One important aspect of the world economy is the process of implementing uniform financial reporting standards. A leap forward took place when the European Union required that listed companies in all member nations use International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for years beginning 2005....

The European Union decided that IFRS would be effective as of the beginning of 2005. Consequently, the IMF, the World Bank, IOSCO as well as other similar organizations have established policies to support the adoption of IFRS. Similarly, since January 1, 2005, banks and firms in Turkey...

This study investigates the effectiveness of changes in the regulatory environment on the quality of compliance to mandatory disclosure requirements in Bangladesh. Statistical analysis of the Mandatory Disclosure Index, as developed in this paper using annual reports of the exchange-listed firms...

Since 2005, listed EU companies apply IFRS to prepare their consolidated financial statements. Users might get the impression that these financial statements are comparable now. However, differences in application of IFRS still exist. These differences can have a negative impact on the...

Governments, organizations and individuals around the world are paying increasing attention to climate change and carbon emissions. This paper argues that a new international assurance standard on carbon emissions disclosures is an appropriate response by the auditing and assurance profession to...

Purpose: This paper evaluates the development of reporting standards for both financial reporting and for corporate social responsibility reporting. We argue that both IFRS and US GAAP are vehicles of colonial exploitation and cannot be sustainable. This can be contrasted with the voluntary...

This paper examines the level of compliance with the requirements of statement of Accounting Standards number 16 by Insurance Companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The basic objective is to find out whether or not listed insurance companies in Nigeria apply the requirements of...

Since we can safely say about Romania that it had to go through a long process of transformation until the European Union member state stage, we can also state that the Romanian public accounting system has suffered multiple changes in order to match the level of the European accounting system,...

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether firms' auditor choice relates to national culture. We construct a novel measure of secretiveness based on Hofstede's (1980) cultural factors. Using a very large sample of firms from 37 countries and controlling for a number of firm- and...

In particular in Germany and Austria, but also in other countries, extensive theoretical and analytical research has been published on the potential tax effects in case IFRS were used as the basis for corporate taxation. Very few quantitative papers exist. This motivated us to conduct a study...