Accounting & reporting

A proposed FASB Accounting Standards Update seeks to ease the implementation of the new leases accounting standard.

A new working draft issued by the AICPA Financial Reporting Executive Committee addresses a consideration for broker-dealers related to FASB’s new revenue recognition standard.

The AICPA issued a new working draft that discusses helpful considerations for broker-dealers implementing FASB’s new revenue recognition standard.

FASB superseded guidance for US steamship entities because a 25-year limit has expired, making the guidance irrelevant.

Time is running short in the revenue recognition implementation effort as public companies must adopt FASB’s new standard at the beginning of 2018.

Changes and proposed changes to FASB’s new lease accounting standard that were announced last week addressed financial statement preparers’ most pressing implementation concerns.

Working drafts for a total of five revenue recognition implementation issues in four industries were exposed by the AICPA Financial Reporting Executive Committee.