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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549-1004
 
FORM 10-Q
 
     
þ
  QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
     
    For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2007, or
     
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  TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
     
    For the transition period from                      to                     .
 
Commission file number: 1-3754
 
GMAC LLC
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
     
Delaware   38-0572512
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
200 Renaissance Center
P.O. Box 200 Detroit, Michigan
48265-2000
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
 
(313) 556-5000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months, and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes þ             No o
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer or a non- accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). (Check one):
Large accelerated filer o Accelerated filer o Non-accelerated filer þ
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
Yes o          No þ
 


 

 
GMAC LLC
 
INDEX
 
             
        Page
  Financial Statements (unaudited)    
    Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income
for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2007 and 2006 (As restated)
  3
    Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet
as of March 31, 2007, and December 31, 2006
  4
    Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity
for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2007 and 2006 (As restated)
  5
    Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2007 and 2006
  6
    Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements   7
  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations   26
  Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk   45
  Controls and Procedures   45
  Legal Proceedings   46
  Risk Factors   46
  Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds   47
  Defaults Upon Senior Securities   47
  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders   47
  Other Information   47
  Exhibits   47
      48
  49
 Intellectual Property License Agreement
 Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges
 Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
 Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
 Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 1350


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PART I. — FINANCIAL INFORMATION
 
Item 1. Financial Statements (unaudited)
 
GMAC LLC
 
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF INCOME (unaudited)
 
                 
          2006
 
          (As restated
 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007     see Note 1)  
   
Revenue
               
Consumer
    $2,528       $2,569  
Commercial
    723       726  
Loans held for sale
    479       481  
Operating leases
    1,568       1,929  
 
 
Total financing revenue
    5,298       5,705  
Interest expense
    3,673       3,814  
 
 
Net financing revenue before provision for credit losses
    1,625       1,891  
Provision for credit losses
    681       166  
 
 
Net financing revenue
    944       1,725  
Servicing fees
    559       472  
Amortization and impairment of servicing rights
          (23 )
Servicing asset valuation and hedge activities, net
    (302 )     (186 )
 
 
Net loan servicing income
    257       263  
Insurance premiums and service revenue earned
    1,041       1,010  
(Loss) gain on sale of mortgage and automotive loans
    (37 )     364  
Investment income
    309       258  
Other income
    866       1,004  
 
 
Total net financing revenue and other income
    3,380       4,624  
Expense
               
Depreciation expense on operating lease assets
    1,081       1,440  
Compensation and benefits expense
    635       718  
Insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses
    573       597  
Other operating expenses
    1,246       1,152  
 
 
Total noninterest expense
    3,535       3,907  
Income (loss) before income tax expense
    (155 )     717  
Income tax expense
    150       222  
 
 
Net income (loss)
    ($305 )     $495  
 
 
Preferred interests dividends
    (52 )      
 
 
Net income (loss) available to members
    ($357 )     $495  
 
 
 
The Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.


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GMAC LLC
 
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET (unaudited)
 
                 
    March 31,
    December 31,
 
($ in millions)   2007     2006  
   
Assets
               
Cash and cash equivalents
    $9,657       $15,459  
Investment securities
    17,516       16,791  
Loans held for sale
    22,086       27,718  
Finance receivables and loans, net of unearned income
               
Consumer
    126,023       130,542  
Commercial
    42,727       43,904  
Allowance for credit losses
    (3,733 )     (3,576 )
 
 
Total finance receivables and loans, net
    165,017       170,870  
Investment in operating leases, net
    25,881       24,184  
Notes receivable from General Motors
    2,231       1,975  
Mortgage servicing rights
    5,108       4,930  
Premiums and other insurance receivables
    2,116       2,016  
Other assets
    25,520       23,496  
 
 
Total assets
    $275,132       $287,439  
 
 
Liabilities
               
Debt
               
Unsecured
    $106,729       $113,500  
Secured
    116,998       123,485  
 
 
Total debt
    223,727       236,985  
Interest payable
    2,289       2,592  
Unearned insurance premiums and service revenue
    5,051       5,002  
Reserves for insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses
    2,627       2,630  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities
    23,083       22,659  
Deferred income taxes
    1,063       1,007  
 
 
Total liabilities
    257,840       270,875  
Preferred interests
    2,226       2,195  
Equity
               
Members’ interest
    7,745       6,711  
Retained earnings
    6,816       7,173  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    505       485  
 
 
Total equity
    15,066       14,369  
 
 
Total liabilities, preferred interests and equity
    $275,132       $287,439  
 
 
 
The Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.


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GMAC LLC
 
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY (unaudited)
Three Months Ended March 31, 2007 and 2006
 
                                                 
    Common
                Accumulated
             
    stock and
                other
             
    paid-in
    Members’
    Retained
    comprehensive
    Total
    Comprehensive
 
($ in millions)   capital     interest     earnings     income     equity     income (loss)  
   
Balance at January 1, 2006
                                               
(As restated, see Note 1)
    $5,760       $—       $15,095       $830       $21,685          
Net income
                495             495       $495  
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax:
                                               
Transfer of unrealized loss for certain available for sale
securities to trading securities
                (17 )     17                
Recognize mortgage servicing
rights at fair value
                4             4       4  
Other comprehensive income
                      85       85       85  
 
 
Balance at March 31, 2006 (As restated, see Note 1)
    $5,760       $—       $15,577       $932       $22,269       $584  
 
 
Balance at January 1, 2007
    $—       $6,711       $7,173       $485       $14,369          
Net loss
                (305 )           (305 )     ($305 )
Preferred interests dividends
                (52 )           (52 )        
Capital contributions
          1,034                   1,034          
Other comprehensive income
                      20       20       20  
 
 
Balance at March 31, 2007
    $—       $7,745       $6,816       $505       $15,066       ($285 )
 
 
 
The Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.


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GMAC LLC
 
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (unaudited)
Three Months Ended March 31, 2007 and 2006
 
                 
($ in millions)   2007     2006  
   
Operating activities
               
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities
    $4,872       ($1,978 )
 
 
Investing activities
               
Purchases of available for sale securities
    (11,960 )     (5,399 )
Proceeds from sale of available for sale securities
    2,343       1,290  
Proceeds from maturities of available for sale securities
    9,976       3,618  
Net decrease (increase) in finance receivables and loans
    580       (24,943 )
Proceeds from sales of finance receivables and loans
    5,147       32,782  
Purchases of operating lease assets
    (4,621 )     (4,524 )
Disposals of operating lease assets
    1,861       1,625  
Change in notes receivable from General Motors
    (252 )     (206 )
Purchases of mortgage servicing rights, net
          (56 )
Acquisitions of subsidiaries, net of cash acquired
          (322 )
Proceeds from sale of business unit, net of cash (a)
          7,943  
Other, net (b)
    (984 )     (801 )
 
 
Net cash provided by investing activities
    2,090       11,007  
 
 
Financing activities
               
Net change in short-term debt
    (797 )     (5,567 )
Proceeds from issuance of long-term debt
    13,678       23,766  
Repayments of long-term debt
    (26,478 )     (26,749 )
Other financing activities (c)
    836       1,081  
Dividends paid
    (21 )      
 
 
Net cash used in financing activities
    (12,782 )     (7,469 )
 
 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
    18       (3 )
 
 
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents
    (5,802 )     1,557  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
    15,459       15,795  
 
 
Cash and cash equivalents at March 31,
    $9,657       $17,352  
 
 
(a)  Includes proceeds from the March 23, 2006, sale of GMAC Commercial Mortgage of approximately $1.5 billion and proceeds from repayment of intercompany loans of approximately $7.3 billion, $250 of which was received in preferred equity and net of cash transferred to purchaser of approximately $650.
(b)  Includes $618 and $558 for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively, related to securities lending transactions where cash collateral is received and a corresponding liability is recorded, both of which are presented in investing activities.
(c)  Includes $1 billion capital contribution from General Motors during the three months ended March 31, 2007, pursuant to the terms of General Motors’ November 30, 2006, sale of a 51% interest in GMAC to FIM Holdings LLC.
 
The Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)
 
1. Basis of Presentation
 
GMAC LLC (referred to herein as GMAC, we, our or us) was founded in 1919 as a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation (General Motors or GM). On November 30, 2006, GM sold a 51% interest in us for approximately $7.4 billion (the Sale Transactions) to FIM Holdings LLC (FIM Holdings). FIM Holdings is an investment consortium led by Cerberus FIM Investors, LLC, the sole managing member, and also including Citigroup Inc., Aozora Bank Ltd., and a subsidiary of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
 
The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements as of March 31, 2007, and for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, are unaudited but, in management’s opinion, include all adjustments consisting of normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods.
 
The interim period consolidated financial statements, including the related notes, are condensed and are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP) for interim reporting. These interim period Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with our audited Consolidated Financial Statements, which are included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 13, 2007.
 
Restatement of Previously Issued Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
 
As disclosed in our 2006 Form 10-K and discussed in Note 2 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, we are restating our historical Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2006, our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income for the three months ended March 31, 2006, and our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the three months ended March 31, 2006. This restatement relates to the accounting treatment for certain hedging transactions under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended and interpreted (SFAS 133). We are also correcting certain other out-of-period errors, which were deemed immaterial, individually and in the aggregate, in the periods in which they were originally recorded and identified. These items relate to transactions involving certain transfers of financial assets, valuations of certain financial instruments, amortization of unearned income on certain products, income taxes and other inconsequential items. Because of this derivative restatement, we are correcting these amounts to record them in the proper period.
 
Share-Based Compensation Plans
 
The Compensation Committee approved two new shared-based compensation plans for executives during the fourth quarter of 2006, which include a Long-Term Phantom Interest Plan (LTIP) and a Management Profits Interest Plan (MPI). These compensation plans provide our executives with an opportunity to share in the future growth in value of GMAC. While the plans were formed in 2006, no grants were made until the first quarter of 2007.
 
The LTIP is an incentive plan for executives based on the appreciation of GMAC’s value in excess of a preferred return of 10% to certain of our investors during a three-year performance period. The awards vest at the end of the performance period and are paid in cash following a valuation of GMAC performed by FIM Holdings. The awards do not entitle the participant to an equity ownership interest in GMAC. The plan authorizes 500 units to be granted for the performance period ending December 31, 2009. GMAC granted 50 units on January 30, 2007, and 314 units on March 19, 2007. The LTIP awards are accounted for under SFAS No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment (SFAS 123(R)), as they meet the definition of share-based compensation awards. Under SFAS 123(R) the awards require liability treatment and, are remeasured quarterly at fair market value until they are settled. The compensation cost related to these awards will be ratably charged to expense over the requisite service period, which is the vesting period ending December 31, 2009. The quarterly remeasurement will encompass changes in the market and industry, as well as our latest forecasts for the performance period. Changes in fair value relating to the portion of the awards


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

that have vested will be recognized in earnings in the period in which such changes occur. The fair market value of the awards granted during the first quarter of 2007 was approximately $78 million as of March 31, 2007, of which $4 million was recognized as expense in the first quarter of 2007.
 
The MPI is an incentive plan whereby Class C Membership interests in GMAC held by a management company are granted to senior executives. The total Class C Membership interests are 5,820, of which 3,703 were awarded on January 3, 2007. Half of the awards vest based on a service requirement and half vest based on meeting operating performance objectives. The service portion vests ratably over five years beginning January 3, 2008, and on each of the next four anniversaries thereafter. The performance portion vests based on five separate annual targets established at the beginning of each year. If the performance objectives are met, that year’s pro rata share of the awards vest. If the current year objectives are not met, but the annual performance objectives of a subsequent year are met, all unvested shares from previous years will vest. Any unvested award as of December 31, 2011, shall be forfeited. The MPI awards are accounted for under SFAS 123(R) as they meet the definition of share-based compensation awards. Under SFAS 123(R) the awards require equity treatment and are fair valued as of their grant date using assumptions such as our forecasts, historical trends, and the overall industry and market environment. Annual performance objectives for periods after 2007 have not been established. Therefore, awards with these objectives are not deemed to be granted under SFAS 123(R) as the terms and condition for vesting have not been communicated to the participants. Compensation expense for the MPI shares is ratably charged to expense over the five-year requisite service period for service based awards and over each one-year requisite service period for the performance based awards, both to the extent of awards that actually vest. The fair market value of the 2,221 awards deemed granted in the first quarter of 2007 was approximately $12 million, of which $1 million was recognized as expense in the first quarter of 2007.
 
Change in Accounting Principle
 
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Interpretation No. 48 — On January 1, 2007, we adopted FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (FIN 48), which clarifies SFAS 109 by defining the confidence level that an income tax position must meet in order to be recognized in the financial statements. FIN 48 requires that the tax effects of a position be recognized only if it is “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained solely on its technical merits. The more-likely-than-not threshold represents a positive assertion by management that a company is entitled to the economic benefits of a tax position. If a tax position is not considered more-likely-than-not to be sustained based solely on its technical merits, no benefits of the tax position are to be recognized. The cumulative effect of applying FIN 48 is to be recorded directly to retained earnings and reported as a change in accounting principle. The adoption of this interpretation as of January 1, 2007, did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial position. Gross unrecognized tax benefits totaled approximately $126 million at January 1, 2007, of which approximately $124 million would affect our effective tax rate, if recognized.
 
We recognize interest and penalties accrued related to uncertain income tax positions in interest expense and other operating expenses, respectively. As of January 1, 2007, we had approximately $116 million accrued for the payment of interest and penalties. There were no significant changes to the liability for uncertain income tax positions during the quarter ended March 31, 2007.
 
Effective November 28, 2006, GMAC, along with certain U.S. subsidiaries, became disregarded or pass-through entities for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Our banking, insurance and foreign subsidiaries are generally corporations and continue to be subject to and provide for U.S. federal, state and local, and foreign income taxes. With few exceptions, we are no longer subject to U.S. federal, state and local, or foreign income tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 1999. We anticipate the Internal Revenue Service examination of our U.S. income tax returns for 2001 through 2003, along with examinations by various state and local jurisdictions, will be completed by the end of 2007. As such, it is possible that certain tax positions may be settled and the unrecognized tax benefits would decrease by approximately $11 million.


