Advanced Accounting 11th Edition by Paul Fischer,William Tayler, Rita Cheng

تمرين 11

The FASB requires for-profit entities to classify their investments as trading, available-for-sale, or held-to-maturity. However, it does not require not-for-profit entities to do the same. What might be the reasoning for this difference in requirements? Which approach is more beneficial to the readers of the financial statements of a not-for-profit organization? Why?