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International Accounting Standard 39, dealing with financial instruments: recognition and measurement.
A government sponsored review into UK equity markets set up in 2011 and led by Professor John Kay.


IAS 39 was largely superseded by the revised IFRS 9 'Financial Instruments' which came into full effect from January 2018.  
The review was established to ask how well equity markets are achieving the following core purposes:
 
1. Enhancing the performance of UK companies by facilitating investment and enabling effective governance and decision making in support of long-term profitability and growth; and
 
2. Enabling investors to benefit from this corporate activity in the form of returns from equity investment.
 
The review was designed assess to what extent equity market participants are excessively focused on short-term outcomes to the detriment of the core purposes (1. and 2. noted above) and if so, what actions should be taken to address this problem.
 
It therefore examines the incentives, motivations and timescales of the following participants in the equity markets – end investors, pension funds, advisers, fund managers, the market and company boards – and also the relationships between them.
 
 
The Kay Report, published in 2012 was welcomed, by the UK Government in its response of the same year.
 
Implementation of the recommendations continues to be monitored.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[ALFV]]
* [[Corporate governance]]
* [[Available-for-sale]]
* [[Equity]]
* [[FRS 102]]
* [[FRS 103]]
* [[Hedge accounting]]
* [[Hedge effectiveness]]
* [[Held for trading]]
* [[Held-to-maturity]]
* [[HFT]]
* [[IAS 18]]
* [[IAS 32]]
* [[IFRS  9]]
* [[IFRS 9 hedge accounting reforms: a closer reflection of risk management?]]
* [[International Financial Reporting Standards]]
* [[Loans and receivables]]
* [[MCT]]
* [[Recognition]]




===Other links===
====Other links====
[http://www.treasurers.org/node/3333 IAS 39 implementation experience reported by ACT members, 2005]
[https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/367070/bis-14-1157-implementation-of-the-kay-review-progress-report.pdf Building a culture of long-term equity investment - Implementation of the Kay Review:Progress Report, Oct 2014]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]

Revision as of 15:00, 11 August 2015

A government sponsored review into UK equity markets set up in 2011 and led by Professor John Kay.

The review was established to ask how well equity markets are achieving the following core purposes:

1. Enhancing the performance of UK companies by facilitating investment and enabling effective governance and decision making in support of long-term profitability and growth; and

2. Enabling investors to benefit from this corporate activity in the form of returns from equity investment.

The review was designed assess to what extent equity market participants are excessively focused on short-term outcomes to the detriment of the core purposes (1. and 2. noted above) and if so, what actions should be taken to address this problem.

It therefore examines the incentives, motivations and timescales of the following participants in the equity markets – end investors, pension funds, advisers, fund managers, the market and company boards – and also the relationships between them.


The Kay Report, published in 2012 was welcomed, by the UK Government in its response of the same year.

Implementation of the recommendations continues to be monitored.


See also


Other links

Building a culture of long-term equity investment - Implementation of the Kay Review:Progress Report, Oct 2014