Revise Factors

If the vendor or issuer provides an update to a Released status factor for an MBS security, you can perform the following processing tasks to revise a factor:

1. Cancel the corporate action announcement for the old factor.

2. Input the corrected factor.

3. Run global factor processing.

The following sections describe these tasks. Alternately, you can 1) use the rebook process to adjust the factor (Rebook Corporate Action panel). You can then 2) globally cancel the corporation action (Cancel Global Corporate Action Announcements panel) and 3) run global factor processing (Factor Processing panel).

Task One: Cancel the Old Factor's Corporate Action Announcement

In the Set Up Cancel Corporate Action Announcement panel, you can create a cancel corporate action record for the old factor. Creating the cancel of a corporate action does not automatically reverse/cancel the activity from the original action. You must process the cancellation action in the Global Process workspace.

To cancel a corporate action announcement for a released factor:

1. In Reference Data Center, in the left navigation pane, click Reference Desk > Corporate Actions > Maintain > Set Up Cancel Corporate Action Announcement.
   You see the Set Up Cancel Corporate Action Announcement panel.

2. In the Entry Panel tab, enter the query criteria in the Corporate Action table to identify the corporate action for the released factor you want to cancel.

3. Click Submit.
   You see the corporate action announcements that met your criteria in the Show All tab.

4. Select each corporate action announcement that you want to cancel so that a check mark appears in the Select column for that row, and then click Create Cancel Corporate Action Record.
   You see each corporate action announcement you selected in the Action Entry Panel tab.

5. Click Submit.
   Eagle Accounting creates a cancel record for the corporate action. That is, Eagle Accounting sets up a cancel record for the previously established released factor.

6. In Accounting Center, in the left navigation pane, click Processing and Exceptions > Global Processes > Corporate Actions > Cancel Global Corporate Action Announcements.
   You see the Cancel Global Corporate Action Announcements panel. You can use the Global Cancel corporate action process to cancel all previously processed paydowns for the Effective Date of the factor, for all entities holding that security. The cancelling of the paydown transaction causes earnings to rollback and replay with the new current face.

Task Two: Input the Corrected Factor

Input the new corrected factor in the Create Final Factor panel, and assign it a Corporate Action Status of Released. Eagle Accounting only processes corporate actions with a released status.

Task Three: Run Factor Processing

Run the global factor processing for the new factor. For more information, see Process Factors.

During factor processing, Eagle Accounting rolls back earnings to the Effective Date of the new factor, applies the new factor, and then replays earnings forward (using the newly adjusted current face) to the previous Earn Thru Date of the position.

Consider that in this example, you:

• Purchased Security 31296GT32

• In Portfolio MBSDEMOG

• With a Trade Date of 20040105

• A Settle Date of 20040106

• Par of 1,000,000.00

• A Price of 90.00

Eagle Accounting amortizes 241.86 (CY2) for the month of January. Then a factor for February 1 of 90, is applied. Eagle Accounting creates a Paydown of 100,000.00 vs. 90,024.19 Amortized Cost and a 9,975.81 gain. If this factor is revised for February with a factor of 0.99795196, after processing steps 1-3 above, Eagle Accounting now calculates a Paydown of 2,048.04 par versus 1,843.74 Amortized Cost, and Unrealized Gain/Loss of 204.30.

In the Global Process workspace's Factor Processing panel, you enter factor processing criteria as follows. You identify the entity and security you want to process, and specify a begin and end date range for the sweep date of 20040201, that is, for February. You then process the revised factor.

The following figure shows the Factor Processing panel.

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