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

Recently Issued Accounting Standards
 
Statement of Position 05-1 — In September 2005 the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) issued Statement of Position 05-1, Accounting by Insurance Enterprises for Deferred Acquisition Costs in Connection with Modifications or Exchanges of Insurance Contracts (SOP 05-1). SOP 05-1 provides guidance on accounting for deferred acquisition costs on internal replacements of insurance contracts. SOP 05-1 defines an internal replacement and specifies the conditions that determine whether the replacement contract is substantially or unsubstantially changed from the replaced contract. An internal replacement determined to result in a substantially changed contract should be accounted for as an extinguishment of the replaced contract; unamortized deferred acquisition costs and unearned revenue liabilities of the replaced contract should no longer be deferred. An internal replacement determined to result in an unsubstantially changed contract should be accounted for as a continuation of the replaced asset. SOP 05-01 introduces the terms “integrated” and “non-integrated” contract features and specifies that non-integrated features do not change the base contract and are to be accounted for in a manner similar to a separately issued contract. Integrated features are evaluated in conjunction with the base contract. SOP 05-1 is effective for internal replacements occurring in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. Adoption of SOP 05-1 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
 
SFAS No. 155 — In February 2006 the FASB issued SFAS No. 155 Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments — an amendment of FASB Statements No. 133 and 140 (SFAS 155). This standard permits fair value remeasurement for any hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation. SFAS 155 allows an entity to make an irrevocable election to measure such a hybrid financial instrument at fair value on an instrument-by-instrument basis. The standard eliminates the prohibition on a Qualifying Special Purpose Entity (QSPE) from holding a derivative financial instrument that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative financial instrument. SFAS 155 also clarifies which interest-only and principal-only strips are not subject to the requirements of SFAS 133, as well as determines that concentrations of credit risk in the form of subordination are not embedded derivatives. SFAS 155 is effective for all financial instruments acquired or issued after the beginning of the fiscal year that begins after September 15, 2006. Adoption of SFAS 155 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
 
FASB Staff Position (FSP) No. 13-2 — In July 2006 the FASB issued FSP No. 13-2, Accounting for a Change or Projected Change in the Timing of Cash Flows Relating to Income Taxes Generated by a Leveraged Lease Transaction (FSP 13-2), which amends SFAS No. 13, Accounting for Leases, by requiring lessors to recalculate the rate of return and periodic income allocation for leveraged-lease transactions when there is a change or projected change in the timing of income tax cash flows related to the lease. FSP 13-2 requires lessors to use the model in FIN 48 to determine the timing and amount of expected tax cash flows in leveraged-lease calculations and recalculations. FSP 13-2 is effective in the same period as FIN 48. At the date of adoption, the lessor is required to reassess projected income tax cash flows related to leveraged leases using the FIN 48 model for recognition and measurement. Revisions to the net investment in a leveraged lease required when FSP 13-2 is adopted would be recorded as an adjustment to the beginning balance of retained earnings and reported as a change in accounting principle. Adoption of FSP 13-2 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
 
SFAS No. 157 — In September 2006 the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (SFAS 157), which provides a definition of fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and requires expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. The standard applies when GAAP requires or allows assets or liabilities to be measured at fair value, and therefore, does not expand the use of fair value in any new circumstance. Fair value refers to the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an arm’s length transaction between market participants, in such markets where we conduct business. SFAS 157 clarifies that fair value should be based on the assumptions market participants would use when pricing an asset or liability and establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the information used to develop those assumptions. The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices available in


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

active markets and the lowest priority to data lacking transparency. The level of the reliability of inputs utilized for fair value calculations drives the extent of disclosure requirements of the valuation methodologies used under the standard. SFAS 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim periods within those years. The provisions of SFAS 157 should be applied prospectively. Management is assessing the potential impact on our consolidated financial condition and results of operations.
 
SFAS No. 158 — In September 2006 the FASB issued SFAS No. 158, Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans, which amends SFAS No. 87, Employers’ Accounting for Pensions, SFAS No. 88, Employer’s Accounting for Settlements and Curtailments of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and for Termination Benefits, SFAS No. 106, Employer’s Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions, and SFAS No. 132(R), Employers’ Disclosures about Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits (revised 2003). This Statement requires companies to recognize an asset or liability for the overfunded or underfunded status of their benefit plans in their financial statements. The asset or liability is the offset to other comprehensive income, consisting of previously unrecognized prior service costs and credits, actuarial gains or losses and transition obligations and assets. SFAS 158 also required the measurement date for plan assets and liabilities to coincide with the sponsor’s year end. The standard provides two transition alternatives for companies to make the measurement-date provisions. The recognition of the asset or liability related to funded status provision is effective for us for fiscal years ending after June 15, 2007, and the change in measurement is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2008. Adoption of this guidance is not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
 
SFAS No. 159 — In February 2007 the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (SFAS 159). SFAS 159 permits entities to choose to measure at fair value many financial instruments and certain other items that are not currently required to be measured at fair value. Subsequent changes in fair value for designated items will be required to be reported in earnings in the current period. SFAS 159 also establishes presentation and disclosure requirements for similar types of assets and liabilities measured at fair value. SFAS 159 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. We are currently assessing the effect of implementing this guidance, which directly depends on the nature and extent of eligible items elected to be measured at fair value, upon initial application of the standard on January 1, 2008.
 
2. Restatement of Previously Issued Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
 
As previously disclosed in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent to the issuance of our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for the three months ended March 31, 2006, management concluded that our hedge accounting documentation and hedge effectiveness assessment methodologies related to particular hedges of callable fixed rate debt instruments funding our North American automotive operations did not satisfy the requirements of SFAS 133. One of the requirements of SFAS 133 is that hedge accounting is appropriate only for those hedging relationships for which a company has a sufficiently documented expectation that such relationships will be highly effective in achieving offsetting changes in fair values attributable to the risk being hedged at the inception of the hedging relationship. To determine whether transactions continue to satisfy this requirement, companies must periodically assess the effectiveness of hedging relationships both prospectively and retrospectively.
 
Management determined that hedge accounting treatment should not have been applied to these hedging relationships. As a result, we should not have recorded any adjustments on the debt instruments included in the hedging relationships related to changes in fair value due to movements in the designated benchmark interest rate. Accordingly, we have restated our historical Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet at March 31, 2006, our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income for the three months ended March 31, 2006, and our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the three months ended March 31, 2006, from the amounts previously reported to remove such recorded adjustments on these debt instruments from our reported interest expense during 2006. The elimination of hedge accounting treatment introduces increased


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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

funding cost volatility in our restated results. The changes in the fair value of fixed rate debt previously recorded were affected by changes in the designated benchmark interest rate (LIBOR). Prior to the restatement, adjustments to record increases in the value of this debt occurred in periods when interest rates declined, and adjustments to record decreases in value were made in periods when interest rates rose. As a result, changes in the benchmark interest rates caused volatility in the debt’s fair value adjustments that were recognized in our historical earnings, which were mitigated by the changes in the value of the interest rate swaps in the hedge relationships. The interest rate swaps, which economically hedge these debt instruments continue to be recorded at fair value with changes in fair value recorded in earnings. We are also correcting certain other out-of-period errors, which were deemed immaterial, individually and in the aggregate, in the periods in which they were originally recorded and identified. These items relate to transactions involving certain transfers of financial assets, valuations of certain financial instruments, amortization of unearned income on certain products, income taxes and other inconsequential items. Because of this derivative restatement, we are correcting these amounts to record them in the proper period.
 
The following table sets forth a reconciliation of previously reported and restated net income for the period shown. The restatement decreased January 1, 2006, retained earnings to $15,095 million from $15,190 million. The decrease of $95 million was comprised of a $191 million decrease related to the elimination of a hedge accounting related to certain debt instruments and an increase of $96 million related to other immaterial items.
 
         
    Net income for the
    three months
($ in millions)   ended March 31, 2006
 
Previously reported net income
    $672  
Elimination of hedge accounting related to certain debt instruments
    (191 )
Other, net
    (80 )
 
 
Total pre-tax
    (271 )
Related income tax effects
    94  
 
 
Restated net income
    $495  
 
 
% change
    (26 )
 
 


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NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

The following table presents the effects of the restatement on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income. Certain amounts in the previously reported columns have been reclassified to conform to the 2007 presentation. The most significant reclassifications relate to servicing fees; amortization and impairment of servicing rights; servicing asset valuation and hedge activities, net; and gain on sale of mortgage and automotive loans, which were previously included in mortgage banking income and other income and are now reflected as separate components of total net financing revenue and other income.
 
                 
    2006
    Previously
   
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   reported   Restated
 
Revenue
               
Consumer
    $2,566       $2,569  
Commercial
    726       726  
Loans held for sale
    481       481  
Operating leases
    1,929       1,929  
 
 
Total financing revenue
    5,702       5,705  
Interest expense
    3,562       3,814  
 
 
Net financing revenue before provision for credit losses
    2,140       1,891  
Provision for credit losses
    135       166  
 
 
Net financing revenue
    2,005       1,725  
Servicing fees
    472       472  
Amortization and impairment of servicing rights
    (23 )     (23 )
Servicing asset valuation and hedge activities
    (186 )     (186 )
 
 
Net loan servicing income
    263       263  
Insurance premiums and service revenue earned
    1,010       1,010  
Gain on sale of mortgage and automotive loans
    364       364  
Investment income
    258       258  
Other income
    1,016       1,004  
 
 
Total net financing revenue and other income
    4,916       4,624  
Expense
               
Depreciation expense on operating lease assets
    1,440       1,440  
Compensation and benefits expense
    718       718  
Insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses
    597       597  
Other operating expenses
    1,173       1,152  
 
 
Total noninterest expense
    3,928       3,907  
Income before income tax expense
    988       717  
Income tax expense
    316       222  
 
 
Net income
    $672       $495  
 
 


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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

The following table presents the effects of the restatement on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet:
 
                 
    Previously
   
March 31, 2006 ($ in millions)   reported   Restated
 
Assets
               
Cash and cash equivalents
    $17,352       $17,352  
Investment securities
    18,269       18,269  
Loans held for sale
    18,171       18,171  
Finance receivables and loans, net of unearned income
               
Consumer
    139,395       139,407  
Commercial
    44,770       44,770  
Allowance for credit losses
    (2,911 )     (2,911 )
 
 
Total finance receivables and loans, net
    181,254       181,266  
Investment in operating leases, net
    32,567       32,567  
Notes receivable from General Motors
    4,785       4,785  
Mortgage servicing rights
    4,526       4,526  
Premiums and other insurance receivables
    2,116       2,116  
Other assets
    24,765       24,692  
 
 
Total assets
    $303,805       $303,744  
 
 
Liabilities
               
Debt
               
Unsecured
    $121,654       $122,135  
Secured
    124,287       124,287  
 
 
Total debt
    245,941       246,422  
Interest payable
    2,829       2,829  
Unearned insurance premiums and service revenue
    5,210       5,210  
Reserves for insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses
    2,725       2,725  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities
    20,032       19,760  
Deferred income taxes
    4,529       4,529  
 
 
Total liabilities
    281,266       281,475  
Equity
               
Common stock and paid-in capital
    5,760       5,760  
Retained earnings
    15,849       15,577  
Accumulated other comprehensive income
    930       932  
 
 
Total equity
    22,539       22,269  
 
 
Total liabilities and equity
    $303,805       $303,744  
 
 


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NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

The following table presents the effects of the restatement on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity at March 31, 2006:
 
                 
    2006
    Previously
   
($ in millions)   reported   Restated
 
Common stock and paid-in capital
               
Balance at January 1, and at March 31,
    $5,760       $5,760  
 
 
Retained earnings
               
Balance at January 1,
    15,190       15,095  
Net income
    672       495  
Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle, net of tax:
               
Transfer of unrealized loss for certain available for sale securities to trading securities
    (17 )     (17 )
Recognize mortgage service rights at fair value
    4       4  
 
 
Balance at March 31,
    15,849       15,577  
 
 
Accumulated other comprehensive income
               
Balance at January 1,
    828       830  
Transfer of unrealized loss for certain available for sale securities to trading securities
    17       17  
Other comprehensive income
    85       85  
 
 
Balance at March 31,
    930       932  
 
 
Total equity
               
Balance at January 1,
    21,778       21,685  
Net income
    672       495  
Recognize mortgage servicing rights at fair value
    4       4  
Other comprehensive income
    85       85  
 
 
Total equity at March 31,
    $22,539       $22,269  
 
 
Comprehensive income
               
Net income
    $672       $495  
Other comprehensive income
    85       85  
Recognize mortgage servicing rights at fair value
    4       4  
 
 
Comprehensive income
    $761       $584  
 
 


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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

3. Other Income
 
Details of our other income were as follows:
 
                 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007   2006
 
Real estate related revenue and other investment income
  $ 172       $142  
Interest and service fees on transactions with GM (a)
    74       147  
Interest on cash equivalents
    118       119  
Other interest revenue
    141       120  
Full service leasing fees
    75       64  
Late charges and other administrative fees
    44       41  
Mortgage processing fees
    11       71  
Interest on restricted cash deposits
    43       28  
Insurance service fees
    42       30  
Factoring commissions
    13       15  
Specialty lending fees
    11       15  
Fair value adjustment on certain derivatives (b)
    17       (8 )
Other
    105       220  
 
 
Total other income
  $ 866       $1,004  
 
 
(a)  Refer to Note 9 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of related party transactions.
(b)  Refer to Note 8 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of derivative instruments and hedging activities.
 
