since 2001 the adoption of iran accounting standards has become obligatory. this study by using a sample of companies listed in tehran stock exchange (tse) compares the value relevance of ten selected accounting variables in two periods, before mandatory adaption of accounting standards (1996-1998) and after that (2005-2007). in this study the researchers have tried to control the effect of eco...

How do we set the accounting standards? The topic has received much attention during the past 50 years. Perhaps the first step toward a satisfactory resolution of the problem is to recognize that the problem of standardization is not unique to accounting. There are approximately five hundred standard-setting organizations in the United States alone and many more in other countries, setting stan...

people’s republic of china has a long history of accounting and accounting reforms. this study focuses on “whether china should continue its ifrs-based domestic accounting standards or full convergence with the ifrs is more appropriate”? both quantitative and qualitative approaches are applied to answer the research question of this work. binary choice model has been used in the statistical ana...

This study attempts to compare and highlight the major differences between International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) with National Accounting Standards (NAS) in one of the developing nations, Iran. Over the past two decades, the Iranian accounting standards setter, Audit Organization, has decided to eliminate the differences between IFRS and...

In this paper principles for accounting in supply chains will be developed. The three principles we introduce are: the reciprocity in information access, asset investment and retrieval, and matching risks and returns. The principles provide guidance in managerial and stakeholder decision making, monitoring and control. The information that management and other stakeholders need is based on thes...