UNITED STATESSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549-1004
FORM 10-Q
Commission file number: 1-3754
GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
200 Renaissance CenterP.O. Box 200 Detroit, Michigan48265-2000(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)
(313) 556-5000(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months, and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes o No x
As of September 30, 2003, there were outstanding 10 shares of the issuer’s $.10 par value common stock.
Reduced Disclosure Format
The registrant meets the conditions set forth in General Instruction H(1)(a) and (b) of Form 10-Q and is therefore filing this Form with the reduced disclosure format.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INDEXGeneral Motors Acceptance Corporation
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Consolidated Statement of Income (unaudited)General Motors Acceptance Corporation
The Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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Consolidated Balance Sheet (unaudited)General Motors Acceptance Corporation
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Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholder’s Equity (unaudited)General Motors Acceptance Corporation
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Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (unaudited)General Motors Acceptance Corporation
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)General Motors Acceptance Corporation
General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC or the Company) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation (General Motors or GM). The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its majority-owned subsidiaries after eliminating all significant intercompany balances and transactions.
The consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2003 and for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003 and 2002 are unaudited but, in management’s opinion, include all adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.
The interim period consolidated financial statements, including the related notes, are condensed and do not include all disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These interim period consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements, which are included in GMAC’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 13, 2003.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
SFAS No. 149 — In April 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 149, Amendments of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities. SFAS No. 149 amends and clarifies accounting for derivative instruments, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts, and hedging activities under SFAS No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities. In general, the Statement is effective for contracts entered into or modified after June 30, 2003 and for hedging relationships designated after June 30, 2003. The adoption of SFAS No. 149 did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition or results of operations.
SFAS No. 150 — In May 2003, the FASB issued SFAS No. 150, Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity, which provides standards for how an issuer classifies and measures certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity. The Statement is effective for financial instruments entered into or modified after May 31, 2003 and for pre-existing instruments as of the beginning of the first interim period beginning after June 15, 2003. The adoption of SFAS No. 150 did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition or results of operations.
FASB Interpretation No. 46 — In January 2003, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an Interpretation of ARB No. 51, Consolidated Financial Statements. FIN 46 addresses consolidation and disclosure by business enterprises of variable interest entities, representing those entities whose total equity investment at risk is not sufficient to permit the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support from other parties. More specifically, FIN 46 defines variable interest entities as those entities in which the equity investment at risk is not greater than the expected losses of the entity. FIN 46 explains how to identify variable interest entities and how an enterprise assesses its interests in a variable interest entity in order to decide whether to consolidate that entity. FIN 46 requires a variable interest entity to be consolidated by the primary beneficiary if the entity does not effectively disperse risks among the parties involved. Variable interest entities that effectively disperse risks will not be consolidated unless a single party holds an interest or combination of interests that effectively recombines risks that were previously dispersed. FIN 46 does not impact the consolidation guidance for qualifying special purpose entities (QSPEs), as described in SFAS No. 140,Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities.
Upon its original issuance, FIN 46 was to be effective the first interim or annual period beginning after June 15, 2003 (i.e., July 1, 2003 for GMAC) for interests in variable interest entities in existence on January 31, 2003, and effective February 1, 2003 for variable interest entities created on or after such date. On October 8, 2003, the FASB decided to allow companies additional time to complete the evaluation of variable interest entities that existed prior to February 1, 2003, deferring the implementation date for such variable interest entities until December 31, 2003 for calendar year companies while encouraging earlier application. As GMAC had already completed the evaluation of variable interest entities, the provisions of FIN 46 were applied effective July 1, 2003. Most of the Company’s variable interests are structured as qualifying special purpose entities and, therefore, are exempt from FIN 46. For GMAC’s interests in variable interest entities, a primary beneficiary analysis was performed. In the course of performing this analysis, management revised GMAC’s involvement in certain of the entities, which impacted the resulting consolidation treatment. After such revisions, the application of the consolidation provisions of FIN 46 resulted in an increase in assets and liabilities of approximately $3.7 billion, with no material impact on the Company’s results of operations or statement of cash flows. Refer to Note 8 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of GMAC’s involvement with variable interest entities.
