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General | 3 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2019
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General | (1) General SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES. These interim financial statements of FedEx Corporation (“FedEx”) have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) instructions for interim financial information, and should be read in conjunction with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended May 31, 2019 (“Annual Report”). Significant accounting policies and other disclosures normally provided have been omitted since such items are disclosed in our Annual Report. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments (including normal recurring adjustments) necessary to present fairly our financial position as of August 31, 2019, and the results of our operations for the three-month periods ended August 31, 2019 and 2018, cash flows for the three-month periods ended August 31, 2019 and 2018, and changes in common stockholders’ investment for the three-month periods ended August 31, 2019 and 2018. Operating results for the three-month period ended August 31, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending May 31, 2020. Except as otherwise specified, references to years indicate our fiscal year ending May 31, 2020 or ended May 31 of the year referenced and comparisons are to the corresponding period of the prior year. RECLASSIFICATIONS. Certain reclassifications have been made to the prior years’ condensed consolidated financial statements to conform to the current year presentation. REVENUE RECOGNITION. Contract Assets and Liabilities Contract assets include billed and unbilled amounts resulting from in-transit packages, as we have an unconditional right to payment only once all performance obligations have been completed (e.g., packages have been delivered). Contract assets are generally classified as current and the full balance is converted each quarter based on the short-term nature of the transactions. Our contract liabilities consist of advance payments and billings in excess of revenue. The full balance of deferred revenue is converted each quarter based on the short-term nature of the transactions. Gross contract assets related to in-transit packages totaled $466 million and $533 million at August 31, 2019 and May 31, 2019, respectively. Contract assets net of deferred unearned revenue were $338 million and $364 million at August 31, 2019 and May 31, 2019, respectively. Contract assets are included within current assets in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. Contract liabilities related to advance payments from customers were $10 million and $11 million at August 31, 2019 and May 31, 2019, respectively. Contract liabilities are included within current liabilities in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. Disaggregation of Revenue The following table provides revenue by service type (dollars in millions) for the periods ended August 31. This presentation is consistent with how we organize our segments internally for making operating decisions and measuring performance.
|  | Three Months Ended |
|  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |
REVENUE BY SERVICE TYPE |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
FedEx Express segment: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Package: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. overnight box |  | $ | 1,866 |  |  | $ | 1,886 |
U.S. overnight envelope |  |  | 479 |  |  |  | 468 |
U.S. deferred |  |  | 956 |  |  |  | 952 |
Total U.S. domestic package revenue |  |  | 3,301 |  |  |  | 3,306 |
International priority |  |  | 1,817 |  |  |  | 1,874 |
International economy |  |  | 855 |  |  |  | 850 |
Total international export package revenue |  |  | 2,672 |  |  |  | 2,724 |
International domestic(1) |  |  | 1,076 |  |  |  | 1,131 |
Total package revenue |  |  | 7,049 |  |  |  | 7,161 |
Freight: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. |  |  | 695 |  |  |  | 730 |
International priority |  |  | 464 |  |  |  | 533 |
International economy |  |  | 516 |  |  |  | 519 |
International airfreight |  |  | 66 |  |  |  | 85 |
Total freight revenue |  |  | 1,741 |  |  |  | 1,867 |
Other |  |  | 155 |  |  |  | 194 |
Total FedEx Express segment |  |  | 8,945 |  |  |  | 9,222 |
FedEx Ground segment |  |  | 5,179 |  |  |  | 4,799 |
FedEx Freight segment |  |  | 1,905 |  |  |  | 1,959 |
FedEx Services segment |  |  | 4 |  |  |  | 9 |
Other and eliminations(2) |  |  | 1,015 |  |  |  | 1,063 |
|  | $ | 17,048 |  |  | $ | 17,052 |
| (1) | International domestic revenues relate to our international intra-country operations.
| (2) | Includes the FedEx Logistics, Inc. (“FedEx Logistics”) and FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc. (“FedEx Office”) operating segments.
LEASES. We lease certain facilities, aircraft, equipment and vehicles under operating and finance leases that expire at various dates through 2059. A determination of whether a contract contains a lease is made at the inception of the arrangement. Our leased facilities include national, regional and metropolitan sorting facilities, retail facilities and administrative buildings. We leased 6% of our total aircraft fleet as of August 31, 2019 and May 31, 2019. Our leases generally contain options to extend or terminate the lease. We reevaluate our leases on a regular basis to consider the economic and strategic incentives of exercising the renewal options, and how they align with our operating strategy. Therefore, substantially all the renewal option periods are not included within the lease term and the associated payments are not included in the measurement of the right-of-use asset and lease liability as the options to extend are not reasonably certain at lease commencement. The lease liabilities are measured at the lease commencement date and determined using the present value of the minimum lease payments not yet paid and our incremental borrowing rate, which approximates the rate at which we would borrow, on a collateralized basis, over the term of a lease in the applicable currency environment. The interest rate implicit in the lease is generally not determinable in transactions where we are the lessee. For real estate leases, we account for lease components and non-lease components (such as common area maintenance) as a single lease component. Certain real estate leases require additional payments based on sales volume and index based rate increases, as well as reimbursement for real estate taxes, common area maintenance and insurance, which are expensed as incurred as variable lease costs. Certain leases contain fixed lease payment s for items such as real estate taxes, common area maintenance and insurance. These fixed payments are considered part of the lease payment and included in the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities. See Note 7 for additional information. EMPLOYEES UNDER COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ARRANGEMENTS. The pilots of Federal Express Corporation (“FedEx Express”), who are a small number of its total employees, are employed under a collective bargaining agreement that took effect on November 2, 2015. The collective bargaining agreement is scheduled to become amendable in November 2021. Other than the pilots at FedEx Express and drivers at one FedEx Freight, Inc. facility, our U.S. employees have thus far chosen not to unionize (we acquired FedEx Supply Chain Distribution System, Inc. in 2015, which already had a small number of employees who are members of unions). Additionally, certain FedEx Express non-U.S. employees are unionized, and a union has been certified to represent owner-drivers at a FedEx Freight Canada, Corp. facility. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION. We have two types of equity-based compensation: stock options and restricted stock. The key terms of the stock option and restricted stock awards granted under our incentive stock plans and all financial disclosures about these programs are set forth in our Annual Report. Our stock-based compensation expense was $67 million for the three-month period ended August 31, 2019 and $68 million for the three-month period ended August 31, 2018. Due to its immateriality, additional disclosures related to stock-based compensation have been excluded from this quarterly report. DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS. Our risk management strategy includes the select use of derivative instruments to reduce the effects of volatility in foreign currency exchange exposure on operating results and cash flows. In accordance with our risk management policies, we do not hold or issue derivative instruments for trading or speculative purposes. All derivative instruments are recognized in the financial statements at fair value, regardless of the purpose or intent for holding them. When we become a party to a derivative instrument and intend to apply hedge accounting, we formally document the hedge relationship and the risk management objective for undertaking the hedge, which includes designating the instrument for financial reporting purposes as a fair value hedge, a cash flow hedge or a net investment hedge. If a derivative is designated as a cash flow hedge, the entire change in the fair value of the hedging instrument included in the assessment of hedge effectiveness is recorded in other comprehensive income. For net investment hedges, the entire change in the fair value is recorded in the currency translation adjustment section of other comprehensive income. Any portion of a change in the fair value of a derivative that is considered to be ineffective, along with the change in fair value of any derivatives not designated in a hedging relationship, is immediately recognized in the income statement. We do not have any derivatives designated as a cash flow hedge for any period presented. Accordingly, additional disclosures about cash flow hedges are excluded from this report. On August 13, 2019, we designated €294 million of debt as a net investment hedge to reduce the volatility of the U.S. dollar value of a portion of our euro-denominated net investment. As of August 31, 2019, the designated net investment’s net equity balance exceeds the balance outstanding on the euro-denominated debt and all other critical terms of the hedging instrument