Banks and Financial Institutions

IFRS Accounting for Banks & Financial Institutions

Duration: 2 Days

The programme answers questions such as:

1. What are the current and likely future IFRS reporting requirements for financial institutions?
2. How do the IFRS financial statement disclosure requirements for banks relate to Pillar 3 of Basel II?
3. What are the accounting requirements for loan losses, property, plant and equipment and fee income?
4. How are effective interest rates calculated for various financial instruments?
5. What rules apply to the recognition, measurement and de-recognition of financial instruments?

Course Summary

This two-day course examines international accounting issues and their effect on investment banks.

Course Benefits

  • Comply with IFRS financial statement disclosure requirements
  • Resolve critical issues, including accounting for loan losses; nonaccrual of interest; property, plant and equipment and fee income
  • Calculate the effective interest rates for various financial instruments common to the banking industry
  • Increase planning opportunities through awareness of likely future IFRS changes affecting financial institutions, including prospects for convergence with major national accounting standards

Teaching Method

  • Description and explanation of IFRS technical requirements in clear and simple language
  • Model and real-world financial statements of financial institutions to demonstrate IFRS presentation and disclosure requirements
  • Illustrative demonstrations for calculating effective interest rates
  • All participants receive a copies of the presentations slides, handouts and course materials

Course Summary

Topics include:

  • Role of accounting information in capital markets
  • Stakeholders’ incentives in financial reporting
  • Patterns of earnings management
  • Techniques of window dressing
  • Netting
  • Historical costs and the trend to fair value
  • Consolidation and business combinations
  • Goodwill and other intangible assets
  • Investment securities – classification/reclassification
  • Inter-corporate investments
  • Non-controlling interests
  • Equity versus liability classification of financial instruments
  • Hybrid securities
  • Derivatives - swaps, options, futures and forwards contracts

 

  • Embedded derivatives
  • Revenue recognition for financial instruments
  • Revenue recognition for financial instruments
  • Hedge accounting – cash flow hedges versus fair value hedges
  • Accounting for troubled debt restructuring
  • Fair value measurement
  • Off-balance sheet arrangements
  • Special Purpose Entities and Variable Interest Entities
  • Recently issued standards, interpretations and their impact on investment banks
  • Proposed IFRS changes that will affect investment banks
  • Summary comparison of US GAAP to IFRS
  • US broker-dealer guidance.