FASB financial accounting & reporting

TOPICS / ACCOUNTING & REPORTING

February 1, 2007

Changes in Accounting for Changes

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Companies have always faced a major issue of how to reflect changes in accounting methods and error corrections in financial statements. In 2005 FASB issued Statement no. 154, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections. The new rules are effective for fiscal years ending after December

September 1, 2001

Say Good-Bye to Pooling and Goodwill Amortization

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NEW FASB STANDARDS prohibit the pooling-of-interests method of accounting for business combinations and require a purchase accounting method that does not allow goodwill amortization. The standards are a radical change, and management accountants, auditors and financial executives must understand and work with a very different accounting process.