GeoEye Files Restated Accounts with SEC

08 September 2008, 12:32pm

On 8 September, GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ:GEOY) filed its restated financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for 2005, 2006 and 2007 and for the quarters ending September 30, 2007 and March 31, 2008.

In addition, the Company filed its financial statements for the period ending June 30, 2008 and is now current with its financial filings. On August 19, the Company announced a two-week delay in these filings in order to re-calculate the proper interim period allocations of the penaltiesand interest related to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) milestone cost-sharing payments made to the Company under the terms of the Government's NextView contract. The outstanding issues under review have now been resolved and are discussed in detail in the restatements on file with the SEC. The Company does not expect these changes to have a material impact on the Company's cash flows.

Management expects the interest and penalties associated with tax related interest and penalties to be eliminated as a result of the Company's application filed with the IRS earlier this month to change its tax accounting method. As a result of the IRS application, the Company expects to reverse the previously unrecorded expenses for tax interest and penalties for the cost-share payment adjustments for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 in the third quarter of 2008.

The amount expected to be reversed in the third quarter 2008 is $29.5 million, of which $25.5 million is attributable to interest and penalties booked in prior years and $4.0 million booked in the first half of 2008.

Across the three years, interest and penalty amounts are lower than previously estimated by approximately $5.5 million and by $0.8 million for the first half of 2008. The lower amounts are due to the timing of some of the cost-share payments in 2004 having occurred when Net Operating Losses were available to offset them as taxable income. This also had the impact of reducing the deferred tax asset and tax liabilities from what was previously reported.

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