The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing to change the way a company accounts for the premium – or payment in excess of fair market value – that it pays to acquire another company. The idea is to give analysts and others more information about merger activity, thereby allowing them to make better investment decisions. But as usual, there is more going on than meets the eye, and it may have as much to do with FASB sensitivities as it does with accounting practice.
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