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Alketa Pasholli
Actual Problems and Good Practices in Accountancy Teaching to Students in Albania
Summary:
The profession of accountacy in Albania on the road to the euro , represents a challenge to be faced. The 21st century requires the field of accounting profession to have a more qualitative education, improved programs of professional preparation in order to bring up an accounting professional capable to meet the growing requirements and prevent undesirable situations. The qualitative preparation of the accounting professionals starts at school, from the professional high school to university ( finance and accounting departments) and continues even furthers with different qualifications near professional organizations and institutions.
The purpose of this paper is to present the achievements in the field of education and training of the accounting professional, existing problems and recommendations on potential improvements needed. This analysis is particularly focused on the shortcomings of the development of the accounting education starting from the curriculum deficiencies of the Economic Faculty or other economic oriented faculties in public or private universities, educational programs of the accounting professional organizations and institutions, ect. This paper tries to answer the following questions: How effective are our undergraduate programs in combining theoretical and practical elements and what are the potential improvements needed? What are some of the best-experiences in the other well-known accounting schools in the preparation of the qualitative accounting professionals and what are the necessary improvements? Finally, recommendations will help in determining potential approaches in order to improve the accounting profession education system and increasing its.
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Nadezhda Ivanova Popova – Yosifova
Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting – Issues for Discussion and Prospects
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The formation of the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting is a slow evolutionary process influenced by numerous economic, social and political factors worldwide. Recently, the contents of the framework has been intensively discussed by professional organizations, researchers in accounting and finance and other persons concerned. These issues become more and more live and significant, since the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting is designated for both facilitating International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in improving the standards and guiding all parties concerned in their interpretation, as well as assisting any financial report compilers where the standards allow the choice of accounting policies. The present article shows an analysis of the basic issues in the contents of the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, it presents a chronology of the development of the framework and discussions on publications of leading professional organizations and researchers.
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Rositsa Simeonova
New Aspects of Accounting Legislation
Summary:
Accounting is an information system, which only creates information regarding the financial position, the efficiency of operations, the changes in the financial position and the cash flows of enterprises. All this suggests certain requirements for its operation and the information it creates. They are codified in the existing accounting legislation – the Accountancy Act and the applicable accounting standards. Some changes have occurred due to the influence of various factors in the accounting regulations. In recent years, the reasons for this have been related to some changes in the basic EU acts that regulate the relations in the field of accounting.
A new Accountancy Act and National Accounting Standards (NAS) amended and supplemented have been in force since the beginning of 2016. The standards set out in these regulations have led to changes in the implementation of accounting as a practical activity.
This paper highlights both the new aspects of accounting legislation and those that give rise to certain inconsistencies in interpreting them and potential problems in applying them. This is done sequentially – first regarding the Accountancy Act, and then regarding the amendments and supplements to the National Accounting Standards. Some of the arguments can be taken into account when these regulations are further updated.
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Alla Ozeran
The Results of Implementation of the International Financial Reporting Standards in Ukraine: Problematic Issues and Solutions
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In May, 2011 Verhovna Rada of Ukraine amended the law “On Accounting and Financial Statements in Ukraine”, according to which domestic enterprises, and foremost joint stock companies, banks, and insurance companies are obliged to prepare and present financial and consolidated statements in accordance with the International Standards of Financial Reporting (IFRS) from 1st January, 2012. One of the main problems of transition to IFRS is considered to be the short timeframe for their implementation. The paper presents research of the process of the reformation of the Ukraine’s system of accounting to generally accepted world principles and standards, necessitated by country’s independence gained in 1991, changes in the economic system and the country’s intention to be integrated into the European Union. The research provides main stages of reforms conducted, as well as results achieved on each stage; the article analyses and provides solutions to problems and difficulties connected with the implementation of the IFRS in Ukraine.
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Daniela Feschiyan
Standardized Model for Subsequent Measurement of Fixed Assets in the Public Sector Enterprises
Summary:
This article addresses some shortcomings in the existing pricing model after recognition /post evaluation/ of fixed assets in the public sector enterprises. Prerequisite for the studied problem is the lack of standardization of the accounting system in the public sector enterprises. The author offers a standardized accounting model and argues that the problem can only be resolved with the adoption of accounting standards that would replace the current practice of regulation of accounting in the public sector enterprises with instructions and letters. The proposed accounting standard model for periodic assessment of fixed assets are designed ways and means to improve the accounting system of the public sector entities through its adaptation to the conceptual framework of international accounting standards for the public sector. This will increase the reliability and credibility of accounting information and the overall improvement of the accounting methodology.
