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Article: Proposed legislation allows court challenges of FASB accounting standards.(Financial Accounting Standards Board)
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- The Bond Buyer
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- February 9, 1998
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Spurred by controversy over a new derivatives accounting rule, Rep. Richard H. Baker, R-La., last week introduced legislation that would allow accounting principles set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to be challenged in federal court.
"Public companies will now be able to do what they currently cannot: have their complaints with the substance of a proposed accounting principle aired in the neutral forum of the federal court system, just like those companies can when they are affected by other SEC rules and regulations," Baker said in a statement released Thursday. He is chairman of the House Banking Committee's securities subcommittee.
Baker's ...