Undermining that effort, on Thursday American accounting standard-setters watered down a mark-to-market provision that would have forced banks to value their assets at market prices.

破坏这个努力的事件是：周二美国会计标准制定者淡化了一项迫使银行将其资产价值达到市场价格的按市值计价条款。

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But the principle defence of standard-setters is that enhancing financial stability is not the purpose of accounting.

只是标准制定者的原则性辩护在于，提高金融稳定并非会计的真正意图。

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For a start, the widening split between accounting standard-setters is a huge difficulty.

一开始，会计准则制定者分歧加剧就是一个大问题。

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Behind the scenes, they have been taking aim at someone else: the accounting standard-setters.

ECONOMIST: Banks and accounting standards

These include reforms that would affect bank regulators, supervisors and accounting standard-setters, and cover bankers' pay, derivatives trading and rating agencies.

ECONOMIST: The G20

Accounting standard-setters have been arm-twisted into relaxing rules that force banks to mark certain assets to market, but in the long run that may hurt confidence in the health of bank balance-sheets, not help it.

ECONOMIST: Meltdown may have been averted. But the crunch is not over