Our paper aims at telling the whole story where fair value accounting is concerned. Harsh criticism has been brought to this concept under current circumstances that motivated out research. Without arguing for fair value as something it is not, we briefly

Our paper develops an analysis on the accounting regulation process by considering the field of financial instruments as one of the most controversial areas of financial reporting. After a brief introduction, comprising aspects related to the accounting regulation process, we first stop upon the...

The present study has as main objective to reflect the state of literature regarding free cash flow, and to withdraw the main pro's and con's in order to create an objective image upon this indicator. The main idea generating this research was the growing interest on cash flow reporting. As many...

Within the wide field of creative accounting, the main preoccupation of researchers surrounded earnings management. The current study comes to acknowledge that creative cash flow may distort the assessment of financial performance and should therefore, become a subject of the same interest for...

The issue of international accounting harmonization has achieved, mainly within the last decade, a significant dimension in the field of international accounting research. The main determinant factor for this state of the art is the process aiming at redu

The concept of "true and fair view" is a very subjective one , which didn't find yet the definition general accepted and in this way we can't say that there are relevant instruments for measuring the level of the fidelity reflected in the financial statements. The financial audit plays an...

Our paper develops an overview of trade literature within the particular area of material accounting harmonization. The usefulness of this paper consists in offering an up to date image on what was written on this particular topic with significant practical implications. We first divide existent...