Change the accounting rules drastically and most corporate earnings as we now know them could disappear.
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Reforming capital is made far harder by the largely hidden but simmering row over accounting rules.
Under mark to market accounting rules these losses will have to be taken immediately.
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Some countries accounting rules allow for the consolidation of a subsidiary at less than 50% ownership.
Japan's accounting rules contain loopholes that allow companies to hide the economic substance of their performance.
Every one of those large entities would have collapsed under today's regulatory accounting rules.
So I do think that -- again, they have to do this based on accounting rules.
For many years loose accounting rules made it easy to avoid recognizing these losses.
Then there is the fact that not all municipalities use generally accepted accounting rules (GAAP).
The problem is that official (GAAP) accounting rules allow companies to obfuscate their true operating earnings.
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They must keep strictly to the law, observe accounting rules scrupulously and be wholly transparent.
In the private sector, thanks to a change in accounting rules, the problem was swiftly recognised.
It played its game by dint of trading for its own sake and accounting rules.
JPMorgan's supposed hedges aren't hedges under accounting rules because they haven't been shown to perform as hedges.
Because of laxer accounting rules, public-sector pension schemes, particularly in America, have not faced the same pressures.
Paulson recognized that under the universal mark-to-market accounting rules, banks and other mortgage providers could not make any new mortgages.
Accounting rules urge firms to write down such assets as soon as they realize they will not collect.
Enforcement trends are cyclical, and the accounting rules are no less complex today than they were in 2000.
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The charges related to knowingly manipulating accounting rules and masking the enormous losses and liabilities of the company.
Baidu is U.S.-listed and plays by internationally recognized accounting rules in a country where fraud is a widespread problem.
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New accounting rules have made the deficits more apparent to investors and analysts.
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In another case they read about a bookkeeper that flagrantly bent accounting rules.
There are often differences in the way that things are treated under tax accounting and public corporate accounting rules.
Under accounting rules, the company must book the credits because it's likely to use them to offset income taxes.
Under present accounting rules, assets have to be priced at tradable prices.
Apple has conducted all of its business with the highest of ethical standards, complying with applicable laws and accounting rules.
Meanwhile, FASB has fiddled with the accounting rules so much that, as one of America's most dynamic business executives, T.
Next time cooperate with foreign companies that do not have to obey the operating and accounting rules of publicly-traded companies.
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The accounting rules do allow you to designate assets as being held to maturity, or being held in the short-term.
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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