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NEW YORK, April 22 /PRNewswire/ — KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, today announced the establishment of the KPMG IFRS Institute to raise awareness and address the information needs of companies, investors, academics and others who may be affected by a transition by U.S. companies to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

“As companies expand their reach and economies globalize, the ability to compare financial statements across borders has become imperative. The question about whether the world is going to global standards is no longer ‘if,’ but ‘when,’” said Timothy P. Flynn, KPMG LLP chairman and CEO.

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Audit firms and multinationals have been pressuring the SEC to keep the global-standards movement on the fast track ever since the end of 2007, when the agency began allowing foreign companies to submit their IFRS-prepared filings without reconciling them to GAAP. That effectively blessed IFRS as high-quality, notes Margaret Smyth, vice president and controller of United Technologies Corp., some of whose international subsidiaries use the global standards. “If it’s good enough for the SEC, I would think it’s good enough for most people,” she says.

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