Our paper aims to provide an updated description of the process of IFRS adoption in the E.U. and worldwide, pointing out its effects on the information presented in financial statements, on the markets efficiency and on the accounting harmonization. In order to achieve our goal, we have analyzed...

In this work paper we intend to present an overview of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the laws and regulations that a publicly held company must follow. The need for regulation has gone hand in hand with the offering of securities to the general public. The ability of companies...

The general framework of preparation and presentation of the financial statements as the national legislation, formulates a residual definitionof equity, respectively the right of the shareholders on the assets of anentity after deducting all debts. Thus equity represent the equivalentvalue of...

The current activity of an economic entity requires raw materials which, once put into practice, turns into finite production and further on it is rendered valuable. Some of these finite products remain on stock, others are to be rendered valuable and even to cash their costs and thus, the...

Nowadays, we can feel ever more the need for the auditors to take on responsibility in order to express a motivated opinion on the clear and complete true and fair view, of the financial position of the patrimony of the financial situation and of the results obtained by the audited entity....

VAT cash accounting enables the small enterprises to account for VAT on the basis of payments received and made, instead of on tax invoices issued and received. Accordingly, the VAT payable or repayable for each accounting period is the difference between the total amount of VAT included in...

Corporate governance concerns the way in which companies are managed and controlled. For efficient management of companies, these are recommended either to use the dual system of management, which, implicitly, assumes a board independent, supervisory board, respectively, or to establish...

Following the audit/control missions, there were registered inaccurate situations which concern the correct registration of financial and exceptional operation revenues and expenditures, based on documents attesting their way and content. Thus, in the relation between the local budget of the...

In the knowledge-based economy the knowledge has become the essential factor of production, the key element of economic competitiveness at the organizational level, national and global level. Education, research and innovation form the so-called "knowledge triangle". In this triangle, the...

The importance of research and development activity is undeniable in supporting economic competitiveness on medium and long term. The evolution of research development activities differs from one region to another, Southwest Oltenia Region recorded a low level of them. The evolution of the...