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...

We examine four key conceptual tensions that are at the heart of many financial reporting dilemmas: stocks vs. flows, ex-ante vs. ex post, conventions vs. economic substance, and top-down design vs. bottom-up evolution as sources of accounting practice. Associated with each of these conceptual...

By developing a synthesis of documents that have been released officially under the revenue recognition project jointly run by the IASB and FASB, this article points out that the earnings generation and realisation process over time (that is to say, the traditional accounting model) is in...