UK - Firms are being warned not to play "fast and loose" with FRS17 investment return assumptions to boost their waning accounts.
Consultants say tinkering with the assumptions could lead to massive increases in declared profits when FRS17 is fully implemented in 2005. Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow principal Raj Mody says re-runn...
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