The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and the American Institute of CPAs have pledged their cooperation on financial reporting frameworks for private after a dispute broke out between the two organizations over the AICPA’s recent issuance of its Financial Reporting Framework for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is issuing a new accounting standards update on Monday that defers indefinitely certain disclosures about investments held by nonpublic employee benefit plans in their plan sponsors’ own nonpublic equity securities.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued for public comment a proposed statement regarding the transition provisions of GASB’s new pension standards for state and local governments with the goal of eliminating a potential source of understatement of restated beginning net position and expense in a government’s first year of implementing GASB’s new pension accounting standards.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board plan to host a series of joint public roundtable meetings on different continents to discuss their revised joint proposals on leasing standards that were published in May.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued for public comment three proposals to address the concerns of private companies about accounting for intangible assets acquired in business combinations, goodwill, and certain types of interest rate swaps under U.S. GAAP.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is expected to issue a document Thursday proposing to improve the financial reporting of insurance contracts, including the measurement of insurance liabilities and the related effect on the statement of comprehensive income.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposal to improve disclosures of uncertainties related to an organization’s ability to continue as a going concern.