FASB financial accounting & reporting

The AICPA’s Financial Reporting Executive Committee (FinREC) has issued working drafts of accounting issues related to implementation of FASB’s new standard for accounting for credit losses.

FASB has issued targeted changes to its new lease accounting standard that are designed to make implementation easier and reduce costs for financial statement preparers.

FASB clarified rules and corrected application of guidance for its lease accounting standard.

FASB made clarifying changes and corrected unintended application of guidance in a standard that updates its Accounting Standards Codification.

The proposal would realign the definitions of “collections” used in GAAP and the American Alliance of Museums’ Code of Ethics for Museums.

FASB released an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) designed to improve the financial reporting for share-based payments issued to nonemployees for goods or services.

A new FASAB proposal is designed to promote consistency in the accounting treatment and reporting for land holdings while considering the information needs of financial statement users.

FASB superseded outdated accounting guidance related to a Banking Circular that has been rescinded by the Officer of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The AICPA FinREC published working drafts addressing revenue recognition issues in the gaming and telecommunications industries.

FASB wants to clarify the interaction between GAAP for collaborative arrangements and the board’s new revenue recognition standard.

Learn which software costs should be capitalized and which costs should be expensed when an entity builds external-use software using an agile development environment.

Companies are finding that FASB’s new hedge accounting guidance removes some of the barriers that had prevented them from taking advantage of hedging opportunities.