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DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
12 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2013
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]  
DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES
 
The Company is exposed to certain risks relating to its ongoing business operations. One risk managed by the Company using derivative instruments is interest rate risk.  To manage interest rate exposure, the Company enters into hedge transactions (interest rate swaps) using derivative financial instruments.  The objective of entering into interest rate swaps is to eliminate the variability of cash flows in the LIBOR interest payments associated with variable-rate loans over the life of the loans.  As changes in interest rates impact the future cash flow of interest payments, the hedges provide a synthetic offset to interest rate movements.

In addition, the Company is exposed to foreign currency and interest rate cash flow exposure related to a non-functional currency long-term debt of one of its wholly owned subsidiaries. To manage this foreign currency and interest rate cash flow exposure, the Company’s subsidiary entered into a cross-currency interest rate swap that converts its foreign currency denominated floating interest payments to functional currency fixed interest payments during the life of the hedging instrument.  As changes in foreign exchange and interest rates impact the future cash flow of interest payments, the hedge is intended to offset changes in cash flows attributable to interest rate and foreign exchange movements.

These derivative instruments (cash flow hedging instruments) are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges, with the effective portion of the gain or loss on the derivative reported as a component of other comprehensive income (loss) and reclassified into earnings in the same period or periods during which the hedged transaction is determined to be ineffective.  There were no such amounts recorded for ineffectiveness for the periods reported herein related to the interest rate or cross currency interest rate swaps of long-term debt.

The Company is exposed to foreign-currency exchange-rate fluctuations in the normal course of business. The Company is also exposed to foreign-currency exchange-rate fluctuations on U.S. dollar denominated liabilities within its international subsidiaries whose functional currency is other than the U.S. dollar.  The Company manages these fluctuations, in part, through the use of non-deliverable forward foreign-exchange contracts that are intended to offset changes in cash flow attributable to currency exchange movements.  These contracts are intended primarily to economically address exposure to U.S. dollar merchandise inventory expenditures made by the Company’s international subsidiaries whose functional currency is other than the U.S. dollar. Currently, these contracts do not qualify for derivative hedge accounting. The Company seeks to mitigate foreign-currency exchange-rate risk with the use of these contracts and does not intend to engage in speculative transactions. These contracts do not contain any credit-risk-related contingent features.

Cash Flow Hedges

The Company formally documents the hedging relationships for its derivative instruments that qualify for hedge accounting. As of August 31, 2013, all of the Company’s interest rate swap and cross-currency interest rate swaps derivative financial instruments are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges.  The cross-currency interest rate swap agreements convert the Company's foreign currency United States dollar denominated floating interest payments on long-term debt to functional currency fixed interest payments during the life of the hedging instrument.  As changes in foreign exchange and interest rates impact the future cash flow of interest payments, the hedge is intended to offset changes in cash flows attributable to interest rate and foreign currency exchange movements.  Various subsidiaries entered into interest rate swap agreements that fix the interest rate over the life of the underlying loans.
    
The following table summarizes agreements for which the Company has recorded cash flow hedge accounting transactions during the twelve months ended August 31, 2013:

Subsidiary
 
Date entered into
 
Derivative Financial Counter-party
 
Derivative Financial Instruments
 
Initial
US Notional Amount (in thousands)
 
Bank US loan Held with
 
Floating Leg (swap counter-party)
 
Fixed Rate for PSMT Subsidiary
 
Settlement Reset Date
 
Effective Period of Swap
Colombia
 
11-Dec-12
 
Bank of Nova Scotia ("Scotiabank")
 
Cross currency interest rate swap
 
$
8,000

 
Bank of Nova Scotia
 
Variable rate 3-month Libor plus 0.7%
 
4.79
%
 
March, June, September and December, beginning on March 5, 2013
 
December 5, 2012 - December 5, 2014
Colombia
 
21-Feb-12
 
Bank of Nova Scotia ("Scotiabank")
 
Cross currency interest rate swap
 
$
8,000

 
Bank of Nova Scotia
 
Variable rate 3-month Libor plus 0.6%
 
6.02
%
 
February, May, August and November beginning on May 22, 2012
 
February 21, 2012 - February 21, 2017
Colombia
 
17-Nov-11
 
Bank of Nova Scotia ("Scotiabank")
 
Cross currency interest rate swap
 
$
8,000

 
Citibank, N.A.
 
Variable rate 6-month Eurodollar Libor plus 2.4%
 
5.85
%
 
May 3, 2012 and semi-annually thereafter
 
November 3, 2011 - November 3, 2013
Colombia
 
21-Oct-11
 
Bank of Nova Scotia ("Scotiabank")
 
Cross currency interest rate swap
 
$
2,000

 
Bank of Nova Scotia
 
Variable rate 3-month Libor plus 0.7%
 
5.30
%
 
January, April, July and October, beginning on October 29, 2011
 
July 29, 2011 - April 1, 2016
Colombia
 
21-Oct-11
 
Bank of Nova Scotia ("Scotiabank")
 
Cross currency interest rate swap
 
$
6,000

 
Bank of Nova Scotia
 
Variable rate 3-month Libor plus 0.7%
 
5.45
%
 
March, June, September and December, beginning on October 29, 2011
 
September 29, 2011 - April 1, 2016
Colombia
 
5-May-11
 
Bank of Nova Scotia ("Scotiabank")
 
Cross currency interest rate swap
 
$
8,000

 
Bank of Nova Scotia
 
Variable rate 3-month Libor plus 0.7%
 
6.09
%
 
January, April, July and October, beginning on July 5, 2011
 
April 1, 2011 - April 1, 2016
Trinidad
 
20-Nov-08
 
Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago
 
Interest rate swaps
 
$
8,900

 
Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago
 
Variable rate 1-year Libor plus 2.75%
 
7.05
%
 
Annually on August 26
 
September 25, 2008 - September 26, 2013
Barbados
 
13-Feb-08
 
Citibank, N.A.
 
