The Extent of the Obligation for the Islamic Banks Working in Jordan in the Disclosure of the Social Responsibility Accounting in Their Financial Statements

This study aims at identifying the commitment of the Islamic banks working in Jordan to social responsibility as well as the indenturing of the accounting standards to the Islamic banks to disclose their social responsibility in their financial statements. The population of the study consisted of the managers and assistants of the Islamic banks¡¯ branches working in Jordan or their deputies as a random sample was chosen from said population. (35) Questionnaires were distributed from which (30) questionnaires were recollected rating at (86%) of the study sample. The most important results of the study were that the Islamic banks perform their social responsibilities towards the local community in which they work in addition to the fact that the Islamic accounting standards care for accounting disclosure for the social dimension in the financial statements of the Jordanian Islamic banks in a periodical and organized manner. The study presented several recommendations such as the necessity of embedding social information in the basic financial statements and revealing the amounts of Zakat and donations in separate items in the income statement, the granted goodwill loans statement and due Zakat amounts.