Translation of "Société d'assurance de frais d'obsèques " (French → English) :

burial insurance society

funeral insurance [ burial expenses insurance | funeral expenses insurance ]

funeral expenses insurance contract

miscellaneous expenses deemed necessary to ensure an appropriate standard of living and participation in local society (a maximum of 20 % of the total amount for items listed in points (a) to (d) can be added to include other costs such as leisure activities, haircuts, newspapers and stationery).

(8) Where, as a result of an event or accident covered by self-insurance, costs are incurred of a type that would normally be debited to an expense account, such costs shall be debited to the insurance appropriations account and any excess of the expenditure over the applicable self-insurance shall be debited to the appropriate expense account.

I think for the larger clients, that probably makes sense; but for small public companies, the fact is, they generally do not have the in-house accounting talent to prepare a good solid set of GAAP financial statements and, if they do not get the auditors to help them prepare their financial statements and ensure they are done in accordance with GAAP, they either have to find a way to do it in-house, which means the quality of financial reporting may go down rather than up, or they will be forced to hire another firm at significant expense to do that work for them.

The operational independence of the management company or of the investment company and the depositary, including situations where safekeeping functions have been delegated, provides additional safeguards that ensure investor protection without undue costs by raising behavioural standards of the entities that belong to the same group or that are otherwise linked.