FASB’s Crypto Accounting Shakeup Could Lure More Corporate Investment, Michael Saylor and Others Argue

Currently, accounting rules only let companies record increases in the value of their digital assets when they sell them – though losses are reflected at least once a year. But, on Wednesday, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) voted to take another path, letting companies use fair-value accounting that allows them to show gains and losses immediately on their income statements.