Toeing the Line FASB Issues Accounting Standards Update on


Financial Statements for Not-for-Profit Entities Sheree Brugmann, Partner, National Director for Quality Assurance Reprinted with permission from a CapinCrouse E-mail Alert. For more information, go to www.capincrouse.com.


The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016- 14, Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities (http:// www.fasb.org/jsp/FASB/Document_C/DocumentPag e?cid=1176168381847&acceptedDisclaimer=true). This completes Phase 1 of the most significant project addressing not-for-profit (NFP) financial reporting since the 1993 issuance of FASB Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Nos. 116 and 117.


The key requirements of the new ASU are: • Net Assets


— Required to be reported in two categories, net assets with donor restrictions and net assets without donor restrictions, replacing the current unrestricted, temporarily restricted, and permanently restricted categories


— Permitted to be disaggregated further


— Continued requirement to disclose the nature and amount of donor restrictions, such as time, purpose, and perpetuity


— New disclosure requirement to communicate the amount, purpose, and type of board designations


— Absent explicit restrictions, net assets with donor restrictions that are for the acquisition or construction of long-lived assets will be required to be released when the asset is placed in service, eliminating the alternative of recognizing the expiration of donor restrictions over time


• “Underwater” Endowments


— Will now be included in net assets with donor restrictions rather than in net assets without donor restrictions


— In addition to aggregate amounts by which funds are underwater (current GAAP), new required disclosure of the aggregate of original gift amounts (or level required by donor or law), fair value, and any governing board policy, or actions taken, concerning appropriation from such funds


• Cash Flow Statement


— NFPs will be allowed to choose between the direct method and the indirect method in presenting operating cash flows


— If the direct method is presented, an indirect reconciliation is no longer required


42 | 27.2 • Liquidity and Availability of Resources


— Required footnote disclosure of qualitative information on how an NFP manages its liquid available resources and its liquidity risk


— Required quantitative disclosure on the face of the financial statements and/or in the footnotes communicating the availability of an NFP’s financial assets at the statement of financial position date to meet cash needs for general expenditures within one year


— Examples illustrating different ways entities might report such information have been included in the ASU


• Expense Reporting


— Required reporting of expenses by function and by natural classification, either on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes


— Required qualitative disclosures about methods used to allocate costs among program and support functions


— Enhanced guidance provided related to allocations from management and general expenses


• Investment Return


— Required to be reported net of external and direct internal investment expenses (implementation guidance is provided to illustrate activities which constitute direct internal investing activities)


— Permitted but no longer required to disclose any investment expenses that are netted against investment return


— Investment return components are no longer required to be disaggregated in the endowment net asset roll forward


— NFPs are precluded from including external and direct internal investment expenses that have been netted against investment return in the functional expense analysis


• Disclosures About Operating Measures by Those NFPs That Choose to Present Such a Measure


— To the extent an operating measure is affected by internal board designations, appropriations, and similar actions, NFPs choosing to present an operating measure would be required to disaggregate and describe by type these internal transfers, either on the face of the financial statements or in the notes


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