The paper analyses a strategy for avoiding the disclosure of the financial statements of a limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner (GmbH & Co. KG) according to German Commercial Code (HGB). It describes the formal process of the joining of a natural person as an...

The paper analyses the timing of disclosing financial statements for small and medium enterprises (SME) in Germany in 2007 and 2008. Comparisons of different regional areas and different company sizes are made and possible explanations for the results discussed. -- Rechnungslegungspolitik ;...

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an open standard for the electronic preparation and exchange of business information. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the influence of several firm-specific characteristics on the extent of voluntary disclosure in XBRL. I...