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How to navigate accounting assumptions

ThomsonReuters

Jump to: What are the main accounting assumptions? Going concern assumption: A closer look How do common accounting assumptions relate to GAAP? Staying up to date with GAAP standards Running an efficient and successful business isn’t easy. What are the main accounting assumptions? Let’s take a closer look at each one.

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An Essential Guide to Accounting and Basic Accounting Principles for Beginners

Snyder

It can be hard to keep up with new opportunities and technologies in our rapidly changing and evolving world, especially in a professional field such as accounting. Why is accounting important? What are basic accounting principles? What is accounting software? Basic accounting and its secrets. Contents: 1.

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Navigating GASB 100: Accounting Changes and Error Corrections

Cherry Bekaert

Contributors: DeWanna Coleman Governmental Accounting Standards Board (“GASB”) Statement No. 100, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections—an amendment of GASB Statement No. One government might report an accounting change, while another government might report a similar change as an error correction.

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Changes to Lease Accounting Rules (ASC 842)

SMBAccountant

New rules are going into effect for lease accounting which may change how small businesses who follow Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) think about and reporting leases. Under the old rules, financial reporting requirements were determined based on whether a contract was considered a capital or operating lease.

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FASB Accepting Comments on Proposed New Chapter of Its Conceptual Framework Measurement

CPA Practice

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed new chapter of its Conceptual Framework related to the measurement of items recognized in financial statements. A Statement of Financial Accounting Concepts is nonauthoritative and does not establish or change generally accepted accounting principles.

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FASB Issues Disclosure Improvements in Response to the SEC’s Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative

CPA Practice

The Financial Accounting Standards Board ( FASB ) has issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that incorporates certain U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosure requirements into the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. In SEC Release No.

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FASB Approves New Accounting Rules for Joint Ventures

CPA Practice

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a new standard on Wednesday that addresses the accounting for contributions made to a joint venture, upon formation, in a joint venture’s separate financial statements. Securities and Exchange Commission staff,” the FASB said. “As

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