AN ATTEMPT AT MEASURING THE FISCAL INFLUENCE OVER ACCOUNTING OF ROMANIAN LISTED COMPANIES

This paper we seek to measure the fiscal influence over accounting on a de facto level,empirical analysis is being performed on companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE)and RASDAQ market, on a sample of 210 companies. Our observation was conducted in the year2008, the variables taken in the analysis being sales as proxy for ‘accounting’ and income tax asmeasure for tax effects. The model we use is defined in a dynamic fashion (marginal values) sincewe believe these variables reflect the best the true variations of accounting and tax numbers.The statistical results obtained show that there is a statistically significant influence of taxationover accounting of 4%; we are not able, however, to say if this amount is large or small , insince we have no benchmark value yet. This is also the first empirical tax research paper inaccounting on Romanian data.