The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting has kept itself busy this spring. In February, it issued a progress report that summarized its potential recommendations to simplify financial reporting; in March and May, it held follow-up meetings to discuss those ideas more thoroughly. I’ve already written about CIFR’s recommendation regarding a professional judgment framework, but there are a lot of other interesting potential recommendations that deserve some consideration, too—not just from the members of the committee, but also from Compliance Week readers.
The recommendations discussed in the progress report would, if adopted, result in changes ...