MISC Annual Report 2018

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR OUR BUSINESS OUR LEADERSHIP OUR PERFORMANCE OUR COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY OUR GOVERNANCE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OTHER INFORMATION 50 TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 235 MISC BERHAD ANNUAL REPORT 2018 234 2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT'D.) 2.3 Summary of significant accounting policies (cont'd.) (h) Financial assets (cont'd.) Subsequent measurement For purposes of subsequent measurement, financial assets are classified into four categories: • Financial assets at amortised cost (debt instruments); • Financial assets at FVOCI with recycling of cumulative gains and losses (debt instruments); • Financial assets designated at FVOCI with no recycling of cumulative gains and losses upon derecognition (equity instruments); and • Financial assets at FVTPL. Financial assets at amortised cost (debt instruments) This category is the most relevant to the Group and the Corporation. The Group and the Corporation measure financial assets at amortised cost if both of the following conditions are met: • The financial asset is held within a business model with the objective to hold financial assets in order to collect contractual cash flows; and • The contractual terms of the financial asset give rise on specified dates to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and interest on the principal amount outstanding. Financial assets at amortised cost are subsequently measured using the effective interest ("EIR") method and are subject to impairment. Gains and losses are recognised in profit or loss when the asset is derecognised, modified or impaired. Interest income and foreign exchange gains or losses are recognised in profit or loss. The Group’s financial assets at amortised cost include cash and bank balances, amount due from customers, trade and other receivables, finance lease receivables and long term receivables. Fair value through other comprehensive income This category comprises debt instrument where it is held within a business model whose objective is achieved by both collecting contractual cash flows and selling financial assets, and its contractual terms give rise on specified dates to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and interest on the principal amount outstanding. Fair value through other comprehensive income category also comprises investment in equity that is not held for trading, and the Group and the Corporation did not irrevocably elect to present subsequent changes in the investment’s fair value in other comprehensive income. This election is made on an investment-by-investment basis. 2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT'D.) 2.3 Summary of significant accounting policies (cont'd.) (h) Financial assets (cont'd.) Subsequent measurement (cont'd.) Fair value through other comprehensive income (cont'd.) Financial assets categorised as fair value through other comprehensive income are subsequently measured at fair value with unrealised gains and losses recognised directly in other comprehensive income and accumulated under fair value through other comprehensive income reserve in equity. For debt instruments, when the investment is derecognised or determined to be impaired, the cumulative gain or loss previously recorded in equity is reclassified to the profit or loss. For equity instruments, the gains or losses are never reclassified to profit or loss. The Group has not designated any financial assets at FVOCI. Fair value through profit or loss All financial assets not classified as measured at amortised cost or FVOCI as described above are measured at fair value through profit or loss. This includes derivative financial assets (except for a derivative that is a financial guarantee contract or a designated and effective hedging instrument as per Note 2.3(l)). On initial recognition, the Group may irrevocably designate a financial asset that otherwise meets the requirements to be measured at amortised cost or at FVOCI as at fair value through profit or loss if doing so eliminates or significantly reduces an accounting mismatch that would otherwise arise. The Group’s financial assets at fair value through profit or loss include quoted and unquoted equity investments. Financial assets categorised as fair value through profit or loss are subsequently measured at their fair value with gains or losses recognised in the profit or loss. All financial assets, except for those measured at FVTPL and equity investments measured at FVOCI, are subject to impairment as disclosed in Note 2.3(k). Derecognition A financial asset (or, where applicable, a part of a financial asset or part of a group of similar financial assets) is primarily derecognised (i.e. removed from the Group’s consolidated statement of financial position) when: • The rights to receive cash flows from the asset have expired; or • The Group and the Corporation have transferred their rights to receive cash flows from the asset or have assumed an obligation to pay the received cash flows in full without material delay to a third party under a "pass through" arrangement and either: (a) the Group and the Corporation have transferred substantially all the risks and rewards of the asset; or (b) the Group and the Corporation have neither transferred nor retained substantially all the risks and rewards of the asset, but have transferred control of the asset.