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Karthik Ramanna's article titled "unreliable accounts: How regulators fabricate conceptual narratives to diffuse criticism" provides a critical insight into how Fair Value Accounting (FVA) was incorporated into the conceptual framework for general purpose financial reporting. Karthik reveals that the installation of FVA into the FASBs constitution can be understood through a framework: conceptual veiling. In this framework, the FASB is captured within the logics of financial market economics, assuming investors and capital market actors are best served by financial disclosures that reflect market valuations. Captured by these interests, the FASB needed to modify the narratives contained in the conceptual framework removing reliability and substituting faithful representation because much of what constitutes FVA disclosures are estimates and judgements of questionable reliability. A more forceful critical evaluation of the re-orientation of accounting practise from Historical Cost Accounting to FVA might have located changes in the context of the financialized company.

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Shyam Sunder's monograph 'Rethinking Financial Reporting: Standards, Norms and Institutions' explores the extent to which it is possible to deliver 'better financial reporting' so as to support investment decision making and valuation. In this review paper it is argued that a more fundamental and radical challenge is required in a world where financial reporting is politically and socially constructed. The institutions governing financial reporting have pursued a project that has been complicit in undermining the social license granted by limited liability. The priority is to explore how financial reporting might contribute to securing the social license granted by limited liability.

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These remarks deal with financialisation of accounting. Financialisation is a process by which windfall capital market gains are crystallised from future earnings over and above those available from current earnings and profit. Accounting numbers reported by business firms are increasingly including the product of windfall gains from capital markets into those accounting numbers. Thus a significant disturbance in market valuations embedded in firm's assets and earnings could have a significant and material impact upon firm-level financial stability.

This paper presents a Keynesian analysis of accumulation under conditions of inequality in the UK & US where household savings are channeled into corporate securities. This form of saving is dominated by the comfortable classes in upper income households whose behavior indirectly encourages the UK & US corporate sectors into merger & acquisition. A broader discussion of trajectory & results brings out the risk of instability in a coupon pool type of capitalism where the stock market operates like a giant Ponzi scheme. In the UK & US cases, the policy implication is that it is foolish to give the stock market a larger role in provision for retirement through schemes that encourage or enforce increased savings by lower income groups. 10 Tables, 2 Figures, 21 References. Adapted from the source document.