Definition of genre. 1  1 : a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content a classic of the gothic novel genre. 2  2 : kind, sort. 3  3 : painting that depicts scenes or events from everyday life usually realistically.
In 1973, the Accounting Principles Board was replaced by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) under the supervision of the Financial Accounting Foundation with the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council serving to advise and provide input on the accounting standards.
On that day, the FASB Accounting Standards Codification is to become the single official source of authoritative, nongovernmental U. Prepared for 'codification'--single source of U.S. GAAP? The Financial Accounting standards Board (FASB) Codification and Retrieval Project has been engaged in a comprehensive effort to codify the authoritative accounting literature (AAL). On a logical structure for the authoritative accounting literature: a discussion of the FASB's codification structure