The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of measurement in financial accounting, starting with an examination of the approach to measurement taken by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), followed by a summary of the general theory of measurement employed in the natural...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the relationship between law and ethics in accounting. The primary arguments of the chapter are that law and ethics have between intertwined historically, that concepts of morality and ethics have permeated law and that laws are based on ethical and...