23 research outputs found
Employers' and public accountants' attitudes towards employee reporting in South Africa
The traditional focus of financial reporting has been on meeting the needs of investors and creditors. However, meeting the needs of other users of financial reports, particularly the employees, cannot be ignored. Employee reporting has therefore evolved as a form of reporting which meets the needs of employees for information about the enterprise for which they work. In South Africa, this is a particularly pertinent topic as a result of recent developments which highlight the need to provide other users with information and emphasize the rights
of employees. Furthermore, companies in South Africa are producing employee reports although there is no guidance by any regulatory bodies as to the form and contents of such reports. This study examines the
desirability of employee reporting in South Africa with emphasis on the theoretical background to
the subject, and the attitudes of employers and public accountants towards the desirability of
employee reporting, its form and contents, and public accountant involvement with published
employee reports.
After analysis, it was concluded:
(1) There is a need for employee reporting.
(2) Although the average response provided support for a separate employee report issued
annually as the most desirable form of employee reporting, employers preferred regular
meetings as the form of employee reporting.
(3) Public accountant involvement with published employee reports is undesirable.
(4) More research is needed.
These conclusions support the following recommendations.
(1) SAICA should show support for the disclosures required by The King report on corporate
governance.
(2) SAICA should re-instate the Employee Report Award.
(3) The communication role of employee reporting should be emphasized.
(4) There should be no regulatory interference with the form of employee reporting at the
moment.Financial AccountingD. Comm. (Accounting
Correction to:A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives (Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, (2018), 5, 1, (86), 10.1186/s40645-018-0238-x)
In the original version of this article (Kunkelova et al. 2018), published on 18 December 2018, there was 1 error in the author name of Dr. Yu
Coupled evolution of temperature and carbonate chemistry during the PaleoceneâEocene; new trace element records from the low latitude Indian Ocean
This is the final version. Available on open access from Elsevier via the DOI in this recordThe early Paleogene represents the most recent interval in Earthâs history characterized by global
greenhouse warmth on multi-million year timescales, yet our understanding of long-term climate and
carbon cycle evolution in the low latitudes, and in particular the Indian Ocean, remains very poorly
constrained. Here we present the first long-term sub-eccentricity-resolution stable isotope (ÎŽ13 30 C and
ÎŽ
18 O) and trace element (Mg/Ca and B/Ca) records spanning the late Paleoceneâearly Eocene (~58â
53 Ma) across a surfaceâdeep hydrographic reconstruction of the northern Indian Ocean, resolving
late Paleocene 405-kyr paced cyclicity and a portion of the PETM recovery. Our new records reveal a
long-term warming of ~4â5°C at all depths in the water column, with absolute surface ocean
temperatures and magnitudes of warming comparable to the low latitude Pacific. As a result of
warming, we observe a long-term increase in ÎŽ
18 Osw of the mixed layer, implying an increase in net
evaporation. We also observe a collapse in the temperature gradient between mixed layer- and
thermocline-dwelling species from ~57â54 Ma, potentially due to either the development of a more
homogeneous water column with a thicker mixed layer, or depth migration of the Morozovella in
response to warming. Synchronous warming at both low and high latitudes, along with decreasing
B/Ca ratios in planktic foraminifera indicating a decrease in ocean pH and/or increasing dissolved
inorganic carbon, suggest that global climate was forced by rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations
during this time.European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD)International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)NSFNatural Environment Research Council (NERC
Correction to: A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives
A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives
