...Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 The major components of Sugar Investment Trust (SIT) annual report: 3 3.0 The Five potential users 5 4.0 How useful are companies’ annual reports in addressing the needs of users of accounts? 6 5.0 Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 8 6.0 To what extent does the regulatory framework govern the preparation of an Annual Report? 9 7.0 To what extent reported profit figures can mislead users of accounts? 10 8.0 Cash flow statements 11 9.0 Accounting Ratios and Cash Flow Statement Analysis 11 10. Cash Flow Statement Analysis 14 11. Criticism of traditional financial accounting and problems encountered in inter-firm comparison. 14 12. Contribution list 16 13. References 16 1.0 Introduction T he Sugar Investment Trust (SIT) is a body corporate established under an Act of Parliament in 1994 which operates as a company under the Companies Act 2001. It is the largest shareholder based public company in Mauritius with more than 40,000 members. It has more than 55,000 shareholders. The foundation of Sugar Investment Trust (SIT) constitutes a landmark in the Mauritian history. It was set up primarily as a participation scheme in the sugar industry but it has become a model of economic democratisation in the country. It provides a forum for participation of planters and workers at corporate decision making level of sugar milling companies and as equity participation. Therefore, it ensures a share of...
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...Responsibility, Lean Accounting, Toyota’s sustainability effort I. Introduction 1. Definition of key terms 1) Corporate Social Responsibility CSR refers to operating a business in a manner that accounts for the social and environmental impact created by the business. CSR means a commitment to developing policies that integrate responsible practices into daily business operations, and to reporting on progress made toward implementing these practices. According to Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), corporate social responsibility is defined as“achieving commercial success in ways that honor ethical values and respect people, communities, and the natural environment.” 2) Lean accounting Lean Accounting is the general term used for the changes required to a company's accounting, control, measurement, and management processes to support lean manufacturing and lean thinking. II. Corporate Social Responsibility The field of corporate social responsibility has grown exponentially in the last decade. More than half of the Fortune 1000 companies issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. A larger number of companies than at any time previous are engaged in a serious effort to define and integrate CSR into all aspects of their businesses. An increasing number of shareholders, analysts, regulators, activists, labor unions, employees, community organizations, and news media are asking companies to be accountable for an ever-changing set of CSR issues. ...
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...Annual Report Year ended March 31, 2011 At a Glance Nikon has been a pioneer in optical technology markets worldwide since its inception in 1917. Today, we offer a wide range of products utilizing advanced technologies, from consumer optics such as digital cameras, camera-related products and binoculars to industrial precision equipment including IC and LCD steppers and scanners, microscopes and measuring instruments. In the fiscal year ended March 2011, Nikon posted an increase in sales and regained profitability, absorbing the impact from the appreciation of the yen and the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11. This was due mainly to continued positive sales in the Imaging Products Business, and recovery in the Precision Equipment and Instruments businesses. We will maintain measures to bolster our earnings capacity and develop cutting-edge products, to ensure we remain on a path of sustainable growth. Nikon, following its unchanged corporate philosophy of “Trustworthiness and Creativity,” will consistently offer new value and continue to grow. Precision Equipment Nikon contributes to our increasingly sophisticated information society with its leading steppers and scanners, used in semiconductor and LCD panel manufacturing worldwide. Imaging Products For a new dimension of pleasure from photography, Nikon develops and markets imaging products worldwide with various features using sophisticated digital imaging technology. Instruments Nikon’s...
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...Disclosures About CSR Practices: A Literature Review Kavitha W * and Anita P ** Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is now prominent and evident more than ever due to the emphasis laid on businesses regarding environmental, social and ethical issues. The level of CSR activities of the firms is made known to public only through the disclosures. This paper reviews the literature on CSR disclosures and the effect of these disclosures. There are various factors which determine the extent of disclosures like the size of the firm, industry, high visibility, etc. Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is now prominent and evident more than ever due to the emphasis laid on businesses regarding environmental, social and ethical issues. This is because over the recent years, there have been social, political and economic pressures on corporate management to pay attention on social and environmental consequences of corporate activities. These pressures motivated the corporate management to actively participate in a wide range of social welfare activities. CSR now-a-days covers almost all issues like the use of child labor; inequality of employment; environmental impact; involvement in local community; products’ safety; company cultures; brand image and reputation. Apart from this, companies are now disclosing these activities in their annual reports, and one of the parameters to judge the performance of a company is CSR reporting. Corporate Social...
