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...

La mondialisation de l’économie et des systèmes d’information bouleverse l’enseignement de la comptabilité. À jour des dernières réformes des normes IFRS et du système comptable français, cet ouvrage de référence offre une formation complète, théorique et technique : •...

This research contributes to the problem of economic and accounting valuation of the assets reserves and resources in the extractive industry. It aims to answer the following question: What are the economic values of reserves and resources that are recognized by corporate accounting and what...

The history of accounting for private railway companies in Germany shows that these companies played a major role in the diffusion of historical cost accounting principles and gave birth, together with big other joint stock companies, to the dynamic" or second stage of capitalist accounting, at...

This article intends to explain the law KONTRAG (law of the 27th April 1998 reforming the German system of controlling the accounts) and to propose a critical analysis; it shows that the German legislator has choosen a relatively conservative reform also marked by a certain ambiguity.

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...