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Acquisitions | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Business Combinations [Abstract] |
Acquisitions | Acquisitions SunGard FIS completed the SunGard acquisition on November 30, 2015, and SunGard's results of operations and financial position are included in the Consolidated Financial Statements from and after the date of acquisition. The SunGard acquisition increased our existing portfolio of solutions to automate a wide range of complex business processes for financial services institutions and corporate and government treasury departments, adding trading, securities operations, administering investment portfolios, accounting for investment assets, and managing risk and compliance requirements. Through a series of mergers, FIS acquired 100 percent of the equity of SunGard, for a total purchase price as follows (in millions):
Cash consideration, including SunGard transaction fees paid at closing | $ | 2,335 |
Value of stock and vested equity awards exchanged for FIS shares | 2,697 |
Value of vested portion of SunGard stock awards exchanged for FIS awards | 47 |
| $ | 5,079 |
As of December 31, 2015, we recorded a preliminary allocation of the purchase price to SunGard tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of November 30, 2015. The provisional amounts for intangible assets were based on independent third-party valuations performed. Land and building valuations were based on appraisals performed by certified property appraisers. Goodwill was recorded as the residual amount by which the purchase price exceeded the provisional fair value of the net assets acquired. Land and building valuations based on appraisals performed by certified property appraisers were underway as of December 31, 2015 and were completed during 2016. Our evaluations of the facts and circumstances available as of November 30, 2015 to assign fair values to other assets acquired and liabilities assumed was completed as of December 31, 2016, as are our assessments of the economic characteristics of the acquired software and other intangibles. In accordance with ASU 2015-16, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Simplifying the Accounting for Measurement-Period Adjustments, the financial statements were not retrospectively adjusted for any measurement-period adjustments that occurred in subsequent periods. Rather, any adjustments to provisional amounts that were identified during the measurement period are recorded in the reporting period in which the adjustment was determined. During the year ended December 31, 2016, adjustments were recorded to increase the fair values assigned to intangible assets, deferred taxes, other liabilities and property and equipment and to reduce the value assigned to goodwill. We are also required to record, in the same period’s financial statements in which adjustments are recorded, the effect on earnings of changes in depreciation, amortization, or other income effects, if any, as a result of any change to the provisional amounts, calculated as if the accounting adjustment had been completed at the acquisition date. Additional depreciation and amortization of $5 million that would have been recognized in 2015 was recorded during the year ended December 31, 2016 related to the changes in provisional values of intangible assets made during 2016. The purchase price allocation as adjusted for measurement period adjustments recorded through December 31, 2016 is as follows (in millions):
Cash | $ | 631 |
Trade receivables | 526 |
Other receivables | 57 |
Property and equipment | 145 |
Computer software | 674 |
Intangible assets | 4,560 |
Other assets | 67 |
Goodwill | 5,800 |
Liabilities assumed and noncontrolling interest | (7,381 | )
| $ | 5,079 |
The following table summarizes the liabilities assumed in the SunGard acquisition (in millions):
Long-term debt (subsequently retired) | $ | 4,738 |
Deferred income taxes | 1,772 |
Deferred revenue | 278 |
Other liabilities and noncontrolling interest | 593 |
| $ | 7,381 |
The gross contractual amount of trade receivables acquired was approximately $546 million. The difference between that total and the amount reflected above represents our best estimate at the acquisition date of the contractual cash flows not expected to be collected. This difference was derived using SunGard's historical bad debts, sales allowances and collection trends. In connection with the SunGard acquisition, we also granted approximately 2 million restricted stock units in replacement of similar outstanding unvested awards held by SunGard employees. The amounts attributable to services already rendered were included as an adjustment to the purchase price and the amounts attributable to future services will be expensed over the remaining vesting period based on a valuation as of the date of closing. Pro Forma Results SunGard's revenues and pre-tax loss from continuing operations of $254 million and $12 million, respectively, from November 30, 2015 through December 31, 2015, are included in the Consolidated Statements of Earnings. Selected unaudited pro forma results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2015, assuming the SunGard acquisition had occurred as of January 1, 2014, are presented for comparative purposes below (in millions, except per share amounts):
| 2015
Total processing and services revenues | $ | 9,139 |
Net earnings (loss) from continuing operations attributable to FIS common stockholders | $ | 389 |
Pro forma earnings (loss) per share - basic from continuing operations attributable to FIS common stockholders | $ | 1.19 |
Pro forma earnings (loss) per share - diluted from continuing operations attributable to FIS common stockholders | $ | 1.17 |
The pro forma results do not include any anticipated synergies, but do include the impacts of purchase accounting adjustments and conforming commission policies. SunGard elected to expense commission payments as incurred whereas FIS recognizes commission expense over the period that the related revenue is recognized. The pro forma earnings (pre-tax) have been increased by $12 million for 2015 to conform SunGard’s expense recognition to FIS' policy. SunGard’s policies and practices surrounding software development and capitalization of related costs differed from those used by FIS and were conformed to those of FIS prospectively. As a result, more development costs qualify to be capitalized than SunGard had recorded historically. It is not practicable to determine what the impact of the changes in application of the capitalization principles would have been for purposes of these pro forma results. Excluding the impact of deferred revenue adjustments, total pro forma revenues would be $9,149 million for 2015.

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