Understanding Complex Financial Instruments
June 2019
This Practice Aid includes detailed flowcharts for analyzing embedded conversion options, freestanding warrants, and embedded puts and calls. It also discusses other topics such as balance sheet classification of shares, allocation of proceeds, earnings per share, and debt modifications among others. It has been updated to reflect ASU 2017-11 on “down round” features, and also reflects our perspective on selected practice issues.
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