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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Imperfect accounting

Imperfect accounting

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Misleading accounting information due to inflation
Presentable
Foreign currency manipulations in accounting records of transnational corporations
Presentable
Lack of social accounting in the business community
Unpresentable
Incomplete cost projections
Unpresentable
Creative accounting
Unpresentable
Undervaluation of asset replacement costs
Yet to rate
Lack of full cost accounting of consumer products
Yet to rate
Lack of environmental accounting in business
Yet to rate
Failure to take account of externalities of systems
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Inadequacy of economic accounting systems
Excellent

Related

Inadequate international standards of financial accounting and reporting
Yet to rate

Strategy

Tolerating imperfect accounting
Yet to rate
Researching corporate environmental accounting
Yet to rate

Value

Virtue-Vice
Presentable
Truth-Error
Presentable
Accomplishment-Nonaccomplishment
Presentable
Perfection-Imperfection
Presentable
Improvement-Impairment
Presentable
Superiority-Inferiority
Presentable
Overrunning-Shortcoming
Unpresentable
Oversufficiency-Insufficiency
Unpresentable
Completeness-Incompleteness
Unpresentable
Imperfection
Yet to rate

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Accounting
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J3839
    DOCID
    12038390
    D7NID
    135598
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024