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IFRS 9 — a conversation killer if ever there was one.

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But while the international financial accounting standard has gone through a long period of stop, start, review and consultation, it is finally time to take a closer look at its impact. IFRS 9 also allows companies to apply hedge accounting more broadly to manage profit or loss mismatches and improve what might be regarded as ineffective hedging under IAS Moreover, when there is a change in the economic relationship between the hedged item and the hedging instrument, an adjustment to the economic hedge ratio, known as rebalancing, can be introduced read further for more on that.

Generally, more items qualify for hedge accounting, for example, pricing components within a non-financial item and net FX cash positions.

Companies can now hedge account exposures that give rise to two risk positions for example, interest-rate risk and FX risk, or commodity risk and FX risk that were previously managed by separate derivatives over different time periods. We can expect less profit-and-loss volatility using options, FX forwards and FX foreign currency swaps. Fair-value hedging at group consolidated level with offsetting hedge item positions is possible, for example, asset-side bonds at fixed-rate offset with liability-side fixed-rate bonds using an interest-rate swap.

Cash-flow hedging at group-consolidated level with offsetting or net positions for example, acquisition of a non-financial asset offset with non-financial liabilities is permitted, providing critical terms are met.

Equity investments at fair value through other comprehensive income FVTOCI , where ineffectiveness can be recorded in OCI. Cash instruments measured at fair value through profit and loss FVTPL are eligible as hedging instruments, too. Organisations engaging in economic hedging activities irrespective of applying hedge accounting under IAS 39 have the greatest likelihood of benefiting from the changes.

Corporates in mining and natural resources, airlines, agriculture and other industry sectors that use commodities are among those likely to benefit. There are a few scenarios that highlight the main differences between IAS 39 and IFRS 9 in terms of its practical application:.

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However, IFRS 9 states there is a requirement to comply with the risk management policy of the company to achieve hedge accounting. For example, rolling FX swaps or FX options to hedge three years out would not be permitted if the risk policy states up to two years only. Another example could be where the risk policy states that interest-rate risk can only be hedged when borrowings or funding is drawn or received. This policy would prevent treasury entering into a forward-rate agreement or forward-start interest-rate swap.

Conditions to achieve successful hedge accounting remain largely unchanged from the former standard, but IFRS 9 stipulates additional qualifying conditions on top of IAS Importantly, an economic relationship must exist between the hedged item and hedging instrument; and credit risk must not dominate value changes from that economic relationship.

Rebalancing is prohibited under IAS 39, whereas IFRS 9 prospectively permits altering the hedge ratio without discontinuing or terminating an existing hedge-accounting relationship to improve effectiveness. Retrospective effectiveness testing requires a quantitative approach.

On the other hand, IFRS 9 prospective effectiveness testing can be qualitative, using critical terms, which is acceptable still. Retrospective effectiveness testing is now no longer required. Derivatives as hedged items Derivatives are not allowed to be part of a hedged item under IAS However, they are allowed to be part of a hedged item under IFRS 9.

For example, imagine a GBP functional company issuing a year, JPY-denominated fixed-rate bond. It synthetically converts it into a year, fixed-rate GBP bond where critical terms are met using a cross-currency interest-rate swap. The company then decides to overlay the structure with a second GBP interest-rate swap paying floating one-month Libor and receives a fixed rate for 18 months.

IFRS 9 would allow the second interest-rate swap as a hedging instrument for the first 18 months of the bond against the first cross-currency interest-rate swap, using partial-term hedging. Commodity hedging For hedges of non-financial items, for example, forecasted commodity sales or purchases, the hedged risk can only be the FX-rate risk or the entire cash-flow variability which typically can include freight and insurance , and that increases the risk of hedge ineffectiveness under IAS IFRS 9, on the other hand, states that we can select an observable and measurable risk component for the financial and non-financial hedged item, thus limiting variability, which would not impact hedge ineffectiveness.

The reference derivative here would be the zinc LME average price for the month. Hedging a layer component Cash-flow hedges under IAS 39 can be based on a proportion percentage or a portion layer of a specific item or group of items.

However, a fair-value hedge is restricted to proportions of specific items, so that there is traceability to the hedged item.

Under IFRS 9, however, a fair-value hedge can now be assigned as a percentage or proportion of the hedged item, for example, part of a monetary transaction volume, physical volume or nominal amount. Net profit margin hedging for FX risk is not permitted under IAS While there is some time to go before mandatory adoption is upon us, there are some benefits to adopting IFRS 9 early.

As a first step, setting up an IFRS 9 project team with treasury and finance colleagues in the driving seat and IT as business partners to set out your road map for IFRS 9 adoption is a task that should be undertaken sooner rather than later.

As with all new international accounting standards, the impact will affect systems, people and processes time and time again. Keep up to date with treasury news and offers from the ACT Be the first to hear of treasury news, regulatory change, plus receive discounts on ACT event tickets and more..

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Key changes introduced by IFRS 9 1. How to use IFRS 9 hedge accounting There are a few scenarios that highlight the main differences between IAS 39 and IFRS 9 in terms of its practical application: About the author Dee Kothari FCCA AMCT is a treasury consultant. Keep up to date with treasury news and offers from the ACT. Events, Conferences and Networking.