Look, the Empire of Accounting has many draconian rules and regulations, but if you are unprepared with Force of knowledge you will be thrust into the Dark Side of your ledger.

OK, enough with the Star Wars rip-off. The Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) has been busy at work issuing a variety of new standards. If you have investments, especially equity investments that have been accounted for through Other Comprehensive Income (OCI), you’re about to see a big change as a result of Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-01, Financial Instruments Recognition and Measurement, ASU 2018-03, Improvements to Financial Instruments and ASU 2018-13, Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement.

Hopefully you can join us on September 25th at 2:00 p.m. ET for a truly instructive webinar on these changes as we walk through a case study and discuss the impact of obtaining a permitted practice to not adopt these new standards. Additionally, we will provide an update on ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses and ASU 2016-02, Leases.

Our panelists will be Sandy D. Griffith, Senior Vice President at Advantage Insurance, and Magali Welch, Partner with Johnson Lambert LLP. Ably moderated by Steve Garwood, Vice President, Treasurer and CFO of EIIA, which is the parent company of two Vermont based captives, with expert content advice from Rebecca James, Principal at Johnson Lambert LLP.

After completing this webinar, you will be able to: cite changes related to accounting for financial instruments; adopt best practice methods for properly accounting for the change in guidance; and identify some impacts (potential and known) of obtaining a permitted practice to not account for this guidance.  Register now, and may the Force of accounting knowledge be with you!

Thank you all very much, and I look forward to hearing from you.