Roadmap Series

Navigate SEC reporting obligations related to business acquisitions with our comprehensive Roadmap, featuring SEC guidance and Deloitte's interpretations. Stay current with the latest updates and examples.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the guidance in ASC 805 on business combinations, pushdown accounting, common-control transactions, and asset acquisitions as well as an overview of related SEC reporting requirements.

This comprehensive guide discusses key considerations for entities that prepare carve-out financial statements. These may be required for a sale, spin-off, IPO, or SPAC transaction that involves a portion of the parent entity.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the most significant differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS® Accounting Standards — two of the most widely used accounting standards in the world.

This Roadmap breaks down the requirements in ASC 810 and reconstructs them in a logical narrative, making them easier to understand and apply. While the discussion focuses primarily on the complexities of identifying whether a legal entity is a variable interest entity (VIE) and whether a reporting entity should consolidate the VIE, it also addresses the voting interest entity model and provides a framework for its application.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the accounting guidance in (1) ASC 450 on loss contingencies, gain contingencies, and loss recoveries and (2) ASC 460 on guarantees. In addition to summarizing the accounting framework in ASC 450 and ASC 460 and providing an in-depth discussion of key concepts, this Roadmap includes examples to illustrate how these concepts may be applied in practice.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the guidance in ASC 815-40 as well as insights into and interpretations of how to apply it in practice. For ease of reference, we have accompanied our discussion with the related authoritative text. The 2023 edition contains new and expanded guidance on topics such as earn-out arrangements, cash settlement provisions, and the initial and subsequent accounting for equity-linked instruments (including standby equity purchase agreements). Further, it is assumed in this edition that an entity has adopted ASU 2021-04.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the requirements in ASC 470-20 related to convertible debt before the amendments made by ASU 2020-06. It includes our insights into and interpretations of how this accounting guidance should be applied by entities that have not adopted ASU 2020-06.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the guidance in FASB Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-13 (codified as ASC 326), Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. The ASU adds to U.S. GAAP an impairment model known as the current expected credit loss model, which is based on expected losses rather than incurred losses.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the FASB’s authoritative guidance on the issuer’s accounting for debt arrangements (including convertible debt) as well as our insights into and interpretations of how to apply that guidance in practice. The 2023 edition includes updated and expanded guidance, including discussions reflecting the FASB’s issuance of ASU 2022-04 to enhance transparency about an entity’s use of supplier finance programs.

This Roadmap provides a comprehensive discussion of the guidance in ASC 815 on the identification, classification, measurement, and presentation and disclosure of derivative instruments, including embedded derivatives.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the guidance in ASC 480-10 as well as insights into and interpretations of how to apply it in practice. ASC 480-10 requires (1) issuers to classify certain types of shares of stock and certain share-settled contracts as liabilities or, in some circumstances, as assets and (2) SEC registrants to classify certain types of redeemable equity instruments as temporary equity. The 2023 edition of the Roadmap includes updated and expanded guidance on distinguishing between put warrants and net-cash-settled written call options, the application of the deemed liquidation exception in ASC 480-10-S99-3A, determining whether remeasurement is required when the holders of a convertible instrument control the issuer, and other topics.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the accounting and disclosure guidance in ASC 260 as well as insights into how to apply the guidance in practice. The 2023 update contains new and expanded discussion of certain matters related to calculating basic and diluted earnings per share.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the accounting guidance on environmental obligations in ASC 410-30 and asset retirement obligations (AROs) in ASC 410-20.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the guidance on accounting for equity method investments and joint ventures.

This Roadmap combines the SEC’s guidance on reporting for equity method investments with Deloitte’s interpretations and examples in a comprehensive, reader-friendly format.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the guidance in ASC 820 and ASC 825 on fair value measurement and disclosure (including the fair value option) as well as insights into how to apply this guidance in practice.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the accounting guidance in ASC 830 on foreign currency matters. While the guidance in ASC 830 has not changed significantly over the years, the application of the existing framework has continued to evolve as a result of the increasing interdependence and complexity of international economies and companies’ legal structures.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the guidance in ASC 350-20 on the subsequent accounting for goodwill after its initial recognition.

