The IASB recently released IFRS 9 ‘Financial Instruments’ (2014), representing the completion
of its project to replace IAS 39 ‘Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement’. The
new standard introduces extensive changes to IAS 39’s guidance on the classification and
measurement of financial assets and introduces a new ‘expected credit loss’ model for the
impairment of financial assets. IFRS 9 also provides new guidance on the application of hedge
accounting.