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The following is an excerpt from a 10-Q SEC Filing, filed by REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC on 8/8/2006.
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REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC - 10-Q - 20060808 - MARKET_RISK
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk
     Our earnings and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in interest rates primarily from our investment of available cash balances in investment grade corporate and U.S. government securities. We do not believe we are materially exposed to changes in interest rates. Under our current policies we do not use interest rate derivative instruments to manage exposure to interest rate changes. We estimated that a one percent change in interest rates would result in an approximately $0.9 million and $1.1 million change in the fair market value of our investment portfolio at June 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The decrease in the impact of an interest rate change at June 30, 2006, compared to June 30, 2005, is due to decreases in our investment portfolio’s balance and duration to maturity at the end of June 2006 versus the end of June 2005.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
     Our management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”)), as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on this evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer each concluded that, as of the end of such period, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in applicable rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
     There has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended June 30, 2006 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.