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changes in inflation and interest rates;
the effect of litigation and government investigations or proceedings;
changes in technology, including with respect to new, developing, or
alternative sources of generation;
the potential effects of threatened or actual terrorism, cyber-attacks or data
security breaches, including increased security costs, and war or a
catastrophic event such as a nuclear accident or a natural gas pipeline
explosion;
Entergy’s ability to attract and retain talented management and directors;
changes in accounting standards and corporate governance;
declines in the market prices of marketable securities and resulting funding
requirements for Entergy’s defined benefit pension and other
postretirement benefit plans;
future wage and employee benefit costs, including changes in discount
rates and returns on benefit plan assets;
changes in decommissioning trust fund values or earnings or in the timing
of or cost to decommission nuclear plant sites;
the implementation of the shutdown of Vermont Yankee and the related
decommissioning of Vermont Yankee;
the effectiveness of Entergy’s risk management policies and procedures
and the ability and willingness of its counterparties to satisfy their financial
and performance commitments;
factors that could lead to impairment of long-lived assets; and the
ability to successfully complete merger, acquisition, or divestiture plans,
regulatory or other limitations imposed as a result of merger, acquisition,
or divestiture, and the success of the business following a merger,
acquisition, or divestiture.
Regulation G
This report includes the non-GAAP financial measure of operational earnings per share. The reconciliation of this
measure to the most directly comparable GAAP measure is below.
GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliation
Earnings Per Share 2014 2013
As-Reported $ 5.22 $ 3.99
Less Special Items:
Transmission business spin-merge expenses $ (0.02)
HCM implementation expenses $ (0.05) $ (0.20)
Decision to close Vermont Yankee $ (0.56) $ (1.15)
Total Special Items $ (0.61) $ (1.37)
Operational $ 5.83 $ 5.36
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