NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE QUALITY OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION38 Cover Image

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE QUALITY OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION38
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE QUALITY OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION38

Author(s): Alina Rusu
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: qualitative characteristics; relevance; reliability; understandability; comparability; IASB; FASB

Summary/Abstract: The primary objective of general purpose financial reporting is to provide high-quality financial information about the reporting entity, useful for economic decision making. Qualitative characteristics of financial statements are the basic attributes that make sense of usefulness of accounting information. In the normalization and accounting doctrine, criteria for defining the concept of quality of accounting information are not identical, their selection and ranking being different. Our research aims to achieve a comparative analysis of the manner in how are discussed the qualitative characteristics of information contained in the financial statements in different referentials accounting - American, international, those of several countries in Europe and the Romanian.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 70-81
  • Page Count: 1
  • Language: English