ACCOUNTING POLICIES VERSUS THE ENTITIES’ RESULT. HISTORICAL COST AND FAIR VALUE

The debate on accounting regulations responsibility IFRS/US GAAP that accelerate the financial crisis is technical and political. On a technical level the debate refers to the perimeter applied for fair value and its estimation methods. The whole process of revising accounting regulations on an international level wants to create a set of global accounting system capable to ensure comparison and quality to accounting information, thus eliminating creativity from accounting information supplied by financial statements.