Accounting officials fired another warning shot Wednesday at a popular method called “pooling of interests” that companies use on the balance sheet to paint a favorable portrait of how they are absorbing merger costs.
Opening 90 days of public comment, staff at the Financial Accounting Standards Board in Stamford, Conn., revealed plans to deep-six pooling in lieu of an outright purchase, in which one company has to record the costs of buying the other.
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