IASB completes important steps in reform of financial instruments accounting

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) today announced the completion of a package of amendments to the accounting requirements for financial instruments. The amendments:

1. bring into effect a substantial overhaul of hedge accounting that will allow entities to better reflect their risk management activities in the financial statements;
2. allow the changes to address the so-called ‘own credit’ issue that were already included in IFRS 9 Financial Instruments to be applied in isolation without the need to change any other accounting for financial instruments; and
3. remove the 1 January 2015 mandatory effective date of IFRS 9, to provide sufficient time for preparers of financial statements to make the transition to the new requirements.

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