A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO SOME INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING PROBLEMS

Abstract

There are many accounting problems peculiar to multinational businesses.

These problems arise in the areas of communications, different legal and tax systems, translation of different currencies, different rates of inflation across countries and other economic and environmental differences.

These accounting problems offer many challenging and rewarding research opportunities for accountants as Professor MuelIer pointed out:

International corporations are in a unique position to innovate accounting and Enancia1 reporting practices that transcend national limitations. Free of nearly alI precedents and shackles of long traditions, these corporations are in an ideal position to devise sets of accounting, auditing, and reporting standards and practices that are particu1ar1y suited to their own special circumstances and are not bound by the social, political, legal, or economic influences of anyone country.