The FASB early issued several standards requiring recognition or disclosure of fair
values estimates for assets and liabilities, mainly for financial instruments. For example,
Statements of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) number 87 in 1985 on
employer’s accounting for pensions, number 105 in 1990 on disclosure of information
about financial instruments, number 107 in1991 on disclosures about fair value of
financial instruments, etc. The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC)
issued International Accounting Standard (IAS) requiring measurement at fair valueand
value changes to be recognised in profit orloss. The most important were the IAS32 on
disclosure and presentation of financial instruments, issuedin 1995 and revised in 1998
by IAS 39, and the IAS 41 on Agriculture, issued in 2000. The EU adopted the whole
existing IAS by the Commission Regulation (EC)1725/2003, with the exception of IAS
32 and 39, that were adopted in 2004 by Commission Regulations (EC)2086/2004 and
(EC)2237/2004.