# The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008, Paragraph 3: Financial instruments


(1) Save in Schedule 2 to these Regulations, the expressions listed in sub-paragraph (2) have the same meaning as they have in Council Directive 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies and 91/674/EEC on the annual accounts and consolidated accounts of insurance undertakings (for banking companies, see the definition in paragraph 96 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations).
(2) Those expressions are “available for sale financial asset”, “business combination”, “commodity-based contracts”, “derivative”, “equity instrument”, “exchange difference”, “fair value hedge accounting system”, “financial fixed asset”, “financial instrument”, “foreign entity”, “hedge accounting”, “hedge accounting system”, “hedged items”, “hedging instrument”, “held for trading purposes”, “held to maturity”, “monetary item”, “receivables”, “reliable market” and “trading portfolio”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110806303/schedule/10/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-large-and-medium-sized-companies-and-groups-accounts-and-reports-regulations-2008/schedule-10/paragraph-3
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