Accounting Research Bulletins

Accounting Research Bulletins were documents issued by the US Committee on Accounting Procedure between 1938 and 1959 on various accounting problems. They were discontinued with the dissolution of the Committee in 1959 under a recommendation from the Special Committee on Research Program.[1] In all, 17 bulletins were issued; however, the lack of binding authority over AICPA's membership reduced the influence of, and compliance with, the content of the bulletins. The Accounting Research Bulletins have all been superseded by the Accounting Standards Codification (ASC).

With the permission of the AICPA, the full text of Accounting Research Bulletins has been posted on the website of the J.D. Williams Library of the University of Mississippi.

List of Accounting Research Bulletins

No.Official titleIssued on
1General Introduction and Rules Formerly Adopted full-text1939 September
2Unamortized Discount and Redemption Premium on Bonds Refunded 1939 September
3Quasi-Reorganization or Corporate Readjustment—Amplification of Institute Rule No. 2 of 1934 1939 September
4Foreign Operations and Foreign Exchange 1939 December
5Depreciation on Appreciation 1940 April
6Comparative Statements 1940 April
7Reports of Committee on Terminology 1940 November
8Combined Statement of Income and Earned Surplus 1941 February
9Report of Committee on Terminology 1941 May
10Real and Personal Property Taxes 1941 June
11Corporate Accounting for Ordinary Stock Dividends 1941 September
11 RevisedAccounting for Stock Dividends and Stock Split-ups 1952 November
12Report of Committee on Terminology 1941 September
13Accounting for Special Reserves Arising Out of the War 1942 January
13 AddendumLimitation of Scope of Special War Reserves 1951 July
14Accounting for United States Treasury Tax Notes 1942 January
15Renegotiation of War Contracts 1942 September
16Report of Committee on Terminology 1942 October
17Post-War Refund of Excess-Profits Tax 1942 December
18Unamortized Discount and Redemption Premium on Bonds Refunded (Supplement) 1942 December
19Accounting under Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee Contracts 1942 December
20Report of Committee on Terminology 1942 November
21Renegotiation of War Contracts (Supplement) 1943 December
22Report of Committee on Terminology 1944 May
23Accounting for Income Taxes 1944 December
24Accounting for Intangible Assets 1944 December
25Accounting for Terminated War Contracts 1945 April
26Accounting for the Use of Special War Reserves 1946 October
26 AddendumLimitation of Scope of Special War Reserves 1951 July
27Emergency Facilities 1946 November
28Accounting Treatment of General Purpose Contingency Reserves 1947 July
29Inventory Pricing 1947 July
30Current Assets and Current Liabilities; Working Capital 1947 August
31Inventory Reserves 1947 October
32Income and Earned Surplus 1947 December
33Depreciation and High Costs 1947 December
34Recommendation of Committee on Terminology; Use of Term "Reserve" 1948 October
35Presentation of Income and Earned Surplus 1948 October
36Pension Plans; Accounting for Annuity Costs Based on Past Services 1948 November
37Accounting for Compensation in the Form of Stock Options 1948 November
37 RevisedAccounting for Compensation Involved in Stock Option and Stock Purchase Plans 1953 January
38Disclosure of Long-Term Leases in Financial Statements of Lessees 1949 October
39Recommendation of Subcommittee on Terminology; Discontinuance of the Use of the Term "Surplus" 1949 October
40Business Combinations 1950 September
41Presentation of Income and Earned Surplus (Supplement to Bulletin No. 35) 1951 July
42Emergency Facilities—Depreciation, Amortization, and Income Taxes 1952 November
43Restatement and Revision of Accounting Research Bulletins 1953
44Declining-Balance Depreciation 1954 October
44 RevisedDeclining-Balance Depreciation (Supersedes Accounting Research Bulletin No. 44 issued in October 1954) 1958 July
45Long-term Construction-type Contracts 1955 October
46Discontinuance of Dating Earned Surplus 1956 February
47Accounting for costs of Pension Plans 1956 September
48Business Combinations (Supersedes chapter 7(c) of Accounting Research Bulletin No. 43) 1957 January
49Earnings per Share 1958 April
50Contingencies 1958 October
51Consolidated Financial Statements 1959 August

References

  1. Zeff, Stephen A. (December 2001). "The work of the special committee on research program" (PDF). Accounting Historians Journal. Academy of Accounting Historians. 28 (2): 141–186. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
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