Nowadays, one of the final aims of the institutions working on transparency and standardization of financial statements, and the publication of standards related to the profession of accounting & auditing has been to put into practice a uniform global set of standards which will be applicable in...

The work aims to indicate the methods and the determining factors through which accounting information users can influence the development of financial-accounting engineering. A series of defining elements were extracted, based on a study carried out on Romanian companies, concerning the manner...

Revision, respectively auditing tangible assets of construction entities is of significant importance for the auditor’s opinion regarding the existence of determined material errors and frauds that may affect the accurate image of annual financial statements. An important stage in applying the...

This article sets out to present the difference between the means of executing creative accountingand that of executing fraud, the way in which they are perceived in the business environment, as well as the implications that they have in companies’ activities. The article’s structure...

A meta-analysis was conducted over the last 5 years comprising traditionally top 5leading accounting research. The paper overviews emerging research and identify both frameworkpapers that attracted significant attention and leading scholars in the field. The earningsmanagement area exhibits...

Because of the increasing importance of effective and productive management of public organizations, budgetary slack is started to be seen as an important problem for public organizations. In order to contribute the solution of this problem, the current study investigates the effects of...

Whatever the nature of the elements of the stock count or departments in which the elements are located, the auditor should perform their work according to certain rules and will perform the stock count in order to answer certain questions in the check list. The members of the audit team...

Advances in IT, changes in the organizational structures of companies, the growth of the services sector, and new forms of organising work are factors that have contributed to the growth of self-employment. In Spain individual entrepreneurs with no salaried workers account for most of the...

This paper analyses the costs associated with each type of accounting methods, i.e., joint vs. separate accounting, cooperative vs. extra-cooperative results, always keeping in mind the degree of fiscal protection of the cooperative entity. The aim is to determine the circumstances under which...

This study attempts to propose a structure of the relationships between the internal audits characteristics (IAC); such as professional qualifications of the chief audit executive of the Internal Audit (IA), size, experience, and qualification; and firm performance. The presence of an internal...