Social media plays an important role in facilitating conversations and news dissemination. Specifically, Twitter has recently seen use by investors to facilitate discussions surrounding stock exchange-listed companies. Investors depend on timely, credible information being made available order make well-informed investment decisions, with credibility defined as the believability of information....

Using a scoring system, this paper provides a comparative assessment of the quality of data between XBRL formatted financial reports and non-XBRL financial reports. It shows a major improvement in the quality of data of XBRL formatted financial reports. Although XBRL formatted financial reports do not show much advantage in the quality at the beginning, XBRL financial reports lately display a l...

Aim: Risk assessment is one of the important processes risk management. This study aims to show how financial risks encountered in hospitals are evaluated according management approach. Material and Methods: We used tables for identifying activities healthcare organizations, L-type decision matrix assessment, ratio methods enterprise performance indication. In compliance with guidelines, we col...

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was established to strengthen internal controls over financial reporting by U.S. public firms and, as a consequence, to increase investor and stakeholder confidence in published financial reports. Among the many SOX provisions, SOX 404 requires an annual assessment by the firm’s executive management and external auditor of the firm’s internal controls over f...

The protection of people and physical assets is the objective of health and safety professionals and is accomplished through the paradigm of anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of risks in the occupational environment. Risk assessment concepts are not only used by health and safety professionals, but also by business and financial planners. Since meeting health and safety objecti...