This study examines the international requirements of audit quality assurance and focuses on the challenges faced by the newest economy in the region, Kosovo, in implementation of same. This study focuses on the monitoring of compliance by business organizations in Kosovo with the International...

This paper presents rankings of accounting journals disaggregated by topical area (AIS, audit, financial, managerial, tax, and other) and methodology (analytical, archival, experimental, and other). We find that only for the financial topical area and archival methodology does the traditional...

Offshoring of accounting processes has become a common business practice, pursued by firms to reduce costs and focus on core competencies. However, our understanding about internal controls of these offshored processes is limited. Grounded in theory that is supported by prior literature and...

Today, financial reporting is not only limited to producing financial information. Besides financial information, non-financial information is also provided to the information seekers. The system of communicating both financial and non-financial information in a single report is known as the...

It is impossible to evaluate the accounting process without first considering the socio-economic arrangements that Kosovo hasundergone. Without pretending to make subjective conclusions on any socioeconomic system in this paper we have tried to consider the characteristics of accounting through...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to find out the multi-dimensional ethical approach to accounting and reporting practices going on in India and abroad. What has been the shift in Reporting Practices by Indian companies? What drives the Indian companies to report on the non-financial...

This commentary discusses how pandemics affect the nature of financial reporting especially for financial and non-financial institutions that were deeply affected by the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. I discuss the accounting practices and financial reporting options for firms during a...

Accounting is a media which communicates the business and financial information of each and every organisation so as to cater to the needs of various interested parties. Business involves undertaking a series of activities, which may be financial or nonfinancial, to achieve its prime goal....

Internal auditors play an important role in influencing managers’ judgments. Yet, the practitioner literature indicates that, because internal audit lacks the client services incentives of external audit, internal auditors often adopt a “policeman approach” that can lead to negative...

This paper focuses on the critical topic of ethics in public accounting. This paper draws on several important concepts related to ethical reasoning contained in existing research on ethics in the public accounting field. To obtain insights from the ethical dilemmas faced by accountants, a...