In: Accounting
Assume your client is a public company with a calendar year-end. In what period must the company begin applying the pending content for ASC 810-10? Explain
a. All entities other than private companies shall apply the
pending content
that links to this paragraph for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal
years.
b. A private company shall apply the pending content that links to
this paragraph for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020,
and interim
periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15,
2021.
c. The pending content that links to this paragraph shall be
applied retrospectively with a cumulative-effect adjustment to
retained earnings
at the beginning of the earliest period presented.
d. Earlier adoption is permitted, including adoption in an interim
period.
e. If a reporting entity is required to consolidate a legal entity
as a result of the initial application of the pending content that
links to this paragraph,
the initial measurement of the assets, liabilities, and
noncontrolling interests of the legal entity depends on whether
determining their carrying
amounts is practicable. In this context, carrying amounts refer to
the amounts at which the assets, liabilities, and noncontrolling
interests would have been carried in the consolidated financial
statements if the requirements of the pending content that links to
this paragraph had been effective when the reporting entity first
met the conditions to consolidate
the legal entity.
1. If determining the carrying amounts is practicable, the
reporting entity shall initially measure the assets, liabilities,
and noncontrolling interests of the legal entity at their carrying
amounts at the date the pending content that links to this
paragraph first applies.
2. If determining the carrying amounts is not practicable, the
assets, liabilities, and noncontrolling interests of the legal
entity shall be measured at fair value at the date the pending
content that links to
this paragraph first applies.