accordance with EU-endorsed International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in an effort to increase the comparability of … financial information across EU Member States. While some expect IFRS reporting to increase the comparability of financial … information across the EU, others argue that comparability is unlikely because IFRS implementation will vary conditional on …

The reform to convert non-floating shares to floating in China provides a setting in which shares are subject to … prices. Thus, China's unique setting shows that share liquidity affects the way earnings are priced in stock …

This study examines whether application of IFRS by non-US firms results in accounting amounts comparable to those … resulting from application of US GAAP by US firms. IFRS firms have greater accounting system and value relevance comparability … with US firms when IFRS firms apply IFRS than when they applied domestic standards. Comparability is greater for firms that …

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 …

peers' accounting performance around the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find a …, consistent with greater financial reporting comparability associated with mandatory IFRS adoption. These findings cannot be … explained by changes in foreign ownership or changes in foreign operations around mandatory IFRS adoption. Furthermore, we find …