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Today, budgets are considered by many as a powerful tool to conduct and control an organization's internal and external affairs. Budget, budgeting, and budgetary controls are the priority of every manufacturing and service entity. Top management in organizations uses budgets to monitor and control the financial and nonfinancial activities that occur within their organization. The current research method is empirical, which tests the feasibility of a solution using empirical evidence based on statistical applications. The study considered SENSEX 30 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The statistical population comprised five top-level managers categories, including 150 respondents, eight mid-level managers, 240 respondents, and 12 lower-level supervisory cadres of 360 respondents. The total population is 750 respondents. "Simple Random Sampling Technique" used in the current study. Primary Data was collected using an Interview Schedule developed explicitly for the purpose and finalized after conducting the pilot survey. The collected primary data are validated, tabulated, and classified. Secondary data were collected from published articles, the Companies Act, the Accounting Standards Manual published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Websites, journals, and other validated material. The companies' annual reports were a significant secondary data source. Data analysis uses Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), and interpretations are made based on statistical tools. The results of the research indicated that most Indian companies set budgeting systems in accordance with accounting standards. The results of the current study also show some significant factors that need to be considered by the organization while setting budgets.

The forward-looking information disclosure presents the information that enables the beneficiaries to evaluate a company's future that might involve financial forecasts and uncertainty. This affects the company's performance and decreases the stock return volatility. The present research aims at integrated modeling of the causes and consequences of forward-looking information disclosure. This study is an applied descriptive correlational research. The sample included 93 companies listed on the Tehran stock exchange from 2013 to 2019. The impact of all the causes of forward-looking information disclosure and its consequences was extracted by applying the structural equation modeling method. The consequences include capital cost and informational asymmetry, and the causes of forward-looking information disclosure include macroeconomic features, financial performance, ownership structure, board characteristics, structural properties, and audit. In short, according to the obtained results, the forward-looking information disclosure significantly positively affects the capital cost. On the contrary, it has no significant influence on informational asymmetry. Further, the results of testing the model revealed that the variables of ownership structure and financial performance positively influence forward-looking information disclosure. In addition, the impact of macroeconomic characteristics is negative, and there is no relationship between the forward-looking information disclosure with the audit, structural features, and the board's characteristics

The world is presently witnessing a shift in approach to organizational jobs and structures towards temporary and flat structures. Accordingly, people’s careers and how they are managed are changing in organizations. Understanding career anchors as a way to discover self-image and external feedback of behavior can be effective in personal and organizational decisions. This research is an attempt to understand career anchors among the employees of National Iranian Oil Company, which is one of the most important economic organizations in Iran, using a mixed-methods approach. In the qualitative phase, 30 interviews were subjected to content analysis, which resulted in identifying 14 categories. The four categories of career stability, halal income, God satisfaction, and dedication were not observed in the research literature. The reliability of the qualitative data was estimated at 0.853 by William Scott’s method. In the quantitative phase, a questionnaire, which was based on the standard CIO2 questionnaire of Schein (1990) and some self-designed questions for the newly identified anchors, was used for data collection from a sample of 200 people. The questionnaire’s reliability was estimated by Cronbach’s alpha. It was observed that career stability and halal income were the top-ranked career anchors of the studied employees.

Introduction: Due to the limited resources and facilities that organizations face, we must first identify and prioritize the factors that are of higher importance to customers and will lead to their satisfaction, and then based on priority and importance. Agents took the necessary measures to provide goods and services that meet the highest degree of customer satisfaction. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to rank the criteria and sub-criteria affecting the decision to buy steel ingots customers and, in this regard, the role of ethical factors has been considered. Material and Methods: The method used in this research is DANP method. The statistical population was experts, business managers and CEOs of companies buying steel ingots, 19 of which were selected by purposive sampling. The analysis tool was an interview and a questionnaire. The data analysis method was Dematel method and drawing their causal diagrams and ranking the factors influencing the decision-making process of steel ingots using ANP method. Results: The results showed that the criterion of economic factors of purchase with a weight of 0.2208 ranked first, the criterion of specific factors of seller with a weight of 0.1998 second, the criterion of ethical factors with a weight of 0.1952 third, the criterion of specific factors of product with a weight of 0.1923 fourth and finally Buying conditions factors with a weight of 0.1919 are ranked fifth. Conclusion: The present study showed that the main factors in customers' purchasing decision include economic factors, seller-related factors, ethical relationship, product-related factors and factors related to purchase conditions