This came in yesterday Dear Sirs, We are plaesed to inform you that we have created the very first italian web site dedicated to IAS. You can visit it at the following url: http://www.iasitalia.it Our goal is to promote the IAS culture and become a focal reference point in Italy for the e-ias community, sending out a free newsletter in italian about the latest IAS events. That's why we would love to directly collaborate with you and exchange news and links in our websites. We hope that you'll agree with our initiative. We send you our best whishes. the staff of iasitalia.it email: redazione@iasitalia.it So I took a look and there's some news about Switzerland, Ireland, Europe, the UK ... here's what it said about the UK: La Gran Bretagna estende l'utilizzo degli IFRS Dal gennaio 2005 tutte le imprese, quotate e non, del Regno Unito potranno applicare gli IFRS sia ai bilanci consolidati che a quelli individuali I clicked on the link anyway and was told La pagina richiesta è riservata ai visitatori registrati. With me so far? Don't worry Registrati ora: è gratis! If anyone goes there and finds the English language button, let me know! Otherwise, I genuinely wish them well as 2005 looms large and I know that the majority of British accountants aren't ready for it ... maybe don't even know that they really need to be ready for start up in 2004 so that they can begin reporting in 2005. DW