Standard & Poor's Ratings Services Comments On Joint FASB/IASB Proposal On Balance-Sheet Offsetting

Standard & Poors, May 2011

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Abstract
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services appreciates the opportunity to provide the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) (collectively, the Boards), our comments on the Boards' Proposed Accounting Standards Update, Balance Sheet (Topic 210) Offsetting. We continue to support international harmonization of accounting standards and believe a common set of high quality and consistently enforced accounting standards would best facilitate efficient global capital markets. We support the Boards' objective to harmonize their respective standards in the area of balance sheet offsetting, and generally the proposed offsetting criteria. However, we believe the Proposed Standard would result in greater gross presentation for certain financial assets and financial liabilities for which we believe a net presentation is more...

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