摘要:I am delighted to introduce this 16th issue of International Accounting Policy Forum (IAPF) –the annual special issue of Accounting and Business Research. The academic papers in this issuewere commissioned by ICAEW for the 2020 ICAEW Information for Better Markets (IFBM)Conference which explored The financial reporting system: seeing the bigger picture and the2020 PD Leake lecture on The extended audit report: the art of conversation.