Recently, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued its long-awaited, new lease accounting standard update, ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). This ASU affects the financial statements of companies that lease real property, equipment, vehicles and other fixed assets. Here are four things public companies need to know to implement and be compliant with [...]
On June 22, 2017 FASB proposed an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) to simplify and improve financial reporting associated with consolidation of variable interest entities (VIEs) for private companies. Concerns: Private company stakeholders, Private Company Council (PCC), continue to express difficulty in applying VIE guidance to common control arrangements and requested that FASB address certain areas [...]
A landmark financial reporting update is replacing about 180 pieces of industry-specific revenue accounting guidance with a single, principles-based approach. In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) unveiled Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. In 2015, the FASB postponed the effective date for the new revenue guidance by [...]
In 2002, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), as part of its move toward international financial reporting convergence, began to transition from the principle of historic cost to fair value reporting. Fair value estimates are now used to report such assets as derivatives, nonpublic entity securities, certain long-lived assets, and acquired goodwill and other intangibles. [...]
In mid-January, 2014, the FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) issued an ASU (Accounting Standards Update) to U.S. GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) that provide private companies with alternatives related to accounting for goodwill. The goal is to create simplification in accounting and a reduction in application cost for private companies. Intangibles-Goodwill and Other relates to [...]
