As inventories represent a significant balance sheet item for many companies, their correct presentation and disclosure is fundamental for the financial statements’ users. This article identifies compliance with the ”IAS 2 Inventories“ requirements in consolidated financial statements of...

The IFRS 8, the operating segments was converged of the IAS 14 and SFAS 131(US GAAP). It was issued in November 2006 and subsequently has been applied since 2009. The core of convergence is to reduce the differences between IAS 14 and SFAS 131. The IASB expected that a change would increase...

This article analyses compliance with information disclosure requirements under IFRS 3 Business Combinations in 23 companies trading at Prague Stock Exchange. The analysis was performed with the use of publicly available data contained in annual reports of the companies. Beyond quantification of...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level of intellectual capital (IC) disclosure of the largest Czech and Hungarian listed firms. We apply content analysis of the annual statements and measure IC disclosure by a score. We hypothesize that a significant positive relationship exists...

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...

This paper aims to formulate some principal questions which should be used as start-point for design and analysis of the performance measurement conceptual framework. The paper is based on literature study followed by analysis and generalization. It reflects the diversity of approaches to...

The European Union (EU) Regulation 1606/2002 requires all listed companies of the member states to prepare consolidated financial statements based on the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2005. The adoption of IFRS is...

This article investigates statement that IFRS have positive impact on the regulatory system in continental European countries. The accounting regulatory system is used for the purpose of investigation. Authors of the paper developed theoretical scenarios of potential development of the...

The differing opinions of both experts and managers on the application of budgets in the dynamic changing business environment were inspiration for the empirical study that is oriented on the importance of budgets to performance management. The paper results from the empirical research. Analyses...

The paper analyses the possibility of using the economic concept of income introduced by J. R. Hicks for accounting purposes. Despite some disadvantages hindering from its broader practical utilization, this concept still finds its place in the area of managerial accounting and capital...