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AAFCPAs’ Update on Decisions Reached in FASB NFP Financial Statements Project

AAFCPAs’ Update on Decisions Reached in FASB NFP Financial Statements Project

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is evaluating 263 comment letters, including feedback from AAFCPAs, as part of their invitation to stakeholders for review and input on the proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) entitled Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958) and Health Care Entities (Topic 954): Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities.   As part of its […]

FASB Issues Standards for Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Liabilities

FASB Issues Standards for Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Liabilities

AAFCPAs wants to alert you to this change from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).  In their effort to provide users of financial statements with more useful information on the recognition, measurement, presentation, and disclosure of financial instruments, on January 5, 2016 the FASB issued a new Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-01, Financial Instruments, […]

FASB Simplifies the Presentation of Deferred Tax Liabilities and Assets

FASB Simplifies the Presentation of Deferred Tax Liabilities and Assets

AAFCPAs would like to make you aware that on Nov. 20, 2015 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2015-17, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes.  This ASU applies to all organizations that present a classified balance sheet, and requires that all deferred tax liabilities and assets […]

FASB Moves to Finalize Leasing Standard, Sets Effective Dates

FASB Moves to Finalize Leasing Standard, Sets Effective Dates

ASU will require that lease obligations be added to the balance sheet AAFCPAs would like to make you aware that on Nov. 11, 2015 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) voted to proceed with a new accounting standard that would require companies and other organizations to include lease obligations on their balance sheets as opposed […]

Reminder: FASB Defers Revenue Recognition Standard

Reminder: FASB Defers Revenue Recognition Standard

In response to feedback from stakeholders, preparers, practitioners, and users of financial statements, in August 2015, the FASB approved a one-year deferral of the effective date of Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The effective date of Update 2014-09 has been deferred for all entities by one year. Public business […]

Proposed Nonprofit Financial Statement Format Changes

Proposed Nonprofit Financial Statement Format Changes

On April 22, 2015, the FASB issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) entitled Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958) and Health Care Entities (Topic 954): Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities.  The proposed ASU is intended to improve the financial reporting of not-for-profit entities (NFPs) and to provide more useful information to the donors, creditors, […]

FASB Votes to Propose a Deferral to the Effective Date for Revenue Recognition Standard by One Year

FASB Votes to Propose a Deferral to the Effective Date for Revenue Recognition Standard by One Year

AAFCPAs would like to inform you of an update from today’s FASB Board Meeting (April 1, 2015), in which they voted to propose a one-year deferral of the effective date of Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) (“the new revenue standard”). Following a member comment period (30-days), we anticipate […]

Accounting Alternatives for Private Companies

Accounting Alternatives for Private Companies

On March 20, 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-07, Consolidation (Topic 810): Applying Variable Interest Entities Guidance to Common Control Leasing Arrangements (a consensus of the Private Company Council). This update allows private company lessee (the reporting entity) to elect an alternative not to apply Variable Interest Entity (VIE) guidance […]

Accounting Alternatives for Private Companies

Accounting Alternatives for Private Companies

On January 16, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Updates No. 2014-02 and 2014-3. These updates proactively define a private company and set standards for accounting for goodwill and a simplified hedge accounting approach. Definition of a Private Company The FASB decided that it should proactively determine which entities would be within […]