In August 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a final Accounting Standards Update (ASU) designed to improve and simplify accounting rules around hedge accounting. One tax pro views the latest change on hedge accounting to be the most significant since 1998.
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Speaker Nabih Berri Wednesday opened a two-day Parliament session dedicated to studying and passing the 2018 draft state budget. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content in minutes. subscribe now unrestricted access 1 month.
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It just got a bit harder to find the latest issue of Cosmopolitan at Walmart. The retail company said Tuesday that it's removing the women's magazine from checkout lines.
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Asian stocks posted declines after U.S. stock indexes closed lower as tech names weighed on the broader markets. The Trump administration was considering using an existing law to limit Chinese investment in technologies regarded as sensitive, according …
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Cargotec applies the new IFRS 15 and IFRS 9 accounting standards as well as the amendments to the IFRS 2 standard starting from 1 January 2018. Cargotec discloses the financial impacts of the transitional adjustments related to the adoption of IFRS 15 and IFRS 9 and the amended IFRS 2, as well
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