This chapter analyzes the role of financial accounting in the German financial system. It starts from the common … perception that German accounting is rather uninformative. This characterization is appropriate from the perspective of an arms … perspective is adopted. The German accounting system exhibits several arrangements that privately communicate information to …

This chapter analyzes the role of financial accounting in the German financial system. It starts from the common … perception that German accounting is rather "uninformative". This characterization is appropriate from the perspective of an arm … perspective is adopted. The German accounting system exhibits several arrangements that privately communicate information to …