Advantages of fair value accounting are: it reflects more current valuation of assets/liabilities, uses a consistent measurement criteria for all assets and liabilities, enhances comparability across firms and time and is useful for equity analysis because it eschews conservatism. The disadvantages of fair value accounting are that it is less reliable and objective and increases susceptibility to manipulation especially when Level 3 inputs are used, it is less useful for credit analysis since it removes conservatism, and income under fair value accounting is excessively volatile and does not reflect underlying operating profitability.