What is Social Accounting?

Any business accountant of an enterprise or any organisation can describe the conditions of that organisation. Social accounting is that kind of movement by which everyone can analyze the same thing as like a business accountant. The main aim of social accounting is to produce data, indices and other information to help everyone about an organisation. Social accounting is also known in various names. These are social and environmental accounting, corporate social reporting, corporate social responsibility reporting, non-financial reporting or sustainability accounting. This is actually a procedure of communicating in which the social and environmental belongings of organisations (NGO, Charities, may be Government agencies etc.) are included. This is a way by which an organisation can express the level to which it meets its societal or ethical goals. Social accounting is distinct from evaluation in that it is an internally generated process whereby the organisation itself shapes the social accounting Continue reading

Medias used in Industrial Advertising

While some industrial advertisers use traditional consumer media when  they serve their advertising objectives, their choices generally center on  whether to use print media (business magazines, trade publications, and  industrial directions), direct marketing (direct mail, telemarketing, catalogs, and  data sheets), or some combination thereof. General Business and Trade Publications General business and trade  publications are classified as either horizontal or vertical. Horizontal  publications deal with specific functions, tasks, or technologies and cut across  industry lines. Vertical publications are directed toward a specific industry and  may be read by almost anyone from the person on the assembly line to the  company president. The choice of one or the other, or both, is dictated by the  desire to penetrate a particular industry, reach common influencers across  industries, or optimize the goals of reach and frequency.  General business publications (e.g., Fortune, Business Week, and The Wall  Street Journal) tend to be read by Continue reading

Important Features of Japanese Management

The culture of Japanese management is generally limited to Japan’s large corporations. These flagships of the Japanese economy provide their workers with excellent salaries and working conditions and secure employment. These companies and their employees represent the business elite of Japan: qualification for employment is limited to the men and the few women who graduate from the top thirty colleges and universities in Japan. Placement and advancement of Japanese workers is heavily based on educational background. The students, who are not admitted to the most highly rated colleges, rarely have the chance to work for a large company; instead, they have to seek positions in small and medium-sized firms that cannot offer comparable benefits and prestige. The quality of one’s education and, more important, the college attended, play a decisive roles in a person’s career. The problem is that few Japanese attend graduate school, and graduate training in business per Continue reading

The Importance of Reward Management

Reward management in a business organisation is basically the way in which that particular business forms and implements strategies and policies to reward the employees to a fair standard and in accordance with how the organisation values them. Reward management in a business organisation usually consists of the business analyzing and controlling the employee’s remuneration and all of the other benefits for the employees. The main aim of reward management in a business organisation is to reward the employees fairly for the work that they have completed. The main reason reward management exists in business organisations is to motivate the employees in that particular organisation to work hard and try their best to achieve the goals which are set out by the business. Reward management in business organisations not only consist of financial rewards such as pay but they also consist of non-financial rewards such as employee recognition, employee training/development Continue reading

The Basic Types of Research

Research is an academic activity and as such the term should be used in a technical sense. According to Clifford woody research companies defining and redefining problems, formulating hypothesis or suggested solutions; collecting, organizing and evaluating data; making deductions and reaching conclusions; and at last carefully testing the conclusions to determine whether they fit the formulating hypothesis. Research is, thus, an original contribution to the existing stock of knowledge making for its advancement. It is the persuit of truth with the help of study, observation, comparison and experiment. Research may be classified into different types for the sake of better understanding of the concept. Several bases can be adopted for classification such as nature of data, branch of knowledge, extent of coverage, place of investigation, method employed, time frame and so on.   The basic types of research are as follows: 1. Descriptive vs. Analytical Descriptive research includes surveys and Continue reading

Hire Purchase System – Concept and Meaning

Purchase and sale of goods under a hire purchase system is different from cash sale and credit sale. In case of cash sale, the buyer pays the lump sum to the seller and immediately ownership is passed along with the goods. While in credit sale the payment is made in future. In these both cases the ownership and possession of goods pass on the buyer. However, hire purchase system is a special system of purchase and sale. In hire purchase system, the buyer acquires the property by promising to pay necessary installment payment of monthly, quarterly, half yearly or any other period. The period of payment has to be fixed while, signing the hire sell agreement. Though, the buyer acquires the asset under hire purchase system after signing the agreement, the title of ownership remains with vendor until the buyer squares up his/her entire liability. When the buyer pays the Continue reading