Accounting for Capital and Reserves, OCI and Profit Distribution

One of the discerning features of the process leading to the passing of the Directive 2013/34/EU on ‘the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and the related reports of certain types of undertakings’ (i.e. the EU-D-34/2013 from now onwards) was the attempt to balance the need for a unified set of accounting rules and principles that would homogenise accounting practices of smaller and private firms in the EU, while allowing national legislators to exert enough flexibility to adapt the national general accounting principles to the specific features of the firms and the national economy (Andrè, 2017).