The main purpose of company accounts is stewardship, so accounting standards based on ‘decision-usefulness for investors’ are misconceived. And making the standards compulsory ‘Instructions’ rather than voluntary ‘Suggestions’ causes problems. What are your thoughts on this in relation to International Accounting Standards 1?

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