BASIS OF PRESENTATION

9 Months Ended

Oct. 29, 2011

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

NOTE 1—BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The Pep Boys — Manny, Moe & Jack and subsidiaries (the “Company”) consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). The preparation of the Company’s financial statements requires the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, sales, costs and expenses, as well as the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities and other related disclosures. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that management believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about carrying values of the Company’s assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results could differ from those estimates, and the Company includes any revisions to its estimates in the results for the period in which the actual amounts become known.

Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been omitted, as permitted by Rule 10-01 of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation S-X, “Interim Financial Statements.” It is suggested that these consolidated financial statements be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2011. The results of operations for the thirty-nine weeks ended October 29, 2011 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full fiscal year.

The consolidated financial statements presented herein are unaudited. In the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows as of October 29, 2011 and for all periods presented have been made.

The Company’s fiscal year ends on the Saturday nearest January 31. Accordingly, references to fiscal years 2011 and 2010 refer to the fiscal year ending January 28, 2012 and the fiscal year ended January 29, 2011, respectively.

The Company operated 729 store locations at October 29, 2011, of which 232 were owned and 497 were leased.

The Company maintains a trade payable program that is funded by various bank participants who have the ability, but not the obligation, to purchase account receivables owed by the Company from its vendors. The Company, in turn, makes the regularly scheduled full vendor payments to the bank participants. In the first quarter of fiscal 2011 as a result of the Company’s review, the Company determined that the gross amount of borrowings and payments on the trade payable program shown on the statement of cash flows under “Cash flows from financing activities” included certain vendors that had not participated in the trade payable program. As such, the Company made an equal and offsetting adjustment to reduce the trade payables borrowings and payments line items within financing activities by $157.0 million for the thirty-nine weeks ended October 30, 2010. The full year impact of this adjustment is to reduce the line items by $225.2 million and $90.3 million for the years ended January 29, 2011 and January 30, 2010, respectively. These adjustments have no net impact on net cash used in financing activities or on any other cash flow line items.