Russell Golden

The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted Wednesday to propose to delay some of its major accounting standards — including credit losses, leases, hedging and long-duration insurance contracts — for private companies, nonprofits and small reporting companies.

The standard-setter plans to offer accounting relief to companies that need to modify their contracts as banks move the global reference rates for loans and more.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is considering giving privately held companies and not-for-profit organizations an extra two years to implement standards.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board may begin asking auditors to look at cybersecurity when assessing risks at the companies they audit.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update Thursday to clarify three of its recent standards for credit losses, hedging, and recognition and measurement of financial instruments.

The Financial Accounting Foundation’s board of trustees has appointed Susan M. Cosper, technical director of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, as a member of the FASB board.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board are both on the lookout for new chairmen, with the end of the term approaching next year for leaders of both FASB and GASB.

The new standard adjusts the way companies account for the production costs of films and episodic content produced for TV and online streaming services.

The update clarifies some of the disclosure and implementation requirements of the new leasing standard.

The update aims to reduce the costs of implementing and applying the new lease-reporting rules

The proposals would make narrow improvements to the rules for credit losses, hedging, and recognition and measurement.

The update makes narrow improvements to the credit losses standard, including the transition requirements.

The staff paper aims to help private company franchises implement the new accounting standard by offering them practical examples.

The standards update aims to reduce the cost and complexity of variable interest entities, particularly for private companies.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update Wednesday aimed at decreasing the complexity of accounting for costs of implementing a cloud computing service arrangement.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board made two changes to its conceptual framework and released a pair of accounting standards updates aimed at making disclosures in notes to financial statements more effective.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposed accounting standards update Monday to amend the transition requirements and scope of the credit losses standard that it issued in 2016.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing to make a number of narrow improvements in the lease accounting standard as public companies get ready for it to take effect at the end of the year.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board hopes to improve the financial reporting for stock compensation.

The former Carr, Riggs & Ingram partner is stepping down after a year and a half, for personal reasons.