This study investigates whether the adoption of a single set of accounting standards, such as IFRS, guarantees harmonization of accounting practices within a country and across countries, or whether differences in reporting practices persist because of dissimilarities in reporting habits and...

This study investigates whether the adoption of a single set of accounting standards, such as IFRS, guarantees harmonization of accounting practices within a country and across countries, or whether differences in reporting practices persist because of dissimilarities in reporting habits and...

Although agriculture is an important part of the world economy, accounting in agriculture still has many shortcomings. The adoption of IAS 41 „Agricuture” has tried to improve this situation and increase the comparability of financial statements of entities in the agricultural sector....

In Romania corporate governance has emerged beginning with the early 2000s. The delay is explainable by the difficult steps taken on the line of political, legal, economic and social reform. In recent years, however, the corporate governance environment in Romania has changed. Transparency and...

Prudence in accounting is a corner-stone concept which has shaped accounting theory, as well as ordinary financial reporting. Thus, on the quantitative side of the study, we developed a proxy for accounting conservatism, namely the degree of uncertainty associated with the settling of a...

Prudence in accounting is a corner-stone concept which has shaped accounting theory, as well as ordinary financial reporting, sometimes in obscure and perverse ways. The qualitative nature of our contribution is apparent in the critical analysis of the degree of conservatism as a fundamental...