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Technical Resources
This webpage contains pronouncements, guides and articles that are relevant to
HKFRS 9 Financial Instruments.
Effective Date
Financial periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018.
Affected standards
Supersedes HKAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement.
Why do we need a new standard
HKFRS/IFRS 9 was developed to make financial reporting for financial instruments more relevant and understandable. The reforms introduced by HKFRS 9 are consistent with requests from the G20, the Financial Stability Board and Others.
HKFRS 9 brings together the classification and measurement,impairment and hedge accounting phases of the IASB’s project to replace HKAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement.
HKFRS 9 is built on a logical, single classification and measurement approach for financial assets that reflects the business model in which they are managed and their cash flow characteristics.
Built upon this is a forward-looking expected credit loss model that will result in more timely recognition of loan losses and is a single model that is applicable to all financial instruments subject to impairment accounting.
In addition, HKFRS 9 addresses the so-called ‘own credit’ issue, whereby banks and others book gains through profit or loss as a result of the value of their own debt falling
due to a decrease in credit worthiness when they have elected to measure that debt at fair value.
HKFRS 9 also includes an improved hedge accounting model to better link the economics of risk management with its accounting treatment.
Recent development
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued the completed version of IFRS 9 in 2014 and the standard has been effective since 2018. To help the IASB assess the effects of a new Standard after it has been effective for some time, the IASB started carrying out the Post-implementation Review (PIR) of IFRS 9 in 2021 and issued the Request for Information (RFI) on the classification and measurement requirements on 30 September 2021. The RFI seeks feedback on applying the classification and measurement requirements of IFRS 9 and related disclosures. The IASB will use the feedback on the RFI to determine whether any further action is required.
The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Institute) has conducted various forms of outreach activities to solicit feedback from local stakeholders and submitted its comment letter to the IASB on this RFI on 13 January 2022. The submission and the comment letters received are available at the Institute’s website.
The IASB discussed the RFI feedback and a plan for the next phase of the project during the meeting held in March 2022.
Upcoming activities
The IASB is expected to complete its discussions for the PIR on classification and measurement requirements and publish the Feedback Statement in Q3 of 2022. The IASB plans to commence the PIR of the impairment requirements of IFRS 9 in H2 2022. Details of the IASB’s development on this project can be found in the IASB’s project page.
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