Search results for "Contabilidad"
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How Effective are Business Ethics/CSR Courses in Higher Education?
2016
AbstractConcern is increasing worldwide for introducing dedicated courses on business ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in higher education curricula. In this study, awareness of business ethics is investigated from a sample of 307 undergraduate and postgraduate management students at a Polish university. This investigation aims at assessing management students’ awareness of business ethics issues, focusing on the potential differences in such perceptions depending on previous business ethics/CSR courses taken. Surprisingly, our results do not match prior findings in the extant literature. Notably, in our sample, having taken previous courses on business ethics/CSR does not p…
Business Ethics as a Sustainability Challenge: Higher Education Implications
2018
Recent financial scandals worldwide have intensified concern for business (and especially accounting) ethics. Hence, under an overall economic and social sustainability approach, it is crucial to improve the effectiveness of business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) education, in terms of its impact on business students&rsquo
Universities' Reporting on SDGs: Using THE Impact Rankings to Model and Measure Their Contribution to Sustainability
2021
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have voiced growing concerns about sustainability issues since Agenda 2030 was approved, but this is not enough for societal stakeholders seeking and delivering innovation and excellence. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action, and pose a challenge for HEIs as for the efforts made to fulfill them and knowing how to assess their performance. However, the metric management system implemented by HEIs quickly led to rankings emerging, which compare HEIs to metrics not related to the sustainability dimensions of the 17 SDGs. The main aim of the paper is to assess the level of repo…
Sistema de control y disciplinario del ICAC: determinantes de las infracciones y repercusiones económicas sobre el mercado de auditoría
2017
La presente tesis doctoral está motivada por las recientes reformas de la normativa en materia de auditoría tanto a nivel europeo como nacional. Las cuales inciden significativamente sobre aspectos fundamentales con el fin último de incrementar la calidad de auditoría. Dichas reformas muestran la preocupación de los organismos reguladores en cuanto a la relevancia del sistema de supervisión pública y las cuestiones relativas al control de calidad e independencia del auditor. Por ello, la nueva Directiva de la Unión Europea relativa a la auditoría de cuentas y aprobada en 2006, establece dos pilares básicos: En primer lugar, un sistema de inspecciones y sanciones efectivas, a las que hay que…
The Inclusion of Socially Irresponsible Companies in Sustainable Stock Indices
2019
Social rating agencies implement complex filters to identify the companies with the best sustainable and social performance and help investors select the companies for their sustainable portfolios. This study analysed whether companies that are defined as ethical, sustainable and socially responsible by those agencies actually deserve this label. More specifically, the inclusion in the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) World of companies that have been involved in controversies according to the Thomson Reuters Eikon database was studied. The results show that the inclusion of irresponsible companies in the DJSI Index is a fact. This outcome is in line with previous studies t…
Does the interaction between the accounting method choice and disclosure affect financial analysts’ information environment? The case of joint ventur…
2017
IAS 31 allowed firms to choose between proportionate consolidation and the equity method to record joint ventures in the consolidated accounts of the venturer. Moreover, this election implied a decision about including information in the primary financial statements or in the notes. This paper investigates if financial analysts perceive accounting information differently depending on the method chosen conditioned to the disclosure of the required information in the notes. We analysed a sample of Spanish firms during 2005–2010. We not only considered earnings forecasts, but also examined target prices and stock recommendations. Furthemore, we look at how this accounting choice affects analys…
Efectos en el examen final de la participación del estudiante en cuestionarios online
2016
[EN] This paper looks into the different evolution of students’ online questionnaire performance and its impact on the final examination mark. This innovative technique has been used in a group of an introductory financial accounting course with 8 online questionnaires (one per unit). Using cluster analysis, we identify different groups of performance evolution. The evidence obtained suggests that in one of this groups a favourable test performance evolution may lead to overconfidence with the subsequent negative effect on the final examination mark. Future research with more variables and bigger samples will help identify this student profile with a view to preventing this undesired negati…
Cine y ética en contabilidad: una experiencia sobre la mejora en sensibilidad ética
2021
[EN] In this paper we present a learning experience in which for the first time we introduce cinema as a teaching methodology in a higher level accounting course to explore the concept of ethical sensitivity. Our study shows that the ethical sensitivity achieved with the viewing of the film positively impacts the student's grade. The students most satisfied with this learning methodology were the ones who got a good answer for the question on ethics in the questionnaire- which would imply a greater ethical motivation and ethical character. However, no conclusions can be drawn about the significance of the impact on the qualification of ethical motivation or the ethical character developed i…
La contabilidad como sistema de información para el control de la gestión social y ambiental de las empresas. Un estudio comparado de los casos exito…
2017
La presente investigación responde a criterios de oportunidad e interés desde el discurso sobre la gestión socialmente responsable y ambientalmente sostenible en el ámbito más amplio de las organizaciones, cuyo aspecto central, para la comprensión del fenómeno, se posiciona desde la contabilidad como sistema de información para el control de las externalidades generadas en el desarrollo de los negocios. La hipótesis central es qué la contabilidad, al capturar la realidad de la organización y ser el lenguaje del negocio permite articular variables para el análisis social y ambiental, como parte integral de la información financiera y no financiera. Lo anterior, además de responder a las diná…
Management accounting: effect on key factors of competitive success in the cooperative sector
2020
Las cooperativas cobran cada vez más relevancia por su participación en el mercado y para ser competitivas, sus directivos deben sortear las exigencias de entornos dinámicos, tomando decisiones a partir de información extensa, ambigua y cambiante. Por otro lado, se entiende a la contabilidad de gestión como la herramienta que apoya a la gerencia en este proceso, sin embargo, en la literatura no existe claridad sobre su contribución a la competitividad. En consecuencia, el objetivo es explicar la incidencia de las dimensiones de la contabilidad de gestión en los factores clave del éxito competitivo de las cooperativas multiactivas. Para ello, se desarrolla una investigación de enfoque cuanti…