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Derivative instruments

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Derivative instruments
Contracts such as options and futures whose price is derived from the price of an underlying financial asset.

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133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, do not provide adequate information to financial statement users.
133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended by FASB Statement no.
133 -- the rule pertaining to derivative instruments and hedging transactions -- many observers voiced concerns that a host of contractual arrangements, including many purchases and sales agreements, satisfied the definition of a derivative and had to be accounted for as such.
 
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