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.
The FASBâs Accounting Standards Update, ASU 2016-02, Leases, was issued on February 25, 2016. The new guidance is effective as follows: For public business entities, the standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018 (i.e., calendar periods beginning after January 1, 2019), and interim therein.