On a final note, Jeron points out that the difference between economic and accounting ownership plays a big role in valuation as well.
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Women have long been accumulating economic heft, accounting for 47% of the nation's overall labor force, up from about a third in 1960.
Slightly more than half of the work force is in agriculture, but services are the major source of economic growth, accounting for more than half of India's output, with only one-third of its labor force.
In total, 43% of 5, 400 companies surveyed in 40 countries reported suffering one or more significant economic crimes since the accounting firm last conducted its survey two years ago.
Accounting for further economic losses, however, is more of a shell game: Did those extra losses result from the wind, the flood or the government?
That is, the benefit to the capital market of improved financial information must be weighed against the cost of any changes in economic behavior induced by new accounting rules.
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"The notion in accounting is that similar economic circumstances should be treated the same way, " Carmichael says.
Based on that knowledge a company can then decide whether it would make economic sense to switch the whole accounting system from Sterling to euro.
Our model, which tracks performance back to 1998, shows 2010 as the most profitable year ever in terms of accounting earnings, economic earnings, and free cash flow.
Over the past five years, while showing a rise in accounting profits, its economic profits are mostly flat with a significant decline during its last fiscal year (2010).
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From an economic perspective, this kind of accounting is absurd: In keeping all of these accounts separate and refusing to treat one dollar as identical to the next, people are actually giving up real gains.
Spending is the key economic driver in the United States, accounting for roughly 70% of all growth.
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First, economic planners and bankers have to start accounting for the hidden cost of carbon in power plant feasibility studies on their own volition.
That may have been good economic policy, but it hardly promoted uniform accounting standards.
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Our accounting mistake is wreaking ecological and economic damage across the U.S. and the world.
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In both cases, the values derived from accounting conventions are inconsistent with the economic reality.
But for our money, it is the easy Fed, the end of the panic and accounting rules reform that is boosting economic activity.
Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief: The Asia-Pacific experienced major disasters with devastating impacts in 2011, accounting for 80 percent of global economic losses to disasters.
The only hope for a real full accounting and for genuine democracy and economic opportunity for Vietnam will have to await the fall of the communist government in Hanoi.
It is quite rare for a company to have higher economic earnings than GAAP earnings given that the accounting rules enable companies to overstate their GAAP profits so easily.
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Global energy consumption is expected to increase by about 50% between now and 2035 due to population growth and increasing economic activity, with non-OECD countries accounting for 84% of this increase.
Mindy regularly speaks about corporate and investor sustainability issues to high-level leaders at the New York Stock Exchange, United Nations, World Economic Forum, Clinton Global Initiative, American Accounting Association, American Bar Association and more than 100 Fortune 500 firms.
In the end, Brady was an accounting trick that gave breathing space and it was possible because of the political and economic strength of the USA in the economy of 1989 (and the non-controversiality of accounting tricks in that just-born global finance system).
With consumer spending accounting for about 70% of US economic activity, analysts said the figures were good news for the economy.
With consumer spending accounting for some 70% of all economic activity, experts pay special attention this indicator to gauge broader economic health.
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Accounting measures should follow the movement of economic value, not cash, so that delaying pay packets until next year (or retirement) has no effect.
The SNA provides a comprehensive accounting framework to compile aggregate indicators relating to economic development, highlighting production, incomes and outlays and their interrelationship.
They would all represent, implicitly at least, an increment to the national debt (at least in an economic sense, if not in a strict public-accounting sense).
It is Africa's second-biggest economy, after South Africa, and the leader of the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), accounting for roughly half of its GDP.
The differences between an operating lease and a capital lease are quite small despite the rather large impact the difference in accounting can have on the balance sheet and economic earnings of the business.
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