This Roadmap is intended to help readers navigate some of the questions that may arise in the application of the disclosure requirements related to certain registered securities under SEC Regulation S-X, Rules 3-10, 3-16, 13-01, and 13-02.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the FASB’s authoritative guidance on hedge accounting in ASC 815 as well as our insights into and interpretations of how to apply that guidance in practice.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into the guidance in ASC 360-10 and ASC 205-20. ASC 360-10 specifies the accounting and reporting for long-lived assets that are being held and used by an entity and for long-lived assets that the entity intends to sell or otherwise dispose of. ASC 205-20 further provides guidance on when a component, or group of components, of an entity that is classified as held for sale or disposed of must be reported as a discontinued operation. The 2023 edition of this publication includes updated and expanded guidance on these topics.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the income tax accounting guidance in ASC 740. Updates in the 2022 edition of the Roadmap include an expanded and reorganized discussion of valuation allowances as well as a new appendix that discusses tax-related provisions of the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.

This Roadmap addresses financial reporting, accounting, and auditing considerations to help companies navigate challenges related to preparing an IPO registration statement and ultimately going public.

This Roadmap combines the requirements of the FASB’s leasing standard, ASU 2016-02 (codified as ASC 842), with Deloitte’s interpretations and examples in a comprehensive, reader-friendly format. In addition, the Roadmap highlights (1) the requirements of ASC 842 that significantly differ from those in ASC 840 (the FASB’s previous leasing guidance) and IFRS 16 (the IASB’s leasing standard) and (2) recent standard-setting developments (through November 15, 2022).

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the guidance on noncontrolling interests, primarily that in ASC 810-10 and ASC 480-10-S99-3A. The publication is written on the assumption that (1) a parent has already established that consolidation of its subsidiary is appropriate under ASC 810-10 and (2) the equity interests of a subsidiary qualify for equity classification under ASC 480.

This Roadmap combines the SEC’s guidance on non-GAAP measures with Deloitte’s interpretations and examples in a comprehensive, reader-friendly format. The 2023 edition of this publication reflects recent developments related to non-GAAP measures, key performance indicators, and metrics. Such developments include the SEC’s issuance of new and updated interpretive guidance on non-GAAP measures.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the guidance in ASC 606 on revenue from contracts with customers, the cost guidance in ASC 340-40, and the guidance in ASC 610-20 on gains and losses on transfers of nonfinancial and in-substance nonfinancial assets to noncustomers. The 2023 edition includes updated and expanded discussions as well as new sections and illustrative examples. Appendix F of the Roadmap highlights substantive revisions to previous content.

This Roadmap contains extracts from SEC comment letters, analysis of those extracts, and links to resources that are relevant to SEC filers. Other features include (1) an update on some of the SEC’s priorities; (2) a summary of comment letter trends related to the top 10 topics of frequent comment in the 12-month period ended July 31, 2023; and (3) topics of focus related to disclosures associated with financial statement accounting, SEC reporting, initial public offerings, foreign private issuers, and industry-specific matters.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the guidance in ASC 280. Each chapter of the Roadmap contains key takeaways from the chapter’s discussion, excerpts from ASC 280, Deloitte’s interpretations of those excerpts, and examples to illustrate the relevant guidance.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the guidance on share-based payment arrangements in ASC 718 related to employee and nonemployee awards and in other literature (e.g., ASC 260 and ASC 805). ASC 718 applies to awards that require or may require settlement in the equity of the entity or whose settlement is based, at least in part, on the price of the entity’s equity. An entity’s conclusion related to whether an award is within the scope of ASC 718 can significantly affect the amount of compensation cost recognized and when such cost is recognized in the financial statements.

This Roadmap provides Deloitte’s insights into and interpretations of the accounting guidance on this topic, primarily that in ASC 230. The 2023 edition of this Roadmap includes several new discussions that address the presentation of cash flows related to topics such as tax receivable agreements, purchases and sales of crypto assets, and excise taxes paid on treasury stock transactions. Also new to this year’s update is expanded guidance on how to determine whether an other-than-insignificant financing element exists in derivative instruments.

This Roadmap provides an overview of the FASB’s authoritative guidance, as well as our insights and interpretations, on (1) the transferor’s and transferee’s accounting for a transfer of financial assets or servicing rights and (2) the servicer’s accounting for a right or obligation to service financial assets.