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New Accounting Standards Affecting
FoundationsRenée S. Graves, CPA, CGFM
Community College Internal Auditors Spring ConferenceMay 4, 2017
• Introduction• Who is affected• How NFP accounting is improved• Overview of changes
• Net Asset Classes• Underwater Endowments
• Investment Return• Expense Reporting• Liquidity and availability of resources • Cash flow
AGENDA
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• Update to the current model – not an overhaul• Improve understanding of net asset classes• Improve information in financial statements and
notes:• Financial performance• Cash flows• Liquidity
• Better enable NFPs to “tell their financial story”
INTRODUCTION
Not-for-profit organizations that will be affected include:• Charities• Foundations• Colleges• Universities • Health care providers• Religious organizations • Trade association• Cultural institutions
WHO IS AFFECTED BY THE NEW GUIDANCE
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• Improves communication of financial performance and condition to stakeholders
• Reduces cost and complexities in preparing financial statements.
• Simplifies the face of the financial statements • Enhances footnote disclosures • Provides more relevant information about
resources and the changes in those resources
HOW THE NEW GUIDANCE IMPROVES NFP ACCOUNTING
Helpful to users, such as donors, grantors, creditors, and others in assessing a not-for-profits:• Availability of resources to meet cash needs for
general expenditures • Liquidity and financial flexibility • Financial performance • Service efforts and ability to continue providing
services • Execution of stewardship responsibility and other
aspects of its management's performance
HOW THE NEW GUIDANCE IMPROVES NFP ACCOUNTING
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• On August 18th, 2016 the FASB issued a standard to improve:• How not-for-profit organizations classify net
assets• How financial statements are presented• How liquidity, financial performance & cash
flows are disclosed
“The new FASB Standards representthe most significant changes to NFP
reporting rules since 1993”
CHANGES TO NOT-FOR PROFIT FINANCIAL REPORTING
• After 20 years, stakeholders have voiced concerns:• Complexities in the use of the required three
classes of net assets• Deficiencies in information needed to assess
liquidity • Inconsistencies in information provided about
expenses• Limited usefulness of the statement of cash
flows
CHANGES TO NOT-FOR PROFITFINANCIAL REPORTING
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Net Asset Classes
• Revised net asset classes into two classes • net assets with donor restrictions • net assets without donor restrictions
• Improved disclosures for internal limits on the use of resources without donor restrictions
• Improved disclosures of net assets with donor restrictions
• Updated accounting and disclosure requirements for underwater endowment funds
KEY PROVISIONS OF THE NEW STANDARD
Investment Return• Net presentation of investment expenses against
investment return on the statement of activities• No longer required to disclose investment
expenses that have been netted
Expenses• Required to present expenses by nature as well as
function• Analysis showing the relationship between
functional and natural classification for all expenses
KEY PROVISIONS OF THE NEW STANDARD
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Liquidity and Availability of Resources• Qualitative disclosure - how a not-for-profit
manages its available liquid resources • Quantitative disclosure - the availability of financial
assets to meet cash needs for general expenditures within one year
Statement of Cash Flow • Free choice between direct and indirect methods • Presentation of the indirect reconciliation no longer
required if using the direct method
KEY PROVISIONS OF THE NEW STANDARD
• “Unrestricted” net assets was misunderstood• Can have internal limitations on use
• Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) blurred lines between temporarily restricted and permanently restricted
• Underwater endowment information can help assess liquidity and availability of resources • Especially in depressed markets
NET ASSET CLASSES
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NET ASSETS CLASSES
Disclosure●Amount, Purpose, and type of board designations**
● Nature and amount of donors restrictions
Revised
● Without Donors Restrictions* ● With Donors Restrictions
Current GAAP
● Unrestricted ● Temp. Restricted ● Perm. Restricted
* Can disaggregate further** New disclosure requirement
• Can disaggregate net assets classes on balance sheet
• Streamlines the Statement of Activities
• Allows for comparative reporting
NET ASSET CLASSES
With donors restrictions
Perpetual in nature $XXX
Purpose restricted XXX
Time restricted only for periods after 20X1 XXX XXX
Without donors restrictions:
Designated by the Board [for purpose] $XXX
Undesignated XXX XX
Net assets $XXX
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• The amount and purpose of board-designated net assets are disclosed either • on the face of the financial statements • in the footnotes
• Requires an assessment of the financial implications before creating board designated funds.
