Exhibit 99.2
Non-GAAP Financial Measures – Additional Information
We use non-GAAP financial information and believe it is useful to investors as it provides additional information to facilitate comparisons of historical operating results, identify trends in our underlying operating results, and provide additional insight and transparency on how we evaluate our business. We use non-GAAP financial measures to budget, make operating and strategic decisions and evaluate our performance. We have detailed below the adjustments that we make in our non-GAAP financial measure that was affected by this partial sale of an equity method investment. The adjustments generally fall within the following categories: acquisition & divestiture activities, gains and losses on intangible asset sales and non-cash impairments, major program restructuring activities, constant currency and related adjustments, major program financing and hedging activities and other major items affecting comparability of operating results. We believe the non-GAAP measures should always be considered along with the related U.S. GAAP financial measures.
The definitions of our non-GAAP financial measures did not change because of this partial sale of an equity method investment. For all periods presented in this Form 8-K, our non-GAAP financial measure Adjusted EPS is defined below and can also be found within our historically reported Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for periods presented. As new events or circumstances arise, this definition could change over time. When definitions change, we provide the updated definitions and present the related non-GAAP historical results on a comparable basis (1).
Adjusted EPS – defined as diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International from continuing operations excluding the impacts of the Simplify to Grow Program (2); gains or losses (including non-cash impairment charges) on goodwill and intangible assets; net earnings from divestitures (3); divestiture (3) or acquisition gains or losses and related divestiture (3), acquisition and integration costs; remeasurement of net monetary position (4); mark-to-market impacts from commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivative contracts (5); impacts from resolution of tax matters (6); CEO transition remuneration (7); impact from pension participation changes (8); incremental expenses related to the 2017 malware incident; losses on debt extinguishment and related expenses; gains or losses on interest rate swaps no longer designated as accounting cash flow hedges due to changed financing and hedging plans; gains or losses on equity method investment transactions; costs associated with the JDE Peet’s transaction; and U.S. and Swiss tax reform discrete impacts (9). Similarly, within Adjusted EPS, our equity method investment net earnings exclude our proportionate share of our investees’ significant operating and non-operating items (10). We believe that Adjusted EPS provides improved comparability of underlying operating results. We also evaluate growth in our Adjusted EPS on a constant currency basis (11).
| (1) | When items no longer impact our current or future presentation of non-GAAP operating results, we remove these items from our non-GAAP definitions. During the second quarter of 2020, we added to the non-GAAP definitions the exclusion of costs associated with the JDE Peet’s transaction. Refer to Note 6, Equity Method Investments, and Note 14, Income Taxes, in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2020 for more information on the JDE Peet’s transaction. |
| (2) | Non-GAAP adjustments related to the Simplify to Grow Program reflect costs incurred that relate to the objectives of our program to transform our supply chain network and organizational structure. Costs that do not meet the program objectives are not reflected in the non-GAAP adjustments. |
| (3) | Divestitures include completed sales of businesses (including the partial or full sale of an equity method investment) and exits of major product lines upon completion of a sale or licensing agreement. Refer to Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 for more information on divestitures and acquisitions impacting the comparability of our results. |
| (4) | During the third quarter of 2018, as we began to apply highly inflationary accounting for Argentina, we excluded the remeasurement gains or losses related to remeasuring net monetary assets or liabilities in Argentina during the period to be consistent with our prior accounting for these remeasurement gains/losses for Venezuela when it was subject to highly inflationary accounting prior to 2016. Refer to Note 1, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 for additional information. |
| (5) | During the third quarter of 2016, we began to exclude unrealized gains and losses (mark-to-market impacts) from outstanding commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivatives from our non-GAAP earnings measures until such time that the related exposures impact our operating results. Since we purchase commodity and forecasted currency contracts to mitigate price volatility primarily for inventory requirements in future periods, we made this adjustment to remove the volatility of these future inventory purchases on current operating results to facilitate comparisons of our underlying operating performance across periods. We also discontinued designating commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivatives for hedge accounting treatment. To facilitate comparisons of our underlying operating results, we have recast all historical non-GAAP earnings measures to exclude the mark-to-market impacts. |
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