IMPLEMENTING NEW STANDARDS

As part of positioning organizations for a successful and smooth transition to new standards, the FASB undertakes a variety of initiatives focused on:
- Educating our stakeholders
- Helping preparers and practitioners interpret the standards, and
- Making any necessary clarifications to the standards to address unintended consequences, if any.
Also access implementation guidance for major standards.
How the FASB positions organizations for a successful and
smooth transition to new standards.
CONDUCTING OUTREACH WITH STAKEHOLDERS

Types of Board and FASB staff outreach include:
- Meeting individually with preparers, auditors, and regulators
- Addressing preparer organizations in affected industries through small group meetings
- Issuing “Plain-English” educational materials such as videos, articles, and fact sheets
- Discussing implementation progress with FASB’s advisory groups
- Presenting at conferences to explain the new standard
- Participating in CPE provider training sessions to train them on how to educate their stakeholders about the standard (we call this “training the trainer”), and
- Conducting our own CPE webcasts aimed at preparer and auditor audiences.
TRANSITION RESOURCE GROUP

- Avoid having to make revisions to the standard after it is issued
- Reduce diversity in practice, and
- Proactively address preliminary cost-benefit concerns.
Finally, a TRG enables stakeholders to submit potential implementation issues for public discussion—and enable the group to address issues that likely will be faced by many other practitioners.
TRGs are not established for all standards, they are most useful for comprehensive standards that have significant and broad changes.
TECHNICAL INQUIRIES

The FASB’s Technical Inquiry service makes it easy for stakeholders to submit questions. In addition to addressing individual concerns, this service helps the FASB identify reoccurring questions, themes, and issues that may need to be addressed more broadly. The service also helps stakeholders obtain input on applying standards to their specific circumstances.
REQUEST A FASB SPEAKER

The FASB Speaker Request Portal guides stakeholders, step by step, through the process of requesting FASB speakers—including an overview our Terms and Conditions and other criteria for the acceptance of FASB speaking invitations. While the FASB is unable to accept every invitation received, we accommodate as many requests that meet our criteria as possible.
Access the FASB Speaker Request Portal here .