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Reforming Key International Financial Institutions For The 21st Century: Hearing Before The Subcomm. On Security And International Trade And Finance Of The S. Comm. On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs, 110th Cong., Aug. 2, 2007 (Statement Of Daniel K. Tarullo, Geo. U. L. Center), Daniel K. Tarullo Aug 2007

Reforming Key International Financial Institutions For The 21st Century: Hearing Before The Subcomm. On Security And International Trade And Finance Of The S. Comm. On Banking, Housing, And Urban Affairs, 110th Cong., Aug. 2, 2007 (Statement Of Daniel K. Tarullo, Geo. U. L. Center), Daniel K. Tarullo

Testimony Before Congress

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Private Standards, Public Governance: A New Look At The Financial Accounting Standards Board, William W. Bratton Jan 2007

Private Standards, Public Governance: A New Look At The Financial Accounting Standards Board, William W. Bratton

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (the "FASB") presents a puzzle: How has this private standard setter managed simultaneously (1) to remain independent, (2) to achieve institutional stability and legitimacy, and (3) to operate in a politicized context in the teeth of opposition from its own constituents? This Article looks to governance design to account for this institutional success. The FASB's founders made a strategic choice to create a regulatory agency that sought independence rather than political responsiveness. The FASB also set out a coherent theory of accounting, the "Conceptual Framework," to contain and direct its decisions. The Conceptual Framework contributed …