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The following table identifies the changes made to this Subtopic.
Paragraph Action Accounting Standards Update Date
980-10-05-1 Amended Maintenance Update 2016-05 (PDF) 04/12/2016
980-10-05-1 Amended Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09 05/28/2014
980-10-15-6 Superseded Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-10 06/10/2014
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The Regulated Operations Topic includes the following Subtopics:
  1. a
    Overall
  2. b
    Discontinuation of Rate-Regulated Accounting
  3. c
    Accounting Changes and Error Corrections
  4. d
    Other Assets and Deferred Costs
  5. e
    Intangibles—Goodwill and Other
  6. f
    Property, Plant, and Equipment
  7. g
    Liabilities
  8. h
    Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations
  9. i
    Contingencies
  10. j
    Debt
  11. k
    Revenue Recognition—Alternative Revenue Programs
  12. l
    Compensation—General
  13. m
    Compensation—Retirement Benefits
  14. n
    Income Taxes
  15. o
    Consolidation
  16. oo
    Derivatives and Hedging
  17. p
    Interest
  18. q
    Leases.
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The Overall Subtopic provides guidance on the accounting and reporting for entities with regulated operations.
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Regulation of an entity's rates (also referred to as prices) is sometimes based on the entity's costs. Regulators use a variety of mechanisms to estimate a regulated entity's allowable costs, and they allow the entity to charge rates that are intended to produce revenue approximately equal to those allowable costs. Specific costs that are allowable for rate-making purposes result in revenue approximately equal to the costs.
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In most cases, allowable costs are used as a means of estimating costs of the period during which the rates will be in effect, and there is no intent to permit recovery of specific prior costs. The process is a way of setting prices—the results of the process are reported in general-purpose financial statements in accordance with the same accounting principles that are used by unregulated entities.
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Regulators sometimes include costs in allowable costs in a period other than the period in which the costs would be charged to expense by an unregulated entity. For the regulated entity, that procedure can do any of the following:
  1. a
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  2. b
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  3. c
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For general-purpose financial reporting, an incurred cost for which a regulator permits recovery in a future period is accounted for like an incurred cost that is reimbursable under a cost-reimbursement-type contract.
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Accounting requirements that are not directly related to the economic effects of rate actions may be imposed on regulated businesses by orders of regulatory authorities and occasionally by court decisions or statutes. This does not necessarily mean that those accounting requirements conform with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). For example, a regulatory authority may order an entity to capitalize and amortize a cost that would be charged to income currently by an unregulated entity. Unless capitalization of that cost is appropriate under this Topic, GAAP requires the regulated entity to charge the cost to current income.
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Unless an accounting order indicates the way a cost will be handled for rate-making purposes, it causes no economic effects that would justify deviation from the GAAP applicable to business entities in general. The mere issuance of an accounting order not tied to rate treatment does not change an entity's economic resources or obligations. In other words, the economic effect of regulatory decisions—not the mere existence of regulation—is the pervasive factor that determines the application of GAAP.
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The Subtopics within the Regulated Operations Topic only provide incremental industry-specific guidance for the entities defined in this Scope Section, or as further defined in the Scope Sections of the individual Regulated Operations Subtopics. Entities within the scope of this Topic shall also comply with the applicable guidance not included in this Topic.
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The guidance in the Regulated Operations Topic applies to general-purpose external financial statements of an entity that has regulated operations that meet all of the following criteria:
  1. a
    The entity's rates for regulated services or products provided to its customers are established by or are subject to approval by an independent, third-party regulator or by its own governing board empowered by statute or contract to establish rates that bind customers.
  2. b
    The regulated rates are designed to recover the specific entity's costs of providing the regulated services or products. This criterion is intended to be applied to the substance of the regulation, rather than its form. If an entity's regulated rates are based on the costs of a group of entities and the entity is so large in relation to the group of entities that its costs are, in essence, the group's costs, the regulation would meet this criterion for that entity.
