The methods of cost accounting and calculation of production costs, including standard-cost, direct-costing, re-distribution and customized ones, their advantages and disadvantages have been analyzed. The proposals on the implementation of methods of cost accounting and production cost...

This working paper presents a review of the main criticisms to positive accounting theory (henceforth, PAT). Three levels of criticisms are distinguished: (1) on epistemology, (2) on the valitidy of the theoritical framework and (3) about the methods to test empirical predictions....

Creative accounting has emerged and developed thanks to the managers’ wish to present a certain financial image of an entity in terms of the financial statements. Even if creative accounting distorts the financial image of an entity, it differs fundamentally from fraud in that it complies...

Accounting as a branch of economic science and research is not in the center of attention of economists, whether they are focused macroeconomic or Business Administration (microeconomic). Whoever, it is necessary to underline the crucial importance of accounting for the formation of a number of...

Accounting as a branch of economic science and research is not in the center of attention of economists, whether they are focused macroeconomic or Business Administration (microeconomic). Whoever, it is necessary to underline the crucial importance of accounting for the formation of a number of...

Even though various support initiatives for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been introduced in recent times, there are also many limiting characteristics of SMEs, such as a lack of 'formality' in terms of accounting procedures. The introduction of International Financial Reporting...

In Europe, accounting standards prevent larger expenditures on employer-sponsored training from being treated as investments. Using Sweden as example, we discuss two consequences for training. First, the timing: training will be conducted when income is large enough for training costs to be...

The transition towards a free-market economy and democratic society in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries encompasses complex processes of socio-economic transformation from the centrally-planned economy and communist regime. The reforms of the accounting systems in the CEE...

The Article covers the clarification of nature and place of distribution costs in accounting system of company's non-production-related costs, as well as the groundings of the proposals for improving its information content. Based on the study of national scientists' approaches to the marketing...

The qualitative characteristics of accounting information presented by financial-accounting reports represent a concept which was subsequently introduced in the national legal accounting framework and, as a rule, the national conceptual frameworks represent the documents by means of which these...