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Jednym z zasadniczych celów działania gmin jest rozwój lokalny. Aby efektywnie zarządzać lokalną gospodarką, jednostkom samorządu terytorialnego przekazano pewien zakres samodzielności pozwalający podejmować określone działania dopasowane do potrzeb lokalnej społeczności. Kluczowym aspektem tego zabiegu było wyposażenie gmin w określone źródła dochodów oraz przyznanie im prawa do samodzielnego prowadzenia gospodarki finansowej, rozumiane jako samodzielność finansowa. Celem tego artykułu jest ocena stopnia zależności samodzielności finansowej jednostek samorządu terytorialnego i rozwoju lokalnego. Złożoność analizowanego zagadnienia wymagała zastosowania dwóch głównych metod badań. Pierwszą z nich było wyznaczenie wskaźnika syntetycznego w celu odrębnego pomiaru rozwoju lokalnego i samodzielności finansowej. Druga metoda polegała na wykorzystaniu wskaźnika korelacji Pearsona, aby ocenić zależność pomiędzy tymi zjawiskami.
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Perspektywa finansowa Unii Europejskiej na lata 2007–2013 w znaczący sposób uprzywilejowała regionalne gospodarki turystyczne krajów członkowskich w dostępie do środków UE. W zupełnie inny sposób potraktowano gospodarkę turystyczną w kolejnej perspektywie na lata 2014–2020, uniemożliwiając praktycznie bezpośredni dostęp do funduszy UE. Przedsiębiorcy turystyczni, lokalne samorządy oraz organizacje turystyczne mogą korzystać z alternatywnych form wsparcia przez środki, których pierwotnym celem nie jest finansowanie rozwoju gospodarki turystycznej, ale innych składowych gospodarki (np. infrastruktury, sportu i rekreacji, przemysłów kreatywnych), zwłaszcza związanych z ochroną środowiska naturalnego i dziedzictwa kulturowego. Celem opracowania jest przedstawienie i ocena polityki wsparcia regionalnej gospodarki turystycznej środkami z funduszy UE. Wskazano na zalecenia dotyczące ewolucji polityki turystycznej w kolejnej perspektywie finansowej UE. W częściach pracy przedstawiono zagadnienia: podstaw funkcjonowania gospodarki turystycznej, polityki turystycznej, oceny prowadzonej polityki turystycznej dzięki wykorzystaniu funduszy UE przeznaczanych na gospodarkę turystyczną w latach 2007–2013 i 2014–2020, kierunków kształtowania rozwoju polityki turystycznej przy wsparciu ze środków UE po 2020 roku.
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This publication studies two rate-of-return indicators relevant to enterprises with industrial principal activity: 1) labor resources-based rate of return, and 2) labor cost-based rate of return. In its nature, the first indicator describes the ultimate efficiency of use of one of the major production resources –manpower, and the second – the ultimate efficiency of costs incurred for the operation of manpower. With the help of the denominated factor modelling method, we outline and present two-factor model for analysis of labor resources-based rate of return and four-factor model for analysis of labor cost-based rate of return. The two-factor model enables the identification and evaluates the impact of two factors on the difference between the actual and reference level of labor resources-based rate of return: 1) changes of labor efficiency, and 2) changes of return on sales. The four-factor model gives the opportunity to identify and evaluate the impact of the following factors on the difference between the actual and reference level of labor cost-based rate of return:5) changes of labor efficiency;6) changes of average salary per staff member;7) changes of social security cost per staff member, and8) changes of return on sales.Analysis can be further deepened through detailed review of obtained results and the factors’ impact on the dynamics of the two rate-of-return indicators, in combination with the share method. With regard to the first indicator, it requires analysis of the impact of the factors determining labor efficiency and return on sales, and with regard to the second indicator – the factors determining labor efficiency, average salary per staff member, social security cost per staff member, and return on sales, respectively.
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In today’s world of information technologies (IT) and digital connectivity cyber risk is considered inevitable for all organizations and effective cybersecurity management is crucial for all. The aim of this paper is to outline the role of accountants in the process of cybersecurity management in modernorganizations. This paper argues that to benefit cybersecurity risk management, accounting needs to reform its higher education model. The first section describes the nature and the stages of cybersecurity management. The second section explores the competencies needed by the next generation ofcybersecurity professionals. The third section discusses the potential of the accounting profession to add value in the process of cybersecurity management as well as its implications for reforming accounting higher education. The paper concludes with a call for a balanced commitment to both students’ personal and professional development, which appears to be crucial for the future of accounting graduates, for the role of the profession in modern society as well as for the welfare of the society itself.
