The current study expands on Nobes (2008) conjecture by relating a
classification, developed here, which captures EU and EEA member
countries' overall implementation of IFRS, to three traditional accounting
taxonomies. In addition to Nobes (1998, 2008) taxonomy of strong
and weak equity countries, this paper also examines the classification
of accounting systems into macro-uniform and micro-based systems
(Doupnik & Salter, 1993; Nobes, 1983) and the three-cluster categorization
put forward by Leuz et al. (2003) and Leuz (2010).