With the growing internationalization of economic trade and the globalization of businesses and financial markets, financial information prepared according to a national accounting system may no longer satisfy the needs of users whose decisions are more and more international in scope. Multinational companies who were the most affected have been in the forefront in pressuring the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) as well as the national standard setter to produce a core set of international accounting standards.
Explain how multinational companies benefits from the convergence/ harmonization of accounting standards