communist countries, the lack of a well-developed and entrenched
domestic accounting system, combined with the cost of such a system's
development, and the desire to attract foreign capital (Daske et al.,
2008), may also have played a role in their being at the forefront
of IFRS implementation. Consistent with these studies, observed
deviations in the association between IFRS implementation and prior
accounting system classifications indicate that EU and EEA member
states' IFRS implementation choices are based on a complex set of
factors, not entirely captured by the drivers underlying the accounting
systems classifications of Doupnik and Salter (1993), Nobes (2008),
and Leuz (2010).