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The Equity Method of Accounting for Investments in Common Stock full-text: Mar. 1971 Heavily amended; Parts deleted or replaced; 19. Reporting Changes in Financial Position full-text: Mar. 1971 Amended; Superseded by FASB Statement 95, para. 150; 20. Accounting Changes full-text: July. 1971 Heavily amended; Parts deleted or replaced
Equity method in accounting is the process of treating investments in associate companies. Equity accounting is usually applied where an investor entity holds 20–50% of the voting stock of the associate company, and therefore has significant influence on the latter's management.
Applicability of FASB Statement No. 2 to Business Combinations Accounted for by the Purchase Method—an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 2 Feb. 1975: Amended; 5. Applicability of FASB Statement No. 2 to Development Stage Enterprises—an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 2 Feb. 1975: Superseded by FASB Statement 7, para. 6; 6.
This article is an incomplete list of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) pronouncements, which consist of Statements of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS" or simply "FAS"), Statements of Financial Accounting Concepts, Interpretations, Technical Bulletins, and Staff Positions, which together presented rules and guidelines for preparing, presenting, and reporting financial ...
The FASB Accounting Standards Codification is the source of authoritative GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. In addition to the SEC's rules and interpretive ...
The FASB established the Investor Task Force (ITF) in 2005, which was an advisory resource that provided the Board with sector expertise and specific insights from the professional investment community on relevant accounting issues. [30] The FASB then implemented SFAS 157 which established new standards for disclosure regarding fair value ...
The Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council then voiced its concerns due to the increase of financial reporting guidance from the old U.S. GAAP standards, and the FASB responded by launching a new project to codify the standards. The project was approved in September 2004 by the Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation. [2]
The regulatory capital of banks in the US and generally worldwide includes contributed equity capital and retained earnings but excludes AOCI, even though it is reported as a component of the Equity section of the Balance Sheet. The FASB released an Accounting Standards Update on January 5, 2016 that changes items reported in OCI.