This paper assessed factors that influence the internal controls in ensuring good corporate governance in financial institutions in developing economies with special reference to Zimbabwe. The research paper assessed how lack of internal controls affected good corporate governance and aimed to...

It is an open question to what extent the accession countries will be able to benefit from an increase in the quality of FDI that they receive due to EU membership. The point here is that the benefits that accrued from EU membership to the countries that joined earlier are substantially...

Control covers debts and liabilities, outstanding liabilities and purchases and expenses in the profit and loss and long-term liabilities, provisions and funding costs. The validation tests applied to cover all, claims liabilities in the financial statements but with less emphasis on testing for...

This article started from the idea that International Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards have had a major impact over the accounting world. Accounting laws of Continental Europe (especially France) centered on historical cost, are in opposition to IFRS towards fair value. If accounting...

The users of the financial statements have long been limited to perusing the loss and profit account to find out information about the accounting result. It has been considered the most significant indicator to measure the performance of a company, without taking into account, however, the...

Financial analysis provides the information necessary for decision making, and also helps both the external and internal users of these. The results of the financial analysis work are dependent on the quality, accuracy, relevance and effectiveness of the information collected, and processed....

The problem of costs is that they are an extremely complex variable of the company’s management, because of its importance in the management of each business. All managers need accurate and timely information to carry out pricing, planning, operation activities and to take other type of...

Expenses represent one component of the binomial that determines a company’s financial performance, the other component being the incomes. Diagnosing performance as part of the performance management has the purpose of providing managers with a feedback on previous actions and it acts as a...

The study follows the evaluation process of patrimony through different accounting referential. It was analyzed the basis for evaluation provided, how credible and believable are to the extent of their advantages and limitations. The differences highlighted here come to support today’s...

It is known that depreciation is calculated in financial accounting by regulated criteria, depending on a conventional fixed life. Excluding depreciation depending on units produced (applied to buildings and special construction of mines, salt mines, quarries) where it is calculated per unit...