FASB ASC 250 – Accounting Changes and Error Corrections
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released the 200 section of the Accounting Standards Codification for the purpose of discussing the braod topic of Presentation. Accounting Standards Codification 250 (ASC 250) was released to address the more specific topic of correcting errors in prior period financial statements as well as adjusting current financial statements for changes in the method of accounting for certain things.
Often times during an audit, the auditors and/or clients will find an error that occurred in the prior year. Usually these are fairly small but they can sometimes be large, multi-million dollar errors that simply were not caught in the previous year due to statistical sampling.
On a fairly rare basis, a company will change Accounting policy and as a result, and changes to financial statements for changes in accounting policy. This ASC covers the guidance which you need to follow when this occurs.
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