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The following table presents the components of mortgage banking income.
The composition of finance receivables and loans outstanding was as follows.
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The following table presents an analysis of the activity in the allowance for credit losses on finance receivables and loans.
The following table summarizes mortgage servicing rights activity and related amortization.
The Company has implemented risk management strategies, including the use of actively managed derivatives and a portfolio of investment securities that increase in value as interest rates decline, to protect the value of mortgage servicing rights. As the investment securities are designated as available for sale, unrealized changes in the value of these securities are reflected in accumulated other comprehensive income in the Consolidated Balance Sheet. For further description of mortgage servicing rights and the related risk management strategy, refer to Notes 1 and 10 to the 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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The changes in the carrying amounts of goodwill, which is reflected as a component of Other Assets in the Consolidated Balance Sheet, were as follows:
Debt is presented below and is segregated between domestic and foreign based on the location of the office recording the transaction.
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Liquidity facilities
Liquidity facilities represent additional funding sources to be utilized by the Company, if required. The financial institutions providing the uncommitted facilities are not legally obligated to fund those facilities. The following table summarizes the liquidity facilities maintained by the Company.
In June 2003, GMAC renewed its syndicated multi-currency global credit facilities, including the liquidity facility for NCAT. The syndicated multi-currency global facility includes a $4.35 billion five-year facility (expires June 2008) and a $4.15 billion 364-day facility (expires June 2004). The 364-day facility includes a term loan option which, if exercised by GMAC upon expiration, carries a one-year term. Additionally, a leverage covenant restricts the ratio of consolidated unsecured debt to total stockholder’s equity to no greater than 11:1, under certain conditions. More specifically, the covenant is only applicable on the last day of any fiscal quarter (other than the fiscal quarter during which a change in rating occurs) during such times as the Company has senior unsecured long-term debt outstanding, without third-party enhancement, which is rated BBB+ or less by Standard & Poor’s, or Baa1 or less by Moody’s. The leverage covenant calculation, as modified in connection with the renewal, excludes from debt those securitization transactions that are accounted for as on-balance sheet secured financings. GMAC’s leverage covenant ratio was 8.7:1 at September 30, 2003, and the Company was therefore in compliance with this covenant.
In managing the interest rate and foreign exchange exposures of a multinational finance entity, GMAC utilizes a variety of interest rate and currency derivative financial instruments. In accordance with SFAS No. 133, as amended, GMAC records derivative financial instruments on the balance sheet as assets or liabilities, carried at fair value. Changes in fair value are accounted for depending on the use of the derivative financial instrument and whether it qualifies for hedge accounting treatment. Refer to GMAC’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K for further description of GMAC’s use of and accounting for derivative financial instruments.
The following table presents amounts included in income related to derivatives designated as fair value hedges.
GMAC recognized an immaterial amount of hedge ineffectiveness on cash flow hedges for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003 and 2002.
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As discussed in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, GMAC applied the provisions of FIN 46 for all entities beginning July 1, 2003. The following discloses the variable interest entities that GMAC has consolidated or in which it has a significant variable interest:
Mortgage warehouse funding — GMAC’s Mortgage operations sell commercial and residential mortgage loans through various structured finance arrangements in order to provide funds for the origination and purchase of future loans. These structured finance arrangements include sales to off-balance sheet warehouse funding entities, including GMAC- and bank-sponsored commercial paper conduits. Transfers of assets from GMAC into each facility are accounted for as sales based on the provisions of SFAS No. 140 and as such creditors of these facilities have no recourse to the general credit of GMAC. Some of these warehouse funding entities represent variable interest entities under FIN 46. For certain mortgage warehouse entities, management determined that GMAC does not have the majority of the expected losses or returns and, as such, consolidation is not appropriate under FIN 46. The assets in these entities totaled $1.9 billion, of which $1.1 billion represents GMAC’s maximum exposure to loss. The maximum exposure would only occur in the unlikely event that there was a complete loss on the underlying assets of the entities. In other entities, GMAC was considered the primary beneficiary, and the activities of these entities were either terminated prior to July 1, 2003 or GMAC consolidated these entities pursuant to FIN 46. The consolidation of particular entities was a decision driven in part by the Company’s desire to invest in certain asset classes on the balance sheet. Had management not had any interest in investing in such assets, the Company might have restructured the entities to ensure continued off-balance sheet treatment. As of September 30, 2003 the assets in these entities were classified as mortgage loans held for sale ($1.8 billion) and consumer mortgage loans ($1.7 billion) in GMAC’s consolidated balance sheet with corresponding liabilities reflected as a component of debt.
