IFRS IN THE SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTITIES. DIFICULTIES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF THE IFRS FOR SMEs PhD Student Moț Ioana, West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, România Doctoral programme - Accounting Scientific coordonator - Prof. Univ. Dr. Mateș Dorel

The financial crisis began on 2008 has led to a debate about the pluses and minuses of fair-value accounting (FVA). This debate presents a new start for fair-value accounting going forward and standard setters’ push to extend fair-value accounting into other areas. In our research, we found...

In the process of the European Union enlargement, experts felt an increasing need for the harmonization of existing systems and the adoption of practices used in the EU countries. Hungary intended to meet the requirements stated by the European Union by introducing, among others, the EU...

The first objective of the paper is to carry out a retrospective of the literature written on the topic at the national level, yet especially at the international level regarding the aspects of accounting in knowledge based economy, starting from concepts such as knowledge, typology and the role...

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) has released in June 2012 a Consultation Paper (CP) entitled “Public Sector Combinations†(PSCs) to initiate discussion on the possible accounting treatment for these events. The purpose of this paper is to examine and...

The paper addresses the assessment of major U.S. airlinesâ€(tm) liquidity and solvency based on information disclosed in the statements of cash flows as part of their 10-K Form annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Conducting financial statement analysis for major...

This study aims to elucidate and to exemplify an important technique for assessing the economic entities, namely the fundamental analysis of the balance sheet, in several significant aspects. The analysis of financial data reported in the balance sheet are, for an economic entity, the basis of a...

Our interest in this subject resides in the need to understand the new meanings of accounting and financial reporting considering that the importance of knowledge-based assets is increasing. Therefore, we have been interested in understanding some of the defining and essential aspects of a...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the degree of formal accounting harmonization within the European Union with respect to the EC Regulation No. 1606/2002 adopted by the European Parliament and European Council on the 19th of July 2002, which regulates the application of IAS/IFRS regarding...

Our paper represents a pleading for fair value in the specific case of valuating inventories. The real significance and implications of fair value can only be seen after analyzing the topic from different points of view concerning all involved actors. Therefore we have based our scientific...