Supplemental Disclosures to the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

The following schedule provides additional information concerning acquisitions, interest and income taxes paid for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2017 and 2016.



(In millions)	2017			2016
Assets acquired, excluding cash	$	852		$	121
Liabilities assumed	(129		)	(4		)
Contingent/deferred purchase consideration	(94		)	(29		)
Net cash outflow for current year acquisitions	$	629		$	88



(In millions)	2017		2016
Interest paid	$	174	$	148
Income taxes paid, net of refunds	$	406	$	417

The classification of contingent consideration in the statement of cash flows is determined by whether the payment was part of the initial liability established on the acquisition date (financing) or an adjustment to the acquisition date liability (operating).

The following amounts are included in the consolidated statements of cash flows as a financing activity. The Company paid deferred and contingent consideration of $127 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017. This consisted of deferred purchase consideration related to prior years' acquisitions of $47 million and contingent consideration of $80 million. For the nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company paid deferred and contingent consideration of $96 million, consisting of deferred purchase consideration related to prior years' acquisitions of $53 million and contingent consideration of $43 million.

The following amounts are included in the operating section of the consolidated statements of cash flows. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company recorded a net credit for adjustments to acquisition related accounts of $3 million and made contingent consideration payments of $27 million. For the nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company recorded a net charge for adjustments related to acquisition related accounts of $5 million and made contingent consideration payments of $42 million.

The Company had non-cash issuances of common stock under its share-based payment plan of $88 million and $71 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The Company recorded stock-based compensation expense for equity awards related to restricted stock units, performance stock units and stock options of $111 million and $84 million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

Effective January 1, 2017, the Company adopted new accounting guidance related to share-based compensation, that requires companies to record excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies as an income tax benefit or expense in the income statement and classify excess tax benefits as an operating activity in the statement of cash flows. Prior to the adoption of this standard, the Company recorded excess tax benefits in equity in the consolidated balance sheet and as a financing activity in the consolidated statement of cash flows. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the adoption of this new standard reduced income tax expense in the consolidated statement of income by approximately $58 million. For the nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company recorded an excess tax benefit of $30 million as an increase to equity in its consolidated balance sheet, which was reflected as cash provided by financing activities in the consolidated statement of cash flows.