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FASB Issues Update On Derivatives Accounting

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Wall Street Journal

FASB Gives Certain Companies an Accounting Break on Lease-Contract Losses

The Financial Accounting Standards Board approved a new rule for companies leasing out assets in an effort to eliminate a sometimes sizable accounting loss at the start of certain contracts. The new ...
Accounting Today

FASB releases standard on derivatives

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standards update to address stakeholder concerns about the application of derivative accounting.
JournalofAccountancy

FASB proposes clarifying hedge accounting standard

Certain sections of FASB’s new hedge accounting standard would be clarified under a proposal the board issued Tuesday. FASB made targeted changes to its standard for hedge accounting in 2017 in the ...
JournalofAccountancy

Lease accounting standard requires new auditor judgments

Public companies’ required implementation of FASB’s new lease accounting standard in 2019 means that financial statement auditors need to be prepared to make new judgments. Although the private ...
The New York Times

Problems With Accounting Standards

William A. Niskanen is chairman emeritus of the Cato Institute, the contributing editor of "After Enron: Lessons for Public Policy," a former member and acting chairman of President Reagan's Council ...
Investopedia

Understanding Level 2 Assets: Key Examples and Differences from Levels 1 & 3

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Gordon Scott has been an active ...