The Accounting Treatment of Asset Depreciation and the Impact on Result

Marilena Roxana Zuca ()
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Marilena Roxana Zuca: Romanian American University of Bucharest, Romania

Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics, 2013, vol. 13, issue 2, 271-280

Abstract: The users of the financial statements have long been limited to perusing the loss and profit account to find out information about the accounting result. It has been considered the most significant indicator to measure the performance of a company, without taking into account, however, the relevance of such information. The accounting result is the result of the free choice on accounting policies of companies and leads to an increase or decrease of this result. It is difficult to select the most relevant policy of the multiple accounting policies provided by the International Financial Reporting Standards with impact on a company’s financial performance. Such various accounting practices make an accurate evaluation of the performance and financial situation of companies of different nationalities difficult. It is certain, though, that different accounting solutions used for re-evaluations, amortizations and adjustments lead to different financial results for identical exploitation conditions.

Keywords: depreciation; amortization; adjustment; self-financing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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