{"id":1729,"date":"2020-04-13T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seci.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2020-04-13T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T16:07:08","slug":"fasb-addresses-impact-of-covid-19-and-publishes-lease-accounting-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/fasb-addresses-impact-of-covid-19-and-publishes-lease-accounting-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"FASB Addresses Impact of COVID-19 and Publishes Lease Accounting Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/?p=1715\">this post<\/a>, the FASB met on April 8, 2020, to address \u201cAccounting Relief During the COVID-19 Pandemic.\u201d\u00a0 You can read Chairman Russell G. Golden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fasb.org\/cs\/Satellite?c=FASBContent_C&amp;cid=1176174437915&amp;pagename=FASB%2FFASBContent_C%2FNewsPage\">statement about the meeting here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Topics addressed were primarily for private companies and not-for-profits.\u00a0 Steps included decisions to issues proposals for an optional one-year delay for the new leasing standard for private companies and not-for-profits and a one-year delay for the revenue recognition for private company franchisors.<\/p>\n<p>The FASB is also working on a number of question and answer documents related to the disruption created by COVID-19.\u00a0 On April 10, 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fasb.org\/cs\/Satellite?c=FASBContent_C&amp;cid=1176174459740&amp;pagename=FASB%2FFASBContent_C%2FGeneralContentDisplay\">FASB published a Q&amp;A document<\/a> addressing questions dealing with lease concessions due to COVID-19.\u00a0 Essentially the Q&amp;A document provides that for such concessions companies will not have to analyze each contract to determine whether enforceable rights and obligations for concessions exist in the contract and \u201ccan elect to apply or not apply the lease modification guidance in Topic 842 Leases or Topic 840 Leases to those contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the meeting minutes are not yet posted, they will be available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fasb.org\/cs\/Satellite?c=Page&amp;cid=1176157086089&amp;pagename=FASB%2FPage%2FSectionPage\">here<\/a> when they are completed.\u00a0 You can read a summary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fasb.org\/cs\/ContentServer?c=FASBContent_C&amp;cid=1176174436194&amp;d=&amp;pagename=FASB%2FFASBContent_C%2FActionAlertPage\">tentative decisions reached at the meeting here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, your thoughts and comments are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned in this post, the FASB met on April 8, 2020, to address \u201cAccounting Relief During the COVID-19 Pandemic.\u201d\u00a0 You can read Chairman Russell G. Golden\u2019s statement about the meeting here. Topics addressed were primarily for private companies and not-for-profits.\u00a0 Steps included decisions to issues proposals for an optional one-year delay for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/fasb-addresses-impact-of-covid-19-and-publishes-lease-accounting-qa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FASB Addresses Impact of COVID-19 and Publishes Lease Accounting Q&#038;A<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"coauthors":[154],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}