Accounting: Business Reporting for Decision Making 7th Edition by Jacqueline Birt Solution manual
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Suggest why organisations would use resources to apply for sustainability awards and would be concerned about their rating on sustainability market indices.
Reasons why entities may invest resources on awards and upholding sustainability ratings could be:
- they want to uphold their ‘social contract’ under legitimacy theory
- they are self-interested (agency theory) and link the awards and sustainability indices to great marketing and public relations.
- they genuinely believe in addressing issues to all stakeholders.
1.37 Go to the Tableau website (www.tableau.com). Select ‘Products’ and ‘Tableau Desktop’. Summarise the main features of ‘Tableau Desktop’ and how it can assist accountants in their daily tasks.
Tableau Desktop is a self-service analysis and business intelligence tool that allows anyone, including accountants, to look at data and answer questions rapidly. Tableau desktop’s main features include:
- extract data from multiple data sources
- link to dynamic data sources for real-time data analysis
- perform drag-and-drop database queries
- create data presentations to drive business decisions
- display data on a map by selecting geographic fields
- perform deep statistical analysis and summaries of existing data.
This product can assist accountants in many ways, such as providing the ability to:
- get actionable insights fast with unlimited data exploration and interactive dashboards helping to uncover hidden insights quickly
- connect to more data — whether it’s big data, a SQL database, a spreadsheet or cloud apps like Google Analytics and Salesforce without writing code
- answer deeper questions by quickly building powerful calculations from existing data, drag and drop reference lines and forecasts, and review statistical summaries
- prepare trend analyses, regressions and correlations for tried and true statistical understanding and make data-driven decisions with confidence
- create interactive maps automatically using custom geocodes and territories for personalised regions such as sales areas
- create interactive visualisations with fresh data rather than using static slides for data collaboration
- extract massive data for limitless exploration in seconds, enabling accountants to analyse big data on a laptop.