In the last years and especially after the outbreak of the recent financial and economiccrisis, fair value and implicitly fair value measurements for financial statements have been harshlycriticized, mainly by the representatives of the companies activating in the financial sector.Therefore, the...

There is the possibility that the information on which basis the informational risk hasbeen identified and evaluated, not to be correct and impicitly the financial statements not to be inconformity with the represented reality, affecting in this way the objective of the ‘trustworthyimage‘....

This paper deals with issues of how to take on the responsibility of the auditor, especiallyin this time of crisis that hits the whole society. Significant role of financial auditor and the lies that theauditor is unable to give reasonable assurance that financial statement are not tainted by...

Although one may say that the components of financial statements maybe considered autonomous and independent elements, the whole accountingprocessing procedure ends with a set of financial statements that are closelyinterconnected from the information viewpoint. Therefore, the earnings are shown...

The major financial statements are designed to provide a picture of theoverall financial position and performance of the business. In order to provide thisoverall picture, the accounting system will normally produce five major financialreports on a regular recurring basis. These financial...

The aim of this paper is to bring into attention the creative accounting phenomenon. Typesof creative accounting practices has been examined comparing scandals occurred in large companiesin the last two decades. In order to realize this scope we define the concept of creative accounting andits...

The evolution, the development of increasingly complex activities emphasizes the utility,the necessity of the profit and loss account in the financial reporting by increasing the interest in theenterprise performance, especially for the dynamic information that this situation can provide.In this...

According to position document no.11 Economic and Monetary Union , Romaniahas committed to report after the European System of Accounts ESA 95. The classification of publicinstitutions is necessary to circumscibe the Public Administrations’area (S.13), its division intosubsectors and also to...

The purpose of this research is to discuss creative accounting limitation throughethical developments, focusing on features as: measurement and behavior. In this respect we turnto an original search in the literature that comprise together estimation segment in accounting andtheoretical...

The purpose of this study to compare the previous research about how the non-finan cial companies listed in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) and deposit banks in Turkey havedisclosed information regarding the usage of derivatives, and the accounting treatment of thesederivatives. The results of...