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FASB set to collide with supervisors over fair value
The Connecticut-based Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is due to propose an extension of fair value for all financial instruments, flying in the face of supervisors’ concerns about the cyclicality...
Some regulators have suggested profits based on uncertain valuations of complex products should not be allowed to flow into earnings and be distributed in the form of dividends and bonuses – a move that...
General Ledger (GL) reconciliations form a critical business control function and yet for many organisations remain a manually intensive, fragmented task. SmartStream spoke to UK-based insurers Norwich...
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The future of the financial close: automating account reconciliations...
This paper examines the problems traditionally encountered in the financial close, and uncovers the real reasons behind late filings, out-of-date management information and earnings restatements. In doing so, it addresses ways to automate one of the few...
IASB addresses concerns over own credit risk
Changes in own credit risk will no longer be included in the day-to-day accounting of liabilities as part of International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) efforts to reform accounting standards. Speaking on a live webcast on October 8, IASB director...
ALM Europe: MCEV wrong for insurers
The Market Consistent Embedded Value (MCEV) metric that many European insurers have lobbied to become a mandatory part of financial reporting is not appropriate for their business models, according to Steven Vanduffel, an actuarial mathematician from...
Asean loss database consortium put on ice
SINGAPORE - The initiative to set up a loss data consortium for operational risk data for the Asean countries has been postponed until all the individual countries have set up their own national loss databases. A survey conducted in June 2007 to determine...
Regulation and compliance
Regulators have a busy agenda over the coming year. The financial crisis has exposed various failings in risk management within banks, as well as in the supervision of financial institutions - and regulators are now looking at how best to plug the gaps....
Risk management code for hedge fund managers proposed by institute
CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity propose new risk management code
Financial directors personally liable for financial control failings...
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