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Fiscal Systems for Hydrocarbons: Design Issues

Abstract: Although host governments and the investors may share one common objective-the desire for the project to generate high levels of revenue-their other goals are not entirely aligned. Host governments aim to maximize the rent for their country over time, while achieving other development and socioeconomic objectives. Investors' aim is to ensure that the return on investment is consistent with the risk associated with the project, and with their corporations' strategic objectives. To reconcile these often conflicting objectives, more and more countries rely on transparent institutional arrangements and flexible, neutral fiscal regimes. This paper examines the key elements of the legal and fiscal frameworks utilized in the petroleum sector and aims to outline desirable features that should be considered in the design of fiscal policy with the objective of optimizing the host government's benefits, taking into account the effect that this would have on the private sector's investment. Chapters 2 and 3 provide background material on, respectively, the stages of an oil and gas project and the type of legal arrangements normally used in the petroleum sector. The relative advantages and disadvantages of the tax and non-tax instruments used in petroleum fiscal regimes are discussed in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 outlines the features of successful fiscal regimes, while system measures and economic indicators are described in Chapter 6. Finally, in Chapter 7, a sensitivity analysis is used to illustrate some typical fiscal systems' design issues.

Important stages in the development of Romanian accounting profession (from 1800 up to now)

Abstract: The knowledge of history helps to understand the present and to predict the future. Appling this statement to accounting profession, our intention is to contribute at the knowledge of the Romanian accounting profession history using documentary research and historiography research. About the Romanian accounting profession history there is a lack of papers concerning the key moments of the accounting profession in the socio-economic and political context of our country. This paper introduces some significant developments in the history of the Romanian accounting profession. Four developmental periods since 1850 are identified: 1850- 1900, a period that may be characterized by the adoption of the best European accounting practices, 1900-1950 when the accounting profession was really involved in economic life increasing value to the development of the economic academic life and to members, 1950-1990 the “adoption” of a soviet accounting model, accounting period that destroyed the accounting spirit and profession, 1990-nowdays, Romania began to improve its accounting system by implementing the French accounting model, in the first stage of development, continuing these days with the accounting system’s convergence with IFRS. The role played by the accounting profession in the last decades is crucial due to its motivation, the wishes to implement “the best” accounting system ever and not least in its day to day activity, developed in the interest of its members.