4. Other Operating Expenses
 
Details of other operating expenses were as follows:
 
                 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007   2006
 
Insurance commissions
    $240       $243  
Technology and communications expense
    145       130  
Professional services
    93       105  
Advertising and marketing
    70       84  
Premises and equipment depreciation
    51       65  
Rent and storage
    54       67  
Full service leasing vehicle maintenance costs
    70       60  
Lease and loan administration
    53       54  
Auto remarketing and repossession
    45       47  
Operating lease disposal loss (gain)
    12       (49 )
Other
    413       346  
 
 
Total other operating expenses
    $1,246       $1,152  
 
 


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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

5. Finance Receivables and Loans
 
The composition of finance receivables and loans outstanding was as follows:
 
                                                 
    March 31, 2007     December 31, 2006  
($ in millions)   Domestic     Foreign     Total     Domestic     Foreign     Total  
   
Consumer
                                               
Retail automotive
    $39,363       $21,410       $60,773       $40,568       $20,538       $61,106  
Residential mortgages
    61,975       3,275       65,250       65,928       3,508       69,436  
 
 
Total consumer
    101,338       24,685       126,023       106,496       24,046       130,542  
Commercial
                                               
Automotive:
                                               
Wholesale
    12,502       8,464       20,966       12,723       7,854       20,577  
Leasing and lease financing
    335       760       1,095       326       901       1,227  
Term loans to dealers and other
    2,697       770       3,467       1,843       764       2,607  
Commercial and industrial
    11,657       2,258       13,915       14,068       2,213       16,281  
Real estate construction and other
    2,975       309       3,284       2,969       243       3,212  
 
 
Total commercial
    30,166       12,561       42,727       31,929       11,975       43,904  
 
 
Total finance receivables and loans (a)
    $131,504       $37,246       $168,750       $138,425       $36,021       $174,446  
 
 
  (a)  Net of unearned income of $5.6 billion and $5.7 billion as of March 31, 2007, and December 31, 2006, respectively.
 
The following table presents an analysis of the activity in the allowance for credit losses on finance receivables and loans.
 
                                                 
Three months ended March 31,
  2007   2006
($ in millions)   Consumer   Commercial   Total   Consumer   Commercial   Total
 
Allowance at beginning of period
    $2,969       $607       $3,576       $2,652       $433       $3,085  
Provision for credit losses
    499       182       681       188       (22 )     166  
Charge-offs
                                               
Domestic
    (426 )     (78 )     (504 )     (321 )     (46 )     (367 )
Foreign
    (41 )     (51 )     (92 )     (45 )     (1 )     (46 )
 
 
Total charge-offs
    (467 )     (129 )     (596 )     (366 )     (47 )     (413 )
 
 
Recoveries
                                               
Domestic
    57             57       53       5       58  
Foreign
    10       1       11       13       2       15  
 
 
Total recoveries
    67       1       68       66       7       73  
 
 
Net charge-offs
    (400 )     (128 )     (528 )     (300 )     (40 )     (340 )
Impacts of foreign currency translation
    2       2       4       1       (2 )     (1 )
Securitization activity
                      1             1  
 
 
Allowance at March 31,
    $3,070       $663       $3,733       $2,542       $369       $2,911  
 
 


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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

6. Mortgage Servicing Rights
 
The following table summarizes activity related to mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) carried at fair value.
 
                 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007     2006  
   
Estimated fair value at beginning of period
    $4,930       $4,021  
Additions obtained from sales of financial assets
    441       310  
Changes in fair value:
               
Due to changes in valuation inputs or assumptions used in
the valuation model
    (104 )     359  
Other changes in fair value
    (158 )     (164 )
Other changes that affect the balance
    (1 )      
 
 
Estimated fair value at March 31,
    $5,108       $4,526  
 
 
 
Changes in fair value, due to changes in valuation inputs or assumptions used in the valuation models, include all changes due to a revaluation by a model or by a benchmarking exercise. This line item also includes changes in fair value due to a change in valuation assumptions and/or model calculations. Other changes in fair value primarily include the accretion of the present value of the discount related to forecasted cash flows and the economic run-off of the portfolio, as well as foreign currency adjustments and the extinguishment of MSRs related to clean-up calls of securitization transactions.
 
The following are key assumptions we use in valuing our MSRs:
 
                 
March 31,   2007     2006  
   
Range of prepayment speeds
    1.0 – 43.6 %     7.0 – 38.4 %
Range of discount rate
    8.0 – 13.0 %     8.0 – 14.0 %
 
 
 
Our servicing rights’ primary risk is interest rate risk and the resulting impact on prepayments. A significant decline in interest rates could lead to higher than expected prepayments, which could reduce the value of the MSRs. We economically hedge the income statement impact of these risks with both derivative and non-derivative financial instruments. These instruments include interest rate swaps, caps and floors, options to purchase these items, futures and forward contracts and/or purchasing or selling U.S. Treasury and principal-only securities. At March 31, 2007, the fair value of derivative financial instruments and non-derivative financial instruments used to mitigate these risks amounted to $188 million and $1.5 billion, respectively. The change in the fair value of the derivative financial instruments amounted to a loss of $41 million and $381 million for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively, and is included in servicing asset valuation and hedge activities, net in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income.
 
The components of servicing fees were as follows:
 
                 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007     2006  
   
Contractual servicing fees, net of guarantee fees and including subservicing
    $380       $321  
Late fees
    38       30  
Ancillary fees
    29       23  
 
 
Total
    $447       $374  
 
 
 
At March 31, 2007, we pledged MSRs of $2.6 billion as collateral for borrowings. For a description of MSRs and the related hedging strategy, refer to Notes 9 and 15 to our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

7. Debt
 
The presentation of debt in the following table is classified between domestic and foreign based on the location of the office recording the transaction.
 
                                                 
    March 31, 2007     December 31, 2006  
($ in millions)   Domestic     Foreign     Total     Domestic     Foreign     Total  
   
Short-term debt
                                               
Commercial paper
    $707       $1,090       $1,797       $742       $781       $1,523  
Demand notes
    6,444       184       6,628       5,917       157       6,074  
Bank loans and overdrafts
    1,431       6,007       7,438       991       5,272       6,263  
Repurchase agreements and other (a)
    21,746       5,179       26,925       22,506       7,232       29,738  
 
 
Total short-term debt
    30,328       12,460       42,788       30,156       13,442       43,598  
Long-term debt
                                               
Senior indebtedness:
                                               
Due within one year
    15,626       14,083       29,709       20,010       15,204       35,214  
Due after one year
    128,495       22,804       151,299       135,693       22,589       158,282  
 
 
Total long-term debt
    144,121       36,887       181,008       155,703       37,793       193,496  
Fair value adjustment (b)
    (15 )     (54 )     (69 )     (3 )     (106 )     (109 )
 
 
Total debt
    $174,434       $49,293       $223,727       $185,856       $51,129       $236,985  
 
 
(a)  Repurchase agreements consist of secured financing arrangements with third parties at our mortgage operations. Other primarily includes non-bank secured borrowings, as well as Notes payable to GM. Refer to Note 9 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further details.
(b)  To adjust designated fixed rate debt for changes in fair value due to changes in the designated benchmark interest rate in accordance with SFAS 133.
 
The following summarizes assets that are restricted as collateral for the payment of the related debt obligation primarily arising from securitization transactions accounted for as secured borrowings and repurchase agreements.
 
                                 
    March 31, 2007     December 31, 2006  
          Related
          Related
 
          secured
          secured
 
($ in millions)   Assets     debt (a)     Assets     debt (a)  
   
Loans held for sale
    $18,387       $16,190       $22,834       $20,525  
Mortgage assets held for investment and lending receivables
    73,896       62,422       80,343       68,333  
Retail automotive finance receivables
    20,389       18,344       20,944       18,858  
Wholesale automotive finance receivables
    325       189       376       240  
Investment securities
    4,794       5,248       3,662       4,523  
Investment in operating leases, net
    10,583       9,865       6,851       6,456  
Real estate investments and other assets
    7,723       4,740       8,025       4,550  
 
 
Total
    $136,097       $116,998       $143,035       $123,485  
 
 
(a)  Included as part of secured debt are repurchase agreements of $12.6 billion and $11.5 billion where we have pledged assets, reflected as investment securities, as collateral for approximately the same amount of debt at March 31, 2007, and December 31, 2006, respectively.


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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

 
Liquidity Facilities
 
Liquidity facilities represent additional funding sources, if required. The financial institutions providing the uncommitted facilities are not legally obligated to advance funds under them. The following table summarizes the liquidity facilities maintained by us.
 
                                                                 
    Committed
    Uncommitted
    Total liquidity
    Unused liquidity
 
    facilities     facilities     facilities     facilities  
    Mar 31,
    Dec 31,
    Mar 31,
    Dec 31,
    Mar 31,
    Dec 31,
    Mar 31,
    Dec 31,
 
($ in billions)   2007     2006     2007     2006     2007     2006     2007     2006  
   
Automotive Finance operations:
                                                               
Syndicated multi-currency global credit facility (a)
    $7.6       $7.6       $—       $—       $7.6       $7.6       $7.6     $ 7.6  
ResCap (b)
    3.9       3.9       2.0       1.9       5.9       5.8       2.5       2.7  
Other:
                                                               
U.S. asset-backed commercial paper liquidity and receivables facilities (c)
    18.3       18.3                   18.3       18.3       18.3       18.3  
Other foreign facilities (d)
    3.4       3.3       9.4       8.8       12.8       12.1       3.1       3.1  
 
 
Total bank liquidity facilities
    33.2       33.1       11.4       10.7       44.6       43.8       31.5       31.7  
 
 
Secured funding facilities
                                                               
Automotive Finance operations (e)
    44.9       36.6                   44.9       36.6       16.2       9.8  
ResCap (f)
    30.4       29.4       75.1       73.3       105.5       102.7       67.4       59.7  
Whole loan forward flow agreements
    44.0       45.5                   44.0       45.5       44.0       45.5  
Other (g)
    3.9       3.9                   3.9       3.9       2.1       2.3  
 
 
Total secured funding facilities
    123.2       115.4       75.1       73.3       198.3       188.7       129.7       117.3  
 
 
Total
    $156.4       $148.5       $86.5       $84.0       $242.9       $232.5       $161.2     $ 149.0  
 
 
 (a)  The entire $7.6 is available for use in the U.S., $0.8 is available for use by GMAC (UK) plc and $0.8 is available for use
by GMAC International Finance B.V. in Europe.
 (b)  ResCap maintains $3.9 of syndicated bank facilities, consisting of a $1.8 syndicated term loan committed through
July 2008, an $875 million syndicated line of credit committed through July 2008, an $875 million syndicated line of credit committed through July 2007, and a $354 Canadian syndicated bank line committed through December 2007.
 (c)  Relates to New Center Asset Trust (NCAT), which is a special purpose entity administered by us for the purpose of funding assets as part of our securitization funding programs. This entity funds assets primarily through the issuance of asset-backed commercial paper and represents an important source of liquidity to us. At March 31, 2007, NCAT had commercial paper outstanding of $7.6, which is not consolidated in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.
 (d)  Consists primarily of credit facilities supporting operations in Canada, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
 (e)  In March 2007 we established a new $6 variable note funding facility. The facility is available to fund U.S. dealer floor plan receivables in certain circumstances, including in the event of GM filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
 (f)  ResCap’s primary sources of secured funding include whole-loan sales, secured aggregation facilities, asset-backed commercial paper facilities and repurchase agreements. In addition, ResCap’s collateralized borrowings in securitized trusts totaled $48.8 and $53.3 as of March 31, 2007, and December 31, 2006, respectively.
 (g)  Consists primarily of Commercial Finance secured funding facilities.
 
The syndicated multi-currency global credit facility includes a $4.35 billion five-year facility (expires June 2008) and a $3.25 billion 364-day facility (expires June 2007). The 364-day facility includes a term out option which, if exercised by us prior to expiration, carries a one-year term. Additionally, a leverage covenant in the liquidity facilities and certain other funding facilities restricts the ratio of consolidated borrowed funds (excluding certain obligations of bankruptcy remote special purpose entities) to consolidated net worth to no greater than 11.0:1 under certain conditions. More specifically, the covenant is only applicable on the last day of any fiscal quarter (other than the fiscal quarter during which a change in rating occurs) during such times that we have senior unsecured long-term debt outstanding, without third-party enhancement, which is rated


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

BBB+ or less (by Standard & Poor’s), or Baa1 or less (by Moody’s). Our leverage ratio covenant was 9.5:1 at March 31, 2007, and we are, therefore, in compliance with this covenant.
 
8. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities
 
We enter into interest rate and foreign currency futures, forwards, options and swaps in connection with our market risk management activities. In accordance with SFAS 133, as amended, we record derivative financial instruments on the balance sheet as assets or liabilities at fair value. Changes in fair value are accounted for depending on the use of the derivative financial instrument and whether it qualifies for hedge accounting treatment.
 
The following table summarizes the pre-tax earnings effect for each type of hedge classification, segregated by the asset or liability being hedged.
 
