April 11, 2011

“Tentative” – The FASB IASB word of choice!

Manager of Lucernex Lease Analysis products, Mike Hammerslag, discusses the current state of the upcoming FASB changes.

A little more than two (2) years ago the Boards published their Discussion Paper, Leases: Preliminary Views. Fast forward to today and a known calendaring of the Final Document due date of 2Q-2011 or put another way June 30, 2011, and it seems that we are less then ninety (90) days away from knowing the outcome. So doesn’t it seem odd that so much is still “tentative.”
Now I must admit we do occasionally see that one or the other or sometimes both of the Boards “affirmed the decision in the leases Exposure Draft,” but is certainly feels like there are too many “tentative(s)” with less than 90 days until decision time! (more…)

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November 15, 2010

Probability in New FASB Lease Accounting Explained

Lucernex real estate finance expert Jim Duport, after completing an upgrade to our core financial engine to support the new proposed FASB / GAAP rules, discusses how probability used to be used with the new FASB rules.

This is the second in a series of Blogs by Jim describing his findings during the process of developing the architecture within the core Lucernex financial engine to handle the new proposed FASB rules.

In my previous life I was a math major (actually also a high school math teacher), but, more importantly, I have a friend who is a PhD in Math. I figured if I didn’t understand the probability in the multiple examples I have seen of the new PROPOSED FASB Lease Accounting, then others might also be having issues understanding it. (more…)

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