product financing arrangement

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1. 470-40Product Financing Arrangements470 Debt

   ASC 470-40 governs product financing arrangements — transactions in which a "sponsor" arranges for another entity to buy and hold inventory on its behalf (or controls the disposition of such product) with a related commitment to buy it back at specified prices covering the other entity's financing and holding costs. Because the sponsor is in substance the owner of the product, the arrangement is accounted for as a borrowing rather than a sale: the sponsor records the inventory as an asset and a corresponding liability when the other entity buys the product (470-40-25-1 through 25-2). After ASU 2014-09, sale-and-repurchase legs are handled under Topic 606, leaving this Subtopic focused on purchases made by another entity on the sponsor's behalf.