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The amount of assets that are: (a) cash; (b) an equity instrument of another entity; (c) a contractual right: (i) to receive cash or another financial asset from another entity; or (ii) to exchange financial assets or financial liabilities with another entity under conditions that are potentially favourable to the entity; or (d) a contract that will, or may be, settled in the entity’s own equity instruments and is: (i) a non-derivative for which the entity is, or may be, obliged to receive a variable number of the entity’s own equity instruments; or (ii) a derivative that will, or may be, settled other than by the exchange of a fixed amount of cash or another financial asset for a fixed number of the entity’s own equity instruments. For this purpose the entity’s own equity instruments do not include puttable financial instruments classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16A-16B of IAS 32, instruments that impose on the entity an obligation to deliver to another party a pro rata share of the net assets of the entity only on liquidation and are classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16C-16D of IAS 32, or instruments that are contracts for the future receipt or delivery of the entity’s own equity instruments. [Refer: Financial instruments, class [member]; Financial liabilities]

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The amount of non-current investments in equity instruments that the entity has designated at fair value through other comprehensive income. [Refer: Investments in equity instruments designated at fair value through other comprehensive income]

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The amount of transfers of assets into Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy. [Refer: Level 3 of fair value hierarchy [member]]

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The amount of transfers out of Level 1 and into Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy of assets held at the end of the reporting period. [Refer: Level 1 of fair value hierarchy [member]; Level 2 of fair value hierarchy [member]]

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