  3. c
    In view of the demand for the regulated services or products and the level of competition, direct and indirect, it is reasonable to assume that rates set at levels that will recover the entity's costs can be charged to and collected from customers. This criterion requires consideration of anticipated changes in levels of demand or competition during the recovery period for any capitalized costs. This last criterion is not intended as a requirement that the entity earn a fair return on shareholders' investment under all conditions; an entity can earn less than a fair return for many reasons unrelated to the ability to bill and collect rates that will recover allowable costs. For example, mild weather might reduce demand for energy utility services. In that case, rates that were expected to recover an entity's allowable costs might not do so. The resulting decreased earnings do not demonstrate an inability to charge and collect rates that would recover the entity's costs; rather, they demonstrate the uncertainty inherent in estimating weather conditions. This requirement must also be evaluated in light of the circumstances. For example, if the entity has an exclusive franchise to provide regulated services or products in an area and competition from other services or products is minimal, there is usually a reasonable expectation that it will continue to meet the other criteria. Exclusive franchises can be revoked, but they seldom are. If the entity has no exclusive franchise but has made the very large capital investment required to provide either the regulated services or products or an acceptable substitute, future competition also may be unlikely.
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In some cases, the rates set by state regulatory agencies are accepted for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement purposes. There is some disagreement about the extent to which such rates are based on a provider's costs. If regulatory agencies in those states base rates on the provider's costs and adopt a permanent system of regulation, health care providers in those jurisdictions could be subject to the provisions of this Topic. However, the criterion in (c) in the preceding paragraph also would have to be considered to determine whether this Topic applies to the entity.
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If some of an entity's operations are regulated and meet the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2, this Topic shall be applied to only that portion of the entity's operations.
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Guidance in other Codification Topics that applies to entities in general also applies to regulated entities. However, entities subject to this Topic shall apply it instead of any conflicting provisions of other parts of the Codification. For example, a regulator might authorize a regulated entity to incur a major research and development cost because the cost is expected to benefit future customers. The regulator might also direct that cost to be capitalized and amortized as an allowable cost over the period of expected benefit. If the criteria of paragraph 980-340-25-1 are met, the entity shall capitalize that cost even though Subtopic 730-10 requires such costs to be charged to income currently. That Subtopic shall still apply to accounting for other research and development costs of the regulated entity, as shall the disclosure requirements of that Subtopic.
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The carrying amounts of plant, equipment, and inventory for entities applying this Topic differ from those for entities in general only because of the allowance for funds used during construction, intra-entity profit, and disallowances of costs of recently completed plants. If any other amounts that would not be includable in the carrying amounts of plant, equipment, or inventory by entities in general are included in or netted against the carrying amounts of plant, equipment, and inventory, those amounts shall be separated from the carrying amounts of plant, equipment, and inventory and accounted for as prescribed in this Subtopic.
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For example, postconstruction operating costs that were capitalized pursuant to paragraph 980-340-25-1 represent the effects of actions of a regulator regardless of their classification in the financial statements and shall be accounted for as this Subtopic prescribes for the effects of actions of a regulator.
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Another example of the effect of actions of a regulator that would require adjustment is the cumulative difference, if any, between recorded depreciation and depreciation computed using a generally accepted method of depreciation.
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The regulatory assets and regulatory liabilities that originate in a separable portion of an entity to which this Subtopic is applied shall be evaluated on the basis of where (that is, the portion of the business in which) the regulated cash flows to realize and settle them, respectively, will be derived. Regulated cash flows are from rates that are charged to customers and intended by regulators to be for the recovery of the specified regulatory assets and the settlement of regulatory liabilities. They are derived from a levy on rate-regulated goods or services provided by another separable portion of the entity that meets the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2 for application of this Topic.
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There is no elimination of the regulatory assets and regulatory liabilities that originate in the separable portion of the business to which this Subtopic is applied and for which the deregulatory legislation or rate order (whichever is necessary to effect change in the jurisdiction) specifies the collection of regulated cash flows until any of the following occur:
  1. a
    They are recovered by (in the case of assets) or settled through (in the case of liabilities) collection of regulated cash flows.
  2. b
    They are individually impaired (in the case of assets) or the regulator eliminates the obligation (in the case of liabilities) as specified by the provisions of this Topic.
  3. c
    The separable portion of the business from which the regulated cash flows are derived no longer meets the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2 for application of this Topic.
