Derivative Instruments

12 Months Ended

Sep. 27, 2019

Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]

DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS:

The Company enters into contractual derivative arrangements to manage changes in market conditions related to interest on debt obligations, foreign currency exposures and exposure to fluctuating gasoline and diesel fuel prices. Derivative instruments utilized during the period include interest rate swap agreements, foreign currency forward exchange contracts and gasoline and diesel fuel agreements. All derivative instruments are recognized as either assets or liabilities on the balance sheet at fair value at the end of each quarter. The counterparties to the Company's contractual derivative agreements are all major international financial institutions. The Company is exposed to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by these counterparties. The Company continually monitors its positions and the credit ratings of its counterparties, and does not anticipate nonperformance by the counterparties. For designated hedging relationships, the Company formally documents the hedging relationship and its risk management objective and strategy for undertaking the hedge, the hedging instrument, the hedged item, the nature of the risk being hedged and how the hedging instrument's effectiveness in offsetting the hedged risk will be assessed prospectively and retrospectively for designated hedges. The Company also formally assesses, both at the hedge's inception and on an ongoing basis, whether the derivatives that are used in hedging transactions are highly effective in offsetting cash flows of hedged items.

Cash Flow Hedges

The Company has approximately $2.5 billion notional amount of outstanding interest rate swap agreements as of September 27, 2019, which fixes the rate on a like amount of variable rate borrowings through the first quarter of fiscal 2023. During fiscal 2019, the Company entered into approximately $500.0 million notional amount of interest rate swap agreements to hedge the cash flow risk of variability in interest payments on variable rate borrowings. In addition, interest rate swaps with notional amounts of $575.0 million matured during fiscal 2019. As a result of the Credit Agreement entered into in fiscal 2017, the Company de-designated the previous interest rate swap agreements as the terms of the interest rate swaps did not match the terms of the new term loans. Prior to the Credit Agreement, these agreements met the required criteria to be designated as cash flow hedging instruments. The Company then amended the interest rate swap agreements to match the terms of the new term loans under the Credit Agreement to meet the criteria to be designated as cash flow hedging instruments. As a result of the de-designation, the Company recorded charges to "Interest and Other Financing Costs, net" in the Consolidated Statements of Income during fiscal 2017 of approximately $2.9 million for the changes in market value of the interest rate swaps.

Changes in the fair value of a derivative that is designated as and meets all the required criteria for a cash flow hedge are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and reclassified into earnings as the underlying hedged item affects earnings. Amounts reported in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) related to derivatives will be reclassified to interest expense as interest payments are made on the Company’s variable-rate debt. As of September 27, 2019 and September 28, 2018, approximately ($31.1) million and $36.2 million of unrealized net of tax gains (losses) related to the interest rate swaps were included in "Accumulated other comprehensive loss," respectively.

The following table summarizes the effect of our derivatives designated as cash flow hedging instruments on Other comprehensive income (loss) (in thousands):



	Fiscal Year Ended
	September 27, 2019			September 28, 2018		September 29, 2017
Interest rate swap agreements	$	(84,392	)	$	55,445	$	31,884

Derivatives not Designated in Hedging Relationships

The Company entered into a series of pay fixed/receive floating gasoline and diesel fuel agreements based on the Department of Energy weekly retail on-highway index in order to limit its exposure to price fluctuations for gasoline and diesel fuel. As of

September 27, 2019, the Company has contracts for approximately 18.6 million gallons outstanding through fiscal 2020. The Company does not record its gasoline and diesel fuel agreements as hedges for accounting purposes. The impact on earnings related to the change in fair value of these unsettled contracts was a loss of approximately $4.1 million for fiscal 2019 and not material in both fiscal year 2018 and 2017. The change in fair value for unsettled contracts is included in "Selling and general corporate expenses" in the Consolidated Statements of Income. When the contracts settle, the gain or loss is recorded to "Costs of services provided" in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

As of September 27, 2019, the Company had foreign currency forward exchange contracts outstanding with notional amounts of €72.6 million, CAD30.0 million and £7.5 million to mitigate the risk of changes in foreign currency exchange rates on short-term intercompany loans to certain international subsidiaries. Gains and losses on these foreign currency exchange contracts are recognized in earnings as the contracts were not designated as hedging instruments, substantially offsetting currency transaction gains and losses on the short-term intercompany loans.

The following table summarizes the location and fair value, using Level 2 inputs (see Note 16 for a description of the fair value levels), of the Company's derivatives designated and not designated as hedging instruments in the Consolidated Balance Sheets (in thousands):



	Balance Sheet Location	September 27, 2019		September 28, 2018
ASSETS
Designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swap agreements	Prepayments and other current assets	$	—	$	1,459
Interest rate swap agreements	Noncurrent Assets	—		54,708

Not designated as hedging instruments:
Foreign currency forward exchange contracts	Prepayments and other current assets	$	64	$	209
Gasoline and diesel fuel agreements	Prepayments and other current assets	—		3,623
		$	64	$	59,999
LIABILITIES
Designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swap agreements	Other Noncurrent Liabilities	$	43,112	$	—

Not designated as hedging instruments:
Gasoline and diesel fuel agreements	Accounts Payable	$	462	$	—
		$	43,574	$	—

The following table summarizes the location of (gain) loss reclassified from "Accumulated other comprehensive loss" into earnings for derivatives designated as hedging instruments and the location of (gain) loss for our derivatives not designated as hedging instruments in the Consolidated Statements of Income (in thousands):



		Fiscal Year Ended
	Income Statement Location	September 27, 2019			September 28, 2018			September 29, 2017
Designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swap agreements	Interest and Other Financing Costs, net	$	(6,484	)	$	5,185		$	16,606

Not designated as hedging instruments:
Gasoline and diesel fuel agreements	Costs of services provided / Selling and general corporate expenses	$	6,168		$	(7,360	)	$	(1,277	)
Foreign currency forward exchange contracts	Interest and Other Financing Costs, net	145			(67		)	(886		)
		$	6,313		$	(7,427	)	$	(2,163	)
		$	(171	)	$	(2,242	)	$	14,443

The Company has an outstanding Japanese yen denominated term loan in the amount of ¥10,378.1 million. The term loan was designated as a hedge of the Company's net Japanese currency exposure represented by the equity investment in our Japanese affiliate, AIM Services Co., Ltd. Additionally, the Company has a Euro denominated term loan in the amount of €124.4 million. The term loan was designated as a hedge of the Company's net Euro currency exposure represented by certain holdings in our European affiliates.

At September 27, 2019, the net of tax loss expected to be reclassified from "Accumulated other comprehensive loss" into earnings over the next twelve months based on current market rates is approximately $10.0 million.