Accounting & reporting

FASB issued separate accounting standards Wednesday that are designed to simplify reporting of certain employer retirement obligations and assets, as well as provide explicit guidance about how to account for fees paid in a cloud-computing arrangement.

The standard requires that debt issuance costs not be classified as a deferred charge or deferred credit.

FASB voted to propose a one-year delay in the effective date of the new, converged revenue recognition standard.

Some financial statement preparers have said the current effective date doesn’t give them time to gather the data they need.

FASB is expected to release proposals designed to simplify the equity method of accounting and to simplify the accounting for measurement period adjustments in a business combination.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted to propose new requirements designed to make not-for-profit financial statements more useful.