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Paper Introduction: Rule-Based vs Principle-Based Accounting Standards At issue herein is the question of whether the accounting professionshould have rules-based or principle-based standards that function toprovide both normative guidance and regulatory oversight for members of thefield Nobes noted that in September the Financial AccountingStandards Board FASB sought input into this issue stating that theInternational Accounting Standards Board IASB required a principles-basedapproach whereas under the aegis of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of rules-based accounting standards predominate Interestingly the question itselfmay be moot in that Benston Bromwich Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. 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