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In response to the growth in corporate sustainability reporting in Canada, CGA-Canada commissioned a sustainability … reporting survey in the fall of 2004. The survey sought to advance understanding of sustainability reporting, advocate for … business value and transparency in reporting, and look to enjoin participation by all stakeholders. The results of the survey …
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The emergence of the economy of knowledge has resulted in, among other consequences, the triumph of globalization and market liberalization, the primacy of the individual as a competitive critical factor and the crisis of the relevance of financial information, its comparability and reliability....
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Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the European Union (EU) and provides suggestions on how future research can add to our …
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This paper examines capital market effects of changes in securities regulation. We analyze two key directives in the European Union (EU) that tightened market abuse and transparency regulation and its enforcement. All EU member states were required to adopt these two directives, but did so at...
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The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we...
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This paper seeks to draw attention to a flaw in the firm’s Free Cash Flow model and related statement widely accepted in Corporate Finance. We argue that the common offset of any Current Liabilities against Current Assets distorts the FCF size, composition, and volatility, thereby misstating...
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means adopting a code of ethics for its own governance, transparency, including the transparency of the financial reporting …
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environmental and social reporting practices and the main international standardization process : Global Reporting Initiative (GRI … standardization institution promoting a framework for voluntary sustainability reporting faced with the risk of stronger disclosure …
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After the crash of financial institutions and the negative effects of the financial crisis, financial service cooperatives (FSCs) emerged as good performer compared to commercial banks. But this condition will not be enough to face the challenges that the new financial panorama will bring on the...
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Abstract: We investigate the roles of legal origins and political institutions – believed to be the fundamental determinants of economic outcomes – in corporate social responsibility (CSR). We argue that CSR is an essential path to economic sustainability, and document strong correlations...
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