                     
Three months ended March 31,
               
($ in millions)   2007     2006     Income statement classification
 
Fair value hedge ineffectiveness loss:
                   
Loans held for sale
    ($1 )     $—    
(Loss) gain on sale of mortgage and automotive loans
Cash flow hedge ineffectiveness gain:
                   
Debt obligations
          1    
Interest expense
Economic hedge change in fair value:
                   
Off-balance sheet securitization activities:
                   
Financing operations
    11       (8 )  
Other income
Foreign currency debt (a)
    6       52    
Interest expense
Loans held for sale or investment
    (35 )     110    
(Loss) gain on sale of mortgage and automotive loans, net
Mortgage servicing rights
    (41 )     (381 )  
Servicing asset valuation and hedge activities, net
Mortgage related securities
    (14 )     (7 )  
Investment income
Callable debt obligations
    47       (229 )  
Interest expense
Other
    (3 )     17    
Other income, Interest expense, Other operating expenses
 
 
Net losses
    ($30 )     ($445 )    
 
 
  (a)  Amount represents the difference between the changes in the fair values of the currency swap, net of the revaluation of
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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

9. Related Party Transactions
 
Balance Sheet
 
A summary of the balance sheet effect of transactions with GM, FIM Holdings and affiliated companies is as follows:
 
                 
    March 31,
  December 31,
($ in millions)   2007   2006
 
Assets:
               
Available for sale investment in asset-backed security (a)
    $438       $471  
Finance receivables and loans, net of unearned income (b)
               
Wholesale auto financing
    884       938  
Term loans to dealers
    203       207  
Investment in operating leases, net (c)
    293       290  
Notes receivable from GM (d)
    2,231       1,975  
Other assets
               
Receivable related to taxes due from GM (e)
          317  
Other
    44       50  
Liabilities:
               
Unsecured debt
               
Notes payable to GM
    50       60  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities
               
Wholesale payable
    1,045       499  
Subvention receivables (rate and residual support)
    (473 )     (309 )
Lease pull ahead receivable
    (88 )     (62 )
Other receivables
    (14 )     (100 )
Preferred interests
    2,226       2,195  
Equity:
               
Dividends paid to GM (f)
          9,739  
Capital contributions received (g)
    1,033       951  
Preferred interest accretion to redemption value and dividends
    52       295  
 
 
  (a)  In November 2006 GMAC retained an investment in a note secured by operating lease assets transferred to GM. As part of the transfer, GMAC provided a note to a trust, a wholly owned subsidiary of GM. The note is classified in Investment securities on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.
  (b)  Represents wholesale financing and term loans to certain dealerships wholly owned by GM or in which GM has an interest.
  (c)  Includes vehicles, buildings and other equipment classified as operating lease assets that are leased to GM affiliated entities.
  (d)  Includes borrowing arrangements with GM Opel and arrangements related to our funding of GM company-owned vehicles, rental car vehicles awaiting sale at auction, our funding of the sale of GM vehicles through the use of overseas distributors and amounts related to GM trade supplier finance program. In addition, we provide wholesale financing to GM for vehicles, parts and accessories in which GM retains title while consigned to us or dealers in the UK, Italy and Germany. The financing to GM remains outstanding until the title is transferred to the dealers. The amount of financing provided to GM under this arrangement varies based on inventory levels.
  (e)  In November 2006 GMAC transferred NOL tax receivables to GM for entities converting to an LLC. For all non-converting entities, the amount was reclassified to deferred income taxes on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. At December 31, 2006, this balance represents an overpayment of taxes and was included in Accrued expenses and other liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheet. At March 31, 2007, this balance was included in Notes receivable from GM on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.
  (f)  Amount includes cash dividends of $4.8 billion and non-cash dividends of $4.9 billion in 2006. During the fourth quarter of 2006 in connection with the Sale Transactions, GMAC made $7.8 billion of dividends to GM which was comprised of the following (i) a cash dividend of $2.7 billion representing a one-time distribution to GM primarily to reflect the increase in GMAC’s equity resulting from the elimination of a portion of our net deferred tax liabilities arising from the conversion of GMAC and certain of our subsidiaries to a limited liability company, (ii) certain assets with respect to automotive leases owned by GMAC and its affiliates having a net book value of approximately $4.0 billion and related deferred tax liabilities of $1.8 billion, (iii) certain Michigan properties with a carrying value of approximately $1.2 billion to GM, (iv) intercompany receivables from GM related to tax attributes of $1.1 billion, (v) net contingent tax assets of $491 and (vi) other miscellaneous transactions.
  (g)  During the first quarter of 2007, under the terms of the purchase and sale agreement between FIM Holdings and GM, GM made a capital contribution of $1 billion to GMAC. Amount in 2006 is comprised of the following: (i) approximately $801 of liabilities related to U.S. and Canadian based GM sponsored other postretirement programs and related deferred tax assets of $302, (ii) contingent tax liabilities of $384 assumed by GM and (iii) deferred tax assets transferred from GM of $68.


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

Income Statement
 
A summary of the income statement effect of transactions with GM and affiliated companies is as follows:
 
                 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007     2006  
   
Net financing revenue:
               
GM and affiliates lease residual value support (a)
    $219       $167  
Wholesale subvention and service fees from GM
    65       43  
Interest received (paid) on loans with GM
    1       (17 )
Consumer lease payments from GM (b)
    7       40  
Insurance premiums earned from GM
    67       72  
Other income:
               
Interest on notes receivable from GM and affiliates
    32       69  
Interest on wholesale settlements (c)
    38       44  
Revenues from GM leased properties, net
    3       26  
Derivatives (d)
    2        
Service fee income:
               
Rental car repurchases held for resale (e)
          8  
U.S. Automotive operating leases (f)
    3        
Expense:
               
Employee retirement plan costs allocated by GM
    8       29  
Off-lease vehicle selling expense reimbursement (g)
    (8 )     (5 )
Payments to GM for services, rent and marketing expenses (h)
    38       14  
 
 
  (a)  Represents total amount of residual support and risk sharing paid (or invoiced) under the residual support and risk sharing programs and deferred revenue related to the settlement of residual support and risk sharing obligations in 2006 for a portion of the lease portfolio.
  (b)  GM sponsors lease pull-ahead programs whereby consumers are encouraged to terminate lease contracts early in conjunction with the acquisition of a new GM vehicle, with the customer’s remaining payment obligation waived. For certain programs, GM compensates us for the waived payments, adjusted based on the remarketing results associated with the underlying vehicle.
  (c)  The settlement terms related to the wholesale financing of certain GM products are at shipment date. To the extent that wholesale settlements with GM are made prior to the expiration of transit, we receive interest from GM.
  (d)  Represents income related to derivative transactions entered into with GM as counterparty.
  (e)  We receive a servicing fee from GM related to the resale of rental car repurchases. At December 31, 2006, this program was terminated.
  (f)  Represents servicing income related to automotive leases distributed to GM on November 22, 2006.
  (g)  An agreement with GM provides for the reimbursement of certain selling expenses incurred by us on off-lease vehicles sold by GM at auction.
  (h)  GM provides us certain other services and facilities services for which we reimburse them. Included in this amount are rental payments for our primary executive and administrative offices located in the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan.


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

Retail and Lease Programs
 
GM may elect to sponsor incentive programs (on both retail contracts and operating leases) by supporting financing rates below the standard market rates at which we purchase retail contracts and leases. Such marketing incentives are also referred to as rate support or subvention. When GM utilizes these marketing incentives, it pays us the present value of the difference between the customer rate and our standard rate at contract inception, which we defer and recognize as a yield adjustment over the life of the contract.
 
GM may also sponsor lease residual support programs as a way to lower customer monthly payments. Under residual support programs, the customer’s contractual residual value is adjusted above our standard residual values. Historically, GM reimbursed us at the time of the vehicle’s disposal if remarketing sales proceeds were less than the customer’s contractual residual value limited to our standard residual value. In addition to residual support programs, GM also participated in a risk sharing arrangement whereby GM shared equally in residual losses to the extent that remarketing proceeds were below our standard residual values (limited to a floor).
 
In connection with the Sale Transactions GM settled its estimated liabilities with respect to residual support and risk sharing on a portion of our operating lease portfolio and on the entire U.S. balloon retail receivables portfolio in a series of lump-sum payments. A negotiated amount totaling approximately $1.4 billion was agreed to by GM under these leases and balloon contracts and was paid to us. The payments were recorded as a deferred amount in Accrued expenses and other liabilities in our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet and are treated as sales proceeds on the underlying assets, as the contracts terminate and the vehicles are sold at auction, in recognizing the gain or loss on sale.
 
In addition, with regard to U.S. lease originations and all U.S. balloon retail contract originations occurring after April 30, 2006, that remained with us after the consummation of the Sale Transactions, GM agreed to begin payment of the present value of the expected residual support owed to us at the time of contract origination as opposed to after contract termination at the time of sale of the related vehicle. The residual support amount GM actually owes us is “trued up” as the leases actually terminate and, in cases where the estimate was incorrect, GM may be obligated to pay us, or we may be obligated to reimburse GM, under the terms of the residual support program. For the affected contracts originated through March 2007, GM paid or agreed to pay us a total of $280 million in 2007.
 
Based on the March 31, 2007, outstanding U.S. operating lease portfolio, the additional maximum amount that could be paid by GM under the residual support programs is approximately $427 million and would only be paid in the unlikely event that the proceeds from the entire portfolio of lease assets were lower than both the contractual residual value and our standard residual rates. Based on the March 31, 2007, outstanding U.S. operating lease portfolio, the maximum amount that could be paid under the risk sharing arrangements is approximately $599 million and would only be paid in the unlikely event that the proceeds from all outstanding lease vehicles were lower than our standard residual rates.
 
Retail and lease contracts acquired by us that included rate and residual subvention from GM, payable directly or indirectly to GM dealers as a percent of total new retail and lease contracts acquired, are noted in the table.
 
                 
Three months ended March 31,   2007     2006  
   
GM and affiliates subvented contracts acquired:
               
North American operations
    85%       89%  
International operations (a)
    39%       58%  
 
 
  (a)  The decrease in 2007 is primarily due to a price repositioning in Mexico which improved the competitiveness of
non-subvented products and increased Mexico’s retail penetration by 3% in comparison with 2006 levels.
 
As a result of GM sponsored rate incentive programs, our North American operations recognized $373 million and $381 million in consumer financing revenue as yield adjustments on GM subvented retail loans for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively.


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

Other
 
We have entered into various services agreements with GM that are designed to document and maintain the current and historical relationship between us. We are required to pay GM fees in connection with certain of these agreements related to our financing of GM consumers and dealers in certain parts of the world.
 
GM also provides payment guarantees on certain commercial assets we have outstanding with certain third-party customers. As of March 31, 2007, and December 31, 2006, commercial obligations guaranteed by GM were $129 million and $216 million, respectively. In addition, we have a consignment arrangement with GM for commercial inventories in Europe. As of March 31, 2007, and December 31, 2006, commercial inventories related to this arrangement were $142 million and $151 million, respectively, and are reflected in Other assets in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet.
 
In addition, we may enter into various transactions with companies that are affiliated with FIM Holdings. At March 31, 2007, we had $278 million in outstanding commercial receivables and approximately $7 million of related revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2007, from warehouse loans provided in our mortgage operations with Aegis Mortgage Corporation, an affiliate of FIM Holdings. In addition, we are a party to various other immaterial transactions with other companies that are affiliated or associated with FIM Holdings.


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GMAC LLC
 
NOTES TO CONDENSED
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (unaudited)

10. Segment Information
 
Financial results for our reporting segments are summarized as follows:
 
                                                 
    Automotive Finance Operations (a)                
    North
                   
Three months ended March 31,
  American
  International
      Insurance
       
($ in millions)   Operations   Operations (b)   ResCap   Operations   Other (c)   Consolidated
 
2007
                                               
Net financing revenue before provision for credit losses
    $946       $445       $173       $—       $61       $1,625  
Provision for credit losses
    (99 )     (36 )     (542 )           (4 )     (681 )
Other revenue
    768       119       328       1,172       49       2,436  
 
 
Total net financing revenue (loss) and other income
    1,615       528       (41 )     1,172       106       3,380  
Noninterest expense
    1,301       406       810       981       37       3,535  
 
 
Income (loss) before income tax expense
    314       122       (851 )     191       69       (155 )
Income tax expense
    9       31       59       48       3       150  
 
 
Net income (loss)
    $305       $91       ($910 )     $143       $66       ($305 )
 
 
Total assets
    $124,273       $25,125       $121,244       $12,878       ($8,388 )     $275,132  
 
 
2006
                                               
Net financing revenue before provision for credit losses
    $1,031       $402       $265       $—       $193       $1,891  
Provision for credit losses
    (14 )     7       (123 )           (36 )     (166 )
Other revenue
    742       166       799       1,141       51       2,899  
 
 
Total net financing revenue and other income
    1,759       575       941       1,141       208       4,624  
Noninterest expense
    1,675       391       602       955       284       3,907  
 
 
Income (loss) before income tax expense
    84       184       339       186       (76 )     717  
Income tax (expense) benefit
    (27 )     (55 )     (138 )     (57 )     55       (222 )
 
 
Net income (loss)
    $57       $129       $201       $129       ($21 )     $495  
 
 
Total assets
    $155,382       $27,168       $121,914       $13,739       ($14,459 )     $303,744  
 
 
(a)  North American Operations consist of automotive financing in the U.S. and Canada and certain corporate activities. International Operations consists of automotive financing and full service leasing in all other countries and Puerto Rico through March 31, 2006. Beginning April 1, 2006, Puerto Rico has been included in North American Operations.
(b)  Amounts include intra-segment eliminations between the North American Operations and International Operations.
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Item 2.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations
 
Overview
 
GMAC is a leading independent global diversified financial services firm with approximately $275 billion of assets and operations in approximately 40 countries. Founded in 1919 as a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corporation (General Motors or GM), GMAC was originally established to provide GM dealers with the automotive financing necessary for the dealers to acquire and maintain vehicle inventories and to provide retail customers the means by which to finance vehicle purchases through GM dealers. On November 30, 2006, GM sold a 51% interest in us for approximately $7.4 billion (the Sale Transactions) to FIM Holdings LLC (FIM Holdings), an investment consortium led by Cerberus FIM Investors, LLC, the sole managing member, and also including Citigroup Inc., Aozora Bank Ltd. and a subsidiary of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
 
Our products and services have expanded beyond automotive financing as we currently operate in the following lines of business — Automotive Finance, Mortgage (Residential Capital, LLC or ResCap) and Insurance. The following table summarizes the operating results of each line of business for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006. Operating results for each of the lines of business are more fully described in the MD&A sections that follow.
 
                         
        2006
  2007-2006
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007   (Restated)   % change
 
Net financing revenue and other income
                       
Automotive Finance
  $ 2,143     $ 2,334       (8 )
ResCap
    (41 )     941       (104 )
Insurance
    1,172       1,141       3  
Other
    106       208       (49 )
         
         
Net income (loss)
                       
Automotive Finance
    396     $ 186       113  
ResCap
    (910 )     201       (553 )
Insurance
    143       129       11  
Other
    66       (21 )     414  
 
 
 
•     Our Automotive Finance operations offer a wide range of financial services and products (directly and indirectly) to retail automotive consumers, automotive dealerships and other commercial businesses. Our Automotive Finance operations are comprised of two separate reporting segments — North American Automotive Finance Operations and International Automotive Finance Operations. The products and services offered by our Automotive Finance operations include the purchase of retail installment sales contracts and leases, offering of term loans, dealer floor plan financing and other lines of credit to dealers, fleet leasing and vehicle remarketing services. While most of our operations focus on prime automotive financing to and through GM or GM affiliated dealers, our Nuvell operation, which is part of our North American Automotive Finance Operations, focuses on nonprime automotive financing to GM-affiliated and non-GM dealers. Our Nuvell operation also provides private-label automotive financing. In addition, our Automotive Financing operations utilize asset securitization and whole loan sales as a critical component of our diversified funding strategy.
 
