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Commentary. Current State and Future Challenges of the IFRS: Some Thoughts

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My first words are to congratulate and thank Roberto, Stuart, and Joshua for bringing this most interesting and timely book on Accounting Regulation into the public domain.

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  1. Universitat de València. Facultat d’Economia. Dpt. de Comptabilitat, Valencia, Spain

    Begoña Giner

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  1. Department of Business and Law, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Roberto Di Pietra

  2. The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Stuart McLeay

  3. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, USA

    Joshua Ronen

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Giner, B. (2014). Commentary. Current State and Future Challenges of the IFRS: Some Thoughts. In: Di Pietra, R., McLeay, S., Ronen, J. (eds) Accounting and Regulation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8097-6_16

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