Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

6 Months Ended

Jul. 03, 2016

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

See the Glossary of Defined Terms at the beginning of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for terms used throughout the condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

We prepared the condensed consolidated financial statements following the requirements of the SEC for interim reporting. As permitted under those rules, certain footnotes or other financial information that are normally required by U.S. GAAP can be condensed or omitted.

The financial information included in our condensed consolidated financial statements for subsidiaries operating outside the U.S. is as of and for the three and six months ended May 29, 2016 and May 24, 2015. The financial information included in our condensed consolidated financial statements for U.S. subsidiaries is as of and for the three and six months ended July 3, 2016 and June 28, 2015.

Revenues, expenses, assets and liabilities can vary during each quarter of the year. Therefore, the results and trends in these interim financial statements may not be representative of those for the full year.

We are responsible for the unaudited financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The financial statements include all normal and recurring adjustments that are considered necessary for the fair presentation of our condensed consolidated balance sheets and condensed consolidated statements of income. The information included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in our 2015 Form 10-K.

Unless the context requires otherwise, references to “Pfizer,” “the Company,” “we,” “us” or “our” in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q refer to Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiaries.

Certain amounts in the condensed consolidated financial statements and associated notes may not add due to rounding. All percentages have been calculated using unrounded amounts.

Effective in the second quarter of 2016, our segments were reorganized to reflect that we now manage our innovative pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare operations as one business segment, Pfizer Innovative Health (IH) (previously these businesses were managed as two segments: the GIP segment and the VOC segment). Also, in the second quarter of 2016, we changed the name of our Established Products business to Pfizer Essential Health (EH). We have revised prior-period segment information to reflect the reorganization. For additional information, see Note 13.

In the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2015, we performed certain reclassifications to conform to the current period presentation of Other current assets, Other noncurrent assets, Short-term borrowings, including current portion of long-term debt and Long-term debt, and in the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows for the six months ended June 28, 2015, we performed certain reclassifications to conform to the current presentation of Proceeds from short-term borrowings for debt issuance costs in accordance with the adoption of a new accounting standard (for additional information, see Note 1B).

Adoption of New Accounting Standards

We adopted a new standard as of January 1, 2016 that changed the presentation of debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability as a direct deduction from the carrying value of that associated debt, consistent with the presentation of a debt discount. The update does not impact the measurement or recognition of debt issuance costs. As of July 3, 2016, debt issuance costs were $93 million and are presented as contra-liabilities to Short-term borrowings, including current portion of long-term debt ($2 million) and Long-term debt ($91 million). In the December 31, 2015 condensed consolidated balance sheet, we have reclassified debt issuance costs of $79 million ($1 million from Other current assets and $79 million from Other noncurrent assets) and have presented them as contra-liabilities to Short-term borrowings, including current portion of long-term debt ($1 million) and Long-term debt ($79 million) to conform to the current period presentation. For additional information, see Note 7A.

We adopted a new standard as of January 1, 2016 that requires an acquirer to recognize adjustments made in the measurement period to provisional amounts of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination in the reporting period in which the adjustment amounts are determined. There was no material impact to our condensed consolidated financial statements in the second quarter and first six months of 2016 from adopting this standard. For additional information, see Note 2A.

We adopted a new standard as of January 1, 2016 related to the accounting for hybrid financial instruments issued or held as investments and there was no material impact to our condensed consolidated financial statements from adopting this standard.

Fair Value

Our fair value methodologies depend on the following types of inputs:


•	Quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets (Level 1 inputs).


•	Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets or quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or inputs other than quoted prices that are directly or indirectly observable, or inputs that are derived principally from, or corroborated by, observable market data by correlation or other means (Level 2 inputs).


•	Unobservable inputs that reflect estimates and assumptions (Level 3 inputs).

A single estimate of fair value can result from a complex series of judgments about future events and uncertainties and can rely heavily on estimates and assumptions.