Analysis and Accounting of Hedging of a Net Investment in a Foreign Operation Process in the concept of Turkish Accounting Standards Cover Image

Yurtdışındaki İşletmede Bulunan Net Yatırım Riskinden Korunma İşleminin Türkiye Muhasebe Standartları Kapsamında İncelenmesi ve Muhasebeleştirilmesi
Analysis and Accounting of Hedging of a Net Investment in a Foreign Operation Process in the concept of Turkish Accounting Standards

Author(s): Veli Öztürk
Subject(s): Economy, Financial Markets, Accounting - Business Administration
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Risk; Hedging; Net Investment Risk; Forward;

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, in line with developments in the financial markets, financial instruments developed rapidly. As a result of this development, how to classify financial instruments, recognition of these principles has become important. As a result of the every day increase in types of financial instruments, financial risks have emerged. Especially after the end of the Bretton Woods system that based on fixed exchange rates in 1970’s, entities faced the financial risk. IAS 39 gathered financial risks faced by businesses in the financial markets in three groups. These risks are risk arising from financial instruments at fair value and risk arising from cash flows and risk arising from the net investment in a foreign operation. Preventing from the risk arising from the net investment in a foreign operation hedge that composes the subject of this study and also one type of prevention from financial risk, is explained in Turkish Accounting Standards TAS 21 and TAS 39. The implementation section of this study, one of the varieties of hedging, hedge accounting is an example of a net investment in a foreign operation. Example implementation is divided into three sections. In the first part, the increase and decreases at the exchange rates that arised from the position in which the entity made investment does not make forward contracts arised exchange rates are shown. In the second part of our application, the accounting records related to forward contract made for preventing from net investment risk are shown, and how the forward contract prevent the entity from net investment risk is explained. In the final part of the implementation, the disposal of the net investment in a foreign country and it’s results are shown.

  • Issue Year: 5/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 226-242
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Turkish