Accounting and Regulation

"Aims to provide some new, timely, and important insights on accounting regulation and to contribute to a better understanding of its links with other institutions that influence the real economy. ... an excellent read for academicians, graduate students, policymakers, regulators, and even practitioners, and young researchers will find themselves not only compensated through a very good overview of some interesting, state-of-the-art research in the area of accounting and regulation, but quite possibly also inspired to explore new avenues of research." (Leonidas C. Doukakis, The International Journal of Accounting, Vol. 50, 2015)

• Introduction.- Corporate Collapse: Regulatory, Accounting and Ethical Failure.- Post-Enron Reform: Financial Statement Insurance and GAAP Re-visited.- Accounting Standard Setting in Two Political Contexts.- Constituents’ Participation in the IASC/IASB’s Due Process of International Accounting Standard Setting: A Longitudinal Analysis.- A Crisis of Identity? A Juxtaposing Auditor Liability and the Value of Audit.- The Corporate Governance Effects of Audit Committee.- The Role of Debt Contracts and Debt Covenants in Corporate Governance: Reflections on Evolution and Innovation.- Regulation, Bonding and the Quality of Financial Statements.- Fair Value and the IASB/FASB Conceptual Framework Project: An Alternative View.- A Comparison of Historical Cost and Fair Value Accounting Systems: General and Some Regulatory Concerns.- IASB ED Management Commentary versus European Regulation: The Impact on Management’s Reports of Companies Listed on Italian Stock Exchange.-  Do Attributes of Management’s Explanations of Financial Performance Matter for Analysts? An International Perspective.- The Consequences to Managers for Financial Misrepresentation.- National Standard-Setters’ Lobbying: An Analysis of its Role in the IFRS 2 Due Process.- Current State and Future Challenges of the IFRS: Some Thoughts.- Index.