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Summary of significant accounting policies (cont’d.)
2.12 Financial assets (cont’d.)
2.12.3 Subsequent measurement - gains and losses (cont’d.)
Interest and dividend income on available-for-sale financial assets are recognised separately in profit or loss. Interest on
available-for-sale debt securities calculated using the effective interest method is recognised in profit or loss. Dividend
income on available-for-sale equity instruments are recognised in profit or loss when the Group’s right to receive
payments is established.
2.12.4 Subsequent measurement - impairment of financial assets
Assets carried at amortised cost
The Group assesses at the end of the reporting period whether there is objective evidence that a financial asset or group
of financial assets is impaired. A financial asset or a group of financial assets is impaired and impairment losses are
incurred only if there is objective evidence of impairment as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial
recognition of the asset (a ‘loss event’) and that loss event (or events) has an impact on the estimated future cash flows
of the financial asset or group of financial assets that can be reliably estimated.
The criteria that the Group uses to determine that there is objective evidence of an impairment loss include:
• Significant financial difficulty of the issuer or obligor;
• A breach of contract, such as a default or delinquency in interest or principal payments;
• The Group, for economic or legal reasons relating to the borrower’s financial difficulty, granting to the borrower a
concession that the lender would not otherwise consider;
• It becomes probable that the borrower will enter bankruptcy or other financial reorganisation;
• Disappearance of an active market for that financial asset because of financial difficulties; or
• Observable data indicating that there is a measurable decrease in the estimated future cash flows from a portfolio of
financial assets since the initial recognition of those assets, although the decrease cannot yet be identified with the
individual financial assets in the portfolio, including:
(i) adverse changes in the payment status of borrowers in the portfolio; and
(ii) national or local economic conditions that correlate with defaults on the assets in the portfolio.
The amount of the loss is measured as the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of
estimated future cash flows (excluding future credit losses that have not been incurred) discounted at the financial asset’s
original effective interest rate. The carrying amount of the asset is reduced and the amount of the loss is recognised in
profit or loss. If ‘loans and receivables’ have a variable interest rate, the discount rate for measuring any impairment loss
is the current effective interest rate determined under the contract. As a practical expedient, the Group may measure
impairment on the basis of an instrument’s fair value using an observable market price.
If, in a subsequent period, the amount of the impairment loss decreases and the decrease can be related objectively to an
event occurring after the impairment was recognised (such as an improvement in the debtor’s credit rating), the reversal
of the previously recognised impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.
When an asset is uncollectible, it is written off against the related allowance account. Such assets are written off after all
the necessary procedures have been completed and the amount of the loss has been determined.
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