Objective of IAS 36 Impairment of assets is to prescribe procedures that apply to an undertaking to ensure that its assets are carried at amounts not exceeding their recoverable amount if the carrying amount is recoverable in full. An asset is carried at an amount not exceeding the amount will...

Attempts to quantify the human assets of an organization happened the first time in the US in 1960, when it was tried to end it in their balance sheet. This idea of quantification started to analyze the differences in value between similarities or changes made in time by the same organization...

The Cash-flow statement provide an important ingredient of decision-making due to the company’s financial stability and viability. The succes and survival of every organisation depends on its ability to generate an aquire cash. Cash flow is a concept that we all understatnd. Companies survive...

The article aims to analyze the leading factors’ in terms of monetary convergence within the European Union level evolution. Thus, it explores a number of specific indicators of which we could mention inflation, long-term interest rates, public debt and budget deficit, but the analysis also...

Accountancy deals with the measurement, registration and control of the most important parts of business. Accounting is a central activity in a business’ economical life. The role of accountacy becomes even more important in modern economy, which relies on information. Due to the fact that...

According to position document no.11 “Economic and Monetary Union”, Romania has committed to report after the European System of Accounts ESA 95. The exploratory study was used to enframe the issue into the general context. The data was collected by means of empirical experiment.The purpose...

The specific dimensions of sustainable development are interconditioned, but in the present paper we intend to emphasize the importance of the ecological dimension. The role of the natural environment in achieving the economic activities is vital, but its quantification possibilities are...

To our knowledge, this paper provides the most comprehensive analysis of firm-level corporate income taxes to date. We use publicly available financial statement information for 11,602 public corporations from 82 countries from 1988 to 2009 to estimate country-level effective tax rates (ETRs)....

Following Zhang (Accounting Review, 2007) we cast firm accruals in terms of short-term investment. Since many studies consider accruals as a smoothed measure of cash flows, we first adopt Zhang specification and augment the standard Jones model with a cash-flow variable. Second, if accruals are...

This paper examines the relationship between firm characteristics and the timeliness of financial reporting in listed non-financial companies on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) from 2003 through 2010. The descriptive analysis indicates that the mean reporting lag is 83 days which is within the...