| Abstract: | The past decade witnessed a deregulatory programme in Australia's financial sector. Market valuation of assets and liabilities has been required as a complement to historical costs in some cases, in others market values substitute for them. Interest in issues arising with market values has been heightened by the exposure draft on financial investments issued by the Australian Accounting Research Foundation in 1993. This article argues that the market valuation proposals offered in Exposure Draft 59 have not been argued effectively and explained sufficiently to secure their implementation. |
