sustainability engineering processes; Chapter 7 - Designing for sustainability; Chapter 8 - Sustainability analysis; Chapter 9 - Assessing sustainability capability maturity;...

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This book examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN UNConvention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties. Using historical-materialist state and regulation theory, it assesses how the discourse and politics of sustainable development have contributed to the internationalisation of the state.

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This book outlines four quantitative methods which can be applied at different construction stages, and which fit within a comprehensive framework of dynamic Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). These include: A method to quantitatively evaluate and reduce pollution and hazards levels; A method to evaluate the environmental-consciousness of proposed construction plans;...

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