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Financial instrument. A financial instrument is a physical or electronic document that has intrinsic monetary value or transfers value. For example, cash is a financial instrument, as is a check. Listed and unlisted securities, loans, insurance policies, interests in a partnership, and precious metals are also financial instruments. A contractual obligation is also a financial instrument as is a deed that records home ownership. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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GOL LINHAS AEREAS INTELIGENTES, a Brazilian low-cost airline, issued a perpetual bond, a financial instrument that carries no maturity date and pays coupons forever. The FSP therefore defers the requirement in the statement, Share-Based Payment, that a freestanding financial instrument originally subject to the statement becomes subject to the recognition and measurement requirements of other applicable GAAP when the rights conveyed by the instrument to the holder no longer depend on his or her being an employee of the entity. A financial instrument is "mandatorily redeemable" if it requires the issuer to redeem it by transferring its assets at a specified or determinable date upon an event that is certain to occur, including the death or termination of employment of the shareholder. |
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