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The following table identifies the changes made to this Subtopic.
Paragraph Action Accounting Standards Update Date
Agricultural Cooperative Added Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
Cooperatives Superseded Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
Member of an Agricultural Cooperative Added Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
Nonmember of an Agricultural Cooperative Added Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
Patrons Amended Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
Written Notice of Allocation Added Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
905-325-05-1 through 05-4
 Amended Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
905-325-15-2 Amended Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
905-325-15-3 Amended Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
905-325-25-1 Amended Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
905-325-30-1 Amended Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
905-325-30-2 Amended Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-06 03/14/2014
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The Cooperatives Subsections provide guidance for an agricultural cooperative if it holds investments in other cooperatives.
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The Cooperatives—Patrons Subsections provide guidance for a patron's investments in cooperatives.
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Member patrons provide most of the capital required by agricultural cooperatives. The capital usually represents long-term investments acquired through initial cash investments, retains, or noncash patronage allocations. Voting rights for those investments are usually based on one-member-one-vote or limited weighted voting rather than on the number or amount of securities or other evidence of equity ownership held. The significance of investments by patrons results primarily from the purchasing or marketing rights and participation in the operating earnings. The investments are made primarily to obtain an economical source of supply or marketing services and not on the expectation of a return on investment. Investments in cooperatives are not equity securities and usually are not readily marketable, and transfer or sale, other than back to the issuing cooperative, is usually restricted or prohibited. As such, the operations of cooperatives have many of the attributes of corporate joint ventures or partnerships.
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Investments in cooperatives shall be accounted for at cost, including allocated equities and retains.
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For patrons, the retains represent investments in the cooperative. Patrons shall record the per-unit retains at face value.
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The carrying amount of an investment in a cooperative shall be reduced if the patron is unable to recover the full carrying value of the investment. Losses unallocated by the investee may indicate such an inability, and, at a minimum, the excess of unallocated losses over unallocated equities shall be recognized by the patron based on the patron's proportionate share of the total equity of the investee cooperative, or any other appropriate method, unless the patron demonstrates that it is probable that the carrying amount of the investment in the cooperative can be fully recovered.
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If retains are not to be redeemed in the current year by the producer (that is, the patron), the retains shall be classified as noncurrent.
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If a patron is economically dependent on a cooperative for sale of all or a significant portion of annual production, the extent of such transactions shall be disclosed in the financial statements.
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The core rule is that these nonmarketable long-term investments are carried at cost — including allocated equities and per-unit retains recorded at face value — rather than as equity securities, with the equity method of ASC 323-10 applied only in the infrequent case where the investor's share of the investee cooperative's unallocated retained earnings is material. 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