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VENEZUELA HIGHLY INFLATIONARY ACCOUNTING
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
VENEZUELA HIGHLY INFLATIONARY ACCOUNTING [Abstract]  
VENEZUELA HIGHLY INFLATIONARY ACCOUNTING
13.VENEZUELA HIGHLY INFLATIONARY ACCOUNTING

The Company commenced operations in Venezuela in 2007, where it markets a variety of personal care and nutritional products. Total assets in Venezuela as of March 31, 2014 are $27.4 million, $24.3 of which are monetary assets. The Venezuela subsidiary also has a $34.8 million intercompany balance to its parent company as of March 31, 2014, with respect to charges for inventory, commissions, license fees and service fees. The Company imports all of its products into Venezuela from the United States.  Venezuela represents a very small portion of the Company's overall business with sales for the three months ended March 31, 2014 representing approximately 1% of the Company's overall revenue.

Since November of 2009, Venezuela has been considered a highly inflationary economy. A country is considered to have a highly inflationary economy if it has a cumulative inflation rate of approximately 100% or more over a three-year period as well as other qualitative factors including historic inflation rate trends (increasing and decreasing), the capital intensiveness of the operation and other pertinent economic factors.  The functional currency in highly inflationary economies is required to be the functional currency of the entity's parent company (which for our Venezuela subsidiary is the U.S. dollar), and transactions denominated in the local currency are re-measured to the functional currency. The re-measurement of bolivars into U.S. dollars creates foreign currency transaction gains or losses, which should be included in the Company's consolidated statement of income.

The Venezuela subsidiary did not transition to highly inflationary status until the first quarter of 2014 (see "- 15. Restatement"). As a result, the Company continued to account for the Venezuela subsidiary as a bolivar functional currency entity, rather than a U.S. dollar functional currency entity. In the first quarter of 2014, the Company began to account for this subsidiary as highly inflationary, and therefore changed the functional currency of the entity to the U.S. dollar.  As a result, for periods prior to 2014, the Company improperly recorded $6 million related to foreign currency remeasurement adjustments caused by changes in the Venezuela exchange rate in accumulated other comprehensive income (equity). The consolidated statement of income for the three-month period ended March 31, 2014, includes an out-of-period adjustment of $6 million to correct this error.  The Company has determined not to restate prior period financial statements because the amount of the adjustment is not material to the prior periods or this reporting period.

The current operating environment in Venezuela continues to be challenging, with high inflation in the country, government restrictions on foreign exchange and pricing controls, and the possibility of the government announcing further devaluations to its currency. Currency restrictions enacted by the Venezuelan government have impacted the ability of the Company to exchange foreign currency at the official rate to pay for imported products, license fees, commissions and other service fees.  The Company has been unsuccessful in obtaining U.S. dollars at the official exchange rates and under alternative exchange mechanisms described below.  As a result, these foreign exchange controls in Venezuela have limited the Company's ability to repatriate earnings and settle the Company's intercompany obligations, which has resulted in the accumulation of bolivar-denominated cash and cash equivalents in Venezuela.

During the quarter ended March 31, 2014, two new foreign exchange mechanisms ("SICAD I" and "SICAD II") became available in Venezuela. Accordingly, there are three legal mechanisms in Venezuela to exchange currency. As of March 31, 2014, the Company determined it would be most appropriate for it to utilize the SICAD I rate, which was approximately 10.7 bolivars per U.S. dollar, as the Company believes this rate better reflects the rate at which they will be able to convert bolivars to U.S. dollars.  As a result of the adoption of this rate during the period ended March 31, 2014, the Company recorded a charge of $15 million (restated) in Other Income (Expense) to reflect foreign currency transaction losses on its net monetary assets denominated in bolivar.