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Annual Report 2012 - Indesit

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Consolidated financial statements at 31 December <strong>2012</strong> – Notes<br />

11. Financial instruments<br />

11.1 Management<br />

of financial risks<br />

The Group is exposed to the following principal financial risks deriving from operations:<br />

• liquidity risk (availability and access to financial resources);<br />

• market risk (exchange rates, interest rates, commodity prices);<br />

• credit risk (with commercial and financial counterparts).<br />

Market risk<br />

Liquidity Risk<br />

Funding risk<br />

Competitive<br />

Currency risk<br />

Economic<br />

Market Risk<br />

Interest rate risk<br />

Translation<br />

Commodity price risk<br />

Credit Risk<br />

Financial counterpart<br />

Commercial<br />

counterpart<br />

Liquidity, market and financial counterpart credit risks are managed by the Central Treasury<br />

Department in accordance with the Group Treasury Policy approved by the Board of Directors. Group<br />

strategy is to minimize the exposure to risk and, accordingly, it is forbidden to take positions that<br />

might generate risks that are not strictly correlated with normal business activities (e.g. transactions in<br />

currencies other than the functional currencies).<br />

In this context and in order to appropriately segregate duties, the Group has allocated skills and<br />

responsibilities between the Treasury Front Office and the Treasury Back Office, which is functionally<br />

and hierarchically separated from the Front Office.<br />

The Front Office is mainly responsible for managing liquidity, identifying exposures to risk and<br />

negotiating hedges with financial counterparts.<br />

The Back Office checks compliance with Treasury Policy and is responsible for the accounting<br />

measurement and recognition of hedging instruments.<br />

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