Search results for "ACCOUNTING"

Do Cross-Country Differences in Accounting Conservatism Explain Variations in the Degree of Investor Diversification?

2009

We show that the level of conditional accounting conservatism of foreign markets is significantly and positively associated with decisions to diversify portfolios internationally. This positive association could be either because conditional conservatism per se is attractive to international investors, or because the un-modelled factors that attract foreign investors to a country also cause these countries to adopt conditionally conservative accounting practices. However, if conditional conservatism serves to alleviate foreign investors’ concerns related to insiders having asymmetric access to information then one would also expect the chosen mode of entry into a foreign market (as foreign …

The influence of conditional conservatism on ownership dispersion: An international analysis

2013

ABSTRACTWe study the influence of conditional accounting conservatism on domestic investor diversification decisions. We argue that a conservative accounting system that promotes the dissemination of bad news and which constrains managers from engaging in opportunistic activities reduces the need for investors to concentrate their ownership, and consequently helps investors to diversify their investments. Through a country-level analysis we show that increased domestic conditional conservatism and higher domestic diversification opportunities lead to higher levels of domestic ownership diversification. Our results are robust to alternative estimates of conditional conservatism, and indicate…

2015

This paper provides a commentary on the academic literature on accounting conservatism with a view to highlighting the insights of that literature that are potentially useful for accounting standar...

Accounting Education for Accounting Educator – Evidence from Italy: The Case of SISSIS/TFA (2002-2013)

2013

This paper aims to highlight the education-training during the early twenty-first century, for future teachers of Economia aziendale (“Economic concern”), in Palermo (Sicily, Italy), in a special training school. In Italy, the business disciplines, unitarily, are studied generally under the name of Economia aziendale, within which, however, the part of Accounting (Ragioneria in Italian) has always played dominant role. Compared to the usual studies in Accounting Education, this research presents some peculiarities worthy of note. The perspective used is the critical thinking in education.

Revisiting the Fundamental Concepts of IFRS

2014

DISTRIBUIÇÃO DE CUSTOS: UM ESTUDO NO PORTO DE VALÊNCIA

2016

Para gerar informacoes confiaveis aos gestores dos portos e fundamental a adequada distribuicao dos custos aos centros e sua posterior redistribuicao ate chegar ao custo dos produtos e servicos. Assim, este trabalho tem como objetivo desenvolver formas de distribuicao de custos dos centros de custos auxiliares aos centros de custos principais. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo no Porto de Valencia, visando distribuir e redistribuir os custos aos diferentes centros auxiliares e principais. Entre os resultados pode-se destacar que as formas apresentadas permitem distribuir os custos dos centros auxiliares aos centros principais, com apuracao dos custos por centros de responsabilidade, calcu…

Claridad y calidad de las notas explicativas en estados financieros bajo IFRS. Un estudio de brechas de Expectativas Gaps para normas contables (NIC …

2018

Este análisis situacional de la claridad y calidad de las notas explicativas en los estados financieros bajo IFRS (Obligatory Disclosure), pretende entregar claridad acerca de la calidad de la información entregada en las notas explicativas para 4 normas de Información Contable, claves en la información financiera en los países de la región, que son la NIC 2; Notas referente a Inventarios, NIC 16; Notas referente a Propiedad Planta y Equipos, NIC 37; Notas referente a Provisiones, y NIC 38; Notas referente a Activos Intangibles. Adicionalmente, este trabajo estudia la brecha de expectativas (Expectation Gaps) que existe en la información entregada en las notas de los estados financieros par…

Audit and Earnings Management in Spanish SMEs

2016

Abstract Evidence about the relation between earnings management and voluntary audits is scarce, and there is no research about the effectiveness of mandatory audits to improve earnings quality. Using a sample of Spanish SMEs, where some companies are mandatorily audited and some are exempt from audit, we examine if audits, either mandatory or voluntary, help to improve accounting quality by constraining earnings management. We also examine differences between voluntary and mandatory audits, as well as the role of Big 4 and Middle-Tier auditors. After controlling for other characteristics that affect earnings management, we find that audited companies have lower absolute discretionary accru…

Análisis y reingeniería de procesos en una empresa prestadora de servicios

2013

La globalización e internacionalización de los mercados, así como el aumento de la competencia arrastran a las organizaciones a plantearse cambiar sus estrategias de negocios. En este sentido, el presente estudio tiene por objeto mejorar el sistema de costes y gestión en una Autoridad Portuaria, mediante la implantación de un sistema de costes y gestión basado en las actividades (ABC/ABM). Con ello, se pretende dar respuesta a la necesidad que tenía esta entidad de adaptar su sistema de información interna a estas nuevas exigencias del mercado obteniendo, por consiguiente, una información de mayor calidad para lograr una gestión estratégica de sus costes.

The activity-based costing method developments: state-of-the art and case study

2008

International audience; This paper analyses the management accounting applications which try to improve the Activity-based Costing method. In the first part, we describe them using the Strategic Management Accounting stream. Then, we present the main features of these applications. In the second part, we examine in details two of these features: The widening of the analysis perimeter and the relevant level of details to analyse the costs. Then, we analyse several proposals: Customer Profitability Analysis (CPA), Interorganizational Cost Management (IOCM), Resource Consumption Accounting (RCA) and Time-driven ABC (TDABC). Finally, we describe an experience observed in the IT supply European …