It will come as little surprise that over the last decade there has been a convergence of international codes to mirror the needs of companies which are increasingly operating across boundaries, and in many different corporate formations. The accounting bodies developed International Financial Reporting Standards (FRSs), and an examination of some of the International corporate governance guidelines suggests a similar trend. Eastern European countries which previously conformed to Soviet accounting rules, first established their own ‘Accounting Acts' but as time passes so the influence of IFRSs grows, and homogenization of corporate governance rules seems also to be the trend. However, insofar as it is expected that companies will observe the somewhat prescriptive nature of the IFRSs; all corporate governance codes are explicitly ‘guidelines’. Indeed, in the preamble to the OECD Principles of the Corporate Governance, it states: