THE USE OF FISCAL INSTRUMENTS IN SUSTAINABLE BUILDING POLICIES M.M. Sunikka1 Abstract Although progressive government guidelines and knowledge about sustainable building exist‚ sustainability measures are not adopted in large scale. Several barriers have been identified‚ especially the perceived costs of implementing environmental management and the lack of market demand. The choice of fiscal instruments is an important issue in sustainable building policies. This paper presents an analysis
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FISCAL MANAGEMENT By: Ruth Ann L. Musngi When I first came across the topic of Fiscal Management and read the outline of the course‚ I realized that effective and efficient fiscal management is tantamount to good economic governance. Good governance is considered to synonymous with sound development management (Bertucci‚ 2000). As discussed‚ an effective and efficient financial management would include thorough and advance planning in order to develop budgets and to guide expenditures
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Definition of ’Fiscal Policy’ Government spending policies that influence macroeconomic conditions. Through fiscal policy‚ regulators attempt to improve unemployment rates‚ control inflation‚ stabilize business cycles and influence interest rates in an effort to control the economy. Fiscal policy is largely based on the ideas of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)‚ who believed governments could change economic performance by adjusting tax rates and government spending. http://www
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Fiscal administration IS THE ACT OF MANAGING INCOMING AND OUTGOING MONETARY TRANSACTIONS AND BUDGETS FOR GOVERNMENTS‚ EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS‚ NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS‚ AND OTHER PUBLIC SERVICE ENTITIES. Fiscal administration -systems‚ -structures‚ -processes‚ -Officials and personnel‚ - and the policy environment governing intergovernmental‚ and inter-local fiscal relations Fiscal administration March 17‚ 1897 -Revolutionary Government was founded in Naic‚ Cavite - Dir. Baldomero Aguinaldo
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Earnings management is typically regarded as a bad thing. I will cover why it’s considered a bad thing‚ and what it entails. When an executive “cooks the books” it’s referring to them providing false information in order to deceive other important employees or shareholders. This act includes‚ but is not limited to: falsifying receipts‚ inventories‚ balance sheets‚ and/or cash flow statements. This is an important concept to familiarize yourself with because‚ if identified and stopped in time‚ could
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Juiimul lit MuiiagL-mcni )992‚Vi>!. IK. No. 3‚ . ’52.1-545 A Causal Model of Organizational Performance and Change W. Warner Burke Teachers College‚ Columbia University George H. Litwin The Graduate Center To provide a model of organizational performance and change‚ at least two lines of theorizing need to be explored—orgatiizational ftuictioning and organizational change. The authors go beyond description and suggest causal linkages that hypothesize how performance is affected and how effective
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UNIVERSITY OF GHANA BUSINESS SCHOOL MBA: ACCOUTING THEORY 1 – (ADMN 631) LECTURE: JAMES KWAME OTIEKU A PRESENTATION ON EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION BY EMMANUEL MENSAH ID NO: 10328957 AND PETER OPATA NYAKO ID NO: 10329653 1st October 2009 EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION Introduction Accounting standards define the accounting language that management uses to communicate with the firm’s external stakeholders. By creating a framework
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The 3rd Accounting & The 2nd Doctoral Colloquium Bridging the Gap between Theory‚ Research and Practice : IFRS Convergence and Application Faculty of Economics Universitas Indonesia Bali-Indonesia‚ 27 - 28 Oktober 2010 TAX01 INFLUENCE OF BOOK TAX GAP TOWARDS EARNINGS PERSISTENCE AND FIRM VALUE FOR THE PERIOD OF 1999 – 2007 Dwi Martani Universitas Indonesia (martani@ui.ac.id) Debby Fitriasari Universitas Indonesia (dfsari@yahoo.com) Yulianti Universitas Indonesia (yuli.a@ui.ac
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Fiscal Policy as an Economic Stabilization Measure Fiscal Policy refers to the various decisions undertaken by the government regarding public expenditures and revenue. Fiscal Policy is a direct government intervention in the economic processes of an economy. All the sub fiscal policies can be broadly categorized as being either ‘Public Expenditure’ or ‘Public Revenue’. The fiscal policy’s sub-policies are: The Taxation structure – through this fiscal tool the government is able
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The Fiscal Stimulus‚ Flawed but Valuable But I’m also an empirical economist who’s spent a career trying to estimate the effects of monetary and fiscal policy. So let me put on my empiricist’s hat and evaluate what we know about the legislation’s effects. After listening to Representative Paul Ryan in the vice-presidential debate‚ you might think that careful evaluation isn’t needed. In his view‚ we spent $800 billion on the stimulus‚ yet unemployment still rose to 10 percent — so obviously it
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