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Jul 16, 2009

IASB sticks to its fair value guns

Accounting standards | auditors | banking | financial instruments | financial regulation

LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) –David Tweedie, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, has responded to demands that he revise the controversial standard on financial instruments by strengthening controversial “mark to market” accounting. He should be careful he does not derail progress towards global accounting standards in the process.

The existing standard, IAS39, allows banks and insurers to classify financial instruments and measure impairment in many ways. Tweedie wants just two measurement bases – amortised cost and fair value -  and one impairment method for amortised cost.
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      "Margaret Doyle is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist, based in London. She writes about investment banking. She has been a journalist for over 14 years. She has written for The Daily Telegraph and The Economist and presented various radio programmes for the BBC. She began her career as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. She has an economics degree from Trinity College, Dublin and an MBA from Harvard Business School, which she attended as a Fulbright scholar. She is a Conservative Member of Westminster City Council."

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