Bank Accounting

This course looks at:

  • Banks’ financial statements
  • IAS 39: Financial Instruments
  • Accounting for business combinations and consolidated accounts
  • Disclosure and future developments

Banks’ financial statements

  • Key items - balance sheet and income statement
  • Loans, investments, deposits, non-deposit funding, equity and capital
  • Net interest and non-interest income, operating costs, profits
  • Accounting for loans:
  • Expected realisable value,
  • Non-performing loans
  • Understanding impairments vs. Write-offs

IAS 39: Financial Instruments

  • Held to maturity, vs. Available for sale, vs. At fair value through the profit and loss
  • Repos and securities lending
  • Accounting for derivatives
  • Hedge accounting and fair value option
  • Did fair value exacerbate the current crisis?

Accounting for business combinations and consolidated accounts

  • Key principles: subsidiaries, associates vs. investments
  • Accounting for special purpose vehicles SPEs and various structures: SIVs

Disclosure and future developments

  • Fair value and level 1,2,3 assets
  • Convergence with US GAAP
  • Revision of securitisation structures

 

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