Accounting & reporting

FASB issued two Accounting Standards Updates that finalize delays to various effective dates for new standards on current expected credit losses (CECL), leases, hedging, and long-duration insurance contracts.

FASB approved guidance to assist companies in their transition from interbank-offered rates to new reference rates.

FASB is attempting to enable a better, more consistent application of its new hedge accounting standard with proposed clarifications to certain sections of the guidance.

Share-based payments made to customers will be accounted for under FASB ASC Topic 718 as a result of new rules.

FASB’s attempts to simplify the classification of debt in a classified balance sheet may have unintended consequences, according to a comment letter sent by the AICPA Technical Issues Committee.

Despite FASB’s delay in the lease accounting effective date for private companies and certain other entities, there’s not a lot of time for companies to handle a complicated implementation.

Effective dates will be delayed for private companies and certain other entities for FASB’s standards on accounting for leases, credit losses, and hedging after a unanimous vote by FASB.

A FASB proposal could render obsolete a valuable financing option for health care entities known as variable-rate debt obligations (VRDOs).