Section 45F - AASB 17 Insurance Contracts - July 2017 - AASB 17, issued in July 2017, amended paragraph 18. An entity shall apply that amendment when it applies AASB 17.

Section 45F - AASB 17 Insurance Contracts - July 2017 - AASB 17, issued in July 2017, amended paragraph 18. An entity shall apply that amendment when it applies AASB 17. | Zoe

45F AASB 17, issued in July 2017, amended paragraph 18. An entity shall apply that amendment when it applies AASB 17.

AASB 128 Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures (August 2015, as amended, including by AASB 2017-1)

The following amendments apply only when AASB 17 is applied in conjunction with AASB 2017-1.Paragraph 18 is amended. Paragraph 45F is added.

Exemptions from applying the equity method

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18 When an investment in an associate or a joint venture is held by, or is held indirectly through, an entity that is a venture capital organisation, or a mutual fund, unit trust and similar entities including investment-linked insurance funds, the entity may elect to measure that investment at fair value through profit or loss in accordance with AASB 9. An example of an investment-linked insurance fund is a fund held by an entity as the underlying items for a group of insurance contracts with direct participation features. For the purposes of this election, insurance contracts include investment contracts with discretionary participation features. An entity shall make this election separately for each associate or joint venture, at initial recognition of the associate or joint venture. (See AASB 17 Insurance Contracts for terms used in this paragraph that are defined in that Standard.)
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45F AASB 17, issued in July 2017, amended paragraph 18. An entity shall apply that amendment when it applies AASB 17.

AASB 132 Financial Instruments: Presentation (August 2015, as amended)

Paragraph 4 is amended. Paragraphs 33A and 97T are added.

4 This Standard shall be applied by all entities to all types of financial instruments except:
(d) insurance contracts as defined in AASB 4 AASB 17 Insurance Contracts or investment contracts with discretionary participation features within the scope of AASB 17. However, this Standard applies to:
(i) derivatives that are embedded in insurance contracts within the scope of AASB 17, if AASB 9 requires the entity to account for them separately.
(ii) investment components that are separated from contracts within the scope of AASB 17, if AASB 17 requires such separation, unless the separated investment component is an investment contract with discretionary participation features within the scope of AASB 17.
(iii) an issuer’s rights and obligations arising under insurance contracts that meet the definition of Moreover, an issuer shall apply this Standard to financial guarantee contracts if the issuer applies AASB 9 in recognising and measuring the contracts. However, the issuer, but shall apply AASB 4 AASB 17 if the issuer elects, in accordance with paragraph 4(d) of AASB 4 7(e) of AASB 17, to apply AASB 4 AASB 17 in recognising and measuring them the contracts.
(iv) an entity’s rights and obligations that are financial instruments arising under credit card contracts, or similar contracts that provide credit or payment arrangements, that an entity issues that meet the definition of an insurance contract if the entity applies AASB 9 to those rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph 7(h) of AASB 17 and paragraph 2.1(e)(iv) of AASB 9.
(v) an entity’s rights and obligations that are financial instruments arising under insurance contracts that an entity issues that limit the compensation for insured events to the amount otherwise required to settle the policyholder’s obligation created by the contract if the entity elects, in accordance with paragraph 8A of AASB 17, to apply AASB 9 instead of AASB 17 to such contracts.
(e) \[deleted\]financial instruments that are within the scope of AASB 4 because they contain a discretionary participation feature. The issuer of these instruments is exempt from applying to these features paragraphs 15–32 and AG25–AG35 of this Standard regarding the distinction between financial liabilities and equity instruments. However, these instruments are subject to all other requirements of this Standard. Furthermore, this Standard applies to derivatives that are embedded in these instruments (see AASB 9).
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Treasury shares (see also paragraph AG36)

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33A Some entities operate, either internally or externally, an investment fund that provides investors with benefits determined by units in the fund and recognise financial liabilities for the amounts to be paid to those investors. Similarly, some entities issue groups of insurance contracts with direct participation features and those entities hold the underlying items. Some such funds or underlying items include the entity’s treasury shares. Despite paragraph 33, an entity may elect not to deduct from equity a treasury share that is included in such a fund or is an underlying item when, and only when, an entity reacquires its own equity instrument for such purposes. Instead, the entity may elect to continue to account for that treasury share as equity and to account for the reacquired instrument as if the instrument were a financial asset and measure it at fair value through profit or loss in accordance with AASB 9\. That election is irrevocable and made on an instrument-by-instrument basis. For the purposes of this election, insurance contracts include investment contracts with discretionary participation features. (See AASB 17 for terms used in this paragraph that are defined in that Standard.)
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97T AASB 17, issued in July 2017, amended paragraphs 4 and AG8, and added paragraph 33A. AASB 2020-5 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Insurance Contracts, issued in July 2020, further amended paragraph 4 and amended paragraph AG36. An entity shall apply those amendments when it applies AASB 17.

In the Application Guidance, paragraphs AG8 and AG36 and the heading preceding paragraph AG36 are amended.

Financial assets and financial liabilities

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AG8 The ability to exercise a contractual right or the requirement to satisfy a contractual obligation may be absolute, or it may be contingent on the occurrence of a future event. For example, a financial guarantee is a contractual right of the lender to receive cash from the guarantor, and a corresponding contractual obligation of the guarantor to pay the lender, if the borrower defaults. The contractual right and obligation exist because of a past transaction or event (assumption of the guarantee), even though the lender’s ability to exercise its right and the requirement for the guarantor to perform under its obligation are both contingent on a future act of default by the borrower. A contingent right and obligation meet the definition of a financial asset and a financial liability, even though such assets and liabilities are not always recognised in the financial statements. Some of these contingent rights and obligations may be insurance contracts within the scope of AASB 4 AASB 17.

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Treasury shares (paragraphs 33 and 34) (paragraphs 33–34)

AG36 An entity’s own equity instruments are not recognised as a financial asset regardless of the reason for which they are reacquired. Paragraph 33 requires an entity that reacquires its own equity instruments to deduct those equity instruments from equity (but see also paragraph 33A). However, when an entity holds its own equity on behalf of others, eg a financial institution holding its own equity on behalf of a client, there is an agency relationship and as a result those holdings are not included in the entity’s statement of financial position.

AASB 136 Impairment of Assets (August 2015, as amended)

Paragraph 2 is amended. Paragraph 140N is added.

45FAASB 17, issued in July 2017, amended paragraph 18. An entity shall apply that amendment when it applies AASB 17.

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