Absolutely not. There are certain changes that come into effect with IFRS 9, the most important of them being the need to test the credit quality of the entire trade credit portfolio, even for those segments that have never produced a delay in payments or a write off. This means that even “safe customers” -as considered by your corporation- expose your assets and cash inflows to credit risk -the likelihood to incur credit losses in the future (Day One Loss). For more details, see our Approach.

In our view, as “Simplified” can one characterize the example widely spread in almost all IFRS 9 resources on the internet; “Just group receivables by days of delay, calculate the historical credit losses on each category and estimate the Credit Loss Allowance”. The method itself is neither simplified nor simple, because, in our experience, a) the majority of corporations have low default portfolios – many of them have no actual / hard defaults, at least not in the last 24 months, and certainly not enough of them to estimate reliable historical CL rates and, b) an adjustment to make the historic observations looking to the future by means of applying a macroeconomic model is something that is generally not accessible to your accounting department. For more details, see our Approach.

In our experience up to now, it is relatively common among non-financial corporations to consider that this new standard affects only the Banking Sector. However, it is clear that IFRS 9 refers to Financial Instruments and their contractual future cash inflows, meaning that Trade Receivables of any non-financial business are also included.

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