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The article deals with the decision-making situation whether it is more advantageous for accounting entities in Czechia … to keep accounting according to Czech accounting regulations or to International Financial Reporting Standards. The … preparation of financial statements only in accordance with national accounting regulations may often not be sufficient. Different …
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Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are critical features of a GAAP shaped by market forces. We recognize the advantage...
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In this paper there has been made a comparison between the amortisation and the impairment methods for accounting for … goodwill, with regards to their associated effects on accounting quality. Based on two qualitative characteristics of … accounting information, as formulated by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the effects of the new impairment …
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between accounting conservatism, generated in created critical accounting policy choices, and management abilities in … estimates and prediction power of domicile private sector accounting. Primary research is conducted based on firms’ financial … statements, constructing CAPCBIH (Critical Accounting Policy Choices relevant in B&H) variable that presents particular internal …
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question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory … harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers, essentially making it easier for accounting professionals to move across … countries. Our research design compares the cross-border migration of accounting professionals relative to tightly-matched other …
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is to determine how market participant reacted to the new accounting standards on the year of the adoption and whether …
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-based accounting standards named FRS. We hypothesize that under the new set of accounting standards, the quality of earnings reported …-year period after the adoption of the new set of accounting standards, our study finds that the adoption of FRS is relatively … new set of accounting standards …
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This report provides a review of the academic literature relevant to the mandatory adoption of IFRS reporting for member countries of the European Union in 2005 and an empirical analysis of the associated capital-market effects. In the empirical analysis, we focus on the effects on firms' costs...
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2005, we compare the value relevance of accounting information in 14 European countries in the year prior to and the year … of the mandatory adoption of the IFRS. We focus on three accounting information items for which measurements under IFRS … are likely to differ considerably from measurements under domestic accounting practices across the EU countries prior to …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of financial reports to users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is an attempt to find out whether current practices satisfy users' needs of information and the extent to which these needs have been satisfied by the current disclosure...
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