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Financial Instruments
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
Financial Instruments, Financial Assets, Balance Sheet Groupings [Abstract]  
Financial Instruments
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The following tables provide a summary of the Company’s significant financial assets and liabilities carried at fair value and measured on a recurring basis as of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017 (in thousands):
 
 
 
 
Fair Value Measurements at March 31, 2018
 
Carrying Value at March 31, 2018
 
Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
(Level 1)
 
Significant Other
Observable Inputs
(Level 2)
 
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs (Level 3)
Assets:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Restricted investment:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Rabbi Trust
$
21,268

 
$

 
$
21,268

 
$

Fixed income securities
1,867

 

 
1,867

 

Liabilities:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Interest rate swap derivatives
$
13,126

 
$

 
$
13,126

 
$

 
 
 
 
Fair Value Measurements at December 31, 2017
 
Carrying Value at December 31, 2017
 
Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
(Level 1)
 
Significant Other
Observable  Inputs
(Level 2)
 
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs (Level 3)
Assets:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Restricted investments:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    Rabbi Trust
$
20,763

 
$

 
$
20,763

 
$

Fixed income securities
1,902

 

 
1,902

 

Liabilities:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Interest rate swap derivatives
$
13,992

 
$

 
$
13,992

 
$


The Company’s Level 2 financial instruments included in the tables above as of March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017 consist of interest rate swap derivative liabilities held by the Company's Australian subsidiary, the Company's rabbi trust established for GEO employee and employer contributions to The GEO Group, Inc. Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Plan and an investment in Canadian dollar denominated fixed income securities.
The Australian subsidiary’s interest rate swap derivative liabilities are valued using a discounted cash flow model based on projected Australian borrowing rates. The Company's restricted investment in the rabbi trust is invested in Company owned life insurance policies which are recorded at their cash surrender values. These investments are valued based on the underlying investments held in the policies' separate account. The underlying assets are equity and fixed income pooled funds that are comprised of Level 1 and Level 2 securities. The Canadian dollar denominated securities, not actively traded, are valued using quoted rates for these and similar securities.

During the first quarter of 2018, the Company transferred certain accounts receivable balances that had a carrying value of approximately $3.0 million to an unrelated third party. The transfer was accounted for as a sale and the Company has no continuing involvement with the transferred assets. The Company received cash proceeds in connection with the sale of approximately $3.0 million, and as such, there was no gain or loss in connection with the transaction.