Author Michael Gullette

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With FASB’s recent announcement of a 2019 effective date for their CECL impairment accounting standard, Fintellix Solutions and Ardmore Banking Advisors have released a white paper: “Effective CECL Adoption Timelines Confirmed: Expected Cost of Implementation.”

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During a conference call yesterday with more than 3,000 participants, Federal Reserve Board staff indicated that the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new model for impairment accounting — current expected credit loss, which is expected to be finalized in January and effective no earlier than 2018 — is not a tweak to existing accounting, but rather a fundamental change to bank accounting.

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ABA recently urged the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to emphasize enforcement of current audit requirements relating to the work of specialists, rather than creating new auditing standards.

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