Cousins Properties Incorporated 2006 Annual Report - SNL Financial
Cousins Properties Incorporated 2006 Annual Report - SNL Financial
Cousins Properties Incorporated 2006 Annual Report - SNL Financial
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COUSINS PROPERTIES INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES<br />
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)<br />
stockholders (computed in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of<br />
America (“GAAP”)), excluding extraordinary items, cumulative effect of change in accounting principle and gains<br />
or losses from sales of depreciable property, plus depreciation and amortization of real estate assets, and after<br />
adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures to reflect FFO on the same basis. In 2005, the<br />
Company included $5.0 million in income from a real estate venture related to the sale of real estate in its NAREITdefined<br />
calculation of FFO. The Company included this amount in FFO because based on the nature of the<br />
investment, the Company believes this income should not be considered gain on the sale of depreciable property.<br />
The Company presented the NAREIT-defined calculation and also presented an adjusted NAREIT-defined<br />
calculation of FFO to add back the losses on extinguishment of debt recognized in <strong>2006</strong> as described in Note 4<br />
herein. The Company presented this additional measure of FFO because the losses on extinguishment of debt that<br />
the Company recognized related to a sale or an exchange of real estate, and all other amounts related to a sale or an<br />
exchange of real estate are excluded from FFO.<br />
FFO is used by industry analysts, investors and the Company as a supplemental measure of an equity REIT’s<br />
operating performance. Historical cost accounting for real estate assets implicitly assumes that the value of real<br />
estate assets diminishes predictably over time. Since real estate values instead have historically risen or fallen with<br />
market conditions, many industry investors and analysts have considered presentation of operating results for real<br />
estate companies that use historical cost accounting to be insufficient by themselves. Thus, NAREIT created FFO as<br />
a supplemental measure of a REIT’s operating performance that excludes historical cost depreciation, among other<br />
items, from GAAP net income. Management believes that the use of FFO, combined with the required primary<br />
GAAP presentations, has been fundamentally beneficial, improving the understanding of operating results of REITs<br />
among the investing public and making comparisons of REIT operating results more meaningful. In addition to<br />
Company management evaluating the operating performance of its reportable segments based on FFO results,<br />
management uses FFO and FFO per share, along with other measures, to assess performance in connection with<br />
evaluating and granting incentive compensation to its officers and employees.<br />
The tables below present information about the Company’s reportable segments for the years ended<br />
December 31, <strong>2006</strong>, 2005 and 2004.<br />
Years Ended December 31,<br />
Reconciliation to Consolidated Revenues <strong>2006</strong> 2005 2004<br />
Total revenues from consolidated entities for segment<br />
reporting ....................................... $189,209 $171,631 $173,723<br />
Less: rental property revenues from discontinued operations . . . (19,348) (21,613) (38,274)<br />
Total consolidated revenues ........................... $169,861 $150,018 $135,449<br />
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