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new lease accounting standards with tools designed to help simplify lease classification changes and financial reporting requirements.
A retailer can accomplish plenty in two and a half years, but 61.2 percent of industry professionals say they are concerned about their readiness to meet
updated lease accounting standards from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), whi...
A retailer can accomplish plenty in two and a half years, but 61.2 percent of industry professionals say they are concerned about their readiness to meet updated
lease accounting standards from the Financial Accounti...
In a statement released by the IASB, it was estimated that the change
in lease accounting standard would result in an increase of over $ 3.3 trillion in total assets on the related balance sheet for companies that follow either standard.
On February 16, 2012, a coalition of several leading commercial real estate organizations, including NAR, released a report that examines the economic impact of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board's
proposed lease accounting standard.
NAR, along with several other real estate industry partners, sent a letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) requesting an exemption for private companies to comply with the
new lease accounting standards.
Corporations have resigned themselves to the fact that, at some point, new
lease accounting standards will be in place that will effectively shift leases from off - balance sheet to on - balance sheet reporting.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released the final version of its updated
lease accounting standards.
The first is through the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) proposed changes to
lease accounting standards, part of a larger standards convergence effort between FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which began in 2006.
For all other entities, including private companies, the new
lease accounting standard is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019 and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2020.
The new
lease accounting standards will come out in late February 2016, but the industry groups have begun soliciting the FASB for an exemption for private companies.
The business community continues to raise concerns about the negative impacts of over regulation, and the commercial industry continues to wait for clarity on key reforms to the CMBS market and
lease accounting standards.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have yet to release a final version of their new
lease accounting standards, including the date that the new standards will go into effect.