Watchdog set to open mark-to-market probes
SEC to begin roundtables examining mark-to-market accounting and whether it remains useful
SEC to begin roundtables examining mark-to-market accounting and whether it remains useful
A series of roundtables investigating the role of mark-to-market accounting
in the credit crisis will begin tomorrow with Tom Jones, the British vice
chairman of the international accounting standard setter, due to support its
use.
Jones is listed to take part in a series of roundtables organised by US
financial watchdog,
the
SEC, in Washington. Among the participants will be accountants, including
Russell Wieman, an audit partner with Grant Thornton, and Vincent Colman of
PricewaterhouseCoopers, alongside investment bankers, insurers and academics.
Mark-to-market, or fair value, accounting has proved highly controversial
during the credit crisis with many in politics, business and the media calling
for its suspension after blaming it for causing the damage to balance sheets.
The roundtables are charged with examining whether mark-to-market remains
useful to investors and regulators, whether it changes the behaviour of key
players in the markets and whether it can be improved.
Jones is reported by
CFO.com
today as saying at a conference sponsored by the New York Society of Security
Analysts last week that mark-to-market was ‘lousy’ but the best of what was
available.
‘It is a lousy system, but it is less lousy than any other system… and I
don’t find that the people who criticise fair value have very good ideas for an
alternative,’ Jones is reported as saying.
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