SFAS No. 157 is to be applied to any asset or liability that is measured at fair value
Under current GAAP. The statement identified sixty-seven previous pronouncements that referred to fair value and are impacted by its provisions. SFAS No.157 (Now FASB ASC 820) represents the FASB’s current position on the tradeoff between reliability and of financial information. It also reflects the FASB’s conclusion that investors find fair value measurement relevant, even in the absence of exact market data. As a result, the trade-off now favors relevance; thus, in order to assess the relative reliability of the fair value measurements provide, financial statement users will need to be made aware of the quality of the information provided though meaningful and transparent disclosures.