The presence of options in accounting raises the problem of the criteria adopted for choosing one policy or another. The freedom to choose the accounting policies, controled by the management of the company in its intention to achieve the planned objective, leads to a sellective choice for...

The problem regarding the financial performance of the companies is related not only with the critical examination of them, but also with the evaluation realized by the audit team regarding company’s financial statements. As a fact, the lower the financial performance is, more importance to...

The purpose of this paper is to present the perspectives of using XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) as a tool for financial auditors considering the increasing coverage of this language for financial reporting. We performed an extensive literature review concerning XBRL utilisation...

The rapid development of financial audit and its applicability can be an important factor for the development of a company. The explication is that the financial auditors are not require to account for the company’s transactions, but they have to check the elements from their financial...

Insurance companies by their specific activity and by the variety of operations are exposed to a multitude of risks. We can say that the risk is the basic condition of the insurance. If there were no risks, there would be no insurance. Therefore, risk insurance is a specific element, being...

The insurance companies that concentrate a large amount of funds that they seek to invest on the financial market in the most cost effective manner. That is why, in order to face the competition and achieve their goals, the insurer must take into account the interdependency between the activity...

The derivatives appearance was generated by the discovery of new ways to limit and manage current activity risks. Derivatives couldn’t hedge any type of risk. Derivative operations can be used to hedge: interest rate risks, foreign currency exchange rate risks, credit risks. Derivatives used...

Starting from the international convergence and reseat of accounting as a general rule and actuarial accounting particularly context, this thesis wants to be part of the harmonization world movement, of the research and application of new settles, bringing forward for the insurance and private...

Modern economic theories reject the generalization of theories concerning the economic and financial crises. Each financial crisis is unique, a historic accident, generated by specific factors in a certain socio-economic and political set-up. According to these theories, crises cannot be...

How can we reconcile economic and social progress without endangering the natural balance of the planet? How can we spread the wealth between developed and less developed ones? How to ensure a decent living for millions of people in danger, where the planet already seems stifled by excessive...