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Business processes are going global nowadays, project teams include members spread across the globe. The managers face number of challenges managing these teams. They need not just to speak a few languages but to have solid knowledge of different cultures and habits as well as to effectively manage and motivate people who do not think the same way as they do. In this way, this report aims to present the main challenges that arise in managing intercultural teams. The presented position is that managers can effectively manage their teams by adhering to certain principles and strategies – adaptation, structural intervention, management intervention, exit.
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This report describes the current managerial challenges in realizing the onboarding activities for new incumbents on existing jobs in the companies. These challenges are disclosed through the lens of decisionmaking theory and the levels of culture formation in the field of appraisal for the initiated onboarding activities by the firm.
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Global supply chains are a contemporary manifestation of international business, which allows different economies to utilize their competitive advantages to a greater level and participate in certain stages of a final product manufacturing process. One of the fundamental powers for their development in Bulgaria is the process of regional integration and in particular the preparation for accession and the subsequent membership of the country in the European Union. The supranational rules that apply to all member states, the free movement of goods, services, workers and capital and the step-by-step implementation of a common currency are the factors that let the Bulgarian economy restructure itself and participate successfully in global supply chains as a supplier of value-added goods and not as an exporter of raw materials.
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The term sustainable development is understood as such socio-economic development in which the process of integrating political, economic and social activities takes place, while maintaining natural balance and the durability of basic natural processes, in order to ensure the possibility of satisfying the basic needs of individual communities or citizens of both the modern generation, and future generations. Sustainable development has three dimensions: ecological, economic and social. A consequence of the growing importance of social and ecological aspects of business operations is the increased interest and requirements for reporting, understood as a set of reports containing both financial and non-financial information. This chapter covers the concept of sustainable development, CSR and explains the role, goals and challenges of social responsibility accounting. CSR reporting has become some kind of a trend in non-financial reporting. Many large international companies make great efforts to prepare CSR reports in order to transparently communicate with their stakeholders as well as strive to achieve established social and environmental goals. CSR covers different aspects of business, with, among other things, environmental issues being highlighted. The importance of green accounting has been recognized globally where the adoption of the 2014/95/EU Directive has just further raised awareness of the importance of reporting on the environment and environmental activities. This chapter covers the basic concept and development phases of sustainable and environmental accounting, explains the role of green accounting in modern business conditionsand discusses the benefits and opportunities it provides to interested users.
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It is well known that today, in addition to already established financial reporting, multinational companies are paying more and more attention to non-financial reporting on social, economic, environmental and governmental issues. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reportingis still predominantly voluntary, and it is not standardized. However, there are various international organizations which have been developing frameworks and voluntary standards for non-financial reporting. Those organizations have been putting a sizable amount of effort, time, and knowledge in order to offer some specific solutions to interested organizations preparing CSR reports. Proposed standards, guidelines, and frameworks serve as tools for simplifying CSR reporting. In that sense, the most important providers of sustainability reporting guidance, such as GRI, OECD,United Nations Global Compact, International Organization for Standardization, certainly standout. A significant contribution to promoting the importance of sustainability reporting was also made by the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (2014/95/EU) which obliged large public interest companies with over 500 employees to disclose certain non-financial information. According to the analysis of the content and scope of the most important frameworks and standards of sustainability reporting, it can be confirmed that they have certainly contributed to improving the qualityof non-financial reporting.
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For years financial and management accounting reports were based primarily on “hard” numbers. Extensive written descriptions and explanations were not common in practice. However, inrecent decades there has been a significant shift towards “softer” and more narrative communicationin accounting. The purpose of the chapter is to identify and describe the determinants of the developmentof accounting narratives in practice, and to explain why narratives are gaining importance inaccounting communication. The chapter presents the links between accounting and language, the development of accounting narratives and the factors determining the use of narratives. Narratives give economic units the opportunity to explain the situation and the achieved financial results. The use of narratives helps to better meet the information needs of stakeholders. There are still many challenges ahead of narrative financial reporting, such as determining the minimum content of reports, ensuring comparability of reports or the issue of external control of narrative financial reporting. An insufficient application of professional accounting materiality judgment is considered as one of the main causes of disclosing too much irrelevant information and not enough relevant information. Preparers of narrative reports should be aware that without applying materiality principle the information disclosed in the reports are not considered transparent and stakeholders lose confidencein such companies.
