about 20 years ago, there emerged a dozen standards of various kinds. They could be grouped with the amount of rigor in the reporting, and costs to the company.

about 20 years ago, there emerged a dozen standards of various kinds. They could be grouped with the amount of rigor in the reporting, and costs to the company.. then the jurisdiction .. US versus International for example. It would be interesting to hear from the SEC document readers about how that worked in practice, to get to today..