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The Global Accounting Experiment. Bruegel blueprint series, Volume 2, April 2007

Veron, Nicolas. (2007) The Global Accounting Experiment. Bruegel blueprint series, Volume 2, April 2007. [Policy Paper]

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    [From the introduction]. This work starts with a brief summary of the historical developments which led to what we call the Global Accounting Experiment, ie the endorsement of IFRS (or of standards modeled almost entirely on IFRS) in a growing number of jurisdictions, thus conferring de facto international policymaking power on the entity that sets them, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). The question of why countries have been willing to abandon this power is the focus of the following section. We then turn to other questions of a more forward-looking nature. Can the IASB build legitimacy on a global scale? Can it avoid capture by specific national or sectoral interests? Can its global standards be effectively enforced in individual countries? Ultimately, how can the experiment succeed?

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    Item Type: Policy Paper
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Company law; Global Accounting Experiment; International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > Single Market > capital, goods, services, workers
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > general
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > business/private economic activity
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Bruegel (Brussels) > Blueprint Series
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 13 Jun 2008
    Number of Pages: 86
    Last Modified: 30 Jan 2018 12:37
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8354

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