The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) are proposing dramatic changes to lease accounting rules that would virtually eliminate ...

According to reports from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. companies currently have an estimated $2.8 trillion in operating lease obligations that are ...

In December, new accounting standards for reporting leases are scheduled to go into effect. The intention: To more accurately portray leases’ implications for a company’s financial health. Under the ...

In July, the Financial Accounting Standards Board announced that its agenda now includes a major project on lease accounting. As justification, the board cited encouragement from its own advisory ...

Operating leases have long been a common mechanism for companies to access and use assets without owning them outright. Historically, many of these leases were kept off the balance sheet, limiting ...

The switch from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to International Financial Reporting Standards is a primary concern that has been in focus for most corporations, but there is another ...

This report is one of a series on the adjustments we make to convert GAAP data to economic earnings. Reported earnings don’t tell the whole story of a company’s profits. They are based on ...

How would this impact financial reporting? If and when this becomes effective, you would record a right-to-use asset and related liability as separate lines on the balance sheet. This would also ...

A synthetic lease is a financing technique structured to be an operating lease for the lessee’s financial accounting purposes and a financing for U.S. federal tax purposes. Synthetic leases are most ...

Moving the measurements of operating leases from the footnotes of GAAP financial statements under FASB ASC Topic 840, Leases, to the balance sheet as assets and liabilities under Topic 842, Leases, ...

Moving the measurements of operating leases from the footnotes of GAAP financial statements under FASB ASC Topic 840, Leases, to the balance sheet as assets and liabilities under Topic 842, Leases, ...