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This article handles the financial accounting harmonisation pressures in Europe and how a developed country Finland, with its own accounting culture and accruals model, is prone to keep its own model rather than to be compelled to adopt a less relevant model from outside.

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It is an important case that shows how the national accounting models that satisfy users' needs should be treated from the standpoint of subsidiarity principle inside the EU.

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This page is a summary of: Governmental Financial Accounting and European Harmonisation: Case Study of Finland, Accounting Economics and Law - A Convivium, January 2014, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ael-2014-0006.
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