Contingently Issuable Shares
Contingently issuable shares are those shares whose issuance is contingent upon the satisfaction of certain conditions, such as attaining a certain level of income or market price of the common shares in the future. If all necessary conditions have not been met by the end of the reporting period, FASB ASC 260 requires that contingently issuable shares be included in the computation of diluted EPS based on the number of shares that would be included, if any, if the reporting period were the end of the contingency period. For example, if the shares are issuable once a given level of net income is attained, the company must presume that the current level of earnings will continue until the end of the agreement. Under this presumption, if current earnings are at least as great as the target level of earnings, the contingently issuable shares must be included in diluted EPS if they are dilutive.