Accounting & reporting

FASB proposed minor changes as part of its annual effort to clarify and correct unintended application of its Accounting Standards Codification.

An Accounting Standards Update makes improvements to certain technical and other aspects of implementing FASB’s new accounting standard for credit losses.

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).