In December 2021 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) released their proposed amendments to their accounting standards that will require buyers of...more
In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, the U.S. government has provided relief to companies through various grant programs. The receipt of these grant proceeds represents a meaningful lifeline to many companies and the...more
Beany & Cecil was a cartoon. The Current Expected Credit Loss accounting rules, better known as CECL, which the FASB is insisting will go into effect at the beginning of next year for publicly traded banks and lenders and a...more
A joint effort by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (“IFRS”) will fundamentally reset the accounting treatment of leases under both US-GAAP and...more
On October 4, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) published the final rule adopting amendments to certain disclosure requirements that have become duplicative, overlapping, or outdated in light of...more
Amendments remedy duplicative, overlapping or outdated disclosure requirements with other requirements by the SEC, U.S. GAAP or changes in the overall information environment. The amendments show recent SEC efforts to...more
On August 17, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the adoption of amendments to simplify and update disclosure requirements. Although the amendments are voluminous in length and breadth of provisions...more
Congress passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (known as the “FAST Act”) at the end of 2015. Among other things, the FAST Act directed the SEC to modernize and simplify its disclosure requirements by...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted final rules to eliminate redundant, duplicative, overlapping, outdated, or superseded disclosure requirements. These rules, adopted more than two years after the...more
On August 17, 2018, the SEC adopted amendments to eliminate or modify certain disclosure requirements that have become redundant, overlapping, outdated or superseded in light of other SEC rules, GAAP or changes in the...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced last Friday that it has adopted amendments to certain disclosure requirements that have become duplicative, overlapping, or outdated in light of other Commission...more
The much-discussed new revenue recognition standards jointly issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to harmonize revenue recognition standards between...more
Corp Fin recently revised some of the guidance in its Financial Reporting Manual related to adoption of new accounting standards. One revision relates to the adoption of a new accounting standard in the context of a...more
In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) for public business entities, certain not-for-profit entities, and...more
Revenue recognition standards adopted by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) will become effective over the next two years. In light of the changes, it is a good time to remind ourselves that accounting terms in...more
Just when you thought it was safe to go out at night again, another reason not to deploy capital is slouching into Bethlehem. We’ve written a lot here at CrunchedCredit about the Damian-like progeny of Dodd-Frank and Basel,...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published details of interim regulatory treatment of accounting provisions and standards for transitional arrangements under Basel III capital framework....more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a consultation paper and discussion paper on the regulatory treatment of accounting provisions under the Basel III capital framework and related policy considerations...more
Overview - The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently announced proposed amendments in order to update and simplify its disclosure requirements. The proposed amendments are intended to simplify...more
On July 13, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to its disclosure requirements to eliminate redundant, overlapping, outdated or superseded provisions that have resulted over time due to...more
On July 13, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to various disclosure provisions in order to eliminate duplicative provisions and modernize the relevant requirements. After the proposed...more
Regulatory Developments - SEC Proposes Amendments to Update and Simplify Disclosure Requirements as Part of Overall Disclosure Effectiveness Review - On July 13, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed...more
In her statement at the SEC open meeting to vote on issuing the “Disclosure Update and Simplification Proposing Release,” SEC Commissioner Kara Stein protested that “this proposal may be framed in such a hyper-technical way...more
Yesterday, the SEC proposed amendments to eliminate redundant, overlapping, outdated, or superseded provisions, in light of subsequent changes to SEC disclosure requirements, U.S. GAAP, IFRS and technology. The SEC also...more
Off-balance sheet operating leases are an important part of many companies’ financing strategies. A key attraction of operating leases is that neither leased assets nor lease payments are recorded on a company’s balance...more