The Spanish commercial reform imposses the duty to submit the consolidated annual accounts to the prevailing company of the group identified by control relationships.This criterion is different from the unique direction used so far and removes the duty of consolidation from the coordination...

Accounting for intangible assets is the object of an intense debate between advocates of increasing the mandatory requirements and partisans of the current voluntary disclosure system. We provide empirical evidence allowing to discriminate between these two competing cases. Examining disclosure...

Our study investigates the role of firm and country characteristics in determining the level of compliance with mandatory disclosure requirements. We also examine whether the role of firm characteristics hold across different environments. Our empirical study relies on European Union listed...

This article deals with changes and trends brought by IFRS 3 (revised 2008). However, the aim is not to describe all changes in their detail, rather the objective is to explain what is behind the changes and how to interpret new provisions in light of the evolution of accounting for business...

The issue of business combinations date arose in accounting in connection with the case of cross-border fusions again. The solution of this issue in the Czech accounting and in company law takes into account objective fundament of the transaction. Legal regulation in many EU countries is...

The consensus in the merges idea conceptions is necessary to increase fairness (trustiness) and comparability of accounting information about business combinations. In the first case of merging independent companies and their accounting entities we can suppose, that the basic idea of merge is...

Our study focused on the practices of French groups concerning the accounting treatment of intangibles acquired in business combinations. Particularly, we tested the value relevance of the accounting measures of such intangibles for the French stock market (a sample of 30 French firms during the...

The pooling method of accounting for business combinations was banned in the USA in 2001 and by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in 2004. Although the US ban was controversial, the IASB ban received much less opposition. We review comment letters to the IASB and discuss...

Mergers and acquisitions are rather the result of strategic processes in a determined sector rather than individual actions of some companies. The main benefits of the merger are related to strengthening market position, reducing margins and increasing competitive pressures (often to the...