When the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s User Advisory Council met in early April, the group heard about the board’s plan to issue a proposal for a new standard on disclosing information about ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has released finalized guidance on accounting and financial reporting issues related to fair value measurements, primarily applying to investments made by ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) recently issued an Accounting Standards Update (Update) to (1) clarify guidance in Topic 820, Fair Value Measurement, on measuring the fair value of an ...

STATEMENT ON AUDITING STANDARDS (SAS) NO. 101, Auditing Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, gives auditors guidance on understanding how an entity’s management calculates fair value and on ...

The exam for the Certified in Entity and Intangible Valuations (CEIV) credential for fair value measurement is now available. It offers the opportunity for finance professionals to receive this ...

FASB ISSUED CONCEPTS STATEMENT NO. 7 TO HELP CPAs who use present value and cash flow information as the basis for accounting measurements. Using Cash Flow Information and Present Value in Accounting ...

Private equity fund managers need to develop reliable valuation processes and procedures when conducting fair value analyses in support of their investments to allow for a seamless review by ...

It's fair to say that there is more than a little hostility to the concept of fair value, and the hostility intensifies depending on the instruments under discussion. For some bankers, accounting ...

LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - Two top accounting standard setters have agreed how assets held by banks should be priced at market rates, bringing a single global set of book-keeping rules a step closer.