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Making predictions about the future is a haphazard affair. Take the process of converging international accounting standards, which has moved at a snail's pace for at least a decade.

Our feature reveals that we are likely to see the US finally adopt IFRS before long, and with it create a universal standard. In sharp contrast, our lead article on cybercrime recognises that this form of attack has gone from being a low-level threat to one of the biggest challenges facing any organisation in just a few years.

David Rowan, editor of WIRED magazine, says that software and the internet will continue to rewrite not only business models and working patterns, but also the structure of every organisation. At a macro level, change will come in the form of developing countries bypassing the old economies. In an infographic...

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