In this paper, we evaluate the common assertion that EU firms began using IFRS by 2005 when the EU formally adopted … IFRS. We find that although the incidence of firms using local (or some other) GAAP has declined between 2005 and 2009, it … is still nontrivial. For instance, by 2009 the incidence of non-IFRS financial statements was still in excess of 17% (42 …