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Is that fair?(International Accounting Standards Committee's proposed new standard on financial instruments)

CMA - the Management Accounting Magazine

| December 01, 1998 | Demers, Elizabeth | COPYRIGHT 1998 Society of Management Accountants of Canada. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The IASC's new exposure draft on financial instruments marks a progressive move away from historical cost reporting

In September 1998, CMA Canada issued a response to the International Accounting Standards Committee's (IASC) recent exposure draft called Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement (referred to as ED-E62). It is the latest standard to be proposed in an on-going project, undertaken jointly by the IASC and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), to develop a comprehensive standard on the recognition, measurement, and disclosure of financial instruments.

The first phase of the project was completed in March 1995 when ...

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