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Understandability and Transparency
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CHAPTER 2: REGULATORY & CONCEPTUAL
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4.3.3 Axiom 3 - The possibility of
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6.6 Summary .......................
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Appendix One - Statement of Financi
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Abbreviations AASB Australian Accou
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Related Research Outputs The follow
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Acknowledgements My journey through
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Abstract Access to charities‟ fin
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introdu
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More importantly the study will loo
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Unerman and O‟Dwyer (2008, p. 801
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adopted here is clarified, as the l
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March 1999. Further, a study by the
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those by: Vatter (1947); Anthony (1
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CHAPTER 2: REGULATORY & CONCEPTUAL
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(k) The erection, laying out, maint
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Before looking at the legal structu
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2.3.4 Problems As with charity nome
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yet to be determined. This ensures
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per annum (Charities Commission, 20
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certain cases there will be concept
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The focus of the Charities Commissi
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Unlike incorporated societies, the
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2.4.4.4 Future conceptual framework
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problems with New Zealand‟s regul
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This research seeks to identify if
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charities” (Charity Commission, 2
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statements in different documents t
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seek to identify whether a lack of
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In the international arena transpar
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elevance is compromised. The link b
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3.2 Complexities in Charities’ Fi
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3.2.1 Accounting basis The „Accou
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application of the appropriate GAAP
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length transaction”. This definit
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There are four arguments against de
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Financial Accounting Standards Boar
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al., 2008; Newberry, 1992; Rees & D
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However, the notion of control is a
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Kilcullen et al., 2007b). Charities
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the amount of money spent on admini
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This research seeks to identify wha
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As a result of the literature revie
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the elements of the world, or rathe
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come about through the mutually sim
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Research reports from other organis
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clearer picture of the interviewee
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In England, Palmer and Randall (200
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APPROACHING PARTICIPANTS Within the
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availability of charities‟ financ
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As credibility was usually achieved
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clarifications. This approach was u
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to understand the meaning behind an
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analysis is both complete and impar
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subjective realities (Chua, 1986).
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To assure the study was dependable
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CHAPTER 5: ACCOUNTABILITY 5.1 Intro
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emphasis on the definition of accou
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supposition was that a lack of resp
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general public (Charity Commission,
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assumes the other is monitoring the
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performance reporting rather than f
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appropriate performance information
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examiners and the Charities‟ Boar
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which was set up in 2003. Charity a
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Western Australia, all financial st
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The fourth level of independent exa
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What are the major areas of concern
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subset of good accountability pract
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Programme refers to a meeting of ob
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ecording property, plant and equipm
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Figure 6-2 Dimensions of Financial
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Because the [charity‟s] finances
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„selling a story‟ makes them fo
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that you can use it [the stove] for
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the organisation pay to have those
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contributors twice - first to fund
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There is a need to record restricte
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charity will have control of a seco
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of accountants involved in Charitie
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their decision making. One auditor
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Whilst the sample in this thesis is
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Another problem my study found was
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framework funders would not be able
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The lack of professionalism must be
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New Zealand‟s charitable purpose
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We have since February of last year
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analysis was done of the first comp
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Also the idea of members „taking
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The transparency of their organisat
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7.3 Monitoring As discussed in Chap
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Zealand] Statistics Department poin
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There was a sub-committee running [
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useful for smaller organisation and
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change and they‟re doing a good j
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problem that you‟ve [pause] we‟
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legislation and monitoring. Of part
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CHAPTER 8: PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILI
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In New Zealand both the Controller
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what proportion of their charitable
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None of the above reasons includes
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Charities Commission publication
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achieve an appropriate level of per
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more effectively in order to increa
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eneficiaries‟ needs are met is an
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As well as setting aside reserves,
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The important aspect of the propose
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Mostly they [the funders] are worki
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8.4.4 Prescribed performance report
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