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Financial assets – ACCA (SBR) lectures

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  1. Hi Sir,

    Thanks for the great lecure, In the financial assets initial recognition it says in the note that financial assets are initially recognised at fair value, unless classified as FVTPL. just wonder how would we account it in the SFP if it is not classified asFVTPL initially? Thanks!

  2. Dear Sir, I have a question
    Why in example 1 – Financial assets part a: the transaction cost $0.25 should be capital in initial measurement, right? why do you note that as expenses?

  3. This was a great lecture. I now have a better understanding of financial assets and how they are recorded. The debentures was a little tricky because of the terminologies used; especially where the coupon rate is actually calculated on the par value.

    The journal entries also made things quite clear for me personally. Thanks

  4. Example 1 part 3

    My thinking that the effective interest rate is supposed to be used in discounting cash flows as opposed to actually using it to compute finance income as done by the lecturer.

    I mean that the EIR should be used in discounting the 40,000 future payments and the future payment of 100 plus premium.

    Could you please clarify on this or explain a little bit more.

    • Hi there, for the effective interest rate you need to calculate IRR, Internal rate of return. You can use the excel Function to find that, which is the rate at which the present value of all the cash flows from the initial investment and future payments plus premium will become zero. If you use the effective rate of interest to discount the future payments you will arrive at the initial fair value of the investment, so why would we bother? we can just use the initial investment amount less discount and transaction costs.

  5. Please for example 2, my kaplan textbook FR, says that i should take the OCI to P&L. i.e. the remaining 50,000 in OCI after Dr Cash 650,000, Cr Financial asset 620,000, Cr OCI 30,000. And this appears consistent with the understanding on realised gains and losses, since the asset is already sold

  6. Many thanks for this insightful lecture. What about the premium of 5%. How is it treated. Would we ignore until we intend to redeem?. What if the debenture was purchased at a premium of say 5%; how would it have been treated?

  8. Hi,

    In example 2, the last financial asset, the interest income on the bond (5.71%), is this paid by the bond issuer or paid by Norman who bought the bond?

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