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Stay informed with the latest accounting standards for private companies by FASB. Updates on fair value, receivables, goodwill, and more effective in 2011.
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FASB UPDATE FOR PRIVATE COMPANIES Timothy Pike, CPA, CFE Howard & Co, LLP
Agenda RECENTLY ISSUED OR EFFECTIVE STANDARDS FASB UPDATE & UPCOMING ACCOUNTING UPDATES
2011-04 Fair Value Measurement • Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Disclosure Requirements in US GAAP and IFRS (Topic 820) • Effective for annual periods beginning after 12/15/11 (prospectively) • Primarily to converge wording
2011-03 Transfers & Servicing • Reconsideration of Effective Control for Repurchase Agreements (Topic 860) • Agreements that both entitle and obligate a transferor to repurchase or redeem financial assets before their maturity • Adjusts rules to determine when these are financings instead of sales
2011-03 Continued Current Rules: Maintaining effective control over a financial asset New Rules: The transferor has the ability to repurchase or redeem financial asset Effective for the first interim or annual period beginning on or after 12/15/11 (no early adoption)
2011-02 Receivables • A Creditor’s Determination of Whether a Restructuring Is a Troubled Debt Restructuring (Topic 310) • Effects all creditors that restructure receivables • Effective annual periods ending on or after December 15, 2012 (early adoption permitted)
2011-02 Continued Troubled Debt Evaluation must Conclude: • The restructuring constitutes a concession • The debtor is experiencing financial difficulties • Certain items excluded (e.g. changes in lease agreements or pension plans)
2011-01 Receivables • Deferral of the effective date related to disclosures about troubled debt restructurings • ASU 2010-20
2010-29 Business Combinations • Disclosure of Supplementary Pro Forma Information for Business Combinations (Topic 805) • Pro Forma information should be reflected retrospectively (all periods presented) • Effective for Periods Beginning After 12/15/10
2010-28 Intangibles, Goodwill… • When to Perform Step 2 of the Goodwill Impairment Test for Reporting Units with Zero or Negative Carrying Amounts (Topic 350) • Effective periods beginning after 12/15/11, but may early adopt one year earlier
2010-28 Continued • If the reporting unit value is zero or negative and Step 1 is passed, you must perform Step 2 • Effective for years (& interim periods) beginning after 12/15/11, but may early implement up to 12/15/10
2010-27 Other Expenses • Fees Paid to the Federal Government by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (Topic 720) • Effective calendar years beginning after 12/31/10, when the fee becomes effective
2010-26 Financial Services - Insurance • Accounting for Costs Associated with Acquiring or Renewing Insurance Contracts (Topic 944) • Effective for periods beginning after 12/15/11 • Details expenses that can/should be capitalized and those expensed as incurred
2010-25 Plan Accounting • Reporting Loans to Participants by Defined Contribution Pension Plans (Topic 962) • Carried at Fair Value? • Notes Receivable • Effective years ending after 12/15/10, early adoption allowed
2010-24 Health Care Entities • Presentation of Insurance Claims and Related Insurance Recoveries (Topic 954) • Accounting for medical malpractice claims and similar contingent liabilities and the related anticipated insurance recoveries • Effective years beginning after 12/15/10, early application permitted (cumulative effect adjustment to opening retained earnings)
2010-23 Health Care Entities • Measuring Charity Care for Disclosure (Topic 954) • Requires the use of cost (not revenue) to be used to measure and disclose charity care • Effective for fiscal years beginning after 12/15/10. Apply retrospectively, early adoption permitted
2010-22 Accounting for Various Topics SEC Update SEC Update 2010-21 Technical Amendments
2010-20 Receivables • Disclosures about the Credit Quality of Financing Receivables and the Allowances for Credit Losses (Topic 310) • Clarity to evaluate an entity’s credit risk exposure and adequacy of credit loss allowances • Effective periods ending after 12/15/11
2010-19 Foreign Currency • Multiple Foreign Currency Exchange Rates (Topic 830) • SEC UPDATE
2010-18 Receivable • Effect of a Loan Modification When the Loan is Part of a Pool That is Accounted for as a Single Asset (Topic 310) • Maintain loan pools • Effective prospectively; first period ending on or after 7/15/10. (Early application permitted)
2010-17 Milestone Method • Milestone Method of Revenue Recognition (Topic 605) • Research and Development Transactions • Periods beginning on or after June 15, 2010
2010-16 Entertainment - Casinos • Accruals for Casino Jackpot Liabilities (Topic 924) • Jackpots not required to be paid are not accrued • Effective periods beginning on or after 12/15/10
Upcoming Considerations • New FASB Chair Leslie Seidman • Board member since 2003 • Managed her own firm
Private & Nonprofit Standards • Blue ribbon panel recommendations • Currently in phase 2 • Supported by FASB Chair*
2 Significant Projects • Revenue Recognition • Leases
Revenue Recognition • Provide one source/location for revenue recognition • Improve definitions and industry variations • Many questions still remain
Leases • Eliminate off-balance sheet accounting • Provide for a single method of accounting • Eliminates “technicalities” of the bright- line tests • Reflect an exposure to risk and benefit with the use of leased assets
Leases, Continued • More timely information • Simplified approach for short-term leases • Does not change current definition of a lease contract
Leases, continued • Accounting: • Change the timing and location of expenses (in the financials) • Lease assets & liabilities recognized at present value of payments to be made over the contract term and carried at amortized cost • Continual reassessment