•     Our ResCap operations engage in the origination, purchase, servicing, sale and securitization of consumer (i.e., residential) and mortgage loans and mortgage-related products (e.g., real estate services). Typically, mortgage loans are originated and sold to investors in the secondary market, including securitization transactions in which the assets are legally sold but are accounted for as secured financings. In March 2005 we transferred ownership of GMAC Residential and GMAC-RFC to a newly formed wholly owned subsidiary holding company, ResCap. As part of this transfer of ownership, certain agreements were put in place between ResCap and us that restrict ResCap’s ability to declare dividends or prepay subordinated indebtedness owed to us. While we believe the restructuring of these operations and the agreements between ResCap and us allow ResCap to access more attractive sources of capital, the agreements inhibit our ability to return funds for dividends and debt payments. For additional information,


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please refer to ResCap’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2006, filed separately with the SEC, which report is not deemed incorporated into any of our filings under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
 
•     Our Insurance operations offer automobile service contracts and underwrite personal automobile insurance coverage (ranging from preferred to non-standard risks) and selected commercial insurance and reinsurance coverage. We are a leading provider of automotive extended service contracts with mechanical breakdown and maintenance coverages. Our automotive extended service contracts offer vehicle owners and lessees mechanical repair protection and roadside assistance for new and used vehicles beyond the manufacturer’s new vehicle warranty. We underwrite and market non-standard, standard and preferred risk physical damage and liability insurance coverages for passenger automobiles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles and commercial automobiles through independent agency, direct response and internet channels. Additionally, we market private-label insurance through a long-term agency relationship with Homesite Insurance, a national provider of home insurance products. We provide commercial insurance, primarily covering dealers’ wholesale vehicle inventory, and reinsurance products. Internationally, ABA Seguros provides certain commercial business insurance exclusively in Mexico.
 
•     Other operations consist of our Commercial Finance Group, an equity investment in Capmark (our former commercial mortgage operations), certain corporate activities and reclassifications and elimination between the reporting segments.
 
Restatement of Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
As discussed in Notes 1 and 2 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, we restated our historical Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2006, our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income, and our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the three months ended March 31, 2006. This restatement relates to the accounting treatment for certain hedging transactions under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended and interpreted (SFAS 133). We also corrected certain other out-of-period errors, which were deemed immaterial, individually and in the aggregate, in the periods in which they were originally recorded and identified. These items relate to transactions involving certain transfers of financial assets, valuations of certain financial instruments, amortization of unearned income on certain products, income taxes and other inconsequential items. Because of this derivative restatement, we corrected these amounts to record them in the proper period.
 
The following table sets forth a reconciliation of previously reported and restated net income for the period shown. The restatement decreased January 1, 2006, retained earnings to $15,095 million from $15,190 million. The decrease of $95 million was comprised of a $191 million decrease related to the elimination of a hedge accounting related to certain debt instruments and an increase of $96 million related to other immaterial items.
 
         
    Net income for the three months
($ in millions)   ended March 31, 2006
 
Previously reported net income
    $672  
Elimination of hedge accounting related to certain debt instruments
    (191 )
Other, net
    (80 )
 
 
Total pre-tax
    (271 )
Related income tax effects
    94  
 
 
Restated net income
    $495  
 
 
% change
    (26 )
 
 
 
As a result of a review of our hedge documentation for certain fair value hedges, management concluded that such documentation and hedge effectiveness assessment methodologies related to particular hedges of callable fixed rate debt instruments funding our North American Automotive Finance operations did not satisfy the requirements of SFAS 133. One of the requirements of SFAS 133 is that hedge accounting is appropriate only for those hedging relationships for which a company has a sufficiently documented


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expectation that such relationships will be highly effective in achieving offsetting changes in fair values or cash flows attributable to the risk being hedged at the inception of the hedging relationship. To determine whether transactions continue to satisfy this requirement, companies must periodically assess and document the effectiveness of hedging relationships both prospectively and retrospectively.
 
Management determined that hedge accounting treatment should not have been applied to these hedging relationships. As a result, we should not have recorded any adjustments on the debt instruments included in the hedging relationships related to changes in fair value due to movements in the designated benchmark interest rate. Accordingly, we have restated our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2006, our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income, and our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity for the three months ended March 31, 2006, from the amounts previously reported to remove such recorded adjustments on these debt instruments from our reported interest expense during the affected years. The elimination of hedge accounting treatment introduces increased funding cost volatility in our restated results. The changes in the fair value of fixed rate debt previously recorded were affected by changes in the designated benchmark interest rate (LIBOR). Prior to the restatement, adjustments to record increases in the value of this debt occurred in periods when interest rates declined, and adjustments to record decreases in value were made in periods when interest rates rose. As a result, changes in the benchmark interest rates caused volatility in the debt’s fair value adjustments that were recognized in our historical earnings, which were mitigated by the changes in the value of the interest rate swaps in the hedge relationships. The interest rate swaps, which economically hedge these debt instruments, continue to be recorded at fair value with changes in fair value recorded in earnings.
 
The accompanying MD&A considers the effects of this restatement described above and described in Notes 1 and 2 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
 
Consolidated Results of Operations
The following table summarizes our consolidated operating results for the periods indicated. Refer to the reporting segment sections for a more complete discussion of operating results by line of business.
 
                         
          2006
    2007-2006
 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007     (Restated)     % change  
   
Revenue
                       
Total financing revenue
    $5,298       $5,705       (7 )
Interest expense
    (3,673 )     (3,814 )     (4 )
Provision for credit losses
    (681 )     (166 )     310  
         
         
Net financing revenue
    944       1,725       (45 )
Net loan servicing income
    257       263       (2 )
Insurance premiums and service revenue
    1,041       1,010       3  
(Loss) gain on sale of mortgage and automotive loans
    (37 )     364       (110 )
Investment income
    309       258       20  
Other income
    866       1,004       (14 )
         
         
Total net financing revenue and other income
    3,380       4,624       (27 )
Depreciation expense on operating leases
    (1,081 )     (1,440 )     (25 )
Insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses
    (573 )     (597 )     (4 )
Other expense
    (1,881 )     (1,870 )     1  
         
         
Income (loss) before income tax expense
    (155 )     717       (122 )
Income tax expense
    (150 )     (222 )     (32 )
         
         
Net income (loss)
    ($305 )     $495       (162 )
 
 
 
We reported a net loss of $305 million in the first quarter of 2007, as compared to the first quarter 2006 net income of $495 million. This reflects strong earnings in the global automotive finance and insurance businesses that provided earnings support for our ResCap business, which was adversely affected by a decline in the residential housing market and deterioration in the nonprime securitization market in the U.S.
 
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reduction in our operating lease portfolio which was primarily driven by the transfer of operating lease assets to GM during November 2006 as part of the Sale Transactions. Similarly, depreciation expense decreased 25% during the same period as a result of these reductions in our operating lease portfolio.
 
Interest expense decreased slightly in 2007 compared to 2006. The decrease resulted from the reduction in cash and cash equivalents and our repurchase of deferred interest debentures during the third quarter of 2006. This decrease was partially offset by an increase in market interest rates. The provision for credit losses increased 310% as compared to 2006. The increase was primarily due to higher delinquencies at ResCap, attributable to general economic conditions including slower home price appreciation and deterioration in nonprime credit performance.
 
(Loss) gain on sale of mortgage and automotive loans decreased by 110% in 2007 compared to 2006. The decrease is primarily attributable to a decline in fair value of our nonprime and prime second-lien delinquent loans held for sale at ResCap. The pricing for these mortgage loans declined significantly in the fourth quarter of 2006 and continued into the first quarter of 2007, as our ability to securitize these loans was severely restricted as investor uncertainty grew in regards to the performance of these loans. This trend was partially offset by gains on sale from the securitization activity of our auto finance business.
 
Insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses improved slightly in 2007 compared to 2006 driven by favorable loss trends experienced in extended service contract business as well as decreased losses in our domestic personal lines.
 
Our consolidated tax expense for the first quarter of 2007 is $150 million, a decrease of 32% from the first quarter of 2006, primarily due to the mix of earnings in limited liability company (LLC) and non-LLC entities. Results for the first quarter of 2007 reflect a change in tax status for certain of our subsidiaries due to the conversion of a number of our unregulated U.S. subsidiaries to flow-through LLCs in conjunction with the Sale Transaction. These domestic subsidiaries are generally not taxed at the entity level and, therefore, our effective tax rate on a consolidated basis is significantly higher in the first quarter of 2007 than the same period in 2006. The primary reason for this is that the majority of the net loss at ResCap is attributable to its LLCs and no tax benefits for these losses are recorded. Excluding ResCap, the consolidated effective tax rate is approximately 14%, which represents the provision for taxes at our non-LLC subsidiaries combined with taxable income that is not subject to tax at our LLC subsidiaries. The effective tax rates applicable to our non-LLC subsidiaries remain comparable with 2006.


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Automotive Finance Operations
 
Results of Operations
The following table summarizes the operating results of our Automotive Finance operations for the periods indicated. The amounts presented are before the elimination of balances and transactions with our other reporting segments.
 
                         
Three months ended March 31,
        2006
    2007-2006
 
($ in millions)   2007     (Restated)     % change  
   
Revenue
                       
Consumer
    $1,386       $1,430       (3 )
Commercial
    382       368       4  
Operating leases
    1,568       1,926       (19 )
         
         
Total financing revenue
    3,336       3,724       (10 )
Interest expense
    (1,945 )     (2,291 )     (15 )
Provision for credit losses
    (135 )     (7 )     n/m  
         
         
Net financing revenue
    1,256       1,426       (12 )
Servicing fees
    112       59       90  
Net gains on the sale of loans
    198       54       267  
Investment income
    96       87       10  
Other income
    481       708       (32 )
         
         
Total net automotive financing revenue and other income
    2,143       2,334       (8 )
Depreciation expense on operating leases
    (1,081 )     (1,439 )     (25 )
Noninterest expense
    (626 )     (627 )      
Income tax expense
    (40 )     (82 )     (51 )
         
         
Net income
    $396       $186       113  
         
         
Total assets
    $149,398       $182,550       (18 )
 
 
  n/m  =  not meaningful
 
Automotive Finance operations net income increased 113% for the first quarter of 2007. These results reflect improved margins in North America, despite continued margin pressure overseas. The improvement in North America is due to an increase in servicing income related to the growth in our whole loan serviced portfolio and lower debt levels due to the continued use of whole loan sales, and a favorable mark to market effect of $59 million related to the accounting treatment for certain derivative activities.
 
Total financing revenue decreased 10% in the first quarter of 2007, as compared to the prior year. The decrease in consumer revenue is consistent with the reduction in consumer asset levels as a result of continued whole loan sale activity. Consumer finance receivables declined by $5 billion, or approximately 8%, since March 31, 2006. Operating lease revenue (along with the related depreciation expense) decreased year over year consistent with the decrease in the size of the operating lease portfolio (approximately 20% since March 2006), as a result of the dividend of certain operating lease assets to GM pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Sale Transactions.
 
Interest expense decreased 15% for the first quarter of 2007 as compared to the first quarter of 2006. This reduction was primarily due to lower levels of outstanding debt and the favorable impact of the mark to market on certain cancelable swaps which economically hedge callable debt. Our provision for credit losses increased $128 million during the first quarter of 2007, as compared to the same period during the 2006 year. The increase in the provision is consistent with the increase in our delinquency experience and reflects higher loss frequency and loss severity.
 
Net gains on the sale of loans increased 267% for the first three months of 2007, as compared to the same period in 2006. The increase was primarily the result of higher gains on the sale of retail installment contracts in the first quarter of 2007, as compared to the same period in 2006, despite a decrease in volume. Automotive Finance operations continue to utilize asset securitization and whole loan sales as a critical component of our diversified funding strategy. As a result of the growth in the whole loan serviced portfolio, servicing fees increased 90% during the first quarter of 2007, as compared to the same period in 2006.


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Investment income increased 10% for the first three months of 2007, as compared to the same period in 2006. The increase was largely a result of higher short-term interest rates and asset balances in 2007. Other income decreased 32% in comparison to the first quarter of 2006 due to lower revenue on GM loans and intercompany loans due to lower lending levels.
 
Total income tax expense decreased by $42 million for the first three months of 2007, as compared to the same period in 2006, primarily due to our election to be treated as a disregarded or pass-through entity in connection with our conversion to an LLC during the third quarter of 2006. As a result of the conversion, a federal tax provision is no longer required for the majority of the Automotive Finance operations.
 
Automotive Financing Volume
The following table summarizes our new and used vehicle consumer and wholesale financing volume and our share of GM consumer and wholesale volume.
 
                                   
            Share of
 
    GMAC volume       GM sales  
Three months ended March 31, (units in thousands)   2007     2006       2007     2006  
   
Consumer automotive financing
                                 
GM new vehicles
                                 
North America
                                 
Retail contracts
    201       188         27%       26%  
Leases
    135       165         18%       22%  
Total North America
    336       353         45%       48%  
International (retail contracts and leases)
    142       135         25%       25%  
Total GM new units financed
    478       488         36%       38%  
Non-GM new units financed
    22       16                    
Used units financed
    124       99                    
Total consumer automotive financing volume
    624       603                    
Wholesale financing of new vehicles
                                 
GM vehicles
                                 
North America
    758       920         73%       76%  
International
    653       660         89%       89%  
Total GM units financed
    1,411       1,580         77%       82%  
Non-GM units financed
    43       41                    
Total wholesale volume
    1,454       1,621                    
                                   
 
Our consumer automotive financing volume and penetration levels are significantly impacted by the nature, timing and extent of GM’s use of rate, residual and other financing incentives for marketing purposes on consumer retail automotive contracts and leases. Our penetration levels were slightly lower in 2007 than what was experienced in 2006, mainly due to a decline in the use of incentive programs by GM. Our International operations’ consumer penetration levels were flat in 2007 compared to 2006.


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Allowance for Credit Losses
The following table summarizes activity related to the consumer allowance for credit losses for our Automotive Finance operations.
 
                         
($ in millions)   Consumer   Commercial   Total
 
Balance at January 1, 2006
    $1,618       $86       $1,704  
Provision for credit losses
    28       (21 )     7  
Charge-offs
    (236 )           (236 )
Recoveries
    51             51  
Other
    2             2  
 
 
Balance at March 31, 2006
    1,463       65       1,528  
 
 
Balance at January 1, 2007
    1,460       69       1,529  
Provision for credit losses
    134       1       135  
Charge-offs
    (239 )     (1 )     (240 )
Recoveries
    52       1       53  
Other
    3       1       4  
 
 
Balance at March 31, 2007
    $1,410       $71       $1,481  
 
 
Allowance coverage (a)
                       
March 31, 2006
    2.23 %     0.25 %     1.66 %
March 31, 2007
    2.32 %     0.28 %     1.72 %
 
 
(a) Represents the related allowance for credit losses as a percentage of total on-balance sheet automotive contracts.
 
