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IFRS 9: Financial Instruments

Phase II – Amortised cost and impairment of financial assets

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About the project

This is the second phase of the project to replace IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement.

The objective of this phase is to improve the decision-usefulness of financial statements for users by improving the amortised cost measurement, in particular the transparency of provisions for losses on loans and for the credit quality of financial assets.

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Project news

18 January 2012 The staff continues to develop the general impairment model based on credit deterioration.

19 July 2011 On 5 August 2011, a Financial Instruments Working Group (FIWG) meeting was held in London to discuss the impairment project. For more information please click here.

May 2011 On Tuesday 24 May 2011 there were two webcasts by the IASB staff at 10am and 4pm (London time) to provide updates on the statuses of both the impairment and the hedge accounting projects. Click here to listen.

Click here to see all previous project news on this project.


Last IASB meeting update

18 April 2012

At this meeting, the IASB and FASB clarified the attributes of an expected credit loss estimate to address concerns raised regarding the use of the term 'expected value'.

Click here to listen to the IASB meeting audio playback.

Read the full meeting update and all previous updates and observer notes for this project.


Next discussion by the IASB

The boards will discuss further in 2012.

 

Page last updated: 4 May 2012

Related information

Click here for webcasts and Q&As.

Listen to a May 2011 webcast update on hedge accounting and impairment projects - morning session and afternoon session

Click here for a summary of the Expert Advisory Panel discussions

Click here for key issues to begin re-deliberations

Click here for the outreach summary, May 2011

Project contacts

Jana Streckenbach
Senior Technical Manager
email: jstreckenbach@ifrs.org

 

Martin Friedhoff
Associate Director, Financial Instruments
email: mfriedhoff@ifrs.org

 

Sue Lloyd
Senior Director, Technical Activities
email: slloyd@ifrs.org

 

Sara Glen
Practice Fellow
email: sglen@ifrs.org 

 

Manuel Kapsis
Technical Manager
email: mkapsis@ifrs.org  

 

Katherine Cancro
Assistant Technical Manager
email: kcancro@ifrs.org