Dynamic Risk Management

Background

The International Accounting Standards Board is working on a project to simplify and improve the usefulness of financial statements, by developing accounting requirements for hedging within the context of open portfolios that are more closely aligned with a company's risk management activities. The project addresses situations in which entities use a dynamic risk management strategy to manage their risks where the IFRS 9 hedge accounting guidance for individual items or closed portfolios is insufficient.

Dynamic risk management - core model

EFRAG in co-operation with the IASB conducted outreach on the practical implications of the IASB's core model during Q4 2020 and Q1 2021. In Q2 2021 both organisations provided feedback on the outreach.

The IASB has been discussing the feedback received and the IASB Staff's proposals for changes to the core model and decided to change the project status to be that of standard setting, i.e., the next step will be an Exposure Draft (rather than another Discussion Paper). 

For the IASB's education webcasts on phase 1 of the project (core model), please refer here.

The IASB is currently in phase 2 of the project (extension of the core model) and is working towards publishing an Exposure Draft (expected in H1 2025).

History

2014 IASB Discussion Paper

On 17 April 2014, the IASB published its Discussion Paper, Accounting for Dynamic Risk Management: a Portfolio Revaluation Approach to Macro Hedging. Under this approach the risk-managed exposures would be revalued with respect to the managed risk (e.g. three month LIBOR) and the resulting revaluation adjustment would be recognised in the statement of financial position and the income statement. The revaluation adjustment and the fair value of the risk management instruments offset each other to the extent that the hedge is effective. Open risk positions would thus have a net impact on profit or loss, depending on the scope of the proposals.

EFRAG final comment letter on IASB 2014 DP

EFRAG issued its final comment letter on 30 October 2014. In that letter EFRAG highlighted the needs of different industries for a macro hedge accounting solution.

EFRAG rejected the alternatives proposed by the DP as remeasuring all portfolios that are dynamically managed was not considered decision-useful. In addition, such a solution would result in overriding the amortised cost measurement attribute. EFRAG asked the IASB to develop a hedge accounting solution with the aim of addressing the accounting mismatch between fair valued hedging derivatives and hedged items at amortised cost. In addition, macro hedging should remain consistent with IFRS 9.  Further a cash flow hedge model was advised to consider as banks manage their interest rate risk on a cash flow basis, not on a fair value basis. Finally, EFRAG noted an impact assessment is needed during further development of the approach.