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Why do firms lobby? This paper exploits the unanticipated sequestration of federal budget accounts in March 2013 that reduced the availability of government funds disbursed through procurement contracts to shed light on this question. Following this event, firms with little or no prior exposure...
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’ remunerations and benefits; accounting for employees benefits provisioning; and measurement of public debt and deficit following …This article provides a theoretical view on European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS), focusing on … overarching accounting principles and models, as well as their consequences on the working and the very existence of public …
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Throughout this study the term “expectation gap” refers to the difference between (1) what the public and financial statement users believe the responsibilities of auditors to be, and (2) what auditors believe their responsibilities are, as in McEnroe and Martens, 2001 (hereafter MM 2001)....
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The management of a country's finances is crucial for economic stability and growth. The Finance Minister plays a pivotal role in shaping fiscal policies, mobilizing revenue, and ensuring effective resource allocation. This commentary argues that the Minister should focus on key areas for...
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prepare public accounting information based on uniform standards from the fiscal year 2017 and is currently examining how and … by whom the prepared accounting information can be utilized. In the U.S., where accrual accounting has already been … adopted by states and local governments, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has conducted a survey of …
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Background: Kaizen is a very important continuous improvement technique; however, measuring kaizen results/benefits … benefits into the four BSC perspectives. The best measures of kaizen benefits were determined by employing the Fuzzy TOPSIS … technique. Results: The results present a kaizen performance evaluation system where the benefits were allocated into the four …
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A theoretical analysis is provided of the accounting framework and rules applied to the annual accounts of the European … Communities (EC) since 2004. This accounting system draws upon International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and is … based on accrual accounting, under a dual integrated accounting process with the cash accounting that is maintained. It …
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Prior for-profit literature provides evidence that an independent audit of the financial reports is associated with a corporation’s improved investment efficiency and financial performance. In contrast, this study investigates the relationship between independent audits and financial...
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This study examines contingencies written in firms’ material product market contracts, focusing on i) exogenous uncertainty as an ex-ante determinant, and ii) operating efficiency and market beta as ex-post consequences. We extract material contracts from firms’ public regulatory filings and...
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accounting system in the international context. During the reform process different countries have put into practice numerous … intermediate variants between the extremes of cash and accrual budgeting and accounting. The reasons for the different national … accounting regulatory bodies imply different national accounting systems. In the Western democracies there are two main broad …
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