The period 2007-2010 marked one of the most severe economic and financial crises in living memory. In this paper we focus on two of accounting's key functions within organizations and markets, financial reporting and governance. In this respect we find that accounting exhibited shortcomings in...

Standards and conceptual issues -- Fair value and the conceptual framework -- Fair value accounting : a standard setting perspective -- Have the standard setters gone too far, or not far enough, with fair value accounting? -- Shareholder value, financialization and accounting regulation : making...