Summary of Board Decisions

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October 23, 2013 FASB Board Meeting

Not-for-profit financial reporting: financial statements. The Board continued deliberations on the project and tentatively decided to improve the statement of cash flows by:

1. Requiring the direct method of reporting cash flows provided [used] by operating activities and removing the requirement to reconcile the change in net assets to net cash flow from operating activities (often referred to as the indirect method).
2. Revising how the following items are classified in the statement of cash flows:
   1. Cash gifts with donor-imposed restrictions that they be used to purchase, construct, or otherwise acquire long-lived assets for operating purposes would be classified as inflows from operating activities rather than as inflows from financing activities.
   2. Cash payments to purchase, construct, or otherwise acquire long-lived assets for operating purposes would be classified as outflows from operating activities rather than as outflows from investing activities.
   3. Cash dividends and interest income would be classified as inflows from investing activities rather than as inflows from operating activities.
   4. Cash payments of interest expense would be classified as outflows from financing activities rather than as outflows from operating activities.

1. Investments in unconsolidated investment companies.
2. The first level of investments in another investment company, not to the second or third level of investments. However, the Board decided that the guidance would include language to discourage a reporting investment company from creating additional levels of investments to circumvent the proposed disclosures.

1. The reporting investment company´s share of the dollar amounts of management fees and incentive fees associated with the investee fund. If the reporting investment company cannot obtain information about the dollar amount of its share of the fees, it would disclose instead the percentage amounts and computational basis for each such fee.
2. The reporting investment company´s fair value of, and its share of income/loss from, its investment in an investee fund.
3. For investments in which the reporting investment company owns more than 20 percent of an investee fund, the reporting investment company would disclose whether its ownership percentage is between 20 to 50 percent of the net assets of the investee fund or whether its ownership percentage is greater than 50 percent of the net assets of the investee fund.