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...An Internship Report On Audit Procedure of UHY Syful Shamsul Alam & Co. and A Comparative Analysis on IFRS (IAS) and AAOIFI on Financial Reporting Issues Department of Finance Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka An Internship Report On Audit Procedure of UHY Syful Shamsul Alam & Co. and A Comparative Analysis on IFRS (IAS) and AAOIFI on Financial Reporting Issues (As partial fulfillment of BBA Program) Submitted To Department of Finance University of Dhaka Supervised By Taher Jamil Lecturer Department of Finance University of Dhaka Submitted By Md. Rased Mosarraf ID: 16-062 Department of Finance University of Dhaka Date of Submission: May 22, 2014. Letter of Transmittal May 22, 2014. Taher Jamil Lecturer Department of Finance University of Dhaka Subject: Submission of internship report. Dear Sir, I have the pleasure to submit an Internship Report after completing a successful three month Internship attachment at a CA firm named “UHY Syful Shamsul Alam & Co.” on “Audit Procedure of UHY Syful Shamsul Alam& Co. and A Comparative Analysis on IFRS (IAS) and AAOIFI on Financial Reporting Issues”. I have concentrated my best effort to achieve the objectives of the report and hope that my endeavor will serve the purpose. The practical knowledge and experience gathered during report preparation will immeasurably help in my future professional life. I will be obliged if you kindly approved this endeavor...
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...vegetable-oil ink; and waterless printing technology. Printed in Japan NIKON REPORT 2014 Year Ended March 31, 2014 NIKON REPORT 2014 NIKON REPORT 2014 Independent Practitioner’s Assurance of Social and Environmental Performance Independent Practitioner’s Assurance of Social and Environmental Performance About NIKON REPORT 2014 Starting with reports published in the fiscal year ending March 2015, Nikon Corporation publishes its previously named ANNUAL REPORT as the NIKON REPORT. In addition to details regarding business performance and strategy, operational overviews, and other financial data previously published in the ANNUAL REPORT, this report comprises a broader range of non-financial data, including information on CSR activities and corporate governance. As a corporate group that continues to pursue steady growth and create new value prefaced on harmony with society, we hope that NIKON REPORT will promote further understanding of the Nikon Group among our shareholders, investors, and all other stakeholders. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 02 Nikon’s Growth Trajectory 04 Financial Performance 06 Non-Financial Performance BUSINESS STRATEGY 08 Management Message 09 To Our Stakeholders 14 Medium-Term Management Plan Next 100 - Transform to Grow Interviews with Key People on 18 the Strategy Going Forward 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 31 Corporate Strategy Division Semiconductor Lithography Business...
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...crompton greaves limitedWipo Limited | MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING | ASSIGNMENT 03 | | SUBMITTED BY PRIYAL CHOWKHANI R1301038 PGDM 2013-15 1. Vision/Mission statement of the Company’s Promoters and their management philosophy. Vision Statement Vision statements help to describe the organization's purpose. Vision statements also include the organization values. Vision statements give direction for employee behavior and helps provide inspiration. Strategic plans may require a marketing strategy, which could include the vision statement to also help inspire consumers to work with the organization. Vision of Crompton Greaves Limited- To become a Leading Appliances brand by offering technically superior products & services and qualitative after sale service thus enhancing the quality of life of every consumer, through an engaged team. Mission Statement Leaders should emphasize the current mission statement to employees, which clarifies the purpose and primary, measurable objectives...
