IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures

IFRS 7 Objective Scope Classes of financial instruments

Objective

1 The objective of this IFRS is to require entities to provide disclosures in their financial statements that enable users to evaluate:

1. the significance of financial instruments for the entity’s financial position and performance; and
2. the nature and extent of risks arising from financial instruments to which the entity is exposed during the period and at the end of the reporting period, and how the entity manages those risks.

2 The principles in this IFRS complement the principles for recognising, measuring and presenting financial assets and financial liabilities in IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation and IFRS 9 Financial Instruments.

Scope

3 This IFRS shall be applied by all entities to all types of financial instruments, except:

1. those interests in subsidiaries, associates or joint ventures that are accounted for in accordance with IFRS 10 Consolidated Financial Statements, IAS 27 Separate Financial Statements or IAS 28 Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures. However, in some cases, IFRS 10, IAS 27 or IAS 28 require or permit an entity to account for an interest in a subsidiary, associate or joint venture using IFRS 9; in those cases, entities shall apply the requirements of this IFRS and, for those measured at fair value, the requirements of IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement. Entities shall also apply this IFRS to all derivatives linked to interests in subsidiaries, associates or joint ventures unless the derivative meets the definition of an equity instrument in IAS 32.
2. employers’ rights and obligations arising from employee benefit plans, to which IAS 19 Employee Benefits applies.
3. [deleted]
4. contracts within the scope of IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts. However, this IFRS applies to:
   1. derivatives that are embedded in contracts within the scope of IFRS 17, if IFRS 9 requires the entity to account for them separately; and
   2. investment components that are separated from contracts within the scope of IFRS 17, if IFRS 17 requires such separation.

……….Moreover, an issuer shall apply this IFRS to financial guarantee contracts if the issuer applies IFRS 9 in recognising and measuring the
……….contracts, but shall apply IFRS 17 if the issuer elects, in accordance with paragraph 7(e) of IFRS 17, to apply IFRS 17 in recognising and
……….measuring them
…..e. financial instruments, contracts and obligations under share-based payment transactions to which IFRS 2 Share-based Payment applies, except
………that this IFRS applies to contracts within the scope of IFRS 9.
…..f. instruments that are required to be classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16A and 16B or paragraphs 16C and 16D of
……..IAS 32.

4 This IFRS applies to recognised and unrecognised financial instruments. Recognised financial instruments include financial assets and financial liabilities that are within the scope of IFRS 9. Unrecognised financial instruments include some financial instruments that, although outside the scope of IFRS 9, are within the scope of this IFRS.

5 This IFRS applies to contracts to buy or sell a non-financial item that are within the scope of IFRS 9.

5A The credit risk disclosure requirements in paragraphs 35A–35N apply to those rights that IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers specifies are accounted for in accordance with IFRS 9 for the purposes of recognising impairment gains or losses. Any reference to financial assets or financial instruments in these paragraphs shall include those rights unless otherwise specified.

Classes of financial instruments and level of disclosure

6 When this IFRS requires disclosures by class of financial instrument, an entity shall group financial instruments into classes that are appropriate to the nature of the information disclosed and that take into account the characteristics of those financial instruments. An entity shall provide sufficient information to permit reconciliation to the line items presented in the statement of financial position.

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