derivative

Article ID: 1927

Last updated: 14 Feb, 2022

A financial instrument or other contract within the scope of IFRS 9 all three of the following characteristics:

1. Its value changes in response to the change in a specified interest rate, financial instrument price, commodity price, foreign exchange rate, index of prices or rates, credit rating or credit index, or other variable, provided in the case of a non-financial variable that the variable is not specific to a party to the contract (sometimes called the ‘underlying’).

1. It requires no initial net investment or an initial net investment that is smaller than would be required for other types of contracts that would be expected to have a similar response to changes in market factors.
2. It is settled at a future date.

(According to International Accounting Standards IFRS 9)