The Fair Value Model for the Measurement of Biological Assets and Agricultural Produce in the Czech Republic

Measurement as value determination is very important in the field of property and financial sources reporting. The choice of measurement base influences all accounting information necessary for making decisions by investors, creditors, suppliers, employees and other subjects in order to realize their plans. The paper aims, firstly, to characterize the processes of evaluation of biological assets and agricultural produce in accordance with International Accounting Standard (IAS) 41 in its current wording; secondly, to present the results of research conducted within the project SGS 2013-040 titled "A paradigm of development in the 21st century and its influence on the behaviour of economic agents", and, finally, to compare the findings with the solutions contained in Exposure Draft ED/2013/8 Agriculture: Bearer Plants (Proposed Amendments to IAS 16 and IAS 41), which was published by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for comments to be received by 28th October 2013. In the paper the results of the research, conducted through a questionnaire survey on a sample of 104 agricultural enterprises, will be compared with the IASB's proposed solutions. The purpose of this paper is to verify the hypothesis that can be formulated as follows: The opinions of most respondents, participating in the questionnaire survey are rather restrained as for the use of value measurement of biological assets and agricultural produce and therefore are not inconsistent with a solution adopted in the aforementioned Exposure Draft. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V.