{"title":"La Reforma Contable Española de 2007: Un Balance (The 2007 Spanish Accounting Reform: A Reflection)","authors":"J. A. Gonzalo-Angulo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2540833","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se reflexiona sobre la profunda reforma contable llevada a cabo entre los anos 2001 y 2010 en Espana, cuyo hito mas importante fue la promulgacion del Plan General de Contabilidad revisado en 2007. Los razonamientos se hacen desde el objetivo declarado de hacer converger la normativa espanola con las Normas Internacionales de Informacion Financiera, haciendo un balance del proceso, de las consecuciones y de los problemas que se han planteado en el sistema contable espanol, que ha cambiado fuertemente su orientacion de una manera poco usual para un pais de tradicion continental europea.Como resultado del proceso, se han introducido importantes novedades en la informacion financiera de todas las empresas, que han aceptado modernizarse como una forma de participar en el proceso de internacionalizacion que caracteriza a la economia espanola, de forma que conceptos tales como la clasificacion de los instrumentos financieros, los ajustes en otro resultado integral o la contabilidad del efecto impositivo basada en el enfoque del balance son moneda comun en la practica contable.El cambio, que se gesto de una forma participativa (Libro Blanco de la contabilidad en Espana) ha preservado el instrumento de la normalizacion por excelencia, que es el Plan General de Contabilidad, a la vez que ha consolidado la independencia coordinada de los ambitos contable y fiscal. El trabajo resalta algunas deficiencias del sistema contable espanol, entre las que destaca la poca flexibilidad para posteriores cambios, ya que el Plan General de Contabilidad se concibe como un codigo de reglas interconectadas que admite con dificultad las enmiendas, que por causa del proceso administrativo para su introduccion pueden hacer que los cambios futuros se retrasen, perjudicando el objetivo de acercamiento continuo a las normas internacionales.English Abstract: This article presents some reflections on the in-depth Spanish accounting reform carried out between the years 2001 and 2010, where the more important milestone is the promulgation of the General Accounting Plan revised in 2007. Arguments are made from the stated goal of converging the Spanish standards with International Financial Reporting Standards, making a balanced review of the process, the achievements and the problems that have arisen in the Spanish accounting system, which has greatly changed its orientation in an unusual way for a country of continental Europe accounting tradition. As a result of the process, Spain has introduced huge innovations in the financial reporting of all companies which have agreed to modernize in order to participate in the internationalization process that characterizes the Spanish economy, so that concepts such as the classes of financial instruments, other comprehensive income or the deferred tax accounting based on the balance sheet approach are common accepted in accounting practice. The change, which was developed in a participatory manner (White Paper), has preserved the quintessential standardization tool, which is the General Accounting Plan, while consolidating the independence of accounting and tax rules. The paper highlights some weaknesses of the Spanish accounting system, most notably the lack of flexibility for further changes, since the General Accounting Plan is conceived as a code that supports hardly any amendments, not only because of the companies’ reluctance to change, but also for the time taken for administrative processes to introduce improvements. For that reason, changes could be delayed for the foreseeable future, harming the objective of continuous approach to international standards.","PeriodicalId":240153,"journal":{"name":"SRPN: Corporate Reporting (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SRPN: Corporate Reporting (Topic)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2540833","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se reflexiona sobre la profunda reforma contable llevada a cabo entre los anos 2001 y 2010 en Espana, cuyo hito mas importante fue la promulgacion del Plan General de Contabilidad revisado en 2007. Los razonamientos se hacen desde el objetivo declarado de hacer converger la normativa espanola con las Normas Internacionales de Informacion Financiera, haciendo un balance del proceso, de las consecuciones y de los problemas