Day by day, the current crisis has been showing its devastating effects on the global economy. It is very urgent to change the vision of the accounting profession in order to counteract these effects. Nevertheless, it is also imperative to build new strategies in concordance with the actual...

Finding itself at a crossroads, the accounting profession is facing today new challenges both at a national and international level, with deep implications whose dimensions are exacerbated by the economic and financial crisis. From a purely practical activity, accounting became a scientific...

Control risk (CR) refers to the likelihood that material misstatement of the financial statements can not be prevented or detected and corrected by the entity's internal control. This risk is assessed by the auditor after obtaining an understanding of the entity's control environment risk...

Corporate governance represents the system through which a company is being controlled and managed. In defining of this concept, works on the idea overall performance of the company is based on the theory of interest holders. The paper concerns about the relationship between corporate governance...

A common theme in current corporate governance is to increase managers’ accountability. In contrast, this paper emphasizes the need for less accountability in certain situations and consequently introduces the concept of "allowance for failure". This concept refers to the style in which the...

The theme of our research is related to the new type of relationship between financial audits (statutory) and unique regulation of financial markets in Romania. Recent developments in the regulation of financial markets require a new perspective on the role and place of financial audit in...

The purpose of this research paper aims the study of actual corporate governance of the listed entities on the capital market. For the empirical study, we chose a segment of top banks in Romania, some of them being listed. On the research demarche we have proceeded to an analysis on the manner...

Nowadays, the term corporate governance is more and more associated with risk management objectives. Its importance increases for the main reason that a good governance is a symbol of balance between tactical and strategic decisions. This paper aims to clarify some issues related to corporate...

Through this paper the authors are trying to highlight the strategic role that internal audit function holds in increasing the efficiency of corporate governance. The research starts with a comprehensive approach to internal audit and internal control, our intention being to identify synergies...

This paper evaluates the role of information technology and CAATTs and the way they could increase companies’ effectiveness in the near future. Our study focuses on the global trend of adopting new technologies at a large scale in internal audit in order to produce high qualitative audit...