The UEFA approved the Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulation in 2010, which governs the requirements on transparency and financial conditions of football clubs participating at the European cups. The paper focuses on the specifics of Czech professional football clubs. The research is...

Fair value measurement became pervasive to financial reporting over last 20 years. Under fair value accounting, entities are obliged or permitted to measure particular assets and liabilities at their fair values as at the reporting dates. Fair value is a current market-based hypothetical value....

The paper reacts to the present development in the field of revenue recognition under IFRS and US GAAP. IASB and FASB published an Exposure Draft Revenue from Contracts with Customers under joint Revenue Recognition Project. The Draft introduces a new guidance on revenue recognition, which may...

The paper shortly introduces the outcomes of a research project “New Approaches to Revenue Recognition in the World and the Possibilities of Their Utilisation in the Czech Republic” registered by Internal Grant Agency of University of Economics, Prague. The findings of the project will be...

Traditionally, management and financial accounting were two relatively independent information systems. In the transition countries, financial reporting is heavily influenced by tax legislation, which impairs the usefulness of financial statements for external users. Entities are then forced to...

The paper focuses on critical points of the decision usefulness approach to accounting. The decision usefulness approach may work under normal economic conditions for relatively uncomplicated spheres of financial reporting. However, under extreme conditions and/or for controversial issues, the...

The exposition is aimed to define basic economic category which is profit (income). This element is a subject of the theoretical research in the accounting, too. Firstly, the contribution refers to some characteristics of economic concept of income. Then, I expound the accounting point of view,...

The IFRS adoption has improved the quality of accounting information significantly. However, huge costs are incurred by all subjects involved. The process has considerable consequences for tax systems, too. State authorities are solving how to ensure the control over tax duty fulfilment under a...

The globalization of the world economy is accompanied by changes in volume and structure of international trade, capital flows and human migration. The paper focuses on theoretical aspects of recent changes in the area of international harmonization of accounting through the adoption of the...

The paper analyses the possibility of using the economic concept of income introduced by J. R. Hicks for accounting purposes. Despite some disadvantages hindering from its broader practical utilization, this concept still finds its place in the area of managerial accounting and capital...