ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY VIA RESTRUCTURING GOVERNMENTAL FORMAL LETTERS

Majeed, Bzhar Nasradeen; Karim, Awin

doi:10.24271/jgu.2022.163856618

ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY VIA RESTRUCTURING GOVERNMENTAL FORMAL LETTERS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Bzhar Nasradeen Majeed ¹

Awin Karim ²

¹ Charmo University, Business College, Accounting Department

² Faculty of Administrative Science and Economic, Tishk International University

https://doi.org/10.24271/jgu.2022.163856618

Abstract

Nowadays, the economic, social and environment are considered as three major
concepts in human beings’ life. However, dealing with these subsystems and
maintaining them for the sake of humanity are going to be a great achievement.
For a country to be sustainable these concepts will be evaluated. Hence, this
paper investigates in economic sustainability of Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)
in order to decrease cost via restructuring and redesigning governmental formal
letters. The main objective in this article is figure out that standardizing
governmental formal letters will lead to decline public expenses. This is
because implementing various formatting letter and different font sizes in
public institutions cause serious problem in term of waste of money. So, the
importance of this article is returning public cost to public budget, which is
finally the whole society would worth from it. In order to achieve research
objective primary data were collected through distributing a survey
questionnaire among educated people in order to check the confidence level of
readability. Also, interviewing information technology (IT) expert and public
employers are other two major sources of the research data. The main results in
this paper are, decreasing font size from 14 to 12 don’t affect confidence level
of readability. Moreover, this change in font size would return a huge amount
of money to public budget.

Keywords

Economic sustainability

cost reduction

formal letter

KRI

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