Chapter 14: Long-term Financial Liabilities Flashcards

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Green Bond

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Fixed-income instrument that is used to raise money for environmental projects

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Restrictive Covenants

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Terms or conditions that are meant to limit activities and protect both lenders and borrowers

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Bond indenture

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A bond indenture is a promise (by the lender to the borrower) to pay:
a sum of money at the designated date, and
periodic interest (usually paid semi-annually) at a stipulated rate on the face value.
They are traded on public markets.

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Firm Commitment Underwriting

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an investment banker underwrites the whole issue by guaranteeing a certain sum to the corporation thus taking the risk of selling the bonds for whatever price the agent can get

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Best Efforts Underwriting

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when an investment banker will sell as possible of a bond/note payable for a commission

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Private Placement

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place bond privately by selling the bonds directly to a large institution.

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Registered Bonds

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Also called bearer or coupon bonds. issued in the owner’s name. To sell, you reissue a new certificate

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Secured or Unsecured Debt

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Secured is backed by a pledge:
1. mortgage bonds or notes: secured by real estate
2. Collateral trust bonds: secured by shares
Unsecured is not backed by collateral
1. debenture & junk bonds: very risky, pay high interest

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9
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Term Bonds

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issues that mature in instalments, also called serial bonds or notes

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10
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Perpetual Bonds or notes

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unusually long-term i.e. 100 years

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11
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Income bond

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pays no interest unless the company is profitable

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12
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Revenue bond

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type of income bond, but only takes a specific type of revenue

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13
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deep discount bonds or notes

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also called zero-interest debentures, bonds or notes. have little to no interest each year and sold at a large discount, pays total interest payoff

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14
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Commodity-backed debt

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also called asset-linked debt; redeemable in amounts of a commodity such as barrels, oils, coal, metal

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Callable bonds and notes

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give the issuer the right to call and retire the debt before maturity

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convertible debt

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allows the holder or the issuer to convert the debt into other securities such as common shares

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17
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investment grade rating

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high-quality securities and therefore only certain securities qualify

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18
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Legal Defeasance

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if the creditor of the original debt agrees to look to the trust for repayment and give up its claim on the company

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Defeasance

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set aside money in a trust to repay the debt

20
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Stated, coupon, or nominal rate

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% of the bond’s face value

21
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Face value

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also called par value, principal amount, maturity value

22
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Bond Discount

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bond sells for less than their face value

23
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Premium Bond

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bond sells for more than their face value

24
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effective yield or market rate or Yield Rate

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interest rate earned by bondholders
1. discount: effective yield > stated rate
2. Premium: Effective yield<stated rate

25
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2 Methods to amortize a discount/premium

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IFRS: Effective Interest Method
ASPE: Straight-line Method

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Effective Interest Method (Formula)

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Interest Expense - Interest Paid = Amortization Amount

Interest Expense: CA of debt at the beginning of period * effective interest rate

Interest Paid: Face amount of debt * stated interest rate

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Marketable Securities

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issued for cash, FV is cash received by issuer

28
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Imputed interest rate

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rate that makes the cash that is received now equal to the present value of the amounts that will be paid in the future.

Amortization: Face - PV

29
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Fair Value Option

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L-T Debt is measured at amortized cost
ASPE: Allows L-T debt to be measured at Fair-Value; changes in FV are recognized in Net Income
IFRS: only used where FV is more relevant

30
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Derecognition of debt

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No gain or loss is recognized as CA=Maturity level

31
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Extinguishment of debt

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  1. debtor discharges the liability by paying the creditor
  2. debtor is legally released from primary responsibility for the liability by law
32
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Reacquisition Price

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amount paid on:
1. extinguishment before maturity (Call premium + Expense of reacquisition)
2. Early Repayment

33
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Refunding of L-T Debt

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replacement of an existing issuance with a new one

34
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Troubled Debt Restructuring

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occurs when, for an economic or legal reason that are related to the debtor’s financial difficulties. A concession is offered to the debtor

34
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Debt Settlement

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when the debt is settled, meaning there is early repayment or refunding

34
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Loan foreclosure

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forcing the debtor to transfer the asset if it has a legal charge on the asset

35
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Settlement

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old liability is eliminated and a new liability is assumed

36
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Non-substantial Modification of Terms

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ASPE: new effective interest rate is imputed by equating the CA of original debt w/ present value of the revised cash flow
IFRS: Discounting New Cash Flows at the original effective interest rate

37
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in-substance defeasance

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either the lender is not notified of Defeasance OR lender refuses

38
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Off-balance Sheet Financing

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structures a financing deal that results in obligations not being recorded as debt on the statement of financial position

39
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Types of off-balance sheet financing

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Non-consolidated entities, Special Purpose Entities or variable interest entity, operating leases

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Non-consolidated entities

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when a company does not own more than 50%

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Special Purpose Entity

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A company is created to perform a special project or function

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Securization

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the company then sells the assets to a special purpose entity in return for cash. Investors invest in a special purpose entity to benefit from the return on the assets and certain tax advantages

43
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Solvency

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ability to pay interest as it comes due and to repay the face value of debt at maturity

44
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Debt to total assets

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total debt / total assets

45
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What is a par value?

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Par value for a L-T debt is when the effective (market) rate is the same as the stated rate