and hedged net investment continue to match. Therefore, the hedging relationship is considered effective. RECENT ACCOUNTING GUIDANCE. New accounting rules and disclosure requirements can significantly impact our reported results and the comparability of our financial statements. We believe the following new accounting guidance is relevant to the readers of our financial statements. Recently Adopted Accounting Standards In 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued a new lease accounting standard, which requires lessees to put most leases on their balance sheets but recognize the expenses in their income statements in a manner similar to current practice. Lessees are required to recognize a lease liability for the obligation to make lease payments and a right-of-use asset for the right to use the underlying asset for the lease term. Expenses related to leases determined to be operating leases are recognized on a straight-line basis, while those determined to be finance leases are recognized following a front-loaded expense profile in which interest and amortization are presented separately in the income statement. We adopted this new standard on June 1, 2019 using a modified retrospective transition method. Using the modified retrospective transition method of adoption, we did not adjust the balance sheet for comparative periods but recorded a cumulative effect adjustment to retained earnings on June 1, 2019. We have elected the package of practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance within the new standard, which among other things, allows us to carry forward the historical accounting relating to lease identification and classification for existing leases upon adoption. We also elected the practical expedient to not separate lease and non-lease components for the majority of our classes of assets. For leases in which the lease and non-lease components have been combined, the lease expense includes expenses such as common area maintenance. We have made an accounting policy election not to recognize leases with an initial term of 12 months or less on the consolidated balance sheet. The adoption of the new lease accounting standard resulted in the recognition of an operating lease liability of $14.2 billion and an operating right-of-use asset of $14.1 billion, with an immaterial impact on our income statement compared to the previous lease accounting model. Existing prepaid asset and net deferred rent liability balances of $154 million and $309 million, respectively, were recorded to the right-of-use asset. The cumulative effect of the adoption to retained earnings was an increase of $57 million ($47 million, net of tax), primarily related to the reclassification of deferred gains related to sale-leasebacks of aircraft. Substantially all of our lease arrangements are operating leases under the new standard. The new standard had a material impact on our balance sheet, but did not materially impact consolidated operating results and had no impact on operating cash flows. See “Leases” and Note 7 for additional information. In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-02 that permits companies to reclassify the income tax effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on items within Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (“AOCI”) to retained earnings. We adopted this new standard on June 1, 2019. New Accounting Standards and Accounting Standards Not Yet Adopted In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13 that changes how entities will measure credit losses for most financial assets and certain other instruments that are not measured at fair value through net income. These changes will be effective June 1, 2020 (fiscal 2021). We are assessing the impact of this new standard on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15 that reduces the complexity of accounting for costs of implementing a cloud computing service arrangement and aligns the accounting for capitalizing implementation costs of hosting arrangements, regardless of whether they convey a license to the hosted software. These changes will be effective June 1, 2020. We are assessing the impact of this new standard on our consolidated financial statements and related disclosures. TREASURY SHARES. In January 2016, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program of up to 25 million shares. Shares under the current repurchase program may be repurchased from time to time in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. The timing and volume of repurchases are at the discretion of management, based on the capital needs of the business, the market price of FedEx common stock and general market conditions. No time limit was set for the completion of the program, and the program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. During the first quarter of 2020, we repurchased 0.02 million shares of FedEx common stock at an average price of $156.90 per share for a total of $3 million. As of August 31, 2019, 5.1 million shares remained under the stock repurchase authorization. DIVIDENDS DECLARED PER COMMON SHARE. On August 16, 2019, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.65 per share of common stock. The dividend will be paid on October 1, 2019 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on September 9, 2019. Each quarterly dividend payment is subject to review and approval by our Board of Directors, and we evaluate our dividend payment amount on an annual basis.

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