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Rules versus Accounting Principles, are they really incompatible models?

Authors

MOLINA SÁNCHEZ, HORACIO, Tua Pereda, Jorge

External publication

No

Means

Rev. Esp. Financ. Contab.

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

SJR Impact

0.176

Publication date

01/04/2010

ISI

000279366600002

Abstract

The election of the accounting regulation model (a principle-based model or an objective-based instead of a rules-based model) is one of the issues that is tackled in the international accounting harmmonization process because FASB's model is rule-based but IASB's model is principle-based. Empirical evidence from this paper shows that a concrete accounting regulation improves the logical consistency and fills up the lacks of regulation, having a lower influence for supporting the estimations. Between the reasons for supporting a principle-based or a rule-based attitude we find the search for legal certainty.

Keywords

Accounting regulation; True and fair view; Accounting principles

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