FASB to Drop Obsolete Guidance for Steamship Companies FASB has agreed to delete an outdated piece of guidance from U.S. GAAP governing a soon-to-expire income tax deferral related to funds...
In what the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) calls a “perpetual project,” a proposed Accounting Standards Update has been issued that will make technical corrections,...
A fter a nearly 10-year collaboration to develop a converged standard on leasing, on Jan. 13, 2016, the IASB issued IFRS 16, Leases, and on Feb. 25, 2016, FASB issued Accounting...
In Brief FASB’s long-debated exposure draft of a new standard on accounting for leases has raised the possibility that almost all leases will need to be capitalized in the near future. Although...
The panel began with a discussion of the new standard for revenue recognition and the process for implementing it. Siegel highlighted some of the more prominent changes, such as moving the...