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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

3 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. (the “Company,” “Hillrom,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) was incorporated on August 7, 1969, in the State of Indiana and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. We are a global medical technology leader whose approximately 10,000 employees have a single purpose: enhancing outcomes for patients and their caregivers by Advancing Connected Care™. Around the world, our innovations touch over 7 million patients each day. Our products and services help enable earlier diagnosis and treatment, optimize surgical efficiency and accelerate patient recovery while simplifying clinical communication and shifting care closer to home. We make these outcomes possible through digital and connected care solutions and collaboration tools, including smart bed systems, patient monitoring and diagnostic technologies, respiratory health devices, advanced equipment for the surgical space and more, delivering actionable, real-time insights at the point of care.

Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

The unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC for interim unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for complete Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. In the opinion of management, all necessary adjustments, which consisted only of normal recurring items, have been included in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements to present fairly the results of the interim periods presented. Quarterly results are not necessarily indicative of annual results.

The unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements appearing in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction with the audited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto included in Hillrom’s fiscal 2020 Form 10-K as filed with the SEC.

The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Hillrom and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

The Company makes a number of significant estimates, assumptions, and judgments in the preparation of its financial statements. Additionally, the Company measures and classifies fair value measurements in accordance with the level hierarchy in conformity with GAAP. As of December 31, 2020, the Company's significant accounting policies and estimates and valuation techniques used to measure fair value have not changed from September 30, 2020. See Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies within the 2020 Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020 for further information.

Revenue Recognition — Sales and Rentals

Disaggregation of Revenue

The Company disaggregates revenue recognized from contracts with customers by geography and reportable segments consistent with the way in which management operates and views the business. See Note 11. Segment Reporting for the presentation of the Company's revenue disaggregation.

Contract Balances

Contract liabilities represent deferred revenues that arise as a result of cash received from customers at inception of contracts or where the timing of billing for services precedes satisfaction of our performance obligations. Such remaining performance obligations represent the portion of the contract price for which work has not been performed and are primarily related to our installation and service contracts. These contract liabilities are recorded in Deferred revenue and Other long-term liabilities. We expect to satisfy the majority of the remaining performance obligations and recognize revenue related to installation and service contracts within 12 to 24 months.

The nature of our products and services does not give rise to contract assets as we typically do not have instances where a right to payment for goods and services already transferred to a customer exists that is conditional on something other than the passage of time.

The following table summarizes contract liability activity for the three months ended December 31, 2020. The contract liability balance represents the transaction price allocated to the remaining performance obligations.


	Contract Liabilities
Balance as of October 1, 2020	$	138.1
New revenue deferrals	99.0
Revenue recognized upon satisfaction of performance obligations	(97.2)
Foreign currency translation adjustment	1.3
Balance as of December 31, 2020	$	141.2

Rental Revenue

We make certain products available to customers under short-term lease arrangements. Rental usage of these products is provided as an alternative to product sales and is short-term in nature. Products primarily include smart beds, including, but not limited to, bariatric, intensive care unit, maternity, and home care beds, as well as surfaces. These lease arrangements provide our customers with our products during periods of peak demand or often times for specialty purposes. Additionally, we provide wearable, non-invasive ventilation products to patients covered by monthly medical insurance reimbursements, which are considered month-to-month leasing arrangements. Income arising from these lease arrangements where we are the lessor is recognized within Rental revenue. We accounted for these lease arrangements as operating leases.

Warranties and Guarantees

We routinely grant limited warranties on our products with respect to defects in material and workmanship. The terms of these warranties are generally one year; however, certain components and products have substantially longer warranty periods. We recognize a reserve with respect to these obligations at the time of product sale, with subsequent warranty claims recorded directly against the reserve. The amount of the warranty reserve is determined based on historical trend experience for the covered products. For more significant warranty-related matters, which might require a field corrective action, separate reserves are established when such events are identified and the cost of correction can be reasonably estimated.

In the normal course of business, we enter into various other guarantees and indemnities in our relationships with suppliers, service providers, customers, business partners and others. Examples of these arrangements would include guarantees of product performance, indemnifications to service providers and indemnifications of our actions to business partners. These guarantees and indemnifications have not historically had a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations, nor do we expect them to although indemnifications associated with our actions generally have no dollar limitations.

In conjunction with our acquisition and divestiture activities, we entered into select guarantees and indemnifications of performance with respect to the fulfillment of our commitments under applicable purchase and sale agreements. The arrangements generally indemnify the buyer or seller for damages associated with breach of contract, inaccuracies in representations and warranties surviving the closing date and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments retained under the applicable contract. With respect to divestitures, we also routinely enter into non-competition agreements for varying periods of time. Guarantees and indemnifications with respect to acquisition and divestiture activities, if triggered, could have an adverse impact on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

The following summarizes accrued product warranty activity for the three months ended December 31, 2020:


	Three Months Ended December 31
	2020
Balance as of beginning of period	$	30.8
Provision for warranties in the period	5.4
Warranty claims in the period	(6.4)
Foreign currency translation adjustment	0.2
Balance as of end of period	$	30.0

Government Programs Related to COVID-19

On March 25, 2020, the U.S. government approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act to provide economic stimulus to address the impact of the pandemic. The governments in certain other non-U.S. countries have also approved legislation in their jurisdictions to address the impact of the pandemic. We evaluated our eligibility and assessed the conditions and requirements of participation in many programs. As of December 31, 2020, we deferred the payment of the employer share of the U.S. Federal Insurance Contributions Act (“FICA”) tax payments totaling $21.2 million in accordance with the CARES Act within the Consolidated Balance Sheet. We continue to evaluate what impact, if any, the CARES Act, or any similar legislation in other non-U.S. jurisdictions, may have on our results of operations.