International Accounting and Economic Development: The Interaction of Accounting, Economic, and Social Indicators - Hardcover

Riahi-Belkaoui, Ahmed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567205046 ISBN 13: 9781567205046

Publisher: Praeger, 2002

Synopsis

A well developed system of internatinal accounting is essential, if an accounting order, one that serves as a basis and guarantee for the conduct of business and economic growth, is to be created. Similarly, essential to the creation of an economic order is economic development. Riahi-Belkaoui explicates the relationship between accounting and economic order and between that and the determinants of accounting development. He then studies the relationship between accounting and economic development, and between their respective determinants. Accountants, specialists and executives concerned with economic development will find the book an important addition to their most necessary professional resources.

Riahi-Belkaoui provides evidence for the determinants and implications of economic development, and the role and the determinants of disclosure adequacy along seven dimensions: human and economic development; political, financial, and economic risk; human and economic development; managerial, academic, and professional influences; welfare of the common man; economic, political, and civil indicators, and the determinants for predicting performance of earnings forecasts. He also examines the role of country return and risk in such matters as disclosure adequacy, the prediction of performance of earnings forecasts, and the levels of financial disclosure by European firms. He then discusses the role and impact of cultural determinism and its affect on the systematic risk of global stock exchanges, compensation practices, professional self-regulation in attounting. and the perception of accounting concepts.

About this title

Book Description:

Examines the relationship between accounting development and economic development, the interaction of their associated indicators, and the roles they play in them.

About the Author:

AHMED RIAHI-BELKAOUI is CBA Distinguished Professor of Accounting in the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago. Author of numerous Quorum books, published or forthcoming, and coauthor of several more, he is an equally prolific contributor to the journals of his field, and has served on various editorial boards that oversee them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1567205046
• ISBN 13: 9781567205046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328