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CFOs On the Move: Week Ending August 12
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Accounting Standards
Revenue Recognition
FASB Launches Agenda Consultation Project
The first in five years, the project seeks comments about the Financial Accounting Standards Board's future standard-setting agenda.
By
Vincent Ryan
| June 28, 2021
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Mergers & Acquisitions
SEC Could Reclassify SPAC Warrants And Hold Up New Filings: Report
Warrants could soon be considered liabilities instead of equity for accounting purposes.
By
Vincent Ryan
| April 13, 2021
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GAAP and IFRS
FASB Gives Private Companies Goodwill Accounting Break
Assessments and tests for goodwill impairment can be left until the end of the reporting period.
By
Vincent Ryan
| March 31, 2021
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Regulation
FASB Chair Jones Looks Ahead
Seven months in, Richard R. Jones gives his perspective on cryptocurrencies, climate risk disclosures, and possible goodwill accounting changes.
By
Vincent Ryan
| March 18, 2021
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Growth Companies
FASB to Take Up Digital Currencies Question
Current GAAP accounting prohibits a business from showing the true value of its crypto assets, say critics.
By
Vincent Ryan
| October 21, 2020
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Regulation
PCAOB to Consider Revising Audit Evidence Rule
The board will assess whether it should change its standard to reflect the growing use of technology-based auditing tools.
By
Matthew Heller
| September 9, 2020
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GAAP and IFRS
The Importance of Accounting Comparability
Could deviating from industry norms and employing atypical accounting choices hurt companies and managers?
By
Vincent Ryan
| July 6, 2020
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Lease Accounting
Capitalizing On the Lease Accounting Deadline Extension
Rather than shelving the compliance project to be picked up at a later date, firms must leverage this time to be more strategic in their approach.
By
Vincent Ryan
| June 18, 2020
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Growth Companies
Buffett Rebuffed
The Berkshire chairman decried the FASB mandate on new reporting for unrealized gains and losses. His airline holdings proved him wrong.
By
Vincent Ryan
| June 1, 2020
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Growth Companies
Is COVID-19 a Triggering Event for Impairment Testing?
Once companies are able to assess impacts to actual and forecasted results, they should consider whether such impacts represent a triggering event.
By
Steve Hills
| April 16, 2020
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Accounting Standards
Virus Relief Bill Delays CECL Rule for Banks
Congress makes a rare intervention to delay when large public banks must change how they account for losses on souring loans.
By
Matthew Heller
| March 27, 2020
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Internal Controls
Key Steps to the Lease Accounting Close
While some organizations have transitioned smoothly, others are still struggling to make the necessary business process and control changes.
By
Vincent Ryan
| January 27, 2020
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Revenue Recognition
Technical Accounting: The CFO’s Secret Weapon
A great partnership with accounting will actually help drive and influence financial results (legally, of course).
By
Vincent Ryan
| January 21, 2020
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Staffing
CFO Magazine’s Most-Read Stories of 2019
Our most-popular articles reflected finance chiefs' top concerns during the decade's final year.
By
Vincent Ryan
| January 1, 2020
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Regulation
EY Partner Named New FASB Chair
“Rich Jones brings together all of the important qualities we were looking for in FASB’s next leader,” said FAF Chairman Charles H. Noski.
By
Vincent Ryan
| December 20, 2019
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