BARBADOS PUBLIC WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT UNION LIMITED | NON-CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT 2020 68 BARBADOS PUBLIC WORKERS' CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT UNION LIMITED Notes to the Non-consolidated Financial Statements For the year ended March 31, 2020 (Expressed in Barbados dollars) 51 23. Financial Risk Management, continued Financial investments, continued Assessment of corporate investments (term deposits), continued Corporate investments are staged based on the following evaluation criteria: 1. Time to maturity 2. Investee ability to make payment once it becomes due (this is based on past relations with the entity together with an evaluation of whether the entity has experienced a decline in its financial ability to make payments). These investments are categorized as follows: Stage 1: Time to maturity is within 3 months and the entity shows no decline in its ability to repay either based on past performance or future events. Stage 2: Time to maturity is within 3-12 months and the entity shows no decline in its ability to repay either based on past performance or future events. Stage 3: Time to maturity is greater than 1 year or there has been a significant past or likely future event which has caused or is highly or likely probable to significantly impact the investee’s ability to repay. IFRS 9 provides that cost can be used as a basis for estimating fair value where, there are limitations on supportable information to do otherwise. There is currently insufficient trading information from published sources to measure the fair market value of the corporate investments. The Credit Union’s definition of Sgnificant Increase in Credit Risk (SICR) A significant increase in credit risk (SICR) was defined as a significant change in the estimated default risk over the remaining expected life of the investment. A comparison is made between the default risk as estimated at the reporting date and the default risk at initial recognition of each investment individually or by investment group. Where an investment is initially deemed to be low credit risk at origination (the purchase date) and continues to be assessed as low credit risk at the reporting date, it is deemed that there has been no significant increase in credit risk.
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