Chairman Sir David Tweedie expressed
dissatisfaction with the standards dealing with financial instruments that had been
inherited from the predecessor IASC (Street 2002). Since then, the IASB has issued 24
documents for public comment in an aim to improve IAS 32 and IAS 39 as well as
create two new standards, IFRS 7 and IFRS 9, which, when completed, are intended to
replace IAS 32 and IAS 39. The increased transparency and new standard setting
procedures, as well as the recommitment to develop better standards for dealing with
financial instruments, make the founding year of the IASB, 2001, an ideal starting
point for the analysis. The first document was issued in 2002 and as a consequence,
the time period spans from 2002 until the time of data collection, November 2012. In
this time, 92 jurisdictions have adopted IFRS as the required standards for all
domestic listed companies and a further 36 jurisdictions permit or require the use of
IFRS for some companies (Deloitte IAS Plus 2014). The selected time period
therefore represents a time of heightened importance of IFRS which is likely to induce
visible lobbying efforts and enable empirical analysis of constituent influence.