Previous empirical evidence which evaluated the accuracy of management earnings or sales forecasts consistently revealed these forecasts to be on average significantly overoptimistic. However, all studies analyzed forecasts from public disclosures, which are an important signal to investors and...

The German Accounting Law Modernization Act (BilMoG) represents a change in paradigm with regard to the traditionally close relationship between financial and tax accounting in Germany. At the same time, requirements on the disclosure of deferred taxes were revised considerably. We make use of...

In the current paper, we study the stability and the survival probabilities of enterprises and banks within a prolonged duration of the debt-crisis, with Monte Carlo simulation. We utilize historical data from banks and enterprises within the debt-crisis to define crisis-variability and...

The effects of corporate tax reforms in reported profits and firms’ financial position have been extensively studied in the literature. However, only few studies disaggregate deferred tax items to jointly explore political implications and aspects of corporate behavior around such reforms....

The calculation of unit cost that can be used for estimating capacity investment decisions is frequently ambiguous due to the many ways to apportion applicable cash ows connected to the delivery of products. This paper studies the identification of relevant unit cost when productive capacity is...

The purpose of the paper is to present a survey on advertisements for jobs in accountancy published at the web site www.moj-posao.net from April 9th until June 1st, 2015. Following characteristics are investigated: employers' ownership, employers' trade, employee education and work experience,...

Corruption in the public sector is problem that almost all countries in the world face with, in greater or lesser extent. During couple of past years, Bosnia and Herzegovina has had a constant growth of corruption. According to the Corruption Perception Index, Bosnia and Herzegovina has moved...

Overall economic development of the country, beside it, requires adequate information, reliable and important for economic decisions from investors, managers, administrators of state, etc. Along with other economic development and management, also and development of an accounting system, able to...

Accounting challenges in modern business conditions grow everyday due to that market demands and grow on a daily basis as well as the needs of management for the information's necessary to make business decisions. Accounting education is not only important for accounting profession but should be...

The transition from cash to accrual accounting is said to change a government's perception of its budget quite fundamentally. Although an exorbitant number of governments have reformed the mode of accounting at high costs in past years, reliable empirical evidence of consequences on their...