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Comprehensive Income Reporting: Fasb Decides Location Matters, Dennis Chambers
Comprehensive Income Reporting: Fasb Decides Location Matters, Dennis Chambers
Dennis J. Chambers
The article reports on Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2011-05 issued by the Financial Accounting Services Board (FASB) in June 2011. It states that the standard requires all companies to report comprehensive income and components either in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, net income and other comprehensive income statements.In both cases, companies must reportedly now report in an income statement-type location for total comprehensive income.
Comprehensive Income Reporting: Fasb Decides Location Matters, Dennis Chambers
Comprehensive Income Reporting: Fasb Decides Location Matters, Dennis Chambers
Faculty and Research Publications
The article reports on Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2011-05 issued by the Financial Accounting Services Board (FASB) in June 2011. It states that the standard requires all companies to report comprehensive income and components either in one continuous statement or in two separate, but consecutive, net income and other comprehensive income statements.In both cases, companies must reportedly now report in an income statement-type location for total comprehensive income.
Goodwill Non-Impairments, Dennis Chambers, Catherine Finger
Goodwill Non-Impairments, Dennis Chambers, Catherine Finger
Faculty and Research Publications
The article discusses the use of goodwill non-impairment by companies to manage their earnings. The effect of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) 142 on goodwill-related earnings management is described. A table shows the results of related the working papers "Earnings Management By Avoiding or Reducing Goodwill Impairments," by Dennis Chambers, "Evidence on the Use of Unverifiable Estimates in Required Goodwill Impairment," by Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts, and "Has Goodwill Accounting Gone Bad?," by Kevin K. Li and Richard G. Sloan.