Enterprise
It is an economic entity with legal personality. It has a fixed location and carries out a certain economic activity. It is owned by one or a group of individuals, company, semi-government sector, or an establishment. The establishment is the smallest economic unit that may have data on workers, their remunerations, expenditure, income and capital formations.
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Economic Activity
All business activities or services provided for a return. Sometimes, the establishment does not get a financial return, such as charities that are financed by donations.
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Salaries and Wages
Total cash payments paid regularly by the establishment to workers in return for the normal working hours, in addition to fixed raises before making any deductions by the Employer regarding taxes, contributions from employees in social security and pension schemes, life insurance premiums, Union fees and other obligations of employees.
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Benefits and Allowances
Cash and in-kind payments made by the employer to the workers, except for salaries and wages. These payments include all sorts of bonuses and benefits, such as scholarships, education payments for the worker or his/her dependents, food and housing allowances, social security fees, transport allowances and overtime.
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Compensation of Employees
All amounts of wages, salaries, benefits in kind and social contributions of employees during the accounting period for the work they perform, whether cash or in kind before the deductions such as share of social insurance, taxes and similar deductions.
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Operating Expenditure
The value of the goods or services actually used by the establishment during the financial year of the establishment as a result of the economic activity it carries out whether these supplies were purchased in the same year or drawn from stocks purchased in previous years.
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Operating Revenues
Cash revenues earned by an establishment as a result of practicing its main activity or other secondary activities, such as the sale and marketing of its products, providing services for consumers, or trading in goods in general. The operating revenues also include daily returns received from operations, total revenues of sales of manufactured products, other operating revenues that are not related to the main economic activity of the establishment but other secondary activities, such as revenues of industrial services and secondary activities, as well as revenues of selling manufacturing wastes and renting buildings, nonagricultural plots and machinery, or any other operating revenues with mentioning the types of such revenues for necessity.
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Transformational Revenues
All revenues that are received or receivable from investment return, project profit, etc., such as share profits, contributions, received interests, capital assets sale profits, etc. but are not generated from engaging in the principal economic activity or other subordinate activities. Moreover, they include government aid, voluntary contributions from third parties, insurance compensation received, etc., and any other transformational revenues. It is essential to determine the kinds of such revenues.
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Change in Inventory
The market value of the normal change over the accounting period in the goods purchased to be sold in its same condition, raw materials, finished products, and unfinished products. The net inventory is the closing inventory value less the opening inventory value.
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Fixed assets purchased in a year (capital formations)
The fixed assets that the establishment purchased over the year to be used for attaining its objects and not to be sold and added as a raw material to its productions, such as buildings, lands, means of transport, equipment, machines, furniture.
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Office Review
It is conducted by field researchers in two phases: (Phase I) field review upon receiving the form with the person stating the data in the establishment premises, and (Phase II) office review in the main department office. The purpose of this review is to make sure that the data is comprehensive and logical as per the previously set criteria.
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Automated Review:
The automated audit procedures depend on the preparation of rules for the automated audit by entering programs into computers to make sure that data are within the accepted range or that there are no data of great importance with regard to information analysis such as (non-availability of an economic activity or data on expenditures or revenues, .. etc.) Then, replacement of missing data would be implemented in three stages: the first stage is concerned with estimating the missing data from an establishment with the same business activity and the workers volume category (hot deck). The second stage depends on looking for the missing data of the same establishment in previous surveys. The third stage is concerned with setting up an average matrix according to the business activity and workforce and replacing the missing data with such averages. The National Directory of Economic Activities will be used in coding in accordance with the International Standard Industrial Classification.
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