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Companies struggle to communicate value through traditional reporting. Integrated reporting can prove to be an effective tool for businesses looking to shift their reporting focus from annual financial performance to long-term share holder value creation. Such a shift should cover the demand from investors for a structured reporting framework that goes beyond the traditional financial reporting. The International Integrated Reporting Framework will encourage the preparation of a report that shows business performance against strategy, explains the various capital used and affected, and gives a longer term view of the organization. The framework will be attractive to companies who wish to develop their narrative reporting around the business model to explain how the business has been developed. Integrated reporting attained various degrees of popularity depending on the geographical regions. While it is mandatory for all companies listed in South Africa’s stock exchange, in other regions it is used by businesses on voluntary basis. Research shows that in the USA the adoption of integrated reporting is slower than in most of theother developed regions.
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The aim of the chapter is to present the essence, purpose and importance of accounting policy but above all to show the relationship of accounting policy with accounting theory and practice. The issues presented show the important role of accounting policy in the accounting system and its relationship with accounting theory and practice. It is also pointed out the legitimacy of unifying the documentation presenting the accounting policy adopted by a company in the form of an accounting policy report. The considerations carried out may become a premise for further research aimed at showing the mutual influence of the various elements of accounting, i.e. accounting policy, theory and practice. Due to the lack of exhaustive considerations of the issues addressed in the chapter, it contributes to reducing the cognitive gap existing in the Polish scientific literature.
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The subject of this chapter is the initial and balance sheet valuation of assets and liabilities in the context of accounting policy. The aim of the chapter is to present and discuss the principles of asset and liability valuation, as well as to outline the areas where the choice of valuation methods is possible within accounting policy. The research methods used in the publication included the analysis of legal acts and literature. The final result of the study has been presented using a deductive method. In the chapter, methods for valuing individual groups of assets and liabilities have been identified and described, and six main componentsof the accounting policy have been summarized, in which there should be a reference to valuation in accordance with the provisions of the Polish Accounting Act. The practical value of the publication is the prepared list of the minimum scope of the accounting policy regarding the valuation of assets and liabilities.
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The subject of consideration in this chapter is the material accounting policy tools that can be and are used in an economic crisis. In particular, consideration is given to the revaluation of assets, including impairment losses. The aim of the chapter is to present the possibility of creating the image of a company by means of asset impairment losses, which are material tools of accounting policy. The issues presented show the significance importance of accounting policy tools in the process of creating the value of assets and the financial result. On the basis of a case study, the possibilities of influencing the value of receivables and the profit by choosing the method of determining the value of write-downs in accordance with the intention of the decision-maker are indicated. The considerations carried out maybe come a premise for further research aimed at showing the mutual impact of the choice of accounting policy tools on the asset and financial position of a company and, consequently, on its image and perception by stakeholders.
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Stocks of natural resources are decreasing at a high rate worldwide, considering that the level of their exploitation is much higher than the rate of natural renewal. In order to respond to the substantial and complex challenges of climate change and the transition to a more sustainable economy, in 2021 the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEG) have introduced a new class of listed companies on the New York Stock Exchange whose activities are firmly linked to the benefits provided by nature (ecosystem services). Natural asset companies (NACs) enable owners to convert the value of nature into capital, using it to reinvest in natural resources in order to protect them. Natural asset companies represent a potentially major shift in the corporate sector globally, bringing together the interests of capital owners for profit and governments for sustainable development. Investors –interest in investing in these companies is very high, because the innovative class of assets on the New York Stock Exchange rejects the assumption that the preservation of natural resources is only a cost. The new category of companies also initiates a series of new challenges in the financial and accounting sector, related to the development of accounting solutions for integrating natural assets into financial statements. The main goal of our research is to examine the impact of the trend of sustainable business and new natural asset companies on the corporate and public sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina and what will be the role of natural assets in changes in business operations and financial reporting in the future
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In considering the perspective of the second-term survival and progress of mankind, the central place belongs to the concept of sustainable survival and progress of mankind. Sustainable development implies the exploitation of resources, investment management, technological development and institutional changes that must be consistent with the future, and not only with the needs of current generations. Considering the effects of excessive consumption of resources and destruction of ecosystems, the green economy has emerged as a shift in thinking and is considered one of the possible successful solutions to improve economic growth, 'while reducing resource consumption and preventing ecosystem destruction. The paper will analyze the economic aspects of sustainable development, as -well as its advantages and disadvantages. The emphasis will be on the analysis of the institutional component of sustainable development and its importance and key role in connecting and supporting the achievement of other sustainable development goals will be pointed out. The representation of inclusive institutions in a society that promotes the rule of law enables the security of private property, an impartial legal system and the creation of inclusive markets.
