EX-99 15 chemex992_031204.htm CHEMICAL EXHIBIT 99.2 TO FORM 10-K Chemical Exhibit 99.2 to Form 10-K - 03/12/04

EXHIBIT No. 99.2











Audited Financial Statements
With Report of Independent Auditors


Chemical Financial Corporation
2001 Stock Purchase Plan
for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors


December 31, 2003














Report of Independent Auditors



Plan Administrator
Chemical Financial Corporation
2001 Stock Purchase Plan for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors

          We have audited the accompanying statements of financial condition of the Chemical Financial Corporation 2001 Stock Purchase Plan for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors as of December 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 and the related statements of income and changes in plan equity for the year ended December 31, 2003 and for the period from March 25, 2002 to December 31, 2002. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan's Administrator. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

          We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by the Plan Administrator, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

          In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Chemical Financial Corporation 2001 Stock Purchase Plan for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors as of December 31, 2003 and December 31, 2002 and the results of its operations and changes in its plan equity for the year ended December 31, 2003 and for the period from March 25, 2002 to December 31, 2002 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.


s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Detroit, Michigan

Date: January 30, 2004









Chemical Financial Corporation
2001 Stock Purchase Plan
for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors


Statements of Financial Condition


 

December 31
2003


 

December 31
2002


Assets

 

 

 

 

 

Cash

$

704

 

$

799

Common stock receivable of Chemical

 

 

 

 

 

   Financial Corporation, at market value - (7,017 shares at a cost
   of $219,555 at December 31, 2003 and 6,623 shares at a cost of
   $194,524 at December 31, 2002)

 



255,349


 

 



202,601


Total Assets

$

256,053


 

$

203,400


 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan Equity

 

 

 

 

 

Plan equity (45 participants at December 31, 2003 and 43
participants at December 31, 2002)


$


256,053


 


$


203,400




See accompanying notes.









Chemical Financial Corporation
2001 Stock Purchase Plan
for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors


Statements of Income and Changes in Plan Equity




Additions


Year Ended
December 31 2003


 

Period from
March 25, 2002 to
December 31, 2002


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Participant contributions

$

214,900

 

$

189,650

 

Dividend equivalents and

 

 

 

 

 

 

   fractional share interests

 

4,560

 

 

4,944

 

Transfer from prior plan (Note 1)

 

-


 

 

139,671


 

 

 

219,460

 

 

334,265

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deductions

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan distributions

 

202,601


 

 

138,942


 

 

 

16,859

 

 

195,323

 

Net unrealized appreciation

 

 

 

 

 

 

   in fair value of common stock receivable

 

35,794


 

 

8,077


 

Net increase

 

52,653

 

 

203,400

 

Plan equity at beginning of period

 

203,400


 

 

-


 

Plan equity at end of period

$

256,053


 

$

203,400


 


See accompanying notes.












Chemical Financial Corporation
2001 Stock Purchase Plan
for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors


Notes to Financial Statements
December 31, 2003


Note 1 - Description of the Plan

The Chemical Financial Corporation 2001 Stock Purchase Plan for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors (Plan) was made effective by Chemical Financial Corporation (Corporation) on March 25, 2002. The Plan is designed to provide non-employee directors of the Corporation's subsidiaries and community banks, who are neither directors nor employees of the Corporation, with a convenient method of acquiring Corporation stock. The Plan provides for a maximum of 75,000 shares of the Corporation's common stock, $1.00 par value (Common Stock), subject to adjustments for certain changes in the capital structure of the Corporation as defined in the Plan, to be available under the Plan.

