Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative

A big thanks to Naomi and Shayne for their comments today. It was a great Round Table. Thanks to everyone who participated as well. We welcome any comments or follow-up questions regarding today’s Round Table topic. Read more > >

The February 23rd (4pm ET) Roundtable will feature a discussion of Emissions Trading Schemes, led by University of Colorado research Naomi Soderstrom, along with insights from the Assistant Project Manager on the FASB's Emission Trading Schemes project, Shayne Kuhaneck. Click here for details on the session. * UPDATE: The archived video of this Round [...] Read more > >

The February 23rd Roundtable will feature a discussion of Emissions Trading Schemes, led by University of Colorado research Naomi Soderstrom, along with insights from the Assistant Project Manager on the FASB’s Emission Trading Schemes project, Shayne Kuhaneck. Many accountants have only passing familiarity with Emissions Trading Schemes.  As the FASB project page describes, Emission trading schemes to [...] Read more > >

Another student guest blogger.  See the comment thread for my own remark on this topic, which promises to be very interesting over the coming year.  –RJB One of FASB’s current projects involves providing guidance to accounting issues such as accounting for Emissions Trading Schemes.  This project is important because many environmental and ecological accounting concepts are [...] Read more > >