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SEC Form 20-F - Deutsche Bank Annual Report 2012

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<strong>Deutsche</strong> <strong>Bank</strong> Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements F-37<br />

<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>20</strong>10 on <strong>Form</strong> <strong>20</strong>-F 01 – Significant Accounting Policies<br />

The Group views the issuance of senior long-term debt as an operating activity. Senior long-term debt comprises<br />

structured notes and asset backed securities, which are designed and executed by CIB business lines and<br />

which are revenue generating activities. The other component is debt issued by Treasury, which is considered<br />

interchangeable with other funding sources; all of the funding costs are allocated to business activities to<br />

establish their profitability.<br />

Cash flows related to subordinated long-term debt and trust preferred securities are viewed differently than<br />

those related to senior-long term debt because they are managed as an integral part of the Group’s capital,<br />

primarily to meet regulatory capital requirements. As a result they are not interchangeable with other operating<br />

liabilities, but can only be interchanged with equity and thus are considered part of the financing category.<br />

The amounts shown in the consolidated statement of cash flows do not precisely match the movements in the<br />

consolidated balance sheet from one period to the next as they exclude non-cash items such as movements<br />

due to foreign exchange translation and movements due to changes in the group of consolidated companies.<br />

Movements in balances carried at fair value through profit or loss represent all changes affecting the carrying<br />

value. This includes the effects of market movements and cash inflows and outflows. The movements in balances<br />

carried at fair value are usually presented in operating cash flows.<br />

Insurance<br />

The Group’s insurance business issues two types of contracts:<br />

Insurance Contracts – These are annuity and universal life contracts under which the Group accepts significant<br />

insurance risk from another party (the policyholder) by agreeing to compensate the policyholder if a specific<br />

uncertain future event adversely affects the policyholder. Such contracts remain insurance contracts until all<br />

rights and obligations are extinguished or expire. As allowed by IFRS, the Group retained the accounting<br />

policies for insurance contracts which it applied prior to the adoption of IFRS. These accounting policies are<br />

described further below.<br />

Non-Participating Investment Contracts (“Investment Contracts”) – These contracts do not contain significant<br />

insurance risk or discretionary participation features. These are measured and reported consistently with other<br />

financial liabilities, which are classified as financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss.<br />

Financial assets held to back annuity contracts have been classified as financial instruments AFS. Financial<br />

assets held for other insurance and investment contracts have been designated as fair value through profit or<br />

loss under the fair value option.

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