Brussels, 15/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - No agreement is in sight within the European Union concerning IAS 39 (International Accounting Standard) for evaluating financial instruments in corporate accounting. The standard, defined by the body under private law, IASB (International Accounting Standards Board), should in principle apply at the same time as a series of international standards already approved, to the 7,000 companies quoted on European stock markets as of January 2005.
During the...