This paper presents an overview of the current Belgian accounting reform. This reform treats the transition from a cameralistic/cash accounting to a system that integrates both the cameralistic and the accrual accounting in Flemish municipalities. The focus is on actual empirical outcomes of...

The Spanish commercial reform imposses the duty to submit the consolidated annual accounts to the prevailing company of the group identified by control relationships.This criterion is different from the unique direction used so far and removes the duty of consolidation from the coordination...

The pace of Russian accounting reform towards international accounting standards has been a disappointment to many. Twentieth-century Russian history can help to provide some explanation for this slow pace. The corruption and deception of the Communist era has not given post-Communist Russia a...

This paper investigates the impact of the mandatory IFRS adoption on the value relevance of earnings on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, at a time when the EU did not have an official position regarding IFRS. Findings suggest that the implementation of IFRS has increased the contemporaneous...

By recognising the dual purposes of financial accounting, and developing distinct theories to guide the preparation of financial reports, the apparent internal contradictions in accounting theory can be resolved. Property rights and measurement theory provide the basis for explaining...

Our paper borrows from pathophysiology the concept of thanatogenesis and applies it to accounting concepts and practices. We define accounting thanatogenesis as the study of the causes and processes that lead to the disappearance of an accounting concept or practice. We choose a number of...

Romania seems to be the country which passes through an undying reform of the national accounting system. Stages to be invoked in the reforming process of the national accounting referential are frequent, maybe to frequent, and they have always brought important changes of the accounting...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to contribute to the theoretical discussion on shared service centres (SSCs) for public sector accounting by putting forth a novel typology of different SSCs and their creation modes, and outlining the challenges these specific...

Cooperatives meet differentiated purposes since their origins. In the same way as other economic units, they need to make use of accounting. So the study of cooperative accounting arouse interest from distant time, as it is shown by the fact that in Spain a monograph book about cooperative...

In this paper the microeconomic cost theories are presented as a basic solution for company management in crisis situations. Though the crisis management must be in compliance with accounting legislation. The present accounting methodologies are practiced for last twenty years so they can be...