Accounting for Digital Assets under US GAAP: Classification, Measurement, and Recognition

Overview

Attend this webcast to learn about digital assets and how to account for transactions with them or investments in them, under US GAAP.

Highlights

Brief overview of digital assets.
How to account for investments in crypto assets, like bitcoin.
How to account for the receipt of digital assets when received as consideration from a contract with a customer.
How to apply the intangible asset accounting model to holdings of digital assets.
How to account for the sale of digital assets.
Factors that custodians or depositors of digital assets may consider to determine when to recognize ownership of digital assets.

Prerequisites

none

Designed For

Accounting and finance professionals who need to know how to account for crypto and digital assets

Objectives

• Recognize how US GAAP applies to investments in, and transactions involving crypto assets.
• Identify factors to use in the analysis of ownership of a digital asset
• Recall the efforts of the AICPA to provide further guidance on how to account for digital assets under US GAAP.