On January 28, 2016, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Audit Committee”) and management of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), after discussions with the Company’s independent public registered accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), concluded that the consolidated financial statements as of and for the fiscal years ended November 30, 2013 and 2014, and the consolidated financial statements as of and for the quarter ended August 31, 2013, and the consolidated financial statements as of and for the quarters ended February 28, May 31 and August 31, 2014 and 2015, (collectively, the “Previously Issued Financial Statements”) need to be restated. Accordingly, the Previously Issued Financial Statements referenced above and other financial data for such periods that related to that information should no longer be relied upon. PwC and management reevaluated the purchase accounting associated with contracts acquired as part of the acquisition of the Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne division (the “Rocketdyne Business”) from United Technologies Corporation in the quarter ended August 31, 2013 and the accounting for changes or modifications to one of the acquired Rocketdyne Business contracts beginning in the quarter ended February 28, 2014. PwC previously audited the Company’s fiscal year 2013 and 2014 consolidated financial statements and reviewed each of the first three quarters of fiscal year 2015. The restatement has no effect on cash received from the Rocketdyne Business acquisition or cash flows generated from operating the Rocketdyne Business.
The Company intends to file as soon as practicable restated consolidated financial statements for fiscal 2013 and 2014 in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2015 (the “2015 Form 10-K”). In addition, the Company intends to include in the 2015 Form 10-K restated quarterly financial data for all quarters within fiscal 2014 and 2015, and Selected Financial Data for fiscal 2013 and 2014. Based on the information regarding prior years that the Company intends to include in its 2015 Form 10-K, the Company does not intend to file amendments to the Company’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K for the fiscal years ended on November 30, 2013 and 2014, respectively, or the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the three months ended August 31, 2013 and for the three months ended February 28, May 31, and August 31, 2014 and 2015, respectively.
When combined with the impact of adjustments in the Previously Issued Financial Statements, the Company anticipates that the correction of the matters described above generally will result in an increase to the Company’s loss from continuing operations before income taxes for fiscal 2013 of approximately $9.5 million to $11.5 million and a decrease to the Company’s loss from continuing operations before income taxes for fiscal 2014 and the nine months ended August 31, 2015 of approximately $5.0 million to $7.25 million and $0.25 million to $1.0 million, respectively. The Company is finalizing the review and quantification of these matters.