Since the 1970s, the decision-usefulness has taken center stage and our attention has been concentrated on valuation of assets and liabilities instead of income measurement. The concept of income, once considered the gravitational center of accounting has lost its primacy and become a byproduct...

Criticizing the IASB's Conceptual Framework project based on the balance sheet approach, Barker and Penman (2016) have been advocating a mixed balance sheet and income statement approach. Although they do not seem to have noticed, their approach is quite similar to that of the Japanese...

The leitmotifs underlying accounting standards setting have undergone changes over time, from best practices to a normative approach and then to global convergence. In the process, accounting standards have gradually lost their character as a set of informal social norms based on market...