Popular Financial Reports: Accountability through Readability.

Anderson, Richard T.; Piotrowski, Craig L.

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ERIC Number: EJ493439

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1994

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Popular Financial Reports: Accountability through Readability.

Anderson, Richard T.; Piotrowski, Craig L.

Community College Journal, v65 n2 p38-42 Oct-Nov 1994

Discusses colleges' use of popular financial reporting to make their annual financial reports more readable to citizens and legislators and to make their reports useful marketing and recruitment tools. Highlights research about financial reports and performance reporting conducted by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Describes the experiences of Waukesha County Technical College in publishing popular reports since 1992. (MAB)

Descriptors: Accountability, Annual Reports, Community Colleges, Evaluation Utilization, Financial Audits, Readability, School Business Officials, School Community Relationship, Two Year Colleges

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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