This article aims to investigate the web-based disclosure choices andpractices among Romanian companies listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange. Web-based disclosure offers advantages that are absent in paper-based voluntarydisclosure: it can be accessed globally at much lower costs and it can be...

Our study approaches corporate governance in the context of the financial reportingprocess. From a theoretical point of view we draw on literature arguing that informationaltransparency connects corporate governance mechanisms and the financial reporting process withbenefits for stakeholders....

The paper analyses some performance aspects in the significant holdings of Romaniaagriculture sector. Using the financial analysis tools and information provisioned by the statisticalsupport of companies, we intended to identify the changes manifested in their economic financialenvironment and...

In this article we analyze and present the steps that banks should take in implementingthe proposed regulations by the Basel Committee in order to create the necessary framework for theoperational risk management. Therefore the first part is an introduction where we explain the basiceffects of...

Growing complexity of problems of logistics management in enterprises anddifferentiation of the used applications without common database force businesses tosearch for solutions which facilitate the processes of logistics decision-making. One ofthe concepts proposed in this chapter is a design...

The analysis of equity and their variation during a financial year is an old custom inAnglo-Saxon accounting. In its simple form, such an analysis can be found in the interpretation ofthe structure ‘accumulated and retained situation‘ from North-American practices. Changes in thecompany‘s...

Stock exchanges around the world have experienced major changes with respect tocorporate governance beginning with the early 1990s. Until that time, almost all exchanges weremember-owned, organized as ‘non-profit‘ mutual organizations. Although there were no publiclytraded exchanges 15 years...

According to a recent survey conducted by the European Commission, Europeansmall and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are highly dependent on bank loans when it comesto financing their activity and accomplishing their growth ambitions. Romanian smallenterprises make no exception. In 2011, on...

In the research fields of earnings forecast and the behavior of cost accounts there aremany studies that indicate factors that affect earnings and factors that are affected by the costaccounts.Earnings affected by many factors as investments, cash flows, ROI, cost of capital, size, and...

This paper motivation is to introduce a few guidelines of a model in search for aconceptual framework for sustainability reporting. We are presenting the levels of informationreliability witch are derived mainly from accounting conceptual frameworks, and Global ReportingInitiative (GRI)...