The allowance for credit losses as a percentage of the total on-balance sheet consumer portfolio has experienced an increase in comparison with the first quarter of 2006. The increase was related to a slight increase in loss frequency and severity of our consumer portfolio for North American operations, compared to 2006 levels.
 
The consumer allowance for credit losses was $1,410 million and $1,463 million as of March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively. The consumer portfolio incurred net charge-offs of $187 million and $185 million for the three months ended March 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively. Decreases in the level of allowance from 2006 levels are reflective of proportional decreases in the on-balance sheet consumer portfolio over the same period.
 
Consumer Credit
The following tables summarize pertinent loss experience in the consumer managed and on-balance sheet automotive retail contract portfolios. The managed portfolio includes retail receivables held on-balance sheet for investment and off-balance sheet receivables. The off-balance sheet portion of the managed portfolio includes receivables securitized and sold that we continue to service and in which we retain an interest or risk of loss but excludes securitized and sold finance receivables that we continue to service but in which we retain no interest or risk of loss. The process of creating a pool of retail finance receivables for securitization or sale typically excludes accounts that are greater than 30 days delinquent at such time. In addition, the process involves selecting from a pool of receivables that are currently outstanding and, therefore, represent seasoned accounts. A seasoned portfolio that excludes delinquent accounts historically results in better credit performance in the managed portfolio than in the on-balance sheet portfolio of retail finance receivables. In addition, the current off-balance sheet transactions are comprised mainly of subvented rate retail finance receivables, which generally attract customers with higher credit quality (or otherwise cash purchasers) than customers typically associated with non-subvented receivables.
 
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presented in the table represent the principal balance of the finance receivables discounted for any unearned rate support received from GM.
 
                                         
    Average
    Charge-offs,
             
    retail
    net of
    Annualized net
 
Three months ended March 31,
  contracts     recoveries (a)     charge-off rate (b)  
($ in millions)   2007     2007     2006     2007     2006  
   
Managed
                                       
North America
    $50,134       $162       $164       1.29%       1.21%  
International
    16,318       27       27       0.66%       0.73%  
                 
                 
Total managed
    $66,452       $189       $191       1.14%       1.11%  
 
 
On-balance sheet
                                       
North America
    $44,047       $157       $159       1.43%       1.29%  
International
    16,318       27       27       0.66%       0.73%  
                 
                 
Total on-balance sheet
    $60,365       $184       $186       1.22%       1.17%  
 
 
(a)  Net charge-offs exclude amounts related to the lump-sum payments on balloon finance contracts. The amount totaled $3 for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007.  
 
(b)  North America 2006 annualized charge-offs, net of recoveries, includes $15 of certain expenses related to repossessed vehicles, which are included in other operating expenses on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Income.  
 
The following table summarizes pertinent delinquency experience in the consumer automotive retail contract portfolio.
 
                                 
    Percent of retail contracts
 
    30 days or more past due (a)  
    Managed     On-balance sheet  
March 31,   2007     2006     2007     2006  
   
North America
    2.51%       2.34%       2.80%       2.53%  
International
    2.52%       2.54%       2.52%       2.54%  
 
 
Total
    2.51%       2.40%       2.69%       2.53%  
 
 
(a)  Past due contracts are calculated on the basis of the average number of contracts delinquent during a month and exclude accounts in bankruptcy.
 
Credit fundamentals in our North American consumer automotive portfolio have deteriorated in recent quarters. Delinquencies and loss severity in the North American portfolio deteriorated as compared to 2006. The increase in delinquency trends is the result of a shrinking and aging of the asset base due to an increase in whole loan sales activity and a weaker U.S. economy as compared to the prior year. The increase in loss severity is illustrated by an increase in the average loss per new vehicle repossessed, which increased from $8,248 in the first quarter of 2006 to $8,760 in the first quarter of 2007. International consumer credit portfolio performance remains strong as both delinquencies and charge-offs have declined as compared to prior year levels.
 
In addition to the preceding loss and delinquency data, the following table summarizes bankruptcies and repossession information for the United States consumer automotive retail contract portfolio (which represents approximately 50% of our on-balance sheet consumer automotive retail contract portfolio):
 
                                 
    Managed     On-balance sheet  
Three months ended March 31,   2007     2006     2007     2006  
   
Average retail contracts in bankruptcy (in units)
    67,307       103,521       66,317       101,863  
Bankruptcies as a percent of average number of contracts outstanding
    2.26 %     2.83 %     2.56 %     2.93 %
Retail contract repossessions (in units)
    18,936       25,133       18,155       24,883  
Annualized repossessions as a percent of average number of contracts outstanding
    2.57 %     2.73 %     2.83 %     2.84 %
 
 
 
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bankruptcy laws. Subsequent to this change in bankruptcy laws, we experienced a decrease in bankruptcy filings during 2006, as well as the first quarter of 2007. Similarly, repossession experience also improved since the first quarter of 2006.
 
Commercial Credit
Our credit risk on the commercial portfolio is markedly different from that of our consumer portfolio. Whereas the consumer portfolio represents a homogenous pool of retail contracts that exhibit fairly predictable and stable loss patterns, the commercial portfolio exposures are less predictable. In general, the credit risk of the commercial portfolio is tied to overall economic conditions in the countries in which we operate, as well as the particular circumstances of individual borrowers.
 
At March 31, 2007, the only commercial receivables that had been securitized and accounted for as off-balance sheet transactions represent wholesale lines of credit extended to automotive dealerships, which historically experience low charge-offs. As a result, the amount of charge-offs on our managed portfolio is similar to the on-balance sheet portfolio, and only the on-balance sheet commercial portfolio credit experience is presented in the following table:
 
                                 
    Total
   
    loans   Impaired loans (a)
    March 31,
  March 31,
  Dec 31,
  March 31,
($ in millions)   2007   2007   2006   2006
 
Wholesale
    $20,966       $311       $338       $294  
              1.48 %     1.64 %     1.35 %
Other commercial automotive financing
    4,569       45       52       45  
              0.98 %     1.35 %     1.00 %
 
 
Total on-balance sheet
    25,535       $356       $390       $339  
              1.39 %     1.60 %     1.29 %
 
 
  (a)  Includes loans where it is probable that we will be unable to collect all amounts due according to the terms of the loan.
 
Charge-offs on the wholesale portfolio remained at traditionally low levels in the first quarter of 2007.
 
ResCap Operations
 
Results of Operations
The following table summarizes the operating results for ResCap for the periods indicated. The amounts presented are before the elimination of balances and transactions with our other reporting segments.
 
                         
            2007-2006
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007   2006   % change
 
Revenue
                       
Total financing revenue
    $1,874       $1,700       10  
Interest expense
    (1,701 )     (1,435 )     19  
Provision for credit losses
    (542 )     (123 )     341  
         
         
Net financing (loss) revenue
    (369 )     142       (360 )
Mortgage servicing fees
    447       375       19  
Servicing asset valuation and hedge activities, net
    (302 )     (186 )     62  
         
         
Net loan servicing income
    145       189       (23 )
Net (loss) gains on sale of loans
    (235 )     267       (188 )
Other income
    418       343       22  
Noninterest expense
    (810 )     (602 )     35  
Income tax expense
    (59 )     (138 )     (57 )
         
         
Net income (loss)
    ($910 )     $201       (553 )
         
         
Total assets
    $121,244       $121,914          
 
 


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ResCap experienced a net loss of $910 million in the first quarter of 2007, down 553% from first quarter 2006 earnings of $201 million. While ResCap’s international business experienced record performance in the quarter, the U.S. residential mortgage market continued to experience a radical slow-down, with declining home prices and weakening consumer credit, which put significant pressure on performance. ResCap’s first quarter results reflect difficult market conditions and limited liquidity for nonprime mortgages held for sale, which were sold or marked at significantly lower market values.
 
Net financing revenue decreased 360% and was negatively impacted by higher interest expense driven by an increase in short-term market interest rates as well as an increase in the average amount of interest bearing liabilities outstanding. The increase in the provision for credit losses was driven by the continued deterioration in the domestic housing market and the market for nonprime loans. These market conditions resulted in the increase of loss estimates for the number and amount of estimated incurred losses. The increase in interest expense and provision for credit losses was partially offset by an increase in total financing revenue from increased yields on outstanding loans.
 
Net loan servicing income decreased to $145 million, a decline of 23%, due to negative servicing asset valuations, which were partially offset by an increase in the size of the mortgage servicing rights portfolio. Gain (loss) on sales of loans decreased primarily due to the decline in fair value of our nonprime and prime second-lien delinquent loans held for sale. The pricing for various loan product types continued to deteriorate in the first quarter of 2007, as investor uncertainty remained high.
 
Other income increased 22% during the first quarter of 2007 as compared to the same period in 2006 due to higher residential real estate income as a result of continued growth in residential real estate investments and gains on U.S. Treasury and principal-only securities.
 
Noninterest expense increased 35% in the first quarter 2007 as compared to the first quarter of 2006. The increase is primarily due to an increase for the provision for losses associated with assets sold with recourse and the necessity for us to include representations for early-payment defaults due to competitive pressures.
 
Income tax expense decreased 57% during the first quarter of 2007 as compared to the first quarter of 2006. The decrease in expense reflects the conversion of principal domestic operations to LLC, and net pre-tax losses within these operations for which no tax benefits are recorded at the LLC level. As a result of the conversion, a federal tax provision is no longer required for the majority of U.S. based operations.
 
Mortgage Loan Production, Sales and Servicing
During the first three months of 2007, our loan production decreased to approximately $38 billion from approximately $42 billion in 2006. These decreases were due primarily to the decrease in non-prime loan production. Our domestic loan production declined 14% and international loan production increased 17% compared to the same period in 2006. Our domestic loan production decreased, while the overall domestic mortgage origination market remained flat, resulting in a decrease in our market share.


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The following summarizes mortgage loan production for the periods indicated.
 
                 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007     2006  
   
Consumer:
               
Principal amount by product type:
               
Prime conforming
    $9,569       $8,569  
Prime nonconforming
    12,317       11,727  
Government
    584       861  
Nonprime
    3,259       9,096  
Prime second-lien
    5,313       5,815  
 
 
Total U.S. production
    31,042       36,068  
International
    6,472       5,512  
 
 
Total
    $37,514       $41,580  
 
 
Principal amount by origination channel:
               
Retail and direct channels
    $6,031       $6,678  
Correspondent and broker channels
    25,011       29,390  
 
 
Total U.S. production
    $31,042       $36,068  
 
 
Number of loans (in units):
               
Retail and direct channels
    47,638       60,888  
Correspondent and broker channels
    163,439       190,852  
 
 
Total U.S. production
    211,077       251,740  
 
 
 
The following table summarizes the primary domestic mortgage loan servicing portfolio for which we hold the corresponding mortgage servicing rights:
 
                                 
    U.S. mortgage loan servicing portfolio
    March 31, 2007   December 31, 2006
    Number of
  Dollar amount
  Number of
  Dollar amount
($ in millions)   loans   of loans   loans   of loans
 
Prime conforming
    1,469,640       $207,038       1,456,344       $203,927  
Prime nonconforming
    325,284       104,786       319,255       101,138  
Government
    179,431       18,692       181,563       18,843  
Nonprime
    394,523       54,307       409,516       55,750  
Prime second-lien
    817,217       34,421       784,170       32,726  
 
 
Total primary servicing portfolio
    3,186,095       $419,244       3,150,848       $412,384  
 
 
  (a)  Excludes loans for which we acted as a subservicer. Subserviced loans totaled 328,425 with an unpaid principal balance of approximately $66 billion at March 31, 2007, and 290,992 with an unpaid principal balance of approximately $55 billion at December 31, 2006.
 
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Allowance for Credit Losses
The following table summarizes the activity related to the allowance for loan losses:
 
                         
($ in millions)   Consumer   Commercial   Total
 
Balance at January 1, 2006
    $1,066       $187       $1,253  
Provision for credit losses
    128       (5 )     123  
Charge-offs
    (130 )           (130 )
Recoveries
    15             15  
 
 
Balance at March 31, 2006
    1,079       182       1,261  
 
 
Balance at January 1, 2007
    1,508       397       1,905  
Provision for credit losses
    365       177       542  
Charge-offs
    (228 )     (49 )     (277 )
Recoveries
    15             15  
 
 
Balance at March 31, 2007
    $1,660       $525       $2,185  
 
 
Allowance as a percent of total
                       
March 31, 2006 (a)
    1.46 %     1.44 %     1.46 %
March 31, 2007 (a)
    2.54 %     4.10 %     2.80 %
 
 
  (a)  Represents the related allowance for credit losses as a percentage of total on-balance sheet residential mortgage loans.
 
The provision for loan losses was $542 million for the three months ended March 31, 2007, compared to $123 million in the same period in 2006, representing an increase of $419 million. The increase in the provision was primarily due to the increase in the mortgage loans held for investment portfolio, which includes more delinquent loans than the same period last year. Delinquent mortgage loans held for investment totaled $13 billion, or 20%, of total mortgage loans held for investment at March 31, 2007, compared to $11 billion, or 15%, at March 31, 2006.
 
Nonperforming Assets
The following table summarizes the nonperforming assets in our on-balance sheet held for sale and held for investment residential mortgage loan portfolios. Nonperforming assets are nonaccrual loans, foreclosed assets and restructured loans. Mortgage loans and lending receivables are generally placed on nonaccrual status when they are 60 and 90 days past due, respectively, or when the timely collection of the principal of the loan, in whole or in part, is doubtful.
 
