Changes in lease accounting standards = changes in business

Equipment Leasing Today;  March 1, 1999 ;     506 words ...Changes in lease accounting standards is not a matter of if, but...who attended the second Lease Accounting Standards Summit in Washington, D...see the development of new lease accounting standards. While they took no "hard...

Will FASB change lease accounting?

Equipment Leasing Today;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......from which the current lease accounting standards of all of the participating...adopted after the current lease accounting standards were already in place...authors conclude that the lease accounting standards need to be updated to...

Study reveals concerns about U.S. lease accounting standard

Equipment Leasing Today;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Do the current lease accounting standards work? Not very...international standard for lease accounting by 2001. The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC...initiatives to revise lease accounting standards, including IAS...

Accounting standards summit yields changed picture

Equipment Leasing Today;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......balance sheet. The Third Lease Accounting Standards Summit was held in conjunction...set of international lease accounting standards that eliminates off balance...stimulate discussion of lease accounting standards and be preliminary to...

FASB to ELA: Lease accounting 'doesn't work'

Equipment Leasing Today;  April 1, 1999 ;     503 words ......the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in...proposed change in lease accounting, which ELA has...the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council...FASAC ranked lease accounting fourth among matters...the Board ranks lease accounting first, ...

ELA issues lease accounting white paper.(Equipment Leasing...

Strategic Finance;  June 1, 2006 ;     192 words ......recently issued a white paper on lease accounting that it says is designed to get beyond...and the public the realities of how lease accounting works. Titled Lease Accounting: Separating Myth from Reality. Are the lease accounting rules as bad as they say? and ...

Accounting alert: International standards-setters to take up lease...

ELT;  June 1, 2003 ;     190 words ......international accounting standards-setting body...international lease accounting standards. The IASB has...informally on a lease accounting project for...the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB...

Leasing back on FASB's agenda; ED likely in '09.(Financial Accounting...

Financial Executive;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......existing accounting standards when we get...the current lease accounting standards...principles-based accounting standards, and leasing...existing lease accounting model, and...make the lease accounting standards so challenging...

Foreign lessees and lessors face new lease accounting rules

Equipment Leasing Today;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......is the basis for U.S. lease accounting standards, it provides that the...included in the U.S. lease accounting standards), E56 would include the...contained in the U.S. lease accounting standards. The exposure draft would...

Lease Accounting Project Changes Direction

ELT;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)/International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) lease accounting project. Because...international accounting standards, the Boards...writing the new lease accounting rules, due...leveraged lease ...

When lease accounting is changed...not if

ELT;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......international accounting standards-setting body...shifting current lease accounting from a risk...of national accounting standards possible. And...considering the lease accounting proposal at...the British Accounting Standards Board had...added a formal ...

Change on the horizon for global accounting standards

ELT;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......high quality accounting standards. G4 +1 Disbands...the subject of lease accounting, "Leasing: Implementation...sweeping changes to lease accounting standards and recommended...for changing lease accounting standards in the U.K...

Lease Accounting Project Gets Underway

ELT;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......IASB gear up to change accounting standards. On July 19, 2006, the...IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board decided to add lease accounting to their formal project...Association (FLA) and U.K. Accounting Standards Board (ASB) convened...outcomes of the ...

Lease accounting: are current rules as bad as some...

Financial Executive;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......calls to revise lease accounting standards have come from a...criticism of the lease accounting standard, FAS 13...medium and small accounting firms to certify...substantial risk. * Myth: Lease accounting rules are overly...

Enron accounting vs. lease accounting: Apples to oranges

ELT;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......should not reflect on lease accounting. As the ugly story of...certain rules, and dragging lease accounting into the docket with...Congress, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, (FASB), The Big...leasing as a culprit. Lease accounting is in danger, unfairly...the ...