Subsequent event is the accounting term for a financial transaction that occurs after completion of the balance sheet for a specified period but before the company's full set of financial statements ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board added a project to its technical agenda to deal with issues related to subsequent events for state and local governments. Processing Content The project ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board released a new standard to improve the financial reporting for state and local governments on subsequent events that occur after financial statements are ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has published its final word on when companies should consider the effects of “subsequent events,” or game-changing events that occur after the balance sheet ...

"We had research that showed an omission rate of about 30% of things when we look at subsequent time periods and things we know happened," said GASB Chairman Joel in an interview with Accounting Today ...

GASB issued an exposure draft aimed at improving the consistency of reporting related to subsequent events and an exposure draft of proposed changes to its implementation guide. GASB has observed a ...

Accountants (or auditors in particular) are the benefactors of hindsight and get to put it to use every time they are engaged to opine on a company’s financial statements. Namely, that period from the ...

Over the last month, many companies have filed their year-end audited financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A study recently published in The Accounting Review finds that ...