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September 27, 2012 FASB Board Meeting
FASB
ratification of EITF tentative conclusions. The Board ratified the
following consensuses reached at the September 11, 2012 EITF
meeting.
Issue 12-A, "Not-for-Profit Entities: Classification of
the Sale Proceeds of Donated Financial Assets in the Statement of Cash
Flows"
A not-for-profit (NFP) should classify cash receipts
resulting from the sale of donated financial assets that upon receipt were
directed without any NFP imposed restrictions for sale and were converted nearly
immediately into cash as operating cash flows. However, if the donor restricted
the use of the donated financial assets to a long-term purpose, then the cash
receipts from sale of such donated financial assets should be classified as a
financing activity.
The amendments resulting from this consensus are
effective prospectively for fiscal years, and interim periods within those
years, beginning after June 15, 2013. Retrospective application to all prior
periods presented upon the date of adoption is permitted. Early adoption from
the beginning of the fiscal year of adoption is permitted.
Issue
12-C, "Subsequent Accounting for an Indemnification Asset Recognized at the
Acquisition Date as a Result of a Government-Assisted Acquisition of a Financial
Institution"
When a reporting entity recognizes an
indemnification asset (in accordance with Subtopic 805-20, Business
Combinations—Identifiable Assets and Liabilities, and Any Noncontrolling
Interest) as a result of a government-assisted acquisition of a financial
institution and subsequently a change in the cash flows expected to be collected
on the indemnification asset occurs (as a result of a change in the cash flows
expected to be collected on the indemnified asset), the reporting entity should
recognize the change in the measurement of the indemnification asset on the same
basis as the indemnified assets. Any amortization of changes in value of the
indemnification asset should be limited to the lesser of the term of the
indemnification agreement and the remaining life of the indemnified
assets.
For public and nonpublic entities, the amendments resulting from
this consensus are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those
years, beginning on or after December 15, 2012. Early adoption is permitted.
The amendments should be applied prospectively to any new
indemnification assets acquired after the date of adoption and to
indemnification assets existing as of the date of adoption arising from a
government-assisted acquisition of a financial institution.
Issue
12-E, "Accounting for Fair Value Information That Arises after the Measurement
Date and Its Inclusion in the Impairment Analysis of Unamortized Film
Costs"
The amendments resulting from this consensus supersede
paragraph 926-20-35-18 and Subtopic 926-855, Entertainment—Films—Subsequent
Events, thereby eliminating the rebuttable presumption that the conditions
leading to the write-off of unamortized film costs after the balance sheet date
existed as of the balance sheet date. The amendments also eliminate the
requirement that an entity incorporate into the fair value measurement used in
the impairment test the effects of any changes in estimates resulting from the
consideration of subsequent evidence if the information would not have been
considered by market participants at the measurement date.
For SEC
filers, the amendments are effective prospectively for impairment assessments
performed on or after December 15, 2012. For all other entities, the amendments
are effective for impairment assessments performed on or after December 15,
2013. In addition, earlier application is permitted, including for impairment
assessments performed as of a date before the issuance of the Accounting
Standards Update if, for an SEC filer, the entity's financial statements for the
most recent annual or interim period have not yet been issued or, for all other
entities, have not yet been made available for issuance.
The Board also
approved the following consensuses-for-exposure reached at the September 11,
2012 EITF meeting and decided to expose them for public comment for a period of
60 days.
Issue 11-A, "Parent's Accounting for the Cumulative
Translation Adjustment upon Derecognition of Certain Subsidiaries or Groups of
Assets within a Foreign Entity or of an Investment in a Foreign
Entity"
When a reporting entity (parent) ceases to have a
controlling financial interest in a subsidiary or group of assets that is a
nonprofit activity or a business (other than a sale of in substance real estate
or conveyance of oil and gas mineral rights) within a consolidated
foreign entity, the parent would be required to apply the guidance in Subtopic
830-30, Foreign Currency Matters—Translation of Financial Statements, to release
any related cumulative translation adjustment into earnings. Accordingly, the
cumulative translation adjustment would be released into net income only if such
sale or transfer results in the complete or substantially complete liquidation
of the foreign entity in which the subsidiary or group of assets had
resided.
