The discount rate used to calculate scheme liabilities in company accounts should be a risk-free rate, an Accounting Standards Board report confirms.
The board's report - The Financial Reporting of Pensions: Feedback and Redeliberations - said its 2008 discussion paper on the financial reporting of pensions had raised "difficult and controversia...
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