#reporting

• Announcement — The act of announcing and its result; the formal or informal process of transmitting, communicating, or bringing to public notice a piece of news, an official decision, or a scheduled event; heralding or early signaling of a phenomenon.
• Audit — A systematic, independent, and documented mission of verification, analysis, and evaluation of an organization's activities, processes, financial statements, or IT systems. Its purpose is to determine compliance with legal regulations, professional standards, and internal policies, culminating in the issuance of a formal report and recommendations.
• Auditing — The act of auditing and its result; the formal process through which the examination and evaluation of an activity, or a financial or operational system, is carried out. Auditing represents the sequence of technical stages executed by a specialist to certify compliance.
• To self-declare — To affirm, acknowledge, or claim publicly or officially a certain quality, identity, ethnicity, marital status, or asset value on one's own conscience or responsibility, without requiring prior confirmation from a third-party authority. This legal or sociological act represents the baseline pillar in filling out self-declarations or censuses.
• Self-declaration — The act of self-declaring and its result; an official statement made on one's own responsibility through which a person assumes a certain identity, quality, nationality, religious denomination, or financial status before public authorities, without the need for additional proof issued by third parties. This structural act constitutes the demographic pillar in conducting modern censuses.