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The source of the cash flow approach adopted in paragraphs
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A cost or an obligation is recognized as a regulatory asset or a regulatory liability within the separable portion of the entity from which the regulated cash flows for its recovery or settlement, respectively, are derived once it meets both of the following conditions:
  1. a
    Expensed or incurred after this Subtopic is applied to the portion of the business where it originated (such as the loss on the sale of an electricity generating plant or the loss on the buy-out of a purchased power contract that is recognized after this Subtopic is applied to the generation portion of the business)
  2. b
    Specified for recovery or settlement in the deregulatory legislation or a rate order (whichever is necessary to effect change in the jurisdiction) and is recovered or settled in the same manner (that is, via regulated cash flows) as the regulatory assets and regulatory liabilities described in paragraphs
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Those regulatory assets and regulatory liabilities shall be carried in this other separable portion of the business until they are collected or settled, until they are individually impaired (assets) or eliminated (liabilities), or until that separable portion of the business no longer meets the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2 for application of this Topic.
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When an entity determines that its operations in a regulatory jurisdiction no longer meet the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2 for application of the Regulated Operations Topic, that entity shall discontinue application of this Topic to its operations in that jurisdiction. If a separable portion of the entity's operations within a regulatory jurisdiction ceases to meet the criteria of that paragraph for application of this Topic, application of this Topic to that separable portion shall be discontinued. That situation creates a presumption that application of this Topic shall be discontinued for all of the entity's operations within that regulatory jurisdiction. That presumption can be overcome by establishing that the entity's other operations within that jurisdiction continue to meet the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2 for application of this Topic. The separable portion may be an entity's operations within a regulatory jurisdiction or a smaller portion (such as a customer class within a regulatory jurisdiction), either of which could require the allocation of system-wide assets and liabilities.
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When an entity discontinues application of this Topic to all or part of its operations, that entity shall eliminate from its statement of financial position prepared for general-purpose external financial reporting the effects of any actions of regulators that had been recognized as assets and liabilities pursuant to this Topic but would not have been recognized as assets and liabilities by entities in general, and the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets Subsections of Subtopic 360-10 shall apply, except for the provisions for income statement reporting in paragraphs 360-10-45-4 and 360-10-50-2. However, the carrying amounts of plant, equipment, and inventory measured and reported pursuant to this Topic shall not be adjusted unless those assets are impaired, in which case the carrying amounts of those assets shall be reduced to reflect that impairment.
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The carrying amounts of plant, equipment, and inventory for entities applying this Topic differ from those for entities in general only because of the allowance for funds used during construction, intra-entity profit, and disallowances of costs of recently completed plants. If any other amounts that would not be includable in the carrying amounts of plant, equipment, or inventory by entities in general (such as postconstruction operating costs capitalized pursuant to paragraph 980-340-25-1) are included in or netted against the carrying amounts of plant, equipment, or inventory, those amounts shall be accounted for as this Subtopic prescribes for the effects of actions of a regulator.
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Whether those assets have been impaired shall be judged in the same manner as for entities in general. The net effect of the adjustments required by this Subtopic shall be included in income of the period in which the discontinuation occurs and shall be classified separately in income from continuing operations as an unusual or infrequently occurring item.
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Examples illustrating the discontinuation of regulatory operations guidance include the following:
  1. a
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  2. b
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  3. c
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When deregulatory legislation is passed or when a rate order (whichever is necessary to effect change in the jurisdiction) that contains sufficient detail for the entity to reasonably determine how the transition plan will affect a separable portion of its business whose pricing is being deregulated is issued, the entity shall stop applying this Topic to that separable portion of its business. It has not been established whether an entity shall stop applying the accounting and reporting for regulatory operations as provided in the other Subtopics of this Topic to that separable portion of its business before the issuance of sufficiently detailed deregulatory legislation or a sufficiently detailed rate order.
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Once the Regulated Operations Topic is no longer applied to a separable portion of an entity's business, the financial statements shall segregate, via financial statement display or note disclosure, the amounts contained in the financial statements that relate to that separable portion.
