Routledge Companion to Accounting, Reporting and Regulation

Carien van Mourik is Lecturer in Accounting at the Open University Business School. Her research interests include financial accounting and reporting theory and the public interest in international financial accounting and reporting regulationPeter Walton is Professor of Accounting at ESSEC Business School and co-director of the ESSEC-KPMG Financial Reporting Chair. Peter is the Chairman of the EAA Financial Reporting Standards Committee. He is also the editor of World Accounting Report and The Routledge Companion to Fair Value and Financial Reporting (2007)

• Part I: Accounting 1. What is Accounting? 2. Methodology in Financial Accounting Theory 3. Fundamental Issues in Financial Accounting and Reporting Theory 4. Continental European Accounting Theory: Evolution and Evaluation 5. English Language Theories of Financial Reporting Part II: Reporting 6. Recognition and Measurement 7. Fair Value and Financial Reporting 8. Costs and Benefits of Disclosure 9. Auditing Part III: (International) Accounting Standard Setting and Regulation 10. The Public Interest in International Financial Accounting, Reporting and Regulation 11. Perspectives on the Roles of and Need for Accounting Regulation 12. Economic Theory of Financial Reporting Regulation 13. Global Convergence of Accounting Standards 14. The Role of Conceptual Frameworks in Accounting Standard-Setting 15. The Application of IFRS Across Different Institutional Environments Part IV: Institutional Aspects of (International) Financial Reporting Regulation 16. The International Accounting Standards Board 17. Influences on the Standard-setting and Regulatory Process 18. Stock Exchanges and International Financial Reporting Regulation 19. Auditors and International Financial Reporting 20. Multinational Corporations and IFRS 21. The IFRS for SMEs Part V: Social and Economic Aspects of (International) Financial Reporting Regulation 22. Socio-economic Consequences of IFRSs 23. Turf Wars or Missionary Zeal: IFRS, IFAC, the World Bank and the IMF 24. Accounting Regulation in Emerging Markets and Newly Industrialising Countries 25. Accounting Regulation and IFRS in Islamic Countries 26. Accounting Tools for Environmental Management and Communication

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