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February 15, 2012 FASB Board Meeting
Disclosures about risks and uncertainties and the liquidation basis of accounting. The Board affirmed its previous tentative decisions about when and how an entity should apply the liquidation basis of accounting. Additionally, the Board affirmed that under the liquidation basis of accounting, an entity should prepare, at a minimum, a statement of net assets in liquidation and a statement of changes in net assets in liquidation and that it should disclose all measurement bases and significant assumptions.