David Cairns, Dianne Massoudi, Ross Taplin and Ann Tarca, ‘IFRS fair value measurement
and accounting policy choice in the United Kingdom and Australia’, look at the effects
of IFRS adoption on comparability for items where IFRS permits or requires fair value
measurements. The paper covers comparability within the UK, within Australia, and
between Australia and the UK. For our purposes, we will focus on comparability within the
UK. The UK sample is 114 firms and the period covered is 2005 ie, the year of mandatory
IFRS adoption.