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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.
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.
FIN 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, was an interpretation of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) published on January 17, 2003 by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) [1] that made it more difficult to remove assets and liabilities from a company's balance sheet if the company retained an economic exposure to the assets and ...
Consolidation-Special Purpose Entities 1998 July 1, 1999: January 1, 2013: IFRS 10: SIC 13 Jointly Controlled Entities-Non-Monetary Contributions by Venturers 1998 January 1, 1999: January 1, 2013: IFRS 10: SIC 14 Property, Plant and Equipment - Compensation for the Impairment or Loss of Items 1998 July 1, 1999: January 1, 2005: IAS 16: SIC 15
Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the process of recording and processing information about economic entities, such as businesses and corporations. [1] [2] Accounting measures the results of an organization's economic activities and conveys this information to a variety of stakeholders, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators. [3]
Ownership of the assets is transferred to the legal entity (known as a special purpose vehicle) issuing the CDO's tranches. The risk of loss on the assets is divided among tranches in reverse order of seniority. Cash CDO issuance exceeded $400 billion in 2006. Synthetic CDOs do not own cash assets like bonds or loans.
Generally, a special purpose entity is created for each project, thereby shielding other assets owned by a project sponsor from the detrimental effects of a project failure. As a special purpose entity, the project company has no assets other than the project.
Under US accounting standards, the originator achieves a sale by being at arm's length from the issuer, in which case the issuer is classified as a "qualifying special purpose entity" or "qSPE". Because of these structural issues, the originator typically needs the help of an investment bank (the arranger ) in setting up the structure of the ...