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Dec. 31, 2016
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The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Weight Watchers International, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries. The terms “Company” and “WWI” as used throughout these notes is used to indicate Weight Watchers International, Inc. and all of its operations consolidated for purposes of its financial statements. The Company’s “meetings” business refers to providing access to meetings to the Company’s monthly commitment plan subscribers, “pay-as-you-go” members, Total Access subscribers and other meetings members. “Online” refers to Weight Watchers Online, Weight Watchers OnlinePlus, Personal Coaching and other digital subscription products. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and include all of the Company’s majority-owned subsidiaries. All entities acquired, and any entity of which a majority interest was acquired, are included in the consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Out-of-Period Adjustments: In fiscal 2016, the Company identified and recorded out-of-period adjustments related to (i) income tax errors primarily related to reversing a foreign tax receivable originally recorded in fiscal 2008 that should have been reversed in fiscal 2009; (ii) errors in the prior period tax provision identified upon filing of the tax return and (iii) technology expenses that should have been capitalized in fiscal 2015. The impact of correcting these errors, which were immaterial to prior period financial statements and corrected in fiscal 2016, increased income before income taxes by $347, increased provision for income taxes by $2,138 and decreased net income attributable to the Company by $1,791. In fiscal 2015, the Company identified and recorded out-of-period adjustments that related to immaterial errors in prior period financial statements, which were corrected in fiscal 2015, that increased income before income taxes by $1,650, provision for income taxes by $1,970, and decreased net income attributable to the Company by $320.

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