The article explains the status of adoption of IFRSs in the major countries of the world. Study of the strategy adopted by other nations in convergence with IFRS can teach valuable lessons to ensure that convergence as envisaged in India becomes a reality as per the schedule.

Whether fair value accounting should be used in financial reporting has been the subject of debate for many years. A key dimension to this debate is whether fair value earnings can provide information to financial statement users that is helpful in making their economic decisions. A criticism of...

Unifying the economical-financial information at an international level represents today, within the context of the globalization and integration of the financial markets around the world, an important and urgent demand. One of the coordinates of accounting globalization is the fair value based...

Currently, cross-border business operations are current currency and capital markets know no territorial limits. Standardization and harmonization have imposed an uniformity of accounting terms in national and international regulations. In this context, it makes direct reference to the...