Experts predict a high price for IASB DB costs proposals

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Actuaries and accountants have predicted proposed International Accounting Standards Board amendments to how defined benefit costs are recorded in companies' accounts - unveiled last week - will have a serious impact on their earnings.

Under international accounting rule IAS19, companies can currently record a “profit” each year equal to the expected, rather than actual, return on pension scheme investments. With pension schem...

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