The prime minister says in Sky News interview that he wants bad assets on companies' balance sheets
The prime minister has vowed to force banks to put their off-balance sheet liabilities into their books.
Speaking to Sky News yesterday, Gordon Brown signaled that it was 'not acceptable' that banks could fail to declare bad assets and that he wanted 'all companies to bring out their bad assets and put them back on their balance sheet so the financial system can move forward'.
Banks have faced widespread criticism for the huge special vehicles they helped set up and partly supported, but which did not need to be declared on balance sheet under the accounting rules at the time.
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