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The Future of Fair Value Accounting and Mark to Market (FASB 157)

November 19, 2008

Analysis of:Could Bank Rules Break The Fair Value Debate | www.cfo.com

Banks and financial institutions blame FASB 157 for their problems by claiming that writing down unperforming assets requires them to sell depressed assets in order to maintaing their reserve requirements. To see if this is true, we need to go back to Ken Lay and Enron during their last days.

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