Appendix: Non-GAAP Items – Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Cash EPS • Adjusted EBITDA is net income excluding equity in income of equity investments, nonoperating income/(expense), taxes, depreciation, amortization and stock-based compensation expenses and other non-recurring items. • Adjusted cash EPS is adjusted cash earnings divided by weighted average shares outstanding used for basic EPS calculations. Adjusted cash earnings is net income excluding the after-tax impact of stock-based compensation expenses, amortization of acquisition intangibles, and other non-recurring items. • Adjusted segment operating income is operating income at the segment level adjusted for acquisition intangible amortization. • Adjusted segment operating margin is adjusted segment operating income divided by segment revenues before reimbursable items. • The Company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures it presents are useful to investors in evaluating the Company’s operating performance for the following reasons: – adjusted EBITDA and adjusted cash EPS are widely used by investors to measure a company’s operating performance without regard to items, such as interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, merger and acquisition expenses and employee stock-based compensation expense that can vary substantially from company to company depending upon their respective financing structures and accounting policies, the book values of their assets, their capital structures and the methods by which their assets were acquired; and – securities analysts use adjusted EBITDA and adjusted cash EPS as supplemental measures to evaluate the overall operating performance of companies. • By comparing the Company’s adjusted EBITDA and adjusted cash EPS in different historical periods, investors can evaluate the Company’s operating results without the additional variations caused by employee stock-based compensation expense, which may not be comparable from period to period due to changes in the fair market value of the Company’s common stock (which is influenced by external factors like the volatility of public markets and the financial performance of the Company’s peers) and is not a key measure of the Company’s operations. • The Company’s management uses the non-GAAP financial measures: – as measures of operating performance, because they exclude the impact of items not directly resulting from the Company’s core operations; – for planning purposes, including the preparation of the Company’s annual operating budget; – to allocate resources to enhance the financial performance of the Company’s business; – to evaluate the effectiveness of the Company’s business strategies; and – in communications with the Company’s board of directors concerning the Company’s financial performance. ©2013 Total System Services, Inc.® Proprietary. All rights reserved worldwide. 22 |