Sustainability Reporting in the Australian Commonwealth Public Sector: An application of New Institutional Theory Abstract This paper explores sustainability reporting in the Australian Commonwealth public sector through the focus on departments with a primary responsibility for social and environmental issues. The research moves beyond existing theorisation for social and environmental reporting and adopts new institutional theory in order to assess the extent to which coercive‚ mimetic and
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Mass Media (Q) Assess the usefulness of the Hypodermic Syringe model of the mass media. The hypodermic Syringe Model (HSM) is an early theory model‚ which believes that there is a direct correlation between the violence and anti-social behaviour portrayed in different media types (e.g. Television‚ computer games and films). Sociologists found that the most venerable audience to the HSM are children and teenagers. this is because they are still in the early stages of socialization so are therefore
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“There is no truth in advertising.” Discuss Advertising is omnipresent and inescapable in today’s world. It is claimed that an average person is exposed to 2000 advertisements every day. Due to its all-pervasive nature‚ advertising has a huge impact on our minds‚ both consciously and unconsciously. However‚ the credibility of today’s advertisements should be questioned. As media companies and advertising agents become increasingly profit-driven‚ advertisements now contain false information‚ promote
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Marketing is defined as a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and values with others.(Kotler.P 2002 : 5) The goals of marketing is to attract new customers by promising superior value and keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction. There are five core concepts of marketing‚ which includes needs‚ wants and demand; products‚ services and experience; value‚ satisfaction and quality; exchanges
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Module 6 Reporting and Analyzing Operating Assets QUESTIONS Q6-1. When a company increases its allowance for uncollectible accounts‚ it also records bad debt expense in the income statement. If a company overestimates the allowance account‚ bad debt expense is too high and net income is understated. As well‚ accounts receivable (net of the allowance account) and total assets are both understated on the balance sheet. In future periods‚ the company will not need to add as much to its allowance
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Stating a Bisiness Commercial Siomai Siomai is a type of traditional Chinese dumpling that has been popular and made its way to the heart of the Filipino’s‚ made evident by the hundreds of stall/kiosks‚ eateries‚ and restaurants. Siomai in the Philippines is often made of ground pork‚ beef‚ and shrimp‚ among others‚ combined with extenders like green peas‚ carrots and the like which is wrapped in wanton wrapper. It is either steamed or fried. It is normally dipped in soy sauce and squeezed calamansi
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important component of financial accounting and reporting. The accounting principles governing revenue recognition can have a big impact on corporate accounting and the way contracts are structured with customers. As a part of ongoing discussions to converge U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)‚ some proposals to change revenue recognition have been discussed. The following will discuss revenue recognition as it stands under U.S
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to errors and fraud and the categories of fraud affecting financial reporting. Identify misstatement in financial report is the major task of auditor. Regardless the result of error or fraud‚ plan and perform audit engagements are being required by auditors to ensure financial statements are free from material misstatement by reasonable assurance instead of total responsibilities to the fair and true reports due to the limitation of auditing. When there is a high likelihood of fraud through evaluating
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The Usefulness of “The Sociological Imagination” in Relation to Gender‚ Social Inequality and Suicide Sociological imagination is the “quality of mind” (Mills‚ 1959: p. 4) that enables us to look outside our everyday life and see the entire society as we were an outsider with the benefit of acknowledge of human and social behaviour. It allows us to see how society shapes and influences our life experiences. Is the ability to see the general in the particular and to “defamiliarise the familiar”
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‘Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess the usefulness of Marxist approach to an understanding of crime and deviance’ (21 marks) There are numerous Marxist theories that help us to understand crime and deviance in different ways‚ however they are all based around the same ideas. They believe capitalism causes crime in three different ways including‚ selective law enforcement‚ criminogenic capitalism and ideological nature of the law. Traditional Marxists believe that crime is
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