Search Results for integrated-reports

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Integrated reports represent an episode in the development of the financial reporting function and were approved by the management of economic units as a result of the pressures of users of accounting information in light of a competitive economic environment that requires reducing the information gap between management and users in order to ensure the achievement of social and environmental activities to evaluate the efforts of the management of economic units and their ability to achieve goals. Its strategy and creating an integrated information advantage.

The importance of the research stems from the importance of integrated reports and evaluation of banking performance and governance, as it addresses an important issue supporting the disclosure of quantitative and qualitative information about the performance of banks to meet the needs of investors and stakeholders. The aim of the research was to determine the role of the dimensions of integrated reports within the governance framework in the process of results and evaluation of banking performance.

As for the research problem, the process of reporting on the results of the economic unit’s work is accompanied by various problems that prompted the emergence of a comprehensive type of reports. Hence, the research problem can be formulated with the following questions: Do the contents of the dimensions of integrated reports affect the evaluation of banking performance within the framework of governance? The research is also based on the following hypotheses: The first main hypothesis: There is a role for integrated reports with their dimensions within the governance framework in evaluating banking performance under the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) system.

Many conclusions were reached: weak disclosure in the non-financial reports of the bank in the research sample, in addition to the low levels of environmental and social activities that help management achieve its set goals, and the low utility of the information provided to users.

The research summarized the recommendations, the most important of which are the need to oblige professional accounting organizations and the management of the Iraqi Stock Exchange to direct bank management and the need to commit to preparing annual integrated reports.

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The research aims to shed light on the stages of development of the balanced score card to the sustainable balanced score card. And according to what the sustainable balanced scorecard contains of many non-financial indicators in its three perspectives except for the financial one, so the research aimed to employ the card and identify its indicators, which usually function as a performance evaluation, so that those same indicators are the non-financial information that is disclosed within The integrated report model, which represents the most advanced generation of reporting.

The electronic payment card company Qcard was chosen to implement the proposed research model. As its financial and administrative reports were analyzed, in addition to conducting extensive interviews with the heads of various departments in the company, the sample of the research. The indicators that formed the sustainable balanced scorecard and which later represented the guide for preparing the integrated report form were identified after distributing the indicators that represent non-financial information on the nine components of the integrated report form.

And the most important conclusion was the operation of non-financial information, in addition to financial information, which led to the activation of management accounting tools, facilitating the formulation of the strategy of the economic unit, the implementation of the strategic objectives of the economic unit, and the achievement of sustainability requirements. Its performance from multiple points of view and enabled the management accountant and management to quantify expectations to the nearest degree of accuracy, which leads to correcting the evaluation process and expanding the area of ​​correction options that can be put forward in the strategic performance evaluation process. As for the most important recommendation, it was necessary to unify the efforts of academics and professionals to raise the level of application of management accounting tools in economic units, and to employ those tools in enabling units to achieve sustainability requirements, and the consequent necessity of developing management accountant skills in preparing reports that feed departments with information. Necessary to fulfill these requirements.

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The emergence of integrated reporting on global warming represents an important evolutionary stage in the auditing profession, as the auditor has moved from his traditional role of examining or auditing information or pre-prepared lists with a specific financial formula to granting a certificate of confirmation in the preparation of this information or financial and even non-financial statements. This certificate (report) is distinguished by some specificity from the conventional audit report, as assurance services fall between the level of absolute assurance and the lack of assurance, and it contains a wide range of services that do not differ from the two types of reasonable assurance and limited assurance. Specialized professional organizations, including the AICPA, have issued a group Among the standards for these services in order to rationalize their practical application, and I found many obstacles that could face the process of preparing integrated reporting on global warming in the local environment. The researcher adopted the descriptive analytical approach in the theoretical framework, as well as collecting data about the work environment and then analyzing it in the applied framework. This is done by taking advantage of the SPSS program for statistics, as well as the analytical method using it on a sample of data issued by oil refineries. The sample was estimated at the refineries of Shuaiba and Doura. The researcher reached results, the most notable of which is that there are no appropriate controls for preparing integrated reporting, as there is a difference in views about the suitability of the IR framework. As a criterion for assurance, and in particular, current assurance standards, most notably the International Standard for Assurance ISAE 3410, The research community consists of the Daura and Shuaiba refineries in Iraq. The research sample comprises 140 employees working at the Daura and Shuaiba refineries. The researcher used both the survey questionnaire (paper and electronic) and the model reports as tools. In this context, the questionnaire form was distributed to the research sample, require appropriate controls to evaluate the subject matter of an assurance engagement and the practitioner provides reasonable or limited assurance regarding the extent to which the subject matter is compatible with a specific basis, and the researcher concluded that: The high cost of preparing the integrated report compared to its benefits. The cost is also considered a major obstacle to making the entire integrated report the subject of a confirmation engagement (IIRC 2015). Confirming the entire integrated report requires the participation of multiple experts, which will make the engagement very expensive.

There is a difference in the level of credibility and reliability provided by integrated reporting compared to auditing, as integrated reporting does not provide the same level of credibility and trust provided by auditing financial statements. This is due to various reasons, including that integrated reporting is less quantitative and more qualitative in nature. The new form of assurance may fail to have the same confidence as an audit of financial statements. As a result, before embarking on making radical changes in current assurance models, sufficient time must be given. To refine its integrated reports and deal with stakeholders to determine the extent of the actual need for external confirmation, and the diversity of the nature of integrated reporting mechanisms, as the integrated nature of reporting processes and the many types of information reported require innovative forms to enhance credibility that can accommodate the link between the various components of integrated reporting. The researcher presented a main proposal to overcome the obstacles in integrated reporting of global warming, as she recommended that concerned parties adopt strategies such as strengthening cooperation and partnerships with other parties, providing training and continuous development for employees, and improving internal systems and processes to facilitate the reporting process.