FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

Financial Risk Management and Derivative Instruments

The Company is exposed to certain commodity, foreign currency and interest rate risks related to its ongoing business operations and uses derivative instruments to mitigate its exposure to these risks.

Commodity Price Risk Management

The Company may use commodity exchange traded futures and over-the-counter swap contracts, which are generally no longer than 2 years, to fix the price of a portion of its forecasted raw material requirements. Commodity purchase contracts are measured at fair value using market quotations obtained from commodity derivative dealers.

As of June 30, 2017, the notional amount of commodity derivatives was $26, of which $14 related to jet fuel swaps used for the charcoal business and $12 related to soybean oil futures used for the food business. As of June 30, 2016, the notional amount of commodity derivatives was $30, of which $16 related to jet fuel swaps and $14 related to soybean oil futures.

Foreign Currency Risk Management

The Company may also enter into certain over-the-counter derivative contracts to manage a portion of the Company’s forecasted foreign currency exposure associated with the purchase of inventory. These foreign currency contracts generally have durations of no longer than 2 years. The foreign exchange contracts are measured at fair value using information quoted by foreign exchange dealers.

The notional amounts of outstanding foreign currency forward contracts used by the Company’s subsidiaries to hedge forecasted purchases of inventory were $49 and $84, respectively, as of June 30, 2017 and 2016.

Interest Rate Risk Management

The Company may enter into over-the-counter interest rate forward contracts to fix a portion of the benchmark interest rate prior to the anticipated issuance of fixed rate debt or to manage the Company’s level of fixed and floating rate debt. The interest rate contracts are measured at fair value using information quoted by U.S. government bond dealers.

During fiscal year 2015, the Company paid $25 to settle interest rate forward contracts related to the December 2014 issuance of $500 in senior notes. The settlement payments are reflected as operating cash flows in the consolidated statements of cash flows for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015. The loss is reflected in Accumulated other comprehensive net loss on the consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2017 and 2016, and is being amortized into Interest expense on the consolidated statement of earnings over the 10-year term of the notes.

The Company had no outstanding interest rate forward contracts as of June 30, 2017 and 2016.

Commodity, Interest Rate and Foreign Exchange Derivatives

The Company designates its commodity forward and future contracts for forecasted purchases of raw materials, interest rate forward contracts for forecasted interest payments, and foreign currency forward contracts for forecasted purchases of inventory as cash flow hedges.

The effects of derivative instruments designated as hedging instruments on Other comprehensive income (loss) and Net earnings were as follows during the fiscal years ended June 30:



	Gains (losses) recognized in Other comprehensive income
	2017			2016			2015
Commodity purchase derivative contracts	$	(3	)	$	(4	)	$	(13	)
Foreign exchange derivative contracts	(1		)	(3		)	7
Interest rate derivative contracts	—			—			(12		)
Total	$	(4	)	$	(7	)	$	(18	)



	Gains (losses) reclassified from Accumulated other comprehensive loss and recognized in Net earnings
	2017			2016			2015
Commodity purchase derivative contracts	$	(2	)	$	(13	)	$	(5	)
Foreign exchange derivative contracts	(3		)	1			3
Interest rate derivative contracts	(6		)	(6		)	(5		)
Total	$	(11	)	$	(18	)	$	(7	)

The gains (losses) reclassified from Accumulated other comprehensive net losses and recognized in Net earnings during the fiscal years ended June 30, 2017, 2016 and 2015, for commodity purchase and foreign exchange derivative contracts were included in Cost of products sold, and for interest rate derivative contracts were included in Interest expense.

The estimated amount of the existing net gain (loss) in Accumulated other comprehensive losses as of June 30, 2017, which is expected to be reclassified into Net earnings within the next twelve months, is $(8). Gains and losses on derivative instruments representing either hedge ineffectiveness or hedge components excluded from the assessment of effectiveness are recognized in Net earnings. During each of the fiscal years ended June 30, 2017, 2016 and 2015, hedge ineffectiveness was not significant.