• Ensures the Board of Directors understands the financial reporting requirements
NET ASSET CLASSESBOARD-DESIGNATED
NET ASSET CLASSES“UNDERWATER” ENDOWMENTS
Revised net asset classification
• To be reflected in net assets with donors restrictions rather than in net assets without donor restrictions
Enhanced disclosures• Aggregate amounts by which funds are under water
(current GAAP)• Aggregate amount of original gift amount (or level require
by donor or law)• Fair value• Governing board policies, or actions taken, concerning
appropriation from such funds
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Presentation
• Net presentation of investment expenses against investment return on the face of the statement of activities• Netting limited to external and direct internal expenses• May report net return in multiple, appropriately labeled lines
• From different portfolios• In different net assets classes• In operating versus non-operating
Disclosure• Disclosure of investment expenses no longer required
• If reported, carefully label and don’t include in expense analysis
• No longer require disclosure of investment return components
INVESTMENT RETURN
• Analysis by both nature and function provides information about • Stewardship of resources • Fixed and variable costs
• Report expenses on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes by:• Function• Natural Classification• Analysis (disaggregate function by nature)
• Requires disclosure of all expenses in one location (except netted investment costs)
EXPENSE REPORTING
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• Requires qualitative disclosures about methods used to allocate costs among program and support functions
• Provides enhanced guidance on allocations from Management & General expenses:• Direct Conduct of programs or other
supporting activities requires allocation from M&G
• Direct Supervision of programs or other supporting activities requires allocation from M&G
EXPENSE REPORTING
• Required to provide enhanced disclosures about the method(s) used to allocate costs among program and support functions
• Improved definition of management and general activities
• Provides guidance on the types of costs that can be allocated among program and/or support functions and those that should not be allocated
EXPENSE REPORTING
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EXPENSE REPORTING
A B C Program Subtotal
Mgmt andGeneral
Fund Raising
Supporting Subtotal
Total Expense
Salaries and benefits $7,400 $3,900 $1,725 $13,025 $1,130 $960 $2,090 $15,115
Grants to otherorganizations
2,075 750 1,925 4,750 4,750
Supplies and Travel 890 1,013 499 2,402 213 540 753 3,155
Services and professionalfees
160 1,490 600 2,250 200 390 590 2,840
Office and occupancy 1,160 600 450 2,210 218 100 318 2,528
Depreciation 1,440 800 570 2,810 250 140 390 3,200
Interest 171 96 68 335 27 20 47 382
Total expense $13,296 $8,649 $5,837 $27,782 $2,038 $2,150 $4,188 $31,970
Program Activities Supporting Activities
• Current disclosures provide limited information• Feedback received on Exposure Draft was mixed:
• Support for qualitative disclosures• Concern about implementation and audit costs
• Separated liquidity and availability into two separate objectives:• Liquidity – qualitative disclosure of liquidity risk
and management• Availability – quantitative disclosure using
information on the balance sheet
LIQUIDITY AND AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
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• The FASB approved the following two objectives:• Qualitative information - how an NFP
manages its liquid available resources and its liquidity risk (in the notes)
• Quantitative information - communicates the availability of financial assets at the balance sheet date to meet cash needs for general expenditures within one year (on the face and/or in the notes)
LIQUIDITY AND AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
Requires enhanced disclosures to improve the usefulness of information to assess:• Limits on the use of resources (liquidity, financial flexibility
and allocation of resources) imposed by: • The governing board • Donors
• Methods to manage liquidity to meet near-term demands for cash
• Types of resources used to carry out operating activities• Accounting policies and methods to allocate costs between
program and supporting activities • The effects of underwater endowment funds on spending
policies and financial flexibility
LIQUIDITY AND AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
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• Classified balance sheet provides quantitative disclosures on availability: • Label current and non-current assets and liabilities• Segregation of assets whose use is limited• However, the balance sheet may contain non-
financial assets • Availability is affected by:
• The nature of the item• External limits imposed by donors, grantors, law
and contracts• Internal limits imposed by Board decisions
LIQUIDITY AND AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
• Quantitative disclosures could be provided in chart form:
LIQUIDITY AND AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES
Financial assets, at year-end $234,410
Less: Contractual or donor-imposed restrictions making financial assets
unavailable for general expenditure within one year:
Restricted by donor with time or purpose restrictions (11,940)
Subject to appropriation and satisfaction of donor restrictions (174,700)
Investments held in annuity trust (4,500)
Board Designations:
Quasi-endowment fund, primarily for long-term investing (36,600)
Less amount set aside for liquidity reserve: (1,300)
Financial assets available within one year to meet cash needs for general expenditures with one year $5,370
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• Free choice between Direct and Indirect method as a good first step
• Hope it will incentivize more NFPs to choose the direct method for operating cash flows• More useful• Easier to understand
• Public universities and a fairly small number of NFPs that use the direct method, found it useful and not too costly
CASH FLOW STATEMENT
• FASB contemplated requiring all NFP’s to use the direct method
• Allows either the Direct Method or the Indirect Method in presenting operating cash flows• Indirect reconciliation no longer required for
Direct Method
CASH FLOW STATEMENT
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Phase IEffective for Fiscal Year 2018-19
Net Asset Classes:
• Classification scheme
• Disclosure of board designated net assets
• Underwater endowments
• Expirations of capital restrictions
Investment Return/Expenses:
• Expense by nature; analysis of expenses by function and nature
• Netting of investment expenses against investment return
• Disclosure of netted investment expenses
• Enhanced disclosures about
• cost allocations
Operating measures:
• Modest improvements to disclosures about availability
Liquidity/Availability:
• Quantitative disclosures about availability
• Qualitative disclosures about liquidity
• Consideration of alternatives suggested by stakeholders (e.g., classified balance sheet)
Statement of cash flow:
• Methods of presenting operating cash flows (direct/indirect)
Phase II
Operating Measures—all other elements of proposal, including:
• Whether to require intermediate measure (s)
• Whether and how to define such measure(s), and what items should or should not be included in the measure(s)
• Alternative disaggregation approaches suggested by stakeholders
Statement of Cash Flows:
• Realignment of certain items
• Effective Date: Calendar Year 2018, Fiscal Year 2018-19
• Early Adoption: Permitted• Transition:
• For year of adoption: apply all provisions.• For comparative years presented: apply all
provisions; can choose not to present:1. Analysis of expenses by nature and
function and/or2. Disclosure about liquidity and availability of
resources
EFFECTIVE DATE, EARLY ADOPTION, AND TRANSITION
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Q&A
Renée S. Graves, CPA, CGFM
PartnerVicenti, Lloyd & Stutzman
2210 E. Route 66, Glendora, CA 91740
(626) 857-7300 x260