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...due to the challenges meeting the financial institutions (particularly, Islamic banking) around the world. This paper examines the influence of the board of directors’ characteristics, consisting of board size, board composition, and the separation roles of CEO and chairman, on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in 53 annual reports of Islamic banks of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries after controlling of bank size, financial performance and relevant public. Based on the framework of legitimacy theory, the findings show that CSR disclosure has a negative and insignificant relationship with board composition. On contrast, the study found insignificantly and positive association between CSR disclosure and other characteristics of board of directors (board size and the separation roles of CEO and chairman). With regards control variables, the study indicates that bank size and financial performance have a positive and significant influence on CSR disclosure, while relevant public has no effect. Therefore, the results indicate that corporate governance structure of board of directors within Islamic banks of GCC region does not play a major role on CSR disclosure, because of family control. These findings suggest the need for improving the existence of the best practice of corporate governance for Islamic financial institutions by imposing additional constraints on the board of directors’...
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...Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the influence of government and foreign affiliates, particularly; multinational companies on corporate social reporting (CSR) development in an economy, where CSR awareness is low coupled with weak pressure group activism. Design/methodology/approach – This is a cross sectional study that focuses on the information contained in the annual reports for year 2002/2003. This research uses content analysis as method to measure the extent CSR. Findings – Based on regression analysis, the study evidences on the impact of government influence. However, the impact of foreign affiliation variables is not evident. Institutionalisation of the government’s aspirations and commitment to CSR is perhaps the most appropriate description for Malaysian CSR practice. Research limitations/implications – There are two main limitations of this study. Firstly, this study examines the annual reports for one year. Secondly, this study is annual reports centric. It does not examine any other stand alone reports that the respondents might have produced on the subject of society and the environment. Practical implications – This study provides justification for government’s role in promoting CSR practice. The impact is evidenced although there are no direct concerted efforts at that time by the government in respect of CSR policy implementation. The significant role is attributed to the unique Malaysian socio economic structure....
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...Responsibility Matters Name: Ou Yang Ning Xiao Term: January 2012 Lecturer: Mr. Issac Leung Due Date: 29th February 2012 Words count: 2133 words TABLE OF CONTENT Executive Summary-----------------------------------------------------Page 3 Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------- Page 4 CSR Problem within the Barings Bank----------------------------- Page 5 FIVE Acts to Prevented Leeson from Destroying the Bank---- Page 7 Why SOX not Prevent the Fraud------------------------------------ Page 9 How monitor the ethical standard----------------------------------- Page 10 Conclusion---------------------------------------------------------------- Page 11 Reference----------------------------------------------------------------- Page 12 Executive Summary This report is through the case analysis about the collapse of Baring Bank, to talk about how the corporate social responsibility influences a company. Through the related CSR problems in Baring bank and trying to find what matters that the organization lack of. In addition to know more about how CSR effect the global business environment, depends on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the report talk about the five acts can possibly prevented Leeson to destroy the company. And also discuss why the SOX act is not effective which lead to the Madoff investment scandal and could not prevent the 2008-2009 financial melt down using the ethical decision making...
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... SALEM – 637 504 Contact Number & Email ID:997209785,santosh_bs2001@yahoo.com Purpose: This research paper aims at gaining an insight into the concepts of Corporate Governance and CSR which enables this researcher to generate new ideas on concepts under study. The central purpose of this research paper is to determine how companies Corporate Social Responsibility practices blended in Corporate Governance and to study integration of CSR with CG which enable future researchers to study how companies are able to sustain its Competitive edge with good CSR activities by considering some good practices followed in industry and their critical evaluations in recent events. This research sets the foundation for future study and refers literature to develop a new hypothesis in the concept of CSR. An additional objective of this research paper is to review the Literature on Corporate governance and studying the Juxtaposition of CG and ethical issues for better corporate social responsibility. Design/methodology/approach This is an exploratory research design and it is used to seek insight in general nature of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility. Various variables of CG has been considered for the study, here an attempt is made to understand the relationship between CG and CSR and not to measure the result. Secondary Literature survey is used for data collection method. This research is aimed at very wide exploration of view and this research is an interactive...
