FASB financial accounting & reporting

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FASB superseded guidance for US steamship entities because a 25-year limit has expired, making the guidance irrelevant.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

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.

FASB decided to simplify implementation of its new lease accounting standard in an effort to reduce costs and decrease challenges for financial statement preparers.

Here are some things financial statement preparers should keep in mind when implementing FASB’s lease accounting standard

In an effort to simplify its Accounting Standards Codification, FASB has combined its guidance for income statements and comprehensive income into one topic.

Three issue analyses from the AICPA Health Care Expert Panel could help with implementation of FASB’s new standard.

FinREC has been seeking public comment on working drafts that provide industry-specific guidance for entities implementing FASB’s new revenue recognition standard.

Nine potential amendments are contained in the proposal, which would affect a wide variety of topics in the codification.