Interest rate swaps
 
$
4,500

 
Citibank, N.A.
 
Variable rate 9-month Libor plus 1.5%
 
5.22
%
 
Semi-annually on November 15 and May 15
 
November 15, 2007 - November 14, 2012

 
For the twelve-month periods ended August 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011 the Company included the gain or loss on the hedged items (that is, variable-rate borrowings) in the same line item—interest expense—as the offsetting gain or loss on the related interest rate swaps as follows (in thousands):
Income Statement Classification
Interest expense
on Borrowings
 
Loss on Swaps
 
Interest expense
Interest expense for the year ended August 31, 2013
$
739

 
$
1,821

 
$
2,560

Interest expense for the year ended August 31, 2012
$
767

 
$
1,356

 
$
2,123

Interest expense for the year ended August 31, 2011
$
407

 
$
450

 
$
857





The total notional amount of the Company’s pay-fixed/receive-variable interest rate swaps was as follows (in thousands):
 
Notional Amount as of
August 31,
 Floating Rate Payer (Swap Counterparty)
2013
 
2012
Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago (RBTT)
$
4,500

 
$
5,400

Scotiabank
40,000

 
32,000

Citibank N.A.

 
2,475

Total
$
44,500

 
$
39,875



The Company measures the fair value for all financial assets and liabilities that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on a recurring basis or on a nonrecurring basis during the reporting period as further described within Note 2.  The debt fair value is measured as the net present value of the debt cash payments.  This requires estimating the payments and the timing of the payments and taking the discounted cash flow of these payments.  The amount and timing of the cash flows are often determined by the debt instrument assuming no defaults.  The discount rate used to calculate the net present value of the debt is the current risk-free rate plus the risk premium adjustment reflecting the credit rating.  The Company considered the effect of its credit risk (credit standing) on the fair value of the liability in all periods in which the liability was measured at fair value.

The following table summarizes the fair value of interest rate swap and cross-currency interest rate swap derivative instruments that qualify for derivative hedge accounting (in thousands, except footnote data):
 
 
Liability Derivatives as of August 31,
 
 
2013
 
2012
Derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments
 
Balance Sheet Location
 
Fair Value
 
Balance Sheet Location
 
Fair Value
Cross currency interest rate swaps(1)(2)
 
Other non-current assets
 
$
1,505

 
Other non-current assets
 
$

Interest rate swaps(3)
 
Other long-term liabilities
 
(14
)
 
Other long-term liabilities
 
(216
)
Cross currency interest rate swap(1)(4)
 
Other long-term liabilities
 

 
Other long-term liabilities
 
(983
)
Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments(5)
 
 
 
$
1,491

 
 
 
$
(1,199
)


(1) 
The effective portion of the cross-currency interest rate swap was recorded as income or a loss to Accumulated other comprehensive (income)/loss for $(1.0) million and $983,000 as of August 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
(2) 
The Company has recorded a deferred tax liability amount with an offset to other comprehensive income - tax of $(497,000) as of August 31, 2013 related to Other non-current assets for the cross-currency interest rate swap. The Company did not record a deferred tax liability amount with an offset to other comprehensive income - tax as of August 31, 2012.
(3) 
The effective portion of the interest rate swaps was recorded as income or a loss to Accumulated other comprehensive (income)/loss for $10,000 and $162,000 net of tax, as of August 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.  The Company has recorded a deferred tax asset amount with an offset to other comprehensive income - tax of $4,000 and $54,000 as of August 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
(4) 
The Company has recorded a deferred tax asset amount with an offset to the tax valuation allowance of $325,000 as of August 31, 2012 related to Other long-term liabilities for the cross-currency interest rate swaps. The Company did not record a deferred tax asset amount with an offset to the tax valuation allowance as of August 31, 2013.
(5) 
Derivatives listed on the above table were designated as cash flow hedging instruments.

Fair Value Instruments

The Company has entered into non-deliverable forward foreign-exchange contracts.  These contracts are treated for accounting purposes as fair value contracts and do not qualify for derivative hedge accounting.  The use of non-deliverable forward foreign-exchange contracts is intended to offset changes in cash flow attributable to currency exchange movements.  These contracts are intended primarily to economically hedge exposure to U.S. dollar merchandise inventory expenditures made by the Company’s international subsidiaries whose functional currency is other than the U.S. dollar. The Company does have any open forward foreign exchange contracts as of August 31, 2013.

For the twelve-month periods ended August 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, the Company included in its consolidated statements of income the forward derivative (gain) or loss on the non-deliverable forward foreign-exchange contracts as follows (in thousands):
 
 
Twelve Months Ended August 31,
Income Statement Classification
 
2013
 
2012
 
2011
Other income (expense), net
 
$
580

 
$
73

 
$



    
The following table summarizes the fair value of foreign currency forward contracts that do not qualify for derivative hedge accounting (in thousands):
 
 
August 31, 2013
 
August 31, 2012
Derivatives designated as fair value hedging instruments
 
Balance Sheet Location
 
Fair Value
 
Balance Sheet Location
 
Fair Value
Foreign currency forward contracts
 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
 
$

 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
 
$
27

Foreign currency forward contracts
 
Other accrued expenses
 

 
Other accrued expenses
 
(3
)
Net fair value of derivatives designated as hedging instruments that do not qualify for hedge accounting
 
 
 
$

 
 
 
$
24