Item 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

The table below summarizes our selected historical financial information for each of the last five years. The summary of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018, and the balance sheet data as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, have been derived from our audited Consolidated Financial Statements included in this report. All periods presented in this table have been revised for the pension accounting change discussed in Note 1 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of this report. The historical selected financial information may not be indicative of our future performance and should be read in conjunction with the information contained in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and the Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this report.

(1)The selected financial data above reflects the change in accounting method for recognizing actuarial gains and losses and expected returns on plan assets for our defined benefit pension and postretirement benefit plans. Under the accounting method change, remeasurement of projected benefit obligation and plan assets are immediately recognized in earnings through net periodic benefit cost within Other Income (Expense) on the Consolidated Statements of Income (Loss), This change in accounting was applied retrospectively to all of the prior periods. For additional information, see Note 1 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this report.

(2)During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded $800.9 million of losses, net of insurance recoveries, associated with certain legal proceedings and government investigations related to the 2017 cybersecurity incident, exclusive of our legal professional services expenses. For additional information, see Note 6 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this report.

(3)During the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded $365.0 million, $337.3 million, and $326.2 million, respectively, of pre-tax expenses, net of cybersecurity insurance recoveries, for costs related to the 2017 cybersecurity incident. Costs related to the 2017 cybersecurity incident are defined as incremental costs to transform our information technology infrastructure and data security; legal fees and professional services costs to investigate the 2017 cybersecurity incident and respond to legal, government and regulatory claims; as well as costs to provide free credit monitoring product and related support to consumers. For additional information, see Note 6 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this report.

(4)During the fourth quarter of 2020, first quarter of 2019 and fourth quarter of 2018, we recorded $31.9 million ($24.3 million, net of tax), $11.5 million ($8.8 million, net of tax) and $46.1 million ($35.0 million, net of tax) of restructuring charges, respectively. All restructuring charges were recorded in selling, general, and administrative expenses in our Consolidated Statements of Income (Loss). These restructuring charges primarily relate to a reduction in headcount to support the Company’s strategic objectives and increase the integration of our global operations. For additional information, see Note 11 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 of this report.

(5)The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“Tax Act”) significantly revised U.S. tax law. The legislation positively impacted the Company’s ongoing effective tax rate due to the reduction of the U.S. federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. The Tax Act made major changes to the U.S. international tax system. As a result of the Tax Act, the Company recorded adjustments totaling a net tax benefit of $48.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2017 to provisionally account for the estimated impact. Refer to Note 7 of the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in this Form 10-K for additional information. We also prospectively applied the provisions of ASU 2016-09 “Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718),” related to the recognition of windfall tax benefits in the Consolidated Statement of Income which resulted in the recognition of $26.7 million of tax benefits for the year ended December 31, 2017.

(6)In the first quarter of 2016, we completed the acquisition of 100% of the ordinary voting shares of Veda Group Limited (“Veda”) for cash consideration plus debt assumed of approximately $1.9 billion. For the year ended December 31, 2016, we recorded $40.2 million ($28.2 million, net of tax) for Veda acquisition related amounts.