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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Accounting for benefits, incl. FASB, GASB Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Backdating Stock Options Still a Risky Play At April Meeting, GASB Simplifies Accounting for State Retirement System Liabilities (PDF) State and Local Pensions Face New Accounting Rules Potential Accounting Implications of Upcoming Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Care Act Too Much Reliance on Limited-Scope Audits Is Harming Benefit Plan Participants, EBSA Chief Says Chart: Estimates of States' Net Tax-Supported Debt and Unfunded Pension Obligations as a Percentage of Personal Income (PDF) Employers' Accounting for Pensions and Other Retirement Plans May Be on FASB's 2012 Agenda Understanding Finances and Changes in State and Local Government Retiree Health Care (PDF) [Guidance Overview] What to Look for in 2012: Financial Statements Kentucky Forwards Report Criticizing Retirement System's Pay-to-Play Audits Enrolled Actuaries Report, Winter 2011 (PDF) [Opinion] Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's Recent Proposal on Executive Compensation Pension Plans: Are Big U.S. Firms Betting on a Bull Market with New Accounting Step? Avoiding a DOL Audit of an Employee Benefit Plan Annual Report New Federal Accounting Rule for Contractor Pensions Could Cost DOD Billions Updated PBGC 2010 Pension Insurance Data Tables Online (PDF) Chart: OPEB Prefunding Analysis of California Retiree Health Benefits (PDF) State of California Retiree Health Benefits Program: GASB Nos. 43 and 45 Actuarial Valuation Report as of June 30, 2011 (PDF) Avoid the Common Mistakes Affecting Plan Loans Webcast Understanding the True Cost of State and Local Pensions A New Set of Best Practices for 'Other Post-Employment Benefits' Mark-to-Market Pensions Show Brutal Year New Edition of Accounting for Equity Compensation Present Law and Background Relating to the Interaction of Federal Income Tax Rules and Financial Accounting Rules The ROI of a 408(b)(2) Audit (PDF) Guidance Provided on Electronic Health Record Incentives Low Pension Discount Rates = Big Accounting Liabilities for FY2011 [Opinion] Latest News on Overall GASB Process; Two Views of Proposed Reforms GASB Update: Two Views of Proposed Reforms for Governmental Pension Reporting and Accounting Rules A Look at Public Sector Defined Contribution Health Accounts SEI Finds Narrowing of Range of Discount Rates Used by Defined Benefit Plan Sponsors States' Pension Fund Accounting Rules Examined [Opinion] Impact of GASB Public Accounting Proposals on Employers Participating in State Retirement Systems (PDF) California Panel Releases Model Pension Disclosure Guidelines Getting Executive Compensation Ready for 2012: Starting with ISS Guidelines (PDF) [Opinion] American Academy of Actuaries Letter on Accounting for Post-Retirement Benefits Other than Pensions (PDF) New Research Report Using GASB-Proposed Metrics Reveals Risks of Retirement Plan 'Depletion' PBGC's Reported Deficit Doesn't Justify Premium Increase, Says American Benefits Council Logical Implications of GASB's Methodology for Valuing Pension Liabilities (PDF) GASB Calls for More Disclosure of State and Local Government Pension Obligations Outlook Bleak for Pension Plan Expense and Contributions PBGC Plan Valuation Problems Go Beyond United Airlines Full Funding and Cost Disclosure Needed in Public Pension Plan Reform, Paper Says How Would GASB Proposals Affect State and Local Pension Reporting? Steering Clear of Pension Benefit Restrictions [Opinion] Pension Crisis Accounting Rule Comments Rigged by Gluttons at the Public Trough A Better Answer to the Actuarial Discount Rate Debate (PDF) [Guidance Overview] IRS Clarifies Application of All Events Test to an Employer's Bonus Pool Liability Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. (contact the webmaster for reprint permission)   ·   Linking: Feel free to link directly to this page, even without specifically crediting BenefitsLink ® as its source. Glad you're here!   ·   Privacy Policy