Understanding the Corporate Annual Report

Understanding the Corporate Annual Report

Author: Lyn M. Fraser

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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For courses in Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Introduction to Business, or MBA finance courses. Understanding the Corporate Annual Report: Nuts, Bolts, and A Few Loose Screws provides a clearly written, step-by-step guide to understanding corporate annual reports. Authors Fraser and Ormiston instruct readers on how to ignore the PR letters from the corporate management team, engaging graphics, and other "garnishes" that typically accompany current annual reports in order to focus on what really counts--a company's performance and financial health! Throughout the text, the authors examine management's attempts to manipulate earnings and other performance measures, and they explain what the numbers in the report really mean.


Corporate Financial Reporting

Corporate Financial Reporting

Author: Andrew Higson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002-12-13

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1446229629

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`This is a book which should be read by all students, whether undergraduate and postgraduate. It also provides a succinct guide for the manager who wishes to come to grips with this topic, or the accountant nostalgic to recollect the non too praiseworthy and indecisive history of this topic′ - Managerial Auditing Journal Corporate Financial Reporting critically examines contemporary corporate financial reporting. The complexity of the reporting process and the myriad of issues facing the directors, accountants and auditors can only be successfully understood from a firm conceptual base. Recent financial scandals clearly highlight the interrelationships between all the themes explored in this book, from financial reporting to auditing, from management′s motivations to fraud. Special features of this book include: - A critical examination of accounting ′theory′ - Senior practitioners′ insights on ′a true and fair view′ - An exploration of ′the financial reporting expectations gap′ - A discussion of the nature of ′corporate performance′ - An examination of corporate fraud - An examination of the implications of ′real-time′ reporting by companies - Discussion questions at the end of each chapter The book will be relevant to advanced undergraduate as well as postgraduate and MBA students.


Introduction to the Corporate Annual Report

Introduction to the Corporate Annual Report

Author: Brian Stanko

Publisher:

Published: 2005-03-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780470836521

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Recent changes in the regulatory environment have had a majorimpact financial reporting and corporate governance issues. As the complexity of the reporting environment continues toincrease, students will need to understand how to read andinterpret financial reports so they can make smart decisions. With Introduction to the Corporate Annual Report: A BusinessApplication, your students will have a systematic process thatexposes them to the many elements of the annual report andfinancial reporting. This workbook links theory and practicein an easily managed format and makes the study and analysis of acorporate annual report a fun, active, and rewarding learningexperience. The workbook's instructions are self-directing andcomplete.


Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government

Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-03-24

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 0359541828

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Policymakers and program managers are continually seeking ways to improve accountability in achieving an entity's mission. A key factor in improving accountability in achieving an entity's mission is to implement an effective internal control system. An effective internal control system helps an entity adapt to shifting environments, evolving demands, changing risks, and new priorities. As programs change and entities strive to improve operational processes and implement new technology, management continually evaluates its internal control system so that it is effective and updated when necessary. Section 3512 (c) and (d) of Title 31 of the United States Code (commonly known as the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA)) requires the Comptroller General to issue standards for internal control in the federal government.


Corporate Income Taxes under Pressure

Corporate Income Taxes under Pressure

Author: Ruud A. de Mooij

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2021-02-26

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1513511777

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The book describes the difficulties of the current international corporate income tax system. It starts by describing its origins and how changes, such as the development of multinational enterprises and digitalization have created fundamental problems, not foreseen at its inception. These include tax competition—as governments try to attract tax bases through low tax rates or incentives, and profit shifting, as companies avoid tax by reporting profits in jurisdictions with lower tax rates. The book then discusses solutions, including both evolutionary changes to the current system and fundamental reform options. It covers both reform efforts already under way, for example under the Inclusive Framework at the OECD, and potential radical reform ideas developed by academics.


Corporate Reporting

Corporate Reporting

Author: Kevin Christopher Carduff

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-10-28

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1803827610

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Volume 26 of Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought was written by the late Professor Kevin Christopher Carduff, who taught at several institutions including Case Western Reserve University and the College of Charleston.


A Social Critique of Corporate Reporting

A Social Critique of Corporate Reporting

Author: David Crowther

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-16

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1317186796

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In the critically acclaimed first edition of A Social Critique of Corporate Reporting, David Crowther examined the perceived dialectic around traditional and environmental reporting to show it to be a false dialectic. Corporate reporting continues to change rapidly to incorporate more detail and especially environmental and social information. At the same time the mechanism for reporting has changed and the internet now enables more information to be provided to an ever wider range of stakeholders and interest groups. The perceived conflict between financial performance representing the needs of investors and other dimensions of performance representing the needs of other stakeholders still however continues to exist. In this updated edition, this perceived conflict is re-examined along with the wider purposes of corporate reporting. These are examined in the context of web based reporting and a greater concern for all stakeholders. The conclusion is that, although recent developments have produced changes, the essential conflict is still professed to exist, but remains a largely imaginary one. The analysis in this book makes use of both statistics and semiotics and in so doing develops a semiology of corporate reporting that offers an alternative to other research that is largely based on econometrics. Researchers, higher level students and others with an interest in or responsibility for corporate reporting, corporate social responsibility, accounting research, or semiotics will find this book essential reading.


The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

Author:

Publisher: World Business Pub.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781569735688

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The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions. It is designed to set the standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting of GHG emissions.