CFM57290 - Derivative contracts: hedging: regulation 9: interest rate contracts
This guidance applies to periods of account starting on or after 1 January 2015 where the company has elected for regulation 9 to apply.
Regulation 9: interest rate contracts
Under Old UK GAAP (excluding FRS 26), interest rate contracts are usually kept 바카라 사이트˜off balance sheet바카라 사이트™, often by being combined with the hedged item, usually a loan, to create a 바카라 사이트˜synthetic바카라 사이트™ asset or liability. Under this type of accounting only periodic payments due under the contract are brought into account as part of the 바카라 사이트˜interest바카라 사이트™ gain or loss on the synthetic item.
For example, a company may have borrowed money at a rate of interest linked to LIBOR, but at the same time have entered into an interest rate swap under which it receives variable rate payments and makes fixed rate payments (see CFM13320). In effect, the company has converted variable rate borrowing to fixed rate borrowing. A very common method of accounting for such an arrangement under Old UK GAAP (excluding FRS 26) is to show the loan as a liability on the balance sheet, but not to recognise the swap separately. In the profit and loss account, the net payments made or received by the company under the swap are amalgamated with the actual interest payments, so its overall finance cost consists of the fixed interest rate plus any margin taken by the bank on the swap.
Effect of regulation 9
As with currency contracts (CFM57080) and commodity contracts (CFM57200) FRS 102, IAS 39, IFRS 9 and FRS 26 under Old UK GAAP all require interest rate contracts to be measured at fair value, either through the profit and loss account, or where the restrictive rules for showing that there is an effective cash flow hedge are met, through other comprehensive income (OCI).
However, in broad terms, electing into regulation 9 allows a company to continue to use this type of 바카라 사이트˜synthetic liability바카라 사이트™ accounting (or 바카라 사이트˜synthetic asset바카라 사이트™ accounting where a creditor loan relationship is hedged) for tax purposes. It achieves this by disregarding any fair value profits or losses on a company바카라 사이트™s interest rate contracts, and instead applying an 바카라 사이트˜appropriate accruals basis바카라 사이트™. Any credits or debits arising from amounts being 바카라 사이트˜recycled바카라 사이트™ from OCI to profit or loss (see CFM57280) are also disregarded.
바카라 사이트˜Interest rate contract바카라 사이트™ is given a broad meaning by regulation 9 and includes, for example, cross-currency swaps. CFM57300 deals with the scope of regulation 9, and CFM57310 with the meaning of 바카라 사이트˜interest rate contract바카라 사이트™.
CFM57320 looks at what is meant by an 바카라 사이트˜appropriate accruals basis바카라 사이트™.
CFM57330+ gives examples of the operation of regulation 9.