This particular decision adopted the IRS method, which involves preparing two pro-forma separate returns.
The company also provided some pro-forma figures for the unified entity post completion of acquisitions.
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We will soon update our model on availability of 2012 10-k form and pro-forma financials.
If the market is there and the team executes, will the financial reality match the pro-forma?
Yet the Powell endorsement was not just a pro-forma, "he's my guy" announcement.
Normally, this would be a pro-forma exercise, but Labrador, Huelskamp, and a small band of colleagues had another idea.
Having recently finalized its merger, United Continental was forced to estimate on a pro-forma basis all the comparisons with prior quarters.
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The court should hold a pro-forma committal hearing by April 15th, after which the trial would normally begin in 110 days.
Republican lawmakers used the pro-forma sessions - as Democrats have done in the past - to prevent the president from using his recess appointments power.
It was in November of 2007 when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid first declared the Senate to be in pro-forma session for the two-week Thanksgiving break.
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Senate Republicans employed an unconventional maneuver, calling the Senate into a series of pro-forma sessions (in which no business could be transacted) to prevent an actual recess from occurring.
He says the deal will be dilutive to GAAP earnings per share by one penny (because of nonrecurring charges related to deferred compensation), and accretive to pro-forma earnings in 2004.
Are the pro-forma financial statements comprehensive and accurate?
Over the long term in the pro-forma scenario, the accounts result in breathtaking reductions in government spending, because the payment of Social Security benefits is shifted out of the federal budget altogether, financed instead through the accounts in the private sector.
Ciena says the deal would begin to add to pro forma earnings in the second-half of fiscal 2002 but would dilute pro forma earnings for fiscal 2001 by 19 cents to 22 cents, excluding one-time charges and amortization of intangibles and deferred stock-compensation costs.
In the Microsoft-Yahoo case, even a pro forma investigation is preposterous--Google has an overwhelming share of the search market, 65% at last count.
Of late, companies have been playing new tricks with an old tool--"pro forma" results.
But during that time, GOP lawmakers argued, the Senate technically had stayed in session because it was gaveled in and out every few days for so-called pro forma sessions.
Unfortunately, as things stand now, the only impediments to the early transfer of a true national asset to a potentially problematic foreign owner are two, all-too-often pro forma bureaucratic exercises: the grant of a Federal Communications Commission license to transfer ownership and a possible Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review.
On the third page of its latest earnings release, Zynga provides some of the reasons why they report pro forma (non-GAAP) earnings.
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In this case, releasing GAAP earnings first can result in an investor making a wrong decision since analysts and the press have consistently been reporting non-GAAP (pro forma) earnings estimates as the expected earnings.
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Five of the top-15 tenants are rated investment-grade versus three years ago and was about 34% of overall revenue on a pro forma basis now coming from investment-grade.
The analyst notes that U.S. ComScore data for August shows that time spent on the site was down 12% on a pro forma basis on a year-over-year basis.
Apple down 7% over the past several days and trading at just 11x (ex-cash) our CY11 pro forma EPS estimate, we believe the stock represents an attractive entry point for investors.
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Our EMEA region experienced a fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline as pro forma revenues in constant dollars were down 6% and 8%, respectively, on a sequential and year-over-year basis.
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Despite all the proposals to make accounting more transparent, pro forma obfuscations are as bad as ever--and cover a shocking number of public companies, according to data compiled by Multex (nasdaq: MLTX - news - people ), a New York financial research company.
Pro forma first came in vogue in the merger-mad 1980s, as it was used to help investors see what the new combination would have looked like financially had it been a single entity for the previous year or so.
Late yesterday, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Jim Webb (D-VA) wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), urging the use a pro forma session of Congress in order to offer a solution.
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People sort of thought that the re-nomination of Peter Pace was going to be pro forma.
Nevertheless, a stunning 81% of these profit-challenged companies put themselves in the black using pro forma calculations.
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