FASB financial accounting & reporting

FASB proposed adding a new U.S. benchmark interest rate to the list of rates permitted in the application of hedge accounting.

The AICPA Financial Reporting Executive Committee sought public comment on seven new revenue recognition implementation issues to be added to the AICPA’s revenue recognition guide.

The effective date for implementing FASB’s new lease accounting standard is still about one year away, but it will require additional resources and a team effort.

The change is expected to make adopting the leases standard easier for some land easements.

FASB proposed a new standard that is intended to help organizations reclassify certain income effects in accumulated other comprehensive income resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

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FASB superseded guidance for US steamship entities because a 25-year limit has expired, making the guidance irrelevant.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