IASB

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

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.

What is IFRS 16, how will it affect your business and what do you need to do to ensure your leasing arrangements remain compliant?

If you have reservations about the new expected credit loss model for financial instruments, let’s take a high-level look at the guidance and try to answer some immediate questions.

Accounting standard-setters are tweaking the rules for the standards taking effect in the next few years, according to officials.

The report is part of IASB’s better communication in financial reporting initiative.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released its long-awaited hedging standard, the final component of its financial instruments convergence project with the International Accounting Standards Board.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board is circulating some proposed revisions to its financial instruments standard for government entities to harmonize it with the International Accounting Standards Board’s financial instruments standard for businesses.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board is mulling new guidance on how the public sector should account for revenue and non-exchange expense transactions, such as the provision of education, health care and defense, in light of the revenue recognition standard.

Nearly half of corporate executives are concerned about their ability to implement the lease accounting standards, according to a survey by Deloitte.

Organizations are finally starting to prepare for the new lease accounting standard that will be taking effect in 2019, but as they do they’re running into some unexpected complexities.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted Wednesday to proceed to a final standard on hedge accounting, part of the financial instruments project that FASB had been working on for years with the International Accounting Standards Board before the two boards went their separate ways.

Companies should begin to plan now how to incorporate the new standards and update procedures for the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s accounting updates on two significant topics: revenue recognition and lease accounting.

Trustees of the IFRS Foundation met Thursday with Japan’s Financial Accounting Standards Foundation to issue a joint statement reaffirming a commitment to global accounting standards as more Japanese companies move to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards.

The long-awaited IFRS 17 will provide more consistent treatment for all types of insurance in different countries.

The IFRS Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the World Bank to help developing countries use International Financial Reporting Standards.

The IFRS Foundation, the group that oversees the International Accounting Standards Board and its work on International Financial Reporting Standards, issued its annual report for 2016 on Tuesday, with a look ahead at where global standards are expected to go this year.

The International Accounting Standards Board has proposed a set of minor amendments to the financial instruments standard to make it easier to implement.