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  2. Off-balance-sheet - Wikipedia

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    The former is represented by traditional loans, since banks indicate loans on the asset side of their balance sheets. However, securitized loans are represented off the balance sheet, because securitization involves selling the loans to a third party (the loan originator and the borrower being the first two parties).

  3. Fair value accounting and the subprime mortgage crisis

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    In 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) implemented SFAS 157 in order to expand disclosures about fair value measurements in financial statements. [3] Fair-value accounting or "Mark-to-Market" is defined by FAS 157 as "a price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date".

  4. Current Expected Credit Losses - Wikipedia

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    Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) is a credit loss accounting standard (model) that was issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board on June 16, 2016. [1] CECL replaced the previous Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) accounting standard. The CECL standard focuses on estimation of expected losses over the life of the loans ...

  5. Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis

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    The reduced capital requirements encouraged banks to hold the less risky A rated securities (according to rating agency standards) rather than the more risky higher-leveraged (i.e. embedded leverage) first-loss tranches. The reduction in capital reserves (and increased explicit leveraged) was accompanied by the reduction of risky lower rated ...

  6. Financial Accounting Standards Board - Wikipedia

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    The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a private standard-setting body [1] whose primary purpose is to establish and improve Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) within the United States in the public's interest.

  7. List of FASB pronouncements - Wikipedia

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    This article is an incomplete list of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) pronouncements, which consist of Statements of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS" or simply "FAS"), Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts, Interpretations, Technical Bulletins, and Staff Positions, which together presented rules and guidelines for preparing, presenting, and reporting financial ...

  8. Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses - Wikipedia

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    The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has announced plans Archived 2015-01-30 at the Wayback Machine to change the way banks account for the impairment of assets in the ALLL. The final ruling, the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) model, was released in June 2016.

  9. List of International Financial Reporting Standards - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and official interpretations, as set out by the IFRS Foundation. It includes accounting standards either developed or adopted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation.