Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative

The SEC essentially punted today on the decision to adopt IFRS in the U.S.  Acknowledging that the SEC is in the same position they were in November 2008 (when the proposed roadmap was originally issued), Mary Schapiro said the SEC hopes to be in a position by 2011 to make this decision. One of the [...] Read more > >

You may have noticed that we can now directly embed videos in posts. Thanks to our great web development team for making that happen! Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting videos of previous Round Table discussions. We hope this will make the archived discussions more accessible to readers. Read more > >

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 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 > >

If you weren’t there for yesterday’s roundtable with Aaron Beam & Weston Smith, I strongly urge you to view the archived copy of it.  I was fascinated by their rendition of the Health South fraud (both CFO’s there).  How many journal entries do you think it took each quarter to manage the books.  You’ll be [...] Read more > >

If you weren’t there for yesterday’s roundtable with Aaron Beam & Weston Smith, I strongly urge you to view the archived copy of it.  I was fascinated by their rendition of the Health South fraud (both CFO’s there).  How many journal entries do you think it took each quarter to manage the books.  You’ll be [...] Read more > >

A recent FrontLine episode, called “The Warning”, was about Brooksley Born, who was director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for some years during the Clinton administration.  The show made a strong case that she tried very hard to warn the financial world up through 1998 that OTC derivatives were a very big risk.  Alan [...] Read more > >

On Tuesday, January 12th we had a Round Table Event with Jim Leisenring from the IASB. To view the archived video and a brief summary of the event, click here. Additional information about Jim and this Round Table Event can be found here. Follow-up comments from this event can be found here. Read more > >

Mark Evans of Indiana University will lead our next roundtable discussion, Wednesday March 3rd, 11am ET).  Here is the abstract from his recent paper, written with Leslie Hodder and Pat Hopkins, exploring fair value in commercial banks: For a sample of commercial banks during 1994–2008, we find that accumulated fair value adjustments for investment securities are [...] 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 > >