If the economy is like the engine in our previous example one would first have to review if the efforts have had a positive impact.

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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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To continue entering data beyond the last row I filled in my example, copy columns F through O from the previous row each time you add a new row.

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In this last example, control can be handled by only one device, the iPhone, but in the previous two, the user has a choice of smartphone platforms as well as browsers.

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More controversially, Mr Straw proposes that there should be greater pre-trial disclosure of defence evidence and that defendants' previous convictions should be disclosed to the jury in cases in which, for example, the defendant puts his or her character at issue.

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India possibly didn't realise they were up against a team whose batsmen were in peak and insatiable form - England batsmen had scored, for example, six double centuries in the past 14 months alone, compared to eight in the previous 21 years.

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Mr Chavez's rise in Venezuela, for example, owes much to the corruption of the traditional parties that ruled the country for the previous four decades.

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