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Biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and related businesses are dealing with recent accounting standards, plus a new tax law, amid a changing landscape for their industry.

Larry Smith, who served as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board from 2007 until 2017, is watching some of the standards he worked on for a decade now being rolled out, but he believes the board should be doing more on performance reporting and the FASB Accounting Standards Codification.

Ken Crutchfield, vice president and general manager of Bloomberg Tax Technology, discusses the changes in the leasing standard that accountants and their clients need to prepare for this year.

The Internal Revenue Service may be changing Schedule UTP, the Uncertain Tax Position Statement, which corporate taxpayers file with their Form 1120 tax returns, because it doesn’t contain enough information to be useful in compliance efforts, according to a new report.

Businesses that were early adopters of the new rules have been running into some issues with regulators and investors.

FASB's recent move to make implementation easier isn't persuading accountants it will save them any time or effort.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has accepted the latest sets of XBRL tags for financial filing.

A flood of new accounting regs may be an opportunity to strength a company’s finance architecture.

The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation has released a new set of data tags, while the Securities and Exchange Commission also renewed its files.

Companies need to realize that the challenge ahead is bigger than accounting.

General Electric Co.’s boss wants investors to know that all the negative headlines dogging the manufacturer don’t tell the whole story.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a proposal Tuesday to expand the list of benchmark interest rates allowed for hedge accounting.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update Wednesday to help companies deal with the stranded income tax effects in accumulated other comprehensive income stemming from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is moving forward with a proposed accounting standards update to reclassify the stranded tax effects from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, although at least one investor group has some concerns.

With 2018 upon us and the extraordinary effort we’ve put in to get us past the public company deadline for the new revenue recognition standards, I’d like to highlight three longer-term considerations for companies to keep in mind as they continue to report and operate under the new rules.

Audit committees at public companies should be aware of some of the accounting implications of the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, according to a new report from Ernst & Young.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Emerging Issues Task Force plans to propose new rules for how to deal with cloud computing service costs.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update to clarify how to apply the new lease accounting standard to land easements, simplifying adoption of the standard for some easements.

Four more Staff Q&A documents deal with various financial accounting and reporting implementation issues.

Marisa Garcia, managing director of CohnReznick Advisory, explains why so many industries are still dragging their heels on adjusting to the new revenue rules.