Interests in Real Estate Partnerships — The Company’s Mortgage operations syndicate investments in real estate partnerships to unaffiliated investors and, in certain partnerships, guarantee the timely payment of a specified return to those investors. Returns to investors in the partnerships syndicated by the Company are derived from tax credits and tax losses generated by underlying operating partnership entities that develop, own, and operate affordable housing properties throughout the United States. Syndicated tax credit partnerships that contain a guarantee are reflected in the Company’s financial statements under the financing method. In addition, the Company has variable interests in the underlying operating partnerships (primarily in the form of limited partnership interests). The results of the Company’s variable interest analysis indicated that GMAC is not the primary beneficiary of these partnerships and, as a result, is not required to consolidate these entities under FIN 46. Assets outstanding in these partnerships approximated $2.5 billion at September 30, 2003. GMAC’s exposure to loss was $567 million, representing the amount payable to investors assuming a liquidation of the partnerships. The Company’s exposure to loss increases as unaffiliated investors place additional guaranteed commitments with the Company. Considering such committed amounts, the Company’s exposure to loss in future periods is not expected to exceed $1 billion.
Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) — GMAC’s Mortgage operations sponsor, purchase subordinate and equity interests in, and serve as collateral manager for CDOs. Under CDO transactions, a trust is established that purchases a portfolio of securities and issues debt and equity certificates, representing interests in the portfolio of assets. In addition to receiving variable compensation for managing the portfolio, the Company sometimes retains equity investments in the CDOs. The majority of the CDOs sponsored by the Company were initially structured or have been restructured (with approval by the senior beneficial interest holders) as qualifying special purpose entities, and are therefore exempt from FIN 46. For the Company’s remaining CDOs, the results of the primary beneficiary analysis support the conclusion that consolidation is not appropriate under FIN 46 because GMAC does not have the majority of the expected losses or returns. The assets in these CDOs totaled $1.3 billion of which GMAC’s maximum exposure to loss is $98 million, representing GMAC’s retained interests in these entities. The maximum exposure to loss would only occur in the unlikely event that there was a complete loss on the underlying assets of the entities.
Automotive Finance Receivables — In certain securitization transactions, GMAC securitizes consumer and commercial finance receivables into bank-sponsored multi-seller commercial paper conduits. These conduits provide a funding source to GMAC (as well as other sellers into the conduit) as they fund the purchase of the receivables through the issuance of commercial paper. Total assets outstanding in these bank-sponsored conduits approximated $12 billion as of September 30, 2003. While GMAC has a variable interest in these conduits, the Company is not deemed to be the primary beneficiary, as GMAC does not retain the majority of the expected losses or returns. GMAC’s maximum exposure to loss as a result of its involvement with these non-consolidated variable interest entities is $149 million and would only be realized in the event of a complete loss on the assets that GMAC sold.
Central Originating Lease Trust (COLT) — In analyzing FIN 46, it was determined that GMAC might have been deemed to be the primary beneficiary of COLT, a limited purpose statutory trust, and therefore required to consolidate COLT effective July 1, 2003. Through October 2002, COLT purchased vehicles and related consumer leases from GM franchised dealers through the issuance of secured notes, which were sold to GMAC, and through the issuance of third-party equity. In March 2003, GMAC purchased the third-party equity of COLT, resulting in its consolidation. The underlying COLT lease assets (approximately $4 billion at the time of the purchase of the third-party equity by GMAC) are now reflected as operating lease assets of the Company, replacing the secured notes that were previously reported as commercial finance receivables and loans. The net impact of consolidating COLT was an increase in the Company’s consolidated total assets of $168 million, representing the third-party equity purchased.
