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The Company incurred and expensed acquisition costs of $5 million in 2014; no acquisition costs were incurred during 2015.
The allocation of the purchase price of Link-Line, W.S. Nicholls, and Brigadier was accounted for in accordance with the
applicable accounting guidance. Goodwill consisted of the value associated with the assembled workforce and consolidation of
operations. When acquisition-date values were updated in the first quarter of 2015, as reflected in the table above, there was no
significant overall impact to the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.
The unaudited pro forma consolidated financial information for fiscal 2014 (assuming the acquisition of Link-Line, W.S. Nicholls,
and Brigadier occurred as of the beginning o sca l 2014) is as follows (in thousands of dollars, except per share amounts):
Total operating revenues Year Ended
Net income attributable to Southwest Gas Corporation December 31,
Basic earnings per share 2014
Diluted earnings per share
$2,295,318
$ 149,588
$ 3.22
$ 3.19
Southwest Gas Corporation
