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Record W2897694284 · doi:10.1111/issr.12180

Accounting for social benefits: The search for a past event

2018· article· en· W2897694284 on OpenAlex
Paul Mason

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Social Security Review · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicFiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Canadian institutionsCanadian Standards Association
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScope (computer science)Social accountingAccountingLiabilityGovernment (linguistics)Work (physics)Social securityPublic sectorSustainabilityBusinessEvent (particle physics)Public relationsEconomicsPolitical scienceAccounting information systemEngineering

Abstract

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Abstract The article explains the role of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) in setting accounting standards for the public sector, and the due process that is followed in setting those standards. The article explains the scope of the IPSASB's current project on social benefits, and how this compares to the scope of social benefits in Government Finance Statistics (GFS)/System of National Accounts (SNA) as well as the IPSASB's previous social benefits projects. The scope is wider than pensions, and wider than social security as social assistance is also included. The accounting principles that underpin the IPSASB's current project are discussed and include the IPSASB's definition of a liability, and the key role that a “past event” plays in that definition. This is contrasted with some of the actuarial approaches. The article then describes the potential past events that the IPSASB has considered to date in the project, and what impact liabilities from these past events would have on the financial statements. This comparison makes reference to pensions, where the financial impact of different past events will be greatest. The article sets out the IPSASB's proposals in its recent Exposure Draft ED 63, Social Benefits, and also discusses alternative views on recognition and measurement. The article concludes by discussing the IPSASB's current guidance in RPG 1, Reporting on the Long‐Term Sustainability of an Entity's Finances, and notes that the IPSASB is seeking views on whether it should undertake further work in this area.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.876
Threshold uncertainty score0.448

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.083
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.248 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it