Financial reporting

Thomson Reuters’ Checkpoint Catalyst research service has added guidance on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new impairment rules requiring companies to recognize estimated credit losses sooner.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has made available the 2018 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy along with the 2018 SEC Reporting Taxonomy, pending final acceptance by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV assembled a crisis team of insiders to try to rescue the global retailer amid a crunch meeting with bankers that may determine the company’s future.

It looked like Steinhoff International Holdings NV had reached escape velocity from South Africa’s deepening economic gloom: A furniture retailer emulating Ikea’s model and global ambitions, built by men with their own compelling rags-to-riches stories.

Two years ago, the Financial Accounting Standards Board decided to defer the effective date of the revenue recognition standard for a year until Dec. 15, 2017 for public companies to give them more time to adjust to the new standard and to work out some kinks in the far-reaching rules. The deferred effective date arrived Friday, and many companies still aren’t ready.

Christo Wiese’s grip on his global furniture retailing empire is slipping after the South African billionaire resigned from the board of troubled Steinhoff International Holdings NV and creditors forced a sale of part of his stake.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV Chairman Christo Wiese, seeking to stabilize the embattled retailer, is negotiating a standstill agreement on a 1.5 billion-euro ($1.8 billion) margin loan under which banks would suspend the sale of stock until next year, according to people with knowledge of the discussions.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is circulating a pair of exposure drafts proposing accounting and financial reporting guidance pertaining to the capitalization of interest cost along with a proposed Implementation Guide discussing a variety of topics.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV bonds extended losses after Moody’s Investors Service slashed the credit rating to junk in the wake of an accounting scandal that’s threatening the survival of the global furniture and clothing retailer.

Steinhoff International Holdings NV plunged after its chief executive officer resigned amid accounting irregularities, rocking a company that’s rapidly expanded from its roots in South Africa into a retail empire spanning Australia, Europe and the U.S.

Accounting standard-setters are tweaking the rules for the standards taking effect in the next few years, according to officials.

Officials with the Securities and Exchange Commission are keeping a close watch on how companies are adjusting to the new revenue recognition and leasing standards.

Mark Kronforst, chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, plans to leave the SEC early next month.

Share prices continue to decline steeply after public companies file for an extension with the Securities and Exchange Commission on their financial statements, according to a new academic study.

The American Institute of CPAs has almost finished the process of providing accounting guidance on industry-specific issues related to the new revenue recognition standard.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board decided during a meeting Wednesday to ease some of the implementation burdens and possible costs of the new lease accounting standard by making several adjustments and offering some practical expedients.

Pace University’s Lubin School of Business held its second annual Pacesetters in Financial Reporting Conference in New York on Tuesday, presenting an award to Microsoft as a 2017 Pacesetter in Financial Reporting.

Even statement users are caught in its clutches, as Professors Miller and Bahnson explain in the third article in their series.

Auditors face a special dilemma when it comes to determining if a client can continue, says Stephen Franciosa.

U.S. public companies recorded $28.5 billion in goodwill impairment in 2016, half the $56.9 billion they reported in 2015, according to a new study.