Through a consideration of factors which have resulted in a more reduced role for the external auditor in certain jurisdictions – when compared to others, this paper will consider, as well as highlight why an enhanced awareness of the role of the external auditor in such jurisdictions will be...

Owing to the absence of accounting standards for the preparation of a value-added statement (VAS), a large variety of methods are used in financial statements. In this study the published value-added statements (PVAS) of companies listed on the JSE Securities Exchange during the period 1976-2005...

The passage of a technological process is carried out only in circumstances where the process is efficient in economic terms. Assessment of technological processes can be done by means of indicators which can be: economic, technical, economic and technical. Technical-economic indicators used in...

The International Accounting Standards Committee issued the International Accounting Standard 1 Presentation of Financial Statements. The objective of IAS 1 is to prescribe the basis for presentation of general purpose financial statements (GPFS), to ensure comparability both with the entity's...

This paper has the following aims: - To display the nature of the contractual civil responsibility to wich is potentially exposed the external auditor of financial statements; - To determine its practical consequences; and - To contribute to accomplish a link between the legal knowledge and the...

This research seeks to discover if there is any relationship between the delay in the publication of the annual financial statements of companies, and their level of corporate governance, assuming that the delay on its liberation would indicate a smaller transparency of the company. For that,...