Consolidated Annual Report 2022

BARBADOS PUBLIC WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT UNION LIMITED | CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT 2022 102 BARBADOS PUBLIC WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT UNION LIMITED Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements For the year ended March 31, 2022 (Expressed in Barbados dollars) 71 25. Financial Risk Management, continued 25.2 Credit risk Loans and advances, continued Assessment of corporate investments (term deposits) The Group currently has $19,558,107 (2021: $19,456,088) in corporate term deposits. These investments are assessed on an entity level. Currently, these investments are held in the entities which are either regulated by the Central Bank of Barbados or the Financial Services Commission as per section 34 A of the Co-operative Society Act. 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). Corporate term deposits and investments were staged based on the probability of default assigned to each entity. Stage 1: The entity shows no decline in its ability to repay either based on past performance or future events for which a 12-month PD was assigned. The Investment Credit Rating was unchanged as at the financial year-end. Stage 2: There has been a significant event which has caused or is highly probable to have significant impact on the investee’s ability to repay for which the PD assigned was the Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD) rate less the survival period. The Investment credit rating has declined below a company rating. This is where the company or investment classification family is considered speculative and subject to substantial default risk. Stage 3: There has been a default or significant event which has caused or is highly probable to have a significant impact on the investee’s ability to repay for which the assigned PD was the CPD rate. The investment credit rating has significantly declined. The company or investment classification family is considered speculative or in poor standing and subject to very high default risk or may be in default on some part of its investment obligation. 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.

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