Significant Accounting Policies

9 Months Ended

Oct. 02, 2011

Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Significant Accounting Policies

1. Significant Accounting Policies

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated and its majority-owned subsidiaries (the “Company”). All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

The consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments which, in the opinion of management, are necessary for a fair statement of the results for the interim periods presented. All such adjustments are of a normal, recurring nature.

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for interim financial reporting and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all information and footnotes required by GAAP. The preparation of consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to current classifications.

The accounting policies followed in the presentation of interim financial results are consistent with those followed on an annual basis. These policies are presented in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 2, 2011 filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Revision of Prior Period Financial Statements

In connection with the preparation of the consolidated financial statements for the second quarter of 2011, the Company identified an error in the treatment of accrued additions for property, plant and equipment in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. This error affected the year-to-date Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows presented in each of the quarters of 2010, including the year-end consolidated financial statements for 2010, as well as the first quarter of 2011 and resulted in an understatement of net cash provided by operating activities and net cash used in investing activities for each of the impacted periods. In accordance with accounting guidance presented in ASC 250-10 (SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 99, Materiality), the Company assessed the materiality of the error and concluded that the error was not material to any of the Company’s previously issued financial statements taken as a whole. The Company will revise previously issued financial statements to correct the effect of this error. This revision did not affect the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations or Consolidated Balance Sheets for any of these periods.

The following tables present the effect of this correction on the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for all periods affected:

	First Quarter Ended April 3, 2011									Year Ended January 2, 2011
	(In Thousands)
	As									As
	Previously						As			Previously						As
	Reported			Adjustment			Revised			Reported			Adjustment			Revised
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
(Increase) decrease in current assets less current liabilities	$	(23,356	)	$	10,433		$	(12,923	)	$	(9,709	)	$	11,629		$	1,920
Total adjustments		(9,549	)		10,433			884			58,585			11,629			70,214
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities		(3,080	)		10,433			7,353			98,127			11,629			109,756
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Additions to property, plant and equipment		(9,069	)		(10,433	)		(19,502	)		(46,169	)		(11,629	)		(57,798	)
Net cash used in investing activities		(9,047	)		(10,433	)		(19,480	)		(41,988	)		(11,629	)		(53,617	)

	First 9 Months Ended Oct. 3, 2010									First Half Ended July 4, 2010
	(In Thousands)
	As									As
	Previously						As			Previously						As
	Reported			Adjustment			Revised			Reported			Adjustment			Revised
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Increase in current assets less current liabilities	$	(22,043	)	$	11,629		$	(10,414	)	$	(30,623	)	$	11,629		$	(18,994	)
Total adjustments		28,374			11,629			40,003			(6,259	)		11,629			5,370
Net cash provided by operating activities		64,124			11,629			75,753			12,280			11,629			23,909
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Additions to property, plant and equipment		(29,011	)		(11,629	)		(40,640	)		(16,496	)		(11,629	)		(28,125	)
Net cash used in investing activities		(26,638	)		(11,629	)		(38,267	)		(14,184	)		(11,629	)		(25,813	)

	First Quarter Ended Apr. 4, 2010
	(In Thousands)
	As
	Previously						As
	Reported			Adjustment			Revised
Cash Flows from Operating Activities
Increase in current assets less current liabilities	$	(19,321	)	$	11,629		$	(7,692	)
Total adjustments		583			11,629			12,212
Net cash provided by operating activities		5,718			11,629			17,347
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Additions to property, plant and equipment		(7,977	)		(11,629	)		(19,606	)
Net cash used in investing activities		(6,915	)		(11,629	)		(18,544	)