Financial accounting

The research of our Financial accounting experts focuses on the newest accounting trends and developments worldwide.

Key research areas

We have special expertise in:

• IFRS/IAS
• Earnings management
• Consolidation

Research results and publications

Curious about some of our research results and publications?

• Post-Enron implicit audit reporting standards

  Sifting through the evidence
  Piet Sercu, Heidi Vander Bauwhede & Marleen Willekens
  De Economist, Vol. 154, Iss. 3, 2006, pp. 389-403

• Earnings management and debt

  Piet Sercu, Heidi Vander Bauwhede & Marleen Willekens
  Research Report AFI-0619, KULeuven, 2006, 25 p.

• Evidence on (the lack of) audit-quality differentiation in the private client segment of the Belgian audit market

  Heidi Vander Bauwhede & Marleen Willekens
  European Accounting Review, Vol. 13, Iss. 3, 2004, pp. 501-522

• All Financial accounting publications.

Research for your organisation

In addition to conducting research that contributes to fundamental academic knowledge, we can also carry out practice-based research especially for your organisation.

• Explore research opportunities that may benefit your organisation.

Our experts

Meet the faculty and researchers who are experts in Financial accounting.

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News

• JMAR Best Paper Award for Vlerick professor Regine Slagmulder

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