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''Financial reporting - balance sheet - assets.''
An agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a foreign currency at a future date for a price agreed upon today.


(CCE).


For financial reporting purposes, cash equivalents are:
== See also ==
*Short-term, highly liquid investments that are
*[[Contract]]
*Readily convertible to known amounts of cash and
* [[Foreign exchange]]
*Which are subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value.
* [[Forward exchange market]]


 
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
Examples of cash equivalents for financial reporting purposes include money market instruments, treasury bills, short-term government bonds, marketable securities and commercial paper.
 
 
Cash and cash equivalents are normally reported as a single aggregated figure in the primary statement of financial position.
 
 
==See also==
* [[Assets]]
* [[Balance sheet]]
*[[Cash]]
*[[Cash equivalents]]
*[[Cashflow statement]]
*[[Liquidity]]
*[[Statement of financial position]]
 
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Cash_management]]

Latest revision as of 10:03, 6 July 2022

An agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a foreign currency at a future date for a price agreed upon today.


See also