Sorry I am so late in replying!  It would seem that the MTM issue is 
Bridgeline's decision and would solely be based on whether or not they are, 
in fact, trading as defined in EITF 98-10.  There are about 4 pages of 
criteria set forth in that document.  That may be a question you want to ask 
Trevor Mihalik, but I do know that initially they did not meet 98-10 
criteria.  Their business may well have changed by now.  
I am confused by your suggestion about whether or not to involve commercial.  
I may not understand, but we do already have a means to track our 40 %.  We 
can certainly mark 60% of any business we do with Bridgeline, but the other 
40% should be treated as affiliate business.

Wes    




Brent A Price
05/23/2000 06:07 AM
To: Wes Colwell/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Steve Jackson/HOU/ECT@ECT 
Subject: Accounting for transaction done with Bridgeline

Wes - Are we still anticipating that Bridgeline will be allowed 
mark-to-market status at some point in the future?  If so, what criteria must 
Bridgeline meet and what is the expected timeline on it?  If this is going to 
happen soon, I would suggest that we avoid getting Commercial involved and 
developing a process to track our 40% portion of Bridgeline. 

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	From:  Steve Jackson                           05/19/2000 12:29 PM
	

To: Brent A Price/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc:  
Subject: Accounting for transaction done with Bridgeline

FYI
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	From:  Georgeanne Hodges                           05/01/2000 04:11 PM
	

To: Steve Jackson/HOU/ECT@ECT
cc: Wes Colwell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Mary Lynne Ruffer/HOU/ECT@ECT 
Subject: Accounting for transaction done with Bridgeline

Steve,

AA has indicated that our proposal with regard to transactions done between 
ENA and Bridgeline sounds OK.  They did bring up a good point about how the 
40% would be shown for purposes of position and loss limits, which under our 
scenario of just using schedule 'C' to defer the 40%  we would effectively be 
showing the 100% for all other measures.  I told them that we would monitor 
for materiality before putting a manual process in place.

I think we should now meet with the commercial folks to explain the real p\l 
impact.  Would you take the lead on deciding who that should be and get a 
meeting set up?

Thanks