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Financial information synthesized and presented in financial reports is, in theory, professional regulation and business practice, the “standard” reporting on achieved business and financial results, financial position, cash flows..., but also on business potential in the future, for the needs of numerous stakeholders. In modern business conditions determined by the processes of growing competition, globalization, internationalization, digitalization, green transition, sustainable and socially responsible business, or the so-called “new normalities”, the need for other non-financial or information on the sustainability of the reporting entity’s operations is gaining additional importance, while the theoretical, practical and regulatory aspects of non-financial and sustainability reporting are becoming an increasingly important issue and challenge for the accounting and financial profession. This paper aims to indicate the need, importance and essence, concepts, approaches, frameworks and regulation of non-financial and sustainability reporting; presents current regulations in this area, as well as the contribution of these concepts and approaches to quality and meeting the needs of stakeholders for non-financial information, and delivers available information on the practice of sustainability reporting and integrated reporting as part of overall non-financial reporting.
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The insurance industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina needs to be an active participant in modern sustainability reporting processes, which is a global trend and a challenge for the insurance industry, especially in small economies. The mission and vision of insurance is basically the production of material and spiritual security for natural and legal persons in a certain geographical area and in a certain time interval. Insurance, as a risk management institution, is a component of all human activities in their living environment. It has public, individual and social responsibility and should be adequately managed, managed and supervised. That is 'why it is an indispensable part of the general, special and individual sustainability reporting process. The existing scope and structure of insurance activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina needs a significant transformation in many segments of its work and general social presence in order to be in line with contemporary 'world trends. The strategy and operationalization of insurance in BiH should be based on scientific and professional foundations and significantly freed from non-productive and often harmful political influences. Numerous insurable risks are not actively managed, both in life and non-life insurance. There is obviously a lack of knowledge and awareness among responsible institutions and individuals (social responsibility). There is no adequate management and supervision. Politics dominates the profession in this important segment as well! Insurance mechanisms are not sufficiently used in environmental protection. The result of all this is the necessity of reporting on sustainability in the insurance industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Climate change poses a challenge to almost every aspect of the global economy and requires the engagement of experts from various fields to achieve carbon neutrality goals. Numerous studies conducted over the past decade indicate that companies are not taking serious steps to reduce their carbon footprint, and corporate management strategies often do not consider environmental issues. Therefore, providing quality carbon information is an inevitable trend for the survival and growth of companies. This requires companies to take responsibility for reducing carbon emissions, disclose important carbon information to stakeholders, and continually improve the quality of carbon disclosure on the path to profitability. Although many multinational companies have recently committed to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, it seems that there is currently a lack o f a unified methodology for measurement and reporting of these promises. Consequently, tensions arise in the field of carbon accounting between different professional communities concerning content control of C02 reports, standard development processes, and attempts to connect new forms of carbon accounting and reporting with existing corporate practices, which often do not align with sustainable development goals. Hence, accounting and reporting become powerful means of communication for declaring ambitions, monitoring gas emissions, and reporting on the current situation and progress of companies in the decarbonization process. Building on the above, the aim of this work is to explore the theoretical and methodological challenges of redesigning the standard information supply of the accounting information system in line with sustainable development goals, decarbonization and CO2 reporting and global regulatory requirements. Methodological procedures and techniques typical of social sciences will be applied, primarily using a descriptive-analytical approach. In addition to addressing the requirements for decarbonization of business and C02 reporting stemming from sustainable development goals, the European Green Deal, and GHG protocol, the significance of carbon accounting in these processes will be highlighted. Special attention will be paid to the positioning of carbon accounting in companies and the challenges faced by accountants in the business decarbonization process, as well as the impact of C02 reporting on the performance and competitiveness of companies, especially in developing countries like Serbia, considering the regulatory acts of the European Union in this area, 'which affect companies exporting to EU countries.
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