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FIN 46 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FIN 46 , revised and replaced in its entirety by FIN 46R , is a statement for the purposes of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles published by the US Financial Accounting Standar...
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FIN 46: consolidation of variable interest entities under US GAAPs: ... FIN 46 is, therefore, an exception to the normal accounting rule requiring consolidation based on voting control. A new term was coined for this purpose: variable interest entites to which the new consolidation rule would be applicable.
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Summary of Interpretation No. 46 ... Transferors to qualifying special-purpose entities and "grandfathered" qualifying special-purpose entities subject to the reporting requirements of FASB Statement No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities, do not consolidate...
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The objective of Interpretation 46 is not to restrict the use of variable interest entities but to improve financial reporting by companies involved with variable interest entities.
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As an educator, I find the following chart interesting because it illustrates the hopelessness of applying the new 2003 FASB Interpretation 46 (FIN 46) that requires tracing out the ultimate risks in deciding whether to consolidate SPEs (that are now called VIEs by the FASB).
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In the remainder of the study we examine the actions taken by ABCP sponsors to ameliorate the financial reporting effects of FIN 46. IV. Hypotheses; Conventional wisdom suggests that corporations avoid reporting leverage to investors.
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46 (FIN 46) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities an Interpretation of ARB No. 51. By matching commercial paper investors with corporations seeking liquidity, ABCP sponsors facilitate a significant amount of short-term, securitized financing in the U ... Managing Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards...
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