The adoption of IFRS by many countries worldwide fuels the expectation that financial accounting might become more … shaping accounting information. We provide early evidence on this debate by investigating the effects of mandatory IFRS … adoption of IFRS increases the comparability of some prominent balance sheet line items across countries, it has no clear …

peers' accounting performance around the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find a …, consistent with greater financial reporting comparability associated with mandatory IFRS adoption. These findings cannot be … explained by changes in foreign ownership or changes in foreign operations around mandatory IFRS adoption. Furthermore, we find …

Mit ED/2010/9 "Leases" wird die Leasingbilanzierung im IFRS-Abschluss auf eine neue Basis gestellt. Während der …