This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility and its development in Africa. It provides in-depth studies on 11 sub-Saharan countries, demonstrating that corporate social responsibility is forming and going through different stages of metamorphosis in the continent. Though corporate and individual attitudes towards sustainability in Africa still leave a lot to be desired, this book showcases how things are rapidly changing for the better in this regard. It demonstrates and provides evidence for the fact that corporate social responsibility contributes significantly to the way sub-Saharan African economies are being transformed, with service sectors expanding, commercial activities diversifying and industrial bases growing through the initiatives of small, medium and large organizations and innovators supported by widespread higher-education program rollouts. The book highlights how progressive and wide-ranging CSR approaches have emerged, and how much they differ from the obsolete approaches of the past, which promulgated negative stereotypes, marginalized communities and positioned them as victims or beneficiaries of development.

This volume is devoted to management accounting approaches for analyzing business benefits and costs of climate change. It discusses future directions on carbon accounting, performance measurement and reporting as well as links between climate accounting and business processes, product and service development, supply chain innovation, economic successes and stakeholder relations.Companies are increasingly called on to contribute to combatting climate change and also face the challenges presented by climate-change related costs, risks and benefits. Risks can result from unpredictable weather conditions and government regulations, such as the EU emission trading system and new building codes. Climate change also offers numerous opportunities, such as energy efficiency innovations and carbon neutral products and production.Good management requires that carbon emissions are tracked and climate-related costs, risks and benefits are identified, measured and assessed. As such, research addressing corporate accounting frameworks and tools is of increasing importance when it comes to managing these carbon and climate-related issues.

Marketing and implementing large-volume orders and major projects calls for specific types of expertise. This textbook deals with all of the management tasks involved: order management, inquiry evaluation and proposal preparation, pricing and revenue planning, order financing and financial engineering, contract management, negotiation management, project management, and finally project cooperation. Adopting a cross-sector perspective, it examines both traditional manufacturing industries and business-to-business services. All contributions are presented in an accessible style, making the book well-suited as both a managerial textbook and valuable practical guide.

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Running public sector organizations requires specialist accounting and finance skills to overcome the unique challenges of the sector. Citizens rely on their governments to provide a wide range of public services from an inevitably limited budget and therefore the better that the public money is managed the more services that can be delivered. Just as there is no single best way to manage a business there is no single best way to manage public finances. Co-published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), the world's leading professional public finance accountancy body, International Public Financial Management: Essentials of Public Sector Accounting provides an expert introduction to public sector accounting and finance. This book was conceived to accompany CIPFA's International Public Financial Management (IPFM) qualifications as a resource for students that seeks to capture the essential elements of the modules they study, and reflects good practice as put forward by CIPFA in its examination syllabuses. Students of public management and public sector accounting will find this a useful text. Practitioners working in the public sector will also find this concise book vital reading in seeking value for money in providing public services.

Das vorliegende Repetitorium ruft Ihnen kurz und prägnant die wirklich prüfungsrelevanten Stoffinhalte für Ihre Bilanzbuchhalter-Abschlussprüfung wieder ins Gedächtnis. Anhand einer Vielzahl didaktisch aufbereiteter Fallbeispiele aus originalen Prüfungsaufgaben arbeiten Sie sich direkt in das bevorstehende Prüfungsniveau ein. Neben angehenden Bilanzbuchhaltern profitieren auch Bachelor-Studierende der Betriebswirtschaft von diesem Werk. Zugleich unterstützt es Lehrende bei der Vorbereitung und Gestaltung des Unterrichts. Die 6. Auflage wurde gründlich überarbeitet, korrigiert und aktualisiert. 

This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand, and accounting and management information systems on the other. In particular it addresses topics including cloud computing, data mining, XBRL, and digital platforms. It presents an analysis of how new technologies can reshape accounting and management information systems, enhancing their information potentialities and their ability to support decision-making processes, as well as several studies that reveal how managerial information needs can affect and reshape the adoption of digital technologies. Focusing on the four major aspects data management, information system architecture, external and internal reporting, the book offers a valuable resource for CIOs, CFOs and more generally for business managers, as well as for researchers and scholars. It is mainly based on a selection of the best papers - original double blind reviewed contributions - presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Italian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

The second edition of "Count Down" is revised to include and discuss developments affecting the Big Four and their business model since the December 2015 release of the first edition. Brought into this updated narrative, for example, are: The Big Four's growth to collective global 2016 revenue of $ 128 billion, and the continued disparities in growth between their Audit and Advisory practices. The imposition of mandatory auditor rotation by legislation and regulation in the European Union, and in the US, the PCAOB's requirement to name lead partners on public company audits. New examples of corporate financial malfeasance and potentially disruptive auditor litigation, involving clients of each of the Big Four. In addition, this new edition expands in scope and details the required re-engineering by which - with the necessary mutual cooperation among financial statement issuers and users, the accounting profession, legislators, regulators and agencies of law enforcement - a sustainable structure for financial reporting and assurance might emerge -- that is, a Big Audit model truly fit to serve today's global capital markets.

