Erlend Kvaal and Christopher Nobes, ‘IFRS policy changes and the continuation of national patterns of IFRS practice’, look at the 2008 accounts of the companies examined in Kvaal and Nobes (2010) (Panel 4.18). Because of takeovers etc, the sample is now reduced to 210 (v 232 in the earlier study). The authors find that the national patterns of IFRS they previously identified have persisted, but that French and Spanish companies made more policy changes between 2005 and 2008 than companies from the other countries in the sample, and that these were ‘nearly all … away from previous national requirements’. Again the inclusion of Australian companies does not affect the overall conclusions.