FASB Announces CECL Roundtable
In response to ongoing feedback from bankers and ABA staff related to FASB’s Current Expected Credit Loss impairment accounting standard,...
Tax and Accounting
Basel Issues Regulatory Expectations on Credit Loss Accounting
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued its guidance on credit risk and expected credit loss accounting, which is...
Community Bank Impairment Cost Study Published
With FASB's recent announcement of a 2019 effective date for their CECL impairment accounting standard, Fintellix Solutions and Ardmore Banking...
FASB Finalizes Lease Accounting Standard
FASB on Wednesday also gave final approval to a new lease accounting standard that requires all operating leases to be...
FASB Sets Effective Dates for New Impairment Accounting
Also at its Wednesday meeting, FASB agreed that its proposed Current Expected Credit Loss standard for impairment of loans and...
FASB Finalizes “Market to Market” Accounting
After at least five years of serious debate about proposing to mark all financial assets and liabilities to market, the...
Agencies Reconcile Volcker, Basel III Capital Deduction Guidance
The federal banking regulators today issued guidance on the methodology banks can use to deduct investments from tier 1 capital...
Fed Staff Want Scalability for New Impairment Accounting
During a conference call yesterday with more than 3,000 participants, Federal Reserve Board staff indicated that the Financial Accounting Standards...
U.S. Begins Foreign Tax Information Exchanges Under FATCA
The IRS today announced that it has begun exchanging financial account information with foreign tax authorities as part of its...
