Accounting and financial information to enable internal and external users to identify, measure, classify and evaluate operations and activities of an organization to be able to substantiate and adopt management decision Information is an essential element of progress, because with the economy...

In this paper, we present the first results of a bibliometric analysis of 7231 references cited in 191 articles published in the CCA French review between 1995 and 2004. Citation and co-citation techniques are used to draw a knowledge structure of the accounting research.

The fuzzy set approach has progressively been introduced into many areas of organisational science in order to compensate for certain inadequacies in traditional tools. Indeed behaviourists and expected utility researchers have long been studying the role of ambiguity and vagueness in the human...

In this paper, we review scholarly accounting research published within the Asia Pacific Region by analysing nine of the main accounting journals within the region along five dimensions. The nine journals we focus on are: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Australian Accounting...

The objective of the IFRS for SMEs is to provide SMEs an attractive accounting alternative according to international standards. The paper analyses the differences compared to the German-GAAP and highlights the consequences for medium-sized entities in Germany.

Dans cet article, nous présentons les premiers résultats de l'étude bibliométrique de 7231 références citées dans 191 articles publiés dans la revue CCA entre 1995 et 2004. Des analyses de citations et de co-citations ont été menées afin de dégager une structure objective des...

Der Beitrag betrachtet Accounting als Instrument der Unternehmenskontrolle, welches Informationsasymmetrien zwischen Unternehmern und kontrollierenden Eigentümern auf der einen Seite und externen Anspruchsgruppen wie passive Anteilseigner und Fremdkapitalgeber auf der anderen Seite abbaut....

The objective of the IFRS for SMEs is to provide SMEs an attractive accounting alternative according to international standards. The paper analyses the differences compared to the German-GAAP and highlights the consequences for medium-sized entities in Germany.

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...

Purpose - Since the 1960s earnings management has been a widely researched area and became presumably known by the current accounting scandals. This paper aims at empirically showing which factors affect earnings management. Design/methodology/approach - According to former research literature...