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Item Comparing American soccer dialogues: social media commentary Surrounding the 2014 US men’s and 2015 US women’s World Cup teams(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Burch, Lauren M.; Billings, Andrew C.; Zimmerman, Matthew H.; IUPUC Division of BusinessMega sporting events such as the World Cup have been found to stimulate categorization of in-groups and out-groups among fans. While self-categorization correlates with gender, the sport of soccer also facilitates nationalistic categorization. The World Cup features nation vs. nation competition while making gender a non-variable as the men and women compete in separate tournaments in separate years. This study examined 33,529 tweets illustrating social media match commentary involving US teams and opponents on Twitter during the 2014 and 2015 World Cups. Results revealed US teams were more likely to be described in regard to attributions of success and failure, while opposition teams were more likely to receive personal and physical attributions. Conversely, no differences were found between US Men’s and Women’s teams in regard to characterizations of success and failure, but revealed the Women’s team was more likely to receive personal and physical characterizations.Item The Ethics Interview: Can a Single Interview Exercise Help Students Experience the Benefits of Professional Engagement?(AAA, 2021-07) Killian, Larita J.; Monje-Cueto, Fabiola; Huber, Marsha M.; Brandon, Christopher; IUPUC Division of BusinessProfessional engagement helps students develop professional judgment, connect their coursework to the “real world,” and explore accounting-related careers. Internships often provide a route to these benefits, but some students cannot complete internships. The Pathways Commission calls for new, creative approaches to professional engagement. In the ethics interview exercise, students engage with professionals for a single interview. Following the intentional learning model, students complete activities before and after the interview. They select the interviewee, prepare questions about ethics and topics of personal interest, organize and conduct the interview, and reflect on the experience. We implemented the exercise in different accounting courses at universities in the United States and Bolivia, using both face-to-face and virtual interviews. We applied principles of phenomenology for assessment. Results indicate the exercise helps students experience the benefits of professional engagement. The exercise requires little modification to existing courses and can be modified to support varied learning goals.Item Financial markets 2020: When will P/E ratios be great again?(IU School of Business, 2019) Brewer, Ryan M.; Trzcinka, Charles; IUPUC Division of BusinessLet's review: The Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate. This shifted many interest rates down (not the mortgage rate though). More than the damage from tariffs, the uncertainty of what Mr. Trump might do next caused business confidence to fall. This has led to increases in hurdle rates for capital projects across the board, thus slowing capital investment, ultimately yielding slower output that is reflected in roughly 2 percent GDP growth in the last two quarters. President Trump and some in the White House blame the Federal Reserve and Europe for this slump, but neither explanation holds up. * Europe hasn't grown fast for decades, and its 2017 growth bump was helped by faster U.S. growth. * Businesses were not starving for money even before the Fed began cutting rates again this summer. The best sector, communication services, is expected to rise 9.1 percent, while the worst sector, financials, is predicted to rise 1.9 percent. * Year-over-year revenue growth: This is a positive 3.1 percent for the S&P 500 from third quarter 2018 to third quarter 2019, led by health care. * Quarter 3 earnings and revenue "beats": Of the 355 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported for the third quarter of 2019, 76 percent have reported earnings above the mean estimate of analysts (higher than the historical average of 69 percent) and 61 percent have reported revenues above the mean estimate (below the historical average of 66 percent). * IPOs: There have been 140 IPOs (as of October 15) that raised $43 billion. This is down 4 percent over this time last year, but much larger than 2016-2017.Item Indiana’s outlook for 2020(IU School of Business, 2019) Brewer, Ryan M.; Yoon, SunJung; IUPUC Division of BusinessThe government sector also produces about 8 percent of output.8 Over the past year, various media have reported conflicting information about the extent of impacts from tariffs on imports and exports in America. [...]any attempt to accurately quantify the impact of the current trade war on the Indiana economy at this point, would be impossible. [...]with the exception of one year (2009), Indiana has led the nation in manufacturing employment since 1996, when Indiana took the manufacturing mantle from North Carolina (see Table l).9 While nearly one in every five Indiana jobs is in manufacturing, the overweighting in the manufacturing sector is even more pronounced in terms of GSP. Yet, Hoosier farmers (totaling over 94,000 in 2017) as individuals are certainly affected by the trade war.11 According to the Indiana State Department of Agriculture (2019), Indiana was the eighth-largest agricultural exporter in the country as of 2017, the 10th-largest farming state, and in the top five among U.S. states that produce ducks, popcorn, ice cream, tomatoes, pumpkins, turkeys, corn, soybeans, watermelons and hogs. [...]farming accounts for a relatively small number of jobs available to Hoosiers and has been declining for many decades. [...]farming is not an accurate representative to gauge our economic condition in the near future.Item Special districts and social cohesion: an initial study(Inderscience, 2020) Killian, Larita J.; IUPUC Division of BusinessThe United States is experiencing increased social and economic fragmentation. Various explanations are offered, but an overlooked factor may be increasing reliance on special districts (SDs) to deliver public services. This study draws from ethical discourse theory to investigate the relationship between SDs and social cohesion. Using male incarceration rates as an indicator for levels of social cohesion and marginalization, this study finds that as the different types of SDs within a state increases, male incarceration rates also increase. This initial study does not posit causality. Relying on SDs to deliver public services may lead to reduced social cohesion and increased marginalization, as ethical discourse theory suggests. Alternatively, it may be that reliance on SDs and male incarceration rates are both functions of other factors that reduce social cohesion.