Recent SEC Comment Trends: ASC 606

Learn the most common ASC 606 comment letter issues and how to improve revenue disclosures based on 2024–2025 trends.

ASC 606 PIR: What It Is and Why It Matters

Explore the 2025 Post-Implementation Review of ASC 606, revealing key insights, challenges, and future implications for revenue recognition standards.

Customer Options for Additional Goods or Services

Analysis and examples of how ASC 606 treats future discounts given to customers in a current sale, including areas requiring significant professional judgment.

Definition of a Customer

Analysis of the updated definition of a customer in ASC 606's scope considerations, including examples of common transactions in a business context.

Consideration Payable to a Customer

Analysis of ASC 606's treatment of payments paid to customers, including the payment types and the timing of recognizing a reduction in revenue.

Significant Financing Component in ASC 606

Analysis and examples of when a significant financing component exists in a contract and how to account for it under ASC 606.

Standalone Selling Prices in ASC 606

A breakdown of the methods used to identify the standalone selling price.
Step 4: Allocate Revenue

Allocating Variable Consideration in ASC 606

Analysis and illustrative examples of the two criteria given in ASC 606 for allocating variable consideration to performance obligations.
Step 5: Recognize Revenue

Bill-and-Hold Arrangements in ASC 606

ASC 606's four criteria for determining bill-and-hold arrangements and when storage service represents a separate performance obligation.
Step 1: Contract

Collectibility of Consideration

Analysis of the collectibility requirement of ASC 606, including accounting for contracts with initial and subsequent collectibility issues.
Step 3: Transaction Price

Price Concessions in ASC 606

Analysis and examples of price concessions based on either the customer's expectation or the company's intent.
Step 5: Recognize Revenue

Accounting Input vs. Output Methods in ASC 606

Analysis of the input and output methods to measure progress towards completion of a performance obligation satisfied over time in ASC 606
Step 3: Transaction Price

Noncash Consideration

Determine the transaction price of a contract with noncash consideration under ASC 606, including when and how to measure the variable consideration caused by fluctuating fair value.
Step 4: Allocate Revenue

Allocating Discounts

ASC 606 changed how entities allocate both variable and fixed discounts compared to legacy guidance under ASC 605

Volume Discounts in ASC 606

Analysis and examples of estimating the transaction price of a contract with volume discounts under ASC 606.

Variable Consideration vs. Optional Purchases

Understand the key differences between variable consideration and customer options for additional goods or services under ASC 606.

Unexercised Rights (Breakage) in ASC 606

Analysis and examples of how customer unexercised rights (breakage) affect how the transaction price is allocated to performance obligations

Variable Consideration and the Constraint

Analysis and example of estimating variable consideration and applying the constraint under ASC 606.
General Overview

Overview of ASC 606

ASC 606 Revenue from Contracts with Customers was developed jointly by the FASB and IASB.
Step 2: Performance Obligations

Identifying Promised Goods & Services

Identify promised goods and services by analyzing customer perspective, immateriality, implicit promises, fulfillment activities, and marketing incentives.
Step 4: Allocate Revenue

Estimating Standalone Selling Prices: Case Study

Home automation equipment includes many deliverables that may be assessed in different ways to estimate a standalone selling price under ASC 606.
Step 5: Recognize Revenue

Consignment Arrangements

Explanation and examples of the indicators that a consignment arrangement exists, including comparison to ASC 605.