Archive for July, 2016

In March of this year, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU 2016-09) entitled Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting. This document describes changes to ASC Topic 718, which governs accounting for stock or other share-based compensation. This includes restricted stock, employee stock options, and relative total shareholder awards among other instruments. The changes to ASC 718 set forth in ASU 2016-09 will take effect for public companies for annual periods which begin after December ...