Download or read book GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual 2015-2016 written by George Georgiades and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual provides a complete, quick, and valuable reference source for financial statement disclosures and key presentation requirements. Specifically, the Manual: Provides over 750 examples of realistic sample footnote disclosures to assist in the preparation of financial statements for an audit, a review, or a compilation engagement. Facilitates compliance with U.S. GAAP by integrating, in each chapter, the specific disclosure and key presentation requirements with the sample footnotes. Provides sample disclosures that are technically sound, understandable, and comprehensive and that cover a variety of scenarios, from the most common to the most unusual. Incorporates all currently effective accounting standards, including those that cover areas of unusual difficulty, such as financial instruments, fair value, business combinations, consolidation, income taxes, pensions, accounting changes, and variable interest entities. All of the sample disclosures in the GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual are included on the accompanying CD-ROM. Therefore, once youve identified the disclosure suited to your specific needs, you can simply select it from the CD-ROM, place it into your financial statements, then modify it as necessary. Also included is a financial statement disclosures checklist (annual and interim) that provides a centralized resource of the required and recommended GAAP disclosures and key presentation items currently in effect, using the style referencing under the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. It is designed to assist the user in determining whether the required financial statement disclosures and key presentation matters have been addressed. This Manual is arranged into the following major parts, consistent with