Indian-Asian monsoon has oscillated between warm/wet interglacial periods and cool/dry glacial periods with periodicities closely linked to variations in Earthâs orbital parameters. However, processes that control wet versus dry, i.e. aridity cyclical periods on the orbital time-scale in the low latitudes of the Indian-Asian continent remain poorly understood because records over millions of years are scarce. The sedimentary record from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 provides a well-preserved, high-resolution, continuous archive of lithogenic input from the Maldives reflecting on low-latitude aridity cycles. Variability within the lithogenic component of sedimentary deposits of the Maldives results from changes in monsoon-controlled sedimentary sources. Here, we present X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core-scanning results from IODP Site U1467 for the past two million years, allowing full investigation of orbital periodicities. We specifically use the Fe/K as a terrestrial climate proxy reflecting on wet versus dry conditions in the source areas of the Indian-Asian landmass, or from further afield. The Fe/K record shows orbitally forced cycles reflecting on changes in the relative importance of aeolian (stronger winter monsoon) during glacial periods versus fluvial supply (stronger summer monsoon) during interglacial periods. For our chronology, we tuned the Fe/K cycles to precessional insolation changes, linking Fe/K maxima/minima to insolation minima/maxima with zero phase lag. Wavelet and spectral analyses of the Fe/K record show increased dominance of the 100Â kyr cycles after the Mid Pleistocene Transition (MPT) at 1.25Â Ma in tandem with the global ice volume benthic ÎŽ 18 O data (LR04 record). In contrast to the LR04 record, the Fe/K profile resolves 100-kyr-like cycles around the 130Â kyr frequency band in the interval from 1.25 to 2 million years. These 100-kyr-like cycles likely form by bundling of two or three obliquity cycles, indicating that low-latitude Indian-Asian climate variability reflects on increased tilt sensitivity to regional eccentricity insolation changes (pacing tilt cycles) prior to the MPT. The implication of appearance of the 100Â kyr cycles in the LR04 and the Fe/K records since the MPT suggests strengthening of a climate link between the low and high latitudes during this period of climate transition. The Correction to this article has been published in Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2019 6:21 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-019-0259-
A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives
Tem uma correção em http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12390Indian-Asian monsoon has oscillated between warm/wet interglacial periods and cool/dry glacial periods with periodicities closely linked to variations in Earthâs orbital parameters. However, processes that control wet versus dry, i.e. aridity cyclical periods on the orbital time-scale in the low latitudes of the Indian-Asian continent remain poorly understood because records over millions of years are scarce. The sedimentary record from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 provides a well-preserved, high-resolution, continuous archive of lithogenic input from the Maldives reflecting on low-latitude aridity cycles. Variability within the lithogenic component of sedimentary deposits of the Maldives results from changes in monsoon-controlled sedimentary sources. Here, we present X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core-scanning results from IODP Site U1467 for the past two million years, allowing full investigation of orbital periodicities. We specifically use the Fe/K as a terrestrial climate proxy reflecting on wet versus dry conditions in the source areas of the Indian-Asian landmass, or from further afield. The Fe/K record shows orbitally forced cycles reflecting on changes in the relative importance of aeolian (stronger winter monsoon) during glacial periods versus fluvial supply (stronger summer monsoon) during interglacial periods. For our chronology, we tuned the Fe/Kâcycles to precessional insolation changes, linking Fe/K maxima/minima to insolation minima/maxima with zero phase lag. Wavelet and spectral analyses of the Fe/K record show increased dominance of the 100 kyr cycles after the Mid Pleistocene Transition (MPT) at 1.25 Ma in tandem with the global ice volume benthic ÎŽ18O data (LR04 record). In contrast to the LR04 record, the Fe/K profile resolves 100-kyr-like cycles around the 130 kyr frequency band in the interval from 1.25 to 2 million years. These 100-kyr-like cycles likely form by bundling of two or three obliquity cycles, indicating that low-latitude Indian-Asian climate variability reflects on increased tilt sensitivity to regional eccentricity insolation changes (pacing tilt cycles) prior to the MPT. The implication of appearance of the 100 kyr cycles in the LR04 and the Fe/K records since the MPT suggests strengthening of a climate link between the low and high latitudes during this period of climate transition.SFRH/BPD/96960/2013; PTDC/MAR-PRO/3396/2014info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Biostratigraphy of large benthic foraminifera from Hole U1468A (Maldives): A CT-scan taxonomic approach
Large benthic foraminifera are important components of tropical shallow water carbonates. Their structure, developed to host algal symbionts, can be extremely elaborate and presents stratigraphically-significant evolutionary patterns. Therefore their distribution is important in biostratigraphy, especially in the Indo-Pacific area. To provide a reliable age model for two intervals of IODP Hole U1468A from the Maldives Inner-Sea, large benthic foraminifera have been studied with computed tomography. This technique provided 3D models ideal for biometric-based identifications, allowing the upper interval to be placed in the late middle-Miocene and the lower interval in the late Oligocene