“…Generally speaking, the adoption of the IFRS is a clear indication of a policy of convergence, considered by most economic actors to be an inevitable development in 85 the area of financial accounting and reporting as practiced by the IASB and the FASB. 2 Because of the scope of the changes required by moving to the IFRS, numerous studies have examined their impacts on the economic and financial performance of listed companies, the compliance of financial reporting with IFRS, the quality of the accounting information published in IFRS format, and the process of convergence between the international and national standards (Bertoni and De Rosa, 2006;Callao et al, 2007;Bischof, 2009). A number of studies have also addressed the impacts of the new accounting system on the actions of local and international regulators (Shipper, 2005;Whittington, 2005), and tested the effects of the voluntary adoption of IFRS standards (Cuijpers and Buijink, 2005;Dumontier and Magrahoui, 2006).…”