47) IFRS - Explain Fair value hierarchy for Financial Instruments...
Monday, May 10, 2010Hint
As per IFRS 7, Fair Valuation of Financial Instruments has following hierarchy:
- Level 1
- in Active Markets
- for identical assets or liabilities or instruments- Valued using Quoted Prices (unadjusted)
e.g. Listed instruments - Level 2
- Valued by reference to inputs that are observable:
> Direct (prices), or
> Indirect (derived from prices)
- other than quoted prices included within Level 1
e.g. derivatives such as interest rate swaps or forward currency contracts where inputs are mostly observable and OTC (Over-the-counter) securities - Level 3
- using inputs that are based on unobservable market data
- Valued by reference to valuation techniques
e.g. Unquoted private equity or venture capital holdings
- Levels
The levels in the fair value hierarchy into which the fair value measurements are categorised - Transfers (between Level 1 and 2)
- significant transfers between Level 1 and Level 2, if any, and
- the reasons for those transfers - Reconciliation (Level 3)
- a reconciliation for fair value measurements in Level 3
> from the beginning balances to the ending balances,
> highlighting purchases, sales, and gains and losses,
> identify transfers into or out of Level 3, and
- the reasons for such transfers.
Disclosure of fair values is not required (just information is quoted) in following cases:
- when the carrying value is reasonable approximation of fair value,
such as short-term trade receivables and payables, or - for instruments whose fair value cannot be measured reliably
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