Fair Market Value Could Have Contributed to the Crash

Lunawat, Radhika; Pronin, Kira; Stecher, Jack Douglas; Zhang, Gaoqing

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2327169

SSRN Journal

2013

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2327169

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Fair Market Value Could Have Contributed to the Crash

Radhika Lunawat

Kira Pronin

Jack Douglas Stecher

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“…Lifschutz () found that in 1997–2000 American banks took advantage of the flexibility in Statements of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) 115 Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities to manage earnings; thus the accounting standards influenced certain managerial decisions and the neutrality of accounting was impaired. Lunawat et al () wrote that mark‐to‐model accounting has an optimistic bias.…”

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Liberal Fair Value Accounting in Banks: A South African Case Study

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2014

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Research findings on the role of fair value accounting (FVA) in the global financial crisis suggest that FVA is not applied neutrally by banks. The results of FVA are accepted when they contribute to higher profits and are actively resisted when they lead to losses. The aim of this article is to investigate how FVA is practically applied by banks in detail. The focus is on banks as most of their assets are financial instruments and thus potentially fair valued, and banks' behaviour is significantly influenced by their regulatory environment. The research objective is pursued by using a case study of two South African banks. One of these is the largest and most systemically important bank in the South African system and the other is on the crossover between systemic and not systemic. It is found that FVA as applied by these two banks is not neutral. Also included is a demonstration of a method to derive the unrealised portion of profit and equity, the identification of the gap between assets and liabilities at fair value as the driver of where in a banking group FVA profits and losses are realised, and the finding that the restatement of comparative figures was used to circumvent the prohibition on reclassifications into and out of the 'designated as at fair value' category.

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Liberal Fair Value Accounting in Banks: A South African Case Study

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2014

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How and Why is Neutral Fair Value Accounting Hindered in Banks: A South African Case Study

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Fair Market Value Could Have Contributed to the Crash

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Liberal Fair Value Accounting in Banks: A South African Case Study

Liberal Fair Value Accounting in Banks: A South African Case Study

How and Why is Neutral Fair Value Accounting Hindered in Banks: A South African Case Study

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