The study aims to analyse the accounting policies chosen by Romanian listed companies during the mandatory transition to IFRS in their individual accounts (starting with 2012). Following particularly Kvaal and Nobes (2010), we propose the general hypothesis of a continuation of the main...

Since the concept of professional judgment is at the core of principles-based financial reporting, the present article analyses the connection between professional autonomy (including as component professional judgment) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) adoption. Thus, we...

Recently, the issues concerning the complex area of the performance assessment applied to the Public Institutions have shown a continuing and growing interest: these processes also have a valid support in the development of ICT applications inside the Public Sector, also referred as Public...

This paper is aimed to explore and compare disclosure on corporate governance mechanisms in the annual reports of commercial banks for two emerging countries: Romania and Malaysia. There were selected 34 banks situated in Romania and Malaysia, in order to highlight the influence of culture and...

This paper investigates the corporate governance voluntary and nonvoluntary disclosure practices of the listed companies from four European emerging countries, namely Estonia, Poland, Hungary and Romania. The study also identifies how compliant are the companies from these countries with their...

The present research provide information about the value of discretionary accruals considering the fact that a switch from Romanian Accounting Standards to International Financial Reporting Standards was compulsory, from 2012, for the entities that have securities admitted on trading. The value...

The audit profession has gone through a series of polemics in the last decade, which led to the need of change and revision of audit reporting and audit quality. This study aims to investigate if users of audit reports agree with IAASB’s proposal to include a new section, Key Audit Matters...

Corruption, be it financial or non-financial is a global cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabrics of many nations and war against it has been a recurring decimal in every economy. In Nigeria, recent attempts at nipping corruption in the bud gave rise to some anti-graft agencies such as...

Credit risk is defined as the risk that borrowers will fail to pay its loan obligations. In recent years, a large number of banks have developed sophisticated systems and models to help bankers in quantifying, aggregating and managing risk. The outputs of these models also play increasingly...

Banks are concerned with the assessment of the risk of financial distress before giving out a loan. Many researchers proposed the use of models based on the Neural Networks in order to help the banker better make a decision. The objective of this paper is to explore a new practical way based on...