The mandatory use of IFRS by all publicly listed companies in the European Union created challenges for accounting and reporting of business combinations, goodwill impairment and disclosures for these items. Major issues are allocation of amounts to goodwill and specific intangible assets...

The Spanish commercial reform imposses the duty to submit the consolidated annual accounts to the prevailing company of the group identified by control relationships.This criterion is different from the unique direction used so far and removes the duty of consolidation from the coordination...

Accounting for intangible assets is the object of an intense debate between advocates of increasing the mandatory requirements and partisans of the current voluntary disclosure system. We provide empirical evidence allowing to discriminate between these two competing cases. Examining disclosure...

This article deals with changes and trends brought by IFRS 3 (revised 2008). However, the aim is not to describe all changes in their detail, rather the objective is to explain what is behind the changes and how to interpret new provisions in light of the evolution of accounting for business...

The issue of business combinations date arose in accounting in connection with the case of cross-border fusions again. The solution of this issue in the Czech accounting and in company law takes into account objective fundament of the transaction. Legal regulation in many EU countries is...

The consensus in the merges idea conceptions is necessary to increase fairness (trustiness) and comparability of accounting information about business combinations. In the first case of merging independent companies and their accounting entities we can suppose, that the basic idea of merge is...