Few charities communicate quantitative assessments of their volunteers' contributions, leading to an under-valuation of this key resource. An incomplete understanding of the volunteers' roles vis-à-vis paid staff, leads to inappropriate measurement methods being used internationally. New, more...

Increasing demands on publicly funded healthcare systems have led to calls for reform and improved performance especially in primary healthcare, where early detection and treatment of disease along with the promotion of healthy lifestyles, should lead to improve social and economic outcomes...

Financial vulnerability is a critical issue for nonprofit sports clubs due to clubs’ increasing costs and impediments to generating sufficient income. The first objective of this study is to derive a conceptual understanding of financial vulnerability for sports clubs by assessing three...

Well-managed volunteers are assets that charities insist they cannot do without. Nevertheless, few charities publish the value of their volunteers' efforts in annual reports. Charities' current practices in communicating volunteers' value reflect the regulatory environment, but not their...

Universities world-wide experiencing reducing government financial support are seeking to satisfy financial shortfalls through alternative funding such as that from private contributors (especially alumni). When private corporations search for new funding streams, they turn to the internet,...

In the last fifteen years, many national standard setters have introduced differential reporting for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Internationally, SMEs are a diverse and dynamic group which are described under broad characteristics in different countries. Acceptance and imposition of...

Accountability has been described as an institutional social practice to encourage stewardship reflection and as such it is a process that can be observed and reported upon. This paper describes observations of an accountability event, the Annual General Meeting (AGM), which has been largely...

This research reviews the manner in which accountability may be better constructed in the Charities Sector with detailed stakeholder analysis. This combines the adoption of Hayes' (1996) four types of accountability by charities with a hegemonic application of the Mitchell, Agle, and Wood (1997)...