1 Introduction -- 2 The family business -- 3 Earnings management in family firms -- 4 Accounting conservatism in family firms -- 5 Corporate disclosure in family firms -- 6 The relationship between accounting choice and family business: What is the role of culture? -- 7 Conclusions.

Corporate failures and accounting scandals had shaken the foundations of investors’ confidence in the transparency, integrity and accountability of corporations and financial markets. There had also been public disquiet about the role of professional auditors and audit firms, who had been...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 3. The Financial Statements -- Chapter 4: Accounting Process and the transaction analysis -- Chapter 5: Inventories -- Chapter 6: Non-current assets -- Chapter 7: Liabilities, receivables and other related items -- Chapter...

Chapter 1. Earnings quality: how to define -- Chapter 2. Measures of earnings quality -- Chapter 3. Earnings quality and earnings management -- Chapter 4. IAS/IFRSs, accounting quality and earnings quality -- Chapter 5. Fair Value Accounting and earnings quality. .

1. Comparability as a driver of Financial Reporting Quality -- 2. Criticalities along the path to Global Comparability of financial reporting -- 3. The role of Auditing in Global Comparability of financial reporting -- 4. Cross-country Empirical Analysis on IFRS based financial reports -- 5....