The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU), which would reduce the cost and complexity of accounting for goodwill and measuring certain intangible assets for not-for-profit organisations.
Stakeholders have been encouraged to review and provide input on the proposed ASU by February 18 2019.
FASB’s chairman Russell G. Golden said: “Stakeholders subsequently told us that these two private company alternatives would also benefit not-for-profit organisations – as the benefits of current accounting for goodwill and identifiable intangible assets in a business combination did not justify the costs.
“This proposed standard simply extends the scope of the two private company alternatives to not-for-profits, which will enable them to recognize fewer items as separate intangible assets in acquisitions and to account for goodwill in a more cost-effective manner.”
The proposed ASU, instead of testing goodwill for impairment annually at the reporting unit level, a not-for-profit organisation that elects the accounting alternative would include: amortising goodwill over 10 years or less on a straight line basis, testing for impairment upon a triggering event, have the option to elect to test for impairment at the entity level, and have the option to subsume certain customer-related intangible assets and all non-compete agreements into goodwill.
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