Outgoing Financial Accounting Standards Board Chair Russell Golden spoke to the rulemaker’s fourth-quarter activities and the transition to his successor, EY’s Richard Jones, at a Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) board of trustees meeting Tuesday.

In the fourth quarter, FASB did not add any new projects to the agenda, a decision made with Jones’ full-time starting date next week in mind. “We have agreed to, in the second quarter, have a broad-based agenda discussion with the Board as to which projects we want to move forward on and which projects we want to take off our agenda,” Golden said.

Maria L. Murphy, CPA, is a regular contributor to Compliance Week. She is a senior content management analyst, accounting and auditing products, CCH tax and accounting North America for Wolters Kluwer....