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Financial results for GMAC’s operating segments are summarized below.
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Management’s Discussion and AnalysisGeneral Motors Acceptance Corporation
GMAC is a leading global financial services firm with over $275 billion of assets and operations in 41 countries. Founded in 1919 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors, GMAC was established to provide GM dealers with the automotive financing necessary for the dealers to acquire and maintain vehicle inventories and to provide retail customers the means by which to finance vehicle purchases through GM dealers. GMAC products and services have expanded beyond automotive financing, and GMAC currently operates in three primary business segments — Financing, Mortgage and Insurance. Refer to GMAC’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002 for a more complete description of the Company’s business segments, along with the products and services offered and the market competition.
Net income for GMAC’s business segments is summarized as follows.
GMAC recorded its highest third quarter earnings ever in 2003, in part due to continued strong results at the Mortgage Group. Consolidated net income of $630 million was up $154 million from the $476 million earned in the same quarter of 2002.
For the quarter, net income from financing operations totaled $320 million, up $17 million from the $303 million earned in the prior year. The increase reflects lower credit loss provisions, which more than offset the unfavorable impact of lower net interest spreads earned on higher asset levels.
Mortgage operations generated earnings of $253 million, up $100 million from a year ago, reflecting increased origination and securitization volumes in both the residential and commercial mortgage sectors.
Insurance operations generated net income of $57 million in the third quarter of 2003. Earnings were up $37 million from the same period in 2002, when earnings were adversely affected by a write-down of certain investment securities.
GMAC’s Financing operations offer a wide range of financial services and products (directly and indirectly) to retail automotive consumers, automotive dealerships and other commercial businesses. These products and services include the purchase of installment sales contracts and leases, the extension of term loans, dealer floorplan financing (wholesale) and other lines of credit, and the factoring of receivables. Refer to pages 10-17 of the Company’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion of the business profile of GMAC’s Financing operations.
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The following table summarizes the operating results of the Company’s Financing operations for the periods indicated. The amounts presented are before the elimination of balances and transactions with the Company’s other operating segments.
While higher unsecured borrowing spreads continue to negatively impact net interest margins, net income at GMAC’s Financing operations increased 6% and 13% for the third quarter and first nine months of 2003, respectively, resulting primarily from higher retail asset levels and lower credit loss provisions.
Despite lower market interest rates (and corresponding earning rates), total financing revenue increased due to continued growth in retail assets. This growth came from GM’s continued use of special rate financing incentives focused primarily on marketing vehicle purchases as opposed to leases. Revenues from the commercial and operating lease portfolio were negatively impacted by the decline in earning rates. For the first nine months of 2003, leasing revenue was also negatively impacted by deterioration in the remarketing performance of off-lease vehicles, caused by a high level of lease terminations in a relatively soft used vehicle market. The gain on disposal of operating leases terminated in the United States (which is reflected as a component of operating lease depreciation) decreased from an average of $310 per vehicle in the first nine months of 2002 to an average of $109 per vehicle for the same period in 2003. However, during the third quarter of 2003, as termination volume began to decline, GMAC experienced an improvement in remarketing results as the disposal gain increased to an average of $249 per vehicle compared with an average of $136 per vehicle for the same quarter in 2002.
Interest and discount expense increased due to higher debt levels required to fund the growth in assets. GMAC’s unsecured borrowing spreads tightened in the third quarter but still remain at historically high levels. The higher credit spreads experienced over the past year have negatively impacted GMAC’s net interest margins. The impact of the increased spreads will continue to effect results as maturing debt that was funded at lower spreads is replaced with debt at these higher spreads. Refer to the Funding and Liquidity section of this MD&A for further discussion.
