Researches on accounting history in Romania are sparse and generally overshadowed. The focus of this paper is to show a fresco of the first financial reporting attempts in Romania and also of the challenges that the drawing up of the first balance sheets brought about. The main conclusion of...

This study is an empirical research that aims to investigate what the labour market for the financial-accounting segment in Romania require in terms of professional and personal skills developed within the accounting education curriculum in the Romanian universities. Also, we investigate if the...

This study seeks insights into the determinants of the acceptance decision made by Tunisian auditors. Through measurement scales of the auditors’ perception of the decision‘s factors, the Factors Analysis highlights the decision‘s attributes. In our study, we used questionnaire surveys...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the firm-level factors effect on the audit pricing in China and Pakistan. For this purpose, we used the panel data of 160 firms of each country of study for the period from 2005 to 2011. First, we run the combined model for two countries and observed...

One of the major roles in promoting accounting convergence is played by big accounting firms (Big 4). The objective of this paper is in this context to analyze and question the role of big auditing firms in developing and implementing IFRSs worldwide, in order to better understand the...

A highly qualitative financial reporting refers to the publication of accounting information complying with the requirements of the reporting framework and generally, they must be transparent, intelligible, relevant, credible and comparable. Based on the results of the theoretical research...

We investigate whether audit partner tenure and audit quality associations remain significant after the implementation of mandatory audit partner rotation. Carey and Simnett (2006) report a significant negative association between long audit partner tenure and the propensity to issue qualified...

The Soviet Accounting Bulletin was published from 1973 to 1983. It provided rare and fascinating direct insight into the role, function and position of the bookkeeper/accountant in the Soviet system, both in theory, e.g. through Lenin’s writing, and in practice, e.g. through extensive...

The purpose of this study is to investigate accounting professionals’ perceptions of (1) importance of education phases and environmental conditions in development of ethics awareness, (2) approaches in accounting ethics education in university and professional pre-qualification, and (3)...