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Record W2102682218 · doi:10.3905/jod.2002.319191

FAS 133 Option Fair Value Hedges

2002· article· en· W2102682218 on OpenAlex
James N. Bodurtha, Daniel B. Thornton

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Derivatives · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicRisk Management in Financial Firms
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHedgeVolatility (finance)Fair valueSpurious relationshipEarningsHedge accountingEconomicsValue (mathematics)Call optionActuarial scienceEconometricsFinancial economicsAccountingFinancial accountingMathematicsMark-to-market accountingAccounting information systemStatistics

Abstract

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The attempt of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to provide consistent and logical accounting treatment for hedging transactions, in the form of FAS 133, continues to generate controversy. Under the new rules, many kinds of hedges do not cause problems, but a variety of difficulties still remain. One of the more significant ones involves how the changes in the current value of an option used in a hedge are to be treated. In some cases, changes in an option9s time value are supposed to enter into earnings, which can produce spurious earnings volatility during the period of a hedge. Bodurtha and Thornton describe the situation under FAS 133 and then propose two possible solutions. One is to suggest a change in the rule that would remove the problem. Their “financial engineering solution” would not depend on a rule change, but would introduce new types of derivatives whose contingent cash flows could be organized in such a way as to qualify for hedge treatment under the current rules, but would remove the artificial earnings volatility that would otherwise occur with a standard option hedge.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.399
Threshold uncertainty score0.359

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Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.216
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it