The provision for credit losses decreased by $111 million and $477 million for the third quarter and nine months ended 2003, respectively as compared to the same periods in 2002. The decrease in the loss provisions is due to a combination of unusually high loss provisions recorded in 2002 in the Company’s non-automotive dealer portion of the commercial portfolio and slower asset growth in 2003 in retail automotive receivables as compared to 2002. These favorable impacts have somewhat been offset by higher loan loss provisions in certain countries in the Company’s International Operations. Refer to the Credit Quality section of this MD&A for further discussion of the credit performance of the Company’s financing portfolio.
Financing operations were also impacted by unfavorable market adjustments on interest rate swaps used to facilitate securitization transactions (which do not receive hedge accounting treatment and are recorded in other income). Additional items impacting 2003 operating results as compared to 2002 include the expansion of the international full service leasing business into new markets, increasing related revenues (which are reflected in other income) and maintenance costs (which are reflected in noninterest expense). Other income was also affected by a decrease in gains and ancillary income related to the securitization of finance receivables due to fewer transactions being accounted for as off-balance sheet securitizations. Additionally, a decrease in interest rates and outstanding balances reduced interest income on loans made to GM and GMAC affiliates.
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Financing Volume
The following table summarizes GMAC’s new vehicle consumer financing volume, the related share of GM retail sales, and GMAC’s wholesale financing of new vehicles and related share of GM sales to dealers.
GMAC’s penetration of GM volume for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 remained consistent with the historically high levels experienced in 2002, with a continued emphasis on retail contracts. The high penetration levels and the focus on retail contracts is due to GM’s use of low rate financing incentives to market its vehicles. However, in the third quarter of 2003, GM began to reduce the level of interest rate incentives, which negatively impacted penetration levels and retail financing volume in North America as compared to 2002. Wholesale financing volume was consistent with the level of GM’s wholesale sales to dealers, as GMAC continued to be the primary funding source for GM dealer inventories.
Credit Quality
Credit quality information on the Company’s consumer automotive retail and commercial receivables portfolios is presented in this section. The following table summarizes the applicable allowance for credit losses as a percentage of total on-balance sheet finance receivables and loans.
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Consumer
Consumer credit losses as a percentage of receivables increased in 2003 despite stable delinquency trends. The increase in consumer losses in the North American portfolio is primarily caused by an increase in loss severity. Softer prices in the used vehicle market have resulted in an increase in the loss per occurrence GMAC is realizing upon repossession and disposal of an underlying vehicle. The average loss incurred per contract on new vehicles in the United States has increased in the third quarter of 2003 to $8,002 from $7,717 in the comparable period of 2002. The higher losses in the International portfolio are the result of increased charge-offs in certain countries.
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Commercial
Credit losses in the commercial portfolio increased in the third quarter as the prior year quarter included a $20 million recovery of a wholesale loss that was charged-off in a prior year. Year-to-date credit losses were higher in 2003 primarily because certain loans in the Company’s non-automotive portfolio, many of which were provided for in 2002, were charged-off as uncollectible in 2003. Impaired loans as a percentage of the portfolio at September 30, 2003 remained relatively consistent as compared to December 31, 2002 levels.
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GMAC’s Mortgage operations involve the origination, purchase, servicing, and securitization of consumer (i.e., residential) and commercial mortgage loans and mortgage related products. Typically, mortgage loans are originated and sold to investors in the secondary market. Refer to pages 17-22 of the Company’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion of the business profile of GMAC’s Mortgage operations.
The following table summarizes the operating results of the Mortgage operations for the periods indicated. The amounts presented are before the elimination of balances and transactions with the Company’s other operating segments.
Interest rates, including those on originated 15- and 30-year mortgages, increased sharply at the beginning of the third quarter ended September 30, 2003. Although the rate increase adversely impacted industry and Mortgage Group refinance application volumes, the processing and closing of loans initiated in the prior period of lower interest rates resulted in record Mortgage Group quarterly production volume of $62.5 billion, 78% higher than the same period in 2002 and 13% higher than the second quarter ended June 30, 2003. This increased production volume, partially offset by decreasing pricing margins, contributed to significant year-over-year increases in gains on sales of loans for both the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003.
