Overview
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Why the Change in the Revenue Recognition Standards
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Step 1: Identify the Contract(s) with a Customer
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Step 2: Identify the Performance Obligations in the Contract
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Step 3: Determine the Transaction Price
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Step 4: Allocate Transaction Price to Performance Obligations
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Financial Statement Presentation Issues
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ASU 2020-05: Effective Dates for Certain Entities
Course Description
On May 28, 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards
Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) jointly issued
Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 606, regarding revenue from contracts
with customers.
ASC 606 provides a uniform framework for recognizing
revenue from contracts with customers. The old guidance was industry-specific,
which created a system of fragmented policies. The updated revenue recognition
standard is industry-neutral and, therefore, more transparent. It allows for
improved comparability of financial statements with standardized revenue
recognition practices across multiple industries.
For years, revenue recognition has been the cause of
audit failures and the focus of corporate abuse and fraud allegations. Today,
we have FASB ASC 606, a new standard that is critical to understand before it
can be successfully implemented.
This Accounting CPE course provides an
overview of the new revenue recognition standards prescribed by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued in May 2014.
The
new standards are effective for public business entities for annual reporting
periods after December 1, 2017, including interim periods within that reporting
period. For calendar year public filers, these entities will need to
implement the new standards starting in 2018.
Supported by practical examples,
industry-specific real-life scenarios, and more than a dozen exercises, this
self-study CPE course will assist you in avoiding revenue recognition traps and
provide you with the latest FASB guidance.
You’ll
gain an in-depth understanding of the revenue recognition framework that’s
built around the core principles of this new five-step process. And, you'll
gain a better understanding of the changes in disclosure requirements.
Learning Objectives
- To recognize
how the new revenue recognition standards were developed between the FASB
and IASB.
- To analyze the
new FASB standard of revenue.
- To identify
the five steps involved in the new revenue recognition model.
- To recognize
the considerations involved in identifying whether a contract exists.
- To identify
the considerations involved with measuring the transaction price.
- To recognize
the steps involved in allocating the transaction price to performance
obligations.