By Tammy Whitehouse2015-11-24T16:15:00
FASB is proposing some clarifications to how a business is defined, to help companies following accounting rules related to acquisitions, disposals, goodwill, and consolidation. The board says stakeholders have reported that applying the current definition, as spelled out in U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, sweeps in transactions that don’t really ...
2017-02-28T18:00:00Z By Tammy Whitehouse
Companies will have some new analysis to do to assure their accounting for business transactions reflects a new definition of “business” in GAAP. Tammy Whitehouse has more.
2015-12-01T13:30:00Z By Joe Mont
With changes looming on accounting standards for revenue recognition, leases, financial instruments, and more, skittish corporate accountants often turn to the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance and staff accountants, relying on phone briefings and pre-clearing consultations to get ahead of financial reporting issues before they result in an SEC comment ...
2025-10-15T19:16:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Auditors are supposed to keep businesses honest, but how much regulation is the optimum for the auditors – and how onerous and punitive should the enforcement regime be? A new consultation by the U.K. regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, opened on Oct. 1 and has put the vexed question of ...
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