SAP FSCM TRM - Hedge Management Reporting Requirements - 2
SAP FSCM TRM - Hedge Management Reporting Requirements - 2
SAP FSCM TRM - Hedge Management Reporting Requirements - 2
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Contents
Hedge Management Reporting Requirements ............................................................................. 3
What is Hedge Accounting? ...................................................................................................... 3
Review Hedge Accounting ........................................................................................................ 4
SAP Hedge Accounting Solutions .............................................................................................. 6
The objective of hedge accounting is to represent, in the financial statements, the effect of risk
management activities that use financial instruments to manage exposures arising from
particular risks that could affect profit or loss (P&L) or other comprehensive income (OCI).
Simply put, hedge accounting is a technique that modifies the normal basis for recognizing
gains and losses (or income and expenses) on associated hedging instruments and hedged
items, so that both are recognized in P&L (or OCI) in the same accounting period. This is a
matching concept that eliminates or reduces the volatility in the statement of comprehensive
income that otherwise would arise if the hedged item and the hedging instrument were
accounted for separately under IFRS.
In this section, we will briefly review some of the terms and characteristics related to hedge
accounting. We will leave it to the reader to know by which accounting rules their company
needs to follow.
The following Hedge Categories exist according to IAS / IFRS and US GAAP, and are supported
by SAP's Hedge Management solution.
• Fair Value Hedge:Protection against price or market value change of a recognized Assets or
Liability (e.g. Financial Instruments variable interest) or unrecognized firm commitment.
• When a hedged item is an recognized firm commitment (or a component thereof), the
cumulative change in the fair value of the hedged item subsequent to its designation is
recognized as an asset or a liability with a corresponding gain or loss recognized in profit or
loss.
• Cash flow Hedge:Protection against the change of an expected future cash flow as a result
of certain risk, e.g. Foreign Exchange rate risk.
The separate component of equity associated with the hedged item (cash flow hedge reserve)
is adjusted to the lower of the following (in absolute amounts):
o The cumulative gain or loss on the hedging instrument from inception of the hedge;
and
o The cumulative change in fair value (present value) of the hedged item (i.e. the present
value of the cumulative change in the hedged expected future cash flows) from
inception of the hedge.
• The portion of the gain or loss on the hedging instrument that is determined to be an
effective hedge (i.e. the portion that is offset by the change in the cash flow hedge reserve
calculated in accordance with (a)) shall be recognized in other comprehensive income
(OCI).
• Any remaining gain or loss on the hedging instrument (or any gain or loss required to
balance the change in the cash flow hedge reserve … is hedge ineffectiveness that shall be
recognized in profit or loss. Net Investment Hedge:Protection of an investment in a foreign
business /company.
A Net Investment Hedge is a specific type of foreign currency cash flow hedge that is used to
eliminate or reduce the foreign currency exposure that arises from an entity's Net Investment
in a Foreign Operation (NIFO). Update consolidation each period of the NIFO into the parent
financial statements a foreign currency gain or loss is recognized in shareholders' equity.
When a derivative hedging instrument is used, the effective portion of the change in the fair
value of the instrument is recognized in equity. The ineffective portion is recognized
immediately in the P&L.
A hedging relationship qualifies for hedge accounting only if all of the following criteria are
met:
• Hedge Accounting for Exposures (or E-Hedge Accounting/E-HA, for short) is the Hedge
Accounting solution when there is interest rate risk and the hedged item is not in Treasury
and Risk Management Position Management. The transaction codes to this solution start
with THM*, e.g. THMEX - Hedge Plan
• Hedge Accounting for Positions (or P-Hedge Accounting/P-HA, for short) is the solution in
which Treasury positions can be hedged in accordance with specific Hedge Accounting
rules. There is integration with Treasury and Risk Management Position Management for
when debt held in the Securities module is hedged, for example. This solution integrates
with Exposure Management 2.0 and works with the Hedge Management Cockpit. This
solution supports prospective effectiveness testing with linear regression and Market Data
Sets (MDS) to allow for effectiveness testing with multiple scenarios.
When functionality was being developed for the IFRS9 changes, SAP decided to make all the
new functionality available for the Hedge Accounting for Positions (or P-Hedge Accounting)
solution. Moving forward, we will discuss only the Hedge Accounting for Positions (or P-Hedge
Accounting) solution.
• Is fully integrated into Treasury subledger, the SAP general ledger, and adhers to its basic
principles of business transactions
• Supports the most common use cases
• Includes process automation including automatic designation
• Is capable of managing high volumes of hedging transactions
• Offers a fully integrated snapshots of exposures of future transactions for management of
an audit trail or for accounting reasons
The way to the Hedge Accounting for FX Risks in SAP Treasury presented in this lesson is:
Prerequisites: