This paper discusses the effects of the adoption of IAS/IFRS in Europe on the quality of financial reporting. In doing … financial reporting and leads to convergence in financial reporting. This is a key issue for standard setting purposes as IAS …

This commentary reviews the status of the global use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), including … in the US, and offers thoughts on prospects for global financial reporting. Many countries require or permit the use of … IFRS, but the goal of truly global, high quality financial reporting has not yet been achieved. Variation in application …

The public CbCR requirement for EU financial institutions leaves leeway to the reporting firms as regards the … analyze the reporting behavior and the degree of transparency across the reports. We observe a large heterogeneity with … reporting inhibit the interpretability and the comparability of the data. We conclude that the specification of the underlying …

reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral …