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Overview of Financial Instruments

The document outlines financial liabilities and instruments, defining financial liabilities as contractual obligations to deliver cash or financial assets. It categorizes financial instruments into financial assets, equity instruments, and derivative financial instruments, providing examples for each type. Additionally, it includes sample financial documents such as certificates and contracts related to various financial transactions.

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Overview of Financial Instruments

The document outlines financial liabilities and instruments, defining financial liabilities as contractual obligations to deliver cash or financial assets. It categorizes financial instruments into financial assets, equity instruments, and derivative financial instruments, providing examples for each type. Additionally, it includes sample financial documents such as certificates and contracts related to various financial transactions.

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- Nature: Financial Liabilities

A financial instrument is an asset that can


be traded or exchanged under a contract. - Financial Liabilities: A financial liability is
any liability that is:
Financial instruments include primary
instruments and derivative financial - A. A contractual obligation:
instruments.
- To deliver cash or another financial asset
Financial Assets to another entity.

Cash on Hand and in Banks. Includes: - To exchange financial assets or financial


liabilities with another entity under
- Petty cash. conditions that are potentially unfavorable to
- Demand, savings, and time deposits. the entity.
- Undeposited checks.
- Foreign currencies. - Financial Liabilities: A financial liability is
- Money orders. any liability that is:
- Bank drafts.
- B. A contract that will or may be settled
Accounts, notes, and loans receivable, in the owners equity instrument and is:
investment in bonds, and other debt
instruments issued by other entities. - A non-derivative for which the entity is or
Includes: may be obligated to deliver a variable
number of the entity's own equity
- Trade receivables (signed delivery receipts instruments, or
and sales invoice).
- Promissory notes. - A derivative that will or may be settled
- Bond certificates. other than by the exchange of a fixed
amount of cash or another financial asset
Interest in shares or other equity for a fixed number of the entity's own equity
instruments issued by other entities. instruments.
Includes:
Equity Instruments
- Stock certificates.
- Publicly-listed securities. - Equity Instruments: An equity instrument is
any contract that evidences a residual
Derivative financial assets. Includes: interest in the assets of an entity after
deducting all of its liabilities.
- Futures contracts.
- Forward contracts. - Examples of Equity Instruments are:
- Call options.
- Foreign currency futures. - Ordinary Shares
- Interest rate swaps. - Preference Shares
- Warrants or written call options that allow
the holder to subscribe or purchase ordinary Sample & Specimens of Financial
shares in exchange for a fixed amount of Instruments
each or another financial asset.
- Local Currency: Philippine Pesos
Derivative Financial Instruments
- Foreign Currency: US Dollars
- Derivatives: Derivatives are financial
instruments that "derive" their value on (Includes images/examples of Peso and
contractually required cash flows from some Dollar bills)
other security or index.
- Time Deposit Certificate
Examples of Derivatives
- Photocopy of the Time Deposit Certificate
1. Futures Contracts: A futures contract is for Php 1,040,000 placed in 2005
an agreement between a seller and a buyer
that requires that seller to deliver a - Interest of 10% per annum or 50% after 5
particular commodity (say corn, gold, or years
soya beans) at a designated future date, at
a predetermined price. - 8 Sept 2010

2. Forward Contracts: Similar to futures, - Fixed Deposit Certificate


but:
- Includes example certificate with details
- Delivery on a specific date. such as "Mr. Angtlino Taguba," a long term
- Not traded on market exchanges. deposit, and reference to the year 2008.
- Settlement at closing.
- Corporate Check
3. Call Options: Options give its holder the
right either to buy or sell an instrument. - Diamond Advertising Company

4. Foreign Currency Futures: Foreign - Example mentions "One hundred


loans frequently are denominated in the thousand only"
currency of the lender (Japanese yen,
Swiss franc, German mark, and so on). - Bank of the Philippine Islands
When loans must be repaid in foreign
currencies, a new element of risk is - Personal Check
introduced.
- Example with "Roy Arg" and an account
5. Interest Rate Swaps: There are number
contracts to exchange cash flows as of a
specified date or a series of specified dates - "Tw Tr Hude Foty Tsad S Hde Severty Eg
based on a notional amount and fixed and Oy"
floating rates.
- BP Family Savings Bank
- Certificate evidencing Investment in Bonds
- Savings account passbook evidencing
savings deposit with a Commercial Bank - BOND CERTIFICATE

- Includes examples of dates, ATM - DEBT INSTRUMENTS


transactions, deposits, withdrawals, and
balances. - Promissory note evidencing Receivable of
City Finance Company (Lender) from Jane
- Bank Statement evidencing existence of Monroe (Borrower)
demand/ current deposit with a Commercial
Bank - Example: Jane Monroe promises to pay
City Finance Co. $50,000. Repayment is to
(Includes image examples of each) be made in the form of 300 equal payments
at 6% interest, or $322.15 payable on the
Equity Instruments 1st of each month, beginning 8/1/2005 until
the total debt is satisfied.
- EQUITY INSTRUMENTS
- DEBT INSTRUMENTS
- Stock Certificate evidencing investment in
Common Stock or Ordinary Equity Share - Insurance Certificate representing
investment in an insurance policy
- VANADIUM CORPORATION OF
AMERICA - UNITED KINGDOM INSURANCE
COMPANY INDEX
- EQUITY INSTRUMENTS
- DEBT INSTRUMENTS
- Stock Certificate evidencing Investment in
Preferred Stock - Forward Contract

- Interborough Consolidated - Example: 18 September 2020, Mr. Juan


Santos hereby undertakes to deliver one ton
DEBT Instruments of corn on 18 December 2020 at a price of
Php 35,000.00 at Balintawak Farmers
- DEBT INSTRUMENTS Market (8:00 am - 12:00 pm). Mr. Ricardo
Dalisay hereby undertakes to take delivery.
- Certificate evidencing Investment in
Treasury Bonds - DEBT INSTRUMENTS

- 1000000 - Index Derivative Contract Specifications

- INE MILLION DOLLARS (Includes a table outlining contract


specifications like underlying security,
- DEBT INSTRUMENTS contract size, price quotation, etc.)

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