This guide focuses on bankruptcy and liquidation-basis accounting and financial reporting considerations. It supplements information provided by the authoritative accounting literature and other PwC guidance. This guide provides general and specific references to chapters in other PwC guides to assist users in finding other relevant information.
Quasi-reorganization accounting changes an entity’s financial statement presentation. Since quasi-reorganization accounting results in a new basis of accounting in the entity’s financial statements, it is as if the old reporting entity were terminated and a new one was created.
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The reorganization value used in bankruptcy accounting is different from the business enterprise value (also referred to as “market value of invested capital” or “total invested capital”). A reporting entity’s enterprise value represents the fair value of its interest-bearing debt and its shareholders’ equity.