IFRS Ten Years on: Has the IASB Imposed Extensive Use of Fair Value? Has the EU Learnt to Love IFRS? And Does the Use of Fair Value make IFRS Illegal in the EU?Footnote

† This commentary paper was commissioned by the editor of this journal. Parts of this paper draw on material previously published in non-academic form by PwC and by Wiley IFRS.

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