SEC to hold fair value accounting roundtable - Reuters

Story date: 2008-06-20 04:47:00
Added on: 2008-06-21 00:00:58

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a roundtable on July 9 on "fair value accounting" methods, which are used for the hardest-to-value assets such as mortgage-backed securities. Fair value accounting is a way of ...


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