In this article, we utilize accounting history to demonstrate that modern capitalist accounting has evolved similarly in four prominent countries (France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States) and that this evolution has been in a dangerous direction. Using the Classic Continental...

The ‘Triple Bottom Line’ (TBL) is a major and increasingly used socio-environmental accounting framework. However, critical academic examinations of this model have been remained scarce and most importantly, no real alternatives have been developed. Thus this theoretical paper provides a...

At the dawn of the 21st century, the appearance of fair value accounting is often presented as, if not a revolution, at least an innovation. The present article on the history of "value" as used in German and French accounting regulations from 1673 to 1914 will show that although valuation at...

This article reviews the present state of the debate in France on the introduction of IFRS. It suggests that history shows that market value was the dominant approach to balance sheet valuation in the nineteenth century, and analyses the ultimate replacement of static theory, using market...

This study distinguishes from previous research works on the area of IFRS First Time Adoption (FTA) impact by its completeness and its homogeneity. As regards completeness, it is based on observations stemming from an exhaustive data base of 483 not-financial listed groups, namely Banque de...

L'option de l'IASB (dans ses nouvelles normes IFRS) de s'aligner sur les règles comptables américaines, pour l'élaboration des normes applicables `a partir de 2005 aux entreprises de l'Union européenne à bouleversé la comptabilité d'entreprise. Cet ouvrage étudie la théorie comptable...

The goal of this presentation is to analyse the concept of “Triple Bottom Line” (TBL), from a critical perspective, and to give an alternative with another concept based on another theory: the “Triple Depreciation Line” (TDL). Indeed, since “Cannibals With Forks” (Elkington, J. 1997....