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Original Articles

Reglas versus Principios contables, ¿son modelos incompatibles?

Rules versus Accounting Principles, are they really incompatible models?

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Pages 259-287 | Received 10 Feb 2009, Accepted 30 Mar 2010, Published online: 15 Jan 2014
 

RESUMEN

La elección del tipo de regulación contable (un modelo basado en principios u objetivos frente a un modelo basado en reglas) es una de las cuestiones de mayor interés que se plantea en el proceso de armonización contable internacional, debido a que el Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) presenta un modelo basado en reglas mientras que el del Internacional Accounting Standards Board (IASB) se basa en principios.

La evidencia empírica obtenida en este trabajo pone de manifiesto que la regulación concreta (es decir, basada en reglas) mejora la consistencia lógica y la homogeneidad de las decisiones referentes a la interpretación de las lagunas normativas, teniendo una influencia menor en el apoyo a la realización de estimaciones. Entre las razones que impulsan la preferencia por una actitud basada en principios o reglas se encuentra la bùsqueda de la seguridad jurídica.

ABSTRACT

The election of the accounting regulation model (a principle-based model or an objective-based instead of a rules-based model) is one of the issues that is tackled in the international accounting harmmonization process because FASB's model is rule-based but IASB's model is principle-based. Empirical evidence from this paper shows that a concrete accounting regulation improves the logical consistency and fills up the lacks of regulation, having a lower influence for supporting the estimations. Between the reasons for supporting a principle-based or a rule-based attitude we find the search for legal certainty.

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