Net financing revenue, including provision for credit losses, also increased significantly year-over-year, reflecting continued growth in the balance of mortgage loans held as collateral for secured financings, which increased from $10.2 billion at September 30, 2002 to $31.1 billion at September 30, 2003. Also contributing to the increase were higher average inventories of loans held for sale corresponding to the higher loan production.
Other income improved for both the third quarter and nine-months ended September 30, 2003, compared to the same periods in 2002, primarily due to market driven valuation adjustments on residual interest asset- and mortgage-backed securities in 2002. Non-interest expense also grew compared to the same periods in 2002, reflecting increased compensation costs corresponding to employee and business growth caused by the higher production levels.
The carrying value of the Company’s mortgage servicing rights increased to $3.3 billion at September 30, 2003 from $2.4 billion at June 30, 2003, reflecting the impact of record loan production and hedge accounting valuation increases (corresponding to the increase in interest rates and resultant decrease in prepayment expectations), partially offset by asset amortization and impairment. The amortization and impairment of mortgage servicing rights, net of the Company’s risk management activities, increased for the third quarter and nine-months ended September 30, 2003, from the same periods in 2002, primarily due to lower net gains from risk management activities relative to the level of mortgage servicing rights amortization and impairment. Refer to Notes 2 and 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of the Company’s risk management strategies for mortgage servicing rights.
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GMAC Insurance insures and reinsures automobile service contracts, personal automobile insurance coverages (ranging from preferred to non-standard risks) and selected commercial insurance coverages. Refer to pages 22-24 of the Company’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion of the business profile of GMAC’s Insurance operations.
The following table summarizes the operating results of the Insurance operations for the periods indicated. The amounts presented are before the elimination of balances and transactions with the Company’s other operating segments.
Net income from Insurance operations totaled $57 million and $106 million for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003, respectively, compared to $20 million and $83 million for the same periods in 2002. The increases in net income in 2003 were attributable mainly to lower net capital losses than those incurred during 2002, which included the write-down of certain investment securities.
Insurance premiums and service revenue earned at GMAC Insurance and its subsidiaries was $778 million and $2,229 million for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003, respectively, compared to $697 million and $1,967 million for the same periods in 2002. The increases over 2002 were due primarily to higher average revenue for mechanical extended service contracts (from a shift to longer term plans) and higher rates and policy volume for personal auto insurance businesses.
The increases in investment income were attributable principally to lower levels of other than temporary impairment write-downs recognized on the investment portfolio as compared to 2002. For the nine months ended September 30, 2002, $62 million in impairment charges were recorded as compared to $41 million for the first nine months of 2003. Management performs analyses of individual securities and concludes that those for which recovery to cost is not foreseeable are other than temporarily impaired. The carrying values of these securities are written down to market value, with the resulting loss recognized in earnings.
Total expenses amounted to $799 million and $2,297 million for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003, compared to $713 million and $2,055 million for the same periods in 2002. The increases in 2003 were primarily attributable to insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses along with acquisition and underwriting expenses. These components of expenses increased commensurately with increases in revenue earned.
The Company has identified critical accounting estimates that, as a result of judgments, uncertainties, uniqueness and complexities of the underlying accounting standards and operations involved, could result in material changes to its financial condition, results of operations or cash flows under different conditions or using different assumptions. GMAC’s most critical accounting estimates are:
There have been no significant changes in the methodologies and processes used in developing these estimates from what is described in the Company’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Funding Sources and Strategy
GMAC’s liquidity, as well as its ongoing profitability, in large part depends upon its timely access to capital and the costs associated with raising funds in different segments of the capital markets. The Company’s strategy in managing liquidity risk has been to develop diversified funding sources across a global investor base. As an important part of its overall funding and liquidity strategy, the Company maintains substantial credit facilities aggregating $53 billion, which provide back-up liquidity and represent additional funding sources, if required. As further discussed in Note 5 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, the Company renewed certain of these facilities in June 2003. The Funding and Liquidity section in the Company’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K provides further discussion of GMAC’s funding sources and strategy.
