This paper deals with achieving hedge accounting for portfolio of assets and liabilities. Furthermore, provides brief comparison between currently effective hedge accounting rules embodied in IAS 39 and forthcoming standard IFRS 9. The aim of presented paper is to highlight possible linkage...

More attention has been paid lately to small and medium companies as they represent more than 95% of all business subjects of the national economy of each country. The European Union is pursuing activities in order to reduce costs for those companies, related to fulfilling of administrative...

Equity of a limited liability company or a joint stock company is mainly composed of contributions of shareholders, retained earnings or funds from revaluation of assets at fair value. The revaluation of assets and liabilities at fair value is substantial if the company has carried out a merger...

Among the most frequent transactions realized between related entities included in a group are sales of goods, provision of services, lending, sales of securities and other financial assets. Consolidation adjustments leading to eliminations of these transactions realized e.g. between parent and...

Description of three various approaches to allocate income tax expense from financial statements of a subsidiary to financial statements according to the requirement of its parent company in case of the financial statements of a subsidiary used in the preparation of consolidated financial...

From the 16th through 18th September 2009, the Department of Management Accounting held an international conference. Topics discussed were aimed on performance management, conceptual questions and practical experience. These topics are very frequent subject of interest of the researchers through...

The article is devoted to Frank Donaldson Brown who is author of very frequent used model of decomposition return on investment (assets) and return on equity. First part describes his successful career of manager in E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company and General Motors Corporation. Second part...

This paper examines the responses of North America academics to the recent wave of accounting and audit scandals. The paper suggests that the main response to these scandals can be divided into two big groups. The first one takes the position that the whole system works and the scandals are in...

This discussion refers to polemic of questions of possibility how to recognize accounting fraud. It’s possible to agree if external auditor proceeds according to ISA’s (international auditor’s standards), he would disclose fraud. This conclusion is opportune completed with series of...

The article deals with new directive of European Parliament and Commission which has been approved on June 26th 2013 and regulates annual financial statements and consolidated financial statements. Member countries of the EU are obliged to adapt their domestic legal and administrative regulation...