IFRS 9 was introduced by the IASB in 2014 and became mandatory for fiscal years starting in 2018. It bears fundamental changes in the accounting requirements for financial instruments, especially in the areas of recognition, categorisation and measurement, impairment and loan loss provision. As...

The creation of a single European railway area is the overall policy objective of the European Union for the railway industry. Rail infrastructure management is seen as a natural monopoly to be operated at a national scale. Competition is possible downstream in the provision of rail transport...

This paper argues that the large differences among EU countries in post-crisis employment performance are to a large extent driven by the need to adjust corporate balance sheets, which had greatly deteriorated during the boom years in some countries but not in others. To close the large gaps...

The debate on the scope of bank information disclosures seems to be an essential issue, especially after the 2007-2010 financial crisis. The adequate number of data provided to the public domain is the condition of transparency of the banking sector, which should assure the optimization of...

Am Lehrstuhl für Rechnungswesen der Universität Kiel wird derzeit untersucht, wie die Rechnungslegungspraxis die gesetzlichen Regelungen bezüglich der Transparenz von Unternehmensverbindungen umsetzt. Grundgesamtheit der Analyse bilden die nach Umsatzerlösen geordneten Unternehmen im...

Die Fremdkapitalfinanzierung der deutschen Unternehmen erlebt derzeit drastische Umbrüche, die mit dem Näherrücken der Einführung der Basel-II-Regeln zur Eigenkapitalhinterlegung von Firmenkrediten bei den Banken noch nicht abgeschlossen sein dürften. Strukturprobleme und die...