Financial Instruments - puttable financial instruments and obligations arising on liquidation
This project has been completed. In February 2008 the IASB issued Amendments to IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation and IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements — Puttable Financial Instruments and Obligations Arising on Liquidation . The new requirements will apply for annual periods beginning on 1 January 2009, with earlier application permitted.
The amendments are available on our subscriber website. Printed copies can be purchased from our Publications Department .
Effect of the amendments
The amendments classify the following types of financial instruments as equity, provided they have particular features and meet specific conditions:
- puttable financial instruments (for example, some shares issued by co-operative entities)
- instruments, or components of instruments, that impose on the entity an obligation to deliver to another party a pro rata share of the net assets of the entity only on liquidation (for example, some partnership interests and some shares issued by limited life entities)
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There are important interactions between this project and the long-term project on liabilities and equity. However, this was a limited scope project aimed at dealing with the classification of certain instruments. More information on the project on Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equityis available here.
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Last IASB meeting update
20 September 2011
On the recommendation of the IFRS Interpretations Committee, the IASB discussed a possible scope exclusion to IAS 32 for put options written over the non-controlling interest in the consolidated financial statements of a group.
Read the full meeting update and all previous updates and observer notes for this project.
Click here to listen to the IASB meeting audio playback.
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Page last updated: 29 September 2011