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The subject of the chapter is convergence, that is, the process by which the rules that are set at the national level become increasingly similar — they all converge onto a common model.

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Flower, J. (2004). Convergence. In: European Financial Reporting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230628106_8

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