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The report looks at the costs and benefits of regulating SMEs' financial reporting, at why SMEs may require a different regime from other businesses, and at what research can tell us about these questions. It concludes that the evidence available to date is insufficient to develop policies that...
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Switzerland has introduced similar requirements as they are detetermined in Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The provisions in the Swiss Code of Obligations, which came effective in 2008, require the directors of Swiss joint stock corporations to assess the risks related to the...
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The objective of the IFRS for SMEs is to provide SMEs an attractive accounting alternative according to international …-sized entities in Germany. -- Accounting ; full IFRS ; IFRS ; IFRS for SMEs ; non-listed companies ; small and medium-sized entities …
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The paper analyzes whether the International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for …-sized entities (SMEs) in Germany. Background is the intention of the IASB to give SMEs an attractive alternative in accounting … according to international standards. For this reason the analysis includes a comparison of the sections of the IFRS for SMEs …
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The paper analyses the timing of disclosing financial statements for small and medium enterprises (SME) in Germany in …
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Motivated primarily by the claims that audit committee independence and accounting expertise and CEO compensation influence audit fees, this study examines the effect of such factors, on audit fees in two different institutional settings in the post-Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) era. The...
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The number and importance of private companies in the United States indicates that reliable quality of financial accounting reports (QFAR) useful to users of private companies may be important for the growth of the economy. Most previous research examining QFAR addressed earnings management...
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This paper investigates the logics that drive small accounting practitioners' attitude towards new accounting standards and then, the heterogeneity amongst practitioners in order to unravel the accounting profession, until now considered as a ‘black box' in the accounting harmonization...
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Using a random sample of 500 small charities in 2014, we identify the determinants of voluntarily lodging their annual financial report, and the likelihood of including an assurance report. 110 small charities lodge their annual financial report, with 56 including an audit/review report....
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Much thought has been given by EU institutional actors to how to encourage real change by companies around sustainability matters. This paper recognises that an important part of that jigsaw lies in the replacement of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive’s limited vision with the Corporate...
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