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UAFRS vs As Reported Weekly Highlights - 2019 07 31

This week, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for RIG, LOGM, QSR, RNG, CRUS and NLSN.
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Cirrus Logic Inc.

Cirrus Logic focuses on low-power integrated circuits (ICs) for audio, voice and other signal-processing applications. The company's product lines include: Portable Products, including codecs, which are chips that integrate analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) into a single IC, smart codecs, which are codecs with digital signal processing integrated, amplifiers, micro-electromechanical systems microphones, haptic drivers, standalone digital signal processors, and its SoundClear? technology, which includes a portfolio of tools, software and algorithms; and Non-Portable and Other Products, which include ICs, codecs, ADCs, DACs, digital interfaces and amplifiers.

LogMeIn Inc.

LogMeIn provides a portfolio of cloud-based communication and collaboration, identity and access, and customer engagement and support solutions. The company's cloud-based services are categorized into three business lines: Unified Communications and Collaboration, which includes GoToConference, GoToMeeting, GoToTraining, GoToWebinar, Grasshopper, Jive, join.me, join.me pro and join.me business, and OpenVoice; and Customer Engagement and Support, which includes Bold360, Bold360 ai, RescueAssist, GoToAssist Corporate and GoToAssist Seeit, and LogMeIn Rescue; and Identity and Access Management, which includes LogMeIn Central, GoToMyPC, LogMeIn Pro, and LastPass.

Nielsen Holdings Plc

Restaurant Brands International Inc

Restaurant Brands International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged as a quick service restaurant (QSR) company with over 20,000 restaurants in approximately 100 countries and U.S. territories as of Dec 31 2016. Co.'s Tim Hortons® and Burger King® brands have similar franchise business models with complementary daypart mixes. Tim Hortons restaurants are QSRs with a menu that includes coffee, tea, espresso-based hot and cold drinks, baked goods, including donuts, Timbits®, bagels, sandwiches, soups and more. Burger King restaurants are QSRs that feature flame-grilled hamburgers, chicken and other sandwiches, french fries, soft drinks and other food items.

RingCentral Inc. Class A

RingCentral is a provider of software-as-a-service solutions. The company's product portfolio, among others, includes: RingCentral Office, which provides a unified activity for communication and collaboration across multiple modes; RingCentral Meetings, which is a collaborative meetings solution that provides web meetings, video conferencing, and screen sharing integrated with team messaging; RingCentral Professional, which is a cloud based virtual telephone service offering designed for personnel who are on the go; and RingCentral Fax, which provides online fax capabilities that allow businesses to send and receive fax documents without the need for a fax machine.

Transocean Ltd.

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