SEC proposes international accounting plan (AP via Yahoo! News)
Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed a plan to allow public companies to begin using international accounting standards for reporting financial results in two years, and may require them to do so starting in 2014.

U.S. Moves Toward International Accounting Rules (New York Times)
The S.E.C. moved to require all American companies to use international accounting standards by 2016.

U.S. Moves to Adopt International Accounting Rules (New York Times)
The Securities and Exchange Commission moved Wednesday to require all American companies to use international accounting standards by 2016.

U.S. Moves Toward International Accounting Rules (New York Times)
The Securities and Exchange Commission moved Wednesday to allow some large American companies to begin using international accounting standards as early as next year, and to require all American companies to do so by 2016.

SEC May Let Companies Abandon U.S. Accounting Rules (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission may let large U.S. companies switch to international accounting rules in six years, a step it says will lower compliance costs and make American firms more competitive.

SEC paves way for switch to international accounting system (Los Angeles Times)
The change, which could become mandatory, is favored by large Wall Street firms but faces opposition among lawmakers. Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed a plan to allow public companies to begin using international accounting standards for reporting financial results in two years, and may require them to do so starting in 2014.

SEC proposes transiton to international accounting rules (Market Watch)
Regulators are moving to require U.S. companies to switch to international accounting rules, starting in 2014, and permit others to make the switch even sooner.

SEC Starts Process to Let Companies Drop U.S. Accounting Rules (Bloomberg.com)
Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission may force some U.S. companies to switch to international accounting rules in six years, a step it says will lower compliance costs and make American firms more competitive.

SEC May Allow Firms To Use International Accounting Rules (The New York Sun)
The Securities and Exchange Commission may let large American companies switch to international accounting rules in six years, a step it says will lower compliance costs and make American firms more competitive. SEC commissioners yesterday approved a "road map" that might allow corporations with market values exceeding $700 million to abandon American accounting standards by 2014. Under the ...

U.S. firms may use new accounting standards (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Federal regulators on Wednesday proposed a plan to allow public companies to begin using international accounting standards for reporting financial results in two years, and may require them to do so starting in 2014. The five members of the Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously at a public meeting to propose a timetable for the switch to international financial reporting ...