Various issues that have been identified as worthy of attention by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board are addressed in an omnibus proposed standard issued Monday. Derivative instruments, ...

Last year, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) voted to defer the effective date of lease accounting standard GASB 87 to give public sector entities more time to adapt to the many ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board released implementation guidance Monday to clarify, explain and elaborate on its GASB statements, using a series of questions and answers. Processing ...

Governmental Accounting Standards Board chair Joel Black has been overseeing GASB for nearly two years as state and local governments deal with the continuing fallout from the pandemic while ...

New lease accounting standards will dramatically affect the way governmental entities record leases on their financial statements. The Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement Number 87(GASB ...

The GASB is looking for comments on its upcoming technical agenda while rolling out a series of videos aimed at helping stakeholders understand government financial reports.

The Financial Accounting Foundation is looking for an academic expert on public accounting to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Filling that spot on the ...

LeaseQuery, a leading provider of purpose-built lease accounting software, today announced its program sessions for the 2021 GASB Innovation Summit (#GASBInnovationSummit). This free event takes place ...

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) today announced that it has appointed Joel M. Black as the next chair of the Governmental Accounting ...

“The Master’s in Governmental Accounting at Rutgers looked too perfect for me,” Catherine Sykes said to herself. “I must be missing something.” She dug deeper into the program. “I checked that it was ...

How the program helped her career: “I spent about a year and a half at the start of my career in private industry. What I found when I came to the Office of Budget and Management was that government ...

A proposed implementation guide issued by GASB is designed to clarify, explain or elaborate on the board’s standards for state and local government financial reporting. GASB’s standard for fund ...