NYS Charities Bureau Guidance (and Extensions) due to COVID-19

The Charities Bureau currently grants to all registered charities an automatic six-month extension of the deadline for filing an annual financial report. Therefore, for example, organizations whose year-end was June 30, 2019 are required to file their annual financial reports by May 15, 2020. However, any organization whose filing deadline, including the automatic six-month extension, falls after February 15, 2020 will be given an additional six-month extension to file its annual financial reports.

COVID-19 Due Date Chart

FASB ISSUE A NEW STANDARD ON NOT-FOR-PROFIT FINANCIAL REPORTING

On August 18, 2016, the FASB issued a standard intended to simplify and improve how a not-for-profit organization classifies its net assets, as well as the information it presents in financial statements and notes about its liquidity, financial performance, and cash flows.

On August 18, 2016, the FASB completed Phase I of its Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities project by issuing ASU No. 2016-14, Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities. The new guidance simplifies and improves how not-for-profit entities classify net assets as well as the information presented in financial statements and notes about liquidity, financial performance, and cash flows. 

A future Phase 2 of FASB's project is slated to address additional issues, including:

• Operating measure: All other elements of the proposal not addressed in Phase 1, including: 
• Whether to require intermediate measure(s)
• Whether and how to define such measure(s) and what items should be included
• Alignment of measures of operations in the statement of activities with measures of operations in the statement of cash flows.

FASB has not indicated a time frame from the completion of phase II. We will post more information about phase II as it happens.