In the international accounting literature, both the Netherlands and Germany are known for the influence exerted on accounting by their respective business economics traditions. Given the geographical and linguistic proximity of the two countries, it is natural to assume a degree of cross-border...

IFRS for SMEs give the response to an international requirement of the developed and emerging economies in the process of globalization to have a rigorous and common set of international accounting provisions (standard, rule, regulation) specifically for SMEs, to be much more simplified than the...

Several financial statement elements cannot be precisely evaluated, therefore it must be estimated. These estimations represent thinking processes based on assumption and future forecasts regarding the elements that can’t be precisely evaluated in the present; it represents relative measures,...

In this paper, we study a setting where a firm (principal) is privately informed of the firm's potential and contracts with an agent to supply unobservable effort. We show it can be optimal for the firm to have loose monitoring in the sense that the monitoring system is less perfect than what is...

Fair value estimates of debt and equity securities play an increasingly important role in the economy. For example, International Financial Reporting Standards require companies to report many of their investments at fair value on the balance sheet or to use fair values in goodwill impairment...

Is Financial Accounting too practical for research? I was recently asked this question during an interview, and it surprised me. Why would it be too practical for research? Can we only conduct research on topics that are not related to practice? Or is it not clear what Financial Accounting is...

Regardless of the internal audit is carried out the examination and evaluation of all components and activities within an organization or public entity, assesses how it is and use the funds, while respecting the principles of efficiency and effectiveness and provides management information and...

Accounting and financial information to enable internal and external users to identify, measure, classify and evaluate operations and activities of an organization to be able to substantiate and adopt management decision Information is an essential element of progress, because with the economy...

En la medida en que la internacionalización empresarial ha ido intensificándose y va surgiendoun nuevo usuario de la información internacional, la problemática ha ido pasando tanto alámbito académico como al profesional. Consciente de esta realidad, la Facultad de ContaduríaPública de la...