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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

(Thousands of US dollars)

38

Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami Trust

Annual Report 2014

4. Financial instruments

(continued)

F. Liquidity risk

Liquidity risk is the risk that

the Group is unable to meet its

payment obligations associated

with its financial liabilities when

they fall due and to replace funds

when they are withdrawn. The

consequence may be the failure to

meet obligations to repay investors

and fulfil commitments to lend.

Liquidity risk management

process

The Group’s liquidity risk management

process, as carried out within the

Group and monitored by management

in individual entities within the Group,

includes:

i) Day-to-day funding, managed

by monitoring future cash flows

to ensure that requirements

can be met. This includes

replenishment of funds as they

mature or are borrowed by

customers. The Group maintains

an active presence in money

markets to enable this to happen;

ii) Maintaining a portfolio of

highly marketable assets

that can easily be liquidated

as protection against any

unforeseen interruption to cash

flow;

iii) Monitoring statement of

financial position liquidity ratios

against internal and regulatory

requirements; and

iv) Managing the concentration

and profile of debt maturities.

Monitoring and reporting of treasury

and capital market maturities is

done through monitoring of daily

maturities. Similarly the overall

liquidity maintenance is done

through monthly maturity gap

analysis at balance sheet level.

Hence, monitoring and reporting

takes the form of regular and

periodic cash flow measurement

and projections. The starting point

for those projections is an analysis

of the contractual maturity of the

financial liabilities and the expected

collection date of the financial

assets.

The Group also monitors unmatched

medium term assets.

Price risk

Price risk is the risk that the fair values of the equities or the managed funds

increase or decrease as a result of changes in the corresponding value of equity

indices or the value of individual equity stocks held as available-for-sale.

The table below summarises the impact of increase/decrease of equity indices

on the Group’s post tax profit for the year and on other components of equity.

The analysis is based on the assumptions that equity indices increased/

decreased by 10% with all other variables held constant and all the Group’s

equity instruments moved according to the historical correlation with the indices.

Impact on other components of equity

2014

2013

Pakistan stock exchange (+/-10%)

2,099

2,009

Cairo stock exchange (+/-10%)

580

-

Impact on past tax profit

2014

2013

Bahrain Bourse (+/-10%)

54

-

Saudi Stock exchange (+/-10%)

5,320

-