This article argues that the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) neglects social structures and the special culture of operational economics. The article refers to an ethnographic study of a family-owned shipping company in Sweden (Forsberg, 2001). Based on an understanding of how...

This paper reviews the accounting and auditing definitions on materiality. The International Standard of Auditing (ISA) 320 'Materiality in planning and performing an audit' defines performance materiality as "the amount or amounts set by the auditor at less than materiality for the financial...

This is a selection from Professor Abraham Briloff (deceased in 2014) from his book, More Debits than Credits: The Burnt Investors Guide to Financial Statements, Harper and Rowe, New York, 1976. Abraham Jacob Briloff was born on July 19, 1917, in Manhattan. His parents, Benjamin and Anna, were...

Since 1999, the French accounting rules have been undergoing many reforms generated by the IFRS. In France, adoption of IFRS standards is mandatory for the accounts published by listed companies, and optionally for consolidated accounts of the non-listed companies. The accounts of French...

This study examines annual report disclosures of executive stock option(s) (ESOs) values by Australian listed companies for periods ending 2002 and 2003. This period was a 'one-time' window of opportunity in which the Australian regulations for disclosing option values in financial statements...

Financial information dissemination is the need of the hour in the globalised scenario for meeting the needs of shareholders. This research seeks to identify the perceived usefulness of statutory, voluntary information and audit assurance (AA) disseminated on the internet to the shareholders....

In December 2008, the SEC approved final rules which require companies to submit financial statements in XBRL format with their SEC filings, beginning with quarterly June 2009 filings for the largest companies and within three years for all public companies. Previously, the SEC established a...

For the world, 2002 was a big year for financial fraud. Bankruptcy followed bankruptcy starting with Enron succeeded by Tyco and WorldCom. While there are many different types of fraud, financial statement fraud represents the largest amount of dollar loss to fraudulent activities. With revenue...