Research Paper on:
Pricing Issues and Northern Ireland

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at Maastricht in 1992 was a borderless Europe so that economic extremes could be evened out without losing value to regulatory differences and currency conversion expenses and inefficiencies. As  intended to operate, goods produced in one member nation could enter and be sold in another member nation without undue regulatory intervention or currency conversion.  The concept is a great one, but pricing still remains problematic. International pricing grows in complexity as European nations look beyond EU member and non-member countries to  other areas of the world. Northern Ireland remains outside the monetary union; its companies have additional considerations in pricing and trade. Efforts to Standardize Activities  Protocols are subject to daydreams of international standardization, particularly those attached to financial reporting convention. Uniform pricing across all markets can result in sales information  that can be compared directly. If prices are not consistent across all regions, then neither is data based on sales revenue consistent, either.  Of course the US has been promoting American reporting convention throughout the developed and developing world, and those efforts had been gaining momentum over the past several years.  Two companies - Enron and Andersen Consulting - have damaged that movement perhaps irreparably. The Enron scandal is too new to have made its way to accounting and auditing  journals yet, but one Business Week article surmises that the "chummy" relationship between Andersen and Enron is at least partly to blame and serves as a wake-up call to other  auditing firms (Can Andersen Survive?, 2002). The denouement of this scandal likely will further affect the SECs determination to protect investors interests and give additional impetus to the international