SEJARAH AKUNTANSI DI NEGARA ASIA, BARAT DAN ISLAM DAN AKUNTANSI LEMBAGA KEUANGAN SYARIAH

Abstract

This research has objectives to investigate political, social, economic and cultural factors in accounting development in Western, Asian and Islamic countries as well as to study the impact to Islamic financial institutions. Using Interactive Analysis as the research method, this paper focuses on Indonesia, Britain and Saudi Arabia, as the countries of analysis due to their signifiant growth in Islamic finance. The analysis shows that accounting development in all countries under study is influenced by several factors such as history, politics and culture. These factors also lead the countries’ policies how to develop shariah based accounting