que se han planteado en el sistema contable espanol, que ha cambiado fuertemente su orientacion de una manera poco usual para un pais de tradicion continental europea.Como resultado del proceso, se han introducido importantes novedades en la informacion financiera de todas las empresas, que han aceptado modernizarse como una forma de participar en el proceso de internacionalizacion que caracteriza a la economia espanola, de forma que conceptos tales como la clasificacion de los instrumentos financieros, los ajustes en otro resultado integral o la contabilidad del efecto impositivo basada en el enfoque del balance son moneda comun en la practica contable.El cambio, que se gesto de una forma participativa (Libro Blanco de la contabilidad en Espana) ha preservado el instrumento de la normalizacion por excelencia, que es el Plan General de Contabilidad, a la vez que ha consolidado la independencia coordinada de los ambitos contable y fiscal. El trabajo resalta algunas deficiencias del sistema contable espanol, entre las que destaca la poca flexibilidad para posteriores cambios, ya que el Plan General de Contabilidad se concibe como un codigo de reglas interconectadas que admite con dificultad las enmiendas, que por causa del proceso administrativo para su introduccion pueden hacer que los cambios futuros se retrasen, perjudicando el objetivo de acercamiento continuo a las normas internacionales.English Abstract: This article presents some reflections on the in-depth Spanish accounting reform carried out between the years 2001 and 2010, where the more important milestone is the promulgation of the General Accounting Plan revised in 2007. Arguments are made from the stated goal of converging the Spanish standards with International Financial Reporting Standards, making a balanced review of the process, the achievements and the problems that have arisen in the Spanish accounting system, which has greatly changed its orientation in an unusual way for a country of continental Europe accounting tradition. As a result of the process, Spain has introduced huge innovations in the financial reporting of all companies which have agreed to modernize in order to participate in the internationalization process that characterizes the Spanish economy, so that concepts such as the classes of financial instruments, other comprehensive income or the deferred tax accounting based on the balance sheet approach are common accepted in accounting practice. The change, which was developed in a participatory manner (White Paper), has preserved the quintessential standardization tool, which is the General Accounting Plan, while consolidating the independence of accounting and tax rules. The paper highlights some weaknesses of the Spanish accounting system, most notably the lack of flexibility for further changes, since the General Accounting Plan is conceived as a code that supports hardly any amendments, not only because of the companies’ reluctance to change, but also for the time taken for administrative processes to introduce improvements. For that reason, changes could be delayed for the foreseeable future, harming the objective of continuous approach to international standards.
La Reforma Contable Española de 2007:不平衡(2007年西班牙会计改革:反思)
西班牙语摘要:本文回顾了西班牙在2001年至2010年间进行的深刻的会计改革,其最重要的成就是2007年修订的会计总计划的颁布。在依据目标做出同意西班牙语的标准与国际标准进程的金融信息,做一个平衡,成绩和问题也提出了在西班牙会计系统,大力改变orientacion一个不寻常的方式为欧洲大陆传统的国家。进程的结果,但也发生了重大的所有企业的财务信息,接受了现代化进程的参与的一种形式internacionalizacion出面西班牙语的,经济概念clasificacion等全面金融工具,设置在另一个结果或影响会计要求在共同货币平衡的方法是基于会计实践。以参与式方式进行的变革(西班牙会计白皮书)保留了最优秀的标准化工具,即会计总计划,同时巩固了会计和财政领域的协调独立性。西班牙工作呈现出一些会计体系的不足,强调缺乏后变化的灵活性,因为计划被视为一个会计规定相互承认奋力代码修改,因的行政流程简介可以使未来的变化出现延迟,对目标的方法的效果与国际标准相一致。英文摘要:本文对2001年至2010年期间实施的西班牙会计改革进行了一些反思,其中最重要的里程碑是2007年修订的《总会计计划》的颁布。论点are made from the stated goal of纳米级的[标准与国际财务报告准则,making a平衡review of the process, the成效and the problems that have arisen in the[会计system, which has been changed its orientation in an不寻常greatly大陆way for a country of Europe会计tradition。因此of the process, Spain使huge innovations in the financial reporting of all companies which的modernize in order to participate in the process that characterizes升级[economy, so that the签署金融文书概念,如其他综合收入或the deferred税核算based on the http://siteresources.worldbank. org approach are common的平衡in会计惯例。以参与式方式制定的改革(白皮书)保留了基本的标准化工具,即总会计计划,同时巩固了会计和税务规则的独立性。The paper关于一些[会计系统的优缺点,most notably缺乏flexibility for further changes,由于一般会计计划是conceived as a code that supports hardly任何修正,not only因为of The companies’reluctance to change,采取的确保for The time for行政过程对改善。因此,可能会推迟到可预见的未来进行修改,从而损害继续采用国际标准的目标。