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 present study examines the value relevance of disclosed related party transactions (RPTs) in the Greek listed companies on the Athens Stock Exchange. We are based on two types of transactions: exchange of goods-products and the exchange of assets (group accounting), using a value relevance...

Related party transactions and transfer prices have begun to be considered a powerful instrument of financial frauds as a result of the recent financial scandals. Transactions with related parties situated in tax havens are one of the principal elements which contribute to the faltering...

The paper examines the effect of family ownership concentration (FMOC) on real earnings management (REM) in manufacturing firms listed on Bursa Malaysia (formerly known as Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange). Data are gathered from 1,056 firm-year observations for the four-year period from 2013 to...

The paper aims to analyze the quality of financial information, by assessing the timeliness of earnings, using information specific to non-financial companies listed on the regulated section of Bucharest Stock Exchange. The study also seeks to assess the symmetry of actions for the timely...