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IFRS 9 began as a joint project between IASB and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which promulgates accounting standards in the United States. The boards published a joint discussion paper in March 2008 proposing an eventual goal of reporting all financial instruments at fair value, with all changes in fair value reported in net income (FASB) or profit and loss (IASB). [1]
Where a hedge relationship is effective (meets the 80%–125% rule), most of the mark-to-market derivative volatility will be offset in the profit and loss account. Hedge accounting entails much compliance - involving documenting the hedge relationship and both prospectively and retrospectively proving that the hedge relationship is effective.
Statements of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, commonly known as FAS 133, is an accounting standard issued in June 1998 by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that requires companies to measure all assets and liabilities on their balance sheet at “fair value”.
Hedging-related transactions will attract their own accounting treatment, and corporates (and banks) may then require changes to systems, processes and documentation; [88] [89] see Hedge accounting, Mark-to-market accounting, Hedge relationship, Cash flow hedge, IFRS 7, IFRS 9, IFRS 13, FASB 133, IAS 39, FAS 130.
A cash flow hedge [1] is a hedge of the exposure to the variability of cash flow that: is attributable to a particular risk associated with a recognized asset or liability. Such as all or some future interest payments on variable rate debt or a highly probable forecast transaction and; could affect profit or loss (IAS 39, §86b)
Approach under IAS 29 Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies 2005 March 1, 2006: IFRIC 8: Scope of IFRS 2: 2006 May 1, 2006: January 1, 2010: IFRS 2: IFRIC 9: Reassessment of Embedded Derivatives 2006 June 1, 2006: October 8, 2010: IFRS 9: IFRIC 10 Interim Financial Reporting and Impairment 2006 November 1, 2006: IFRIC 11
Guidelines for accounting for financial derivatives are given under IFRS 7. Under this standard, “an entity shall group financial instruments into classes that are appropriate to the nature of the information disclosed and that take into account the characteristics of those financial instruments.
If the ratio is between 0.8 and 1.25 (4/5 - 5/4) under all scenarios - the "80:125 rule" - then hedge accounting may be applied. Regression analysis . A similar approach, but here regressing the expected changes in these values at relevant future time periods - usually financial reporting dates - so as to demonstrate the strength of the hedge ...