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QUESTION: Compare and contrast the approach of the US and UK financial regulatory bodies and comment upon the major issues and events which have shaped the regulatory environments of both countries over the last twenty years. ********************************************************************* Introduction This paper aims at comparing and contrasting the UK/US financial regulatory bodies in the financial accounting standard issue and application aspect. Recently we found the obvious tendency of global accounting standard convergence and this has the significant influence on both of UK and US financial regulatory environments. This convergence is also called accounting harmonisation which aims at developing a single set of high quality, global acceptance accounting standards that require transparent and comparable information in general purpose financial statements. (Nobes & Parker, 2002, pp93) In order to achieve that goal, both of UK and US move toward the International Accounting Standards at present. This paper will outline the major structure of financial regulatory systems in...

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