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Definition of fair value (paras. BC27-BC45)

Clarifying the measurement objective

BC27 IFRS 13 defines fair value as:

The price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.

BC28 IFRS 13 also provides a framework that is based on an objective to estimate the price at which an orderly transaction to sell the asset or to transfer the liability would take place between market participants at the measurement date under current market conditions (ie an exit price from the perspective of a market participant that holds the asset or owes the liability at the measurement date).

BC29 That definition of fair value retains the exchange notion contained in the previous definition of fair value in IFRSs:

The amount for which an asset could be exchanged, or a liability settled, between knowledgeable, willing parties in an arm’s length transaction.

BC30 Like the previous definition of fair value, the revised definition assumes a hypothetic

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