The Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed improvements Thursday in the accounting guidance for hedging activities. The hedging standards are the latest component, although they are not yet ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued its long-awaited new accounting standard to simplify hedge accounting, allowing companies to adopt the new approach almost immediately if they ...

HomeStreet, a Seattle-based financial services company, agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly performed hedge accounting and ...

The difference between the long-term interest rates for loans and the short-term interest rates for deposits – known as the “interest rate margin” – is the main source of profitability for a ...

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that would make targeted improvements to the accounting ...

Hedge documentation is important in both financial reporting and income taxation.For financial accounting purposes, on the date of the hedge, an entity must identify the hedged item, the instrument ...

Canadian pricing and analytics provider Fincad has announced the launch of its new hedge accounting software, Hedge Accounting Insight. The project was developed after the vendor’s second annual ...

Hedge accounting modifies the ordinary accounting treatment, and allows hedging instruments and hedged exposures to be considered together as part of financial reports to mitigate fluctuations in the ...

FASB issued a new standard Monday that is designed to make hedge accounting easier for financial statement preparers and easier for financial statement users to understand. According to FASB Chairman ...

Arca Continental is the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and one of the most important producers, distributors, and sellers of the brand. The company began bottling Coca-Cola products ...