The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has been promoting a worldwide accounting harmonization and convergence project for more than a decade now with the declared purpose to increase comparability of financial information worldwide. We conduct a historical and chronological...

The main objective of this article is to evaluate the degree of formal harmonization of the Romanian accounting regulations with the International Financial Reporting Standards with regard to goodwill, as it appears in the consolidated financial situations. This study measures the degree of...

The main objective of this paper is to examine the level of disclosure regarding theconsolidated financial statements in the case of Romanian listed companies. In order to measurethis, a multiple index was used that quantifies the level of dislosure a company has achieved. Themain conclusion, in...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the recent research litarature regarding public sector inter-institutional combinations. Based upon a sample of 51 articles published in 2010-2013 in four databases (Science Direct, Springer Link, Wiley Online Library and Sage), this study summarizes and...

This paper addresses to accounting researchers and proposes the use of abductive research strategy to improve the quality of accounting research outcomes. We argue that abductive reasoning has developed as a typical research method in all fields of interpretive studies but is still unrecognized...

The concept of transparency has increasingly attracted the attention of academic, political and business areas. Many studies have demonstrated the need for adopting this corporate governance principle also in the public sector, a phenomenon that has become widespread at international level. The...

In the context of New Public Management (NPM) and good governance, in the last decade the Romanian public health system has undergone a reform process. One of its consequences is the wave of public hospitals amalgamations that have occurred especially since the adoption of the new health law....

This paper investigates the European accounting history from the Romanian, Cluj perspective. Accounting has several origins. This can be shown in the roots of accounting. One of the roles of the accounting historian community is to encourage the research of the founding fathers of accounting in...

This paper wants to highlights the relation between the development ofaccounting in Romania and the accounting profession. The development of the accountingeducation is related with the economical development as well as the profession. Havingintellectuals that are preoccupied of accounting we...

The present research aims to investigate the manner in which the public sector accounting under transition from cash to accrual base can be accompanied by legislative stability and coherence, using the example of Romanian public sector. The importance of a clear and concise change process is one...