Today five firms divide the world accounting market between them.
Yes, GM is making sales and accounting for market share, but only at the expense of the other automakers.
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If you think the new accounting rules for mark-to-market accounting caused havoc on bank balance sheets and accelerated the crisis, then this would have been far worse.
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However, that may not be the case if 200 or 2, 000 banks fail because most held mortgage-backed-securities they thought were safe because of their AAA ratings and because the strict application of mark to market accounting for those securities in a frozen market wiped out their capital on a massive scale.
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It conspired with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to implement mark to market accounting despite objections from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve and the Treasury, which said it was wrongheaded and would lead to severe credit contractions.
More controversially, the government plans to suspend mark-to-market accounting rules, which force banks to value their holdings at market prices.
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Cox has the authority to override the Financial Accounting Standards Board's insane insistence on mark-to-market accounting rules, but he has done nothing.
Congressional pressure eventually caused FASB (the Financial Accounting Standards Board) to relax slightly their rules on mark to market accounting as applied to banks.
Moore says that strict mark-to-market accounting tends to make balance sheets look overly rosy in good times, when the market overvalues things.
That laggard performance in a market accounting for 60% of Dell's sales led the Round Rock, Texas, company's worldwide market share to decline for the first time in years, to 8.3% from 9.1%.
That laggard performance in a market accounting for 60% of Dell's sales led the Round Rock, Tex. company's worldwide market share to decline for the first time in years, to 8.3% from 9.1%.
The Financial Accounting Standards board labored mightily to modify one of the most destructive principles of modern times: mark-to-market accounting.
Roper says mark-to-market accounting makes it possible for investors to trust what companies report about themselves.
In an odd twist, the current regulation doesn't require mark-to-market accounting in every situation.
With the market value plummeting, he argued, mark-to-market accounting turned AIG's balance sheet into a nightmare.
Under mark to market accounting rules these losses will have to be taken immediately.
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It's now, in fact, under a degree of attack because of the complaints about mark-to-market accounting.
They blame a bookkeeping rule known as mark-to-market accounting a rule that regulators may soon change.
Rigid mark-to-market accounting is similar to a highway that has a speed limit and a speed minimum.
Paulson recognized that under the universal mark-to-market accounting rules, banks and other mortgage providers could not make any new mortgages.
That plus market-to-market accounting, no short uptick rule, and no ban on naked short-selling, led to the avalanche.
Mark-to-market accounting should be prohibited just as it was from 1938 to 2007.
They don't like mark-to-market accounting, which has forced billions of dollars in write-downs.
They do not have the safety-valve of banking books, where souring assets can escape the rigours of mark-to-market accounting.
In March 2009 the House of Representatives made clear its displeasure with the mark-to-market accounting rule, which was substantially modified.
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Consequently, balance sheets under mark to market accounting suddenly started to show insolvency, or near insolvency, for more and more institutions.
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Some say a solution is to suspend the mark-to-market accounting rules that have caused the cascade of write-downs in the first place.
They proposed mark to market accounting, not only for bank holdings of securities, but of loans as well indeed, the whole balance sheet.
Not counting a mark to market accounting change, the company earned 65 cents per share, down from 71 cents a year ago.
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