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Note 5. Fair Value and Derivative Financial Instruments Level 1 (Notes)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
Fair Value and Derivative Financial Instruments [Abstract]  
Fair Value and Eerivative Financial Instruments [Text Block]
Fair Value and Derivative Financial Instruments —


The Company holds certain assets and liabilities that are required to be measured at fair value on a recurring basis. These include the Company's derivative instruments related to foreign currency contracts, which are recognized at fair value. All derivative instruments are designated as and qualify for hedge accounting treatment. Fair value is based on 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. It is the Company's policy to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when developing fair value measurements. The foreign currency exchange contracts are valued using an income approach based on the present value of the forward rate less the contract rate multiplied by the notional amount of the contract. The fair values of the foreign currency exchange and interest rate contracts are determined based on inputs that are readily available in public markets or can be derived from information available in publicly quoted markets. Therefore, the Company has categorized these contracts as Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.


The following table shows the Company's financial assets and liabilities that were accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis:


 
 
Balance Sheet
Classification
 
June 30,

2011
 
December 31,

2010
 
Assets:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Foreign currency exchange contracts
Other current assets
 
$
1,685


 
$
184


 
Foreign currency exchange contracts
Other assets
 
314


 


 
 
 
 
$
1,999


 
$
184


 
Liabilities:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Foreign currency exchange contracts
Other accrued liabilities
 
$
27


 
$
867


 
Foreign currency exchange contracts
Other liabilities
 
49


 
255


 
 
 
 
$
76


 
$
1,122


 
 
 
 




 






The Company uses derivative financial instruments to manage risk and not for trading or other speculative purposes.


The Company enters into forward contracts to hedge the value of the U.S. dollar or euro cash flow at locations that do not have the U.S. dollar or euro as their functional currency but conduct certain transactions in U.S. dollars or euros. The objective of all outstanding forward contracts is to hedge forecasted transactions in U.S. dollars or euros through the cash settlement date. The Company enters into forward contracts that mature from two to eighteen months after the contract date. The Company had foreign currency forward contracts outstanding in notional amounts as follows:


 
 
June 30, 2011
 
December 31, 2010
 
U.S. dollar
51,750


 
37,200


 
Euro
13,050


 
10,200




Changes in the fair value of derivative financial instruments are recognized in income or in stockholders' equity as a component of other comprehensive income depending on whether the transaction related to the hedged risk has occurred. Changes in fair values of derivatives that are accounted for as cash flow hedges are recorded in other comprehensive income. The amount of gain (loss), net of tax, recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income was:


 
 
June 30, 2011
 
December 31, 2010
 
 
 
 
 
 
Foreign currency exchange contracts
$
1,809


 
$
(652
)


At June 30, 2011 the Company expects to reclassify $1,537 of gain, net of tax, on derivative instruments from accumulated other comprehensive income to the income statement during the next twelve months due to the actual fulfillment of forecasted transactions.




The following table summarizes the amount of gain (loss) reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income into the consolidated statement of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010:


 
Statement of Operations Classification
June 30, 2011
 
June 30, 2010
 
Three months ended
 
 
 
 
Net Sales
$
133


 
$
(194
)
 
Other, net
22


 
(276
)
 
 
$
155


 
$
(470
)
 
Six months ended
 
 
 
 
Net Sales
$
(25
)
 
$
473


 
Other, net
233


 
(560
)
 
Interest expense, net


 


 
 
$
208


 
$
(87
)


The Company formally assesses at a hedge's inception, and on an ongoing basis, whether the derivatives that are used in the hedging transaction have been highly effective in offsetting changes in the cash flows of the hedged items and whether those derivatives are expected to remain highly effective. When it is determined that a derivative has ceased to be highly effective as a hedge, the Company discontinues hedge accounting prospectively. When the Company discontinues hedge accounting because it is no longer probable that the forecasted transaction will occur by the end of the originally expected period, but it is probable that the transaction will occur within the two months following the forecasted period, the gain or loss on the derivative remains in accumulated other comprehensive income and is reclassified to net earnings when the forecasted transaction affects net earnings. However, if it is probable that a forecasted transaction will not occur within two months after the forecasted period, the gains and losses that were accumulated in other comprehensive income will be recognized immediately in net earnings. In all situations in which hedge accounting is discontinued and the derivative remains outstanding, the Company carries the derivative at its fair value on the consolidated balance sheet, recognizing future changes in the fair value in other income or expense, net.


In addition, any portion of the hedge that is deemed ineffective due to the absolute value of the cumulative change in the derivative being greater than the cumulative change in the hedged item is recorded immediately in other income or expense, net on the consolidated statement of operations. There was no significant hedge ineffectiveness in the three or six months ended June 30, 2011 or 2010.