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Joint Ventures and Variable Interest Entities

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2019

Joint Ventures and Variable Interest Entities

Joint Ventures and Variable Interest Entities

5.    Joint Ventures and Variable Interest Entities

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The Company’s joint ventures provide architecture, engineering, program management, construction management, operations and maintenance services, and invest in real estate projects. Joint ventures, the combination of two or more partners, are generally formed for a specific project. Management of the joint venture is typically controlled by a joint venture executive committee, comprised of representatives from the joint venture partners. The joint venture executive committee normally provides management oversight and controls decisions which could have a significant impact on the joint venture.

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Some of the Company’s joint ventures have no employees and minimal operating expenses. For these joint ventures, the Company’s employees perform work for the joint venture, which is then billed to a third-party customer by the joint venture. These joint ventures function as pass through entities to bill the third-party customer. For consolidated joint ventures of this type, the Company records the entire amount of the services performed and the costs associated with these services, including the services provided by the other joint venture partners, in the Company’s result of operations. For some of these joint ventures where a fee is added by an unconsolidated joint venture to client billings, the Company’s portion of that fee is recorded in equity in earnings of joint ventures.

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The Company also has joint ventures that have their own employees and operating expenses, and to which the Company generally makes a capital contribution. The Company accounts for these joint ventures either as consolidated entities or equity method investments based on the criteria further discussed below.

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The Company follows guidance on the consolidation of variable interest entities (VIEs) that requires companies to utilize a qualitative approach to determine whether it is the primary beneficiary of a VIE. The process for identifying the primary beneficiary of a VIE requires consideration of the factors that indicate a party has the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the joint venture’s economic performance, including powers granted to the joint venture’s program manager, powers contained in the joint venture governing board and a company’s economic interest in the joint venture. The Company analyzes its joint ventures and classifies them as either:

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● a VIE that must be consolidated because the Company is the primary beneficiary or the joint venture is not a VIE and the Company holds the majority voting interest with no significant participative rights available to the other partners; or

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● a VIE that does not require consolidation and is treated as an equity method investment because the Company is not the primary beneficiary or the joint venture is not a VIE and the Company does not hold the majority voting interest.

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As part of the above analysis, if it is determined that the Company has the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the joint venture’s economic performance, the Company considers whether or not it has the obligation to absorb losses or rights to receive benefits of the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE.

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Contractually required support provided to the Company’s joint ventures is further discussed in Note 14.

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Summary of financial information of the consolidated joint ventures is as follows:

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​	​	June 30,		​	​	​
​		2019			September 30,
​	​	(unaudited)		​	2018
​	​	(in millions)
Current assets	​	$	934.3	​	$	1,013.7
Non-current assets	​		176.6	​		192.7
Total assets	​	$	1,110.9	​	$	1,206.4
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Current liabilities	​	$	654.5	​	$	724.2
Non-current liabilities	​		13.1	​		12.7
Total liabilities	​		667.6	​		736.9
Total AECOM equity	​	​	250.1	​		284.2
Noncontrolling interests	​		193.2	​		185.3
Total owners’ equity	​		443.3	​		469.5
Total liabilities and owners’ equity	​	$	1,110.9	​	$	1,206.4

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Total revenue of the consolidated joint ventures was $1,880.6 million and $1,820.8 million for the nine months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively. The assets of the Company’s consolidated joint ventures are restricted for use only by the particular joint venture and are not available for the general operations of the Company.

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Summary of unaudited financial information of the unconsolidated joint ventures, as derived from their unaudited financial statements, is as follows:

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​	​	June 30,		​	September 30,
​		2019			2018
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Current assets	​	$	1,888.3	​	$	1,903.3
Non-current assets	​		1,129.3	​		938.3
Total assets	​	$	3,017.6	​	$	2,841.6
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Current liabilities	​	$	1,556.0	​	$	1,658.5
Non-current liabilities	​		305.1	​		224.3
Total liabilities	​		1,861.1	​		1,882.8
Joint ventures’ equity	​		1,156.5	​		958.8
Total liabilities and joint ventures’ equity	​	$	3,017.6	​	$	2,841.6
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AECOM’s investment in joint ventures	​	$	391.5	​	$	310.7

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​	​	Nine Months Ended
​	​	June 30,		​	June 30,
​		2019			2018
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Revenue	​	$	3,472.6	​	$	4,041.7
Cost of revenue	​		3,308.4	​		3,843.7
Gross profit	​	$	164.2	​	$	198.0
Net income	​	$	162.5	​	$	191.8

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Summary of AECOM’s equity in earnings of unconsolidated joint ventures is as follows:

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​	​	Nine Months Ended
​		June 30,			June 30,
​		2019			2018
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Pass through joint ventures	​	$	24.4	​	$	29.8
Other joint ventures	​		42.6	​		25.8
Total	​	$	67.0	​	$	55.6

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Disclosure of the entity's joint ventures and variable interest entities (VIE), including, but not limited to the nature, purpose, size, and activities of the VIE, the carrying amount and classification of consolidated assets that are collateral for the VIE's obligations, lack of recourse if creditors (or beneficial interest holders) of a consolidated VIE have no recourse to the general credit of the primary beneficiary. An enterprise that holds a significant variable interest in a VIE but is not the primary beneficiary may disclose the nature of its involvement with the VIE and when that involvement began, the nature, purpose, size, and activities of the VIE and the enterprise's maximum exposure to loss as a result of its involvement with the VIE.

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