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Kalin Kalev
Perceived Risk in Mandatory Risk Disclosures
Summary:
Banks are taking risks which are ex post inadequately disclosed. Opaque information impedes market participants to estimate the level of risk. Risk disclosures allow investors and other stakeholders to understand the risk profile of the bank entity. In effect, ttransparent risk disclosures promote market discipline. The paper is focused on the identification of the affect of the financial risk on the ex post mandatory disclosures.
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Galina Chipriyanova
Possibilities of Improving the Accounting of Provisions in Companies with Constuction Activity
Summary:
The article examined issues concerning the nature of the provision as a reporting category, the methodology for measuring the value of provisions and the improvement of their accounting. With specific examples of the practice are represented regulated in IAS 37 / AS 37 Provisions, Contingent Obligations and Contingent Assets cases of provisioning: the removal of hidden defects (construction defects respectively), which of hidden becoming actually in the process of exploitation, environmental restoration; restructuring of the company. Proposed are three methods for determining the amount of the provision as the case of the accounting of the costs for provisions in companies with construction activity.
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Yasen Daskalov
Standardized Approach to Identification of Infrastructure Assets in Public Sector
Summary:
This paper presents accounting analysis of infrastructure assets as elements of fixed assets in the public sector. Infrastructure assets are significant assets for the public sector. Significant resources of the society are invested in these assets. This paper defines public sector assets and outlines major differences with the definitions in the private sector. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the regulations on infrastructure assets in the European Accounting Rules and International Public Sector Accounting Standards. The paper presents the main accounting policies applied in accounting for infrastructure assets in New Zealand, which is one of the few countries in the world that apply the full version of International Public Sector Accounting Standards. Some of the problems in accounting for infrastructure assets in Bulgaria have been systematized.
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Kalin Kalev
Accounting Monitoring on Determinants of Disclosures ‒ Validity and Application to Bulgarian Banks
Summary:
Theoretical framework for investigation of mandatory disclosures have no algorithmical of research methodology and methods. The main reason is there is no established common conceptual framework of disclosures in financial reporting which functional definition to reflect their role and significance. By “functional definition” of concept we mean a definition which makes explicit the usefulness of the concept for certain purposes. In the paper we analyse the determinants of disclosures on sample of bank institutions in Bulgaria and we test previous research assumptions and resultants of the accounting literature. Furthermore, we propose a new framework for measurement of risk disclosures which can introduce to our knowledge some insights about the factors that influence the practice.
