Accounting professionals are accustomed to complying with accounting standards. Generally accepted accounting standards set the guidelines for reporting financial transactions in the United States.

THERE IS A CLEAR TREND toward adopting IFRS as the single body of internationally accepted financial reporting standards. In the next few years, thousands of companies will move to IFRS as a primary ...

The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation has published a set of near-final examples showing how companies can improve the reporting of uncertainties in their financial statements ...

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Brochet, Francois, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl. "Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability." Contemporary Accounting Research 30, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 1373–1400.

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 53, No. 5 (DECEMBER 2015), pp. 915-963 (49 pages) We outline several properties of IFRS that potentially affect the contractibility or the transparency of ...