A roadmap to distinguishing liabilities from equity (2017)
Published on:
21 Aug 2017
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This Roadmap provides an overview of the guidance in ASC 480-10 and how to apply it in practice. That guidance 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. For ease of reference, we have accompanied our discussion with the related authoritative text.
