[Accounting] off-balance sheet
Frank Partnoy on Off-Balance Sheet Transactions (MMBM) from Roosevelt Institute on Vimeo.
Name of Publication:
Make Markets Be Markets
Abusive off-balance sheet accounting was a major cause of the financial crisis. These abuses triggered a daisy chain of dysfunctional decision-making by removing transparency from investors, markets, and regulators. Off-balance sheet accounting facilitating the spread of the bad loans, securitizations, and derivative transactions that brought the financial system to the brink of collapse.
As in the 1920s, the balance sheets of major corporations recently failed to provide a clear picture of the financial health of those entities. Banks in particular have become predisposed to narrow the size of their balance sheets, because investors and regulators use the balance sheet as an anchor in their assessment of risk. Banks use financial engineering to make it appear that they are better capitalized and less risky than they really are. Most people and businesses include all of their assets and liabilities on their balance sheets. But large financial institutions do not.
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