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Financial Accounting Standards Board

American  

noun

  1. an independent organization founded in 1973, responsible chiefly for establishing generally accepted accounting principles. FASB


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The Financial Accounting Standards Board wants to require companies to disclose significant stablecoin holdings as part of a broader move to have companies break out their different types of cash equivalents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

In the 1970s, a new nonprofit, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, was established with government endorsement to replace the discredited Accounting Principles Board.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

Large companies also could try to lobby the nongovernmental Financial Accounting Standards Board for favorable changes to the rules for calculating book income.

From Reuters • Aug. 11, 2022

Opponents of the new tax have expressed concerns that it would give more control over the U.S. tax base to the Financial Accounting Standards Board, an independent organization that sets accounting rules.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021

Supreme Court decisions and guidance from the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the SEC boil down to two main thresholds for determining when information is material to shareholders, Dubow said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2018

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