In today’s complex business landscape, accurately valuing financial instruments is crucial for maintaining transparency and ensuring compliance. Many companies face challenges due to the complexity of these instruments and the stringent accounting standards that require precise fair value measurements.
Our financial instruments valuation and accounting services can help you address these challenges, providing specialized expertise and tailored solutions. Whether your company holds complex financial instruments, awards sophisticated compensation arrangements or engages in intricate hedging strategies, our team is here to help.
Our approach
Our services combine deep expertise in both accounting standards and valuation methodologies to deliver precise and reliable valuations. Our seasoned team of quantitative risk and accounting professionals has access to a vast library of in-house valuation techniques, enabling cost-effective and efficient service delivery.
We understand the auditor’s perspective, having audited financial instrument valuations for many large organizations. This insight allows us to anticipate and address auditor concerns effectively, giving you full confidence in your financial reporting.
How we can help
Our professionals can help you with a wide range of valuation and accounting needs, including but not limited to:
embedded derivatives and equity components in complex hybrid issuances;
standalone derivatives related to foreign exchange, equity, commodity, interest rate and credit;
complex performance share units;
complex employee stock options;
complex warrants;
asset-backed securities;
fair-value changes due to change in own credit risk; and
hedge effectiveness assessment and ineffectiveness measurement.
Other situations where we can help you include:
holding financial instruments carried at fair value through profit and loss statements or other comprehensive income;
electing to measure financial liabilities at fair value;
issuing debt obligations or contracts with contingent payments, convertible features and other embedded derivatives;
awarding sophisticated compensation arrangements for executives based on company and peer stock performance; and
entering into a metals streaming arrangement in which the entire contract or certain embedded features are measured at fair value.
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Partner, Banking & Capital Markets Assurance Leader, Financial Risk Management Leader, PwC Canada
