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The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a pair of proposed accounting standards updates on the classification of debt in a classified balance sheet (current versus noncurrent), and changes ...

IMGCAP(1)]The classification of workers as independent contractors or employees can be nebulous at best -- there is no bright-line test, but the consequences of misclassification, whether inadvertent ...

Syndicated loans may fall foul of new accounting classifications that bucket them in dealers’ trading books – causing them to swallow punitive market risk capital charges for assets they argue belong ...