Hunt for IASB head hits hurdle

Article reports the search for a successor to Sir David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, which sets accounting rules for most of the world outside the US, had hit difficulty in the summer of 2010 in the face of opposition in the European Commission to how the process had been conducted.

Website: IFRS Foundation http://www.ifrs.org/Home.htm

ESO: Background information: IASB kicks off search for Tweedie successor http://www.europeansources.info/record/iasb-kicks-off-search-for-tweedie-successor/

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