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 its reporting segments. Our reporting segments include the Americas and EMEA&APAC. Our Americas segment operates in the U.S., Canada and various countries in the Caribbean, Latin and South America, and our EMEA&APAC 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 the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Unless otherwise indicated, information in this report is presented in USD and comparisons are to comparable prior year 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, RON and RSD. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated 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 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 financial statements should be read in conjunction with our 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, 2024 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be achieved for the full year or any other future period. Anti-Dilutive Securities Anti-dilutive securities from share-based awards excluded from the computation of diluted EPS were 1.5 million and 0.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively, and 1.3 million and 0.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively. Dividends On July 18, 2024, our Company's Board of Directors ("Board") declared a dividend of $0.44 per share, paid on September 20, 2024 to shareholders of Class A and Class B common stock of record on August 30, 2024. Shareholders of exchangeable shares received the CAD equivalent of dividends declared on Class A and Class B common stock, equal to CAD 0.60 per share. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, dividends declared to eligible shareholders were $1.32 per share, with the CAD equivalent equal to CAD 1.78 per share. Share Repurchase Program During the third quarter of 2023, our Board approved a share repurchase program authorizing the repurchase of up to an aggregate of $2.0 billion of our Company's Class B common stock, excluding brokerage commissions and excise taxes, with an expected program term of five years. This repurchase program replaces and supersedes any repurchase program previously approved by our Board. The following table presents the shares repurchased and aggregate cost, including brokerage commissions and excise taxes incurred, under the current and superseded share repurchase programs for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023. Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 September 30, 2023 September 30, 2024 September 30, 2023 Shares repurchased 1,160,707 505,000 7,500,489 980,000 Aggregate cost (in millions) $ 62.7 $ 34.5 $ 437.2 $ 61.2 Non-Cash Activity Non-cash investing activities include movements in our guarantee of indebtedness of certain equity method investments. See Note 3, "Investments" for further discussion. We also had non-cash activities related to capital expenditures incurred but not yet paid of $119.7 million and $168.6 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively. In addition, we had non-cash activities related to certain issuances of share-based awards. Other than the activity mentioned above and the supplemental non-cash activity related to the recognition of leases further discussed in Note 6, "Leases " there was no other significant non-cash activity during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and September 30, 2023, respectively. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts The allowance for doubtful accounts for trade receivables was $13.4 million and $12.7 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Supplier Financing We are the buyer under a supplier finance program with Citibank N.A. with $172.8 million and $147.5 million confirmed as valid and outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. We recognize these unpaid balances in accounts payable and other current liabilities on our unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. Acquisition On August 7, 2023, we acquired a 75% equity interest in Blue Run Spirits, Inc., a U.S. based high end whiskey business, for a purchase price of $77 million, which included cash paid of $64 million. The acquisition is aligned with our strategy to expand beyond the beer aisle and enhance our presence in the spirits category. The acquisition was accounted for as a business combination, with $88 million allocated to a definite-lived brand intangible asset to be amortized over a 15-year period and the remainder primarily allocated to other working capital balances and goodwill for the amount in excess of the net identifiable assets acquired. An NCI was recognized at fair value based on a Monte Carlo simulation model and is recorded as redeemable noncontrolling interest in the consolidated balance sheets based on the contractual terms of the agreement. Pro forma results of operations have not been presented as the impact is not material to our results of operation or financial position. Purchases of Annuity Contracts On September 26, 2024, we purchased annuity contracts for two of our Canadian pension plans which transferred approximately $344 million of pension plan liabilities, along with the associated administration of benefits, to an insurance company using the plan's respective pension plan assets. This transaction had no impact on the amount, timing or form of the retirement benefit payments to the affected retirees and beneficiaries. As a result of the transaction, we reduced the respective pension plan liabilities and assets and remeasured any remaining pension plan liabilities and assets using updated actuarial assumptions. We elected the practical expedient to perform the remeasurement as of the nearest calendar month-end date, which was September 30, 2024. A total settlement loss of $34.0 million was recorded to other pension and postretirement benefit (costs), net in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations during the third quarter of 2024. See the impacts of the pension plan remeasurement and settlement on AOCI in Note 11, "Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)." Cobra Beer Partnership, Ltd. Buyout Out of Period Adjustment During the three months ended September 30, 2024, we identified certain errors in the historical accounting for NCI with redemption features outside of our control under the terms of our Cobra Beer Partnership, Ltd. ("Cobra U.K." or "CBPL") partnership agreement and within certain other immaterial investments. Since the inception of these partnerships dating back to as early as 2002, we had historically accounted for the NCI within permanent equity with no adjustments to redemption value. Rather, our partners' shares should have been presented as redeemable NCI through the date of exercise of the redemption feature, with adjustments to the redemption value being recorded each reporting period as necessary. Specific to CBPL, since the option redemption price was not at fair value, the historical adjustments should have been recorded to net (income) loss attributable to noncontrolling interests in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations, based on our accounting policy to reflect the entire change in the redemption amount as a deemed dividend and earnings per share adjustment (resulting from the redemption feature) as part of the attribution of consolidated net income to the noncontrolling interest (as reported on the face of the income statement). Furthermore, in March 2024, our CBPL partner exercised its put option requiring us to acquire their 49.9% ownership interest. Since the exercise was irrevocable, the NCI became mandatorily redeemable at that time and should have been reclassified to accounts payable and other current liabilities. These errors resulted in a reclassification of $65 million from noncontrolling interests, of which $49 million was reclassified to accounts payable and other current liabilities for CBPL and $16 million was reclassified to redeemable noncontrolling interests for the other immaterial investments in our unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. In addition, the errors resulted in a cumulative understatement of $34.5 million to net income attributable to NCI and a corresponding cumulative overstatement to net income attributable to MCBC in our unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations. The errors were corrected through an out of period adjustment as of and for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Management assessed the impact of the errors and deemed them to not be material to any prior periods or to forecasted results for 2024. In October 2024, we obtained a final redemption value that would be due to acquire the 49.9% NCI of the CBPL partnership. As a result, during the three months ended September 30, 2024, we recorded an adjustment of $45.8 million to increase the mandatorily redeemable NCI liability to the final redemption value, with the adjustment recorded to interest expense. Subsequent Events The CBPL buyout was finalized on October 21, 2024, resulting in a cash payment of $89 million which will be recorded as a cash outflow from financing activities in the consolidated statement of cash flows in the fourth quarter of 2024. |