Stakeholders observed that there is diversity in practice in how an operating entity determines the customer of the operation services for transactions within the scope of Topic 853, Service Concession Arrangements. This Update addresses that diversity.  

The Board is issuing this Update to provide clarity and reduce both (1) diversity in practice and (2) cost and complexity when applying the guidance in Topic 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation, to a change to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award.  

The Board is issuing this Update to amend the amortization period for certain purchased callable debt securities held at a premium. The Board is shortening the amortization period for the premium to the earliest call date. Under current generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), entities generally amortize the premium as an adjustment of yield over the

The Board is issuing this Update primarily to improve the presentation of net periodic pension cost and net periodic postretirement benefit cost, as discussed below. This Update also includes amendments to the Overview and Background Sections of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification  (as discussed in Part II of the amendments section) as part of the

The Board is issuing this Update to improve the usefulness of the information reported to users of employee benefit plan financial statements and to provide clarity to preparers and auditors. This Update relates primarily to the reporting by an employee benefit plan (a plan) for its interest in a master trust. A master trust is

The FASB is issuing this Update to clarify the scope of Subtopic 610-20, Other Income—Gains and Losses from the Derecognition of Nonfinancial Assets, and to add guidance for partial sales of nonfinancial assets. Subtopic 610-20, which was issued in May 2014 as a part of Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers

In 2014, the Board amended the FASB Accounting Standards Codification® to allow private companies an alternative accounting treatment for subsequently measuring goodwill. The Board determined that those amendments were needed because of concern expressed by private companies and their stakeholders about the cost and complexity of the goodwill impairment test. The FASB added a project

The Accounting Standards Codification is amended as described in paragraphs 2–13. In some cases, to put the change in context, not only are the amended paragraphs shown but also the preceding and following paragraphs.  

The Board is issuing this Update to amend the consolidation guidance in Subtopic 958-810, Not-for-Profit Entities—Consolidation, to clarify when a not-for-profit entity (NFP) that is a general partner or a limited partner should consolidate a forprofit limited partnership or similar legal entity once the amendments in Accounting Standards Update No. 2015-02, Consolidation (Topic 810): Amendments

The Board is issuing the amendments in this Update to clarify the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses. The definition of a business affects many areas of accounting including acquisitions, disposals, goodwill,