All FASB articles – Page 19
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FASB Sets Dates for Financial Instruments Standards
In addition to finalizing and setting a 2019 effective date for a new standard on leasing accounting, FASB has wrapped up its long-running work on changes to the way companies will classify and measure financial instruments and has directed its staff to prepare the final language of the Accounting Standards ...
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FASB Sets 2019 Effective Date on Lease Standard
Image: FASB will issue its final leasing rule in 2016, effective 2019. IASB’s new leasing requirements will follow roughly the same timeline, although the boards still differ on how to reflect lease obligations in the income statement. “We believe that this new standard is important because it will provide investors, ...
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Final TRG Session Leaves Lingering Questions on Licenses
FASB and IASB’s Transition Resource Group met one final time to work through questions surrounding revenue recognition. While the group forged ahead with such issues as treating customer options for additional goods and services, pre-production activities, and fixed-odds wagering contracts, uncertainty still exists for licensing. Big 4 accounting firm PwC ...
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Revenue Standard Update: Companies Still Ducking It
Image: Corporate finance departments are playing the silent type right now about how they plan to implement the new revenue recognition standard—which is not quite the amount of disclosure the SEC and others want to see in year-end filings. Those businesses not doing or saying much could be in for ...
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AICPA Begins Floating Revenue Recognition Drafts
Image: The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has assembled 16 industry task forces to examine industry-specific implementation questions that are emerging as companies prepare to adopt the new principles-based revenue recognition standard. The working drafts provide insight and examples around nine specific questions, says Kim Kushmerick, senior technical ...
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Consequences for Cloud Computing Accounting Start to Roll In
Image: Companies applying new guidance on accounting for cloud computing fees are finding the guidance is not so simple, and doesn’t always provide a sunny outcome on the financial statement, either. Prepare for detailed reviews of your contract, and possibly changes to key metrics and disclosures. “If someone thinks this ...
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FASB Plans to Drop Step 2 of Goodwill Impairment Test
Image: FASB plans to drop the second step in the current two-part test to determine goodwill impairment, a nod to public companies eager for a simpler approach to deciding writedowns. Greg Franceschi, managing director at valuation firm Duff & Phelps, says, “By removing the second step of the test when ...
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Companies Lag in Assessing New Revenue Rules, Survey Shows
Image: A recent survey of 335 finance executives by PwC and Financial Executives Research Foundation found that 27 percent of executives said their companies had not yet started an initial impact assessment of the new revenue standard as of summer 2015, and 48 percent had started but not completed it ...
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IASB Sets 2019 Effective Date for Lease Accounting Standard
The International Accounting Standards Board says its updated lease accounting standard will take effect on Jan. 1, 2019, for companies following International Financial Reporting Standards. FASB is expected to issue its lease accounting standard by year’s end. The boards concur on how to define a lease and how leased assets ...
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FASB Proposes More Changes to Revenue Standard
FASB is asking for feedback by Nov. 16 on its planned fixes to the revenue recognition standard to address implementation challenges around collectibility, taxes, non-cash consideration, contract modifications, and other technical issues. The board says its proposed amendments should reduce the degree of judgment necessary to apply the new revenue ...
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FASB Simplifies Business Combinations Accounting
FASB has approved a change that simplifies accounting for business combinations, so companies will no longer be required to make retrospective adjustments to historical data as if the facts of the acquired unit had been known from the date of the acquisition. Instead, the acquiring company will recognize adjustments to ...
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FASB Proposes Aligning Guidance on Materiality
Image: FASB has issued two new exposure drafts—one to help firms use discretion when deciding which footnote disclosures should be considered material; the other to clarify the concept of materiality for standard-setting purposes. The proposals are intended to help organizations improve the effectiveness of their disclosures by steering them away ...
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Today’s Revenue Rule Surprise: Non-Financial Assets
Image: Companies are starting to awaken to yet another wrinkle in the new revenue recognition standard: how it will affect the sale of non-financial assets, such as when you sell off an old property or intangible asset. “If you’re not in the real estate business, you don’t think of the ...
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SEC Frets Over Split in Revenue Recognition Adoption Efforts
Image: Looking for consistency in application of the new revenue recognition standard, SEC Deputy Chief Accountant Wesley Bricker said companies need to do their homework and apply appropriate professional judgment. Bricker called on companies to move forward with implementation efforts “without delay” by understanding the key principles of the new ...
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FASB Appoints New Members to Emerging Issues Task Force
Paul Beswick, a partner with Ernst & Young and former chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Robert Malhotra, partner at KPMG, have been named to the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Details inside.
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SEC Calls for Attention to Credit Impairment Rules
Image: With a new standard expected before the end of the year to change the way financial institutions account for credit impairments, the SEC will be looking for strong processes and controls around critical judgments. Recently, SEC Chief Accountant James Schnurr told accountants at a conference to get ready to ...
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FASB Plans Disclosure Changes for Uncertain Tax Positions
FASB has tentatively decided to revise disclosure of uncertain tax positions, by dropping the current requirement for companies to disclose the nature and estimate of the range for a reasonably possible change in the unrecognized tax benefit balance in the next 12 months. More inside.
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FASB Explains Changes to 2016 GAAP Taxonomy
FASB has issued notes explaining the changes to the proposed 2016 XBRL taxonomy, including simplifying the income statement and the presentation of debt issuance costs, among other changes. “While some of these changes may impact a significant number of filers, the feedback received from constituents was to eliminate inconsistencies and ...
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FASB Proposes Gross-Net Guidance on Revenue Recognition
FASB has proposed an update to its revenue recognition standard to clarify when an entity is acting as the principal in its interaction with a customer or when it is an agent for some other entity, helping a company determine if it should recognize revenue on a gross or net ...
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FASB, Congressman Dispute Lease Standard’s Economic Effect
Image: FASB is pressing on with its planned fourth-quarter release of the final new accounting standard on leasing despite House Financial Services Committee member Brad Sherman’s (left) plea to FASB Chairman Russ Golden to consider analysis that says the standard will exact a heavy toll on the U.S. economy. Golden ...