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Intacct Launches Automated System for New Revenue Recognition Guidelines
Intacct Contract and Revenue Management is a new module for Intacct's cloud ERP solution that fully addresses all the upcoming rules for revenue reallocation and expense amortization—using automation, not spreadsheets and a lot of accountants' time.
Businesses Struggling With New Accounting Standards and Billing Models
CFOs and senior management teams are reassessing their revenue management practices and technology in response to shifting market conditions that demand new billing models, according to “The New World of Revenue Management” report released today by ...
Sustainable Accounting Standards Developed For All Industries
The organization has opened three key documents—the SASB Rules of Procedure, the SASB Conceptual Framework, and proposed changes to its Sustainable Industry Classification System (SICS) — for a 90-day public comment period.
GASB Issues New Pension Guidance
The requirements of GASB Statement 82 are generally effective for reporting periods beginning after June 15, 2016, with earlier application encouraged. Additional information regarding implementation timing is available in the document.
FASB Issues Guidance On Employee Share-Based Payments
Accounting for employee share-based awards was identified by the Private Company Council (PCC) as an area of concern among private company stakeholders. The PCC worked with the FASB to discuss and analyze the issues that private companies have ...
Report Focuses on New FASB Lease Accounting Standard
When the new lease accounting standard becomes effective, lessees will for the first time be required to report billions of dollars in leased assets and corresponding liabilities from operating leases on their balance sheets.
GASB Statement Provides Guidance on Reporting of Component Units
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has a new statement about how certain component units incorporated as not-for-profit corporations should be presented in the financial statements of the primary state or local government.
FASB Proposes Changes to Reporting of Pensions and Other Retirement Plans
Under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), defined benefit pension cost and postretirement benefit cost (net benefit cost) comprise several components that reflect different aspects of an employer’s financial arrangements, as well as the ...