Roadmap
Issuer’s Accounting for Debt
(March 2025; Updated September 2025)
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This Roadmap
discusses an entity’s accounting for and presentation and disclosure of (1) debt
obligations, such as bonds, loans, notes, and other payables, including
convertible debt, and (2) commitments to obtain debt financing in the future,
such as delayed-draw loan commitments, lines of credit, and revolving-debt
arrangements. It also addresses the accounting for costs and fees
associated with debt issuance as well as those incurred to secure a commitment to
obtain debt financing in the future.
Topics addressed in the Roadmap
include embedded derivatives (ASC 815-15), debt extinguishments (ASC 470-50), debt
modifications and exchanges (ASC 470-50), debt conversions (ASC 470-20), and balance
sheet classification (ASC 470-10).
The September 2025 update includes an example illustrating the accounting in
situations in which an entity transfers cash that it intends to be sufficient to
satisfy a debt obligation but the creditor has not actually been paid nor has the
entity been legally released from being the primary obligor. These types of
transfers are commonly referred to as “satisfaction and discharge” procedures.
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