The economic-accounting impact of the members withdrawal in cooperative society: the impact of IAS 32

  • Juana Isabel Genovart Balaguer Universidad de las Islas Baleares
  • Emilio Mauleón Méndez Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Keywords: social entity, cooperatives, cooperative accounting, social capital, partner’s withdrawal

Abstract

The share capital of cooperatives has different characteristics to the share capital of other commercial entities. This is due to the principle of voluntary and open membership. These peculiarities make the cooperative capital have a special accounting treatment. According to international accounting standards, cooperative capital can be considered as a financial liability or a capital resource, depending on the legal or statutory regulation of the partner’s right of withdrawal. This approach has also been applied to the accounting law of the European Union and Spain, affecting many European cooperatives, affecting their financial image. In this paper, we analyze the accounting peculiarities that take place when a partner leaves the cooperative, according to the international accounting regulations, national accounting regulations and the last positions of the regulatory organisms

Received: 12 June 2017
Accepted: 14 October 2017
Published online: 22 December 2017

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Author Biographies

Juana Isabel Genovart Balaguer, Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Profesor del Departamento de Economía de la Empresa de la Universitat de les Illes Balears
Emilio Mauleón Méndez, Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Profesor del Departamento de Economía de la Empresa de la Universitat de les Illes Balears
Published
2017-12-22
How to Cite
Genovart Balaguer, Juana Isabel, and Emilio Mauleón Méndez. 2017. “The Economic-Accounting Impact of the Members Withdrawal in Cooperative Society: The Impact of IAS 32”. International Association of Cooperative Law Journal, no. 51 (December), 99-134. https://doi.org/10.18543/baidc-51-2017pp99-134.