Fair Value Measurements

The Company applies the provisions of ASC 820 for its financial assets and liabilities that are re-measured and reported at fair value each reporting period and its nonfinancial assets and liabilities that are re-measured and reported at fair value on a non-recurring basis. Fair value is the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which it would transact and considers assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the asset or liability.

Fair Value Hierarchy

ASC 820 establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. Financial assets and liabilities are categorized within the valuation hierarchy based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the measurement of fair value. The three levels of the hierarchy are defined as follows:


•	Level 1—Inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted market prices for identical assets or liabilities.


•	Level 2—Inputs to the valuation methodology are other observable inputs, including quoted market prices for similar assets or liabilities and market-corroborated inputs.


•	Level 3—Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable inputs based on management’s best estimate of inputs market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability at the measurement date, including assumptions about risk.

Assets/Liabilities Measured and Recorded at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis

The Company has investments in publicly-traded companies, which are valued using quoted market prices, representing Level 1 assets, and investments in derivative instruments comprised of interest rate caps and forward foreign currency contracts, which are valued using analyses obtained from independent third party valuation specialists based on market observable inputs, representing Level 2 assets. The fair values of the Company's interest rate caps and forward foreign currency contracts represent the estimated amounts the Company would receive or pay to terminate the contracts. Refer to Note 2 for further discussion and information on the equity investments, the interest rate caps and forward foreign currency contracts.

The Company has a payment obligation to the participants under its Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan (“DCP”). This liability is recorded at fair value based on the underlying value of certain hypothetical investments under the DCP as designated by each participant for their benefit. Since the value of the DCP obligation is based on market prices, the liability is classified within Level 1.

Assets and liabilities measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis consisted of the following:



			Fair Value Measurements at September 30, 2017
	Carrying Value		Quoted Prices in Active Market for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Assets:
Equity securities	$	0.1	$	0.1	$	—	$	—
Interest rate caps - derivative	4.8		—		4.8		—
Forward foreign currency contracts	0.4		—		0.4		—
Total	$	5.3	$	0.1	$	5.2	$	—
Liabilities:
Deferred compensation liabilities	$	43.2	$	43.2	$	—	$	—
Forward foreign currency contracts	4.0		—		4.0		—
Total	$	47.2	$	43.2	$	4.0	$	—



			Fair Value Measurements at September 24, 2016
	Carrying Value		Quoted Prices in Active Market for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Other Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Assets:
Equity securities	$	1.0	$	1.0	$	—	$	—
Interest rate caps - derivative	1.4		—		1.4		—
Forward foreign currency contracts	0.2		—		0.2		—
Total	$	2.6	$	1.0	$	1.6	$	—
Liabilities:
Deferred compensation liabilities	$	37.0	$	37.0	$	—	$	—
Forward foreign currency contracts	1.3		—		1.3		—
Total	$	38.3	$	37.0	$	1.3	$	—

There were no Level 3 assets or liabilities outstanding during fiscal 2017, 2016 and 2015.

Assets Measured and Recorded at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis

The Company remeasures the fair value of certain assets and liabilities upon the occurrence of certain events. Such assets are comprised of cost-method equity investments and long-lived assets, including property, plant and equipment, intangible assets and goodwill. There were no impairments to assets measured using level 3 inputs in fiscal 2017, 2016 and 2015. Refer to Note 4 for disclosure of the nonrecurring fair value measurement related to the debt extinguishment losses recorded in fiscal 2017, 2016 and 2015.

Disclosure of Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The Company’s financial instruments mainly consist of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, marketable securities, cost-method equity investments, interest rate caps, forward foreign currency contracts, insurance contracts, DCP liability, accounts payable and debt obligations. The carrying amounts of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable and accounts payable approximate their fair value due to the short-term nature of these instruments. The Company’s marketable securities, interest rate caps, and forward foreign currency contracts are recorded at fair value. The carrying amount of the insurance contracts are recorded at the cash surrender value, as required by U.S. GAAP, which approximates fair value, and the related DCP liability is recorded at fair value. The Company believes the carrying amounts of its cost-method equity investments approximate fair value.

Amounts outstanding under the Company’s Credit Agreement and Securitization Program of $1.67 billion and $200.0 million aggregate principal, respectively, as of September 30, 2017 are subject to variable rates of interest based on current market rates, and as such, the Company believes the carrying amount of these obligations approximates fair value. The Company’s 2022 Senior Notes had a fair value of approximately $1.05 billion and $1.06 billion as of September 30, 2017 and September 24, 2016, respectively, based on their trading price, representing a Level 1 measurement. The fair value of the Company’s Convertible Notes is based on the trading prices of the respective notes and represents a Level 1 measurement. Refer to Note 4 for the carrying amounts of the various components of the Company’s debt.

The estimated fair values of the Company’s Convertible Notes at September 30, 2017 and September 24, 2016 are as follows:



	2017		2016
2010 Notes	—		20.2
2012 Notes	297.3		481.9
2013 Notes	244.4		458.8
	$	541.7	$	960.9