Derivative Instruments and Hedges

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2023

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

Our risk management and foreign currency derivatives and hedging policy specifies the conditions under which we may enter into derivative contracts. See Notes 1 and 8 to our consolidated financial statements included in our 2022 Annual Report and Note 7 of this Quarterly Report for additional information on our derivatives. We enter into foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge our cash flow risks associated with transactions denominated in currencies other than the local currency of the operation engaging in the transaction. We have not elected hedge accounting for our foreign exchange forward contracts and the changes in the fair values are recognized immediately in our condensed consolidated statements of income.

Foreign exchange forward contracts with third parties had a notional value of $544.0 million and $459.2 million at March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. At March 31, 2023, the length of foreign exchange forward contracts currently in place ranged from 17 days to 23 months.

We are exposed to risk from credit-related losses resulting from nonperformance by counterparties to our financial instruments. We perform credit evaluations of our counterparties under foreign exchange forward contracts agreements and expect all counterparties to meet their obligations. We have not experienced credit losses from our counterparties.

The fair values of foreign exchange forward contracts are summarized below:


	March 31,		December 31,
(Amounts in thousands)	2023		2022
Current derivative assets	$	3,297	$	2,207
Noncurrent derivative assets	53		66
Current derivative liabilities	5,633		4,422
Noncurrent derivative liabilities	73		63

Current and noncurrent derivative assets are reported in our condensed consolidated balance sheets in prepaid expenses and other and other assets, net, respectively. Current and noncurrent derivative liabilities are reported in our condensed consolidated balance sheets in accrued liabilities and retirement obligations and other liabilities, respectively.

The impact of net changes in the fair values of foreign exchange forward contracts are summarized below:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(Amounts in thousands)	2023		2022
Gains (losses) recognized in income	$	(1,983)	$	(2,359)

Gains and losses recognized in our condensed consolidated statements of income for foreign exchange forward contracts are classified as other income (expense), net.

As a means of managing the volatility of foreign currency exposure with the Euro/U.S. dollar exchange rate, we entered into cross-currency swap agreements ("Swaps") as a hedge of our Euro investment in certain of our international subsidiaries. Accordingly, on April 14, 2021 and March 9, 2021, we entered into Swaps, with both having termination dates of October 1, 2030 and the March 9, 2021 cross currency swap having an early termination date of March 11, 2025. Also, during the third quarter of 2020 we entered into a cross currency swap agreement with a termination date of October 1, 2030 and an early termination date of September 22, 2025. The swap agreements were designated as net investment hedges and classified as Level II under the fair value hierarchy. On December 20, 2022 all outstanding swap agreements were early terminated resulting in net cash proceeds received of $66.0 million. Prior to the early termination the cross-currency swaps had a combined notional value of €423.2 million and a fair value of $68.2 million.

Prior to early termination we excluded the interest accruals on the swaps from the assessment of hedge effectiveness and recognize the interest accruals in earnings within interest expense. For each reporting period, the change in the fair value of the swaps attributable to changes in the spot rate and differences between the change in the fair value of the excluded components and the amounts recognized in earnings under the swap accrual process are reported in accumulated other comprehensive loss ("AOCL") on our consolidated balance sheet. For the three months ending March 31, 2022 an interest accrual of $2.0 million was recognized within interest expense in our condensed consolidated statements of income.

The cumulative net investment hedge (gains) losses, net of deferred taxes, under cross-currency swaps recorded in AOCL on our condensed consolidated balance sheet are summarized below:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
(Amounts in thousands)	2023		2022
(Gain) loss-included component (1)	$	—	$	(25,385)
(Gain) loss-excluded component (2)	—		(874)
(Gain) loss recognized in AOCL	$	—	$	(26,259)

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(1) Change in the fair value of the swaps attributable to changes in spot rates.

(2) Change in the fair value of the swaps due to changes other than those attributable to spot rates.