Accounting standards were a "root cause" of the financial crisis and should be subject to a comprehensive review, according to the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum.
The LAPFF ‘post-mortem' report into the UK and Irish banking losses of 2008 argues that the International Financial Reporting Standards adopted in the UK in 2005 are not "fit for purpose" and led b...
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