Rates of credit obligations compliance on IFRS financial statement as a factor of financial stability

• Main Authors: O. V. Uvarova, S. A. Shakhvatova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Voronezh state university of engineering technologies 2016-11-01
• Series: Vestnik Voronežskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta Inženernyh Tehnologij
• Subjects: bank; covenants; financial covenants; financial statement; ifrs; gaap; default
• Online Access: https://www.vestnik-vsuet.ru/vguit/article/view/1069
• ISSN: 2226-910X; 2310-1202

For the purposes of effective management of economic activity of the entities of insufficiently own accounting information. For objective assessment of a financial and economic provision of the entity it is necessary to pass from separate accounting data to certain valuable ratios of major factors – to financial performance or financial ratios. Calculation and interpretation of their values the integral and essentially necessary part of a financial analysis, especially it is important if the company has credit liabilities. Conditions of credit agreements often include accomplishment of credit covenants which represent restrictions for activities and a financial position of the company in addition to timely settlement of percent and a body of the credit and provide to lessors a certain level of safety from bankruptcy of the debtor. The article considers the covenants and financial covenants definitions; the main financial covenants containing in credit agreements between large banks and borrowers; data on structure of a credit portfolio and financial debt of NLMK as at June 30, 2016; the main financial covenants containing in credit agreements of the companies of NLMK Group; definitions and formulas of calculation of financial rates based on the IFRS financial statement; calculation of covenants on the example of IFRS consolidated financial statements of NLMK; subtleties of calculation of financial rates; the main differences of financial rates calculation based on the financial statements prepared on the different principles; conclusion about stability and a financial condition of NLMK by the results received during calculation financial covenants as at end of the first half of the year 2016.