accounting
While the FASB's proposed partial disaggregation would be helpful to investors, we are discouraged by its limited scope after waiting so many years.
FASB should phase out held-to-maturity (HTM) accounting.
CFA Institute supports the alignment among the leading sustainability and integrated reporting organizations—SASB, GRI, IIRC, CDSB and CDP— in advancing a sustainability standards discussion.
Our outreach and investor engagement tells us this accounting – a position we have had for over thirty years – is preferred by investors as it more prominently and transparently displays investment market risks. If an investor does not prefer this accounting, they can easily adjust to remove these unrealized gains or losses – having been fully informed by this more prominent presentation.
In a market like India, where corporate governance concerns are top of mind for investors, the role of auditors in providing assurance to investors is critical.
Buffett's sale of airline stocks validates FASB’S new accounting for equity securities.
Financial reporting trying to achieve ‘neutrality’ and ‘prudence’ distorts reality and is helpful to no one.
Intangible assets are increasingly critical to corporate value, and new valuation methods need to be deployed to accurately calculate their worth.
Jason Voss, CFA, provides his choices for Weekend Reads for Investors. This edition features surprising facts about coffee consumption, global choke points in the food supply, graphics showing how cryptocurrencies are likely to affect finance, and more.
Shocking as it may seem, most research analysts and investors still commit elementary accounting errors when analyzing financial statements. Here are some of the more common mistakes.