Mark to market (MTM) is an accounting method whereby assets and liabilities are recorded at their current market value. In other words, if a company had to liquidate its assets and pay off all its ...

The credit meltdown has spawned a few false villains, and one is “mark-to-market” accounting. Too many observers—including Congress’s Republican Study Committee—think that if we just suspend the ...

Mark-to-market is a business rarity -- an accounting term that draws reactions from people who don't know spreadsheets from bedsheets. Mark-to-market, which we'll call MTM, evokes images of Enron's ...

NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Mark-to-market accounting is unlikely to go away, and it shouldn't, a prominent banking analyst said on Monday. Sign up here. Critics say the accounting method has ...

Last month the Financial Accounting Standards Board changed is mark-to-market accounting rule and its approach to other than temporary impairment (OTTI), under pressure from a Congressional deadline.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House financial services subcommittee plans a hearing on mark-to-market accounting rules, which have been blamed for forcing banks to report billions of dollars in ...

To fix the banks, Washington needs to get toxic assets off their balance sheets. That’s easily said but not so easily done. One reason is an obscure accounting rule that is the subject of intense ...

These days when you look at the dismal condition of our financial markets, you can point in any direction and say theres the culprit -- from lack of government intervention, to the problems at ...

Perusing the trade press recently, I've concluded that I'm the only person in credit union land who thinks relaxing mark-to-market (MTM) accounting rules was a bad idea. But I have plenty of company ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Jonathan Weil over at Bloomberg finds a great way to illustrate the see-no-evil-hear-no-evil policy being instituted by the ...

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MTM adjusts asset/liability values to current market rates, showing real-time financial health. In investments, MTM impacts mutual funds daily and futures contracts may need cash adjustments.