IFRS,
or International Financial Reporting Standards, is quickly becoming
the global standard for business financial reporting. It is up for
constant debate in the United States as to whether businesses should
adopt IFRS or stick with the US standard of GAAP. IFRS has fewer
rules than GAAP and is less structured, though it is at least as
effective if not more so. The major benefit is that it is global,
meaning that it allows for a connection between international
businesses that the GAAP does not. For many people change is a scary
thing...