Hedging

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a new accounting standards update aimed at improving its existing hedge accounting guidance.

The board issued an accounting standards update aimed at better aligning hedge accounting with an organization’s risk management strategies.

Chargebee has acquired Brighback; and GTreasury has bought Hedge Trackers.

FASB's proposed update could help companies with their risk management, but they will probably need sophisticated hedging expertise to benefit.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposed accounting standards update Wednesday to better line up a company’s hedge accounting with its risk management strategies.

The new hedge accounting standard is encouraging more companies to re-evaluate their risk management, according to a new report from Deloitte.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposed accounting standards update Tuesday aimed at clarifying some areas of its 2017 hedging standard for derivatives.

The board approved proposals to delay the effective dates of its leases, credit losses, hedging and long-duration insurance contract standards.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is aiming to clarify the interaction between two of its earlier standards.

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.

ASU 2018-16 lets hedgers use the SOFR Overnight Index Swap Financing Rate.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new hedge accounting standard is prompting some companies to adopt the standard ahead of the Jan 1, 2019 effective date, though many companies are still not using hedge accounting at all.

The financial instruments standard requires a new kind of calculation that is proving disruptive.

There may be some advantages, particularly for multinationals, with getting an early jump on FASB's changes in the hedging rules.

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

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released its long-awaited hedge accounting standard this week, but companies may want to be careful about adopting it early, or else they could miss out on some one-time benefits.

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.

Seattle-based financial services company agrees to pay a $500,000 penalty to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly performed hedge accounting and later took steps to impede potential whistleblowers.