
Leslie Seidman hopes the accounting standards board will continue to oversee rulemaking for nonpublic companies.
Prompted by a proposal earlier this year by a blue-ribbon panel on the future of private-company accounting standards — a proposal that includes giving oversight of those standards to a brand-new board — the Financial Accounting Standards Board has heightened its focus on private-company issues, according to Leslie Seidman, the board's chairperson.
Seidman chose the prestigious Zicklin Center Financial Reporting Conference at Baruch College in New York on Thursday to respond to the challenge from the blue-ribbon panel. Declaring that she hopes the responsibility for private-company financial reporting remains squarely in FASB's hands, she noted that the decision about how to respond to the panel's proposal is being deliberated by the Financial Accounting Foundation, FASB's parent organization.
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