EUA e o IFRS

Segundo entrevista a Tim Reason, para CFO Magazine (Accounting for the World, 10/07/2008) , Zalm, do Iasb, respondeu a pergunta sobre quando os Estados Unidos iriam efetivamente adotar o IFRS: 2011 ou 2013? A resposta foi 2013, mas Zalm acredita que o ano exato pode não ser essencial. Zalm, Chairman do Iasc, também responde a crítica do New York Times (de 5 de julho de 2008), que expressa a preocupação dos investidores ficarem a mercê de reguladores estrangeiros.

I think it is absolute nonsense. The SEC is going to look at the accounts that are coming in. And remember, the countries around world aren't just going to throw away their own accounting standards if they thought we were bringing out a set of standards that aren't very good.
Interestingly enough, we have been looking at disclosures on IFRS and U.S. GAAP, just on a sample basis. Actually, you get far more disclosures under IFRS than you do under U.S. GAAP.
Já em Bernanke, Paulson Champion Global Accounting (10/07/2008 link), Alan Rappeport informa que o secretario do tesouro Henry Paulson e Ben Bernanke (do Fed) defenderam a Securities and Exchange Commission e o planos de convergência