Designate fair value, cash flow and net investment hedges that satisfy IFRS 9's qualifying criteria.
Finance & Banking
IFRS 9 Hedge Accounting Documentation and Effectiveness Assessment
Master IFRS 9 hedge accounting: designate fair value, cash flow and net investment hedges, document hedge ratios, run effectiveness tests, and prepare IFRS 7 disclosures that withstand audit scrutiny.
🗓️Duration5 training days
📚Content4 modules · 8 sessions
🎓On completionAccredited attendance certificate
About the programme
Course Overview
Treasury and finance teams that use derivatives to manage FX, interest rate or commodity risk face a recurring challenge: IFRS 9 only allows hedge accounting when a hedging relationship is properly designated, documented at inception and shown to be effective period after period, and auditors routinely challenge files that fall short. This course builds that capability from the ground up. Participants work through designation memos for fair value, cash flow and net investment hedges, learn to define a defensible hedge ratio, and identify the sources of ineffectiveness an auditor will ask about first. Practical exercises cover qualitative critical terms matching, quantitative dollar-offset and regression testing, rebalancing when an economic relationship shifts, and accounting for the cost of hedging under IFRS 9's time value and forward points rules. The course closes with IFRS 7 disclosure drafting and assembling an audit-ready hedge file, leaving participants able to designate a new hedge correctly, test its effectiveness each period, and defend the entries to auditors and audit committees.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Draft hedge documentation at inception specifying risk management objective, hedge ratio and expected ineffectiveness.
Run qualitative critical terms matching and quantitative dollar-offset or regression effectiveness tests.
Rebalance or discontinue a hedging relationship in response to changes in the underlying economic relationship.
Account for the cost of hedging, including time value and forward points, under IFRS 9 requirements.
Reconcile the cash flow hedge reserve and cost of hedging reserve for financial statement reporting.
Prepare IFRS 7 disclosures and audit files that withstand external auditor and audit committee review.
Who Should Attend
Treasury accountants responsible for hedge designation and effectiveness testing.
Financial controllers preparing consolidated financial statements involving derivative hedges.
Corporate treasury managers using forwards, swaps and options to manage financial risk.
External and internal auditors reviewing hedge accounting judgements and disclosures.
Finance managers transitioning hedge accounting policy from IAS 39 to IFRS 9.
Group reporting teams consolidating hedge accounting entries across multiple subsidiaries.
Course Modules
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01IFRS 9 Hedge Accounting Framework and Eligibility
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Hedge Types and Qualifying Criteria
- Distinguish fair value, cash flow and net investment hedges and the accounting entries each produces.
- Apply IFRS 9's qualifying criteria of economic relationship, credit risk dominance and hedge ratio consistency.
- Compare IFRS 9 hedge accounting requirements with the discontinued IAS 39 bright-line effectiveness test.
- Screen candidate transactions to decide whether a fair value or cash flow hedge model best fits the exposure.
Session 2Hedged Items, Hedging Instruments and Risk Components
- Identify eligible hedged items including forecast transactions, firm commitments and risk components of a contract.
- Select hedging instruments such as forwards, cross-currency swaps and options for specific exposure profiles.
- Designate a risk component, such as a benchmark interest rate, as the hedged risk within a larger contract.
- Assess group hedging and hedges of a net investment in a foreign operation under IFRS 9 and IAS 21.
02Hedge Documentation at Inception
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Drafting the Hedge Designation Memo
- Draft a hedge designation memo at inception stating the risk management objective and strategy for the hedge.
- Specify the hedged item, hedging instrument and hedge ratio in documentation that satisfies audit evidence requirements.
- Document the source and expected impact of hedge ineffectiveness identified at the point of designation.
- Build a template designation memo library covering the group's recurring FX, interest rate and commodity hedges.
Session 2Defining Hedge Ratio and Sources of Ineffectiveness
- Calculate the hedge ratio from the quantities of hedged item and hedging instrument actually used by the entity.
- Identify sources of ineffectiveness such as counterparty credit risk, timing mismatches and basis differences.
- Distinguish hedge ineffectiveness recognised in profit or loss from amounts deferred in other comprehensive income.
- Model how a change in critical terms between hedged item and instrument affects the hedge ratio over time.
03Effectiveness Assessment and Rebalancing
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Qualitative and Quantitative Effectiveness Testing
- Perform a qualitative critical terms match assessment to confirm an economic relationship exists at inception.
- Run dollar-offset and regression-based quantitative tests where critical terms do not fully align.
- Test the prospective and retrospective effectiveness of a hedge using period-end market data.
- Document effectiveness testing evidence in a form that supports external audit review of hedge accounting.
Session 2Rebalancing and Discontinuation Triggers
- Rebalance a hedge ratio when the economic relationship shifts but the hedging relationship remains valid.
- Identify triggers that require voluntary or mandatory discontinuation of hedge accounting under IFRS 9.
- Account for the reclassification of amounts in the cash flow hedge reserve on discontinuation.
- Reassess a hedging relationship after a significant change in counterparty credit risk or notional amount.
04Cost of Hedging, Disclosure and Audit Readiness
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Accounting for Time Value and Forward Points
- Separate the intrinsic value and time value of an option when designating it as a hedging instrument.
- Account for forward points as the cost of hedging, deferred in other comprehensive income under IFRS 9.
- Amortise the cost of hedging over the life of a transaction-related or time-period-related hedged item.
- Assess the impact of cost of hedging accounting on reported volatility in profit or loss.
Session 2IFRS 7 Disclosures and External Audit Support
- Prepare IFRS 7 disclosures covering risk management strategy, hedge ratios and sources of ineffectiveness.
- Build a reconciliation of the cash flow hedge reserve and cost of hedging reserve for the annual financial statements.
- Assemble an audit file linking designation memos, effectiveness tests and journal entries for each hedge.
- Respond to auditor challenge on hedge accounting judgements using documented risk management rationale.
What the participant receives
4 course modules
A structured syllabus
8 training sessions
across 5 days
32 detailed points
Applied, detailed content
Accredited attendance certificate
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