In response to the anticipated critique of financial reporting in the wake of the stock
market crash in 1987, IOSCO and the IASC agreed that the IASC should undertake a
comparability project of international accounting standards (Godfrey and LangfieldSmith
2005). As a result of the project, the IASC issued set of ten standards in 1993
which had removed some of the available alternatives that had been available under
the old standards. However, IOSCO did not consider the ten standards to be complete
enough to be endorsed to their member countries. A particular shortcoming was the
lack of standards to deal with financial instruments (Camfferman and Zeff 2007, p.
10)