The following table summarizes GMAC’s funding sources for the periods indicated.
The Company’s worldwide borrowing costs (including the effects of derivatives) for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003 averaged 3.62% and 3.70%, respectively, as compared to 4.22% and 4.34% for the same periods in 2002. The reduction in borrowing costs is reflective of the overall decrease in market interest rates over the past year. Despite a tightening of credit spreads in the third quarter of 2003, GMAC is experiencing historically high unsecured borrowing spreads due to volatility in the capital markets, combined with weakness in the automotive sector of the corporate bond markets and concerns regarding the financial outlook of GM. In response to this challenging environment, the Company’s funding efforts, in addition to unsecured debt sources, continue to emphasize securitization (including those accounted for as secured financings) and retail debt programs. In an effort to further diversify its funding and liquidity sources, the Company (beginning in June 2003) began executing retail automotive portfolio sales transactions in which GMAC does not retain any interest in the underlying receivables, transferring the credit risk to the purchaser. During the nine months ended, September 30, 2003, the Company executed two such sales aggregating $4 billion. Management expects to continue to use diverse funding sources to maintain its financial flexibility and expects that access to the capital markets will be sufficient to meet the Company’s funding needs.
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Credit Ratings
Substantially all of the Company’s debt has been rated by nationally recognized statistical rating organizations. As of November 12, 2003, all GMAC ratings were within the investment grade category. Concerns over the competitive and financial strength of GM, including how it will fund its pension and retiree health care liabilities, resulted in the Company experiencing a series of negative rating actions in 2003, as summarized in the following table.
The Company uses off-balance sheet entities as part of its operating and funding activities. For further discussion of GMAC’s use of off-balance sheet entities, refer to the Off-balance Sheet Activities section of Management’s Discussion and Analysis in GMAC’s 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K. The amounts outstanding in off-balance sheet facilities has decreased since December 31, 2002 as the Company continues to utilize securitization transactions that, while similar in legal structure to off-balance sheet securitizations, are accounted for as secured financings (see Note 5 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for the amount of assets held as collateral in secured financing transactions). The following table summarizes assets carried in off-balance sheet entities.
FASB Interpretation No. 46 — In January 2003, the FASB issued Interpretation No. 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an Interpretation of ARB No. 51, Consolidated Financial Statements. FIN 46 addresses consolidation and disclosure by business enterprises of variable interest entities, representing those entities whose total equity investment at risk is not sufficient to permit the entity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support from other parties. More specifically, FIN 46 defines variable interest entities as those entities in which the equity investment at risk is not greater than the expected losses of the entity.
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FIN 46 explains how to identify variable interest entities and how an enterprise assesses its interests in a variable interest entity in order to decide whether to consolidate that entity. FIN 46 requires a variable interest entity to be consolidated by the primary beneficiary if the entity does not effectively disperse risks among the parties involved. Variable interest entities that effectively disperse risks will not be consolidated unless a single party holds an interest or combination of interests that effectively recombines risks that were previously dispersed. FIN 46 does not impact the consolidation guidance for qualifying special purpose entities (QSPEs), as described in SFAS No. 140, Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishments of Liabilities.
Upon its original issuance, FIN 46 was to be effective the first interim or annual period beginning after June 15, 2003 (i.e., July 1, 2003 for GMAC) for interests in variable interest entities in existence on January 31, 2003, and effective February 1, 2003 for variable interest entities created on or after such date. On October 8, 2003, the FASB decided to allow companies additional time to complete the evaluation of variable interest entities that existed prior to February 1, 2003, deferring the implementation date for such variable interest entities until December 31, 2003 for calendar year companies while encouraging earlier application. Because GMAC had already completed the evaluation of variable interest entities, the provisions of FIN 46 were applied effective July 1, 2003. Most of the Company’s variable interests are structured as qualifying special purpose entities and, therefore, are exempt from FIN 46. For GMAC’s interests in variable interest entities, a primary beneficiary analysis was performed. In the course of performing this analysis, management revised GMAC’s involvement in certain of the entities, which impacted the resulting consolidation treatment. After such revisions, the application of the consolidation provisions of FIN 46 resulted in an increase in assets and liabilities of approximately $3.7 billion, with no material impact on the Company’s results of operations or statement of cash flows. Refer to Note 8 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of GMAC’s involvement with variable interest entities.
