For any Romanian specialist who is in a high stage regarding the perception and understanding of international accounting standards, it is quite easy to realize that at their basis are two important categories of principles: the principles of recognition and the principles of measurement....

For any Romanian specialist who is in a high stage regarding the perception and understanding of international accounting standards, it is quite easy to realize that at their basis are two important categories of principles: the principles of recognition and the principles of measurement....

We provide evidence concerning the use of historical cost (HCA) versus mark-to-market (MTM) accounting in regulating financial institutions. Accounting rules, through their interactions with capital regulations, alter financial institutions' trading behavior. The insurance industry provides a...

We provide evidence concerning the use of historical cost (HCA) versus mark-to-market (MTM) accounting in regulating financial institutions. Accounting rules, through their interactions with capital regulations, alter financial institutions' trading behavior. The insurance industry provides a...

We study whether the interaction between U.S. tax rules and inflation increases the real U.S. corporate tax burden because tax deductions based on historical cost are not inflation-indexed. We extend prior literature by using new models to examine this prediction. We find a significantly...

The principles characterizing the traditional revenue-expense approach to accounting have never been “invented.” They are an institution that is the result of social evolution, not of human design. Therefore, the efforts to defend them against the balance sheet approach endorsed by...

The principles characterizing the traditional revenue-expense approach to accounting have never been “invented.” They are an institution that is the result of social evolution, not of human design. Therefore, the efforts to defend them against the balance sheet approach endorsed by...

The principles characterizing the traditional revenue-expense approach to accounting have never been "invented". They are an institution that is the result of social evolution, not of human design. Therefore, the efforts to defend them against the balance sheet approach endorsed by...

The concept of fair value was subject of many debates and disputes in recentyears. These debates have focused mainly on the relevance of the concept, but also on thepractical difficulties in determining reasonable estimates, raising particularly the interest ofpractitioners in terms of...

During last 30 years financial reporting faced the shifting of the measurement bases from traditional concept of historical costs towards fair value concept. Numerous critics stress their attention on the problem of fair value measurement as one of the major factors of current crisis. This paper...

Recent deliberations by both the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) in the United States have focused on how fair values of assets and liabilities should be measured. According to the international framework, the financial...

This paper analyzes the effects of start-up costs of different technologies in providing electricity power. We explicitly solve a simplified linear formulation of the dispatch problem. Transforming this primal problem, we show that dominated technologies should be used only in the case of...

The implementation of a new accounting referential IAS/IFRS introduced a new philosophy for the estimation and the valorisation of a corporation's assets as well as liabilities. Our objective is to identify the main factors which influence a practitioner's choice of the fair value as a basis for...

Ulrich Büdenbender/Peter Rosin/Carola Reichold Berücksichtigung des für ein Netz vor der Energierechtsreform 2005 gezahlten Kaufpreises bei der Kalkulation und Regulierung der Netzentgelte PETER LANG Internationaler Verlag der...