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Off-Balance Sheet Accounting 2.0

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Caleb Newquist

“They will help investors to better understand off-balance sheet risks, and to alert them to the possibility of so-called window dressing transactions occurring at the end of a reporting period.”

~ Sir David Tweedie talking up the new rules that were published by the IASB today.

Posted in Quote of the DayTagged IASB, Repo 105, Sir David Tweedie

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