The Czech Republic has recently introduced and implemented public sector accounting reform. The aim of the reform was to make the Czech public finance system more transparent, efficient and realistic. The authors of this reform, in fact, intended to bring public sector accounting and public...

The adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) is gaining momentum across the world. Greece initiated a general financial management reform program which includes the transformation of financial accounting. The public sector in Greece adopted IPSAS-based standards...

With the introduction in the 1998-99 state budget of accrual output-based management (AOM), the state of Victoria in Australia is now at the cutting edge of a global public sector management transformation movement. The fundamental elements of financial management change are a full accrual...

By analysing the organsiation's management challenges and activities from an IC perspective, the research study made visible the organisation's invisible sources of value creation and identified inconsistencies in the enactment of knowledge resources. The ICVC framework proved particularly...

Intangible Assets are becoming increasingly important in the global perspective as we are in the middle of the information age. Global investors are anxious to invest in firms which demonstrate abilities to grow rapidly and reward investors with high returns in form of meaningful capital gains...

This paper presents an alternative way for content analysis implementation in order to disentangle and interpret intellectual capital (IC) voluntary disclosures. Content analysis technique has been widely used during the last decade to analyze and systematize intellectual capital reporting. In...

This study is motivated by a desire to extend the literature into investigations of crossborder comparisons of Intellectual Capital Disclosure practices. It is hoped that identifying differences in types of reporting and variations in reporting frequency will lead to a greater understanding of...

Intellectual Capital Reporting (ICR) is located high on the agenda of government, concerned with the establishment of guidelines and positioning their nation-states as 'knowledgeeconomies' on the global landscape. Voluntary guidelines have been established in certain jurisdictions while others...

This paper reports the results of an empirical investigation into the intellectual capital reporting (ICR) practices of UK companies in four distinct sectors. It differs from prior ICR studies in that it analyses a wide range of external corporate reporting media for their IC content. It finds...