Erlend Kvaal and Christopher Nobes, ‘International differences in IFRS policy choice: a research note’, look at the accounting policy choices and other practices of companies on 16 issues where IFRS allows a choice. The sample comprises 232 companies from five countries: Australia, France, Germany, Spain and the UK. The authors look at their 2005 accounts, the first year of mandatory IFRS adoption. The authors find ‘different national versions of IFRS practice’ and ‘show that companies not only have an opportunity to pursue pre-IFRS practices originating in their national GAAP, but also extensively use this opportunity’. The inclusion of Australian companies does not affect the overall findings.