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Additional Financial Information | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2020
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Additional Financial Information | Additional Financial Information Cash Interest and Taxes The Company made interest payments of approximately $43 million and $50 million during the three months ended June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019, respectively. The Company made interest payments of approximately $108 million and $120 million during the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019, respectively. The Company paid approximately $18 million and $22 million of income and withholding taxes, net of refunds, for the three months ended June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019, respectively. The Company paid approximately $58 million and $40 million of income and withholding taxes, net of refunds, during the nine months ended June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019, respectively. Dividends The Company’s ability to pay dividends may be restricted by covenants in certain of the indentures governing its notes and in the credit agreements for the Senior Term Loan Facility and the Revolving Credit Facility. In the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, the Company instituted a regular quarterly dividend policy whereby it intended to pay a modest regular quarterly dividend in each of the first three fiscal quarters and a variable dividend for the fourth fiscal quarter in an amount commensurate with cash expected to be generated from operations in such fiscal year, in each case, after taking into account other potential uses for cash, including acquisitions, investment in our business and repayment of indebtedness. In connection with the IPO, the Company amended its dividend policy whereby it intends to pay quarterly cash dividends of $0.12 per share to holders of its Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock. The Company expects to pay the first dividend under this policy in September 2020. The declaration of each dividend will continue to be at the discretion of the Company’s board of directors and will depend on the Company’s financial condition, earnings, liquidity and capital requirements, level of indebtedness, contractual restrictions with respect to payment of dividends, restrictions imposed by Delaware law, general business conditions and any other factors that the Company’s board of directors deems relevant in making such a determination. Therefore, there can be no assurance that the Company will pay any dividends to holders of the Company’s common stock, or as to the amount of any such dividends. Prior to the completion of the IPO, the Company’s board of directors declared cash dividends to common stockholders of $37.5 million on each of December 16, 2019 and March 25, 2020, $206 million on September 23, 2019, and $31.25 million on June 28, 2019. Dividends were recorded as an accrual as of the end of periods in which they were declared and paid to stockholders in the quarterly reporting period subsequent to declaration. Depreciation Expense During the nine months ended June 30, 2020, the Company recorded depreciation expense of $53 million, which included a one-time charge of $10 million representing the difference between the net book value of a building and its expected recoverable value. COVID-19 Pandemic On March 11, 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. Government-imposed mandates limiting public assembly and requiring that non-essential businesses close have adversely impacted the Company’s operations, including touring and physical product distribution, for the three and nine months ended June 30, 2020. It is unclear how long government-imposed mandates and restrictions will last and to what extent the global pandemic will impact demand for the Company’s music and related services, even as federal, state, local and foreign governmental start to lift restrictions. The Company is not presently aware of any events or circumstances arising from the global pandemic that would require us to update any estimates, judgments or materially revise the carrying value of our assets or liabilities. The Company’s estimates may change, however, as new events occur and additional information is obtained, and any such changes will be recognized in the consolidated financial statements. Actual results could differ from estimates, and any such differences may be material to our consolidated financial statements. Termination of Access Management Agreement Prior to the IPO, the Company and Holdings were party to a management agreement with Access (the “Management Agreement”), pursuant to which Access provided the Company and its subsidiaries with financial, investment banking, management, advisory and other services. As a result of the completion of the IPO, the Management Agreement terminated in accordance with its terms and the Company paid to Access a one-time termination fee and a fee for transaction services in an aggregate amount of $60 million. The Company recorded these fees in June 2020 and they appear within selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations for both the three and nine months ended June 30, 2020.

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