Georgia native Alan Skelton will succeed David Bean as director of research and technical activities at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board April 1. Processing Content Bean, who has served as ...

The Financial Accounting Foundation’s Board of Trustees, who oversee the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has adopted a new policy clarifying the ...

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 ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued new guidance requiring governments to disclose information related to their own vulnerability, asking governments to disclose certain heightened ...

GASB issued a new standard Monday for state and local government to apply when accounting for extinguishment of debt prior to its maturity. In Statement No. 86, Certain Debt Extinguishment Issues, ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has released a preliminary views (PV) document seeking public comment in the US, focusing on proposed changes in accounting and financial reporting ...

GASB issued guidance Monday designed to improve the accounting and financial reporting requirements for accounting changes and error corrections. GASB Statement No ...

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 ...

Governments big and small, state and local, issue them every year. But is there anyone who actually considers even the most well written and stylized Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) a ...

Since its creation nearly three decades ago, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has been embroiled in controversy as it has sought to increase accountability and transparency in state ...

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