NEWS RELEASE 12/16/04
FASB Issues Accounting Standard to Improve the Accounting and Reporting of Real Estate Time-Sharing Transactions
Norwalk, CT, December 16, 2004—The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued Statement No. 152, Accounting for Real Estate Time-Sharing Transactions. Statement 152 amends FASB Statements No. 66, Accounting for the Sales of Real Estate, and No. 67, Accounting for Costs and Initial Rental Operations of Real Estate Projects, in association with the issuance of AICPA Statement of Position (SOP) 04-2, Accounting for Real Estate Time-Sharing Transactions.
The Accounting Standards Executive Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants issued SOP 04-2 to address the diversity in practice caused by a lack of guidance specific to real estate time-sharing transactions. Statement 152 and SOP 04-2 will improve the accounting and reporting of those transactions.
The guidance is effective for financial statements for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2005, with earlier application encouraged.
The Statement may be accessed from the FASB’s website at www.fasb.org.
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