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FASB financial accounting & reporting

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Financial professionals are facing unprecedented changes in financial accounting and reporting. Economic, regulatory, and global forces are demanding higher-quality reporting while standards are in continual flux. These learning resources are designed to help you understand the knowledge and skills needed in the areas of financial accounting and reporting to appropriately serve their employers or clients.

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New Revenue Recognition Accounting Standard—Learning and Implementation Plan

Use this roadmap to ensure that your company as well as its management team and staff understand the new standard.

Article Revenue recognition Intermediate

Financial Reporting Brief: Roadmap to Understanding the New Revenue Recognition Standards

This brief includes discusses the 5-step model and other new guidance.

Article Revenue recognition Foundational

Revenue Recognition Primer for Audit Committees

This document will assist audit committees in ensuring the entity is prepared to adopt the standard.

Article Revenue recognition Foundational

Accounting for Financial Instruments

This article provides background information on ASU No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.

Article Financial instruments Foundational

Financial Reporting Center Brief: FASB Releases Financial Instruments – Recognition and Measurement Standard

This financial reporting center brief provides a summary of the key provision of this new standard.

Article Financial instruments Foundational

Financial Reporting Center Brief: FASB Releases Financial Instruments – Credit Losses Standard

This financial reporting center brief provides a summary of the key provision of this new standard.

Article Financial instruments Foundational

FASB Credit Losses Standard

This video provides a brief overview of the FASB’s credit impairment standard.

Video Financial instruments Foundational

New Leases Accounting Standard—Learning and Implementation Plan

This table provides a suggested timeline for public entities to implement the new leases standard.

Article Leases Foundational

Financial Reporting Brief: Leases

This document provides a detailed overview of the provisions of the new standard.

Article Leases Foundational

Introduction to the New Revenue Recognition Standard

Kim Kushmerick, AICPA Senior Technical Manager-Accounting Standards, provides an overview of the new revenue recognition standard and highlights helpful AICPA...

Video Revenue recognition Foundational

Professional Judgment

Several organizations have developed informational pieces discussing the need for professional judgment. This page provides descriptions and links to each.

Article Audit Foundational

Standards Tracker

This document provides a quick reference to recently issued standards.

Article FASB financial accounting & reporting Foundational