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Pending content is not necessarily effective.","topic":"220","topic_title":"Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income","subtopic":"220-958","subtopic_title":"Not-for-Profit Entities","section":{"number":"50","label":"50 Disclosure","anchor":"50-disclosure","is_sec":false,"groups":[{"block":null,"heading":null,"paragraphs":[{"citation":"220-958-50-1","para":"50-1","html":"<div class=\"asc-body\"><div class=\"norm-text\">A <a href=\"/glossary/n/#not-for-profit-entity\" class=\"term\" title=\"An entity that possesses the following characteristics, in varying degrees, that distinguish it from a business entity: Contributions of significant amounts of resources from resource providers who do not expect commensurate or proportionate pecuniary return Operating purposes other than to provide goods or services at a profit Absence of ownership interests like those of business entities. Entities that clearly fall outside this definition include the following: All investor-owned entities Entities that provide dividends, lower costs, or other economic benefits directly and proportionately to their owners, members, or participants, such as mutual insurance entities, credit unions, farm and rural electric cooperatives, and employee benefit plans.\"><span>not-for-profit entity</span></a> (NFP) shall disclose the following information in the notes to financial statements:<ol class=\"ol-norm\"><li class=\"li-norm\"><span class=\"linum\">a</span><div class=\"p\"><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_30DF131A-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">If an NFP's use of the term <em class=\"ph i\">operations</em> is not apparent from the details provided on the face of the statement of activities, a description of the nature of the reported measure of operations or the items excluded from operations </span></span><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_30DF1436-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">(see Example 5 in paragraph <a href=\"/asc/220/958/#220-958-55-16\" class=\"xref\">958-220-55-16</a> for a case in which this information is apparent on the face of the statement of activities and a case in which this information is disclosed in the notes to the financial statements).</span></span></div></li><li class=\"li-norm\"><span class=\"linum\">aa</span><div class=\"p\"><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_30DF1511-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">If an NFP presents internal board designations, appropriations, and similar actions on the face of the financial statements, an appropriate disaggregation and description by type of these actions if not provided on the face of the financial statements (see Example 5 in paragraph <a href=\"/asc/220/958/#220-958-55-16\" class=\"xref\">958-220-55-16</a> for a case in which this information is apparent on the face of the financial statements and a case in which this information is disclosed in the notes to the financial statements).</span></span></div></li><li class=\"li-norm\"><span class=\"linum\">b</span><div class=\"p\"><a href=\"/updates/asu-2016-14/\" class=\"xref\">Subparagraph superseded by Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-14</a>. </div></li><li class=\"li-norm\"><span class=\"linum\">c</span><div class=\"p\"><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_30DF15DD-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">If not provided on the face of the statement of activities or as a separate statement, all expenses in one location. The relationship between functional and natural classification for all expenses shall be presented in an analysis that disaggregates <a href=\"/glossary/f/#functional-expense-classification\" class=\"term\" title=\"A method of grouping expenses according to the purpose for which costs are incurred. The primary functional classifications of a not-for-profit entity are program services and supporting activities.\"><span>functional expense classifications</span></a> by their <a href=\"/glossary/n/#natural-expense-classification\" class=\"term\" title=\"A method of grouping expenses according to the kinds of economic benefits received in incurring those expenses. Examples of natural expense classifications include salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional services, supplies, interest expense, rent, utilities, and depreciation. (P) December 16, 2026; (N) December 16, 2026220-40-65-1A method of grouping expenses according to the types of economic benefits received in incurring those expenses. Examples of natural expense classifications include salaries and wages, employee benefits, nonemployee professional services, supplies, interest expense, rent, utilities, and depreciation.\"><span>natural expense classifications</span></a>. Investment expenses that are netted against investment return shall not be included (see paragraph <a href=\"/asc/720/958/#720-958-45-15\" class=\"xref\">958-720-45-15</a>).</span></span></div></li><li class=\"li-norm\"><span class=\"linum\">d</span><div class=\"p\"><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_30DF1696-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">A qualitative description of the methods used to allocate costs among program and support functions (see paragraph <a href=\"/asc/720/958/#720-958-50-1\" class=\"xref\">958-720-50-1</a>).</span></span></div></li></ol></div></div>","snippet":"A not-for-profit entity (NFP) shall disclose the following information in the notes to financial statements:\n(a) If an NFP's use of the term operations is not apparent from the details provided on the face of the stateme…","pending":false,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:6cf3c32e55711fd779fd05a7598812e191f3da3d00ad0db5b576a385c2d0e68b","downloaded_from":"2026-09-09T23:07:30.799Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-09T23:07:30.799Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147478833","source_sha256":"55441fae2559d82f889c8b55645233e78b444cc8dfd21100e7896592990e4c2a"}}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:0fa76440aa8dce334ffa4bc46dce59f29a536e1f7647d2adeea54c299ddcfcd4","downloaded_from":"2026-09-09T23:07:30.799Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-09T23:07:30.799Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147478833","source_sha256":"55441fae2559d82f889c8b55645233e78b444cc8dfd21100e7896592990e4c2a"}}],"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:36b77a7d7119623de9115b4295ed49ecb7821b3614c11762805630fc7e7e25ef","downloaded_from":"2026-09-09T23:07:30.799Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-09T23:07:30.799Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147478833","source_sha256":"55441fae2559d82f889c8b55645233e78b444cc8dfd21100e7896592990e4c2a"}},"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:36b77a7d7119623de9115b4295ed49ecb7821b3614c11762805630fc7e7e25ef","downloaded_from":"2026-09-09T23:07:30.799Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-09T23:07:30.799Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147478833","source_sha256":"55441fae2559d82f889c8b55645233e78b444cc8dfd21100e7896592990e4c2a"}}