Not-for-profit organizations, private companies, and smaller reporting companies received welcome news on July 17. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) voted to issue proposals that would delay the effective date for changes to leasing, current expected credit loss (CECL), and hedge accounting. A second proposal would delay accounting for long-term insurance contracts as well.
Topics: not-for-profit, NFP, nonprofit, Leasing, leasing standard
Accounting changes to ASC Topic 842, Leases share many of the characteristics that made the revenue recognition updates in Topic 606 so challenging. Like revenue recognition, the Topic 842 leasing standard is another principles-based approach. It includes changes to definitions that will require case-by-case analysis. It could—and is more likely to than revenue recognition—have a financial impact on not-for-profit organizations because Topic 842 changes require all lessees to recognize lease assets and liabilities on their balance sheet. Recognizing these lease assets and liabilities will affect financial ratios and the processes that rely on them, such as loan covenants.
Topics: not-for-profit, Audit Committee, NFP, Revenue recognition, nonprofit, Leasing, leasing standard
The effective date for the new leasing standard under ASC Topic 842 will be here before you know it. Not-for-profit organizations that issue or are conduit bond holders for securities that are traded, listed, or quoted on an exchange or over-the-counter market begin adoption for fiscal years beginning after Dec. 15, 2018 (and interim periods within those fiscal years), and all other organizations must adopt the standard for fiscal years beginning after Dec. 15, 2019 (Jun. 30, 2021 financial statements).
Topics: GAAP, tax-exempt, not-for-profit, IRS, NFP, nonprofit, Lease Standards, Leasing, asc topic 842