The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) Transition Resource Group for Credit Losses recently addressed these issues:

• Consideration of prepayments in the discount rate used in a discounted cash flow method
• Scope of purchased financial assets with credit deterioration guidance for beneficial interests within Accounting Standards Codification 325-40
• Transitioning purchased credit-impaired pools
• Accounting for troubled debt restructurings
• Determining the estimated life of a credit card receivable

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