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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;FASB Accounting Standards Update&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;No. 2010-02&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;Consolidation (Topic 810), &lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Accounting and Reporting for Decreases in Ownership of a Subsidiary&amp;#8212;a Scope Clarification&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The objective of this Update is to address implementation issues related to the changes in ownership provisions in the Consolidation&amp;#8212;Overall Subtopic (Subtopic 810-10) of the &lt;i&gt;FASB Accounting Standards Codification&amp;#8482;&lt;/i&gt;, originally issued as FASB Statement No. 160&lt;i&gt;, Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements. &lt;/i&gt;Subtopic 810-10 establishes the accounting and reporting guidance for noncontrolling interests and changes in ownership interests of a subsidiary. An entity is required to deconsolidate a subsidiary when the entity ceases to have a controlling financial interest in the subsidiary. Upon deconsolidation of a subsidiary, an entity recognizes a gain or loss on the transaction and measures any retained investment in the subsidiary at fair value. The gain or loss includes any gain or loss associated with the difference between the fair value of the retained investment in the subsidiary and its carrying amount at the date the subsidiary is deconsolidated. In contrast, an entity is required to account for a decrease in its ownership interest of a subsidiary that does not result in a change of control of the subsidiary as an equity transaction.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The amendments in this Update also clarify that the decrease in ownership guidance in Subtopic 810-10 does not apply to the following transactions even if they involve businesses: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;An entity also should disclose the valuation techniques used to measure an equity interest in an acquiree held by the entity immediately before the acquisition date in a business combination achieved in stages.&lt;/p&gt;
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