Company: NOAH
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000852
Chunk: 205

Company: NOAH HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 5
Chunk 205
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 requires us to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of our assets and liabilities and the disclosure of our contingent assets and liabilities at the end of each fiscal period and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during each fiscal period. We continually evaluate these judgments and estimates based on our own historical experience, knowledge and assessment of current business and other conditions, our expectations regarding the future based on available information and assumptions that we believe to be reasonable, which together form our basis for making judgments about matters that are not readily apparent from other sources. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, our actual results could differ from those estimates. Some of our accounting policies require a higher degree of judgment than others in their application.
The selection of critical accounting policies, the judgments and other uncertainties affecting application of those policies and the sensitivity of reported results to changes in conditions and assumptions are factors that should be considered when reviewing our financial statements. We believe the following accounting policies involve the most significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our financial statements.
Consolidation of investment funds
We consolidate entities based on either a variable interest model or voting interest model. U.S. GAAP provides guidance that requires an analysis to determine (i) whether an entity in which we hold a variable interest is a variable interest entity, or the VIE, and (ii) whether our involvement, through holding interests directly or indirectly in the entity or contractually through other variable interests, would give it a controlling financial interest. We first consider whether an entity is considered a VIE and therefore whether to apply the consolidation guidance under the VIE model. Entities that do not qualify as VIEs are assessed for consolidation as voting interest entities under the voting interest model. As such, for (i) investment funds in the legal form of limited partnership we manage as general partner, and (ii) contractual funds we manage as fund manager that are determined to be VIEs, we consolidate those entities when we are the primary beneficiary where we have both the power to direct the activities that most significantly affects the economic performance of the VIEs and receives the economic benefits of the VIEs that could be significant to the VIEs.
Significant judgements are involved to assess whether the funds should be consolidated, which include but not limited to,

●   Making judgments as to whether a simple majority or lower threshold of limited partnership interests, excluding interests held by the general partner, parties under common control of the general partner, or parties acting on behalf of the general