Wait not for another crisis: Weighing in on the fair value accounting debate

Authors

Knowledge@SMU

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

10-2010

Abstract

The use of fair value accounting – simply defined as the booking of numbers based on current market value – has been named as a catalyst in worsening the recent financial crisis. Emerging from the rubble, accounting regulators, like the IASB and FASB, together with industry players, are now trying to work out rules and standards. However, the question of to “fair” or not to “fair” is the subject of a hot debate. Columbia University’s Stephen Penman weighs in at a recent SMU lecture.

Disciplines

Accounting | Business | Finance and Financial Management

Copyright Owner and Holder

Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012

Licece/Creative Commons Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Article ID

1316

Subject(s)

Finance and Accounting

Citation

Knowledge@SMU. Wait not for another crisis: Weighing in on the fair value accounting debate. (2010).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/83