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Chapter 2 — Scope

2.4 Share-Based Payments

2.4 Share-Based Payments

ASC Master Glossary
Share-Based Payment Arrangements
An arrangement under which either of the following conditions is met:
  1. One or more suppliers of goods or services (including employees) receive awards of equity shares, equity share options, or other equity instruments.
  2. The entity incurs liabilities to suppliers that meet either of the following conditions:
    1. The amounts are based, at least in part, on the price of the entity’s shares or other equity instruments. (The phrase at least in part is used because an award may be indexed to both the price of the entity’s shares and something other than either the price of the entity’s shares or a market, performance, or service condition.)
    2. The awards require or may require settlement by issuance of the entity’s shares.
The term shares includes various forms of ownership interest that may not take the legal form of securities (for example, partnership interests), as well as other interests, including those that are liabilities in substance but not in form. Equity shares refers only to shares that are accounted for as equity.
Also called share-based compensation arrangements.
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
An employee stock ownership plan is an employee benefit plan that is described by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as a stock bonus plan, or combination stock bonus and money purchase pension plan, designed to invest primarily in employer stock. Also called an employee share ownership plan.