Financial Disclosure by Australian Residential Aged Care Providers: Are They Suffering Dementia?

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2018-10-01
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Used by permission: International Business and Social Science Research Conference and the author(s).

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Australia’s Residential Aged Care (RAC) Sector is significant in terms of its ageing population, which is consistent with most developed countries. It is therefore vital for stakeholders to have access to RAC providers’ financial information to make informed and timely decisions. It is often difficult for stakeholders to accurately compare the financial information of RAC providers due to there being a small timeframe to make decisions with a high emotional content. This research will enable RAC providers and their stakeholders to consider the current level of disclosure required and the level of voluntary disclosures providers in the sector choose to disclose, and whether this level of disclosure is adequate for stakeholders to make informed decisions. Information was gathered from the RAC provider's annual and/or financial reports, to determine their level of financial disclosure, over a three year period. It was found that the RAC providers’ level of financial disclosure could be more consistent and adequate by complying with the Australian Financial Reporting Framework, including an independent Audit Report. Hence, this research provides new insights and a basis for further research to determine whether the Australian RAC Sector have improved their consistency and adequacy of their financial disclosures through the use of the proposed RAC GPFR Framework.

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Dementia, Financial Reporting, Sustainability, Transparency
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Poulton, E., Barnes, L., & Clarke, F. (2018, October). Financial disclosure by residential aged care providers: Are they suffering dementia? Paper presented at the International Business and Social Sciences Research Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

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