The trouble with snapshots - as any keen photographer will attest - is that it is very easy for them to be distorted and out of focus.
And it seems the Accounting Standards Board has admitted as much over FRS17. In its latest update on accounting for pensions, the ASB says: “Most would agree that single point values for assets...
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