accounting, and not only the United States. Outside the academic context, GAAP means US GAAP. Similar too many other countries practicing under the common law system, the United States government does not directly set accounting standards, in the belief that the private sector has better knowledge and resources. US GAAP is not written in law, although the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) require that it be followed in financial reporting by publicly traded companies. Currently, the
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Company: | CIMB Group Holding Berhad | III | Year | 2012 | | No of pages | 1-270 | 1 | Vision or Mission:reflects (if any) If not available then just state “NOT AVAILABLE”Shareholder Theory Stakeholder Theory | Vision : To be the leading Asean CompanyMission : The company want to provide Universal Banking Services as a high-performance, institutionalized and integrated company located in Asean and key market beyong, and to champion the acceleration of Asean integration and the region’s links
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1. Islamic banking is banking activity that is consistent with the principles of Sharia- Islamic law and participates actively in achieving the goals and objectives of an Islamic economy. Sharia prohibits the interest-based transactions and Investing in businesses that provide goods or services considered contrary (vrazrez) to Islamic principles, for example alcohol, pork, gambling (igra na birze,azartnaja igra), or businesses that produce media such as gossip columns or pornography. The aim of
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the institutions to which the members belong. A list of participants and invited guests and speakers appears at the end of the report. This Working Party was chaired by Tim Jones, Chief Executive at Purseus and former Chief Executive of Retail Banking at NatWest, London. Nuria Diez Guardia served as Rapporteur for the Working Party while a Research Fellow at CEPS. Amparo San José and Alfredo Sousa greatly contributed to the drafting of Parts I and II of the final report, respectively. ISBN
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ACCOUNTANT FEATURES INCLUDE Issue 52 Banking & Finance Risk & Compliance International Financial Reporting Standards Global outlook Banking & Finance Feature Is corporate governance a modern fantasy? Andrew Higson discusses the reality of financial reporting and asks if corporate governance still has a role to play in the modern business world. W hat is the difference between the collapse of Enron and the recent collapse of the banking sector? Well, the obvious answer is that
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Green Banking Initiative: Opportunities for Bangladesh Dr. S M Ahsan Habib Professor and Director (Training & Research), BIBM The paper was presented at a seminar on Green Banking at BIBM on October 14, 2010 Green Banking Initiative: Opportunities for Bangladesh I. Introduction Banks that were once seen only as profit motive institutions have been adjusting to a more demanding market and to a more conscious society
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Effects of Culture on International Banking Disclosures George Hooia* aGriffith University, Australia Abstract This paper investigates the influence of national culture on banking disclosures. Seventeen developed and developing countries with a representative sample of 37 listed domestic commercial banks were examined in 2004. Long-term orientation is found to be a non-significant cultural value with banking disclosures. The explanatory power for banking disclosures is found to be similar to
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An Assessment of Corporate Cash Management Practices Author(s): Lawrence J. Gitman, Edward A. Moses and I. Thomas White Source: Financial Management, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 32-41 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Financial Management Association International Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3665408 Accessed: 26-04-2016 11:33 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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subject matter. What I think about this course is that Critical Accounting aims to provide a opportunity for the growing number of accounting researches and practitioners who realize that conformist theory and practice is ill-suited to the challenges of the modern environment, and that accounting practices and
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SERVICE DELIVERY AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN THE NIGERIAN BANKING INDUSTRY (A STUDY OF GUARANTY TRUST BANK PLC AND SKYE BANK PLC) BY ABDULLAHI, RUKAYAT OPEMIPO MATRIC NO: 101003311 A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE DISTANCE LEARNING INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE BARCHELOR DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (B.Sc.), BUSINESS ADMINISTARTION OF UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS. DECEMBER, 2015. CERTIFICATION This is to certify
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