The New Lease Accounting Standard – How Recordkeeping Will Evolve
The New Lease Accounting Standard – How Recordkeeping Will Evolve
New Transition Option for Lease Standard
Earlier this month, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) which would provide an additional transition option when adopting the new lease accounting standard. Under the proposed ASU, organizations would have the option to use the effective date as the date of adoption instead of at the earliest comparative… Read More »
Governmental Accounting Standards – Leases
In June 2017, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (“GASB”) issued Statement No. 87 – Leases which establishes new accounting standards to be applied to all lease transactions for state and local governments. The Standard is effective for fiscal periods beginning after December 15, 2019 with earlier application encouraged. The governmental standard follows most of the… Read More »
iLeasePro adds Subsidiary / Operating Entity capabilities
The Subsidiary function in iLeasePro allows a corporation with multiple subsidiaries to maintain its entire corporate wide lease portfolio on a single iLeasePro platform. When it is time to upload periodic journal entries to a general ledger system of record, the user designates the subsidiary to which the lease is associated and the entry is… Read More »
iLeasePro’s FASB and IASB Lease Accounting Changes LinkedIn Group continues to grow
Our LinkedIn group, FASB and IASB Lease Accounting Changes, is growing fast. We are closing in on 500 members. This is a great group to discuss the FASB and IASB Lease Accounting changes with as you begin thinking about preparing for the changes. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/FASB-IASB-Lease-Accounting-Changes-3852961
New Lease Accounting Standard – Implementation Challenges
A survey on the impact of the new lease accounting standard (as it pertains to lessees) was recently completed and its results validated some of the feedback that we have been providing over the last few years about how organizations are responding to the new change and major pain points that must be addressed as… Read More »
The New Lease Accounting Standards and Technology Requirements
Earlier this week, I participated on a webinar on the new lease accounting standards. The webinar was given by one of the major accounting firms and was specifically directed at how the new lease standards will impact lessees. One of the polling questions asked of participants during the course of the webinar was whether, in… Read More »
New Lease Standard – Focus on Executory Costs
One of the areas of the new lease standard that has not received that much attention is executory costs. However, as lessees consummate new leases that must be transitioned into the new standard, this is an area that should not be overlooked. Executory Costs that Transfer a Good or Service The new lease standard only… Read More »
New Lease Accounting Guidance Issued
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued the new lease accounting standard on February 25, 2016. As it pertains to lessees, the new standard requires that the liability for all leases (except narrowly defined short-term leases) must be recognized on the balance sheet of a lessee at the discounted present value of future lease payments… Read More »
FASB expected to finalize lease accounting standards on Thursday, February 25, 2016
According to Bloomberg BNA website, on Thursday February 25, 2016 the FASB plans to release its long-gestating standard on lease accounting. http://www.bna.com/feb-25-lessees-b57982067497/