The research area of work is the accounting systems addressed both globally and at national and European level, in terms of characteristics and internal events in order to highlight their differences. This paper aims to carry out a comparison between the two accounting systems, international...

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...

The annual financial statement is a technical and accounting instrument capable to provide with, periodically, a synthetic representation of the patrimonial and financial statement and of the economical result of an entity. In Europe, the financial accounting phenomenon was born in the second...

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...

The purpose of this paper is to present the perspectives of using XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) as a tool for financial auditors considering the increasing coverage of this language for financial reporting. We performed an extensive literature review concerning XBRL utilisation...

In this article we aim to present a side of the nonfinancial reporting, which is more and more presented by the companies all over the world: the social reporting. In order to do this, we present a review of the requests included in the Romanian regulations in force regarding this aspect and the...

There is no human progress without the development of markets, and this implies the existence of professional accountants. Therefore, accountants satisfy general interest. The financial and accounting scandals that culminated with the collapse of large corporations have had an important impact,...

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...