Country Effects and Sector Effects on the Harmonization of Accounting Policy Choice
通过逻辑回归分析欧洲企业在存货、折旧和商誉会计政策上的选择，发现国家效应远大于行业效应，表明在转向IFRS前欧洲会计并未实现真正的协调化。
This study assesses the extent of accounting harmony in Europe prior to the recent switch to IFRS, by presuming that accounting is harmonized when ‘all firms operating in similar circumstances adopt the same accounting treatment for similar transactions regardless of their domicile’. The policies studied concern inventory, depreciation and goodwill, and the odds of using alternative accounting methods are predicted by logistic regression. The empirical results suggest that, while international exposure and firm size are significant factors, country effects are considerably greater than sector effects, which is inconsistent with harmonized accounting.