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Accounting Research Manager provides one-stop access to objective and analytical accounting information as well as primary source data from accounting standards boards and regulators.
Eliminate the need to review multiple sources when preparing your company’s financial reports. In one, easy-to-navigate database, you’ll find the reliable information you need to perform complete and accurate financial reporting research right from your computer. And because the database is updated five times daily, you know it’s current.
Whether you need official literature, interpretations, or the results of recent accounting standard setter meetings, you’ll find it in an instant with Accounting Research Manager. In fact, professionals who see the system for the first time frequently praise its all-inclusiveness.
NEW!
ARM's Interpretations of FASB Statement 157
Over 110 questions and answers on topics that include - Overview and Scope of FAS 157, Definition and Measurement of Fair Value, Primary effects of FAS 157, Fair Value Hierarchy, Recurring and Non-recurring Valuation, Principal and Most Advantageous Market, Disclosure, Risk Adjustment, Exit and Entry Price, Observable and Unobservable Inputs, SEC MD&A Guidance, Effective Dates and Transition, and more!
ACCOUNTING
Accounting Standards—Your “window to the literature” providing summaries of all significant accounting matters by financial statement caption, prevalent financial reporting topic, or an industry that is subject to specialized accounting. Each topical section links to specific paragraphs of all related authoritative and interpretive literature from the FASB, EITF, AICPA, IASB, and Accounting Research Manager.
Topics include:
> Business combinations
> Intangibles
> Stock-based compensation
> Equity
> Earnings per share
> Financial instruments
> Income taxes
> Inventory
> Leases
> Not for profits
> Pensions
> Related parties
> Revenue recognition
> & more.
The Accounting Research Manager includes U.S. and international authoritative and proposal-stage literature plus interpretive guidance on:
> FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) — Statements and interpretations, staff positions, technical bulletins, special reports, implementation guides and related proposal-stage literature. Plus, Accounting Research Bulletins and APB Opinions.
> AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) — Statements of Position, Audit and Accounting Guides, Practice Bulletins, Accounting Interpretations, Issues Papers and related proposal-stage literature.
> EITF (Emerging Issues Task Force) —- Abstracts, Minutes and Issues Summaries. Our EITF Flash Report is issued immediately after each EITF meeting.
> IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) —- Accounting standards and related proposal-stage literature.
> Major Interpretive Publications —Your link to our industry-leading guidance on Business Combinations, Derivatives and Hedging, Leases, Compensation Arrangements, Financial Assets and Liabilities and Accounting for Income Taxes.
Accounting for Business Combinations, Goodwill, and Other Intangible Assets - Interpretations of FASB Statement 141 and 142
Our latest edition features the newest guidance on the most current literature on Statements 141 and 142. This book offers comprehensive guidance on accounting for business combinations, as well as intangible assets and goodwill under both U.S. and International Accounting Standards.
This covers a broad range of transactions, including:
> Acquisitions of businesses by acquiring assets or stock;
> Acquisitions of minority interests;
> Leveraged buyouts;
> Reverse acquisitions;
> Rollup transactions; and
> Transfers and exchanges between companies under common control.
Derivatives and Hedging—Interpretations of FASB Statement 133
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FASB Statement 133 dispels the myth that accounting or derivatives affects only financial service companies. It changes hedge accounting and expands the definition of a derivative to include embedded derivatives and many commodity contracts. As a result, Statement 133 will affect many commercial companies. This publication interprets Statement 133 to give readers a tool for understanding and applying the Statement's requirements.
Topics covered in Derivatives and Hedging include:
> Recognition and measurement of derivative instruments and hedging activities
> Cash flow hedges
> Foreign currency hedges
> Identifying and bifurcating embedded derivative instruments
> Determining and recording fair value
> Determining and accounting for impairment
> Implementation guidance and disclosure rules
Accounting for Compensation Arrangements - Interpretations of FASB Statement 123
Accounting for Compensation Arrangements offers professionals comprehensive guidance for applying the complex and expansive requirements of FASB Statement No. 123 (Revised 2004), Share-Based Payment. It discusses the financial reporting implications of stock-based compensation arrangements for employees, employee stock purchase plans, certain other compensation arrangements for employees, and share awards to nonemployees for goods and services.
This publication includes recent views of the FASB, including those reflected in FASB Staff Position (FSP) FAS 123R-4, “Classification of Options and Similar Instruments Issued as Employee Compensation That Allow for Cash Settlement upon the Occurrence of a Contingent Event.” Reference is made to all pertinent opinions, statements, pronouncements, interpretations, and bulletins that affect accounting for share-based payments and other forms of compensation.
This in-depth resource provides professionals with a practical reference tool by selectively combining information from the official text of these standards, along with other information drawn from the AICPA, SEC, FASB interpretations, FASB staff positions, consensuses of the Emerging Issues Task Force, and lessons learned from leading accounting practitioners.
