News Releases

• GASB to Hold User Forum and Public Hearing on Its Request for Response on Suggested Guidelines for Voluntary Performance Reporting
• GASB Proposes to Transfer Guidance from AICPA Auditing Literature—Proposal Intended to Assist Preparers in Applying Guidance
• GASB Issues a Request for Response on Proposed Suggested Guidelines for Voluntary Reporting of SEA Performance Information
• GASB Issues Proposed Technical Bulletin, Determining the Annual Required Contribution Adjustment for Postemployment Benefits
• GASB Issues Statement No. 53, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Derivative Instruments
• Financial Accounting Foundation Names Teresa S. Polley President and Chief Operating Officer
• Archive of news releases

Recent Changes at the Website

• Week of September 29, 2008
• See what’s new at the Performance Reporting for Government site

Upcoming Events

Calendars:

• Board Meetings
• GASB Speaking Engagements
• Constituent Organization Events

Exposure Drafts

• Codification of Accounting and Financial Reporting Guidance Contained in AICPA Staements on Auditing Standards (Exposure Draft)
• The Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for State and Local Governments (Exposure Draft)
• Suggested Guidelines for Voluntary Reporting of SEA Performance Information (Request for Response)
• Determining the Annual Required Contribution Adjustment for Postemployment Benefits (Exposure Draft)
• Service Efforts and Accomplishments Reporting—an amendment of GASB Concepts Statement No. 2 (Exposure Draft)
• Fund Balance Reporting and Governmental Fund Type Definitions (Exposure Draft)

Technical Plan—NEW (09/05/08)

Frequently Requested Materials

• Articles on Due Process:
  
  • Due Process: We're Listening
  • Due Process: The Comment Letter
  • Due Process: The Public Hearing
  • Task Forces and Advisory Committees

• Statement 34

• Visitor’s Register

• Users of Governmental Financial Reports Require Substantially Different Information than Users of Business Financial Reports—GASB White Paper Identifies Key Differences between Financial Reporting for Governments and For-Profit Business Entities
• News Release
• Read or download the White Paper

• FAF Letter to the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Responding to the GFOA's Request That the GASB's Functions Be Transitioned to the FASB

• Performance Reporting for Government
• GASB Adds Project to Assist Governments That Choose to Report Performance Information
  
  • News Release
  • Plain-language article
• FAF Board of Trustees Confirms GASB Jurisdictional Authority with Respect to Service Efforts and Accomplishments

• 2007 Annual Report of the Financial Accounting Foundation