In a recently filed comment letter with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on their Discussion Paper:  Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity, WOCCU strongly supported continuing the IASB existing approach to classifying cooperative shares as equity when the cooperative has an unconditional right to refuse redemption of the shares,  yet urged clarification on the IASB’s approach to the treatment of accounting for convertible bonds and similar instruments particularly as they relate to contractual and non-contractual rights of the instrument.

A copy of the comment letter can be viewed here.