Financial Accounting Standards Board rules say that real property should be depreciated over 40 years.
In May of 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board amended the standard Lehman had manipulated.
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Atlanta-based Coke is officially adopting the Financial Accounting Standards Board 1995 recommendation for stock-based employee compensation.
The auditing firm says that it obeyed the principles laid down by America's Financial Accounting Standards Board.
The Federal Accounting Standards Board is considering new rules about how financial companies account for off-balance sheet holdings.
On April 2nd, after a bruising encounter with Congress, America's Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) rushed through rule changes.
European ministers instantly demanded that the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) do likewise.
The Financial Accounting Standards board labored mightily to modify one of the most destructive principles of modern times: mark-to-market accounting.
Until the government or the Financial Accounting Standards Board requires companies to report more, this is the best figure available.
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In the meantime, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) clarified the rules and gave banks, in particular, a potential defense.
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Now, as the Financial Accounting Standards Board again debates the treatment of options, the calculations behind their accounting are under attack.
Cox has the authority to override the Financial Accounting Standards Board's insane insistence on mark-to-market accounting rules, but he has done nothing.
But private pension plans (overseen by the Financial Accounting Standards Board) may not set a liability discount rate based on anticipated asset performance.
This stems from a Financial Accounting Standards Board ruling that airport bonds should be treated as debt of the airlines that guarantee them.
That is precisely why there should be a stewardship concept in accounting, which is been almost forgotten now by the International Accounting Standards Board.
Congressional pressure eventually caused FASB (the Financial Accounting Standards Board) to relax slightly their rules on mark to market accounting as applied to banks.
That's when the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is expected to let companies that acquire others expense the goodwill, rather than amortize it.
And without universal accounting standards, perhaps imposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, we may never know how bad the toxic asset situation is.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board, which is responsible for developing accounting principles, does not appear to view providing investors with meaningful information as a priority.
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For analysts like Rauh, the main culprit is the governmental accounting standards board (GASB), whose discounting metrics are a point of contention for economists.
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America's Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed an overhaul of the way banks report loans on their sheets, by linking them more firmly to market valuations.
The Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) will decide on June 25th whether to impose new rules that would require states to use a more realistic rate.
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In the U.S., the Financial Accounting Standards Board is working on rules that would require companies to disclose information that might be helpful in appraising a range of intangibles.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board, established in 1973 by the AICPA and four other professional groups to set all accounting principles, is due for some organizational changes.
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board is mulling changes that would make rules on accounting for goodwill less onerous for those firms that pay cash for their acquisitions.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which issues fatwas concerning accounting rules for corporations, has formally recommended that stock options be expensed as soon as they are granted.
For several years, the SEC and the London-based International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which oversees the international rules, focused on steadily bringing the two sets of standards together.
First of all, as I noted in a recent blog, the International Accounting Standards Board now think that all accounts are produced to meet the needs of speculators.
Unfortunately, investors can also expect a tidal wave of accounting minutiae from the regulators, as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) get on the stick.
Which is why the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) should hold its horses and pull back from enacting a rule that would require publicly traded companies to expense stock options.
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