- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2020-07-09T17:59:00
The Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed a one year delay to its standard on accounting for long-duration contracts at insurance companies as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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