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9

Operation and financial review

Financial Review

101

Worldline

2016 Registration Document

organization mainly in the United Kingdom, France and the

Netherlands.

Staff reorganization

expenses of €

4.5

million decreased by

restructuring costs induced by the adaptation of the

2.1

million compared to last year and correspond to the

the TEAM program and to the reorganization of office premises

resulted mainly from external costs linked to the continuation of

1.7 million compared to 2015.

in France and Belgium. Those costs have decreased by

The €

4.5

million of

rationalization and associated costs

costs.

and Paysquare transactions and post acquisition integration

(increase of €+2.7

million compared to the prior year) and

Integration and acquisition costs

reached €

9.9

million

correspond to the costs related to the execution of the Equens

corresponds to:

The 2016

customer relationships amortization

of €

6.1 million

allocated to the value of the customer relationships and

3.5 million related to the portion of the consideration paid

Services;

backlog brought by Banksys and Siemens IT Solutions &

relationships amortized over 6.5 to 9.5 years starting

2.5

million of Equens and Paysquare customer

October

1, 2016;

starting October

1, 2016.

€ 0.1 million of Cataps (KB Smartpay) customer relationships

The €+38.4 million of

other items

mainly consisted of:

Note

3 “Other significant events of the year”);

The gain on the Visa share disposal for €

51.2 million (refer to

€-6.8 million (refer to Note

7 “Other Operating Income”);

The charge of equity based compensation (IFRS

2) for

Other non recurring costs for €-6.0 million.

Net financial expense

9.11.1.4

2015 and was composed of a net cost of financial debt of

Net financial expense amounted to €

5.9 million in 2016 and in

€ 0.6 million and non-operational financial costs of €

5.3 million.

compared to €

1.4 million in 2015.

The net cost of financial debt amounted to € 0.6 million in 2016

The other financial income/expenses were mainly composed of

costs for €

2.0 million. The pension financial costs represent the

foreign exchange losses for €

2.9 million and pension financial

difference between interest costs on defined benefit obligations

funded (cf. Note

21, “Pensions and similar benefits”).

and the interest income on plan assets for plans which are

Corporate tax

9.11.1.5

Effective Tax Rate (ETR) was 26.3% (27.3% in 2015).

with a profit before tax of €

204.0

million. The annualized

The tax charge at the end of December

2016 was €

53.7 million

Normalized net income

9.11.1.6

The normalized net income excluding unusual and infrequent items (net of tax) is €

129.2 million.

(in € million)

December 31, 2016

12 months ended

December 31, 2015*

12 months ended

Net income – Attributable to owners of the parent

144.2

103.4

Other operating income and expenses

13.3

-29.8

Tax impact on unusual items

1.6

13.3

Total unusual items – Net of tax

15.0

-16.5

Normalized net income – Attributable to owners of the parent

129.2

119.9

December 31, 2015 adjusted to reflect change in presentation disclosed in Note “Accounting Rules and policies”.

*