Physical Commodities Inventory (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2017

Physical Commodities Inventory [Abstract]

Physical Commodities Inventory

The Company’s inventories consist of finished physical commodities. Inventories by component of the Company’s Physical Commodities segment are shown below.



(in millions)	June 30, 2017		September 30, 2016
Physical Ag & Energy⁽¹⁾	$	108.6	$	65.9
Precious metals - held by broker-dealer subsidiary⁽²⁾	11.6		5.3
Precious metals - held by non-broker-dealer subsidiaries⁽³⁾	52.3		52.6
Physical commodities inventory	$	172.5	$	123.8

⁽¹⁾ Physical Ag & Energy maintains agricultural and energy commodity inventories, including corn, soybeans, wheat, dried distillers grain, canola, sorghum, coffee, cocoa, coal and others. The agricultural commodity inventories are carried at net realizable value, which approximates fair value less disposal costs, with changes in net realizable value included as a component of ‘cost of sales of physical commodities’ on the condensed consolidated income statements. The agricultural inventories have reliable, readily determinable and realizable market prices, have relatively insignificant costs of disposal and are available for immediate delivery.

⁽²⁾ Precious metals held by the Company’s subsidiary, INTL FCStone Ltd, a United Kingdom based broker-dealer subsidiary, is measured at fair value, with changes in fair value included as a component of ‘trading gains, net’ on the condensed consolidated income statements, in accordance with U.S. GAAP accounting requirements for broker-dealers.

⁽³⁾Precious metals inventory held by subsidiaries that are not broker-dealers are valued at the lower of cost or market value.

The Company has recorded lower of cost or market adjustments for certain precious metals inventory of $0.5 million and $0.6 million as of June 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively. The adjustments are included in ‘cost of sales of physical commodities’ in the condensed consolidated income statements.