An Overview of the GASB Web Site

The buttons to the left will bring you to the major sections of the GASB web site. This page of the user area provides brief introductions to the contents of each of those sections.

What's New?
The latest news about the GASB and its technical projects, recent changes on the site, and links to frequently requested information and documents

Calendar
A calendar of GASB meetings and hearings, a list of speaking engagements by GASB staff and Board members, and upcoming events sponsored by the GASB's constituent organizations

GASB Store
You can order GASB’s user guides, pronouncements and other publications online here

Technical Issues
Information related to the research activities of the GASB—the GASB's most recent research plan (updated three times a year), a form for submitting questions to the GASB, and information about how to contact GASB staff

Project Pages
Each project on the GASB's current agenda and major recent pronouncement has its own page with recent developments, major tentative decisions, articles, project staff, and work plan

Plain Language
Each proposed or final standard the GASB publishes is accompanied by an article explaining them for the lay person, with a minimum of technical language-these and other documents written in plain language can be found here

OPEB
Information and resources for GASB Statements 43/45 and related pronouncements, including links to implementers’ websites, and the OPEB Project Pages

Publications
Information about GASB literature, including descriptions of publications and subscription plans, ordering information, and the GASB’s on-line store

Exposure Drafts
Downloadable versions of proposed accounting standards and other due process documents that the GASB has published for public comment

Summaries/Status
Summaries of GASB pronouncements and the extent to which they have been amended or superseded by subsequent pronouncements

Performance Measures
This is a link to the GASB's Internet clearinghouse for government performance measurement information, supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

News Center
News releases and other information for the media are available here

GASB Facts
Description of the mission, structure and standard-setting procedures of the GASB, including pictures and short biographical statements of the Board members, and fact sheets about the GASB and its projects

Strategic Plan
GASB's current strategic plan and measures of the GASB's performance against its strategic goals

GASAC
The roster of the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council, with e-mail addresses for contacting the members and links to their organizations' web sites

GASB Home
Return to the GASB home page

Visitors’ Register
Use this form to let the GASB know who you are, so we can keep you up to date about our activities

Technical Inquiries
Use this form if you want to ask the GASB a question about existing standards

Links
Links to Internet sites devoted to topics relevant to governmental accounting and financial reporting

Communicate
Information for contacting GASB staff and Board members

Search
Look for key phrases or terms in the GASB web site

Copyright Permission
Instructions on how to obtain permission to reproduce GASB materials

Terms & Conditions
Terms and conditions for using the GASB’s web site

Membership
How to become a member of the GASB's parent organization, the Financial Accounting Foundation

FASB
The GASB's sibling for the private sector, the Financial Accounting Standards Board