Immer wieder kommt es bei der Besetzung von Ausschussen zu Pattsituationen zwischen dem Regierungs- und dem Oppositionslager. Der Autor geht der Frage nach, wie mit derartigen Pattsituationen umgegangen werden soll. Dabei berucksichtigt er einerseits die staatsrechtlichen Vorgaben fur die Ausschussbesetzung, die durch die Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts konturiert wurden. Andererseits tragt er der politischen Praxis, namlich dem regelmassig geschlossenen Agieren von Regierungs- und Oppositionslager in den Ausschussen, Rechnung. Am Ende seiner Untersuchung unterbreitet der Autor einen Regelungsvorschlag zur Aufloesung von Pattsituationen, bei dem alle Massgaben gleichermassen zur Geltung kommen.

There are many webinars and training courses on Data Analytics for Internal Auditors, but no handbook written from the practitioner's viewpoint covering not only the need and the theory, but a practical hands-on approach to conducting Data Analytics. The spread of IT systems makes it necessary that auditors as well as management have the ability to examine high volumes of data and transactions to determine patterns and trends. The increasing need to continuously monitor and audit IT systems has created an imperative for the effective use of appropriate data mining tools. This book takes an auditor from a zero base to an ability to professionally analyze corporate data seeking anomalies.

The audit environment continues to change in dramatic ways, and Johnstone/Gramling/Rittenberg's AUDITING: A RISK BASED-APPROACH, 11E prepares you for that fast-changing world by developing professional and ethical decision-making skills. AUDITING integrates the latest in standards, including new guidance from the PCAOB on audit reports, fraud risks, emerging topics such as data analytics, and ethical challenges facing today's financial statement auditors within a framework of professional skepticism. Extensively re-written to be more engaging and reader friendly, AUDITING includes features include: "What You Will Learn" and "Let's Review" sections that highlight important points in each chapter, and integrated true/false and multiple-choice questions throughout the chapter and "Check Your Basic Knowledge" to ensure understanding as you read. Finally, new end-of-chapter problems and new cases provide valuable hands-on experience. Trust AUDITING, 11E to help you master the full range of auditing issues in today's evolving global environment.

Flexible Kraftwerke koennen als Realoptionen klassifiziert werden. Die Bewertung mit Verfahren der Optionspreistheorie ist aufgrund struktureller Unterschiede zu Finanzoptionen jedoch nicht unproblematisch. In diesem Zusammenhang greift der Autor zwei Fragestellungen auf. Zunachst analysiert er den Einfluss empirischer Renditeverteilungen auf den Optionswert. Mithilfe von simulationsbasierten Verfahren werden systematische Bewertungsverzerrungen durch die Missachtung von Fat Tails aufgezeigt. Anschliessend ubertragt der Autor Erkenntnisse der Behavioral Economics auf die Optionsbewertung und untersucht Verzerrungen in der intuitiven Wahrnehmung von Realoptionswerten. Zwei experimentelle Studien belegen irrationale UEber- und Unterbewertungen von Realoptionen.

Dieses Buch beschaftigt sich mit Periodenabgrenzungsmodellen (accruals models), die zur Messung von Bilanzpolitik eingesetzt werden. Bestehende Ansatze wie das Jones- oder das McNichols-Modell weisen ein Endogenitatsproblem auf, wonach die erklarenden Variablen mit dem Fehlerterm einer Regressionsschatzung korrelieren. Dieses Problem wird zum Teil durch simultane Kausalitat der Rechnungslegung hervorgerufen, die bei doppelter Buchfuhrung durch das Beruhren jeder Transaktion von mindestens zwei Konten vorliegt. Der Autor entwickelt zur Berucksichtigung dieses Aspekts ein Mehrgleichungsmodell, das auch Rechnungslegungsidentitaten erfasst. Er zeigt in einer Simulationsstudie fur Unternehmen der EU mit Daten von 1995 bis 2011 durch den Modellvergleich, dass Periodenabgrenzungsmodelle nur bedingt zur Messung von Gewinnsteuerung geeignet sind.

In Audit Analytics in the Financial Industry, editors Jun Dai, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi and Ann F. Medinets bring together a cast of expert contributors to explore ways to integrate Audit Analytics techniques into existing audit programs for the financial industry. Separated into six parts, the contributors take a variety of approaches to this exploration. In Part One, the contributors present two articles illustrating the process of applying Audit Analytics to solving audit problems. Part Two contains four studies that use various Audit Analytics techniques to discover fraud risks and potential frauds in the credit card sector. In Part Three, the chapter focus on the insurance sector and show the application of clustering techniques in auditing. Part Four includes two chapters on how to employ Audit Analytics in the transitory system for fraud/anomaly detection. Finally, Parts Five and Six illustrate the use of Audit Analytics to assess risk in the lawsuit and payment processes. For students, researchers, and professionals in the accounting sector, this is an unmissable read exploring the latest research in Audit Analytics.