Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Unless otherwise noted in this report, any description of "we," "us" or "our" includes Molson Coors Beverage Company ("MCBC" or the "Company"), principally a holding company, and its operating and non-operating subsidiaries included within our reporting segments. Our reporting segments include North America and Europe. Our North America segment operates in the U.S., Canada and various countries in Latin and South America, and our Europe segment operates in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Serbia, the U.K., various other European countries, and certain countries within Africa and Asia Pacific. Unless otherwise indicated, information in this report is presented in USD and comparisons are to comparable prior periods. Our primary operating currencies, other than the USD, include the CAD, the GBP, and our Central European operating currencies such as the EUR, CZK, HRK and RSD. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements reflect all adjustments which are necessary for a fair statement of the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Such unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. These unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020 ("Annual Report"), and have been prepared on a consistent basis with the accounting policies described in Note 1 of the Notes to the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report, except as noted in Note 2, "New Accounting Pronouncements" . The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be achieved for the full year or any other future period. Dividends On July 15, 2021, the Company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.34 per share, paid on September 17, 2021, to holders of Class A and Class B common stock. Shareholders of exchangeable shares received the CAD equivalent of dividends declared on Class A and Class B common stock, equal to CAD 0.42 per share. Cybersecurity Incident During March 2021, we experienced a systems outage that was caused by a cybersecurity incident. We engaged leading forensic information technology firms and legal counsel to assist our investigation into the incident and we restored our systems after working to get the systems back up as quickly as possible. Despite these actions, we experienced some delays and disruptions to our business, including brewery operations, production and shipments. This incident caused us to not produce or ship as much as we would have in the first quarter of 2021. Subsequent to the first quarter of 2021, we have made progress operationally recovering from the incident with increased shipments. In addition, we incurred certain incremental net one-time costs of $2.4 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2021 related to consultants, experts and data recovery efforts, net of insurance recoveries. Coronavirus Global Pandemic Starting at the end of the first quarter of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has had a material adverse effect on our operations, liquidity, financial condition and results of operations in 2020. In 2021, we have seen initial improvements in the marketplace related to the coronavirus global pandemic as on-premise locations begin to open around the world at varying degrees. The extent to which our operations will continue to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic will depend largely on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be accurately predicted, including the level of governmental or societal orders or restrictions on public gatherings and on-premise venues, including any vaccine mandates or testing requirements, the severity and duration of the coronavirus pandemic by market, including outbreaks of variants, the rate of vaccination and the efficacy of vaccines against the coronavirus and related variants. We continue to actively monitor the ongoing evolution of the coronavirus pandemic and resulting impacts to our business. During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, we recorded charges of $15.5 million within cost of goods sold related to temporary "thank you" pay for certain essential North America brewery employees. Additionally, in order to support and demonstrate our commitment to the continued viability of the many bars and restaurants which were negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, during the first quarter of 2020, we initiated temporary keg relief programs in many of our markets. We committed to provide customers with reimbursements for untapped kegs that met certain established return requirements in conjunction with the voluntary programs. As a result, during the nine months ended September 30, 2020, we recognized a reduction to net sales of $31.1 million, substantially all of which was recognized in the first quarter of 2020 other than immaterial adjustments for changes in estimates during the second and third quarters of 2020, reflecting estimated sales returns and reimbursements through these keg relief programs. Further, during the nine months ended September 30, 2020, we recognized charges of $12.6 million, substantially all of which was recognized in the first quarter of 2020 other than immaterial adjustments for changes in estimates during the second and third quarters of 2020, within cost of goods sold related to obsolete finished goods keg inventories that were not expected to be sold within our freshness specifications, as well as the estimated costs to facilitate the above mentioned keg returns. The actual duration of the coronavirus pandemic as a result of the evolution of variants, the rate of vaccination and the efficacy of vaccines against the coronavirus and related variants coupled with the severity of government-mandated closures or limitations at bars and restaurants as well as large events, could result in future charges due to incremental finished goods keg inventory becoming obsolete in future periods. We continue to monitor the impacts on our customers’ liquidity and capital resources and therefore our ability to collect, or the timeliness of collection of our accounts receivable. While these receivables are not concentrated with any specific customer and our allowance on these receivables factors in expected credit loss, continued disruption and declines in the global economy could result in difficulties in our ability to collect and require increases to our allowance for doubtful accounts. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, our allowance for trade receivables was approximately $20 million and $18 million, respectively, and allowance activity was immaterial during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021. In response to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, various governmental authorities globally announced relief programs which among other items, provided temporary deferrals of non-income based tax payments, which positively impacted our operating cash flows in 2020. These temporary deferrals of approximately $55 million and $130 million as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, were primarily included within accounts payable and other current liabilities on our unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. We protected and supported our liquidity position in response to the global economic uncertainty created by the coronavirus pandemic. Beginning with the second quarter of 2020 through the second quarter of 2021, our board of directors suspended our regular quarterly dividends on our Class A and Class B common and exchangeable shares. A quarterly dividend was reinstated in the third quarter of 2021. For considerations of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and related potential impairment risks to our goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets, see Note 7, "Goodwill and Intangible Assets." Revitalization Plan On October 28, 2019, we initiated a revitalization plan designed to allow us to invest across our portfolio to drive long-term, sustainable success. The revitalization plan established Chicago, Illinois as our North American operational headquarters. We closed our office in Denver, Colorado and consolidated certain administrative functions into our other existing office locations. As of January 1, 2020, we changed our name to Molson Coors Beverage Company and changed our management structure to two segments - North America and Europe. We began to incur charges related to these restructuring activities during the fourth quarter of 2019 and will continue to incur charges through fiscal year 2021. See Note 5, "Special Items" for further discussion of the impacts of this plan. Non-Cash Activity Non-cash activity includes non-cash issuances of share-based awards, as well as non-cash investing activities related to movements in our guarantee of indebtedness of certain equity method investments. See Note 4 , "Investments" for further discussion. We also had non-cash activities related to capital expenditures incurred but not yet paid of $140.4 million and $128.6 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020, respectively. In June 2021, we rolled forward our July 2021 $250.0 million forward starting interest rate swap to May 2022 through a cashless settlement. The unrealized loss on the 2021 forward starting interest rate swap at the time of the transaction was factored into the effective interest rate assigned to the new May 2022 forward starting interest rate swap. See Note 11, "Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities" for further details. Other than the activity mentioned above and the supplemental non-cash activity related to the recognition of leases further discussed in Note 13, "Leases," there was no other significant non-cash activity during the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020, respectively. Share-Based Compensation During the first nine months of 2021 and 2020, we granted stock options, RSUs and PSUs to certain officers and other eligible employees, and recognized share-based compensation expense of $8.2 million and $6.2 million during the three months ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020, respectively, and $24.7 million and $18.0 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020, respectively. |