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Note 7: Cemetery and Mortuary Endowment Care and Pre need Merchandise Funds
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Notes  
Note 7: Cemetery and Mortuary Endowment Care and Pre need Merchandise Funds

7)   Cemetery and Mortuary Endowment Care and Pre need Merchandise Funds

 

The Company is required by state law to pay into perpetual care trusts a portion of the proceeds from the sale of cemetery property interment rights. The related cemetery perpetual care trusts are defined as variable interest entities pursuant to generally accepted accounting principles. Also, management has determined that the Company is the primary beneficiary of these trusts, as it absorbs both a majority of the losses and returns associated with the trusts. The Company has consolidated cemetery perpetual care trust investments with a corresponding amount recorded as Cemetery Perpetual Care Obligation in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

 

The components of the cemetery perpetual care obligation are as follows:

 

December 31

2015

2014

Trust investments, at market value

 $     2,848,759

 $     2,645,423

Note receivables from Cottonwood Mortuary

Singing Hills Cemetery and Memorial Estates

eliminated in consolidation

        1,780,618

        1,847,892

Total trust assets

        4,629,377

        4,493,315

Cemetery perpetual care obligation

      (3,465,771)

      (3,406,718)

Fair value of trust assets in excess of trust obligations

 $     1,163,606

 $     1,086,597

 

The Company has established and maintains certain restricted trust investments to provide for future merchandise and service obligations incurred in connection with its pre-need sales. Also included in cash and cash equivalents are escrows held for borrowers under servicing agreements relating to mortgage loans, funds held by warehouse banks in accordance with loan purchase agreements and funds held in escrow for the construction of a 282-unit multifamily development in Sandy City, Utah.

 

Assets in the restricted asset account are summarized as follows:

 

December 31

2015

2014

Cash and cash equivalents

 $     7,206,863

 $     7,274,685

Mutual funds

          596,994

          627,154

Fixed maturity securities

              8,775

              8,775

Equity securities

            89,450

            88,048

Participating in mortgage loans with Security National Life

        1,457,720

        1,349,135

Total

 $     9,359,802

 $     9,347,797

 

A surplus note receivable in the amount of $4,000,000 at December 31, 2015 and 2014, from Security National Life, was eliminated in consolidation.