Service Alignment Initiative Service Alignment Initiative

6 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

On July 28, 2016, the Company announced a Service Alignment Initiative that is intended to simplify the Company's service organization by aligning the Company's service operations to its strategic platforms and locations. In fiscal 2016, the Company entered into leases in Norfolk, Virginia and Maitland, Florida, and in October 2016, the Company entered into a lease in Tempe, Arizona as part of this effort. The Company began incurring charges for this initiative during the first quarter of the fiscal year and expects to continue to incur charges throughout the year ended June 30, 2017 ("fiscal 2017") and the year ended June 30, 2018 ("fiscal 2018") as the initiative is executed. The charges primarily relate to employee separation benefits recognized under Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 712, and also include charges for the relocation of certain current Company employees, lease termination costs, and accelerated depreciation of fixed assets. The Company expects to recognize pre-tax restructuring charges in the range of $100 million to $125 million through fiscal 2018, consisting primarily of cash expenditures for employee separation benefits in the range of $75 million to $85 million, and other initiative costs in the range of $25 million to $40 million.

The table below summarizes the composition of the Company's Service Alignment Initiative charges:



	Three Months Ended		Six Months Ended		Cumulative amount from inception through December 31,
	December 31,		December 31,		Cumulative amount from inception through December 31,
	2016		2016		2016
Employee separation benefits (a)	$	—	$	37.3	$	37.3
Other initiative costs (b)	1.2		3.8		3.8
Total (c)	$	1.2	$	41.1	$	41.1

Activity for the Service Alignment Initiative liability for the six months ended December 31, 2016 was as follows:



	Employee separation benefits			Other initiative costs			Total
Balance at June 30, 2016	$	—		$	—		$	—
Charged to expense	37.3			3.8			41.1
Cash payments	(1.5		)	(1.7		)	(3.2		)
Non-cash utilization	—			(1.6		)	(1.6		)
Balance at December 31, 2016	$	35.8		$	0.5		$	36.3

(a) - Charges are recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses on the Statements of Consolidated Earnings.

(b) - Other initiative costs include costs to relocate certain current Company employees to new locations, and lease termination charges (both included within selling, general and administrative expenses on the Statements of Consolidated Earnings), and accelerated depreciation on fixed assets (included within depreciation and amortization on the Statements of Consolidated Earnings).