Public interest entities in the context of accounting and auditing legislation in the wake of the globalization process

Abstract

Public interest entities are understood to be accounting units that are governed by the accounting legislation as well as auditing legislation. Both regulations, however, define differently the public interest entities. Part of the public interest entities are treated equally in both legislations and are considered to be public interest entities and some of them do not. this is different depending on the specific legal regulation. While accounting and auditing are separate areas of research, there is a link between them and auditing is significantly dependent on accounting because its role is to examine and analyze the accounting of a particular entity. Due to their interconnection as well as to the area of investigation itself, it would be appropriate for both legislation to treat the same group of entities as public interest entities as the individual regulations have specific requirements for this group of entities, which are public interest entities. Our aim is to clarify and present the issues in question in terms of accounting and auditing with emphasis to express its own conclusions. In order to fulfill our stated goal, we apply a method of comparison, analysis, deduction, through which we present the definitions of public interest entities in terms of accounting and auditing legislation, compare and analyze them. Finally, we formulate our own view of which entities should be considered public interest entities.