In 1991, the FASB issued a plan to make financial statements more useful to investors and creditors by increasing the international comparability of financial information. Subsequently, the FASB undertook a project on the calculation and presentation of EPS information. The International Accounting Standards Committee had begun a similar project in 1989. Both projects were undertaken in response to the criticisms leveled at the complexity and arbitrariness of EPS calculations as described above. While the two bodies agreed to cooperate with each other in sharing information, each issued separate but similar statements: IAS NO.33 and SFAS NO.128 (see FASB ASC 260).