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The National Taxpayers Union Foundation issued a report Friday saying that federal credit programs are costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more than estimated because the federal government ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. rule-makers are mulling an expansion of fair-value accounting to land and buildings held for investment, a change that could reshape the balance sheets of hundreds of real ...

The private credit market, which has grown rapidly in recent years, has increasingly come under the spotlight. Rarely a day ...

NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Some investors are starting to question an accounting method used to put a market value on hard-to-price assets as the credit crunch has caused their markets to evaporate.

There's yet another hearing on "fair value" accounting today, this time in the House subcommittee on capital markets. But don't expect a suspension of the rule that requires to mark-to-market ...

When Bitcoin debuted in 2009, its price was one-tenth of a cent. Now, a single Bitcoin costs close to $69,000. During its time on the market, the price has repeatedly risen or fallen by thousands of ...

Today, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) announced new rules that will require companies to account for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin at fair value. The rules are set to go into effect ...

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Former American International Group Inc. Chairman Martin Sullivan misled Congress last year when he told lawmakers AIG’s financial problems were caused by fair-value accounting standards, the chairman ...