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 …

The mandatory adoption of IFRS by many countries worldwide fuels the expectation that financial accounting information … of mandatory IFRS adoption on the comparability of financial accounting information around the world. Using two … comparability proxies based on De Franco et al. [2011], our results suggest that the overall comparability effect of mandatory IFRS …