Accounting for Leases - Interpretations of FASB Statement No. 13, As Amended
Accounting for Leases offers paragraph-by-paragraph interpretations of Statement 13, as amended. It clarifies many implementation issues companies will face. Also, it discusses how to treat leasing transactions in areas not specifically addressed by the FASB, and areas that require further explanation.
Our interpretations take into consideration FASB Statement No. 98, Accounting for Leases; and FASB Interpretation No. 21, Accounting for Leases in a Business Combination. It also considers FASB Statements 141, 144 and 146; FASB Interpretations No. 45 and 46; and other literature from the FASB, AICPA, and SEC.
For companies involved in leasing transactions and for those that are focused on keeping assets and debt off-balance-sheet, this publication provides invaluable and comprehensive guidance.
Financial Assets and Liabilities: Sales, Transfers and Extinguishments - Interpretations of FASB Statement 140
Accounting for sales, transfers and servicing of financial assets and extinguishments of liabilities can be highly complex. FASB Statement 140 establishes a financial-reporting model for these types of transactions but covers a wide breadth of transactions. As new transactions are introduced into the marketplace, you will face new and challenging implementation questions in this area.
Transactions involving financial assets and liabilities — such as refinancing of liabilities, factoring of receivables and pledges of collateral — are not limited to financial institutions. Financial-reporting professionals need to understand how Statement 140 works. To help you, Financial Assets and Liabilities provides practical, real-world interpretations of 140 in question and answer format.
Transactions covered in this publication include:
· Collateralized borrowing
· Purchases or sales of receivables, loans, and securities
· Consolidation policies for special-purpose entities
· Loan syndications and participations
· Securities lending
· Debt extinguishments and refinancing
· Wash sales
Accounting for Income Taxes
Accounting for Income Taxes provides guidance on the application of FASB Statement No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes, as amended. It also provides interpretations of the various amendments to Statement 109 since 1992, including the guidance contained in FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes—an Interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109, which was issued by the FASB in July of 2006.
Statement 109 established financial accounting and reporting standards for the effects of income taxes that result from an enterprise's activities during the current and preceding years. It requires an asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes.
This in-depth resource gives professionals indispensable guidance on the complex requirements of Statement 109 and clarifies the implementation issues resulting from the accounting industry’s literal approach to applying the statement’s criteria. It provides a practical reference tool by selectively combining information from the official text of the FASB, along with information drawn from the AICPA, consensuses of the EITF, SEC Staff Accounting Bulletins, and lessons learned from leading practitioners in the field.
GAAP Financial Statements Disclosures Manual
This guide provides a complete, quick and valuable reference source for financial statement disclosures. The Manual contains more than 900 examples of realistic sample footnote disclosures to assist in the preparation of financial statements for an audit, review or compilation engagement. It facilitates compliance with authoritative pronouncements by integrating, in each chapter, the specific disclosure requirements with the sample footnotes.
The Manual provides sample disclosures that are technically sound, understandable, and comprehensive and that cover a variety of scenarios, from the most common to the most unusual. It is designed for ease of use. You can locate information based either on the disclosure topic or on the disclosure's location in the financial statement. In addition, each chapter is structured as a standalone chapter, providing you all of the information you need for a specific topic. Each chapter consists of an executive summary; a listing of relevant authoritative literature; a listing of disclosure requirements mandated by GAAP; and specific examples of disclosures.
The Manual also includes a financial statement disclosures checklist that provides a centralized resource of the required and recommended GAAP disclosures currently in use. It is designed to assist the user in determining whether the required financial statement disclosures have been made.
This title contains all of the sample disclosures in this edition, as well as the expansive financial statement disclosures checklist. All of these documents can be used as templates and modified to fit your needs.
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Weekly Summary e-mail alerts—The most current developments in financial reporting, conveniently emailed to you at the end of each business week so that you can quickly learn of topics that could affect your company.
The ARM Daily News—Each day, our expert staff will choose key accounting, auditing, international, regulatory (e.g., SEC) and governmental news that may affect your organization, and bring them directly to your desktop by e-mail. In addition to clear and concise news reporting, where appropriate, links will be provided to ARM’s exclusive deeper analyses of the developments and to the relevant source materials.
Because timing is everything.
Accounting Research Manager dramatically expands your department’s research capabilities. It’s like adding your own staff of researchers whose sole purpose is to track important accounting developments for you. Our outstanding team of content editors take pride in updating the system on a daily basis, so you stay as current as possible.
What’s more, our experts attend many standard setter meetings and summarize the results to you. Which means, you’ll learn of newly released literature and deliberations of current financial reporting projects as soon they occur!
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