In each European country the rules that govern financial reporting are made up of a law, standards, the rules of other bodies and interpretations by experts. As the rules are also specific to the country, each European country has its own system for the regulation of financial reporting. EC...

The Czech National Accounting Board, an independent national accounting body that was established by the initiative of Czech accountants, the Chamber of Auditors, academics from the University of Economics in Prague, and the Chamber of Tax Advisors in 1999 is subject of the article. The main...

Accounting has been identified as one of the key areas in which administrative burdens for companies within the European Union may be reduced. As the size criteria for microenterprises in the proposed new Directive, replacing the Fourth and Seventh EC Directive, may be too high for accounting...

The objective of the Directive issued on June 18, 2009 is to reduce administrative burdens relating to certain disclosure requirements imposed on medium-sized companies and obligation to draw up consolidated financial statement for certain companies within the Community. Small and medium-sized...

European Commission established “Internal Market Scoreboard”, the board that records whether Member States translate agreed internal market Rules into National Law. Enforcement of accounting regulation and principles in accordance with IFRS is realized by enforcement mechanism. CESR is an...

Introduction of fair value into financial accounting and reporting is a consequence of accounting development in practice, in the last decade of the 20th century. Tendency to introduce fair value, even into SME accounting and reporting, brings fundamental obstacles. There are comments on...

The EC 4th Directive has been in force since 1978, at least till 2001 without fundamental changes. Nearly the same history concerns the EC 7th Directive, firstly issued in 1983. Then new requirements, such as new disclosures and valuation rules, including provisions on fair value accounting,...

The paper concentrates on tax aspects of merger with a special attention to cross-border ones. Despite the fact that Directive, which set the conditions for mergers, business investment and exchange rate of shares, was issued 24 years ago, unified treatment of tax aspects hasn´t been reached...

This article investigates the impact of IAS 12 on deferred taxes regulation in the Czech Republic, where local accounting regulations includes accounting standards only by names, but not as an output of regular due process and which are not issued by the professional accounting body at all, not...

This article investigates statement that IFRS have positive impact on the regulatory system in continental European countries. The accounting regulatory system is used for the purpose of investigation. Authors of the paper developed theoretical scenarios of potential development of the...