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    discuss are; maternity benefits, temporary incapacity or accident benefits, long-term sickness benefits, disability benefits, pensions benefits, imprisonment benefits, death benefits, and invalidity benefits. In many of the cases in order to receive benefits or assistance, the insured must have contributed to at least twelve months of working, or in the case of the old age pension at least one hundred fifty-six months of contribution are required. In some cases there are instances where the contribution

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    Why was codification needed? Codification was needed to clarify entry to ASC, refine accuracy of analysis, reduce risk of non-compliance, organize the research procedure, maintain problem-solving updates and collaborate with IFRS merging What is the goal of codification? The Codification’s goal is to clarify the company of thousands of U.S. authoritative accounting announcements published by diverse standard-setters. Therefore, to accomplish this objective, the FASB sponsored a project to incorporate

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    Japan’s public pension system can be divided into the Employees Pension System, the Mutual Aid Association Pension System and the National Pension System. Pensions can alliveate many financial worries that people in the workforce may experience into the future and problems a retiree is experiencing currently. This creates a situation where

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    Introduction A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund or super fund is any plan, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income. A pension fund is established by a company, governmental institution or labour union to pay for the (future) pension benefits of retired workers. Superannuation funds collect retirement savings from workers and their employers, and invest this money in a wide range of assets. Because pension funds manage the money of up to millions of individuals, they are

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    Over the years, annual reporting has undergone drastic changes. It is becoming increasingly important as the readers are not limited only within certain geographical boundary but expanding internationally. With globalization, public listed companies must ensure more transparency and more accurate information. This has led to publication of their reports on their websites making people all over the world easy access to their performance. Today not only financial reporting are becoming important part

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    The effort to establish the Teacher Retirement System of Texas was a 20-year process which began in 1916. After a few bumps on the road, and collaborations within the Texas Legislature, Governor James Allred signed the program into law under Section 67, Article XVI of the Texas Constitution on June 9, 1937, and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas was in effect as of July 1, 1937. The mission the legislature envisioned remains essentially intact, as TRS continues to strives to provide competitive

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    1929 and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (Palepu, 1985). Harnischfeger was a leading producer of construction, mining and electrical equipment. In 1984, the corporation’s net profit was drawn by $1.28 per share due to the severe financial crisis that the company had faced during the last three years. The worldwide recession in the early 1980s caused a significant drop in the demand for the company’s product starting in 1981 and ended in a series of events that shook the financial stability

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    target market. The company markets: • An extensive range of ordinary long term and equity linked insurance products; • Group life, group health and personal accident plans; • Group pension plans, with a portfolio of over J$26 Billion under management, making Sagicor the industry leader in the management of pension

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    Social Security In the Future? Maybe Not      It was early spring in the year 2048 and my bithday was coming up this August 26. I would be turning 70 years and retirring. I am not looking forward to it as much as I thought. My whole life I dreamed of moving to Florida and living on the beach when I retired. I planned on traveling a lot seeing the great sites the country has to offer. All of these plans have changed instead my yougest son is putting an addition on his house

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    The early 1940’s found the median age in Canada to be approximately 26, whereas today it rests at just under 40 (Hick, 2014). This rising trend in age further continues when looking at that of the elderly (those aged 65+). The Government of Canada (2016) projects that beginning in 2011 and stretching over the next three decades, the number of elderly persons in Canada will rise from 4.2 million to that of 9.8 million, with the latter estimated to represent almost a quarter of the total population

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