Microsoft Corp DEFA14A, filed Nov 24, 2020
Microsoft Corp (MSFT)
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MICROSOFT CORPORATION
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROXY STATEMENT
FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
TO BE HELD DECEMBER 2, 2020
Microsoft’s definitive proxy statement for its 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting, filed on October 19, 2020, discloses our fiscal year 2020 EBITDA (as defined below). For fiscal year 2020, we reported net income of $44,281 million in our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). The Table and Graph on page 37 of our proxy statement disclosed EBITDA of $65,259 million for the same period. The following table reconciles net income reported in accordance with GAAP to EBITDA for our fiscal year 2020.
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Fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 |
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| Net income, as reported (GAAP) |
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$44,281 |
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| Provision for income taxes |
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8,755 |
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| Other income, net |
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(77) |
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| Depreciation |
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10,700 |
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| Amortization |
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1,600 |
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| EBITDA (non-GAAP) |
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$65,259 |
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Non-GAAP Definition
EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure, refers to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. We provided our EBITDA, as well as 2020 EBITDA for a peer group of technology and general industry companies (calculated using the most comparable line items from their publicly reported financial statements), for fiscal year 2020 to provide investors with additional insight into how our Compensation Committee determined our peer group for assessing pay practices. Management does not utilize EBITDA in evaluating business performance. EBITDA should not be considered as a substitute for, or superior to, net income prepared in accordance with GAAP as a measure of financial performance.