the structure of families‚ the quality of life and even the very future of the planet. Significantly‚ most companies are still not reporting relevant Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) information. Some studies have found that most CSR reporting is of descriptive‚ self-congratulatory nature‚ alluding more to good intentions than actual CSR programs and rarely reporting any bad news about companies’ relationship with the environment”. Corporations have significant impacts on society‚ people’s life
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Financial Reporting Quality and Investment Efficiency Rodrigo S. Verdi The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania 1303 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall Philadelphia‚ PA 19104 Email: rverdi@wharton.upenn.edu Phone: (215) 898-7783 Abstract This paper studies the relation between financial reporting quality and investment efficiency on a sample of 49‚543 firm-year observations between 1980 and 2003. Financial reporting quality has been posited to improve investment efficiency‚ but there has been
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PEARSON (pages 169-171) Mandatory reporting refers to a legal requirement to report an act‚ event‚ or situation that is designated by state or local law as a reportable event all states mandate the reporting of certain vital statistics such as births and deaths many states require reporting of abortions and neonatal deaths federal and states laws mandate the reporting of communicable disease‚ including venereal diseases http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/ahima/bok1_023186
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Mandated Reporting Reporting child abuse often becomes an ethical dilemma because violating a client’s right to confidentiality and breaking the law are both considered unethical behavior. There are many factors a social worker must take into consideration when making a report of child abuse such as; circumstances of the suspected abuse‚ professional and ethical standards‚ and legal requirements. However‚ there are guidelines and a Code of Ethics to help social workers ensure this process is
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Introduction Many schools of thought and individual researchers have reached the conclusion that state-centric approaches fail to examine and analyze international elations as they have changed in the past century. The different leakages of the state-centric theories like the fact that states nowadays are multinational and are not constituted by only one nation (Baylis et al‚ 2008) in combination with the existence of other entities in the international arena apart from states has created the
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phrases “accounting standards” and “financial reporting” refer to. Accounting standards refer to the accounting methods used in an accounting system like the IFRS. Financial reporting refers to the representation of financial information‚ in order to be uniform the financial reporting must be based on a fixed set of rules‚ invole complete objectivity and no bias. The IFRS (International financial reporting standards) has indeed helped the uniformity of financial reporting. However‚ in some cases due to
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(A) Define and discuss in SUBSTANTIVE DETAIL EACH of the five dimensions of culture as identified by Hofstede. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hofstede’s research is based on the information of 40 countries‚ of which he identified the different dimensions on which culture differs. The five dimensions model is widely used in many domains of human social life‚ and particularly in the field of business. In international marketing it is very useful because it
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A global phenomenon‚ human trafficking is the third largest crime enterprise‚ after the drug trade and arms dealing. However‚ it is the most vile transnational crime‚ as it exploits and subjects men‚ women and children to cruel‚ inhumane treatment. Victims are sold into three markets: sex trafficking‚ bonded labor‚ and organ trafficking‚ all done with the use of deception or force (Brewer‚ 2009). Human trafficking displays the inequality between equals in the sense that a person sees themselves fit
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Capturing Mobile Phone Usage: Research Methods for Mobile Studies Carolyn Y. Wei Google weicar@google.com Abstract The small form factor and constant presence of mobile phones create unique challenges to the study of their use. Mobile phone use can be difficult for outsiders to observe because of the intimate nature of the devices. Mobile use can also be multimodal (voice and text)‚ further complicating data collection. The mobility and multitasking that are facilitated with the device pose logistical
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SEGMENT REPORTING Many U.S. companies operate in several different industries or in different geographic area. When this occurs‚ the difficulties related to financial statement analysis are compounded. Investors who must evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of stock of a diversified company have a difficult task when analyzing such companies which report only the aggregate of their operations. Industry segments and geographic areas of operations can have different levels of
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