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...REPORT Corporate Social Responsibility: Innovation and Business Skills Australia March 2011 Better business through innovation... Acknowledgements IBSA wishes to acknowledge the work of the project team who have prepared this report. CSR Sydney www.csrsydney.com David Morrissey Franziska Kleedehn Sustainability Learning Institute Bruce McKenzie Cheryl Hardie Ian Hardie Andrew McKenzie Damian Collins www.sustainabilitylearning.com.au IBSA is grateful to the large number of people and organisations who have supported IBSA in this project and who participated in workshops and in other ways contributed their time and insights. For further information about this report or any other work being undertaken by Innovation & Business Skills Australia Ltd, please visit www.ibsa.org.au. Innovation & Business Skills Australia Ltd Level 11, 176 Wellington Parade East Melbourne VIC 3002 Australia P +61 3 9815 7000 F +61 3 9815 7001 E reception@ibsa.org.au W www.ibsa.org.au This work has been produced with the assistance of funding provided by the Commonwealth Government through the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). The views expressed in this work do not necessarily represent the views of DEEWR. In addition, DEEWR does not give warranty or accept any legal liability in relation to the content of this work. © IBSA 2011 No material contained within this publication may be reproduced in full or in part without the...
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...Carbon Credit Trading as a way of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Submitted to Ms. Neharika 10/29/2012 Birla Institute of Technology Mesra (Noida Ext. Centre) Devika Singh (IMBA/4567/12) Samridh Singh (IMBA/4565/12) Sunisha Gautam (IMBA/4566/12) Akshay Maheshwari (IMBA/4568/12) Carbon Credit as a way of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) The Collins English Dictionary defines a carbon credit as “a certificate showing that a government or company has paid to have a certain amount of carbon dioxide removed from the environment”. Carbon Credit is a permit that allows the holder to emit one ton of carbon dioxide. Credits are awarded to countries or groups that have reduced their greenhouse gases below their emission quota. Carbon credits can be traded in the international market at their current market price. Carbon credits and carbon markets are a component of national and international attempts to lessen the growth in concentrations of greenhouse gases. One carbon credit is equal to one metric tonne of carbon dioxide, or in some markets, carbon dioxide equivalent gases. There are also many companies that sell carbon credits...
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...CSR 394 Whistle blowing 286 clause 49 high light Utilitarian theory of Ethics http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v2n1/calculating.html in ethics, the theory that the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its usefulness in bringing about the most happiness of all those affected by it. Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism, which advocates that those actions are right which bring about the most good overall. Jeremy Bentham identified good consequences with pleasure, which is measured in terms of intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, and extent. John Stuart Mill argued that pleasures differ in quality as well as quantity and that the highest good involves the highest quality as well as quantity of pleasure. Herbert Spencer developed an evolutionary utilitarian ethics in which the principles of ethical living are based on the evolutionary changes of organic development. G. E. Moore, in hisPrincipia Ethica (1903), presented a version of utilitarianism in which he rejected the traditional equating of good with pleasure. Sarbanes Oxley Act-high light The legislation came into force in 2002 and introduced major changes to the regulation of financial practice and corporate governance. Named after Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael Oxley, who were its main architects, it also set a number of deadlines for compliance. An act passed by U.S. Congress in 2002 to protect investors from the possibility of fraudulent...
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...economy, here Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) play important role in organizations. In Indian industry one can easily notice a paradigm shift from corporate philanthropist to being socially responsible. The importance of CSR is increasing in Indian corporate scenario because organization have realize that ultimate goal is not profit making beside this trust building is viable and assert able with societal relationship. The compulsion of CSR has emerged in last two decades when Indian organization realizes the importance of sustaining in this cutthroat competition era. Before this Indian industries had materialistic culture. In the hue and cry of LPG (Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization) companies were only focused toward profit maximization which led social backwash. To overcome this fashion CSR play an important role in sustainable development which is only possible when there is a balance between profit and lowering social backwash or eradicating it. The problem with Corporate Social Responsibility is that nobody is very clear about what exactly it encompasses. The Indian government has been trying to make it mandatory for companies to spend at least 2% net profits on CSR. Today CSR to some companies means providing lunch to their employees or tackling global warning issues. Now a day’s company have become more transparent in their balance sheet. They are displaying public reporting in their accounting. Companies are incorporating their corporate...
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