Organization

Mueller Water Products, Inc., a Delaware corporation, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, operates in two business segments: Infrastructure and Technologies. Infrastructure manufactures valves for water and gas systems, including butterfly, iron gate, tapping, check, knife, plug and ball valves, as well as dry-barrel and wet-barrel fire hydrants. Technologies offers metering systems, leak detection, pipe condition assessment and other related products and services. The “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our” refer to Mueller Water Products, Inc. and its subsidiaries. With regard to the Company’s segments, “we,” “us” or “our” may also refer to the segment being discussed.

On January 6, 2017, we sold our former Anvil segment. Amounts applicable to Anvil have been classified as discontinued operations.

Infrastructure owns a 49% ownership interest in an industrial valve joint venture. Due to substantive control features in the operating agreement, all of the joint venture's assets, liabilities and results of operations are included in our consolidated financial statements. The net gain or loss attributable to noncontrolling interest is included in selling, general and administrative expenses. Noncontrolling interest is recorded at its carrying value, which approximates fair value.

Unless the context indicates otherwise, whenever we refer to a particular year, we mean our fiscal year ended or ending September 30 in that particular calendar year.

Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”), which require us to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, sales and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities for the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2017. In our opinion, all normal and recurring adjustments that we consider necessary for a fair financial statement presentation have been made. Certain reclassifications have been made to previously reported amounts to conform to the current presentation. The condensed consolidated balance sheet data at September 30, 2017 was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by GAAP.

On February 15, 2017, we acquired Singer Valve, a manufacturer of automatic control valves, and its affiliate that distributes Singer Valve products in the U.S, for an ultimate aggregate cash purchase price of $26.6 million.

On October 1, 2017, we adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Update No. 2017-07, which requires us to exclude from operating income the components of net periodic benefit cost other than service cost. Accordingly, in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations we have reclassified to pension costs other than service $0.3 million and $0.5 million from selling, general and administrative expenses and $0.1 million and $0.2 million from cost of sales for the three months and six months ended March 31, 2017, respectively.

HR-1, formerly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was enacted on December 22, 2017 and made significant revisions to federal income tax laws, including lowering the corporate income tax rate to 21% from 35%, effective January 1, 2018. The effects of these revisions are discussed in Note 3.

In May 2014, the FASB issued new guidance for the recognition of revenue and the requirement for additional financial statement disclosures. We plan to adopt this guidance using the modified retrospective transition method beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2019. We have completed our initial scoping and established a project team to evaluate revenue recognition practices for each revenue stream against the new requirements, to suggest changes to the terms of our sales contracts if warranted, and to design and implement processes to comply with the new requirements. The project team is in the process of evaluating our sales contracts. At this time we do not expect the new guidance to materially affect our stockholders' equity, net sales or operating income.

On September 7, 2017, we announced a strategic reorganization plan designed to accelerate our product innovation and revenue growth. We have adopted a matrix management structure, where business teams have line and cross-functional responsibility for managing distinct product portfolios, and engineering, operations, sales and marketing and other functions are centralized to better align with business needs and generate greater efficiencies. Costs and expenses in the six months ended March 31, 2018 for this plan, included in strategic reorganization and other charges, were primarily personnel-related.

Activity in accrued restructuring, reported as part of other current liabilities, is presented below.



	Six months ended
	March 31, 2018
	(in millions)
Beginning balance	$	3.3
Expense	3.6
Payments	(3.9		)
Ending balance	$	3.0