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Do IFRS standards signal the end of the ROCE?

Financial analysts are – or should be – amongst the most assiduous readers of the consolidated accounts published by listed companies, quite simply because this reading is one of the key components of their profession. By neglecting to do so at the height of the stock-market frenzy in 1999-2000, several star analysts had their fingers burnt and tarnished the credibility of an entire profession.