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''Accounting - manipulation''.
''US banking - central banking.''  


'Big bath' provisions are, or were, an accounting manipulation designed to boost profits and improve trends in future reporting periods.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) within the United States Federal Reserve System is responsible for [[open market operations]] as a tool in effecting the central bank's monetary policy.


 
The Federal Open Market Committee has twelve members: the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and four of the remaining eleven Reserve Bank presidents, who serve one-year terms on a rotating basis.
An excessive 'big bath' provision is made in the earlier reporting period, reducing net assets and profits (or increasing losses) in the earlier 'bad' year.
 
The consequence is to artificially increase profits in later periods.
 
'Big bath' provisioning was particularly attractive to new managements as a way to assign more blame to their predecessors, while claiming more credit for subsequent, partly artificial, improvements.
 
 
Modern financial reporting standards aim to prevent such manipulations.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Conceptual framework]]
* [[Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System]]
* [[Provision]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Prudence]]
* [[Federal funds futures]]  (FFF)
* [[Federal Funds Rate]]
* [[Federal Reserve System]]
* [[Great Recession]]
* [[Monetary policy]]
* [[Open market operations]]


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[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Cash_management]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
[[Category:Liquidity_management]]

Revision as of 09:46, 21 June 2022

US banking - central banking.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) within the United States Federal Reserve System is responsible for open market operations as a tool in effecting the central bank's monetary policy.

The Federal Open Market Committee has twelve members: the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and four of the remaining eleven Reserve Bank presidents, who serve one-year terms on a rotating basis.


See also