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A formal definition is "The Special Purpose Entity is a fenced organization having limited predefined purposes and a legal personality". [ 1 ] Normally a company will transfer assets to the SPE for management or use the SPE to finance a large project thereby achieving a narrow set of goals without putting the entire firm at risk.
The Census's full definition is: [3] Special district governments are independent, special purpose governmental units, other than school district governments, that exist as separate entities with substantial administrative and fiscal independence from general purpose local governments.
The objectives for which government entities apply accountancy that can be organized in two main categories: - The accounting of activities for accountability purposes. In other words, the representatives of the public, and officials appointed by them, must be accountable to the public for powers and tasks delegated.
A synthetic lease is a financing structure [1] by which a company structures the ownership of an asset so that – . for financial accounting purposes (under pre-2003 U.S. financial accounting rules), the asset is owned by a special-purpose entity and leased to the operating company under an operating lease.
A common misconception is that permanent funds are required for special-purpose government entities that solely engage in business-type activities. However, this is not the case. According to Statement 34, that special-purpose government entity needs only to report the net balance of the restricted resources.
If consolidated, the reporting entity will account for the subsidiary's assets, liabilities and any non-controlling interests of that legal entity in the reporting entity's consolidated financial statements. In order to determine whether a legal entity should be consolidated, the reporting entity must first assess whether the legal entity is a VIE.
Government Assistance-No Specific Relation to Operating Activities 1998 August 1, 1998: SIC 11 Foreign Exchange - Capitalisation of Losses Resulting from Severe Currency Devaluations 1998 August 1, 1998: January 1, 2005: IAS 21: SIC 12 Consolidation-Special Purpose Entities 1998 July 1, 1999: January 1, 2013: IFRS 10: SIC 13
Orphan structure or Orphan SPV or orphaning are terms used in structured finance closely associated with creating SPVs ("Special Purpose Vehicles") for securitisation transactions where the notional equity of the SPV is deliberately handed over to an unconnected 3rd party who themselves have no control over the SPV; thus the SPV becomes an "orphan" whose equity is controlled by no one.