unrealized gains and losses

ASC 320-954 was the health care entities industry supplement to the debt securities guidance in Topic 320, addressing scope, subsequent measurement, presentation (including where unrealized gains and losses appear in a health care entity's performance indicator) and related implementation examples. Every paragraph in the subtopic — Sections 05, 15, 35, 45 and 55 — was superseded by Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-01. As a result the subtopic contains no operative guidance; health care entities look instead to Topic 320 as amended and to Topic 321 for equity securities.

This subtopic gives industry-specific guidance on financial instruments for not-for-profit, business-oriented health care entities. Its single substantive rule is a presentation rule: when such an entity elects the fair value option, the resulting unrealized gains and losses must be reported inside the performance indicator (or within discontinued operations, as appropriate) rather than outside it.