Accounting for Derivatives: Advanced Hedging under IFRS (The Wiley Finance Series) - Hardcover

Ramirez, Juan

9780470515792: Accounting for Derivatives: Advanced Hedging under IFRS (The Wiley Finance Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470515791 ISBN 13: 9780470515792

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Accounting for Derivatives: Advanced Hedging under IFRS is a comprehensive practical guide to hedge accounting. This book is neither written by auditors afraid of providing opinions on strategies for which accounting rules are not clear, nor by accounting professors lacking practical experience. Instead, it is based on day-to-day experience, advising corporate CFOs and treasurers on sophisticated hedging strategies. It covers the most frequent hedging strategies and addresses the most pressing challenges that corporate executives find today. The book is case-driven with each case analysing in detail a real-life hedging strategy. A broad range of hedging strategies have been included, some of them using sophisticated derivatives. The objective of this book is to provide a conceptual framework based on the extensive use of cases so that readers can create their own accounting interpretation of the hedging strategy being considered. Accounting for Derivatives will be essential reading for CFOs, internal auditors and treasurers of corporations, professional accountants as well as derivatives professionals working at commercial and investment banks. Key feature include: The only book to cover IAS39 from the derivatives practitioner's perspective Extensive real-life case studies to providing essential information for the practitioner Covers hedging instruments such as forwards, swaps, cross-currency swaps, and combinations of standard options as well as more complex derivatives such as knock-in forwards, KIKO forwards, range accruals and swaps in arrears. Includes the latest information on FX hedging and hedging of commodities

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From the Back Cover:

Accounting for Derivatives: Advanced Hedging Under IFRS by Juan Ramirez is a comprehensive practical guide to hedge accounting. The author has drawn on his day-to-day experience, advising corporate CFOs and treasurers on sophisticated hedging strategies to provide an invaluable resource for the practitioner. The most frequently used hedging strategies are all covered and the most pressing challenges that corporate executives face today in this area are addressed.

Accounting for Derivatives is case-driven throughout, with each specific case analyzing in detail a real-life hedging strategy. A broad range of hedging strategies have been included, some of them using sophisticated derivatives. This framework, based on the extensive use of real-life cases enables the reader to create their own accounting interpretation of the specific hedging strategies. Practical advice is offered throughout on how to minimize the earnings volatility impact of hedging with derivatives.

Key feature include:

The only book to cover IAS39 from the derivatives practitioner’s perspective
Extensive real-life case studies providing essential information for the practitioner
Covers numerous hedging instruments including forwards, swaps, cross-currency swaps, and combinations of standard options as well as more complex derivatives such as knock-in forwards, KIKO forwards, range accruals and swaps in arrears
Includes the latest information on FX hedging and hedging of commodities
Analyzes the hedge of foreign currency denominated liabilities
In-depth information on hedge of commodity risk

About the Author:

Juan Ramirez currently works at BNP Paribas in London and is responsible for the marketing of strategic equity derivatives to the Iberian corporate and institutional clients. After earning a bachelor degree in electrical engineering at the ICAI university in Madrid, he joined the consumer products group at Arthur Andersen where he spent five years gaining a substantial exposure to the accounting world. After earning an MBA degree from University of Chicago, Mr. Ramirez moved to London to work at Chase Manhattan (currently JP Morgan). He has also worked at Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital and Banco Santander. Mr. Ramirez has devoted more than 15 years marketing structured derivatives solutions, being involved in commodity, credit, equity, fixed income and foreign exchange derivatives. He witnessed how the first time adoption of IFRS in 2005, greatly changed the way European entities made their hedging decisions using derivatives. Since then he has spent a substantial amount of his time helping entities to minimise the accounting impact of highly structured derivatives transactions. Mr. Ramirez is married and has three children.

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