Understand Stated Interest Processing

In the Amortization & Accretion Rules panels, you can specify a value for the Stated Interest Processing (tag 16412) field, which determines whether to use stated interest processing and the Stated Interest Recognization (tag 1613) field, which Indicates whether to recognize coupon income and amortization on the contractual date or the actual settlement date when you use stated interest processing. 

About Stated Interest Processing

Stated interest processing allows you to only recognize premium amortization when either:

• Coupon payments are received, either on a contractual or actual settlement date basis.
• Disposal transactions that have accrued interest. 

You can create an amortization & accretion rule that uses stated interest processing to allow the entity/accounting basis to recognize interest and premium amortization when cash is received. 

Retail US taxpayers who recognize bond premium amortization should record such amortization on a cash basis rather than an accrual basis. As interest payments are recorded and paid bond premium allocable to the payment should be recorded at the same time. As bond sales with accrued interest results in recognition of interest income to the seller the accrued interest of the sell should be treated as stated interest and the period to date amortization proportionate to the quantity sold on a lot should be recorded at that time. 

Calculate Current Period to Date Amortization After a Conversion or Receipt

If you use stated interest processing, you can transfer amortization for the current coupon period, starting the beginning of the current period. The system can calculate this value on the first day of earnings after a Conversion or a Receipt.

This applies if you use stated interest processing, and it only applies to premium purchases. Stated Interest processing posts amortization corresponding to the period in which a coupon was accrued. You can provide this value, amortization for the current coupon period, starting the beginning of the current period. Without it, amortization can be understated. 

When you need to transfer life to date amortization amounts, the Receive and Conversion trade panels include the following options for a transaction where the Amortization at Disposition is set to Yes. The Conversion trade panel displays the amortization at disposition life to date local and base fields (tags 5548 and 5549) when you convert a debt security being converted and the original purchase price (tag 45) is lower than the maturity price (tag 42).

• Life to Date Deferred Amortization at Disposition Local (tag 5548). Specifies the projected local life-to-date amortization for an amortization at disposition lot. This option applies to a lot where the amortization/accretion rule has Amortization at Disposition set to Yes. 
• Life to Date Deferred Amortization at Disposition Base (tag 5549). Displays the projected base life-to-date amortization.for an amortization at disposition lot. This option applies to a lot where the amortization/accretion rule has Amortization at Disposition set to Yes.

You can use the Receive and Conversion trade panels to specify the amount of deferred received PTD amortization for debt securities for the current coupon period when you use stated interest processing. The Receive and Conversion trade panels include the following options for a transaction where the Stated Interest Processing field is set to Yes.

• Period to Date Amort at Disp Local  (tag 11932). Specifies the projected local period-to-date amortization for an amortization at disposition lot. This option applies to a lot where the amortization/accretion rule has Stated Interest Processing set to Yes. 
• Period to Date Amort at Disp Base(tag 11933). Displays the projected base period-to-date amortization.for an amortization at disposition lot. This option applies to a lot where the amortization/accretion rule has Stated Interest Prociessing set to Yes.