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Version date: 10 February 2017 - onwards

Consensus (paras. 7-8)

Superseded by IFRS 9: Financial Instruments, July 2014, for annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018. Earlier application is permitted.

7 An entity shall assess whether an embedded derivative is required to be separated from the host contract and accounted for as a derivative when the entity first becomes a party to the contract. Subsequent reassessment is prohibited unless there is either (a) a change in the terms of the contract that significantly modifies the cash flows that otherwise would be required under the contract or (b) a reclassification of a financial asset out of the fair value through profit or loss category, in which cases an assessment is required. An entity determines whether a modification to cash flows is significant by considering the extent to which the expected future cash flows associated with the embedded derivative, the host contract or both have changed and whether the change is significant relative to the previously expected cash flows on the contract.

7A The assessment whether an embedded derivative is required to be separated from the host contract and accounted for as a derivative on reclassification of a financial asset out of the fair value through profit or loss category in accordance with paragraph 7 shall be made on the basis of the circumstances that existed on the later date of:

(a) when the entity first became a party to the contract; and

(b) a change in the terms of the contract that significantly modified the cash flows that otherwise would have been required under the contract.