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Derivatives and Accounting

How and how much do we tell people about what we're doing?

Commercial and industrial companies are subject to a variety of risks. There is a danger that extensive reporting requirements in this area may overemphasize financial risks while effectively de-emphasizing equally or more important risks associated with a company's core business.

Marjorie Market, Arthur Anderson Co.
Risk, May, 1996, p. 22

... the reporting language (accounting) has no vocabulary for risk.

Till Guildimann
Futures & OTC World, May, 1999, p. 45

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Last updated:  January 9, 2011