DEBRIEF: FEI Committee on Corporate Reporting – Leases Working Group

Presented by Shawn Husband and Financial Executives International
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FEI’s Committee on Corporate Reporting has an engaged Working Group that focuses and monitors the latest developments in Leases (Topic 842/IFRS 16). Shawn Husband, Chair of the Leases Working Group, will lead a discussion and debrief of the Working Group’s most recent meeting and participate in Q&A on technical accounting, process, implementation and systems.

Topics covered at the meeting include:

  • FASB Staff update on ASC 842 Outreach project (potential revisions to standard or matters requiring clarity or education)
  • Latest topics addressed by the largest accounting firms and comments on SEC presentation at AICPA conference
  • Topics discussed from attending companies:
    • Implications of upgrading an underlying asset (lessor accounting)
    • Consideration of fair value when a portion of an asset
    • Held for sale accounting impact on ROU asset depreciation
    • Determining fair value of land leases
      • Questions on how handle dual GAAP markets with both US GAAP and IFRS/local standard
        • One policy or multiple
        • IBR questions by local auditors in IFRS markets
        • External audit centralized or decentralized
        • Outsourcing
        • Statutory accounting centralized or decentralized
        • Low value exemptions

Reserve your place and have the opportunity to ask your questions on these topics, and any other topics of interest surrounding the new lease accounting standards.

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Speakers

Shawn Husband

Senior Director, ESG Reporting
Walmart, Inc.

Credits

1.00 CPE
Basic

Method

group-internet-based

Field

Accounting, Technical

Prerequisites

None

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