Subsidiary directors and community bank directors, who elect to participate in the Plan, may elect to contribute to the Plan fifty percent or one hundred percent of their board of director fees and/or fifty percent or one hundred percent of their director committee fees, earned as directors or community bank directors of the Corporation's subsidiaries. Participant contributions to the Plan are made by the Corporation's subsidiaries on behalf of each electing participant. As of the last day of each month, each participant's cash account is debited for the purchase of whole shares of the Corporation's stock that is credited to a separate participant stock account. The stock purchased under the Plan during the calendar year is issued by the Corporation directly to the participants in the following calendar year. The Plan provides for dividend equivalents to be credited to each participant's cash account as of the dividend record date of the Corporation's common stock. Dividend equivalents are calculated by multiplying the Corporation's dividend rate by the number of shares of common stock in each participant's stock account as of the Corporation's dividend record date. The Plan also provides for an appropriate credit to each participant's stock account for stock dividends, stock splits or other distributions of the Corporation's common stock by the Corporation. Fractional shares calculated as a result of the above adjustments are converted to cash based on the market price of the Corporation's common stock and are credited to each participant's cash account. Plan participants may terminate their participation in the Plan, at any time, by written notice of withdrawal to the Corporation. Participants will cease to be eligible to participate in the Plan when they cease to serve as directors or community bank directors of subsidiaries of the Corporation. Upon withdrawal from the Plan, each participant will receive the shares of common stock of the Corporation in their participant stock account and the cash in their participant cash account.






Chemical Financial Corporation
2001 Stock Purchase Plan
for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors


Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
December 31, 2003


Note 1 - Description of the Plan (continued)

On March 25, 2002, a common stock receivable for 4,847 shares of the Corporation, with a market value of $138,942 and a cost basis of $119,237, and cash of $729 of the 1998 Stock Purchase Plan for Subsidiary Directors were transferred to the Plan. The 1998 Stock Purchase Plan for Subsidiary Directors had the same terms and provisions as the Plan. The Plan had 60,266 shares and 73,903 shares as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively, of the Corporation's common stock available for future issuance, adjusted for the 5% stock dividend declared by the Corporation on December 9, 2002 and paid on January 24, 2003.

The Corporation reserves the right to terminate or amend the Plan at any time, provided, however, that no termination or amendment shall affect or diminish any participant's right to the benefit of contributions made by him/her prior to the date of such amendment or termination.

The Plan provides that all expenses of the Plan and its administration shall be paid by the Corporation.

The Plan is not qualified under Sections 401(a) or 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The Plan does not provide for income taxes because any income is taxable to the participants. Participants in the Plan must treat as taxable income the contributions made to the Plan by the Corporation's subsidiaries on their behalf. Dividend equivalents and any other cash credited to the participants' cash accounts are taxable to the participants for Federal and state income tax purposes in the year such dividend equivalent or cash is credited to the participant cash account. Upon disposition of the common stock of the Corporation purchased under the Plan, participants must treat any gain or loss as long-term or short-term capital gain or loss depending upon when such disposition occurs.










Chemical Financial Corporation
2001 Stock Purchase Plan
for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors


Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
December 31, 2003


Note 2 - Summary of Accounting Policies

Valuation of Common Stock Receivable

Common stock receivable of the Corporation is recorded at the market value per share of the Corporation's common stock multiplied by the number of shares receivable at the valuation date. Market value is based on the closing bid price of the Corporation's common stock at year end ($36.39 per share at December 31, 2003 and $30.59 per share at December 31, 2002). The number of shares receivable and the closing bid price as of December 31, 2002 were adjusted for the 5% stock dividend on the Corporation's common stock declared on December 9, 2002 and paid on January 24, 2003.

Income

Dividend equivalents and fractional share interests are accrued on the Corporation's dividend or other record date.

Contributions

Contributions are accounted for on the accrual basis.










Chemical Financial Corporation
2001 Stock Purchase Plan
for Subsidiary and Community Bank Directors


Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
December 31, 2003


Note 3 - Contributions

Contributions for participants by the participating companies were as follows:




Participating Company


Year Ended
December 31,
2003


 

Period from
March 25, 2002
to December 31,
2002


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chemical Bank and Trust Co.

$

95,850

 

$

89,550

 

Chemical Bank Shoreline

 

52,000

 

 

27,700

 

Chemical Bank West

 

61,450

 

 

68,800

 

CFC Data Corp

 

800

 

 

2,800

 

CFC Financial Services, Inc.

 

2,400

 

 

400

 

CFC Title Services, Inc.

 

2,400


 

 

400


 

          Total Participant Contributions

$

214,900


 

$

189,650