The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released GAAP Taxonomy Improvements for two proposed Accounting Standards Updates, Interim Reporting (Topic 270): Narrow-Scope Improvements and Government Grants (Topic 832): Accounting for Government Grants by Business Entities. These proposed improvements are available for public review and comment. Continue reading "FASB Issues Proposed GAAP Taxonomy Improvements..." »

On October 28th, The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released the proposed Taxonomy Implementation Guide, Boolean, Fixed List, and Extensible Enumeration Elements, which is based on the 2024 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy. The proposed guide is intended to help issuers know when and how to use the Boolean, Fixed List, and Extensible Enumerations elements. The publication also gives an overview of appropriate use cases for these element types. Continue reading "FASB Proposes Taxonomy Implementation Guide for..." »

On October 28th, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released proposed improvements for the 2025 US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Employee Benefit Plan (EBP) taxonomy included in the 2025 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy and the related release notes for public review and comment. The accompanying release notes detail the proposed technical and other conforming improvements for the 2025 EBP taxonomy. Continue reading "FASB Proposes Improvements for the 2025 GAAP..." »

Recently the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) staff has issued proposed technical and other conforming improvements for the 2025 US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Financial Reporting Taxonomy and the related release notes for public review and comment.

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has released the proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU), Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities, which was initially issued in 2017 in ASU No. 2017-12. Continue reading "FASB Issues Proposed Improvements to Hedge..." »

On September 24th, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) published for public comment proposed technical and other conforming improvements for the 2025 SEC Reporting Taxonomy and the related release notes. Continue reading "FASB Issues 2025 SEC Reporting Taxonomy for..." »

On September 5th, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) staff issued the Proposed 2025 Data Quality Committee Rules Taxonomy (DQCRT), which details XBRL US’ Data Quality Committee’s (DQC) validation rules for regulator use. Individuals and organizations may review and comment on the updates proposed in the DQCRT through October 7, 2024. Continue reading "FASB Releases Proposed 2025 DQCRT for Review..." »

On August 6th, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued its 2024 Investor Outreach Report, which is now available through the FASB’s Investor Web Portal. The report details the investor outreach program, the program’s activities during the last year, and ways the FASB intends to continue expanding on its goals to broaden investor outreach efforts. The viewpoints of investors enhance the FASB’s ability to develop effective standards, so the organization places special importance on pursuing a number of efforts to interact with stakeholders. Continue reading "FASB Publishes 2024 Investor Outreach Report" »

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has re-exposed for public comment proposed GAAP Taxonomy Improvements for a proposed Accounting Standards Update, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses. The update is intended to enhance disclosures related to a public business entity’s expenses. The update is designed also to address the requests of investors for more comprehensive data about the types of expenses in commonly presented expense captions. Continue reading "FASB Re-Exposes Proposed GAAP Taxonomy..." »

On August 2nd, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released a proposed Taxonomy Implementation Guide, Income Taxes (Topic 740), which is based on the 2024 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy (GRT). The proposed guide is designed to illustrate how income taxes are reported under FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 740. Note that it focuses only on detail tagging (Level 4). Continue reading "FASB Publishes Proposed Taxonomy Implementation..." »

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has released proposed GAAP Taxonomy Improvements for the proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU), Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) and Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Derivatives Scope Refinements and Scope Clarification for a Share-Based Payment from a Customer in a Revenue Contract. Continue reading "FASB Publishes Proposed GAAP Taxonomy..." »

On March 18, 2024, the SEC upgraded the EDGAR system to Release 24.1. The system now supports the 2024 XBRL reporting taxonomies. The SEC does not anticipate the removal of the 2022 versions of any taxonomies to occur before June 2024. Continue reading "SEC Issues 2024 XBRL Taxonomies Update" »

On January 26th, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released two proposed Taxonomy Implementation Guides based on the 2024 US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy, which is currently under consideration by the SEC. These guides focus on the XBRL modeling for the reporting of leases and reporting by investment companies. Continue reading "FASB Releases Proposed Taxonomy Implementation..." »

Last month the FASB released proposed updates to the US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy (GRT) related to a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) on Debt with Conversion and Other Options. Updates to the proposed taxonomy will include new elements and reference modifications. The proposed updates to the GRT are just some of several updates released throughout the year as proposed ASUs are issued. The GRT, which includes all of these taxonomy updates, is published in the last quarter of each calendar year. Continue reading "FASB Publishes Proposed Updates for US GAAP..." »

On November 2nd, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) staff released for public comment proposed improvements for references in the 2024 US GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy and the related release notes. As part of the FASB staff’s ongoing efforts to review the taxonomy references for further improvement, the proposed improvements would, among other things, add references to sections 45, 50, and S99 of certain accounting topics in the FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification. Continue reading "FASB Issues Improvements for 2024 US GAAP..." »