The Bank for the Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH) is a free-of-charge database containing the aggregated accounting data of non-financial incorporated enterprises for, so far, 11 European countries. While the individual accounts feeding the database were originally prepared in line with...

This paper examines the level of compliance with the requirements of statement of Accounting Standards number 16 by Insurance Companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The basic objective is to find out whether or not listed insurance companies in Nigeria apply the requirements of...

This paper aims at understanding the recent evolution of Chinese accounting standards while focusing on the accounting for business combinations as case of reference. A comprehensive comparative analysis between International Accounting Standards Board's and Chinese accounting standards is...

In the strategic discipline, resourced based view is widely accepted to explain the source of competitive advantage, it notes that the success of a company lies in the heterogeneity of the internal means are there to carry out their activity. The intangible resources have greater strategic...

This paper analyzes the accounting reasoning of two expert accounting witnesses at the 2006 trial of Enron executives who testified that the financial reporting of Enron conformed fully with US generally accepted accounting principles [GAAP]. We analyze the experts' evidence using argumentation...

Objective – Small- and medium-sized entities (SMEs) have an important role in economic growth. SMEs are a key source of employment and economic growth in Indonesia. Unfortunately, the growth of SMEs is not accompanied by the implementation of accounting and reporting, in accordance with...

The aim of this paper is to trace the principal ideas in Paton and Littleton's influential 1940 monograph to their previous and contemporaneous writings, and thus to uncover the ideas' origins in the literature