1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463617303321

Autore

Cebotari Aliona

Titolo

Contingent liabilities : issues and practice / / Aliona Cebotari ; authorized for distribution by Paolo Mauro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, District of Columbia] : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4623-0937-2

1-4527-2687-6

1-282-84196-3

1-4518-7103-1

9786612841965

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (62 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/245

Altri autori (Persone)

MauroPaolo

Disciplina

336.343351

Soggetti

Contingent liabilities (Accounting)

Liabilities (Accounting)

Finance, Public - Accounting

Risk management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Background; III. Mitigating Risks Associated with Contingent Liabilities; A. Frameworks for Dealing with Risks from Contingent Liabilities; B. When to take on Contingent Liabilities?; Boxes; 1. Market Failure and Terrorism Insurance; 2. When Are Guarantees Preferable to Other Forms of Support?; C. Strategies to Transfer Risk or Costs Related to Contingent Liabilities; Figures; 1. Typical Infrastructure PPP Project Risks and Hypothetical Allocation; 3. Estimating the Expected Cost and Market Value of Guarantees

D. Other Safeguards against Risks Related to Contingent LiabilitiesIV. Managing Retained Risk from Contingent Liabilities; A. Instruments for Managing Low Impact Liabilities; B. Instruments for Managing High Impact Liabilities; Tables; 1. Contingency Funds to Meet Calls on



Contingent Liabilities: Selected Examples; V. Disclosing Contingent Liabilities; 2. IPSAS: When to Recognize and Disclose Contingent Liabilities; 3. Accounting/Statistical Standards and Transparency Initiatives: What to Disclose; 4. Legislative Requirements to Disclose Fiscal Risks: Selected Country Examples

VI. Institutional Arrangements for Managing Contingent Liability Risks5. Disclosing the Magnitude of Contingent Liabilities: Selected Country Examples; VII. Conclusion; 4. Institutional Arrangements for Managing PPP Risks; A1. Accounting Standards and Standard Setters; Annexes; I. Accounting/Statistical Standards and Contingent Liabilities; A1. Summary of the Main Requirements for Recognition and Disclosures of Contingent Liabilities; II. Measuring the Value of Contingent Liabilities; A1. The Swedish Debt Office Simulation Model; References

Sommario/riassunto

Contingent liabilities have gained prominence in the analysis of public finance. Indeed, history is full of episodes in which the financial position of the public sector is substantially altered-or its true nature uncovered-as a result of government bailouts of financial or nonfinancial entities, in both the private and the public sector. The paper discusses theoretical and practical issues raised by contingent liabilities, including the rationale for taking them on, how to safeguard against the fiscal risks associated with them, how to account and budget for them, and how to disclose them. Co



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778226403321

Autore

Wesson Cameron B. <1968->

Titolo

Households and hegemony [[electronic resource] ] : early Creek prestige goods, symbolic capital, and social power / / Cameron B. Wesson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-24140-7

9786611241407

0-8032-1780-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

976.1004/97385

Soggetti

Creek Indians - Alabama - Social life and customs

Creek Indians - Alabama - Politics and government

Indians of North America - First contact with other peoples - Alabama

Households - Alabama - History

Excavations (Archaeology) - Alabama

Alabama Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Social agents, hegemony, and households -- The Creek social universe -- Creek-European interactions -- Changing Creek households.

Sommario/riassunto

Wesson demonstrates that change within Creek culture in the historic period was shaped by small-scale social units and individual decisions rather than by the effects of larger social and political events. Households and Hegemony enriches our understanding of Creek history and makes a key contribution to comparative archaeological models of cultural change.