Dealing with different financial assets

Books of Account
Accounting for Investments
R. Venkata Subramani
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Life-cycle of financial instruments

“Indicators of impairment include the financial health of the counterparty, intention of the investor to hold the asset for a reasonable length of time to permit recovery in value, the duration and extent that the market value has been blow cost, and the prospects of a market price recovery,” explains R. Venkata Subramani in the first volume of Accounting for Investments: Equities, futures and options.

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