                         
    March 31,
  December 31,
  March 31,
($ in millions)   2007   2006   2006
 
Nonaccrual loans:
                       
Mortgage loans:
                       
Prime conforming
    $8       $11       $6  
Prime nonconforming
    472       419       343  
Prime second-lien
    156       142       190  
Nonprime (a)
    7,133       6,736       5,680  
Lending receivables:
                       
Warehouse (b)
    1,301       1,318       25  
Construction (c)
    115       69       9  
Commercial real estate
                17  
 
 
Total nonaccrual assets
    9,185       8,695       6,270  
Restructured loans
    8       8       19  
Foreclosed assets
    1,466       1,141       626  
 
 
Total nonperforming assets
    $10,659       $9,844       $6,915  
 
 
Total nonperforming assets
as a percentage of total ResCap assets
    8.8 %     7.5 %     5.7 %
 
 
  (a)  Includes $481 as of March 31, 2007, $415 as of December 31, 2006, and $242 as of March 31, 2006, of loans that were purchased distressed and already in nonaccrual status.
  (b)  Includes $406 and $10 million of nonaccrual restructured loans as of March 31, 2007, and December 31, 2006, respectively, that are not included in Restructured loans.
  (c)  Includes $18 million as of March 31, 2007, $19 million as of December 31, 2006, and $9 million as of March 31, 2006, that are not included in Restructured loans.


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Our classification of a loan as nonperforming does not necessarily indicate that the principal amount of the loan is ultimately uncollectible in whole or in part. In certain cases, borrowers make payments to bring their loans contractually current and, in all cases, our mortgage loans are collateralized by residential real estate. As a result, our experience has been that any amount of ultimate loss is substantially less than the unpaid principal balance of a nonperforming loan.
 
Insurance Operations
 
Results of Operations
The following table summarizes the operating results of our Insurance operations for the periods indicated. The amounts presented are before the elimination of balances and transactions with our other operating segments.
 
                         
                2007-2006
 
Three months ended March 31, ($ in millions)   2007     2006     % change  
   
Revenue
                       
Insurance premiums and service revenue earned
    $1,032       $1,004       3  
Investment income
    95       105       (10 )
Other income
    45       32       41  
         
         
Total insurance premiums and other income
    1,172       1,141       3  
Insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses
    (573 )     (597 )     (4 )
Acquisition and underwriting expense
    (386 )     (330 )     17  
Premium tax and other expense
    (22 )     (28 )     (21 )
         
         
Income before income taxes
    191       186       3  
Income tax expense
    (48 )     (57 )     (16 )
         
         
Net income
    $143       $129       11  
         
         
Total assets
    $12,878       $13,739       (6 )
         
         
Insurance premiums and service revenue written
    $1,070       $1,070        
         
         
Combined ratio (a)
    91.0 %     91.3 %        
 
 
(a)  Management uses combined ratio as a primary measure of underwriting profitability, with its components measured using GAAP. Underwriting profitability is indicated by a combined ratio under 100% and is calculated as the sum of all reported losses and expenses (excluding interest and income tax expense) divided by the total of premiums and service revenues earned and other income.
 
Net income from Insurance operations totaled $143 million for the first three months of 2007, as compared to $129 million for the same period in 2006. Net income increased due to favorable underwriting results and a lower effective tax rate partially offset by lower realized capital gains. Underwriting results grew from an increase in insurance premium and revenue earned coupled with a lower level of losses and loss adjustment expenses, partially offset by higher acquisition and underwriting expenses.
 
Written premium and service revenue remained at $1.1 billion. Growth has been primarily within the reinsurance and international product lines. The reinsurance business, both domestic and international, has been driven by organic growth and new business initiatives, which have expanded our product and geographic footprint. The international personal lines business has experienced revenue and contract growth primarily through favorable pricing and new fleet contracts. This growth was offset by challenging conditions being faced by our domestic personal lines and extended service contract business, resulting from competition and declining GM retail sales.
 
Earned premium was higher in the first three months of 2007, as compared to the same period in 2006, caused in part by extended service contracts sold in prior years entering higher earning rate periods and growth in the reinsurance business and international markets. However, a portion of this increase in earned premium was negated by revenue challenges at domestic personal lines.
 
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period in 2006. The rebalancing of the portfolio in the fourth quarter of 2006 resulted in a larger portion of the portfolio being comprised of fixed income securities, which led to an increase in the investment yield. Fixed income securities comprised 92% of the total portfolio in the first quarter of 2007, as compared to 68% for the same period in 2006. The investment portfolio was $6.7 billion at March 31, 2007, comprised of $6.1 billion of fixed income and $0.6 billion of equity securities. This is compared to $7.9 billion at March 31, 2006, comprised of $5.4 billion of fixed income and $2.5 billion of equity securities. The decrease in the investment portfolio was largely the result of a $950 million inter-company dividend payment in the first quarter of 2007.
 
Insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses decreased slightly as a result of improved frequency and severity in our extended service contract business while mild weather drove lower losses in our domestic personal lines. Conversely, acquisition and underwriting expenses were greater during the period commensurate with higher insurance premiums and service revenue earned.
 
Other Operations
 
Net income for our Other operations was $66 million for the first quarter of 2007 as compared to a loss of $21 million in the first quarter of 2006. This increase in net income was primarily due to our Commercial Finance Group, lower net income in 2006 driven by losses related to the sale of our former commercial mortgage business and certain other corporate activities.
 
Net income of our Commercial Finance Group increased from $11 million for the first quarter of 2006 to $20 million in the first quarter of 2007. The increase was primarily related to a $12 million favorable net income impact recognized during February 2007 relating to the sale of certain loans.
 
Funding and Liquidity
 
Funding Sources and Strategy
Our liquidity and our ongoing profitability are, in large part, dependent upon our timely access to capital and the costs associated with raising funds in different segments of the capital markets. Over the past several years, our funding strategy has focused on the development of diversified funding sources across a global investor base, both public and private and, as appropriate, the extension of debt maturities. This diversification has been achieved in a variety of ways, including whole loan sales, the public debt capital markets, conduit facilities and asset-backed securities, as well as through deposit-gathering and other financing activities.
 
During the first quarter of 2007, under the terms of the Sale Transactions between FIM Holdings and GM, a final purchase price adjustment was required to the extent that GMAC’s equity upon the November 30, 2006, closing of the sale transaction differed from a specified level. As a result, we received a capital contribution from GM of approximately $1 billion, based on these final settlement provisions.


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The following table summarizes debt and other sources of funding by source for the periods indicated:
 
                 
    Outstanding  
    March 31,
    December 31,
 
($ in millions)   2007     2006  
   
Commercial paper
    $1,798       $1,523  
Institutional term debt
    63,291       70,266  
Retail debt programs
    28,370       29,308  
Secured financings
    116,998       123,485  
Bank loans and other
    13,339       12,512  
 
 
Total debt (a)
    223,796       237,094  
Bank deposits (b)
    10,007       10,488  
Off-balance sheet securitizations (c)
               
Retail finance receivables
    6,375       7,456  
Wholesale loans
    19,357       18,624  
Mortgage loans
    129,676       118,918  
 
 
Total funding
    389,211       392,580  
Less: cash reserves (d)
    (12,816 )     (18,252 )
 
 
Net funding
    $376,395       $374,328  
 
 
Leverage ratio covenant (e)
    9.5:1       10.8:1  
 
 
Funding Commitments ($ in billions)
               
Bank liquidity facilities (f)
    $44.6       $43.8  
Secured funding facilities (g)
    $198.3       $188.7  
 
 
  (a)  Excludes fair value adjustment as described in Note 7 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
  (b)  Includes consumer and commercial bank deposits and dealer wholesale deposits.
  (c)  Represents net funding from securitizations of retail and wholesale automotive receivables and mortgage loans accounted for as sales, as further described in Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
  (d)  Includes $9.6 billion cash and cash equivalents and $3.2 billion invested in marketable securities at March 31, 2007, and $15.5 billion and $2.8 billion, respectively, at December 31, 2006.
  (e)  As described in Note 7 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, our liquidity facilities and certain other funding facilities contain a leverage ratio covenant of 11.0:1, which excludes from debt certain securitization transactions that are accounted for on-balance sheet as secured financings (totaling $80,251 and $81,461 at March 31, 2007, and December 31, 2006, respectively).
  (f)  Represents both committed and uncommitted bank liquidity facilities. Refer to Note 7 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for details.
  (g)  Represents both committed and uncommitted secured funding facilities. Includes commitments with third-party asset-backed commercial paper conduits, as well as forward flow sale agreements with third parties, securities purchase commitments with third parties and repurchase facilities. Refer to Note 7 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further details.
 
Short-term Debt
We obtain short-term funding from the sale of floating rate demand notes under a program referred to as GMAC LLC Demand Notes. These notes can be redeemed at any time at the option of the holder thereof without restriction.
 
Long-term Unsecured Debt
Our long-term unsecured financings are generated to fund long-term assets, over-collateralization required to support our conduits, the liquidity portfolio and the continued growth of our loan portfolios. We meet these financing needs from a variety of sources, including public corporate debt and credit facilities. The public corporate debt markets are a key source of financing for us. We access these markets by issuing senior unsecured notes, but are pursuing other structures that will provide efficient sources of term liquidity. Following the Sale Transactions and after being absent from the U.S. unsecured debt markets for approximately two years, on December 15, 2006, we issued $1 billion of Senior Unsecured Notes due December 15, 2011.
 
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been applied to certain callable debt hedged with derivatives, it is possible that some of our lenders under certain of our liquidity facilities could claim that they are not obligated to honor their commitments. While such a claim would not be entirely unreasonable, we believe that any such claims would not be sustainable. Nor do we believe that this matter is likely to be tested, because we have no current need or intention to draw on any of the more significant existing facilities, and renewal and revision of them is imminent, which likely will eliminate the issue. There can be no assurance that we are correct in our assessments. If we are not, and multiple claims were asserted and substantiated, available funding under certain of our liquidity facilities could be adversely impacted. However, we believe such an impact is manageable because of our current, substantial liquidity position, including $12.8 billion of global cash balances, among various other sources of liquidity.
 
We have also been able to diversify our unsecured funding through the formation of ResCap. ResCap, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary, was formed as the holding company of our residential mortgage businesses and, in the second quarter of 2005, successfully achieved an investment grade rating (separate from GMAC). In the fourth quarter of 2005, ResCap filed a $12 billion shelf registration statement and has subsequently issued $8.5 billion of notes through March 31, 2007.
 
Secured Financings and Off-Balance Sheet Securitizations
As part of our ongoing funding and risk management practices, we have established secondary market trading and securitization arrangements that provide long-term financing primarily for our automotive and mortgage loans. We have had consistent and reliable access to these markets through our securitization activities in the past and expect to continue to access the securitization markets.
 
In the first quarter of 2007, approximately 96% of our U.S. Automotive volume was funded through a secured funding arrangement or automotive whole loan sale. The increased use of whole loan sales is part of the migration to an “originate and sell” model for our U.S. Automotive Finance business. In the first quarter of 2007, we executed approximately $3.5 billion in automotive whole loan sales.
 
Customer Deposits
Through our banking activities in our Automotive Finance and ResCap operations, bank deposits (certificates of deposits and brokered deposits) have become an important funding source for us.
 
Cash Reserves
We maintain a large cash reserve, including certain marketable securities that can be utilized to meet our obligations in the event of any market disruption. Cash and cash equivalents and certain marketable securities totaled $12.8 billion as of March 31, 2007, down from $18.3 billion on December 31, 2006. This decrease largely stems from our repayment of significant debt maturities during the first quarter of 2007 without a corresponding amount of new debt issuances during the same period.
 
Funding Commitments
We actively manage our liquidity and mitigate our liquidity risk by maintaining sufficient short-term and long-term financing, maintaining diversified secured funding programs and maintaining sufficient reserve liquidity. In March 2007 we established a new $6 billion variable not funding facility. The facility is available to fund U.S. dealer floor plan receivables in certain circumstances, including in the event of GM filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Refer to Note 7 for further detail.
 
Credit Ratings
The cost and availability of unsecured financing is influenced by credit ratings, which are intended to be an indicator of the creditworthiness of a particular company, security or obligation. Lower ratings generally result in higher borrowing costs as well as reduced access to capital markets. This is particularly true for certain term debt institutional investors whose investment guidelines require investment grade term ratings and for short-term institutional investors (money market investors in particular) whose investment guidelines require the two highest rating categories for short-term debt. Substantially all of our debt has been rated by nationally recognized statistical rating organizations.


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The following table summarizes our current ratings and outlook by the respective nationally recognized rating agencies.
 
                 
Rating
  Commercial
  Senior
       
Agency   Paper   Debt   Outlook    
 
Fitch
  B   BB+   Positive    
Moody’s
  Not-Prime   Ba1   Negative    
S&P
  B-1   BB+   Negative    
DBRS
  R-2 (low)   BBB (low)   Stable    
 
 
 
 
In addition, ResCap, our indirect wholly owned subsidiary, has investment grade ratings (separate from GMAC) from the nationally recognized rating agencies. The following table summarizes ResCap’s current ratings and outlook by the respective agency.
 
                 
Rating
  Commercial
  Senior
       
Agency   Paper   Debt   Outlook    
 
Fitch
  F2   BBB   Negative    
Moody’s
  P-3   Baa3   Negative    
S&P
  A-3   BBB–   Stable    
DBRS
  R-2 (middle)   BBB (low)   Stable    
 
 
 
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
 
We use off-balance sheet entities as an integral part of our operating and funding activities. For further discussion of our use of off-balance sheet entities, refer to the Off-balance Sheet Arrangements section in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 
The following table summarizes assets carried off-balance sheet in these entities.
 
                     
    March 31,
  December 31,
   
($ in billions)   2007   2006    
 
Securitization (a)
                   
Retail finance receivables
    $7.0       $8.2      
Wholesale loans
    21.3       19.9      
Mortgage loans
    131.4       121.7      
 
 
Total securitization
    159.7       149.8      
Other off-balance sheet activities
                   
Mortgage warehouse
    0.4       0.3      
Other mortgage
    0.1       0.1      
 
 
Total off-balance sheet activities
    $160.2       $150.2      
 
 
(a)  Includes only securitizations accounted for as sales under SFAS 140, as further described in Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 
Critical Accounting Estimates
 
We have identified critical accounting estimates that, as a result of judgments, uncertainties, uniqueness and complexities of the underlying accounting standards and operations involved, could result in material changes to our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows under different conditions or using different assumptions.
 
