Annual report

Not published: 1870/71, 1871/72, 1873/74

School directory, Oakland, Cal.

Mode of access: Internet.

Contractors license law

"California Business and Professions Code, Division 3, Chapter 8."

Unemployment insurance code.

Has supplements.

Annual financial report and report of operations of the Board of Administration, State of California, Public Employees' Retirement System for the fiscal year ended June 30 ..

Mode of access: Internet.

Benefit cost analysis applied to behavioral and engineering safety countermeasures in San Francisco, California

The state of the practice in safety has advanced rapidly in recent years with the emergence of new tools and processes for improving selection of the most cost-effective safety countermeasures. However, many challenges prevent fair and objective comparisons of countermeasures applied across safety disciplines (e.g. engineering, emergency services, and behavioral measures). These countermeasures operate at different spatial scales, are funded often by different financial sources and agencies, and have associated costs and benefits that are difficult to estimate. This research proposes a methodology by which both behavioral and engineering safety investments are considered and compared in a specific local context. The methodology involves a multi-stage process that enables the analyst to select countermeasures that yield high benefits to costs, are targeted for a particular project, and that may involve costs and benefits that accrue over varying spatial and temporal scales. The methodology is illustrated using a case study from the Geary Boulevard Corridor in San Francisco, California. The case study illustrates that: 1) The methodology enables the identification and assessment of a wide range of safety investment types at the project level; 2) The nature of crash histories lend themselves to the selection of both behavioral and engineering investments, requiring cooperation across agencies; and 3) The results of the cost-benefit analysis are highly sensitive to cost and benefit assumptions, and thus listing and justification of all assumptions is required. It is recommended that a sensitivity analyses be conducted when there is large uncertainty surrounding cost and benefit assumptions.

Albert and Elsa Einstein on board ship with captain and unidentified man and woman leaving Hamburg going to California Portraits; Groups

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Investment opportunities and leverage: some Australian evidence on the role of board monitoring and director equity ownership

This paper tests the hypothesis that the negative relationship between investment opportunity set (IOS) and debt is moderated by board monitoring and director equity ownership. According to contracting theory, firms with high growth opportunities (high IOS) are associated with lower levels of debt as a result of the asset substitution and the under-investment problem. However, our hypotheses test the conjecture that the negative debt / IOS relationship will be moderated by the proportion of non-executive directors (NEDs) on the board and director equity ownership. NEDs provide higher monitoring which reduces management discretion while director equity ownership provides incentives for managers to maximize the value of the firm. More specifically, we expect that high growth firms with a higher proportion of non-executive directors and director equity ownership are less likely to be associated with asset substitution and under investment. Thus, the negative investment opportunity set / debt relationship will be weaker for firms with higher levels of non-executive directors and high director equity ownership. Data collected from Australian companies support both these two hypotheses. Results have significant implications for corporate finance theory.

An analysis of the association between firms' investment opportunities, board composition and firm performance

The purpose of this paper is to identify the variables that influence the board structure adopted by firms and the subsequent relationship to the firm's performance. The results of this study of 229 Australian firms show that firms' investment opportunities are strongly associated with a higher proportion of executive directors ("EDs") on the board. The results also show that the negative relationship between a firm's investment opportunity set ("IDS") and firm performance is weakened at higher levels of non-executive director board domination. These results have implications for policy setters and managers of firms with investment opportunities

Expenditures, investment and financing for sustainable development in Trinidad and Tobago

Includes bibliography

Puerto Rico: planning board, information management strategy four-year" investment plan project"

Includes bibliography

Note on Eighth Annual Meeting Board of Governors Caribbean Investment Corporation (CIC)

Nota sobre la Octava Reunion Anual de la Junta de Gobernadores de la Corporacion de Inversiones del Caribe (Caribbean Investment Corporation, CIC) realizada en Sta. Lucia, el 14 de mayo de 1982. Durante la reunion las discusiones se centraron fundamentalmente sobre el futuro de la CIC.