Human Capital Reporting in a Developing Nation
Presented at 7th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting (IPA) Conference, Madrid, Spain, July 13-16, 2003
18 Pages Posted: 18 Mar 2009
Date Written: July 13, 2003
Abstract
In recent years, a trend in management has been the introduction of human capital (HC) management and accounting. As a result of this trend, there has been a demand from external stakeholders for a different sort of information, and many firms have, in an attempt to meet this demand, become more involved in the creation, measurement and reporting of information other than 'financial' data. Using the method of content analysis, this paper reports on human capital reporting (HCR) practices taken from a sample of firms in Sri Lanka, a developing nation. The paper aims first to examine the disclosure patterns of HCR observed in the Sri Lankan sample, and second to speculate upon the differences in disclosure patterns between Sri Lanka and developed nations.
Keywords: Human capital, Human capital reporting, Sri Lanka, Knowledge economy, Annual reports, Content analysis, Intellectual capital, Developing nation
JEL Classification: J24, J41
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