IFRS IAS- International Financial Reporting Standards and International Accounting Standards.

Mazars has recognized the significant issues that companies will need to plan for in advance of the 2005 deadline for adopting International Accounting Standards IFRS IAS by issuing an IAS Project Management Guide. The Guide seeks to introduce IAS project management issues that will be of direct relevance to affected companies.

For many companies, IFRS IAS will mean fundamental changes - changes that can ripple right across their business operations from investor relations to everyday procedures, changes that can affect the viability of some products and even the reported profitability of the business itself.