Department of English & Foreign Languages. The Department of English shares a broad objective with other departments in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences: to teach the skills which will enable you to interpret, evaluate, and, in your own way, change your world.
In short, GAAP requires accrual accounting rather than cash accounting, because the accrual basis better fits the defined objectives of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Accrual accounting requires companies to record transactions in the time period in which financial events occur.
Access the precodification standard, SFAS 160, âNoncontrolling Interest in Consolidated Financial Statements,â at the FASB Codification (or www.fasb.org) to answer the following: 1. What alternative financial statement display formats did the FASB consider for the noncontrolling interest? 2. What criteria did the FASB use to evaluate the desirability of each alternative? 3. In what specific ways did FASB Concept Statement 6 affect the FASB's evaluation of these alternatives?