Financial Instruments Classification

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[Verse 1]
Picture a ledger where numbers arrange
Financial assets split by exchange
Trading securities move like quicksilver
Short-term profits make portfolios quiver
Hold-to-maturity bonds sit patient and still
Available-for-sale waits for your will

[Chorus]
Fair value flows, amortized stays
Trading gains hit income today
AFS moves through equity's door
HTM keeps cost at its core
Three buckets sorting every trade
Classification choices must be made

[Verse 2]
Liabilities mirror this sorting game
Fair value option bears the same name
Amortized cost for most debt you owe
Unless you elect the fair value show
Changes in credit risk dance through OCI
While other movements make income fly

[Chorus]
Fair value flows, amortized stays
Trading gains hit income today
AFS moves through equity's door
HTM keeps cost at its core
Three buckets sorting every trade
Classification choices must be made

[Bridge]
IFRS Nine changed the playing field
Contractual cash flows must yield
Principal plus interest simple test
Business model determines the rest
SPPI keeps things clean and tight
Impairment hits before the bite

[Verse 3]
Reclassification breaks the spell
Moving assets rings the bell
Only when your model shifts
Can you make these balance drifts
Equity investments pick their lane
Cost or fair value stakes their claim

[Chorus]
Fair value flows, amortized stays
Trading gains hit income today
AFS moves through equity's door
HTM keeps cost at its core
Three buckets sorting every trade
Classification choices must be made

[Outro]
Measurement follows classification's lead
Financial reporting serves the need
Balance sheets and income dance
Through these accounting circumstance

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