International Accounting Standards Board chairman, Hans Hoogervorst, has said arguments to change the accounting standard are "flawed" as it should reflect the economic reality, no matter how ugly.
Speaking at a pensions conference in the Netherlands on 8 December, he strongly rejected calls to change the way defined benefit (DB) pension liabilities are measured under the IAS 19 standard in r...
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