Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative

Jeremy summarized nicely some of the discussion points that Jim raised during his discussion with Jeffrey Hales.  I won’t repeat his summary.  However, I found Jim’s comments to be particularly insightful today.  I came away with some very good clarification of a few issues. Here’s one that I found particularly interesting: Regarding his objection to the “management [...] Read more > >

Last week I suggested you take a look at how lawyers view accounting, courtesy of the popular and thoughtful legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy.  This week, I am glad to report that conspirator (and American University law professor) Kenneth Anderson has given me the opportunity to write a guest post getting lawyers insights into a [...] Read more > >

As reported in the FEI Financial Reporting Blog, a CFO.com article by David McCann captured some recent remarks made by Wayne Carnall, the SEC Division of Corp. Fin. Chief Accountant.  In response to questions about whether firms would have to amend existing filings to make specific references from the legacy body of GAAP literature consistent [...] Read more > >

We had an excellent discussion today with Bob Laux of Microsoft. Whether you are looking for research topics or good stories for your students–financial or managerial–you will find this a very interesting discussion. You can now watch the archive live by going here, waiting through a 15 second commercial, and then clicking the [...] Read more > >

Details on participation are here. On Wednesday, July 22nd, 11am ET, we will get a preparer’s perspective on the state and future of financial reporting standards from Bob Laux, Senior Director of Financial Accounting and Reporting at Microsoft.  Mr. Laux is responsible for Microsoft’s financial accounting, including  responding to GAAP questions and issues within Microsoft and [...] Read more > >

The FASB announced today the addition of a disclosure framework project to their agenda.  The addition of the project appears to be motivated by feedback the Board received the ITAC and CIFR committees. In today’s press release, Chairman Bob Herz said: “Many constituents have expressed concerns about so-called ‘disclosure overload.’  While clear and robust disclosures are essential [...] Read more > >