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ANNEXURE E- DETAILED ACCOUNTING POLICIES CONTINUED
STANDARD BANK NAMIBIA LIMITED
Annual financial statements 2020
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Title: IFRS 9 Financial Instruments
General hedge accounting (GHA)
Effective date: 1 January 2018, but can be
adopted for any financial period prior to the
effective date of the Accounting for Dynamic
Risk Management: a Portfolio Revaluation
Approach (PRA) which is still to be advised
The revised general hedge accounting requirements are
better aligned with an entity's risk management activities,
provide additional opportunities to apply hedge accounting
and various simplifications in achieving hedge accounting.
The company has decided to adopt the IFRS 9 GHA as at 1
January 2021 in line with some market competitors both
locally and globally. The company will transition to IFRS 9's
GHA for all current and further micro hedges (hedges that
minimises/manages the risk exposure of a single
instrument).
Title: IFRS 10 and IAS 28 Sale or
Contribution of Assets between an
Investor and its Associate or Joint
Venture (amendments)
Effective date: deferred the effective date for
these amendments indefinitely
The amendments address an inconsistency between the
requirements in IFRS 10 and those in IAS 28, in dealing with
the sale or contribution of assets between an investor and
its associate or joint venture. The main consequence of the
amendments is that a full gain or loss is recognised when a
transaction involves a business (whether it is housed in a
subsidiary or not). A partial gain or loss is recognised when
a transaction involves assets that do not constitute a
business, even if these assets are housed in a subsidiary.
The amendments will be applied prospectively and are not
expected to have a material impact on the company's
financial statements.
Title: IFRS 16 Leases (amendment)
Effective date: 1 June 2020
IFRS 16 requires an entity to account for a change in
consideration or term of a lease contract to be accounted
for and disclosed as a lease modification. In light of the
recent Covid-19 pandemic and resultant rent concessions
to be granted by lessors, the amendment permits lessees,
as a practical expedient, not to assess whether particular
Covid-19 related rent concessions are lease modifications
and instead account for those rent concessions as if they
were not lease modifications. The amendment permits the
application of the practical expedient to rent concessions
that meet specific Covid-19 related requirements and
requires specified disclosures. An entity shall apply the
practical expedient as an accounting policy choice and
consistently to contracts with similar characteristics and in
similar circumstances. The purpose of the amendment is to
provide relief to lessees from the complexity arising in
applying the requirements of IFRS 16 to Covid-19 related
rent concessions. The amendment will be applied
retrospectively and is not expected to have a material
impact on the company.
Title: IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts
Effective date: 1 January 2023
This standard replaces IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts which
provided entities with dispensation to account for
insurance contracts (particularly measurement) using local
actuarial practice, resulting in a multitude of different
approaches. The overall objective of IFRS 17 is to provide a
more useful and consistent accounting model for insurance
contracts among entities issuing insurance contracts
globally. The standard requires an entity to measure
insurance contracts using updated estimates and
assumptions that reflect the timing of cash flows and any
uncertainty relating to insurance contracts. A general
measurement model (GMM) will be applied to long-term
insurance contracts and is based on a fulfilment objective
(risk-adjusted present value of best estimate future cash
flows) and uses current estimates, informed by actual
trends and investment markets. IFRS 17 establishes what is
called a contractual service margin (CSM) in the initial
measurement of the liability which represents the unearned
profit on the contract and results in no gain on initial
recognition. The CSM is released over the life of the
contract, but interest on the CSM is locked in at inception
rates. The CSM will be utilised as a "shock absorber" in the
event of changes to best estimate cash flows. On loss
making (onerous) contracts, no CSM is set up and the full
loss is recognised at the point of contract inception. The
GMM is modified for contracts which have participation
features. An optional simplified premium allocation
approach (PAA) is available for all contracts that are less
than 12 months at inception. The PAA is similar to the
current unearned premium reserve profile over time. The
requirement to eliminate all treasury shares has been
amended such that treasury shares held for a group of
direct participating contracts or investment funds are not
required to be eliminated and can be accounted for as
financial assets. These requirements will provide
transparent reporting about an entities' financial position
and risk and will provide metrics that can be used to
evaluate the performance of insurers and how that
performance changes over time. An entity may re-assess
its classification and designation of financial instruments
under IFRS 9, on adoption of IFRS 17. The amendment will
be applied retrospectively and is not expected to have a
material impact on the company.
Title: IAS 1 Presentation of Financial
Statements (amendments)
Effective date: 1 January 2023
The amendment clarifies how to classify debt and other
liabilities as current or non-current. The objective of the
amendment is aimed to promote consistency in applying.
the requirements by helping entities determine whether,
debt and other liabilities with an uncertain settlement date
should be classified as current (due or potentially due to be
settled within one year) or non-current. The amendment
also includes clarifying the classification requirements for
debt an entity might settle by converting it into equity.
These are clarifications, not changes, to the existing
requirements, and so are not expected to affect entities'
financial statements significantly. However, these
clarifications could result in reclassification of some
liabilities from current to non-current, and vice versa. The
amendment will be applied retrospectively. The impact on
the annual financial statements has not yet been fully
determined.
Title: Annual improvements
2018-2020 cycle
Effective date: 1 January 2022
The IASB has issued various amendments and
clarifications to existing IFRS, none of which is expected to
have a significant impact on the company's annual financial
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