Fair Value Accounting

Mark-To-Market Won't Help Bank Stocks: Goldman Sachs

bloomberg.com | Rita Nazareth | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business


April 3 (Bloomberg) -- The relaxation of fair-value accounting rules won't prevent bank shares from falling because growth in bad loans is acceleratin...

Fair Value Accounting Is Back -- Was It Here All Along?

Jeremy Newman | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business


Jeremy Newman

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Social Democrat candidate to be the next German Chancellor, has a new take on Fair Value Accounting. He criticized it and said it had encouraged risk taking.