Our most critical accounting estimates are:
 
  •  Determination of the allowance for credit losses
 
  •  Valuation of automotive lease residuals
 
  •  Valuation of mortgage servicing rights
 
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  •  Determination of reserves for insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses
 
There have been no significant changes in the methodologies and processes used in developing these estimates from what is described in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
 
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
 
Statement of Position 05-1 — In September 2005 the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) issued Statement of Position 05-1, Accounting by Insurance Enterprises for Deferred Acquisition Costs in Connection with Modifications or Exchanges of Insurance Contracts (SOP 05-1). SOP 05-1 provides guidance on accounting for deferred acquisition costs on internal replacements of insurance contracts. SOP 05-1 defines an internal replacement and specifies the conditions that determine whether the replacement contract is substantially or unsubstantially changed from the replaced contract. An internal replacement determined to result in a substantially changed contract should be accounted for as an extinguishment of the replaced contract; unamortized deferred acquisition costs and unearned revenue liabilities of the replaced contract should no longer be deferred. An internal replacement determined to result in an unsubstantially changed contract should be accounted for as a continuation of the replaced asset. SOP 05-01 introduces the terms “integrated” and “non-integrated” contract features and specifies that non-integrated features do not change the base contract and are to be accounted for in a manner similar to a separately issued contract. Integrated features are evaluated in conjunction with the base contract. SOP 05-1 is effective for internal replacements occurring in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. Adoption of SOP 05-1 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
 
SFAS No. 155 — In February 2006 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued SFAS No. 155, Accounting for Certain Hybrid Financial Instruments — an amendment of FASB Statements No. 133 and 140 (SFAS 155). This standard permits fair value remeasurement for any hybrid financial instrument that contains an embedded derivative that otherwise would require bifurcation. SFAS 155 allows an entity to make an irrevocable election to measure such a hybrid financial instrument at fair value on an instrument-by-instrument basis. The standard eliminates the prohibition on a Qualifying Special Purpose Entity (QSPE) from holding a derivative financial instrument that pertains to a beneficial interest other than another derivative financial instrument. SFAS 155 also clarifies which interest-only and principal-only strips are not subject to the requirements of SFAS 133, as well as determines that concentrations of credit risk in the form of subordination are not embedded derivatives. SFAS 155 is effective for all financial instruments acquired or issued after the beginning of the fiscal year that begins after September 15, 2006. Adoption of SFAS 155 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
 
FASB Staff Position (FSP) No. 13-2 — In July 2006 the FASB issued FSP No. 13-2, Accounting for a Change or Projected Change in the Timing of Cash Flows Relating to Income Taxes Generated by a Leveraged Lease Transaction (FSP 13-2), which amends SFAS No. 13, Accounting for Leases, by requiring lessors to recalculate the rate of return and periodic income allocation for leveraged-lease transactions when there is a change or projected change in the timing of income tax cash flows related to the lease. FSP 13-2 requires lessors to use the model in FIN 48 to determine the timing and amount of expected tax cash flows in leveraged-lease calculations and recalculations. FSP 13-2 is effective in the same period as FIN 48. At the date of adoption, the lessor is required to reassess projected income tax cash flows related to leveraged leases using the FIN 48 model for recognition and measurement. Revisions to the net investment in a leveraged lease required when FSP 13-2 is adopted would be recorded as an adjustment to the beginning balance of retained earnings and reported as a change in accounting principle. Adoption of FSP 13-2 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
 
SFAS No. 157 — In September 2006 the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (SFAS 157), which provides a definition of fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and requires expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. The standard applies when GAAP requires or allows assets or liabilities to be measured at fair value, and therefore, does not expand the use of fair value in any new circumstance. Fair value refers to the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an arm’s length transaction between market participants, in such markets where we conduct business. SFAS 157 clarifies that fair value should be based on the assumptions market participants would use when pricing an asset or liability and establishes a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the information used to develop those assumptions. The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to quoted prices available in active markets and the lowest priority to data lacking transparency. The level of the reliability of inputs utilized for


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fair value calculations drives the extent of disclosure requirements of the valuation methodologies used under the standard. SFAS 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim periods within those years. The provisions of SFAS 157 should be applied prospectively. Management is assessing the potential impact on our financial condition and results of operations.
 
SFAS No. 158 — In September 2006 the FASB issued SFAS No. 158, Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans (SFAS 158), which amends SFAS No. 87 Employers’ Accounting for Pensions, SFAS No. 88 Employer’s Accounting for Settlements and Curtailments of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and for Termination Benefits, SFAS No. 106 Employer’s Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions, and SFAS No. 132(R) Employers’ Disclosures about Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits (revised 2003). This Statement requires companies to recognize an asset or liability for the overfunded or underfunded status of their benefit plans in their financial statements. The asset or liability is the offset to other comprehensive income, consisting of previously unrecognized prior service costs and credits, actuarial gains or losses and transition obligations and assets. SFAS 158 also required the measurement date for plan assets and liabilities to coincide with the sponsor’s year end. The standard provides two transition alternatives for companies to make the measurement-date provisions. The recognition of the asset or liability related to funded status provision is effective for us for fiscal years ending after June 15, 2007, and the change in measurement is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2008. Adoption of this guidance is not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial condition or results of operations.
 
SFAS No. 159 — In February 2007 the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities (SFAS 159). SFAS 159 permits entities to choose to measure at fair value many financial instruments and certain other items that are not currently required to be measured at fair value. Subsequent changes in fair value for designated items will be required to be reported in earnings in the current period. SFAS 159 also establishes presentation and disclosure requirements for similar types of assets and liabilities measured at fair value. SFAS 159 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. We are currently assessing the effect of implementing this guidance, which directly depends on the nature and extent of eligible items elected to be measured at fair value, upon initial application of the standard on January 1, 2008.
 
Forward Looking Statements
 
The foregoing Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and other portions of this Form 10-Q contains various forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable federal securities laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that are based upon our current expectations and assumptions concerning future events, which are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.
 
The words “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,” “future” and “should” and any similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors, including (but not limited to) the Risk Factors described in Item 1A of our 2006 Form 10-K, as updated in this Form 10-Q, and which may be revised or supplemented in subsequent reports on SEC Forms 10-Q and 8-K. Such factors include, among others, the following:
 
  •  Rating agencies may downgrade their ratings for GMAC or ResCap in the future, which would adversely affect our ability to raise capital in the debt markets at attractive rates and increase the interest that we pay on our outstanding publicly traded notes, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition;
 
  •  Our business requires substantial capital, and if we are unable to maintain adequate financing sources, our profitability and financial condition will suffer and jeopardize our ability to continue operations;
 
  •  The profitability and financial condition of our operations are dependent upon the operations of GM, and we have substantial credit exposure to GM;
 
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  •  The worldwide financial services industry is highly competitive. If we are unable to compete successfully or if there is increased competition in the automotive financing, mortgage and/or insurance markets or generally in the markets for securitizations or asset sales, our margins could be materially adversely affected.
 
Item 3.  Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
 
Our automotive financing, mortgage, and insurance activities give rise to market risk, representing the potential loss in the fair value of assets or liabilities caused by movements in market variables, such as interest rates, foreign exchange rates and equity prices. We are primarily exposed to interest rate risk arising from changes in interest rates related to financing, investing and cash management activities. More specifically, we have entered into contracts to provide financing, to retain mortgage servicing rights and to retain various assets related to securitization activities, all of which are exposed in varying degrees to changes in value due to movements in interest rates. Interest rate risk arises from the mismatch between assets and the related liabilities used for funding. We enter into various financial instruments, including derivatives, to maintain the desired level of exposure to the risk of interest rate fluctuations. Refer to Note 8 to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.
 
We are exposed to foreign currency risk arising from the possibility that fluctuations in foreign exchange rates will impact future earnings or asset and liability values related to our global operations. Our most significant foreign currency exposures relate to the Euro, the Canadian dollar, the British pound sterling, Brazilian real, Mexican peso and the Australian dollar.
 
We are also exposed to equity price risk, primarily in our Insurance operations, which invests in equity securities that are subject to price risk influenced by capital market movements. Our equity securities are considered investments and we do not enter into derivatives to modify the risks associated with our Insurance investment portfolio.
 
While the diversity of our activities from our complementary lines of business may partially mitigate market risk, we also actively manage this risk. We maintain risk management control systems to monitor interest rate, foreign currency exchange rate and equity price risks and related hedge positions. Positions are monitored using a variety of analytical techniques including market value, sensitivity analysis and value at risk models.
 
Since December 31, 2006, there have been no material changes in these market risks. Refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, Item 7A, Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, for further discussion on value at risk and sensitivity analysis.
 
Item 4.  Controls and Procedures
 
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended [the Exchange Act]) designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the specified time periods. As of the end of the period covered by this report, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer evaluated, with the participation of our management, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based on management’s evaluation and solely because of the material weakness related to our controls over our application of SFAS No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended and interpreted, GMAC’s Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officers each concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2007.
 
In order to address and remediate this material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, we are designing and implementing a number of enhancements to the hedge accounting policy and hedge documentation controls to ensure future applications of hedge accounting for similar transactions satisfy the initial and periodic documentation as well as the hedge effectiveness assessment requirements of SFAS 133. Management will monitor, evaluate and test the operating effectiveness of these enhanced controls during 2007.
 
There were no other changes in our internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that occurred during our most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.


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PART II. — OTHER INFORMATION
 
Item 1.  Legal Proceedings
 
We are subject to potential liability under laws and government regulations and various claims and legal actions that are pending or may be asserted against us. The following update supplements our Legal Proceedings section in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Please refer to the Legal Proceedings section in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information regarding the legal action noted below and other pending governmental proceedings, claims and legal actions.
 
As disclosed in our 2006 Form 10-K, on February 27, 2007, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued an opinion granting the GM and GMAC defendants’ motion to dismiss and dismissing the consolidated bondholder class action complaint with respect to claims filed by plaintiffs J&R Marketing, Zielezienski and Mager. The plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal in this matter on March 27, 2007.
 
Item 1A.  Risk Factors
 
The following risk factors, which were disclosed in our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K have not materially changed since we filed these Reports. Refer to our 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K for a complete discussion of these risk factors.
 
  •  Rating agencies may downgrade their ratings for GMAC or ResCap in the future, which would adversely affect our ability to raise capital in the debt markets at attractive rates and increase the interest that we pay on our outstanding publicly traded notes, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
 
  •  Our business requires substantial capital and, if we are unable to maintain adequate financing sources, our profitability and financial condition will suffer and jeopardize our ability to continue operations.
 
  •  Our indebtedness and other obligations are significant and could materially adversely affect our business.
 
  •  The profitability and financial condition of our operations are dependent upon the operations of General Motors Corporation.
 
  •  We have substantial credit exposure to General Motors Corporation.
 
  •  Our earnings may decrease because of increases or decreases in interest rates.
 
  •  Our hedging strategies may not be successful in mitigating our risks associated with changes in interest rates and could affect our profitability and financial condition, as could our failure to comply with hedge accounting principles and interpretations.
 
  •  Our residential mortgage subsidiary’s ability to pay dividends to us is restricted by contractual arrangements.
 
  •  A failure of or interruption in the communications and information systems on which we rely to conduct our business could adversely affect our revenues and profitability.
 
  •  We use estimates and assumptions in determining the fair value of certain of our assets, in determining our allowance for credit losses, in determining lease residual values and in determining our reserves for insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses. If our estimates or assumptions prove to be incorrect, our cash flow, profitability, financial condition and business prospects could be materially adversely affected.
 
  •  Our business outside the United States exposes us to additional risks that may cause our revenues and profitability to decline.
 
  •  Our business could be adversely affected by changes in currency exchange rates.
 
  •  We are exposed to credit risk which could affect our profitability and financial condition.
 
  •  Recent developments in the residential mortgage market, especially in the nonprime sector, may adversely affect our revenues, profitability and financial condition.


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  •  General business and economic conditions of the industries and geographic areas in which we operate affect our revenues, profitability and financial condition.
 
  •  Our profitability and financial condition may be materially adversely affected by decreases in the residual value of off-lease vehicles.
 
  •  Fluctuations in valuation of investment securities or significant fluctuations in investment market prices could negatively affect revenues.
 
  •  Changes in existing U.S. government-sponsored mortgage programs, or disruptions in the secondary markets in the United States or in other countries in which our mortgage subsidiaries operate, could adversely affect the profitability and financial condition of our mortgage business.
 
  •  We may be required to repurchase contracts and provide indemnification if we breach representations and warranties from our securitization and whole loan transactions, which could harm our profitability and financial condition.
 
  •  Significant indemnification payments or contract, lease or loan repurchase activity of retail contracts or leases or mortgage loans could harm our profitability and financial condition.
 
  •  A loss of contractual servicing rights could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, liquidity and results of operations.
 
  •  The regulatory environment in which we operate could have a material adverse effect on our business and earnings.
 
  •  The worldwide financial services industry is highly competitive. If we are unable to compete successfully or if there is increased competition in the automotive financing, mortgage and/or insurance markets or generally in the markets for securitizations or asset sales, our margins could be materially adversely affected.
 
Item 2.  Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
 
Not applicable
 
Item 3.  Defaults Upon Senior Securities
 
Not applicable
 
Item 4.  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
 
Not applicable
 
Item 5.  Other Information
 
None
 
Item 6.  Exhibits
 
The exhibits listed on the accompanying Index of Exhibits are filed as a part of this report. Such Index is incorporated herein by reference.


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Signatures
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized, this 8th day of May, 2007.
 
GMAC LLC
(Registrant)
 
/s/  Sanjiv Khattri
Sanjiv Khattri
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
 
/s/  Linda K. Zukauckas
Linda K. Zukauckas
Vice President and Corporate Controller


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INDEX OF EXHIBITS
 
             
Exhibit   Description   Method of Filing
 
  10 .1   Intellectual Property License Agreement, dated November 30, 2006,
by and between General Motors Corporation and GMAC LLC
  Filed herewith.
             
  12     Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges   Filed herewith.
             
  31 .1   Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
  Filed herewith.
             
  31 .2   Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
  Filed herewith.
 
The following exhibit shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or otherwise subject to the liability of that Section. In addition Exhibit No. 32 shall not be deemed incorporated into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
             
  32     Certification of Principal Executive Officer and Principal
Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350
  Filed herewith.


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