For an equity method investment that is a foreign entity, the
partial sale guidance in Section 830-30-40 still applies. As such, a pro rata
portion of the cumulative translation adjustment would be released into net
income upon a partial sale of such an equity method investment. However, that
treatment would not apply to an equity method investment that is not a foreign
entity. In those instances, the partial sale would have to represent the
complete or substantially complete liquidation of the foreign entity that
contains the equity method investment in order for the cumulative translation
adjustment to be released into net income.
The sale of an investment in a
foreign entity includes both (1) the loss of a controlling financial interest in
a foreign entity (that is, irrespective of any retained investment) and (2) an
acquirer obtaining control of an acquiree in which it held an equity interest
immediately before the acquisition date (sometimes also referred to as a step
acquisition). Accordingly, the cumulative translation adjustment would be
released into net income upon the occurrence of those events.
The
consensus-for-exposure would not require any additional recurring disclosures.
Reporting entities would need to comply with the disclosure requirements in
Topic 810, Consolidation, Topic 830, and other relevant Codification Topics, as
applicable.
The amendments resulting from this consensus-for-exposure
would be applied prospectively to (1) a sale or transfer of a subsidiary or
group of assets that is a nonprofit activity or a business within the scope of
paragraph 810-10-40-3A within a consolidated foreign entity after the effective
date, (2) a sale of ownership interests in a foreign entity after the effective
date, and (3) a business combination achieved in stages. Prior periods would not
be adjusted. Early adoption would be permitted from the beginning of an entity´s
fiscal year of adoption to account for the release of the cumulative translation
adjustment in the same manner for all disposition and deconsolidation events
within that fiscal year.
Issue 12-G, "Accounting for the
Difference between the Fair Value of the Assets and the Fair Value of the
Liabilities of a Consolidated Collateralized Financing
Entity"
The fair value of the financial assets and financial
liabilities of a collateralized financing entity would be measured consistently
with the guidance on financial assets and financial liabilities with offsetting
positions in market risks or counterparty credit risk in Topic 820, Fair Value
Measurement. The guidance proposed in the consensus-for-exposure limits the
scope of the initial measurement guidance in this Issue to reporting entities
that initially consolidate a collateralized financing entity and the subsequent
measurement guidance to reporting entities that are required to elect or have
elected a fair value option under Topic 825, Financial Instruments, to
subsequently account for all eligible financial assets and financial liabilities
of the collateralized financing entity at fair value. This Issue would define a
collateralized financing entity as an entity that holds debt instruments, issues
beneficial interests only in those debt instruments that have recourse to the
debt instruments held by the collateralized financing entity, and has no
equity.
The consensus-for-exposure would not require any additional
recurring disclosures. Reporting entities would need to comply with the
disclosure requirements in Topic 810, Topic 820, and other relevant Codification
Topics, as applicable.
The amendments resulting from this
consensus-for-exposure would be applied using a modified retrospective approach
to only those consolidated collateralized financing entities that exist at the
date of adoption. Adjustments to the financial assets and financial liabilities
of those consolidated collateralized financing entities would be made to all
relevant prior periods presented upon the date of adoption, beginning from the
fiscal year in which FASB Statement No. 167, Amendments to FASB
Interpretation No. 46(R) (codified by Accounting Standards Update No.
2009-17, Consolidations (Topic 810): Improvements to Financial Reporting by
Enterprises Involved with Variable Interest Entities), was initially
adopted. Reporting entities also would be permitted to apply the amendments
retrospectively to all prior periods beginning from the fiscal year in which
Statement 167 was initially adopted. Early adoption would be
permitted.