IASB chief pleads for global rules

Report of comments by Sir David Tweedie, head of the International Accounting Standards Board to a European Parliament committee, Brussels, 28 September 2009.

ESO: Background information: Why the issue of convergence should remain on backburner http://www.europeansources.info/record/why-the-issue-of-convergence-should-remain-on-backburner/

Website: International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) http://www.iasb.org/Home.htm

IASB: Press Release, 28.9.09: Statement of IASB Chairman Sir David Tweedie to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committe, 28 September 2009 http://www.iasb.org/News/Announcements+and+Speeches/Statement+of+IASB+Chairman+Sir+David+Tweedie+to+the+Economic+and+Monetary+Affairs+Committe.htm

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