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Derivative Instruments
6 Months Ended
Jul. 01, 2012
Derivative Instruments [Abstract]  
Derivative Instruments
NOTE 9: Derivative Instruments

The Company is exposed to certain risks relating to its ongoing business operations including foreign currency exchange rate risk and interest rate risk. The Company currently mitigates certain foreign currency exchange rate risks with derivative instruments. The Company does not currently manage its interest rate risk with derivative instruments.

The Company faces exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, as a significant portion of its revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities are denominated in currencies other than the functional currencies of the Company’s subsidiaries or the reporting currency of the Company, which is the U.S. Dollar. The Company faces two types of foreign currency exchange rate exposures:

 

   

transactional currency/functional currency exchange rate exposures from transactions that are denominated in currencies other than the functional currency of the subsidiary (for example, a U.S. Dollar receivable on the Company’s Irish subsidiary’s books for which the functional currency is the Euro), and

 

   

functional currency/reporting currency exchange rate exposures from transactions that are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar, which is the reporting currency of the Company.

The Company currently uses derivative instruments to provide an economic hedge against its transactional currency/functional currency exchange rate exposures. Forward contracts on currencies are entered into to manage the transactional currency/functional currency exposure of the Company’s Irish subsidiary’s accounts receivable denominated in U.S. dollars and intercompany receivables denominated in Japanese Yen. These forward contracts are used to minimize foreign currency gains or losses, as the gains or losses on these contracts are intended to offset the losses or gains on the underlying exposures.

These forward contracts do not qualify for hedge accounting. Both the underlying exposures and the forward contracts are recorded at fair value on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and changes in fair value are reported as “Foreign currency gain (loss)” on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. The Company recorded net foreign currency losses of $30,000 and $668,000 in the three-month and six-month periods ended July 1, 2012, respectively, and net foreign currency gains of $210,000 and $151,000 in the three-month and six-month periods ended July 3, 2011, respectively.

As of July 1, 2012, the Company had the following outstanding forward contracts that were entered into to mitigate foreign currency exchange rate risk:

 

     

Currency

  Amount
   

Japanese Yen/Euro

  240,000,000 Japanese Yen

U.S. Dollar/Euro

  3,435,000 U.S. Dollars

Information regarding the fair value of the forward contracts outstanding as of July 1, 2012 and December 31, 2011 was as follows (in thousands):

 

                                         
   

Asset Derivatives

   

Liability Derivatives

 
        Fair Value         Fair Value  
   

Balance Sheet Location

  July 1,
2012
    December 31,
2011
   

Balance Sheet Location

  July 1,
2012
    December 31,
2011
 
             

Currency forward contracts

 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

  $ —       $ 14    

Accrued expenses

  $ 57     $ 165  

Information regarding the effect of the forward contracts, net of the underlying exposure, on the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three-month and six-month periods ended July 1, 2012 and July 3, 2011 was as follows (in thousands):

 

                                         
   

Location of Gain Recognized in
Income on Derivatives

  Amount of
Gain
Recognized in
Income on
Derivatives
   

Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized
in Income on Derivatives

  Amount of
Gain (Loss)

Recognized in
Income on
Derivatives
 
      Three-months
ended
      Six-months
ended
 
      July 1,
2012
    July 3,
2011
      July 1,
2012
    July 3,
2011
 

Currency forward contracts

 

Foreign currency gain

  $ 198     $ 126    

Foreign currency gain (loss)

  $ (91   $ 128