The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed guidance that aims to clarify the “shortcut method” of hedge accounting.

Hedge accounting is governed primarily by Financial Accounting Standard No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, which in 1999 generally established that companies must report derivative instruments as assets or liabilities at fair value.

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