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SEC Content Released Onto the FASB Accounting Standards Codification

Source: California CPAPublication Date: 2008-05-01Arrival time: Aug 20, 03:18 AM

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released selected portions of SEC staff content onto the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (http://asc.fasb.org/home) for reference by public companies. The Codification does not change the SEC content; rather it includes the content reorganized into roughly 90 accounting topics to more closely align with the non-SEC content. Learn more at http://fasb.org/news/nr040308.shtml.

Copyright California Society of Certified Public Accountants May 2008

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