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The term debt security also includes all of the following: Preferred stock that by its terms either must be redeemed by the issuing entity or is redeemable at the option of the investor A collateralized mortgage obligation (or other instrument) that is issued in equity form but is required to be accounted for as a nonequity instrument regardless of how that instrument is classified (that is, whether equity or debt) in the issuer's statement of financial position U.S. Treasury securities U.S. government agency securities Municipal securities Corporate bonds Convertible debt Commercial paper All securitized debt instruments, such as collateralized mortgage obligations and real estate mortgage investment conduits Interest-only and principal-only strips. The term debt security excludes all of the following: Option contracts Financial futures contracts Forward contracts Lease contracts Receivables that do not meet the definition of security and, so, are not debt securities, for example: Trade accounts receivable arising from sales on credit by industrial or commercial entities Loans receivable arising from consumer, commercial, and real estate lending activities of financial institutions.\"><span>debt security</span></a> is acquired by contribution, it shall be recognized as an asset and as a revenue or gain in the period received. </span></span></div></div>","snippet":"Pursuant to paragraph 958-605-25-2, if a debt security is acquired by contribution, it shall be recognized as an asset and as a revenue or gain in the period received.","pending":false,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:0a61a5cf431cccff025fe37416a9870174888090e232faf1facae05894d49e3f","downloaded_from":"2026-09-09T23:37:57.941Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-09T23:37:57.941Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147477909","source_sha256":"effac631d4fb52667c488953fb595dada480e8d1601ffcdb1b64472a206af163"}},{"citation":"320-958-25-2","para":"25-2","html":"<div class=\"asc-body\"><div class=\"norm-text\"><a href=\"/updates/asu-2016-01/\" class=\"xref\">Paragraph superseded by Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-01</a>.</div></div>","snippet":"Paragraph superseded by Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-01.","pending":false,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:44dbc3db06de81c6dafeaf481606aa83f8f607363523da4a1cf2c0ecd37ad5cc","downloaded_from":"2026-09-09T23:37:57.941Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-09T23:37:57.941Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147477909","source_sha256":"effac631d4fb52667c488953fb595dada480e8d1601ffcdb1b64472a206af163"}},{"citation":"320-958-25-3","para":"25-3","html":"<div class=\"asc-body\"><div class=\"norm-text\"><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_3460D3F4-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">If 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) is holding an investment as an agent and has little or no discretion in determining how the investment income, unrealized gains and losses, and realized gains and losses resulting from that investment will be used, the investment's acquisition shall be reported as an agency transaction. 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