Handbook: Share-based payment

Handbooks | July 2024

Latest edition: KPMG explains in-depth the accounting under ASC 718.

Our latest edition has been updated for ASU 2024-01 (profits interest and similar awards), and includes additional Q&As, interpretive guidance and examples.

Applicability

ASC 718

  • All companies with employee or non-employee share-based payment awards.

Relevant dates

  • Effective immediately

Key impacts

This book is designed to assist companies and others in understanding the applications of ASC 718 and updated to include recent developments and our latest guidance on common practice issues.

Report contents

  • Scope
  • Measurement of awards
  • Classification of awards as either liabilities or equity
  • Recognition of compensation costs
  • Modification of awards
  • Income tax issues associated with share-based payment arrangements
  • Disclosures and EPS
  • Transition and effective dates
  • Business combinations
  • Equity-based transactions with nonemployees
  • Employee stock purchase plans

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