The Great East Japan Earthquake left the unprecedented damage widely on the north-east prefectures in Japan. There were innumerable nonprofit organizations held the voluntary emergency relief activities in the damaged areas. To aid the victims, magnificent giving was donated from all over the...

La mise sous contrôle des collectivités locales n'a ps toujours conduit à des résultats probants. Aussi apparaît-il intéressant de repenser les réalisations au regard d'un nouveau cadre de référence. Un des enjeux de cette réflexion est de faire émerger une conception duale de la...

When nonprofit organizations in the U.S. engage in activities that are "substantially related" to their legal mission they pay no profits taxation, but profit from "unrelated business" (UB) activities is taxed. Since UB activity has no apparent justification other than to generate revenue, we...

The purpose of this article is to assess the management of foundations by using indicators that focus primarily on efficiency, thereby seeing which factors are most influential in achieving goals. An empirical study has been carried out using accounting information (the Balance Sheet and the...

In the absence of clear and acceptable measures for outcomes, the budget is probably the most important managerial tool for nonprofits. Nevertheless many nonprofits operate without a budget at all, or with a limited version of a budget that is used solely for fundraising with no managerial role....

Ausgehend von den Rahmenbedingungen der Geschaeftsberichterstattung, u.a. von Corporate Governance Richtlinien, wird untersucht, inwieweit und wie sich deutsche und daenische Unternehmen der Chemischen Industrie nach aussen als dialogorientiert darstellen. Darueber hinaus wird auf Dilemmas bei...

Following Colbert's Ordonnance of 1673, most of whose provisions were reiterated in the Code de Commerce, 1807 and the Law of Bankruptcy, 1838, traders in France were under a legal obligation to keep accounts of their business activities. In the event of bankruptcy, traders were potentially...

VAT cash accounting enables the small enterprises to account for VAT on the basis of payments received and made, instead of on tax invoices issued and received. Accordingly, the VAT payable or repayable for each accounting period is the difference between the total amount of VAT included in...

Since the end of World War II, after the Marshall Plan, after the Treaty of Rome, accounting has been living at the time of standardization; as a late consequence, the European Union (formerly European Economic Community with 6 countries, now Union with 28 countries) was submitted to several...