This article started from the idea that International Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards have had a major impact over the accounting world. Accounting laws of Continental Europe (especially France) centered on historical cost, are in opposition to IFRS towards fair value. If accounting...

The main purpose of evaluation is to determine the financial position and the outcome of the entity’s activity. With the intensification of the phenomena of globalization of economies and financial markets and the emergence of phenomena such as inflation, it began to be more often used the...

The current process of accounting globalization is based mainly on the concept of just value. This concept has been the source of vivid debates with regards to its meaning in contemporary accountancy, both in theory and in practice. The increased importan

In the last years and especially after the outbreak of the recent financial and economiccrisis, fair value and implicitly fair value measurements for financial statements have been harshlycriticized, mainly by the representatives of the companies activating in the financial sector.Therefore, the...

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...

This paper aims to present some important aspects of the decision revaluation of tangible assets in the financial statements of the Romanians companies .Reassessment of the assets shows special interest for the beneficiaries accounting information because only a suitable policy will lead to...

One of the most fundamental problems of the financial accounting is the measurement that is in this time the mix of various measurement bases. This paper is an analytical study based on comparison of different approaches to fair value in particular Standards (IAS/IFRS).