The Financial Accounting Standards Board has a project to review accounting for goodwill subsequent to its acquisition — again. The issue is whether to continue goodwill impairment testing as required ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to set aside a long-running project on goodwill accounting that would have required companies to amortize goodwill on a straight-line basis over 10 ...

Amortization is an accounting technique used to distribute asset value or loan principal over time. There are different techniques for calculating amortization and depreciation and there is guidance ...

It wasn't supposed to happen, but gains from new accounting rules seem to have helped some companies, at least temporarily, on the stock market. Analysts and others in the industry expected the rules, ...

FASB will seek input on what its future standard-setting priorities should be in an agenda consultation that’s starting this month, board Chair Richard Jones said Tuesday at the AICPA Conference on ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MUFG announced today that it recorded extraordinary losses associated with a one-time amortization of goodwill ("amortization") in its consolidated financial statements for the ...