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Swap transactions as a financial tool, their recognition as international accounting standard 39 and display in financial statements

International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies

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Title Swap transactions as a financial tool, their recognition as international accounting standard 39 and display in financial statements
 
Creator Kablan, Ali; Phd. İstanbul University
 
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Description Developments in international financial markets concern both developed countries and developing countries closely. The transactions of institutions arising from of commercial activities display a more complex and more risky state in line with international economic developments. The globalization trend in the world economy, the extreme fluctuations in currencies, interests and product prices have rendered closely following up the developments in financial tools mandatory. Taking advantage of derivative financial tools which increase the revenue of assets by taking future risks into consideration, impact a decrease in debt costs and has the purpose of transferring risks are of vital importance with respect to the successful management of companies. At the present time in which international commerce, free market economy and globalization has gained in importance, one of the derivative products used in risk management and have a wide implementation area is swap transactions. Swap transactions can be expressed as a financial transaction including the exchange of interest, foreign currency or both between two or more parties. Swap transactions in particular are used for purposes such as protection against risks due to interest rates and exchange rates, ensuring low cost financing, changing the debt structure and entering different markets. In this study, the generally defined characteristics of swap transactions, which have an important standing within financial risk management and have been rapidly developing in the world in recent years and their recognition according to the International Accounting Standard 39 concerning the recognition of swap transactions, which has in particular termed the study have been focused on. In the framework of the standard, interest swap and foreign currency swap implementation study were included with respect to the matter.
 
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Date 2013-04-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ssbfnet.com/ojs/index.php/ijfbs/article/view/127
 
Source International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies (ISSN: 2147- 4486); Vol 2, No 2 (2013): IJFBS; 8-25
2147-4486
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ssbfnet.com/ojs/index.php/ijfbs/article/view/127/370