The FASB Nightmare

FASB and the SEC, anxious to harmonize US accounting practices and clarify corporate earnings filings, are proposing reporting changes which will further beleaguer already desperate medical start-ups and rock large company growth plans. They're already tightening the rules on write-offs for in-process R&D following acquisitions and they've proposed eliminating both pooling of interest mergers and off-P&L financing techniques, like SWORDs and SPARCs.