1. | We note your disclosure on page 66 that the majority of your cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments are held by your foreign subsidiaries. We also note that a significant portion of your foreign earnings are deemed to be indefinitely reinvested in foreign jurisdictions. To assist investors understand the availability of funds in domestic operations such as payment of debt, dividends, acquisitions and capital expenditures, please provide enhanced disclosures. Please provide and confirm that in future Exchange Act filings you will disclose the following: |
(a) | the amount of cash and cash equivalents that are currently held by your foreign subsidiaries; |
(b) | quantify the amount of cash and short-term investments held by foreign subsidiaries where the funds are not readily convertible into other foreign currencies, including U.S. dollars; |
(c) | if foreign earnings are repatriated, disclose that these amounts would be subject to income tax liabilities both in the US and in the various foreign countries; |
(d) | explain any other implications or restrictions upon your liquidity that is impacted by the majority of your cash, cash equivalents and short term investments held by foreign subsidiaries. |
(a) | the amount of cash and cash equivalents that are currently held by your foreign subsidiaries |
(b) | quantify the amount of cash and short-term investments held by foreign subsidiaries where the funds are not readily convertible into other foreign currencies, including U.S. dollars |
(c) | if foreign earnings are repatriated, disclose that these amounts would be subject to income tax liabilities both in the US and in the various foreign countries |
(d) | explain any other implications or restrictions upon your liquidity that is impacted by the majority of your cash, cash equivalents and short term investments held by foreign subsidiaries |
• | the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing; |
• | staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and |
• | the Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. |
Very truly yours, | |
/s/ Kathy N. Waller | |
Kathy N. Waller Vice President and Controller The Coca-Cola Company |
cc: | Muhtar Kent, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President |
Gary P. Fayard, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | |
Peter V. Ueberroth, Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors |
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