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Schedule HI-A: Changes in Holding Company Equity Capital Guide

Form: FR Y-9C (Consolidated Financial Statements for Holding Companies) Schedule: HI-A - Changes in Holding Company Equity Capital Frequency: Quarterly (year-to-date rollforward) Purpose: Reconcile beginning-of-year holding company equity capital to end-of-period equity capital, line by line


Overview

Schedule HI-A is the statement of changes in equity for the consolidated holding company. It is a year-to-date rollforward: it begins with prior-year-end equity, applies the year's net income, capital issuances and retirements, treasury-stock transactions, dividends, other comprehensive income, and miscellaneous adjustments, and arrives at end-of-period total equity capital. The ending balance is a hard control: it must equal Schedule HC item 27.a.

Who Files

All FR Y-9C reporters complete HI-A.


Schedule Structure

CHANGES IN HOLDING COMPANY EQUITY CAPITAL (year-to-date)
├── 1.  Prior calendar year-end equity capital (as most recently reported)
├── 2.  Cumulative effect of accounting-principle changes / error corrections
├── 3.  Balance end of previous year as restated (= 1 + 2)
├── 4.  Net income (loss) attributable to holding company (= HI item 14)
├── 5.  Perpetual preferred stock: 5.a sale (gross), 5.b conversion/retirement
├── 6.  Common stock: 6.a sale (gross), 6.b conversion/retirement
├── 7.  Sale of treasury stock
├── 8.  LESS: Purchase of treasury stock
├── 9.  Changes incident to business combinations, net
├── 10. LESS: Cash dividends declared on preferred stock
├── 11. LESS: Cash dividends declared on common stock
├── 12. Other comprehensive income
├── 13. Change in ESOP-debt offsetting debit
├── 14. Other adjustments to equity capital
└── 15. TOTAL end-of-period equity capital (= HC item 27.a)

Detailed Line Items

Line MDRM Description
1 BHCK3217 Total equity capital most recently reported for end of previous calendar year
2 BHCKB507 Cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles and corrections of material errors
3 BHCKB508 Balance end of previous calendar year as restated (= 1 + 2)
4 BHCT4340 Net income (loss) attributable to holding company
5.a BHCK3577 Sale of perpetual preferred stock, gross
5.b BHCK3578 Conversion or retirement of perpetual preferred stock
6.a BHCK3579 Sale of common stock, gross
6.b BHCK3580 Conversion or retirement of common stock
7 BHCK4782 Sale of treasury stock
8 BHCK4783 LESS: Purchase of treasury stock
9 BHCK4356 Changes incident to business combinations, net
10 BHCK4598 LESS: Cash dividends declared on preferred stock
11 BHCK4460 LESS: Cash dividends declared on common stock
12 BHCKB511 Other comprehensive income
13 BHCK4591 Change in the offsetting debit to the liability for ESOP debt guaranteed by the holding company
14 BHCK3581 Other adjustments to equity capital (not included above)
15 BHCT3210 Total holding company equity capital end of current period

Other comprehensive income (item 12) includes, among other things, changes in net unrealized holding gains/losses on available-for-sale debt securities, accumulated gains/losses on cash-flow hedges, foreign-currency translation adjustments, and pension/postretirement-plan adjustments other than net periodic benefit cost.


Reconciliation / Ties

The schedule is a closed arithmetic rollforward:

Item 15 (BHCT3210)
   = item 3 + item 4 + item 5 + item 6 + item 7 + item 9 + item 12 + item 13 + item 14
     − item 8 − item 10 − item 11

CONTROL TIES:
  Item 4  (BHCT4340)  =  Schedule HI item 14  (net income attributable to HC)
  Item 15 (BHCT3210)  =  Schedule HC item 27.a (total holding company equity capital)

These two ties (HI net income into item 4; ending equity into HC item 27.a) make HI-A the bridge between the income statement (HI) and the equity section of the balance sheet (HC items 26-28 / 27.a). Other comprehensive income (item 12) connects to HC item 26.b (accumulated other comprehensive income).


Pitfalls

  • "LESS" items are subtractions. Items 8 (treasury-stock purchases), 10 (preferred dividends), and 11 (common dividends) are subtracted in the item-15 formula even though they are reported as positive amounts. Adding them instead of subtracting overstates ending equity.
  • Item 5 and item 6 are two-line groups. The item-15 formula references "item 5" and "item 6" as the net of their .a (sale) and .b (conversion/retirement) sub-lines.
  • Year-to-date, not quarterly. HI-A accumulates from the start of the calendar year; first-quarter and fourth-quarter figures are not comparable as standalone quarterly flows.
  • Total cells use BHCT. Items 4 and 15 use BHCT… total codes (Federal Reserve-edited control cells); the transaction lines use BHCK….

Verification & Provenance

  • MDRM: all 17 line codes joined to the Federal Reserve MDRM codeset; 17 of 17 verified present, with start/end dates recorded.
  • Warehouse evidence: every HI-A code is observed in the Federal Reserve bulk BHCF data (1986-2025); the equity-rollforward codes (3217, 4340, 3210, etc.) span the full history.
  • Call analogue: because HI-A is an income/equity-statement schedule, most lines have a same-item RIAD… analogue on the Call Report (e.g., item 1 -> RIAD3217), recorded in call_mdrm where a name-matched code exists.
  • Provenance file: _rebuild/schedules/PROVENANCE_HI_A.csv.
  • Sources: Federal Reserve MDRM; FR Y-9C form and instructions (March 2026); Federal Reserve bulk BHCF data (1986-2025).

MDRM Quick Reference

Item MDRM Description
1 BHCK3217 Prior year-end equity capital
2 BHCKB507 Accounting-change / error-correction effect
3 BHCKB508 Restated beginning balance (= 1 + 2)
4 BHCT4340 Net income (= HI item 14)
5.a / 5.b BHCK3577 / BHCK3578 Perpetual preferred: sale / conversion-retirement
6.a / 6.b BHCK3579 / BHCK3580 Common stock: sale / conversion-retirement
7 / 8 BHCK4782 / BHCK4783 Treasury stock: sale / LESS purchase
9 BHCK4356 Business-combination changes, net
10 / 11 BHCK4598 / BHCK4460 LESS dividends: preferred / common
12 BHCKB511 Other comprehensive income
13 BHCK4591 ESOP-debt offsetting-debit change
14 BHCK3581 Other equity adjustments
15 BHCT3210 TOTAL end-of-period equity (= HC item 27.a)

Last Updated: 2026-06-11 Reference: FR Y-9C form and instructions (March 2026); Federal Reserve MDRM; Federal Reserve bulk BHCF data (1986-2025)