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Basics of New GovCon Revenue Recognition
2019 – Fed Gov Con Webinar Series - Washington DC JSchaus & Associates
Major Changes are Coming! The new revenue recognition standard is a game-changer that will have a major effect on how many government contractors (GCs) report revenue.
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For GCs with fixed-price contracts, many have relied on the AICPA’s Statement of Position (SOP) 81-1, “Accounting for Performance of Construction-Type and Certain Production-Type Contracts”. Notably, this SOP, originally issued in 1981, was modified many years ago to specifically exclude service contracts, a fact many GCs are either unaware of or simply chose to ignore. Moreover, this SOP was superseded as authoritative GAAP in 2005 when the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued its Codification of GAAP
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The foregoing notwithstanding, many contractors have continued to use SOP 81-1 as a justification for applying the cost-to-cost percentage of completion method to fixed-price government contracts. The issuance of the new revenue recognition standard, formally known as Accounting Standards Update 2014-09 (ASU 2014-09), will remove any possibility of simply falling back on cost-to-cost percentage of completion for fixed price contracts relying on SOP 81-1 or other prior guidance
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Another existing standard that was incorporated into the Codification was Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) issuance 00-21, issued in 2000 covering “Multiple Element Arrangements” EITF was extremely complicated and was modified several times. It required companies to analyze all of their revenue-producing “arrangements” (typically “contracts”) to determine if there were different accounting units that should be accounted for separately, potentially under different revenue recognition rules.
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The new standard, which is effective this year (2019) for private companies radically changes the way of SOP 81-1 and EITF 00-21, as they were incorporated into the Codification, operated, as well as other affecting numerous other elements of the existing revenue recognition guidance currently found in Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 605. While some GCs will experience little change, others will find themselves substantially impacted by the new standards in ASC Topic 606
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The new standard is incorporated into the FASB Codification as a new section, Topic 606, which is how I’ll refer to it hereafter. This Topic supersedes most of existing Topic 605 as well as most industry-specific guidance. It specifically supersedes “some cost guidance included in Subtopic 605-35, Revenue Recognition – Construction-Type and Production-Type Contracts” (which essentially replicated much of SOP 81-1, which hasn’t applied to service contracts for years). Let’s look at some of the ways Topic 606 will affect GCs
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As a refresher, the core of the new standard is based upon a 5-step approach to evaluating contracts: Step 1: Identify the contract(s) with customers Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract Step 3: Determine the transaction price Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations Step 5: Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance
obligation.
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Step 1: Identify the contract(s) with customers The Topic identifies ”a contract as an agreement between two or more parties that creates enforceable rights and obligations” There are 5 basic criteria to be evaluated in determining whether something constitutes a contract.
2019 – Fed Gov Con Webinar Series - Washington DC JSchaus & Associates Step 1: Identify the contract(s) with customers The Topic states that a “master agreement” generally is not a contract within the scope of Topic 606 That means blanket-purchase arrangements, IDIQ arrangements, etc. may not qualify as contracts in themselves; instead, individual purchases, task orders, etc. will constitute contracts, and will be the subject of applying the Topic 606 requirements. Another question is whether unfunded option years will count as legally enforceable agreements prior to exercise and funding.
2019 – Fed Gov Con Webinar Series - Washington DC JSchaus & Associates Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract For many GCs, this will be one of the biggest challenges. For example, many contracts have multiple elements, such as option years, tasks, CLINs, etc. Each of these is potentially a separate performance obligation. Topic 606 states holds if more than one good or service is promised, it is a performance obligation only if it is: 1) distinct, or 2) a series of distinct goods are services that are substantially the same or have the same pattern of transfer.
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Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract There are two specified criteria for “distinct”: 1) Capable of being distinct – the customer can benefit from the good or service on its own 2) Distinct within the context of the contract – the promise to transfer the good or service is separately identifiable from other promises
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Step 3: Determine the transaction price The transaction price may hinge in part on things like whether option years are considered part of one contract, or separate contracts. Incentive and award fees may also complicate the determination of the contract price.
2019 – Fed Gov Con Webinar Series - Washington DC JSchaus & Associates Step 3: Determine the transaction price Elements in determining total consideration include a variety of issues, but the one most likely to affect GCs is “variable consideration”, which would include award fees, incentive provisions and the like. The question of how to view option years will also impact the determination of total consideration, and hence the transaction price.
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Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations This may represent a challenge, because under the standard it doesn’t necessary follow that a separately-priced element of a contract will represent the appropriate allocation of a portion of the transaction price for that element. The basic requirement is that for a contract that has more than one performance obligation, an entity should allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation in an amount that depicts the amount of consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for satisfying each performance obligation
2019 – Fed Gov Con Webinar Series - Washington DC JSchaus & Associates Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations The foregoing is often easier said than done, because of things like – for example – milestone billings that may be based on the lapse of time (paid at contract intervals) rather than satisfaction of a particular performance obligation. It also requires the GC to determine the standalone selling price of each performance obligation at contract inception. This area is going to be very complicated for some GCs.
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Step 5: Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation. The basic requirement is that a performance obligation is satisfied when the entity transfers a promised good or service to a customer. A good or service is transferred when (or as) the customer obtains control of that good or service.
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Step 5: Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance
obligation.
May occur over time, i.e., if one of the following criteria is met: - Customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits provide by the entities performance - Performance creates or enhances an asset that the customer controls as the asset is created or enhanced - Performance does not create an asset with an alternative use to the entity (provider), and the entity has an enforceable right to payment for performance completed to date
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Step 5: Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation. May occur at a point in time if: Indicated by factors such as: entity (provider) has a present right to payment; customer has legal title to the asset; entity has transferred physical possession; customer has obtained significant risks and rewards of ownership; customer has accepted the asset
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Step 5: Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance
obligation.
Suffice to say that the satisfaction of a performance obligation may occur at a single point, or my occur over time. This is the step that will likely have the biggest impact on accounting for fixed-price contracts, where performance takes place over time, but the performance obligation may not actually occur until task or contract completion. It’s likely that some contracts that have been traditionally accounted for using percentageof-completion will shift to what’s traditionally been known as the completed-contract method.
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Applying the new Topic requires an in-depth of its requirements. The Topic is lengthy and complex, and many companies will find themselves in need of professional assistance. Keep in mind that independent CPA firm auditors will be walking a fine line in providing such assistance, as the CPA firm cannot remain independent if it participates in making accounting or management decisions, and the new Topic is going to require a lot of both.
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