Counterparty Risk Management and Derivative Contract Requirements

The Company utilizes a variety of financial institutions as counterparties for over-the counter derivative instruments. The Company enters into agreements governing the use of over-the-counter derivative instruments and sets internal limits on the aggregate over-the-counter derivative instrument positions held with each counterparty. Certain terms of these agreements require the Company or the counterparty to post collateral when the fair value of the derivative instruments exceeds contractually defined counterparty liability position limits. Of the over-the-counter derivative instruments held as of June 30, 2017 and June 30, 2016 $1 and $4, respectively, contained such terms. As of both June 30, 2017 and 2016, neither the Company nor any counterparty was required to post any collateral as no counterparty liability position limits were exceeded.

Certain terms of the agreements governing the Company’s over-the-counter derivative instruments require the credit ratings, as assigned by Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s to the Company and its counterparties, to remain at a level equal to or better than the minimum of an investment grade credit rating. If the Company’s credit ratings were to fall below investment grade, the counterparties to the derivative instruments could request full collateralization on derivative instruments in net liability positions. As of both June 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company and each of its counterparties had been assigned investment grade ratings by both Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s.

Certain of the Company’s exchange-traded futures contracts used for commodity price risk management include requirements for the Company to post collateral in the form of a cash margin account held by the Company’s broker for trades conducted on that exchange. As of June 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company maintained cash margin balances related to exchange-traded futures contracts of $1 and $1, respectively, which are classified as Prepaid expenses and other current assets on the consolidated balance sheets.

Trust Assets

The Company has held interests in mutual funds and cash equivalents as part of trust assets related to its nonqualified deferred compensation plans. The participants in the nonqualified deferred compensation plans, who are the Company’s current and former employees, may select among certain mutual funds in which their compensation deferrals are invested in accordance with the terms of the plan and within the confines of the trusts, which hold the marketable securities. The trusts represent variable interest entities for which the Company is considered the primary beneficiary, and therefore, trust assets are consolidated and included in Other assets in the consolidated balance sheets. The interests in mutual funds are measured at fair value using quoted market prices. The Company has designated these marketable securities as trading investments.

As of June 30, 2017, the value of the trust assets related to the Company’s nonqualified deferred compensation plans increased by $20 as compared to June 30, 2016, primarily due to current year employees’ contributions to these plans.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis in the consolidated balance sheets are required to be classified and disclosed in one of the following three categories of the fair value hierarchy:

Level 1: Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2: Observable market-based inputs or unobservable inputs that are corroborated by market data.

Level 3: Unobservable inputs reflecting the reporting entity’s own assumptions.

As of June 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company’s financial assets and liabilities that were measured at fair value on a recurring basis during the period included derivative financial instruments, which were classified as either Level 1 or Level 2, and trust assets to fund the Company’s nonqualified deferred compensation plans, which were classified as Level 1.

The following table summarizes the fair value of Company’s assets and liabilities for which disclosure of fair value is required as of June 30:



			2017				2016
Assets	Balance sheet classification	Fair value hierarchy level	Carrying Amount		Estimated Fair Value		Carrying Amount		Estimated Fair Value
Investments including money market funds	Cash and cash equivalents (a)	1	$	221	$	221	$	234	$	234
Time deposits	Cash and cash equivalents (a)	2	115		115		79		79
Commodity purchase futures contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	1	—		—		1		1
Commodity purchase swaps contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	2	1		1		—		—
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	2	—		—		1		1
Commodity purchase swaps contracts	Other assets	2	—		—		1		1
Trust assets for nonqualified deferred compensation plans	Other assets	1	72		72		52		52
			$	409	$	409	$	368	$	368
Liabilities
Notes and loans payable	Notes and loans payable (b)	2	$	404	$	404	$	523	$	523
Commodity purchase swaps contracts	Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	2	1		1		1		1
Foreign exchange forward contracts	Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	2	1		1		4		4
Current maturities of long-term debt and Long-term debt	Current maturities of long- term debt and Long-term debt (c)	2	1,791		1,855		1,789		1,922
			$	2,197	$	2,261	$	2,317	$	2,450


(a)	Cash and cash equivalents are composed of time deposits and other interest bearing investments including money market funds with original maturity dates of 90 days or less. Cash and cash equivalents are recorded at cost, which approximates fair value.


(b)	Notes and loan payable is composed of U.S. commercial paper and/or other similar short-term debts issued by non-U.S. subsidiaries, all of which are recorded at cost, which approximates fair value.


(c)	Current maturities of long-term debt and Long-term debt are recorded at cost. The fair value of Long-term debt, including current maturities, was determined using secondary market prices quoted by corporate bond dealers, and is classified as Level 2.