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Auditing Derivatives and Hedge Contracts Under ASC 815, 820 and Other Guidance Feb. 25, 2014 Elvis Candelario, Rothstein Kass, Michael Loritz, Mayer Hoffman McCann, ecandelario@rkco.com mloritz@cbiz.com

Today’s Program Basics of derivative instruments and hedge contracts Slide 7 – Slide 9 [Elvis Candelario] Slide 10 – Slide 24 Derivatives [ Elvis Candelario] Hedges Slide 25 – Slide 46 [Michael Loritz] Best practices Slide 47 – Slide 54 [Michael Loritz]

Auditing Derivatives and Hedge Contracts Under ASC 815, 820 and Other Guidance Elvis Candelario, Senior Manager Rothstein Kass, New York ecandelario@rkco.com 7

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Accounting Guidance • ASC 815 – Derivatives and Hedging • Definition of a derivative instrument • Hedging vs Non-Hedging • Presentation in statement of financial position and operations • Disclosure requirements under ASC 815-10-50 • ASC 820 – Fair Value Measurement • ASC 210-20-50 – Offsetting of Derivatives, Financial Assets, and Financial Liabilities 9

Derivative instruments – Characteristics: • Financial instrument with an underlying or notional reference • No initial investment required • Payment provisions through netting of payments or delivery of asset – Examples: • Futures, Forwards, Options, Warrants, Total Return Swaps, Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, 10

Hedging vs Speculation • Hedging activity: – Risk management • Locking in interest rates • Foreign currency • Speculation: – Getting exposure in a position without directly investing in the underlying – Leveraged exposure to positions 11

Financial Statement Presentation – Required to be measured at fair value • Net equity in the position recorded as asset or liability • Balance sheet offsetting – Disclosure requirements • Additional transparency into exposure and risks • Additional transparency to net exposure by instrument or counterparty 12

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Fair value measurement & techniques The price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer • a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. – Level 1 – Exchange traded instruments: • Options & Futures contracts – Level 2 – Observable inputs in widely accepted models: • OTC Options, Interest Rate Swaps, Total Return Swaps, Credit Default Swaps. – Level 3 – Unobservable inputs used: • OTC Options, Warrants, Credit Default Swaps 14

Valuation techniques Options/Warrants – Strike price, Underlying price, Exercise date, • Volatility Credit Default Swaps – Likelihood of a credit event of underlying • debt. – Prepayment rates, Default rate, Recovery Rate, and Spread Interest Rate Swaps: • – Present value of Fixed and Variable legs Total Return Swaps: • – Change in fair value of underlying asset at measurement date and fair value of underlying at previous measurement date. 15

Balance sheet offsetting According to ASC 210-20: • – Assets an liabilities are should not be presented on a net basis unless a right of setoff exists Right of setoff: • – a. Each of two parties owes the other determinable amounts – b. The reporting party has the right to set off the amount owed with the amount owed by the other party. – c. The reporting party intends to set off. – d. The right of setoff is enforceable at law. 16

Additional disclosure requirements In March 2008 the FASB issued ASC 815-10-50 (formerly SFAS 161): • Provides enhanced disclosures about an entity’s derivative activities. – • Objectives and strategies for use of derivative activities • Exposure to market, interest rate, currency, credit, and other risks • Impact to balance sheet and income statement • Volume of derivative activities • Off-balance sheet risk from the use of leverage • Contingencies from credit events which can lead to termination of contracts or additional posting of collateral 17

Qualitative disclosures • Objectives and strategies: – Entities need are required to describe the objectives for derivative instruments. – Distinguish between risk management or other reasons – Entities are required to disclose the primary underlying risks of the derivative instruments – Descriptions of derivative instruments to achieve certain objectives 18

Qualitative disclosures Volume of derivative trading: • An entity is required to describe the volume of its derivative activities – Factors to consider in determining volume: – • Directional risk exposure • Notional value • Number of contracts An entity should disclose how volume is calculated – • Based on derivatives held at balance sheet date • Based on average held throughout the year 19

Qualitative disclosures Impact of derivatives to the financial statements: • – An entity should describe the location of derivatives in the statements of financial positions and statement of operations • Assets and liabilities by instrument type and primary underlying risk • Gains and losses by instrument type and primary underlying risks 20