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class="post-1220 page type-page status-publish hentry tag-documents-for-comment tag-standards"> <div class="entry-content"><h1>Handbook by Chapter</h1> <p><strong>Accounting Standards and Other Pronouncements, As Amended</strong></p> <p><strong>Current Version</strong></p> <p><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_cover.pdf">Cover</a> (PDF)<br /> <a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_contents.pdf">Contents</a> (PDF)<br /> <a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_foreword.pdf">Foreword</a> (PDF)<br /> <a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_preamble.pdf">Preamble to Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts</a> (PDF)</p> <p><strong>Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts (SFFAC)</strong></p> <div id="handbook-documents"> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_1.pdf">SFFAC 1:</a> <ul> <li>Objectives of Federal Financial Reporting (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_2.pdf">SFFAC 2:</a> <ul> <li>Entity and Display (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_3.pdf">SFFAC 3:</a> <ul> <li>Management’s Discussion and Analysis (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_4.pdf">SFFAC 4:</a> <ul> <li>Intended Audience and Qualitative Characteristics for the Consolidated Financial Report of the United States Government (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_5.pdf">SFFAC 5:</a> <ul> <li>Definitions of Elements and Basic Recognition Criteria for Accrual-Basis Financial Statements (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_6.pdf">SFFAC 6:</a> <ul> <li>Distinguishing Basic Information, Required Supplementary Information, and Other Accompanying Information (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_7.pdf">SFFAC 7:</a> <ul> <li>Measurement of the Elements of Accrual-Basis Financial Statements in Periods After Initial Recording (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_8.pdf">SFFAC 8:</a> <ul> <li>Federal Financial Reporting (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_9.pdf">SFFAC 9:</a> <ul> <li>Materiality: Amending Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts (SFFAC) 1, Objectives of Federal Financial Reporting, and SFFAC 3, Management’s Discussion and Analysis (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffac_10.pdf">SFFAC 10:</a> <ul> <li>Omnibus Concepts Amendments 2024: Amending SFFAC 2 with Note Disclosures and MD&A Concepts and Rescinding SFFAC 3 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (SFFAS)</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_1.pdf">SFFAS 1:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Selected Assets and Liabilities (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_2.pdf">SFFAS 2:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Direct Loans and Loan Guarantees (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_3.pdf">SFFAS 3:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Inventory and Related Property (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_4.pdf">SFFAS 4:</a> <ul> <li>Managerial Cost Accounting Standards and Concepts (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_5.pdf">SFFAS 5:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Liabilities of The Federal Government (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_6.pdf">SFFAS 6:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_7.pdf">SFFAS 7:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Revenue and Other Financing Sources and Concepts for Reconciling Budgetary and Financial Accounting (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_8.pdf">SFFAS 8:</a> <ul> <li>Supplementary Stewardship Reporting (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_9.pdf">SFFAS 9:</a> <ul> <li>Deferral of the Effective Date of Managerial Cost Accounting Standards for the Federal Government in SFFAS No. 4 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_10.pdf">SFFAS 10:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Internal Use Software (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_11.pdf">SFFAS 11:</a> <ul> <li>Amendments to Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment – Definitional Changes – Amending SFFAS 6 and SFFAS 8 Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment and Supplementary Stewardship Reporting (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_12.pdf">SFFAS 12:</a> <ul> <li>Recognition of Contingent Liabilities Arising from Litigation: An Amendment of SFFAS 5, Accounting for Liabilities of the Federal Government (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_13.pdf">SFFAS 13:</a> <ul> <li>Deferral of Paragraph 65.2—Material Revenue-Related Transactions Disclosures (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_14.pdf">SFFAS 14:</a> <ul> <li>Amendments to Deferred Maintenance Reporting Amending SFFAS 6, Accounting for Property, Plant and Equipment and SFFAS 8, Supplementary Stewardship Reporting (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_15.pdf">SFFAS 15:</a> <ul> <li>Management’s Discussions and Analysis (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_16.pdf">SFFAS 16:</a> <ul> <li>Amendments to Accounting For Property, Plant, and Equipment—Measurement and Reporting for Multi-Use Heritage Assets: Amending SFFAS 6 and SFFAS 8 Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment and Supplementary Stewardship Reporting (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_17.pdf">SFFAS 17:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Social Insurance (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_18.pdf">SFFAS 18:</a> <ul> <li>Amendments to Accounting Standards For Direct Loans and Loan Guarantees in SFFAS No. 2 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_19.pdf">SFFAS 19:</a> <ul> <li>Technical Amendments to Accounting Standards For Direct Loans and Loan Guarantees in SFFAS 2 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_20.pdf">SFFAS 20:</a> <ul> <li>Elimination of Certain Disclosures Related to Tax Revenue Transactions by the Internal Revenue Service, Customs, and Others, Amending SFFAS 7, Accounting for Revenue and Other Financing Sources (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_21.pdf">SFFAS 21:</a> <ul> <li>Reporting Corrections of Errors and Changes in Accounting Principles, Amendment of SFFAS 7, Accounting for