Accounting measures are traditionally considered not significant from an economic point of view. In particular, accounting rates of return are often regarded economically meaningless or, at the very best, poor surrogates for the IRR, which is held to be "the" economic yield. Likewise, residual...

Creative accounting has emerged and developed thanks to the managers’ wish to present a certain financial image of an entity in terms of the financial statements. Even if creative accounting distorts the financial image of an entity, it differs fundamentally from fraud in that it complies...

Each year in preparation of annual financial statements must be evaluated the entity’s assets to be presented, so that these assets to be recorded in the financial statements at fair value need regular revaluation. Revaluations should be made with sufficient regularity so that the...

The range of accounting information users is a broad one, and it has different information needs, but the same quality requirements in terms of accounting information contained in the financial statements. Even if a number of criticisms and limitations can be brought and attributed to accounting...

VAT cash accounting enables the small enterprises to account for VAT on the basis of payments received and made, instead of on tax invoices issued and received. Accordingly, the VAT payable or repayable for each accounting period is the difference between the total amount of VAT included in...

Our paper aims to research the way the managers of a company may interfere in applying the accounting policies and methods so that they would gain advantages, besides the other different interests of the accounting information’s users. There are plenty situations when these stakeholders...

I present a set of conditions for defining risky debt associated to cash flow and not to accounting earnings. I explain why realization of tax shields for finite cash flows in any period of time t are correlated to Earnings before Interest and Taxes and are not correlated to interest expenses at...

In these slides we discuss the practical and conceptual difficulty of finding an Optimal Capital Structure. We propose a normative approach we call Implicit Bankruptcy Costs Theory and how to proceed to find the optimal capital structure and value with period-to-period constant and variable...

Muchos consultores, autores y profesores de Finanzas incluyen los cambios en losactivos liquidos (dividendos potenciales") en los flujos de caja. Esta practica escontraria a la teoria basica de las finanzas. Presentamos razones economicas, teoricas, yempiricas para apoyar la tesis. Por lo tanto,...