If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has approved a new set of rules allowing financial firms to fiddle with how big their real-estate losses are.
The change is in mark-to-market accounting rules, which say companies must value assets at prices [...]
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