The paper analyses the process of implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Poland. It presents the development of accounting in its historical perspective focusing on such events as the partitions of Poland, wars, the period of the centrally planned economy, the period...

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...

We outline the process of implementation of the accounting Directive 2013/34/EU by the Republic of Poland in the context of references to IFRS. The purpose of the article is to determine to what extent IFRS are used by actors taking part in the legislative and enforcement processes. The...