GAAP to NON-GAAP ADJUSTMENTS
This measure consists of accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) net income attributable to common stockholders (“net income”), which is then adjusted solely for the purpose of adjusting for retention costs, amortization of acquisition related intangible assets, gain on sale of assets, inventory adjustments and valuations, acquisition costs, restructuring and tax payments related to tax audit, as discussed below. Excluding retention costs, gain on sale of assets, inventory adjustments and valuations, acquisition costs, restructuring and tax payments related to tax audit provides investors with a better depiction of the Company’s operating results and provides a more informed baseline for modeling future earnings expectations. Excluding the amortization of acquisition related intangible assets allows for comparison of the Company’s current and historic operating performance. The Company excludes the above listed items to evaluate the Company’s operating performance, to develop budgets, to determine incentive compensation awards and to manage cash expenditures. Presentation of the above non-GAAP measures allows investors to review the Company’s results of operations from the same viewpoint as the Company’s management and Board of Directors. The Company has historically provided similar non-GAAP financial measures to provide investors an enhanced understanding of its operations, facilitate investors’ analyses and comparisons of its current and past results of operations and provide insight into the prospects of its future performance. The Company also believes the non-GAAP measures are useful to investors because they provide additional information that research analysts use to evaluate semiconductor companies. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for or superior to GAAP results and may differ from measures used by other companies. For example, we do not adjust for any amounts attributable to noncontrolling interest except for one-time non-cash items outside the course of ordinary business, such as impairment of goodwill. The Company recommends a review of net income on both a GAAP basis and non-GAAP basis be performed to get a comprehensive view of the Company’s results. The Company provides a reconciliation of GAAP net income to non-GAAP adjusted net income.
Detail of non-GAAP adjustments:
Impairment of long-lived assets – The Company excluded costs accrued for impairment of long-lived assets related to assets that will no longer be used in our production process as we transition from six inch to eight inch production capability in our China wafer plant.
Inventory adjustments or valuations – The Company excluded cost incurred for inventory valuations. The Company adjusted the inventory acquired from the Pericom acquisition to account for the reasonable profit allowance for the selling effort on finished goods inventory and the reasonable profit allowance for the completing and selling effort on the work–in-progress inventory. This non-cash adjustment to inventory is not recurring in nature, however it could be recurring to the extent there are additional acquisitions. The Company believes the exclusion of the Pericom inventory adjustment and valuation provides investors with a more accurate reflection of costs likely to be incurred in the absence of an unusual event such as an acquisition and facilitates comparisons with the results of other periods that may not reflect such costs.
Severance costs – The Company excluded severance costs incurred during the fourth quarter of 2015. These one-time costs will reduce the Company’s cost structure in order to enhance operating effectiveness and improve profitability. These charges are excluded from management’s assessment of the Company’s operating performance. The Company believes the exclusion of the severance charges provides investors an enhanced view of the cost structure of the Company’s operations and facilitates comparisons with the results of other periods that may not reflect such charges or may reflect different levels of such charges.
Acquisition costs – The Company excluded costs associated with acquiring Pericom, which consisted of advisory, legal and other professional and consulting fees. These costs were expensed in the third and fourth quarters of 2015 when the costs were incurred and services were received, and in which the corresponding tax adjustments were made for the non-deductible portions of these expenses. The Company believes the exclusion of the acquisition related costs provides investors with a more accurate reflection of costs likely to be incurred in the absence of an unusual event such as an acquisition and facilitates comparisons with the results of other periods that may not reflect such costs.
Retention costs – The Company
excluded employee retention costs accrued within operating expenses
associated with acquisitions. Although these retention costs will be
recurring every quarter until the final retention payment has been made,
they are not part of the employees’ normal annual salaries and therefore
are being excluded. The Company believes the exclusion of retention
costs related to the acquisitions provides investors with a more
accurate reflection of costs likely to be incurred in the absence of an
unusual event such as an acquisition and facilitates comparisons with
the results of other periods that may not reflect such costs.
