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10.6 Compound instruments with no equity conversion features
Publication date: 14 Oct 2019
us IFRS & US GAAP guide
Bifurcation and split accounting under IFRS may result in significantly different treatment, including increased interest expense, as compared to US GAAP.
US GAAP
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There is no concept of compound financial instruments outside of instruments with certain equity conversion features. As such, under US GAAP the instrument would be classified wholly within liabilities or equity.
| If an instrument has both a liability component and an equity component—known as a compound instrument (e.g., redeemable preferred stock with dividends paid solely at the discretion of the issuer)—IFRS requires separate accounting for each component of the compound instrument.
The liability component is recognized at fair value calculated by discounting the cash flows associated with the liability component at a market rate for a similar debt host instrument excluding the equity feature, and the equity component is measured as the residual amount.
The accretion calculated in the application of the effective interest rate method on the liability component is classified as interest expense.
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