... Guide to International Financial Reporting Standards September 2009OverviewIn an increasingly interconnected global economy, many market participants are considering the ... decades, the standards of US GAAP and associated guid-ance have grown to many thousands of pages. By contrast, IFRS is substantially shorter in length. The principles-based nature of IFRS standards ... global “language” for financial reporting. The proponents of this idea argue that a uniform set of global accounting standards, supported by strong gov-ernance, independent standard-setting and a...