Regulation G

Rule 100 General Rules Regarding Disclosure of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
a.
Whenever a registrant,
or person acting on its behalf, publicly discloses material information
that includes a non-GAAP financial measure, the registrant must accompany
that non-GAAP financial measure with:
1. A
presentation of the most directly comparable financial measure calculated
and presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
(GAAP); and
2. A
reconciliation (by schedule or other clearly understandable method), which
shall be quantitative for historical non-GAAP measures presented, and
quantitative, to the extent available without unreasonable efforts, for
forward-looking information, of the differences between the non-GAAP financial
measure disclosed or released with the most comparable financial measure
or measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP identified
in paragraph (a)(1) of this section.
b. A registrant,
or a person acting on its behalf, shall not make public a non-GAAP financial
measure that, taken together with the information accompanying that measure
and any other accompanying discussion of that measure, contains an untrue
statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary
in order to make the presentation of the non-GAAP financial measure, in
light of the circumstances under which it is presented, not misleading.
c.
This section shall not
apply to a disclosure of a non-GAAP financial measure that is made by
or on behalf of a registrant that is a foreign private issuer if the following
conditions are satisfied:
1. The
securities of the registrant are listed or quoted on a securities exchange
or inter-dealer quotation system outside the United States;
2. The
non-GAAP financial measure is not derived from or based on a measure calculated
and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
in the United States; and
3. The
disclosure is made by or on behalf of the registrant outside the United
States, or is included in a written communication that is released by
or on behalf of the registrant outside the United States.
d.
This section shall not
apply to a non-GAAP financial measure included in disclosure relating
to a proposed business combination, the entity resulting therefrom or
an entity that is a party thereto, if the disclosure is contained in a
communication that is subject to
Rule
425 under the Securities Act, Rules
14a-12
or 14d-2(b)(2)
under the Exchange Act or
Item
1015 of Regulation M-A.
Notes to Rule 100:
1.
If a non-GAAP
financial measure is made public orally, telephonically, by Web cast,
by broadcast, or by similar means, the requirements of paragraphs (a)(1)(i)
and (a)(1)(ii) of this section will be satisfied if:
i. The
required information in those paragraphs is provided on the registrant's
Web site at the time the non-GAAP financial measure is made public; and
ii. The
location of the web site is made public in the same presentation in which
the non-GAAP financial measure is made public.
2.
The provisions
of paragraph (c) of this section shall apply notwithstanding the existence
of one or more of the following circumstances:
i. A
written communication is released in the United States as well as outside
the United States, so long as the communication is released in the United
States contemporaneously with or after the release outside the United
States and is not otherwise targeted at persons located in the United
States;
ii. Foreign
journalists, U.S. journalists or other third parties have access to the
information;
iii. The
information appears on one or more web sites maintained by the registrant,
so long as the web sites, taken together, are not available exclusively
to, or targeted at, persons located in the United States; or
iv. Following
the disclosure or release of the information outside the United States,
the information is included in a submission by the registrant to the Commission
made under cover of a Form
6-K.
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