The Financial Accounting Standards Board, FASB, is a private, independent organization that since 1973 has been given the authority by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, to establish ...
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing a new chapter in its conceptual framework that defines 10 elements of financial statements. The proposed chapter, Concepts Statement No. 8, ...
"Uncertainty" in accounting refers to the difficulty of predicting outcomes because of limited or inexact knowledge. Financial statements often contain estimates and other information based on ...
The Financial Accounting Standards Board posted an accounting standards update to address its stakeholders' concerns about the application of derivative accounting and its scope. The concerns involve ...