Measurement in financial accounting has been the most discussed issue in recent decades. The last very important result of the convergence process between IFRS and U.S. GAAP was adopting IFRS 13 – Fair Value Measurement in May 2011. The objective of IFRS 13 is to unify the approaches to...

The paper analyses the effects of three sets of accounting rules for financial instruments - Old IAS before IAS 39 became effective, Current IAS or US GAAP, and the Full Fair Value (FFV) model proposed by the Joint Working Group (JWG) - on the financial statements of banks. We develop a...

This exposition focused to some basic problems by definition of the microeconomic (and accounting) category "revenue", of its congruence and differences in canonic texts (law act, instruction, directive etc.), which regulate a complex of accounting performances, in the first place, income...

The paper concerns measuring and reporting of financial performance of an enterprise from external user’s point of view. Basic approach of the paper is the analysis of the Income Statement as amended by US GAAP. If it is appropriate wording of US GAAP is enriched by requirement of IAS/IFRS....

This paper focused on detailed characterization of some basic elements of accounting science. The author highlighted the necessity of understanding basic terms, categories and constitution of accounting theory for next development of the standardization process by financial reporting. The...