The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi.

The purpose of this study is primarily to scrutinize the usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia as prescribed in the rules and regulations. The main concern is whether there is limitation for the charitable company to follow this require...

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Main Authors: Puteh Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin, Tumiran, Muhammad Faiz, Nawawi, Anuar
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spelling my.uitm.ir.306512020-06-03T03:43:27Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30651/ The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi. Puteh Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin Tumiran, Muhammad Faiz Nawawi, Anuar Accounting. Bookkeeping Balance sheet. Financial statements. Corporation reports. Including pro forma statements Malaysia The purpose of this study is primarily to scrutinize the usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia as prescribed in the rules and regulations. The main concern is whether there is limitation for the charitable company to follow this requirement in which, its performance and accountability will be analyzed. These attributions will lead to the improvement on the level of governance and accountability to satisfy all the relevant parties, especially the stakeholders and public interest. 50 companies were selected as a sample and three years of financial reports from 2009 to 2011 were scrutinized. Descriptive analysis was used to analyse the data. This study found that the majority of the charitable companies adopted PERS (Private Entity Reporting Standard) and FRS (Financial Reporting Standard) in preparing their financial report while less than 5 percent did not clearly state their accounting standard. For the establishment objective, at least half of the companies spent more than 50 percent contribution received for their institution. This study also found that more than 80 percent of the companies at least provided a minimum disclosure on the contributions received in their financial report with a moderate level quality of information. However, less than 50 percent of the companies fully complied with the basic requirement of the Companies Act 1965 and are being compounded by the regulators. Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Selangor 2017-12 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/30651/1/AJ_AHMAD%20SAIFUL%20AZLIN%20PUTEH%20SALIN%20MAR%20B%2017.pdf Puteh Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin and Tumiran, Muhammad Faiz and Nawawi, Anuar (2017) The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi. Management & Accounting Review, 16 (2). pp. 1-32. ISSN 1675-4077 http://arionline.uitm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/MAR/article/view/550
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topic Accounting. Bookkeeping
Balance sheet. Financial statements. Corporation reports. Including pro forma statements
Malaysia
spellingShingle Accounting. Bookkeeping
Balance sheet. Financial statements. Corporation reports. Including pro forma statements
Malaysia
Puteh Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin
Tumiran, Muhammad Faiz
Nawawi, Anuar
The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi.
description The purpose of this study is primarily to scrutinize the usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia as prescribed in the rules and regulations. The main concern is whether there is limitation for the charitable company to follow this requirement in which, its performance and accountability will be analyzed. These attributions will lead to the improvement on the level of governance and accountability to satisfy all the relevant parties, especially the stakeholders and public interest. 50 companies were selected as a sample and three years of financial reports from 2009 to 2011 were scrutinized. Descriptive analysis was used to analyse the data. This study found that the majority of the charitable companies adopted PERS (Private Entity Reporting Standard) and FRS (Financial Reporting Standard) in preparing their financial report while less than 5 percent did not clearly state their accounting standard. For the establishment objective, at least half of the companies spent more than 50 percent contribution received for their institution. This study also found that more than 80 percent of the companies at least provided a minimum disclosure on the contributions received in their financial report with a moderate level quality of information. However, less than 50 percent of the companies fully complied with the basic requirement of the Companies Act 1965 and are being compounded by the regulators.
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author Puteh Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin
Tumiran, Muhammad Faiz
Nawawi, Anuar
author_facet Puteh Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin
Tumiran, Muhammad Faiz
Nawawi, Anuar
author_sort Puteh Salin, Ahmad Saiful Azlin
title The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi.
title_short The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi.
title_full The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi.
title_fullStr The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi.
title_full_unstemmed The usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in Malaysia / Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin, Muhammad Faiz Tumiran and Anuar Nawawi.
title_sort usefulness of financial statement reporting by charitable companies limited by guarantee in malaysia / ahmad saiful azlin puteh salin, muhammad faiz tumiran and anuar nawawi.
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Selangor
publishDate 2017
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