The paper sets out to analyse the effects of the financial crisis on the international standard-setter in 2008 and the attempts made to shoot the messenger -- to blame IAS 39 for creating the crisis for reporting unrealised losses, rather than the cause being bankers making bad investment...

The paper sets out to analyse the effects of the financial crisis on the international standard-setter in 2008 and the attempts made to shoot the messenger - to blame IAS 39 for creating the crisis for reporting unrealised losses, rather than the cause being bankers making bad investment...

""A comprehensive and invaluable guide to IFRS which users will find indispensable in correctly applying the complex and onerous requirements of IFRS and IAS." Steve Collings, FMAAT, FCCA, Leavitt Walmsley Associates and author of Interpretation and Application of International Standards on...

"This practical text on financial accounting and reporting offers a global perspective on IFRS. It presents the rationale and principles prescribed throughout the IAS/IFRS, including numerous examples from large international companies, and develops fundamental skills necessary to read and use...

When the sources of external capital for Continental European firms are examined, debt has historically supplied a much larger percentage of the external capital than equity markets. Moreover, firms in Continental Europe often rely more on bank debt than bonds for their external funds. The...