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The entity incurs liabilities to suppliers that meet either of the following conditions: The amounts are based, at least in part, on the price of the entity's shares or other equity instruments. (The phrase at least in part is used because an award may be indexed to both the price of the entity's shares and something other than either the price of the entity's shares or a market, performance, or service condition.) The awards require or may require settlement by issuance of the entity's shares. The term shares includes various forms of ownership interest that may not take the legal form of securities (for example, partnership interests), as well as other interests, including those that are liabilities in substance but not in form. Equity shares refers only to shares that are accounted for as equity. Also called share-based compensation arrangements.\"><span>share-based payment arrangements</span></a> is to recognize in the financial statements the goods or services received in exchange for equity instruments granted or liabilities incurred and the related cost to the entity as those goods or services are received. </span></span><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_C576670A-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">This Topic uses the terms <em class=\"ph i\">compensation</em> and <em class=\"ph i\">payment</em> in their broadest senses to refer to the consideration paid for goods or services </span></span><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_C5766863-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">or the consideration paid to a customer. </span></span></div></div>","snippet":"The objective of accounting for transactions under share-based payment arrangements is to recognize in the financial statements the goods or services received in exchange for equity instruments granted or liabilities inc…","pending":false,"provenance":{"source_url":"https://asc.fasb.org/","snapshot_version":"sha256:15aea8165dff9f5ae47d9484f8470588b13b307f56e1d50801bf4d85ec190e3f","record_version":"sha256:77d8139d86d5c1ad3521deb2c226c4a835d53deb3fc724b718881f90c2bf55cb","downloaded_from":"2026-09-10T01:03:22.817Z","last_downloaded_at":"2026-09-10T01:03:22.817Z","date_scope":"source_page","effective_as_of":null,"effective_as_of_status":"Not established by retrieval timestamps","source_key":"1943274/2147480635","source_sha256":"faaf1afcc75aceff1ff8bd1d2f2345dd6a44ae61bdf8700ec5bed6d3622b5aac"}},{"citation":"718-10-10-2","para":"10-2","html":"<div class=\"asc-body\"><div class=\"norm-text\"><span class=\"sfragment\" id=\"sfr_C57669C0-6E93-1014-A13F-6E4B94C84136\"><span class=\"sfragment-source\">This Topic requires that the cost resulting from all <a href=\"/glossary/s/#share-based-payment-transactions\" class=\"term\" title=\"A transaction under a share-based payment arrangement, including a transaction in which an entity acquires goods or services because related parties or other holders of economic interests in that entity awards a share-based payment to an employee or other supplier of goods or services for the entity's benefit. Also called share-based compensation transactions.\"><span>share-based payment transactions</span></a> be recognized in the financial statements. This Topic establishes <a href=\"/glossary/f/#fair-value\" class=\"term\" title=\"The amount at which an asset (or liability) could be bought (or incurred) or sold (or settled) in a current transaction between willing parties, that is, other than in a forced or liquidation sale.\"><span>fair value</span></a> as the measurement objective in accounting for share-based payment arrangements and requires all entities to apply a fair-value-based measurement method in accounting for share-based payment transactions except for equity instruments held by <a href=\"/glossary/e/#employee-stock-ownership-plan\" class=\"term\" title=\"An employee stock ownership plan is an employee benefit plan that is described by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as a stock bonus plan, or combination stock bonus and money purchase pension plan, designed to invest primarily in employer stock. Also called an employee share ownership plan.\"><span>employee stock ownership plans</span></a>. </span></span></div></div>","snippet":"This Topic requires that the cost resulting from all share-based payment transactions be recognized in the financial statements. 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