2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Fair-Value Accounting and Balance-Sheet Myopia
Author : R. A. Rayman
Published in: Toxic Economic Theory, Fraudulent Accounting Standards, and the Bankruptcy of Economic Policy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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When the “
conceptual framework project
” was launched, one of the most valuable assurances given by the US Financial Accounting Standards Board was that there were to be no preconceptions:
This Statement contains no conclusions about matters such as the identity, number, or form of financial statements … [and] should not be interpreted as implying a particular set of financial statements.
[FASB (1978) p.2]