2.1.4 IFRS and Timely Financial Reporting:
Accounting is the language of business while financial reporting is the medium through which the language is
communicated. According to Onyekwelu(2010), accounting information must be timely for it to serve its
purpose. According to her a belated accounting information does not only delay the information needed for
decision making but only wastes scarce resources. Again, since IFRS forestalls the information asymmetry
between regional financial reports, more time will be gained as the convergence would have saved the time
usually spent reconciling these financial reports.