The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released two proposed accounting standards updates related to derivatives and hedging. The first proposal involves the effect of derivative contract ...

A FASB proposal issued Tuesday is designed to provide more useful information to financial statement users about hybrid financial instruments that contain bifurcated embedded derivatives. The ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has finished its hedge accounting guidance meant to eliminate the use of different accounting methods when companies raise capital by offering shares that ...

FASB has issued a proposed update to accounting standards, with new disclosure requirements for financial instruments that contain separately presented embedded derivatives. Companies would be ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Emerging Issues Task Force has issued an accounting standards update for contingent put and call options in debt instruments. Processing Content FASB noted ...

FASB’s guidance in Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-06, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Contingent Put and Call Options in Debt Instruments, brings new detail to the “clearly and closely ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued final derivativesdisclosure guidance with an immediate effective date, despite pleas by the GovernmentFinance Officers Association that the ...

Changes in the way derivative valuations are determined and accounted for has led to an expansion in the Treasurer’s roles and responsibilities. With ninety-four percent of the world’s largest ...

As the trend toward using equity derivatives in corporate finance sweeps Europe, the situation in the US couldnt be more different. Companies have long used equity derivatives to help manage ...

NRG Energy, one of the S&P 500’s biggest year-to-date gainers, has volatile earnings due to its large derivatives-trading operation. Late last year, an accounting switcheroo let it start acting like ...