The SEC recently amended its disclosure requirements for historical and pro forma financial statements arising from acquisitions and dispositions. [1] While the revisions are fairly technical, overall ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is making progress on its disclosure framework project, which aims to establish an overarching framework to help the board establish requirements for ...

A proposed concepts statement issued Friday by GASB would establish new criteria for state and local governments to follow in developing their disclosures for notes to financial statements. The ...

IN CERTAIN INSTANCES CPAs SHOULD CONSIDER preparing and reporting on financial statements using an “other comprehensive basis of accounting” (OCBOA). Tax-basis and cash-basis, including ...

Effective October 1, 2019, except where exempted below, vendor disclosure statements shall be required from all vendors in an effort to eliminate potential conflicts of interest, regardless of ...

The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation has published a set of near-final examples showing how companies can improve the reporting of uncertainties in their financial statements ...

Overall. As proposed, a company that was required to file climate-related disclosure in a filing with audited financial statements would have been required to disclose in a note to its financials ...

Amortization of a company's intangible assets can take as long as 40 years, depending on the types of assets disclosed on the company's financial statements. How these assets affect financial ...