The aim of the current research is to clarify the concept of 'corporate governance' as we believe it is a relatively new concept at national level. At the same time, our analysis focused on the manner in which the principle of transparency has been incorporated into the recommendations and...

Research theme - in this article we investigate how Romanian financial and internal auditors acquire accounting information systems knowledge and competences and how they use this knowledge to improve their activity in order to fulfill their mission as required by the professional standards....

This working paper responds to increasing calls for more and different forms of accounting research involvement in accounting for sustainability. It seeks to provide background, clarify the accounting research issues, and suggest research methods. The background analysis indicates that...

Cet article cherche à déterminer dans quelle mesure et dans quel contexte les administrateurs d’un comité d’audit expriment leurs préférences et leurs points de vue à la direction financière ainsi qu’aux auditeurs inernes et externes, de manière à exercer une influence sur la...

Basel 3 measures on capital, liquidity and leverage can be accompanied by structural re-regulation, like ring-fencing suggested by the Icb in the UK. But the growing consensus for separation rules goes along with a debate on concrete issues, also due to the strong links between business existing...

Since Basel 1, Corporate Governance has acquired a mounting role in pursuing financial stability, while moving from internal controls and decision making functions to the domain of reputation risks, customer relations and protection of stakeholders. This role is central today in Basel 3...

Web 2.0 applications are continuously moving into the corporate mainstream. Each new development brings its own threats or new ways to deliver old attacks. The objective of this study is to develop a framework to identify the security issues an organisation is exposed to through Web 2.0...

A main issue in the audit process is the risk faced by the decision makers in every aspect of an audit process decision. The decision makers’ risk behaviour and their attitude towards risk is considered to be central to the way business risk, in general, and audit risk, in particular, is...

As a subsystem of the management system, the internal control could beviewed as the primordial condition for the efficient and effective accomplishment of thegeneral and specific objectives of any organization. From the audit perspective, theinternal control represents both an objective of the...

The purpose of the present investigation is to provide a short overview of themain implications arising from carrying related parties transactions: accounting reporting(related party disclosures - IAS 24), auditing (audit procedures for related partytransactions), taxation (issues regarding the...