Is accounting to blame for the credit crunch?

There has been much talk of late about who precisely is to blame for the west’s economic woes. A letter from John Betts in The Times this week pointedly laid the blame at the feet of “creative” accounting.

“How can a financial institution be allowed to set the worth of non-liquid assets held on its books, where there is no published value for such an asset and nobody wishing to purchase it?” Betts asked.

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