However, this stream of literature only focuses on
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public companies providing for findings which are not always consistent. For this
reason, it can be stated that the impact of IFRS adoption on financial reporting
quality is still an open issue for public companies, but it is even more so for
private firms, as, at the best of our knowledge, no empirical evidence has been
provided so far for this segment of the economy.