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For the period in which an entity reflects the discontinuation of application of the Regulated Operations Topic all or a separable portion of its operations, the entity shall disclose the reasons for the discontinuation and identify the portion of its operations to which the application of this Topic is being discontinued.
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The disclosure requirements of Subtopic 220-20 for unusual or infrequently occurring items apply to the net adjustment reported in the statement of operations as a result of applying this Subtopic.
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This Example illustrates the guidance in paragraphs
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Utility A operates solely in one regulatory jurisdiction. At December 31, 19X1, Utility A concludes, based on current market conditions, that it no longer meets the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2 for the application of the Regulated Operations Topic. Utility A's statement of financial position at December 31, 19X1, includes all of the following items:
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Those items should be reported as follows as of December 31, 19X1.
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All of those items should be eliminated from the entity's statement of financial position when it ceases to apply this Topic. The resulting charge to income should be reported as an unusual or infrequently occurring item in the period that includes December 31, 19X1. The entity should no longer defer those costs and report them as assets because they could not be reported as assets by entities in general. Entities in general would report a receivable for those items only if a right to receive payment exists as a result of past events or transactions and regardless of future transactions (such as future sales).
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For example, a contract between a supplier and a customer for the sale of fuel oil may specify that next year's sales price will be adjusted based on the supplier's current-year cost of fuel oil. Even though it is probable that a future economic benefit (the ability to charge a higher price in the future) will result from the supplier's current-year cost of fuel oil, no asset exists at the end of the current year because the transactions (sales to the customer) that give the supplier control of the benefit are in the future. However, if the contract provides that the customer is obligated to pay additional amounts related to past purchases and regardless of future purchases, the supplier has an asset and it does not matter whether that payment is made in a single amount or when the customer will pay for next year's purchases.
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This Example illustrates the guidance in paragraphs
980-20-40-1 through 40-4
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Utility B operates in two regulatory jurisdictions, State 1 and State 2; 40 percent of Utility B's operations are located in State 1 and 60 percent in State 2; system-wide assets, liabilities, and certain gains and losses are allocated 40 percent to State 1 and 60 percent to State 2. At December 31, 19X2, Utility B concludes, based on current and expected future market conditions in State 1, that it no longer meets the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2 for application of this Topic to its operations in State 1. No similar conditions exist in State 2, and actions of State 1's regulators are not expected to influence the decisions of regulators in State 2. Utility B's statement of financial position at December 31, 19X2, includes the following items.
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Those items should be reported as follows as of December 31, 19X2.
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The portion of the deferred gain allocable to State 1 (determined in this Example to be 40 percent of $50,000, or $20,000) should be eliminated from the entity's statement of financial position when it ceases to apply this Topic to its operations in State 1. No adjustment should be made for the deferred gain applicable to State 2. The regulatory-created accrual for revenues subject to refund in State 1 should be eliminated. Whether any liability related thereto exists should be determined under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for entities in general. For example, amounts that were collected in the current or prior periods for which refunds will be made regardless of future sales should continue to be reported as liabilities after application of this Topic is discontinued. The credit to income resulting from the above adjustments should be reported as an unusual or infrequently occurring item in the period that includes December 31, 19X2.
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This Example illustrates the guidance in paragraphs
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Utility C operates solely in one regulatory jurisdiction. At June 30, 19X3, Utility C concludes, based on new legislation, that it no longer meets the criteria of paragraph 980-10-15-2 for application of this Topic . Utility C had adopted Subtopic 740-10 in 19X2 and because of applying this Topic had recorded a regulatory-created asset of $650,000 for deferred taxes resulting from temporary differences that had not been recognized in the rate-making process but that were expected to be recovered in the future.
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The following reporting is required for that regulatory-created asset.
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Utility C should eliminate that regulatory-created asset from its statement of financial position when the entity ceases to apply this Topic. The charge to income should be reported as an unusual or infrequently occurring item in the period that includes June 30, 19X3.
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On discontinuation, the entity eliminates from its balance sheet all regulatory assets and liabilities that entities in general could not recognize, but does not adjust the carrying amounts of plant, equipment, and inventory unless impaired under Subtopic 360-10. 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