The purpose of this paper is to assess the role, opportunities and challenges of Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) within the context of global frameworks and the future of Accounting in Business. Models by International Federation of Accountants (IFAC's), Association of Chartered...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative value relevance of accounting information arising from the adoption of converged and revised International Accounting Standards (IAS)/International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in East Africa.Design/methodology/approach –...

This study seeks to establish if the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Kenya has been associated with higher accounting quality for listed companies based on the theory that IFRS adoption has benefits such as transparency, accounting quality and reduced cost of...

Purpose: This chapter discusses how pandemics affect the nature of financial reporting especially for financial and non-financial institutions that were deeply affected by the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Method: This chapter presents a reflective discussion of the accounting practices...

Forensic accounting theory is an explanation of why and how the choice of methods or techniques used to detect creative accounting or manipulations in financial and non-financial reporting, and the outcome of using such methods or techniques, depends on the accounting and non-accounting...