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Navigating uncertainty: Manage the impact of inflation

Future CFO

This notion is reinforced by the World Uncertainty Index (see Figure 1 below), which measures the level of global uncertainty across a variety of economic, social, and political factors. In today's world, one thing is certain – uncertainty. Source: worlduncertaintyindex.com Figure 1: World Uncertainty Index Context setting: Why inflation?

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Disclosure Dilemma: When more (data) leads to less (information)!

Musings on Markets

Between 1897 and 1905, for instance, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing neither published an annual report, not held a shareholder meeting. Of course, but investors know that already and can make their own corrections to these forecasts.

GAAP 52
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Triggered Disclosures: Escaping the Disclosure Dilemma

Musings on Markets

Using the words of IFRS (1.7), ‘ Information is material if omitting, misstating or obscuring it could reasonably be expected to influence decisions that the primary users of general purpose financial statements make on the basis of those financial statements, which provide financial information about a specific reporting entity ’.