The Financial Accounting Standards Board, FASB, is a private, independent organization that since 1973 has been given the authority by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, to establish ...

In 2009, FASB’s Accounting Standards Codification will affect the day-to-day work of nearly every CPA who practices, teaches or researches accounting in accordance with U.S. GAAP. By July 2009, FASB ...

THE tort law deals with cases of civil wrong that one commits towards another for which remedy may be obtained, usually in the form of damages. For instance, if a doctor performs an operation by using ...

FASB issued a new standard Thursday that is designed to provide incremental improvements to its Accounting Standards Codification. Accounting Standards Update No. 2020-10, Codification Improvements, ...

Islamic Law or what is called Muslim Personal Law comes under attack not only by Hindutva forces but also is criticized by secular forces who stand for gender equality. The Hindutva forces attack it ...

Often, from the standpoints of legal expertise, the state and business interests, the idea of modernizing the law through the enactment of systematic legal codes has very powerful appeal. But ...

Last Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that would codify in federal law the right to same-sex marriage, repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, and ...

THE very wise and practical statesmen who in 1787 assembled in Philadelphia to frame a charter of government for the thirteen states, which should "form a more perfect union" than the existing ...

To understand positive law codification, it helps to know something about the U.S. Code. The Code was adopted in 1926 for the purpose of arranging the general and permanent federal statutes by subject ...

Nandom, UWR, March 29, GNA - Naa Dr. Puoure Puobe Chiir VII, Paramount Chief of Nandom in the Upper West Region has observed that the codification of customary laws on land was the surest way of ...