FEE paper on bank provisioning and reserving

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13 Jan, 2010

The European Federation of Accountants (FEE) has published a paper Bank Provisioning and Reserving: A Comparison of Alternatives.

The paper is intended to help clarify the meaning of particular terms used by policy-makers, banks, regulators, accountants, and others in respect of bank provisioning and reserving, "since there is not yet a common understanding of what these terms are meant to cover". The paper is also intended to assist the readers of the recently issued joint EFRAG/FEE paper Impairment of Financial Assets: The Expected Loss Model (see IAS Plus News Story of 10 Dec 2009) by providing background information and an outline of the key terms of the various approaches and models that are currently being debated. FEE's announcement also notes that the paper "may also help to better understand the current discussions on impairment in relation to the proposals of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) for the impairment of financial assets". Click for:

 

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