Fasb pode atrasar a adoção do valor justo

Diante da oposição e críticas do valor justo, o Fasb está considerando a possibilidade de atrasar as regras do valor justo (Fasb 157). A seguir, notícia completa da Reuters sobre o assunto:

FASB to discuss delay of valuation accounting rule
Emily Chasan - Reuters News - 16/10/2007

NEW YORK, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will consider at its Wednesday meeting whether to delay a new accounting rule designed to standardize the way companies measure assets at market values.

The rule, also known as FAS 157, provides a definition and framework for how companies should determine fair value measurements -- or the price an asset could fetch in a current market transaction.

The standard is set to take effect for fiscal years beginning after Nov. 15, but has drawn opposition from industry groups who say businesses need more time to address implementation issues.

Financial Executives International (FEI), a trade group for finance chiefs, treasurers and corporate comptrollers, asked the board this month to delay the standard by a year.

"FAS 157 requires us to learn how to develop measurements of hypothetical transactions based on hypothetical market participant assumptions that may never actually manifest themselves in a transaction," FEI said in its appeal to FASB.

"This is an entirely new paradigm, which the preparer community, their auditors and valuation consultants are not yet ready to implement," the letter continued.

The Institute of Management Accountants, in a separate letter to FASB, said new rule was a "fundamental shift" for accountants. Adopting the standard would require more education and training for those trying to apply it, it said. The group also expressed concern that some technical questions about the standard still need to be resolved.

FASB, according to an agenda on its website, will "discuss and consider factors affecting the application of" the standard at its meeting on Wednesday in Norwalk, Connecticut.

FASB approved the standard in February saying that it would expand disclosure about how assets were valued and eliminate inconsistencies about fair value measurements in U.S. accounting rules.

Several financial companies have already adopted the standard, but FEI said in its letter that implementation issues in application of the rule have already surfaced.