Data on financial challenges in intercollegiate athletics consistently show that expenses are outpacing new revenues. Since 2004, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) institutions' median revenues increased 94 percent while expenses increased 120...

Conventional and commonly held wisdom with respect to the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is that they lead to improved financial reporting quality and comparability and thereby favorable economic consequences. There are however contradicting evidences disproving...

​The dynamic banking reforms of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) following the collapse of the Soviet Union provide an ideal research setting for examining the causal effect of institutional development on financial reporting. Using five earnings quality measures, we consistently find that...

The recently published Easy Prey Investors: Why Broken Safety Nets Threaten Your Wealth lambastes virtually every aspect of Canadian financial reporting in exceptionally harsh terms. Although the authors' assertions about the implications of financial reporting violations they have seen are...

While the auditing profession in the USA and UK has developed ‘from the bottom up' over more than a century and a half, the Chinese profession has effectively been created ‘from the top down' in just over 20 years. Based mainly on information obtained from interviews we have conducted in...

The paper has given an overview of the origin and objectives of the Financial Reporting Act 2015 (FRA) with an unofficial English version thereof. Then it highlights on the cost audit under the FRA, which is included in the statutory definition of “audit service” to be conducted by...

In this paper, we review the existing evidence on the role of fair value accounting in transforming what started as a liquidity shock at the beginning of the Financial Crisis of 2007-08 into a solvency crisis and ultimately systemic bank failures. The paper discusses the academic evidence on the...

The paper present the nonprofit entities accounting regulation in Italy and in Spain in an European perspective. After a presentation of activities of nonprofit entities and difference in their governance, the paper presents the accounting regulation for nonprofit entities in Italy...

Since the formation of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has spread and they have become global standards for financial reporting. However, they are not used unanimously all over the world. This paper focuses on...