In Deutschland wurde in den letzten Jahren kontrovers diskutiert, ob die handelsrechtliche Rechnungslegung durch die IFRS-Rechnungslegung abgelöst werden sollte. Des Weiteren wurde diskutiert wie das von Versicherungsunternehmen anzuwendende IFRS-Normengefüge ausgestaltet sein sollte. Vor dem...

Recent corporate reporting history is well–known for its corporate failures andquestionable accountancy practices, many of which caused the profession to befrowned upon. However, the splodge on the accounting profession?s reputationgoes deeper than its corporate reporting failures. The...

El 10 % de los activos totales de los bancos europeos se encuentra en carteras que generan ganancias y pérdidas no realizadas que bajo Basilea III dejarán de poder ser eliminadas del capital regulatorio de los bancos. Utilizando una muestra de bancos europeos, y aprovechando la heterogeneidad...

Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...

Accountable Care Organizations are developing in the United States as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A study is needed to evaluate an emerging issue of ACOs, quality improvement infrastructure, and the pharmaceutical industry. The convergence of these topics has not...

Corporate restructuring is normally analyzed with reference to economic imperatives and the inherited geographical structure of production. The economic landscape is assumed to be the consequence of private decisions made in response to these structural factors. If understanding and empirically...

In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and...

Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...