If auditors are to continue to play a vital role in adding credibility to the financial statements, it is essential to address the risks and pressures they face in the course of an audit. The auditor’s professional judgement is a focal point of those challenges. In an increasingly globalised...

The Larosiere commission was given by the European Commision president the dual task to research the causes of the present global financial crisis and come up with recommendations on how to reform the regulation of financial markets. The Larosiere commission published its report known as The...

In an increasingly globalised economy, the quality and professionalism of a business is becoming more important than ever before. The audit profession is no exception. This paper examines audit professionalism, its trend and its relationship with professional judgement. It is discovered that...

In an increasingly globalised economy, the quality and professionalism of a business is becoming more important than ever before. The audit profession is no exception. This paper examines audit professionalism alongside audit efficiency, its trend and its relationship with professional...

In an increasingly globalised economy, the quality and professionalism of business decisions are intrinsically linked to the risk behaviour of decision makers. The business decision makers are usually faced with a degree of uncertainty when they have to assess risk and make decisions. This paper...

Study's objectives include: 1. Knowledge of the economic context of classification of the parent company in the group of accounting entities, in order to establish the development needs, resources and the activity conduct of private economic group versus State-held economic group. 2. Systematic...

The present paper starts out from the challenge regarding auditor tenure launched in 2010 by the Green Paper of the European Commission "Audit Policy: Lessons from the Crisis". According to this document, the European Commission speaks both in favor of the mandatory rotation of the audit firm,...

The diminished trust of citizens in the public sector, the increased complexity of policy issues and the reforms in accordance with the new public management principles generate the need of focusing more extensively on participatory governance. Participatory governance can be defined as the...

Globalization has polarized the world, transforming the economic landscape. Geography is obsolete, financial flow increases everywhere at both national and global level, covering geographic regions that are a world apart, and economic entities have set as their primary objective the maximization...