Financial liability
IAS 32 defines a financial liability as liability that is any of the following:
1. A contractual obligation either to: 1.1. Deliver cash or another financial asset to another entity; or 1.2. Exchange financial assets or financial liabilities with another entity under conditions that are potentially unfavourable to the reporting entity.
2. A contract that will or may be settled in the reporting entity's own equity instruments, and is either: 2.1. A non-derivative for which the entity is or may be obliged to deliver a variable number of the reporting entity's own equity instruments; or 2.2. A derivative that will or may be settled other than by the exchange of a fixed amount of cash or another financial asset for a fixed number of the reporting entity's own equity instruments.
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