Spain’s companies face accounting test

Until the advent of the European IAS39 accounting standard at the beginning of the year Spanish reporting requirements for derivatives were relatively relaxed. Now, though, companies will have to lift the lid on derivative transactions, causing pain for some of them.

SPANISH COMPANIES HAVE until now shown little fear of complex financial products. “Spanish corporates are among the most sophisticated corporates in the market,” says Jean Daniel Lorenzo, who is in charge of Spanish clients in the strategic equity group of BNP Paribas’ equities and derivatives division. “They never discard a derivative solution just because it has the word derivative in it.” Spanish companies have been ramping up their use of derivatives in the past three years.

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