The following section provides a discussion of GMAC’s consolidated results of operations when compared with the same respective period in the prior year as displayed in the Consolidated Statement of Income. The individual business segment sections of this MD&A provide further discussion of the operating results.
Revenues
Total financing revenue increased by $564 million and $1,335 million, respectively, in the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003. The primary reason for the increase was growth in the consumer automotive portfolio from GM-sponsored special rate financing programs and the increased use of secured financing structures in the Mortgage operations along with increased interest income earned on higher balances of mortgage loans held for sale. Total financing revenue was adversely affected by a reduction in net operating lease revenue attributable to a continued decrease in the Company’s average operating lease portfolio and lower earning rates. Year-to-date operating lease revenues were also negatively impacted by lower gains on remarketed vehicles.
Commensurate with the increase in debt to fund the growth in assets, interest and discount expense increased by $247 million and $589 million for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003, respectively. The provision for credit losses decreased $34 million and $344 million in the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2002, respectively. Lower loss provisions in the commercial financing portfolio and slower retail automotive asset growth, more than offset the increase in the provision caused by the growth in on-balance sheet mortgage assets. A combination of volume and rate increases in the Company’s Insurance operations resulted in an increase in insurance premiums and service revenue earned in 2003, as compared to 2002.
Mortgage banking income increased in 2003 by $503 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 as increased loan production and higher pricing margins generated an increase in gains from the sale of mortgage loans. Despite these gains, mortgage banking income declined in the third quarter by $295 million from the comparable period in 2002 primarily as a result of lower net gains from risk management activities on the mortgage servicing right asset.
Investment income increased in 2003 due to other than temporary impairment charges taken in 2002 on both the Insurance operation’s investment portfolio as well as on certain mortgage-backed securities.
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Expenses
Compensation and benefits expense increased by $134 million and $372 million, respectively, for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003. The primary reason for the increase in compensation and benefits expense was higher employee costs at the Company’s Mortgage operations, consistent with the increased production levels. The increase in insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses was largely due to higher written premium and service revenue volumes.
Other operating expense increased $10 million and $324 million, respectively, for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003. Contributing to the increase were higher expenses associated with the international automotive full service leasing business, as this business continues to expand geographically. In addition, year-to-date other operating expenses were negatively impacted by operating costs associated with the increased loan production in the Company’s Mortgage operations. The Company’s effective tax rate was 37.2% and 37.7% for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2003, which was consistent with the comparable periods in 2002.
The foregoing Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations contains various forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable federal securities laws that are based upon GMAC’s current expectations and assumptions concerning future events, which are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.
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Controls and ProceduresGeneral Motors Acceptance Corporation
The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the specified time periods. As of the end of the period covered by this report, GMAC’s President and GMAC’s Chief Financial Officer evaluated, with the participation of GMAC’s management, the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures. Based on the evaluation, which disclosed no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses, GMAC’s President and GMAC’s Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective. There were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the Company’s most recent fiscal quarter that may have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
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Other InformationGeneral Motors Acceptance Corporation
The Company did not become a party to any material pending legal proceedings during the nine-months ended September 30, 2003, or during the period from September 30, 2003 to the filing date of this report.
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SignaturesGeneral Motors Acceptance Corporation
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized, this 12th day of November 2003.
General Motors Acceptance Corporation(Registrant)
/s/ WILLIAM F. MUIRWilliam F. MuirExecutive Vice President andChief Financial Officer
/s/ LINDA K. ZUKAUCKASLinda K. ZukauckasController and Principal Accounting Officer
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Index of ExhibitsGeneral Motors Acceptance Corporation
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The following exhibit shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or otherwise subject to the liability of that Section. In addition Exhibit No. 32 shall not be deemed incorporated into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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