The Company is exposed to certain risks arising from both its business operations and economic conditions. The Company principally manages its exposures to a wide variety of business and operational risks through management of its core business activities. The Company manages economic risks, including interest rate, liquidity and credit risk primarily by managing the amount, sources and duration of its debt funding and at times through the use of derivative financial instruments. Specifically, the Company has previously entered into derivative financial instruments to manage exposures that arise from business activities that result in the receipt or payment of future known and uncertain cash amounts, the value of which are determined by interest rates. The Company’s derivative financial instruments are used to manage differences in the amount, timing and duration of the Company’s known or expected cash receipts and its known or expected cash payments principally related to the Company’s borrowings. The Company does not speculate using derivative instruments.

In May 2020, the Company’s Interest Rate Swap Agreements expired, as such, the Company did not have any derivative instruments outstanding as of December 31, 2020. As of December 31, 2019, the Company did not have any derivatives outstanding that were not designated in hedge accounting relationships.

The Company’s objectives in using interest rate derivatives were to add stability to interest expense and to manage its exposure to interest rate movements. To accomplish this objective, the Company primarily used interest rate swaps at times as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. During the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, such derivatives were used to hedge a portion of the variable cash flows associated with existing variable-rate debt.

The Interest Rate Swap Agreements were designated as cash flow hedges of interest rate risk. The changes in the fair value of derivatives designated and that qualify as cash flow hedges were recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and were subsequently reclassified into earnings in the period that the hedged forecasted transaction affected earnings. Amounts reported in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) related to derivatives were reclassified to interest expense as interest payments were made on the Company’s variable-rate debt.

Tabular Disclosure of Fair Values of Derivative Instruments on the Balance Sheet

The Company did not have any derivative financial instruments outstanding as of December 31, 2020. The table below presents the fair value of the Company’s derivative financial instruments as well as their classification in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2019:

Derivative instruments are valued according to the methodology outlined in Note 2–Summary of Significant Accounting Policies. The Company determined that its derivatives fell within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy as discussed in Note–16 Fair Value Measurements. The unrealized gain or loss on derivatives was recorded net of tax expense of $0.5 million and a tax benefit of $1.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and is included in the accompanying consolidated statements of changes in stockholders’ (deficit) equity and the consolidated statements of comprehensive (loss) income.

Tabular Disclosure of the Effect of Derivative Instruments on the Statements of Comprehensive (Loss) Income

The table below presents the pre-tax effect of the Company’s derivative financial instruments in the accompanying consolidated statements of comprehensive (loss) income for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:

	2020			2019
	(In thousands)
Derivatives in Cash Flow Hedging Relationships:
(Loss) gain recognized in accumulated other comprehensive loss	$	(370	)	$	(5,247	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to interest expense	$	2,501		$	(17	)

The following table reflects the changes in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (In thousands):			(Losses) Gains on Cash Flow Hedges
Accumulated other comprehensive income at December 31, 2018				2,284
Other comprehensive loss before reclassifications	(3,831	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to interest expense	(12	)
Change in other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax				(3,843	)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss at December 31, 2019				(1,559	)
Other comprehensive loss before reclassifications	(271	)
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss to interest expense	1,830
Change in other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax				1,559
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) at December 31, 2020			$	—

Liability Derivatives

As of December 31, 2019

Balance Sheet

Location

Fair Value

Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:

(In thousands)

Interest rate swap agreements

Other liabilities

Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments