Mark to market (MTM) is an accounting method whereby assets and liabilities are recorded at their current market value. In other words, if a company had to liquidate its assets and pay off all its ...

The credit meltdown has spawned a few false villains, and one is “mark-to-market” accounting. Too many observers—including Congress’s Republican Study Committee—think that if we just suspend the ...

Mark-to-market is a business rarity -- an accounting term that draws reactions from people who don't know spreadsheets from bedsheets. Mark-to-market, which we'll call MTM, evokes images of Enron's ...

NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Mark-to-market accounting is unlikely to go away, and it shouldn't, a prominent banking analyst said on Monday. Sign up here. Critics say the accounting method has ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House financial services subcommittee plans a hearing on mark-to-market accounting rules, which have been blamed for forcing banks to report billions of dollars in ...

To fix the banks, Washington needs to get toxic assets off their balance sheets. That’s easily said but not so easily done. One reason is an obscure accounting rule that is the subject of intense ...

The problem with textbook application of mark-to-market accounting isn't only the difficulty of measuring value, Paul Volcker says. While entirely appropriate for trading desks and investment banks, ...

NEW YORK — Financial firms plagued by massive write-downs on their mortgage-related debt are trying to convince investors their fortunes aren't as desperate as they seem. The corporate spin from ...

MTM adjusts asset/liability values to current market rates, showing real-time financial health. In investments, MTM impacts mutual funds daily and futures contracts may need cash adjustments.