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Article: FASB issues Exposure Drafts to improve accounting guidance and ...
Leader's Edge;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued four Exposure ... with existing international accounting standards. The Exposure Drafts reflect ... the FASB and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have made on a first ...

Article: Cooperation between FASB and IASB to achieve convergence of ...
Review of Business;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...The International Accounting Standards Board has a mandate to produce ... world. The Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US. is one of ... into the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), a highly professional ...

Article: Proposed legislation allows court challenges of FASB ...
The Bond Buyer;  February 9, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... accounting principles set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to be challenged in federal court. "Public ... process considerably, and maybe even kill some accounting standards," he said. " The International Swaps and ...

Article: GASB Invites Comments on New Accounting ...
Nation's Cities Weekly;  February 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... financial reports done by state and local governments. Statement 34 was imposed last year by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). The proposed changes to Statement 34, "Basic Financial Statements and Management's Discussion ...

Article: New views on lease accounting.(FINANCIAL REPORTING)(Financial ...
Strategic Finance;  May 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... step toward improving and converging their existing lease-accounting standards, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) recently issued a discussion paper titled "Leases ...

Article: FASB to reconsider lease accounting ...
Strategic Finance;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has added a project ... to reconsider the current accounting standards for leases. The Board says ... jointly with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Before making ...

Article: FASB, IASB request views on new reporting concepts.(International ...
Accounting Today;  August 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... step toward erecting a stronger foundation beneath the world's accounting standards, the International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board recently issued a joint document suggesting a more clearly defined ...