The American Bankers Association has released a letter and white paper raising concerns over the process taken by the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards ...

The Financial Accounting Foundation’s board of trustees is changing the process for doing post-implementation reviews of the effectiveness of accounting standards, shifting the leadership of the ...

Members of Congress have recently introduced bipartisan legislation to delay the implementation of a new accounting standard that will require many banks to more carefully calculate, and report in ...

William Isaac and Thomas Vartanian unfortunately conflated two separate issues in their recent commentary about the Financial Accounting Standards Board: (1) FASB’s new standard for banks and other ...

The SEC’s Chief Accountant Paul Munter, released a statement “Accounting Standard Setting in a Rapidly Evolving Business Environment: A Focus on the Timely Delivery of Investor Priorities,” discussing ...

At a conference last week, the Chief Accountant of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance emphasized that the SEC staff will scrutinize companies’ financial reports in their upcoming reports on ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is a non-governmental, accounting-oversight organization that maintains accepted accounting rules that businesses in the U.S. follow. If businesses do not ...

Financial Advisor contributor Paul Ellis recently interviewed Dr. Jean Rogers, CEO and founder of Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), to discuss SASB’s standard setting process. Ellis: ...

The PCAOB is exploring ways to make its standard-setting process more efficient, board Chairman James Doty said Wednesday during an open meeting of the SEC. In December, SEC Chief Accountant James ...

Most accountants spend their days ensuring that company financial records are up to standards. But for a handful of Brigham Young University Master of Accountancy graduates, going to work means ...