Revenue and Other Financing Sources(PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_22.pdf">SFFAS 22:</a> <ul> <li>Change in Certain Requirements for Reconciling Obligations and Net Cost of Operations, Amendment of SFFAS 7, Accounting for Revenue and Other Financing Sources (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_23.pdf">SFFAS 23:</a> <ul> <li>Eliminating the Category National Defense Property, Plant, and Equipment (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_24.pdf">SFFAS 24:</a> <ul> <li>Selected Standards for the Consolidated Financial Report of the United States Government (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_25.pdf">SFFAS 25:</a> <ul> <li>Reclassification of Stewardship Responsibilities and Eliminating the Current Services Assessment (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_26.pdf">SFFAS 26:</a> <ul> <li>Presentation of Significant Assumptions for the Statement of Social Insurance: Amending SFFAS 25 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_27.pdf">SFFAS 27:</a> <ul> <li>Identifying and Reporting Funds from Dedicated Collections (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_28.pdf">SFFAS 28:</a> <ul> <li>Deferral of the Effective Date of Reclassification of the Statement of Social Insurance: Amending SFFAS 25 and 26 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_29.pdf">SFFAS 29:</a> <ul> <li>Heritage Assets and Stewardship Land (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_30.pdf">SFFAS 30:</a> <ul> <li>Inter-Entity Cost Implementation: Amending SFFAS 4, Managerial Cost Accounting Standards and Concepts (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_31.pdf">SFFAS 31:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Fiduciary Activities (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_32.pdf">SFFAS 32:</a> <ul> <li>Consolidated Financial Report of the United States Government Requirements: Implementing Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts 4 “Intended Audience and Qualitative Characteristics for the Consolidated Financial Report of the United States Government” (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_33.pdf">SFFAS 33:</a> <ul> <li>Pensions, Other Retirement Benefits, and Other Postemployment Benefits: Reporting the Gains and Losses from Changes in Assumptions and Selecting Discount Rates and Valuation Dates (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_34.pdf">SFFAS 34:</a> <ul> <li>The Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, Including the Application of Standards Issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_35.pdf">SFFAS 35:</a> <ul> <li>Estimating the Historical Cost of General Property, Plant, and Equipment: Amending Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 6 and 23 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_36.pdf">SFFAS 36:</a> <ul> <li>Comprehensive Long-Term Projections for the U.S. Government (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_37.pdf">SFFAS 37:</a> <ul> <li>Social Insurance: Additional Requirements for Management’s Discussion and Analysis and Basic Financial Statements (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_38.pdf">SFFAS 38:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Federal Oil and Gas Resources (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_39.pdf">SFFAS 39:</a> <ul> <li>Subsequent Events: Codification of Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards Contained in the AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_40.pdf">SFFAS 40:</a> <ul> <li>Deferred Maintenance and Repairs: Definitional Changes (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_41.pdf">SFFAS 41:</a> <ul> <li>Deferral of the Effective Date of SFFAS 38, Accounting for Federal Oil and Gas Resources (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_42.pdf">SFFAS 42:</a> <ul> <li>Deferred Maintenance and Repairs: Amending Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 6, 14, 29, and 32 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_43.pdf">SFFAS 43:</a> <ul> <li>Dedicated Collections: Amending SFFAS 27, Identifying and Reporting Earmarked Funds (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_44.pdf">SFFAS 44:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Impairment of General Property, Plant, and Equipment Remaining in Use (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_45.pdf">SFFAS 45:</a> <ul> <li>Deferral of the Transition to Basic Information for Long-Term Projections (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_46.pdf">SFFAS 46:</a> <ul> <li>Deferral of the Transition to Basic Information for Long-Term Projections – Amending SFFASs 36 and 45 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_47.pdf">SFFAS 47:</a> <ul> <li>Reporting Entity (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_48.pdf">SFFAS 48:</a> <ul> <li>Opening Balances for Inventory, Operating Materials and Supplies, and Stockpile Materials (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_49.pdf">SFFAS 49:</a> <ul> <li>Public-Private Partnerships: Disclosure Requirements (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_50.pdf">SFFAS 50:</a> <ul> <li>Establishing Opening Balances for General Property, Plant, and Equipment: Amending Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (SFFAS) 6, SFFAS 10, SFFAS 23, and Rescinding SFFAS 35 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_51.pdf">SFFAS 51:</a> <ul> <li>Insurance Programs (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_52.pdf">SFFAS 52:</a> <ul> <li>Tax Expenditures (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_53.pdf">SFFAS 53:</a> <ul> <li>Budget and Accrual Reconciliation (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_54.pdf">SFFAS 54:</a> <ul> <li>Leases (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_55.pdf">SFFAS 55:</a> <ul> <li>Amending Inter-entity Cost Provisions (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_56.pdf">SFFAS 56:</a> <ul> <li>Classified Activities (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_57.pdf">SFFAS 57:</a> <ul> <li>Omnibus Amendments 2019 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_58.pdf">SFFAS 58:</a> <ul> <li>Deferral of the Effective Date of SFFAS 54, Leases (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_59.pdf">SFFAS 59:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting and Reporting of Government Land (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_60.pdf">SFFAS 60:</a> <ul> <li>Omnibus Amendments 2021: Leases-Related Topics (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_61.pdf">SFFAS 61:</a> <ul> <li>Omnibus Amendments 2023: Leases-Related Topics II (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_62.pdf">SFFAS 62:</a> <ul> <li>Transitional Amendment to SFFAS 54 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_63.pdf">SFFAS 63:</a> <ul> <li>Omnibus Amendments 2024-1: Amending Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 38, 49, and Technical Bulletin 2011-1 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_sffas_64.pdf">SFFAS 64:</a> <ul> <li>Management’s Discussion and Analysis: Rescinding and Replacing SFFAS 15 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Interpretations of Federal Financial Accounting Standards (Interpretation)</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_1.pdf">Interpretation 1:</a> <ul> <li>Reporting on Indian Trust Funds in General Purpose Financial Reports of the Department of the Interior and in the Consolidated Financial Statements of the United States Government: An Interpretation of SFFAS 7 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_2.pdf">Interpretation 2:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Treasury Judgment Fund Transactions: An Interpretation of SFFAS 4 and SFFAS 5 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_3.pdf">Interpretation 3:</a> <ul> <li>Measurement Date for Pension and Retirement Health Care Liabilities (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_4.pdf">Interpretation 4:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Pension Payments in Excess of Pension Expense (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_5.pdf">Interpretation 5:</a> <ul> <li>Recognition by Recipient Entities of Receivable Nonexchange Revenue: An Interpretation of SFFAS 7 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_6.pdf">Interpretation 6:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Imputed Intra-departmental Costs: An Interpretation of SFFAS No. 4 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_7.pdf">Interpretation 7:</a> <ul> <li>Items Held for Remanufacture (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_8.pdf">Interpretation 8:</a> <ul> <li>Interpretation of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 8: An Interpretation of Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 56, Classified Activities (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_9.pdf">Interpretation 9:</a> <ul> <li>Cleanup Cost Liabilities Involving Multiple Component Reporting Entities: An Interpretation of SFFAS 5 & SFFAS 6 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li style="margin-left: -.6em;"><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_10.pdf">Interpretation 10:</a> <ul> <li>Clarification of Non-federal Non-entity FBWT Classification (SFFAS 1, Paragraph 31): An Interpretation of SFFAS 1 and SFFAS 31 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li style="margin-left: -.6em;"><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_interp_11.pdf">Interpretation 11:</a> <ul> <li>Debt Cancellation: An Interpretation of SFFAS 7, Paragraph 313 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> <ul> <li style="list-style-type: none;"> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Technical Bulletins</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2000_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2000-1:</a> <ul> <li>Purpose and Scope of FASAB Technical Bulletins and Procedures for Issuance (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2002_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2002-1:</a> <ul> <li>Assigning to Component Entities Costs and Liabilities that Result from Legal Claims Against the Federal Government (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2002_2.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2002-2:</a> <ul> <li>Disclosures Required by Paragraph 79(g) of SFFAS 7 Accounting for Revenue and Other Financing Sources and Concepts for Reconciling Budgetary and Financial Accounting (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2003_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2003-1:</a> <ul> <li>Certain Questions and Answers Related to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2006_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2006-1:</a> <ul> <li>Recognition and Measurement of Asbestos-Related Cleanup Costs (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2009_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2009-1:</a> <ul> <li>Deferral of the Effective Date of Technical Bulletin 2006-1, Recognition and Measurement of Asbestos-Related Cleanup Costs (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2011_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2011-1:</a> <ul> <li>Accounting for Federal Natural Resources Other Than Oil and Gas (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2011_2.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2011-2:</a> <ul> <li>Extended Deferral of the Effective Date of Technical Bulletin 2006-1, Recognition and Measurement of Asbestos-Related Cleanup Costs (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2017_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2017-1: </a> <ul> <li>Intragovernmental Exchange Transactions (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2017_2.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2017-2:</a> <ul> <li>Assigning Assets to Component Reporting Entities (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2020_1.pdf" name="tb_2020-1">Technical Bulletin 2020-1:</a> <ul> <li>Loss Allowance for Intragovernmental Receivables (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2023_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2023-1:</a> <ul> <li>Intragovernmental Leasehold Reimbursable Work Agreements (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tech_bulletin_2024_1.pdf">Technical Bulletin 2024-1:</a> <ul> <li>Seized and Forfeited Digital Assets (PDF)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><a id="technicalreleases"></a><br /> <strong>Federal Financial Accounting Technical Releases (Technical Release)</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://files.fasab.gov/pdffiles/handbook_tr_1.pdf"> Technical Release 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