The study aims to analyse the accounting policies chosen by Romanian listed companies during the mandatory transition to IFRS in their individual accounts (starting with 2012). Following particularly Kvaal and Nobes (2010), we propose the general hypothesis of a continuation of the main...

The Romanian listed entities had to report their individual financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from 2012. As at international level the adoption of the new regulation created mixed effects, we investigate how the timely loss recognition and the value...

The IFRS 8, the operating segments was converged of the IAS 14 and SFAS 131(US GAAP). It was issued in November 2006 and subsequently has been applied since 2009. The core of convergence is to reduce the differences between IAS 14 and SFAS 131. The IASB expected that a change would increase...

Equity investments offer considerable returns to investors and is considered to be a major source of capital for most large firms. However, these returns are subject to movement in share prices. This study investigate the determinants of share prices using fourteen companies listed on the...

This study investigates the impact of ownership structure and family board domination on voluntary disclosure for Jordanian listed companies. Ownership structure is characterised by government ownership, outside ownership, managerial ownership and number of shareholders. This study is based on a...

The transition to IFRS in Romania, in the separate financial statements (in 2012) led to the application of new rules in the accounting for income tax. We found significant differences between accounting and taxable income, which can suggest a trend towards more de facto disconnection between...

This research is a hypothetical-deductive study whose purpose is to analyse if, in the case of non-financial companies quoted on the regulated market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, the reporting of the information on Comprehensive Income is relevant for the investors. The present paper also...