One of the fundamental pillars of the European Union aims at the convergence of economic performances among its Member States. This objective has become increasingly challenging with the advancement of the integration process from the customs union to the economic and monetary union, from the...

The objective of this study is to examine the relevance and reliability aspects of accounting with respect to earnings' usefulness which is measured as the association between earnings and share returns. Motivated by the lack of this research in emerging markets, this paper is focused on the...

The aim of the article is to evaluate the level of basic knowledge of accounting issues of students of the School of Business Administration in Karviná (SBA) in the Czech Republic and verify the existence of dependence of their knowledge on gender, secondary education, aspects of their...

The economic and demographical development in Europe in the last few decades has led to increased pressure on effectiveness in the healthcare industry. The growing importance of performance management in this industry resulted in agreater focus on management accounting practices capable of...

The objective of this paper is to specify in which way Polish accounting professionals manage to interpret “in context” verbal probability expressions (VPEs) from IFRS. Taking into account the Polish accounting professionals attachment to the prudence principle and the Polish mindset, we...

The article considers the operational management system of machine-building enterprises in Ukraine under the conditions of interpenetration of accounting and control functions and their deep integration due to shift of the control centres with the centres of operational decision-making. It has...

Accounting is often regarded as an abstract –and hence, boring– subject by students, although it is strongly linked to real life. In this paper, an experimental activity is presented as a complementary tool to theoretical classes in the subject Introduction to Finance Accounting, taught in...

The paper deals with the problem of identification of the requirements that should be ful-filled by modern corporate performance management systems. In the first part of the article the essence of corporate performance management was depicted very briefly taking into ac-count the evolution of...

There are two important points in which in which we need assets and liabilities measured in financial accounting: on initial recognition and at a balance sheet day. Many International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) used the fair value measurement concept. But most of these standards use...

In order to join the European Union, Romania, as well as the other member countries, must accomplish certain criteria, among which we can mention the adopting of the acquis communautaire. Thus, two Guidelines can be considered the basis of the acquis communautaire for the field of the accounting...