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1.  ''Documentation - contract - law.''
''Investment and funding appraisal.''


Standard wording that can be incorporated into a draft contract or other document, designed to reduce the expense and delay of extensive negotiations and of errors.
(TVM).  


Time value of money is the concept that money held now (or receivable immediately) is worth more than the same amount of money to be received at some later time.


2. ''Documentation - contract - law.''
The time value of money is reflected in the charging of interest for the use of money, and also in discounted cash flow analysis.


Entire standard-worded draft documents produced for similar reasons.


All other things being equal, the time value of money means:


3. ''Information technology.''
*Earlier receipts are better than later ones.


Abbreviation for ''boilerplate code''.
*Later payments are better, compared with earlier payments.


A section of code that is repeated without modification - or with only minimal modifications - in different places.
*Later receipts are worse.


 
*Earlier payments are worse.
4.  ''Financial reporting - investor relations.''
 
In the context of reporting and communication, ''boilerplate'' can have negative connotations.
 
For example, boilerplate disclosures are standard-worded ones that fail to provide insight into the situations they describe.
 
 
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Avoid boilerplate TCFD disclosures'''''</span>
 
:"The FRC has published its Annual Review of Corporate Reporting...
 
:... the FRC draws attention to the importance of TCFD disclosures, mandatory for the first time for December year end reporters, urging that disclosure should be integrated into the annual report and avoid boilerplate."
 
:''Deloitte Academy - November 2021.''
 
 
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Boilerplate statements not backed up'''''</span>
 
:"Unfortunately, as last year, we continue to see the use of boilerplate or declaratory statements.
 
:These statements are seldom substantiated by actions or examples, and therefore do not offer insight into company governance...
 
:... the vast majority of reporting on outcomes of community engagement remained generic and boilerplate."
 
:''Review of Corporate Governance Reporting - Financial Reporting Council - November 2021, p3 & p30.''
 
 
5.  ''Reporting - standard forms.''
 
A specification of a reporting format.
 
This type of boilerplate is designed to ensure that reporting is complete, easy to receive, and easy to incorporate into other systems, for example by always including - as a minimum - specified important items in the same order.
 
 
6.  ''Origins - engineering.''
 
In engineering, boilerplates are steel that has been rolled out into standardised plates.
 
Steel boilerplates can be used for a number of engineering purposes, including making boilers.
 
By analogy, the term ''boilerplate'' was extended to printed material, in the era when smaller local newspapers incorporated syndicated content supplied in the form of pre-prepared blocks of metal typeset text.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Annual report]]
* [[Compound interest]]
* [[Bespoke]]
* [[Discounted cash flow]]
* [[Clause]]
* [[Float]]
* [[Contract]]
* [[Future value]]
* [[Deloitte]]
* [[Interest]]
* [[Documentation]]
* [[Investment appraisal]]
* [[Financial reporting]]
* [[Opportunity cost]]
* [[Financial Reporting Council]] (FRC)
* [[Present value]]
* [[Governance]]
* [[Simple interest]]
* [[Information technology]]
* [[Time value]]
* [[Investor relations]]
* [[Law]]
* [[Standard]]
* [[Syndicate]]
* [[Tailor]]
* [[Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures]]  (TCFD)
 
 
==External link==
*[https://www.frc.org.uk/getattachment/b0a0959e-d7fe-4bcd-b842-353f705462c3/FRC-Review-of-Corporate-Governance-Reporting_November-2021.pdf Review of Corporate Governance Reporting 2021 - Financial Reporting Council]


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[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Investment]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Ethics]]

Revision as of 18:38, 30 October 2021

Investment and funding appraisal.

(TVM).

Time value of money is the concept that money held now (or receivable immediately) is worth more than the same amount of money to be received at some later time.

The time value of money is reflected in the charging of interest for the use of money, and also in discounted cash flow analysis.


All other things being equal, the time value of money means:

  • Earlier receipts are better than later ones.
  • Later payments are better, compared with earlier payments.
  • Later receipts are worse.
  • Earlier payments are worse.


See also