NOTES TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES
For additional details, please see today’s press release and Safe Harbor Statement.
These slides use non-GAAP financial measures. West believes that these non-GAAP measures of financial results provide useful information to
management and investors regarding certain business trends relating to West’s financial condition, results of operations and the Company’s
overall performance. Our executive management team uses adjusted operating profit and adjusted diluted EPS to evaluate the performance of
the Company in terms of profitability and to compare operating results to prior periods. Adjusted operating profit is also used to evaluate
changes in the operating results of each segment and to allocate resources to our segments. The Company believes that the use of these non-
GAAP financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends in comparing its
financial measures with other companies.
Our executive management does not consider such non-GAAP measures in isolation or as an alternative to such measures determined in
accordance with GAAP. The principal limitation of such non-GAAP financial measures is that they exclude significant expenses and income that
are required by GAAP to be recorded. In addition, they are subject to inherent limitations as they reflect the exercise of judgment by
management about which items are excluded from the non-GAAP financial measures. In order to compensate for these limitations, our executive
management presents its non-GAAP financial measures in connection with its GAAP results. We urge investors and potential investors to review
the reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures, and not rely on any single financial measure
to evaluate the Company’s business.
In calculating adjusted operating profit and adjusted diluted EPS, we exclude the impact of items that are not considered representative of
ongoing operations. Such items include restructuring and related costs, certain asset impairments, other specifically identified gains or losses,
and discrete income tax items. Reconciliations of these adjusted non-GAAP measures to the comparable GAAP financial measures are included
in the preceding (current and prior-year periods) and succeeding (2012 Guidance) slides.
The following is a description of the items excluded from adjusted operating profit and adjusted diluted EPS:
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Restructuring and related charges: During the three months ended March 31, 2012, we incurred restructuring and related charges of $0.4 million
associated with the restructuring plan announced in December 2010. Charges associated with the plan for the three months ended March 31, 2012 were
primarily facility closure costs associated with the 2011 closure of a plant in the United States and a reduction of operations at a manufacturing facility in
England