ABSTRACT The aim of this paper was to analyze the accounting treatment used by companies in Brazil that have investments joint operations, light Brazilian and international standards. There are no doubts about be consolidated statements, but a divergence identified between standards relation individual statements. IFRS 11 determines investors recognize values operation proportionally separate H...

A ngus Thomson of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) states that: ‘Australia definitely adopts IFRSs’ (Thomson 2009, p. 153). This was in response to Nobes (2008, p. 283) who wrote that: ‘Australia has chosen not to “adopt” IFRS, but to converge its standards with IFRS’. The distinction has major legal and political aspects. It can affect preparers, auditors and users. This paper ...

This paper examines whether the level of enforcement shapes complexity in accounting standards. First, order to identify standards, we calculated a new measure that conceptualizes based on theoretical dimensions multiplicity and diversity. To calculate this measure, content each International Financial Reporting Standard Accounting Standard, 2018, was analyzed. Second, investigated affects scor...