Presenta información esencial en el proceso de implementación de los Sistemas de Información Contable, SIC, para desarrollar los reportes necesarios de la contabilidad. EL libro está enmarcado en la normatividad internacional que propuso la integración de los reportes estandarizados para los usuarios acreedores, prestamistas e inversionistas actuales y potenciales, en el marco de la regulación de los estándares internacionales de información financiera, IFRS. Esta normatividad debe ser incluida en SIC, volviendo más robusto el proceso contable. El SIC debe desarrollar reportes a diferentes usuarios, tornándolo un sistema multiusuario. Esto podría afectar el nivel de uniformidad, confiabilidad y utilidad de la información, si no se realiza de manera ordenada, por lo que se propone hacerlo bajo un proyecto donde se instaure un documento maestro del proceso, reconocido como manual de procedimiento contable, regido por el gobierno corporativo institucional, que determine las políticas, bases y procedimientos a seguir para el cumplimiento de los diferentes informes y de la regulación local. Esta es una línea de acción práctica y conceptual, que brinda unas consideraciones apreciables de los resultados obtenidos en los procesos de implementación e investigación académica.

El autor de la presente obra, ha desarrollado una línea profesional que quiere compartir con las personas que se interesen profesionalmente o académicamente en el desarrollo, comprensión y aplicación de las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera. La obra considera un apartado innovador, al presentar una comprensión por parte de los usuarios de la información contable, de cómo proceder correctamente ante la clasificación de la información de la empresa, para no afectar desde la aplicación de las NIIF en la razonabilidad de los estados financieros y estos sean un reflejo real de la posición de la empresa ante los usuarios de sus estados financieros.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the XV Multidisciplinary International Congress on Science and Technology (CIT 2020), held in Quito, Ecuador, on 26–30 October 2020, proudly organized by Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE in collaboration with GDEON. CIT is an international event with a multidisciplinary approach that promotes the dissemination of advances in Science and Technology research through the presentation of keynote conferences. In CIT, theoretical, technical, or application works that are research products are presented to discuss and debate ideas, experiences, and challenges. Presenting high-quality, peer-reviewed papers, the book discusses the following topics: Artificial Intelligence Computational Modeling Data Communications Defense Engineering Innovation, Technology, and Society Managing Technology & Sustained Innovation, and Business Development Modern Vehicle Technology Security and Cryptography Software Engineering

This review lays out a research perspective on earnings quality. We provide an overview of alternative definitions and measures of earnings quality and a discussion of research design choices encountered in earnings quality research. Throughout, we focus on a capital markets setting, as opposed, for example, to a contracting or stewardship setting. Our reason for this choice stems from the view that the capital market uses of accounting information are fundamental, in the sense of providing a basis for other uses, such as stewardship. Because resource allocations are ex ante decisions while contracting/stewardship assessments are ex post evaluations of outcomes, evidence on whether, how and to what degree earnings quality influences capital market resource allocation decisions is fundamental to understanding why and how accounting matters to investors and others, including those charged with stewardship responsibilities. Demonstrating a link between earnings quality and, for example, the costs of equity and debt capital implies a basic economic role in capital allocation decisions for accounting information; this role has only recently been documented in the accounting literature. We focus on how the precision of financial information in capturing one or more underlying valuation-relevant constructs affects the assessment and use of that information by capital market participants. We emphasize that the choice of constructs to be measured is typically contextual. Our main focus is on the precision of earnings, which we view as a summary indicator of the overall quality of financial reporting. Our intent in discussing research that evaluates the capital market effects of earnings quality is both to stimulate further research in this area and to encourage research on related topics, including, for example, the role of earnings quality in contracting and stewardship.

An in-depth, enlightening look at the integrated reporting movement The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the forces that provide momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which companies can ensure their own long-term sustainability by contributing to a sustainable society. Although integrated reporting has seen substantial development due to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to varying degrees, by market forces. In considering integrated reporting’s current state of play, the authors provide guidance to ensure wider adoption of the practice and success of the movement, starting with how companies can improve their own reporting processes. But the support of investors, regulators, and NGOs is also important. All will benefit, as will society as a whole. Readers will learn how integrated reporting has evolved over the years, where frameworks and standards are today, and the practices that help ensure effective implementation—including, but not limited to an extensive discussion of information technology’s role in reporting and the importance of corporate reporting websites. The authors introduce the concepts of an annual board of directors' "Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality" and a "Sustainable Value Matrix" tool that translates the statement into management decisions. The book argues that the appropriate combination of market and regulatory forces to speed adoption will vary by country, concluding with four specific recommendations about what must be done to accelerate high quality adoption of integrated reporting around the world.

This is the first and only book to offer a comprehensive survey of accounting research on a broad international scale for the last two centuries. Its main emphasis is on accounting research in the English, German, Italian, French and Spanish language areas; it also contains chapters dealing with research in Finland, the Netherlands, Scand