Despite attempts to secure harmonisation of accounting practice, significant variations in accounting rules and …. Firstly, this paper considers the relevance of international accounting harmonisation for European business. It then proceeds … to examine accounting regulation in three countries: Spain, Sweden and Austria, highlighting the key regulatory issues of …

In Spain both accounting practice and accounting research have been strongly influenced by accounting practices … identified the potential for accounting reports to serve a wide range of users. 2) Identifies the ways in which English language … accounting conceptual frameworks have paid lip service to a range of user needs, but in practice have excluded users other than …

There is a substancial literature on the accounting procedures needed to track down the costs of quality control and … rise to new accounting needs. In this article we take one example of an industry, wine production, where in most countries …, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Spain, and identify a variety of ways in which a more sophisticated approach to accounting …

The term 'creative accounting' can be defined in a number of ways. Initially we will offer this definition: 'a process … whereby accountants use their knowledge of accounting rules to manipulate the figures reported in the accounts of a business …'. To investigate the ethical issues raised by creative accounting we will: - Explore some definitions of creative …