Since 2005 European listed companies report their financial figures based on IFRSs. This paper investigates whether Hungarian listed companies comply with IFRS disclosure requirements, identifying some factors associated with the level of compliance. Although the issue of consolidation is not a new topic for Hungarian specialists, the analysis focuses on the disclosure aspects of consolidation because publishing consolidated accounts is considered still a problematic field (Fekete, 2008). Findings suggest that corporate size and industry type (more specifically being in the IT&C sector) are statistically associated with the extent of compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements. This suggest that big, high tech companies comply best to IRFS rules, possibly because they can benefit the most from them.

This paper we seek to measure the fiscal influence over accounting on a de facto level, empirical analysis is being performed on companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) and RASDAQ market, on a sample of 210 companies. Our observation was conducted in the year 2008, the variables taken in the analysis being sales as proxy for 'accounting' and income tax as measure for tax effects. The model we use is defined in a dynamic fashion (marginal values) since we believe these variables reflect the best the "true" variations of accounting and tax numbers. The statistical results obtained show that there is a statistically significant influence of taxation over accounting of 4%; we are not able, however, to say if this amount is "large" or "small", in since we have no benchmark value yet. This is also the first empirical tax research paper in accounting on Romanian data.

Analyzing accounting issues relative to small and medium sized entities (SMEs) we found the influence of taxation as the main leitmotif in the Romanian literature. However, weak empirical evidence is provided to sustain this argument. In this paper we investigate the accounting policy choices of SMEs, particularly those related to the evaluation methods. Our purpose is to find some "pattern" in these decisions and to identify the main factors that trigger them. Data for the study was collected through a survey in which respondents were requested to indicate the degree to which each of the factors listed in the questionnaire influenced their choice of accounting methods. After controlling for size, we applied the principal component analysis technique in ascertaining the impact of factors. Our results though consistent with the reviewed literature, are still surprising. This is in the sense that while taxation seems to remain the strongest influence factor, the weakest happens to be the true and fair view (TFV) consideration. In finding some possible explanations to this, we leave this question open: is it possible that the overwhelming academic concept of TFV is an empty vessel for practitioners?