Accounting has historically not defined income as change in wealth, or change in net worth or value. It has defined it by thousands and thousands of conventions that measure allocations of historical costs.
[…] if accounting prompts strange behavior solely because of the accounting, that’s not a good answer.
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Herz is chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board