Changing from a Rules-based to a Principles-based Accounting Logic: A Review

We explore influences on unlisted companies when Portugal moved from a code law, rules-based accounting system, to a principles-based accounting system of adapted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Institutionalisation of the new principles-based system was generally facilitated by...

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Main Authors: Marta Silva Guerreiro, Lúcia Lima Rodrigues, Russell Craig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Wollongong 2014-06-01
Series:Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal
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Online Access:http://ro.uow.edu.au/aabfj/vol8/iss2/8