Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to summarize the key findings of meta-analyses in accounting, auditing, and corporate governance research.Design/methodology/approach: A structured literature review on 63 meta-analyses related to (1) financial accounting, (2) management accounting, (3)...

In German tax accounting, the going concern value (“Teilwert”) is the central measurement of asset impairment since 1934. The conceptual weaknesses of the concept have set the future of the 80-year old fiscal measurement tradition up for discussion. First, I shed light on the development of...