The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standards update Thursday for nonprofits, modifying the definition of the term “collections” to align it with the American Alliance of ...

A new FASB standard aligns the board’s definition of “collections” with the definition used in the American Alliance of Museums’ Code of Ethics for Museums. Accounting Standards Update No. 2019-03, ...

A “screen”. The “framework”. “Single or similar asset threshold”. Is anyone else scratching their head when they read the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) new definition of a business?

FASB has finalized new guidance to make it more clear when a particular transaction constitutes the purchase or sale of a business or just a collection of assets. Tammy Whitehouse has more.

In 2015, FASB sent a number of stakeholders into a tizzy when it issued two exposure drafts, part of its disclosure framework project, intended to “clarify the concept of materiality.” After hearing ...

NORWALK, Conn. (CBS.MW) -- The nation's independent accounting standards overseer on Wednesday said it would propose a change in the definition of a derivative. The proposal by the Financial ...

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 ...