Balance sheet tricks, governmental (governmental balance sheet tricks, keeping-alive policy)

Specifically, the creation of equity out of thin air for ailing banks in some euro area countries. – In Spain, a law was passed in 2012 allowing the broad-based conversion of tax loss carryforwards (an accounting practice that applies the current year’s net operating losses to future years’ profits in order to extinguish tax liability) into hard core capital. – In Italy, the capital shares of individual banks in the central bank Banca d’Italia were valued higher: an increase from 156,000 to 7.5 billion euros. However, the shares in Banca d’Italia are not freely tradable and consequently have no market value. The main beneficiaries of the revaluation are the two major Milanese banks Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, which together hold 63 percent of the shares. – While shareholders of German or Dutch institutions have to forego distributions for years in order to strengthen their bank’s capital, Spanish and Italian banks obtain the required core capital through government legislation: an evident competitive distortion, a flagrantly unfair competition. – See disclosures, disguised, asset quality review, off-balance sheet, balance sheet cosmetics, balance sheet tricks, government, stock market fraud, accounting, creative, corporate governance, enforcement, financial reporting, information overload, intra-quarter ballooning, crystallization, management pay, abusive, cherry-picking, factual design, steadiness, substance-over-form principle, ultimate factoring, loss camouflage, understandability.

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