Recent corporate failure has challenged the credibility of the accounting profession, leading many stakeholders to … question the usefulness of financial reports for decision-making. This paper examines fluctuations in the accounting profession …’s authoritative influence over accounting standard setting and financial reporting. It focuses on the period following the collapse of …

not investigated the impact of natural calamities like flood and drought on accounting choices. This paper makes an … original contribution to the accounting literature by documenting evidence on the extent to which an act of nature, over which … management has little or no control, can influence accounting choices. …

With the prevalence of international markets comes the need for universal accounting standards. The International … Accounting Standards Board has created a set of these standards, but unfortunately some skeptics have found that the obstacles of … of China, India, and Australia, it has been found that it is possible to have the same accounting standards among diverse …

International Accounting Standards (IAS). Annual reports of 126 public companies liisted on the countries' stock exchanges are the …

knowledge of external users’ needs and lack of reporting standards and accepted accounting principles are the main concerns with …

Using legitimacy theory this paper contrasts the values portrayed by public accounting firms via their recruitment …). It is argued that there is increasing incongruence between the value system of public accounting firms (that employ … accounting graduates) and society's value system that includes an expectation of accountants to act in the public interest. This …

) and preferred employment of recent Australian accounting graduates. Responses from 310 accounting graduates provide … revealing information for professional accounting bodies, academics and the accounting profession. It is apparent that … accounting graduates are focused on CPD and have greater ambition than the current industry structure appears to be able to …