The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched a crackdown on companies using asset-backed contribution structures (ABCs) that reclassify pension obligations as equity instruments in their accounts.
The watchdog said it had intervened with several companies that had structured ABCs in this way, and in each case the company had revised either the structure or the valuation of the arrangements. ...
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