Accounting and Regulation : New Insights on Governance, Markets and Institutions

Introduction -- Corporate Collapse: Regulatory, Accounting and Ethical Failure -- Post-Enron Reform: Financial Statement Insurance and GAAP Re-visited -- Accounting Standard Setting in Two Political Contexts -- Constituents’ Participation in the IASC/IASB’s Due Process of International Accounting Standard Setting: A Longitudinal Analysis -- A Crisis of Identity? A Juxtaposing Auditor Liability and the Value of Audit -- The Corporate Governance Effects of Audit Committee -- The Role of Debt Contracts and Debt Covenants in Corporate Governance: Reflections on Evolution and Innovation -- Regulation, Bonding and the Quality of Financial Statements -- Fair Value and the IASB/FASB Conceptual Framework Project: An Alternative View -- A Comparison of Historical Cost and Fair Value Accounting Systems: General and Some Regulatory Concerns -- IASB ED Management Commentary versus European Regulation: The Impact on Management’s Reports of Companies Listed on Italian Stock Exchange -- Do Attributes of Management’s Explanations of Financial Performance Matter for Analysts? An International Perspective -- The Consequences to Managers for Financial Misrepresentation -- National Standard-Setters’ Lobbying: An Analysis of its Role in the IFRS 2 Due Process -- Current State and Future Challenges of the IFRS: Some Thoughts -- Index.