Plenary
Lecture
Globalization of Financial Reporting: Simplification or
Administrative Burden for Companies
Professor Jiri Strouhal
University of Economics Prague
W. Churchill Square 4
130 67 Prague 3
CZECH REPUBLIC
E-mail: strouhal@vse.cz
Abstract: Adoption of IFRS (or IFRS for SMEs) as a
national accounting system could be vital for
true-and-fair view and for the higher comparability of
accounting information in globalized world. The crucial
necessity will be the wider spread of IFRS knowledge.
Generally, IFRS are based on different concept than
continental accounting regulation, so it’ll be not only
about the training of new accounting regulation, but
about the training of the different accounting thinking
and different approach for posting of accounting
transaction. There will be also necessary to provide
regular information for professional accountants about
the evolution and changes in IFRS and the long-life
training.
The current possibilities of IFRS adoption in emerging
CEE countries are well described:
Absence of description of detailed postings in IFRS
brings higher demand on the professional and ethic level
of accountants. If you take in account the very limited
legislation requirements on the qualification of
accountants, none requirements on the long-life
education and ethic level and very difficult role of
professional chambers trying to deal with this problem,
it’ll be a long journey and lot of work for us...
Martin Unzeitig (President of Chamber of Certified
Accountants Czech Republic)
According to the results of Strouhal et al. (2011) there
could be stated that companies, which are not obliged to
prepare financial statements according to IFRS, are not
interested in IFRS. It is probably due to the fact that
these companies concentrate mainly on the current state,
the question of their future development (in unspecified
future) is not so important for them. It is also due to
disadvantageous proportion between the expenses invested
and the revenues obtained.
On the other hand, having financial information that is
universally understood and comparable to other
companies’ information can improve relationships with
customers, suppliers, investors and bankers. If these
business partners have more confidence in the financial
information being provided using IFRS, this can be a
crucial factor in securing a new supplier, obtaining
finance, reducing the cost of borrowing, and arriving at
an acquisition or cooperation agreement.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Jiri Strouhal graduated from the University of Economics
Prague (Faculty of Finance and Accounting) in 2003. He
finished his doctoral studies at the Department of
Financial Accounting and Auditing in 2005. In 2006 he
became an accounting expect (Czech accounting profession
certification scheme based on British ACCA curricula).
In the period 2007 – 2009 he was member of the Committee
for Education and Certification of Accountants Czech
Republic and Executive Board member of the Chamber of
Certified Accountants (Union of Accountants CR). From
2010 he is an acting Vice President of Chamber of
Certified Accountants Czech Republic and member of
Accreditation Committee of this professional
organization.
He is reputed academician and practitioner; he published
more than 300 research outputs, from which could be
stated 15 monographers in the area of accounting and
corporate finance, more than 25 research papers
published in reputed databases (ISI, SCOPUS – important
piece of them in WSEAS/NAUN research journals). His
major is corporate financial reporting, partially
focused on international accounting harmonization and
financial securities reporting. He was a plenary speaker
of DEEE 2010 IEEEAM conference in Tenerife and
E-ACTIVITIES 2011 WSEAS conference in Jakarta, and
organized sessions at WSEAS conferences in Timisoara
(EMT 2010) and Iasi (AEBD 2011).
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