Summary of Important Changes to Revenue Recognition

The Revenue Recognition project has been going on now for, what, nearly a decade?  After extensive deliberations and outreach by the Boards, we might actually see a final standard role out sometime this year.  Given the fundamental nature of the topic, it is likely to have a substantial impact on how most of us teach.  The FASB [...] Read more > >

FASRI Roundtable: Proposed Standard on Revenue Recognition

Click here to view the video recording of this Roundtable   The first FASRI Roundtable for 2012 will cover the newly proposed standard on Revenue Recognition.  FASB practice fellows Michael Breen (KPMG) and Heather Harris (General Electric) will lead the discussion.  Michael is a senior manager at KPMG and Heather is an Assistant Controller in the Global Mergers [...] Read more > >

FASB & IASB Propose New Revenue Recognition Standard

official news release, this new exposure draft addresses concerns raised in the 1000+ comment letters received in response to the first exposure draft. In particular, this exposure draft: adds guidance on how to determine when a good or service is transferred over time; simplifies the proposals on warranties; simplifies how an entity would determine a transaction price (including [...] Read more > >

Revenue Recognition and "Libby Boxes": Research Brainstorming Roundtable

"Libby Boxes" Revenue recognition is one of FASRI’s key target areas for research over the coming year.   We are going to take a big step forward on Tuesday, October 6th, 4pm by laying out some possible approaches to research studies on RevRec.  We will be structuring our discussion around the key independent variables that researchers might [...] Read more > >