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Explore economic and accounting volatility in insurance under ifrs 17, focusing on cash flow estimates and market changes affecting liabilities.| The Footnotes Analyst
The profit of insurance companies that report under IFRS is affected by three rates of return – the liability pricing rate, the return from investments, and the IFRS 17 discount rate. The first two largely determine the magnitude of aggregate profit; the last mainly affects the timing of profit recognition and its classification as a service result or net financial result. We use an interactive model to explain how interest rates determine the reported results of insurance companies. The il...| The Footnotes Analyst
The capitalised lease liability of an inflation-linked lease does not include expected inflation. This results in a lower liability and lower initial expense compared with an equivalent lease with no inflation link. The IFRS 16 figures are updated as the inflation uplift occurs, but these catch-up adjustments create a profit ‘headwind’. We estimate that Tesco’s inflation linked leases result in a pre-tax profit headwind of about 2.2 percentage points of growth. If inflation were include...| The Footnotes Analyst