An international reaction was required to the financial scandals of recent years, and some States started to reform corporate governance. Two main systems were used – self-regulation through good governance codes, and legislative measures to achieve transparency in financial markets. The...

The economic structure in the cooperative societies they are the economic aspects and financiers regulated by the cooperative laws. There are economic aspects that remain affected by the cooperative principles: structural (they concern the financial structure) and functional (they concern the...

The maximization of profit as the main objective of companies is being criticized from different forums, advocating for an economic system in which the achievement of social sustainability will play a leading role. In the banking sector, after the outbreak of the crisis in 2008, financial...

Accounting and Financial methods are useful techniques for business, but their objective study should be inserted in the wider scope of Social Science. Historical issues determine policies and these ones, themselves, configure taxes and other environmental variables. Taxes, interest rates and...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has made a significant comeback in the last decade of the twentieth century and first few years of the twenty-first century. This being the case, social economy organizations must demonstrate their socially responsible behaviour by producing the relevant...