CA 17.3
Situation 1 The carrying value of the held-for-collection investment will be the fair value on the
date of the transfer.
Situation 2 When a decrease in the fair value of an investment is considered to be permanent,
CA 17.4
(a) A company maintains the different investment portfolios because each portfolio serves a different
investment objective. Since each portfolio serves a different objective, the possible risks and
(b) The criteria which should be considered when determining how to properly classify investments
are: (1) the company’s business model for managing their financial assets, and (2) the
contractual cash flow characteristics of the financial asset. If management is planning to sell the
investment in the near future and to earn its profit on the basis of any price change, then the
investment should be classified as a trading investment. On the other hand, if a company’s
business model is to hold debt assets in order to collect contractual cash flows and the
contractual terms give specified dates to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and
interest, then the investment should be classified as a held-for-collection investment.