Corporate social reporting in Singapore.
Thus far, there have been numerous studies on social responsibility accounting. This research aims to adapt a study done by McComb (1978) and apply it to the Singapore context. The research presents the findings of disclosure trends among public listed companies, government-linked companies and stat...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-530872023-05-19T05:41:38Z Corporate social reporting in Singapore. Chew, Su-Hwei. Ong, Bok Hoe. Yap, San Hong. Nanyang Business School Koh-Lor Eng Min DRNTU::Business::Accounting Thus far, there have been numerous studies on social responsibility accounting. This research aims to adapt a study done by McComb (1978) and apply it to the Singapore context. The research presents the findings of disclosure trends among public listed companies, government-linked companies and statutory boards for the period from 1984 to 1994. It also looked into the extent and nature of disclosure among the various industrial sectors. The scope of the research covers 66 randomly chosen companies listed in the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES), 21 statutory boards and 18 government-linked companies. The four areas of social disclosure as found in the study (McComb) are environment, employees, product-related and community service. The structure of the study is as follows: review literature, examination of the annual reports for disclosures, analysis of data, results and conclusions. ACCOUNTANCY 2013-05-30T02:03:57Z 2013-05-30T02:03:57Z 1996 1996 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53087 en Nanyang Technological University 96 p. application/pdf |
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Thus far, there have been numerous studies on social responsibility accounting. This research aims to adapt a study done by McComb (1978) and apply it to the Singapore context. The research presents the findings of disclosure trends among public listed companies, government-linked companies and statutory boards for the period from 1984 to 1994. It also looked into the extent and nature of disclosure among the various industrial sectors. The scope of the research covers 66 randomly chosen companies listed in the Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES), 21 statutory boards and 18 government-linked companies. The four areas of social disclosure as found in the study (McComb) are environment, employees, product-related and community service. The structure of the study is as follows: review literature, examination of the annual reports for disclosures, analysis of data, results and conclusions. |
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