Accounting Standard for Business Enterprises No. 22 -Recognition and measurement of financial instruments企业会计准则第 22 号——金融工具确认和计量Chapter I General Principles第一章 总则Article 1 With a view to regulating the recognition and measurement of financial instruments, the present Standards are formulated according to the Accounting Standards for Enterprises - Basic Principles .第一条 为了规范金融工具的确认和计量，根据《企业会计准则——基本准则》，制定本准则。Article 2 The term "financial instruments" refers to the contracts under which the financial assets of an enterprise are formed and the financial liability or right instruments of any other entity are formed.第二条 金融工具，是指形成一个企业的金融资产，并形成其他单位的金融负债或权益工具的合同。Article 3 The term "derivative instruments" refers to the financial instruments or other contracts which are involved in the present Standards and are characterized by the following:(1) The values thereof varies with particular interest rates, prices of financial instruments, prices of commodities, foreign exchange rates, price indexes, premium rate indexes, credit ratings, credit indexes and other similar variables; if the variable is a non-financial variable, there shall not exist any special relationship between such variable and any party to the contract;(2) No initial net investment is required, or, as compared to contracts of other types that have similar responses to the market changes, very little initial net investment is required;(3) It is settled on a certain future date.Derivative instruments shall include forward contracts, futures contracts, exchanges and options, as well as the instruments that contain one or more of the characters of a forward contract, futures contract,...
