In the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, where I focus a good deal of my professional (and personal) time, IDC recently conducted an SMB Cloud Adoption Study to investigate how cloud computing will impact small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the next three years.

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And a forthcoming ACCA study of IFRS adoption in China finds that companies with the greatest demand for external capital experienced the most increase in the value relevance of their reported earnings.

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The report also compares the U.S. perspective with that of other countries that have adopted or are in the process of adopting IFRS. For example, a previous ACCA study of IFRS adoption in Europe found that the benefits of adoption were greatest in countries with high institutional quality and where stock markets are more important to finance than bond markets or banking.

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Trust is the most critical issue facing the adoption of e-government, the study found.

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But one recent study shows that a majority of adoption agencies in the U.S. now accepts applications from gays.

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Cloud-based productivity suites have the lowest adoption rate among the three applications reviewed in this study.

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In fact, a June 2011 Unisys study conducted by IDC found that while mobile adoption is accelerating in the workplace, IT organizations are failing to prepare their organizations.

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