The Task Force on Rebuilding Public Confidence in Financial Reporting was commissioned by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) to look at ways of restoring the credibility of financial reporting and corporate disclosure from an international perspective. It is this international...

Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity....

Since the 2008/09 upheaval and panic in financial institutions and beyond, each country has had a responsibility to re-examine its regulatory and supervisory processes and establish a clear and focussed policy framework for preventing threats to financial stability. Some countries have seen the...

This Commentary provides an insider’s perspective on Canada’s difficult experience with inflation before the mid-1990s and draws some general lessons from this historical record for today’s monetary policy.