Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative

I just received an email about TESS:  Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences.  Anyone who is running short experiments should take a look.  They offer access to the general US population (not just students); I am not sure whether it is possible to get access to managers or investors, but hopefully someone will take a [...] Read more > >

Okay, this is supposed to be a blog. I have an opinion on SFAS 165 on subsequent events, transplanted from the auditing domain. But deep down in the opinion is a question… So the new standard (my read) indicates that if information comes to the plate regarding an “event” that existed at the balance [...] Read more > >

The first week of classes is often so hectic that harried faculty cannot see many positives from the experience.  I am teaching our introductory PhD seminar, and I find that my attitude is a bit more positive than usual after week one, mainly because of the papers we cover the first week.  This post offers [...] Read more > >

In an surprise announcement, the FAF announced today that FASB chairman, Robert Herz, will retire two years ahead of the end of his term.   FASB board member Leslie Seidman will serve as acting chairman from Oct. 1. A WSJ article reports that “[FAF President Jack] Brennan said in an interview that the decision to step down [...] Read more > >

okay so this is supposed to be a blog, not a Q&A, but i’m in a quandry. I have always thought, based on a former MBA student Danielle De-Martino, who worked for a company that did factoring .. that most of the time this was done merely to outsource the credit & collection function. [...] Read more > >

A Harvard U evoluntary psychology recently was accused of fabricating data… bad situation of course. One of The University of Texas psychology faculty members wrote about this event; he’s quite smart. He and I overlapped at the University of Illinois in the 1980′s – he in psychology and me, down the street in [...] Read more > >

In recent months, it seems I’m seeing an increasing frequency of references to “sustainability reporting,” “integrated reporting,” “triple bottom line,” and other monikers.  In Edith Orenstein’s FEI Financial Reporting Blog this morning, guest author Tom Hood from the Maryland Association of CPAs includes news of the creation of the International Integrated Reporting Committee.  They’ve got a [...] Read more > >

The new Frank-Dodd act on financial reform contains a section creating a Financial Stability Oversight Council, with one of its tasks being the review of (and commenting on) any proposed changes in accounting or auditing standards.  A letter to one of the Council’s member agencies begins as follows: “The American Bankers Association (ABA) respectfully requests that [...] Read more > >

I was just perusing a Moody’s report here on standard adjustments that they make. I was somewhat surprised that they reverse the impact of the changes in a company’s (well in the case of the report i’m reading, a BANK’s) own credit risk on current period gains or losses related to the FV of their own [...] Read more > >

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