What is financial reporting? The traditional function of financial reporting was to provide business owners with information about the companies that they owned and operated. Once the delegation of managerial responsibilities to hired personnel became a common practice‚ financial reporting began to focus on stewardship—that is‚ on the managers’ accountability to the owners. Its purpose then was to document how effectively the owners’ assets were managed‚ in terms of both capital preservation and
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importance of investigative reporting comes into play. Investigative reporting is a type of journalism that tries to discover information of public interest that someone is trying to hide (English Definition of "Investigative Journalism"). The topic in which the reporter investigates is solely dependent on their own personal interest‚ or the interest of their editor. These topics could range from government and politics to police negligence. Despite the risks‚ investigative reporting is very valuable to
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DOES THE “MANAGEMENT APPROACH” CONTRIBUTE TO SEGMENT REPORTING TRANSPARENCY? Advanced Accounting ACC 610 January 4TH‚ 2010 1. INTRODUCTION: An operating Segment is a component of an entity that may earn revenues or incur expenses‚ whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker (COMD) and for which discrete financial information is available. Generally‚ financial information is required to be reported on the basis that it is used internally for evaluating
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Index 1 Introduction to segmental reporting 2 2 Origin of segmental reporting 2 2.1 The fineness-theorem 2 2.2 Market efficiency theory 2 2.3 Agency theory 2 2.4 Accounting theory 3 3 The most important segmental reporting standards 3 3.1 International Accounting Standard 14 (IAS 14) 3 3.1.1 The International Accounting Standards Committee 3 3.1.2 The International Accounting Standards Board 4 3.1.3 IAS 14: Segment reporting 4 3.1.3.1 Objective of IAS 14 (revised) 4 3.1.3.2 Applicability
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ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION SHEET Course Title: BSC (Hons) in Accounting and Finance Module Title: CORPORATE REPORTING Team Members: 1. LEE KEE TAR‚ UB: 11034518 2. JULIANA BTE ABDUL RAHMAN‚ UB: 11034517 3. VITHIA SUBRAMANIAM‚ UB: 11034521 4. ANG MING LIANG‚ UB: 12038344 Title: SEGMENT DISCLOSURE ARE WIDELY REGARDED AS SOME OF THE MOST USEFUL DISCLOSURE IN FINANCIAL REPORTS BECAUSE OF THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY DISAGGREGATE FINANCIAL IMFORMATION
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The Line The "line" that the film’s title refers to is the poverty line‚ or the line between "the haves and have-nots‚" as one person in the film put it. The documentary highlights the stories of four people who have found themselves on both sides of the line: a former bank vice president who lost his job‚ a Louisiana fisherman whose livelihood is threatened by environmental degradation and hurricanes‚ a former homeless man‚ and a woman that grew up in a high crime neighborhood‚ lifted herself
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Informal care is unpaid care that may be provided by family‚ friends or neighbours. (Brodsky‚ Habib and Hirschfield‚ 2003) state “Informal Care is by far the dominant form of care throughout the world.” This essay will state how important informal care is in modern society and how this has affected current social policy. It will define what the differences are between informal and formal care‚ what exactly informal care consists of‚ what a carer is‚ include statistics about informal carers‚ explain
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Part 1 - Formal Research and Business Proposals Part 2 - Outsourcing Effect on Leadership Performance and Employee Commitment Valerie H. Montalvo American Intercontinental University Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to outlines important and high level differences between the formal research and business proposals and several applications in business for both. There are differences and similarities that include the definition of the issue and the written approach to
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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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2008) This is where SEA reporting plays a role in governmental accounting. The SEA report is an external report aside from the annual comprehensive financial report which ensures that the result of programs and services is communicated effectively to any interested parties. Those interested parties could include elected officials‚ legislative staff‚ citizens‚ and the media. GASB began seeing the importance of SEA reporting as early as its initiation in 1984. SEA reporting at the state and local
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