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IFRS 9 is an International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) published by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). It addresses the accounting for financial instruments . It contains three main topics: classification and measurement of financial instruments, impairment of financial assets and hedge accounting .
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”.
To account for the value of these contracts, then, specified criteria - as noted in IAS section 39 R.88 and updated by IFRS 9 [1] - must be met for a hedge relationship to be deemed to exist and for hedge accounting to apply: so called "hedge effectiveness".
It was released by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in 2003, and was replaced in 2014 by IFRS 9, which became effective in 2018. It was adopted by the European Union in 2004. [1] In 2005, the EU also introduced the fair value and hedging provision of the amended version of IAS 39. [2] [3]
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)
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 IFRS 2-Group and Treasury Share Transactions 2006 March 1, 2007: January 1, 2010: IFRS 2: IFRIC 12 Service Concession Arrangements 2006 January 1, 2008: IFRIC 13
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.