Basically, the CAP wanted to retain the function of creating standards and didn’t want to test the SEC. In 1950, the CAP made a move to challenge the SEC by proposing a practice that deviated from historical cost accounting. The CAP attempted to suggest an upward revaluation of assets for companies in inflationary times...
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Their rationale was that this practice was like the accepted accounting method of revaluing assets downward, which is today’s impairment, for companies facing severe financial and economic difficulties. Obviously, the SEC did not support this practice and made it known that they would not allow it. In response the CAP gave in to the SEC and abandoned its attempt...
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