Sustaining compliance after day two requires a rigorous focus on optimizing processes for ongoing management of lease accounting data and entries. As leases evolve over their lifetimes, organizations ...

With the new Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) lease accounting standard — Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), many companies are grappling with the transition ...

Shifting application from an individual lease to a portfolio level offers practicality and cost minimization for companies adopting FASB’s new lease accounting standard. Here are tips for applying a ...

Rochester Institute of Technology adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) new accounting guidance on leases FASB Accounting Standards Codification Section 842 ("ASC 842") on July 1, ...

Chances are you’ve already tangled with the ASC 842/IFRS 16 changes in standards determining how organizations should be accounting for leases on the balance sheet. The effective date for implementing ...

Determining the appropriate discount rate under ASC 842 and IFRS 16 has proven to be more challenging than originally thought. While conceptually the accounting guidelines are straightforward, once ...

You may have heard about a proposal that would change how leases are accounted for on corporate balance sheets. If your company leases or finances equipment, you should be aware of how the proposal ...

An equipment sale leaseback of your waste and recycling equipment can be a viable option worth exploring to unlock the equity ...

Banks are bracing for the impact — on two fronts — of a new federal rule that will change how companies account for the cost of leasing everything from equipment to automobiles to space in office ...

When investing, assessing a company’s assets and liabilities is a basic requirement to determine what the company is worth. Thankfully, public companies file their financial statements with the ...

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