FCC 36.1 Revised as of October 1, 2007
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Sec. 36.1 General.
(a) This part contains an outline of separations procedures for
telecommunications companies on the station-to-station basis. These
procedures are applicable either to property costs, revenues, expenses,
taxes, and reserves as recorded on the books of the company or to estimated
amounts.
(1) Where a value basis is used instead of book costs, the “costs” referred
to are the “values” of the property derived from the valuation.
(b) The separations procedures set forth in this part are designed primarily
for the allocation of property costs, revenues, expenses, taxes and reserves
between state and interstate jurisdictions. For separations, where required,
of the state portion between exchange and toll or for separations of
individual exchanges or special services, further analyses and studies may
be required to adapt the procedures to such additional separations.
(c) The fundamental basis on which separations are made is the use of
telecommunications plant in each of the operations. The first step is the
assignment of the cost of the plant to categories. The basis for making this
assignment is the identification of the plant assignable to each category
and the determination of the cost of the plant so identified. The second
step is the apportionment of the cost of the plant in each category among
the operations by direct assignment where possible, and all remaining costs
are assigned by the application of appropriate use factors.
(d) In assigning book costs to categories, the costs used for certain plant
classes are average unit costs which equate to all book costs of a
particular account or subaccount; for other plant classes, the costs used
are those which either directly approximate book cost levels or which are
equated to match total book costs at a given location.
(e) The procedures outlined herein reflect “short-cuts” where practicable
and where their application produces substantially the same separations
results as would be obtained by the use of more detailed procedures, and
they assume the use of records generally maintained by Telecommunications
Companies.
(f) The classification to accounts of telecommunications property, revenues,
expenses, etc., set forth in this manual is that prescribed by the Federal
Communications Commission's Uniform System of Accounts for
Telecommunications Companies.
(g) In the assignment of property costs to categories and in the
apportionment of such costs among the operations, each amount so assigned
and apportioned is identified as to the account classification in which the
property is included. Thus, the separated results are identified by property
accounts and apportionment bases are provided for those expenses which are
separated on the basis of the apportionment of property costs. Similarly,
amounts of revenues and expenses assigned each of the operations are
identified as to account classification.
(h) The separations procedures described in this part are not to be
interpreted as indicating what property, revenues, expenses and taxes, or
what items carried in the income, reserve and retained earnings accounts,
should or should not be considered in any investigation or rate proceeding.
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