Note 7. Derivatives

Interest Rate Swaps

The Company uses interest rate swaps to hedge variable interest payments due on certain of its term loans and aggregation facility. These swaps allow the Company to incur fixed interest rates on these loans and receive payments based on variable interest rates with the swap counterparty based on the one or three month LIBOR on the notional amounts over the life of the swaps.

The interest rate swaps have been designated as cash flow hedges. The credit risk adjustment associated with these swaps is the risk of non-performance by the counterparties to the contracts. In the three months ended March 31, 2017, the hedge relationships on the Company’s interest rate swaps have been assessed as highly effective as the critical terms of the interest rate swaps match the critical terms of the underlying forecasted hedged transactions. Accordingly, changes in the fair value of these derivatives are recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income, net of income taxes. Changes in the fair value of these derivatives are subsequently reclassified into earnings, and are included in interest expense, net in the Company’s statements of operations, in the period that the hedged forecasted transactions affects earnings.

The Company recorded an unrealized loss of $0.8 million and $5.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively, net of applicable tax expense of $0.5 million and $0.0 million, respectively. The Company recognized interest expense on derivatives into earnings of $0.6 million and $0.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively, net of tax expense of $0.4 million and $0.0 million, respectively. During the next twelve months, the Company estimates that an additional $1.2 million will be reclassified as an increase to interest expense. There were no undesignated derivative instruments recorded by the Company as of March 31, 2017.

At March 31, 2017, the Company had designated derivative instruments classified as derivative assets as reported in other assets of $2.3 million and derivative liabilities as reported in other liabilities of $1.5 million in the Company’s balance sheet. At December 31, 2016, the Company had designated derivative instruments classified as derivative assets as reported in other assets of $1.6 million in the Company’s balance sheet. At March 31, 2017, the Company had the following derivative instruments (in thousands, other than quantity and interest rates):

Type	Quantity	Maturity Dates	Hedge Interest Rates		Notional Amount		Fair Market Value
Interest rate swap	1	8/31/2022	1.27% - 1.29%		$	17,036	$	378
Interest rate swap	1	9/30/2022		2.37%	$	12,610	$	(182	)
Interest rate swaps	2	10/31/2024	2.62% - 2.69%		$	62,633	$	(671	)
Interest rate swaps	4	10/31/2028	2.17% - 2.18%		$	125,276	$	1,084
Interest rate swap	1	9/30/2031		3.23%	$	9,905	$	(170	)
Interest rate swaps	5	7/31/2034	2.48% - 3.04%		$	144,379	$	365