Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the European Union (EU) and provides suggestions on how future research can add to our … between intended and unintended consequences of mandatory IFRS adoption. Empirical research on the intended consequences … to address it. The literature investigating unintended consequences of mandatory IFRS adoption is still in its infancy …

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 …