Working Paper 286
Bob Jensen at Trinity University


Exhibit 4
MarginOOPS Bank Case Journal Entries and Summary of Results
(Students are required to fill in the numbers shown in red.)

Instructions:  Please fill in debits without dollar signs and credits in parentheses.  If there is no entry for a given account, please leave it blank rather than entering a zero.  Note that all accounts listed for a given date will not necessarily have entries on that date.

Update Warning:  Since futures contracts are settled daily, a 0.0% discount rate should be used as illustrated in Example 7 of Appendix B in FAS 133.  The illustration in Exhibit 4 of this case illustrates the discounting versus the non-discounting solutions.  Professor Walter Teets sent me the following email message concerning his changing of the original answers in the Teet and Uhl case entitled "C.L. Smith and Sons: Accounting for Futures Hedging Commodity Purchases and Sales" at http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/teets/index0.html

September 7, 2000
The error in our case is simply that the futures values (due to changes in either spot or futures prices) shouldn't be present valued, since there is daily settling up. But the (change in) values of the anticipated cash flows of the hedged item should be present valued, because there is usually no periodic settling of the cash flows associated with the hedged item. The change to the case is minor; the major point of the futures case is to show exclusion of the change in the difference between future and spot price from the determination of effectiveness. Present valuing the cash flow associated with the anticipated transaction, while not present valuing the futures (change in) value adds additional ineffectiveness to the hedging relation.

Walter Teets at Gonzaga University

 

   

Discounting at

 0.00 % APR

Discounting at

6.00% APR

 

 

Debit

 

Debit

 

Date

MarginOOPS Bank Accounts

(Credit)

Balance

(Credit)

Balance

1999

Assumed FAS 133 discount rate =

0.000000%

0.000000%

0.016438%

0.016438%

17-Jun

Cash

25,000,000

25,000,000

25,000,000

25,000,000

 

Notes payable

(25,000,000)

(25,000,000)

(25,000,000)

(25,000,000)

 

-To record borrowing for one year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17-Jun

Cash

(25,000,000)

0

(25,000,000)

0

 

Notes receivable

25,000,000

0

25,000,000

0

 

-To record lending for one year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17-Jun

Cash

(500)

(500)

(500)

(500)

 

Futures margin account 

500

500

500

500

 

-To record margin account

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

06/30/99

 

06/30/1999

30-Jun

Cash

(7,500)

(8,000)

(7,500)

(8,000)

 

Futures margin account 

0

500

0

500

 

Other comprehensive income (OCI)

3,750

3,750

3,647

3,647

 

Interest expense (revenue)

3,750

3,750

3,647

3,647

 

- To adjust futures contracts to fair value.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

07/31/99

 

07/31/1999

31-Jul

Cash

(12,500)

(20,500)

(12,500)

(20,500)

 

Futures margin account 

0

500

0

500

 

Other comprehensive income (OCI)

11,250

15,000

11,016

14,663

 

Interest expense (revenue)

1,250

5,000

1,231

4,878

 

- To adjust futures contracts to fair value.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

08/31/99

 

08/31/1999

31-Aug

Cash

(16,875)

(37,375)

(16,875)

(37,375)

 

Futures margin account 

0

500

0

500

 

Other comprehensive income (OCI)

15,000

30,000

14,812

29,475

 

Interest expense (revenue)

1,875

6,875

1,877

6,755

 

- To adjust futures contracts to fair value.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

09/17/99

 

09/17/1999

17-Sep

Cash

(5,000)

(42,375)

(5,000)

(42,375)

 

Futures margin account 

0

500

0

500

 

Other comprehensive income (OCI)

(8,750)

21,250

(8,698)

20,777

 

Interest expense (revenue)

13,750

20,625

14,343

21,098

 

- To adjust futures contracts to fair value.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17-Sep

Cash

500,000

457,625

500,000

457,625

 

Interest expense (revenue)

(500,000)

(479,375)

(500,000)

(479,375)

 

-To record interest on note receivable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17-Sep

Cash

(339,986)

117,639

(339,986)

117,639

 

Interest expense (revenue)

339,986

(139,389)

339,986

(139,389)

 

-To record interest on note payable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

09/30/1999

 

09/30/1999

30-Sep

Cash

0

117,639

0

117,639

 

Futures margin account 

4,375

4,875

4,375

4,875

 

Other comprehensive income (OCI)

(35,000)

(13,750)

(34,250)

(13,473)

 

Interest expense (revenue)

(129,389)