At the recent AICPA and CIMA Conference on current SEC and PCAOB developments, Andreas Barckow, chair of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), discussed the board’s key projects, one of which is goodwill impairments. In the U.S., the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has tentatively decided to reintroduce an amortization model for goodwill with a 10-year default amortization period. The IASB is leaning toward a different conclusion, that is, retaining the impairment approach with some modifications. “Given that our pronouncements on business combinations are largely converged, an important consideration is to investigate how we can stay aligned,” said Barckow. A copy of his full speech from the conference is available if you click here.