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- Title
The Politics of Accounting Standards: A Comment on Ramanna's "Unreliable Accounts: How Regulators Fabricate Conceptual Narratives to Diffuse Criticism".
- Authors
Vogel, Steven K.
- Abstract
Karthik Ramanna recounts how the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) dropped "reliability" as a fundamental property of accounting in 2010. He offers two possible explanations for this change: (1) The FASB removed reliability to clarify its conceptual framework, and (2) It sought to reconcile its framework with the growing use of fair-value accounting. Ramanna does not give total victory to one explanation over another, nor does he assign purely public- or private-interest motives to the actors in the story. Yet this very ambiguity tells us a lot about the distinctive politics of accounting and other technical realms of regulation, and exposes some of the shortcomings of more standard interest-group models in political science.
- Subjects
FINANCIAL Accounting Standards Board; FAIR value accounting; ACCOUNTING standards; POLITICAL science; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Accounting, Economics & Law, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 2, p247
- ISSN
2194-6051
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ael-2021-0088