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...

Notre travail emprunte le concept de thanatogénèse de la médecine et l'applique à des concepts et pratiques comptables en Roumanie. Nous définissons la thanatogénèse comptable comme l'étude des causes et des processus qui conduisent à la disparition d'un concept ou pratique comptable....

After the fall of communism, Romanian accounting has undergone several waves of reform. The first began with the 1991 Accounting Law and its 1993 Regulations implementing a French-inspired accounting chart and guidelines. The second wave of reform produced Regulations (in 1999 and 2001) for the...