Accounting & reporting

After leading the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) for 11 years, Terri Polley announced that she is stepping down.

Stakeholders have voiced concerns to FASB about various aspects of the board’s recently issued standards for credit losses, hedging, and recognition and measurement.

Public companies are finding that even though they have implemented FASB’s new lease accounting standard, their work is not nearly done. Private companies, meanwhile, are struggling with their own adoption of the standard.

New rules issued by the FASB align its definition of “collections” with that used by the American Alliance of Museums’ Code of Ethics for Museums.

FASB issued a standard that converges the accounting guidance for production costs for episodic TV series with the rules for production costs for films.

FASB addressed two lessor implementation issues and clarified an exemption for lessors and lessees from a certain interim disclosure requirement associated with adopting the board’s new lease accounting standard.

A proposal issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board would spell out how to measure share-based payments to a customer.

FASB took a step forward in resolving challenges in its rules for recognizing and measuring deferred revenue in business combinations.

The challenges associated with FASB’s new revenue recognition standard have been substantial for many companies, but at least they’re gaining valuable data and process improvements as a result of the implementation.