Analyse the change in Profit and Loss

Created by Maria Appelquist, Modified on Tue, 17 Feb at 8:48 AM by Teuvo Suoraniemi

To analyse the profit and loss changes for a selected measuring period it is possible to breakdown the change into different components.

Each effect represented in individual report columns. 


The columns are:


Total profit/loss effect

The difference between Market value Dirty from one date to another.

The sum of the 5 effects below.


FX effect

Effect of changes in FX rates from one date to another.


Accrual effect

Period interest amount allocated for selected measuring period


Rate effect

Effect of changes in the interest rate curves from one date to another. Market valuation on balance date  with  yield curves from balance date and the selected measuring period from date.


Roll effect

The effect of a shorter time to maturity, shifting the points on the curve used for calculating the market values. 

In other words discounting the market value to a later day and see the effect when time has passed but nothing else.


Shape effect

The residual that is not explained by the four other effects.



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