In order to find the antidote of the actual economic and financial crisis it is necessary to know the real causes that brought it about. Many companies and banks reached collapse or are closely there due to various ranges of reasons but among them there a

The purpose of this paper is to focus on one of the most important aspect of the internal control in banking system – information and communication - trying to identify on which of the two well-known international models of control (COSO or CoCo) i

Risk occurrence is inherent in all the economic activities performed by an enterprise. Risk quantification is primordial when taking an economic decision until the completion thereof. Risk management responsibility or control in an organization, quality d

Audit expectations gap (AEG) is one of the most debated phenomena animating the international scientific research scene. The volume of papers focused on defining the AEG concept, examining its determinants, implications, and mechanisms to minimize the gap

In the contemporary economic reality and organization’s activities aiming at effectiveness and efficiency of functioning, a lot of significance is attached to a financial audit as an important instrument for protecting the organization against the risk factors. The aim of this article is to...

El presente artículo pretende realizar una reflexión sobre la revisoría fiscal, tomando como referencia la teoría socio-fenomenológica del austríaco Alfred Schütz; la cual analiza, entre otras categorías, las relaciones de alteridad en el mundo de la vida cotidiana; mundo que caracteriza...

Our paper aims to research the way the managers of a company may interfere in applying the accounting policies and methods so that they would gain advantages, besides the other different interests of the accounting information’s users. There are plenty situations when these stakeholders...

Financial accounting is an information conveyance process. When financial auditors issue an opinion in regard to financial statements, the auditors are providing assurance that those financial statements fairly represent the entity, and are prepared in accordance with the relevant standards. If...

This study examines the relationship between material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting and executive turnover. The result of the analysis of 3,391 listed company in Japan show that corporations that disclose material weaknesses change chief executives more frequently....

We analyze the reporting strategies of firms and the investigation strategies of auditors in an archetype principles-based financial reporting system. To this end, we add a verification stage to a standard cheap-talk game, and apply the resulting game to financial reporting. We show that for a...