International accounting standards : opportunities, challenges, and global convergence issues : hearing before the Subcommittee on Securities and Insurance and Investment of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, on opportunities, issues, differences, and challenges as the U.S. and international countries move towards convergence of IFRS with U.S. GAAP along with the impact of these proposed efforts on stakeholders, including regulators, investors, auditors, and companies, Wednesday, October 24, 2007.