Financial reporting

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has appointed Hillary H. Salo, a partner at KPMG, as its new technical director and chair of the Emerging Issues Task Force.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to add amendments to its rules and forms to improve financial information about acquired or disposed businesses for investors, and decrease the complexity and costs of preparing such disclosures.

Europe’s top markets watchdog is warning companies against getting creative with financial statements that obscure the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on their bottom line.

Members of the American Accounting Association's Financial Reporting Policy Committee denounce provisions in the CARES Act they see as threatening FASB’s independence and setting a dangerous precedent with serious potential to undermine confidence in corporate financial reporting.

China’s securities regulator blacklisted six executives for their role in a $4.2 billion accounting scandal at Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co., one of the country’s biggest drugmakers.

The Financial Accounting Foundation’s board of trustees is changing the process for assessing the effectiveness of standards.

As the world grapples with the escalating impact of the pandemic, a stark realization is now sweeping over accounting and finance teams — they’re the ones who have to figure out how countless uncertainties fit into their reporting and GAAP.

The challenges for corporate reporting after COVID-19

Financial executives are taking a two-phase approach to managing coronavirus issues that face their companies, according to a new survey.

Public companies are dealing with a variety of financial reporting difficulties in the face of the unpredictable COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it’s having on businesses of all sizes.

Recent events affecting the global financial health of businesses have forced CFOs and treasurers to conserve and preserve cash.

The set of questions and answers explain how to implement and apply some of the board's recent pronouncements.

The proposal would delay the effective date for one year for some private companies and nonprofits in applying the leases standard and for franchisor businesses in applying the revenue recognition standard.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board published guidance Monday to improve accounting and financial reporting for public-public partnership arrangements — also known as P3s — along with public-private and availability payment arrangements (APAs).

The Financial Accounting Standards Board staff released a question-and-answer document to respond to questions about the lease accounting guidance for lease concessions in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The International Accounting Standards Board proposed amendments to assist companies in providing useful information to investors about the effects of interest rate benchmark reform on financial statements.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is working on several fronts to offer relief to state and local governments and other stakeholders in the midst of the pandemic, including delaying the effective date of some standards.

The Commission is extending the filing periods covered under its previous reporting relief for companies due to the COV-19 pandemic.

The first quarter is quickly coming to an end, and finance teams around the country are busy preparing for questions from the board.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) accounting standard in 2016. Since then, many questions have been raised about what it requires, particularly by financial services companies.