, both unknown and undefined, into the traditional notions of regularity and sincerity, the French accounting community … fidèle would lead the French accounting community to bring into question certain traditional concepts and rules. …

accounting and controlling: • the creation of models which will accept imperfect information, • the effect of the use of … relationships between the data. Indeed, we have seen that imperfect accounting data has led to a radical reappraisal and extension … of the principal of double- entry accounting in order to obtain fuzzified financial statements. At the same time …

accounting model, or the financial conventions which determine how a company’s wealth and income is measured, have been … increasingly called into question. This wide-reaching movement, initiated in the United States by the Financial Accounting … Standards Board (FASB), and internationally by the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC), aims to replace …

this regard, the key question--is fair value relevant?--can be analysed as follows: do fair value "accounting numbers … the basis and limitations of the traditional accounting model. He analyses then the determining factors in the emergence … users. Lastly, he presents a summary of the empirical studies carried out to assess the usefulness of fair value accounting …