我们假设重新规范管制的前提是提高透明度,那么市值计价会计就是较优的(尽管有诸多缺陷,仍然比把损失全藏在毯子底下强)。
The presumption should be for transparency. That favours market-based accounting (which, for all its faults, is better than sweeping losses under the carpet).
假如有的话,信用危机表明会计与监管应进一步分离以切断按市值计价的损失与资本之间的钢性联系。
If anything, the crisis shows that accounting and supervision should be further separated to break the mechanistic link between mark-to-market losses and capital.
破坏这个努力的事件是:周二美国会计标准制定者淡化了一项迫使银行将其资产价值达到市场价格的按市值计价条款。
Undermining that effort, on Thursday American accounting standard-setters watered down a mark-to-market provision that would have forced banks to value their assets at market prices.
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