# ASC 715-958-05: Compensation—Retirement Benefits — Not-for-Profit Entities — 05 Overview and Background

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## ASC 715-958-05: 05 Overview and Background

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This Subtopic provides accounting and reporting guidance for retirement benefit plans sponsored by [not-for-profit entities](https://asc.understandingaccounting.org/glossary/n/#not-for-profit-entity "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.") (NFPs). This guidance is essential to the application of Topic 715 by an NFP and shall be applied in conjunction with that Topic.