As efforts to adopt the euro as a common European currency progress, government and private standards setters have not been idle. They have been moving to "harmonize" global accounting standards. What has been happening? And where do U.S. standards setters stand? s efforts to adopt the euro as the c
Update: The move toward international accounting standards
โ Scribed by Robert W. Rouse
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 285 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1044-8136
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โฆ Synopsis
Abstract
Past efforts to internationalize accounting have failed. But there is still a strong move to โharmonizeโ accounting standards, so U.S. CFOs had better pay attention. The author summarizes recent developments.
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