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.
FASB Issues Accounting Standards Update 2017-06âPlan Accounting: Defined Benefit Pension Plans (Topic 960), Defined Contribution Pension Plans (Topic 962), Health and Welfare Benefit Plans (Topic 965): Employee Benefit Plan Master Trust Reporting (a consensus of the Emerging Issues Task Force) [02/27/17]