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Terms and definitions (cont'd)
Financial Metrics:
● Location Operating Expenses: include the day-to-day costs of operating an open location and exclude pre-opening costs, depreciation and amortization and general sales and marketing,
which are separately recorded. Our most significant location operating expense is lease cost. Lease cost is recognized on a straight-line basis over the life of the lease term in accordance
with GAAP. Other location operating expenses typically include utilities, ongoing repairs and maintenance, cleaning expenses, office expenses, security expenses, credit card processing fees
and food and beverage costs. Location operating expenses also include personnel and related costs for the teams managing our community operations including member relations, new
member sales and member retention and facilities management.
Pre-Opening Expense: consist of expenses (including all lease costs, which also include non-cash GAAP straight-line lease cost) incurred before a location opens for member operations.
Excludes depreciation and amortization expense and stock-based compensation expense.
SG&A: consist of sales and marketing, general and administrative and sourcing, development and other expenses, and certain community support expenses that are necessary to operate our
buildings but not directly tied to an individual building. Excludes depreciation and amortization expense, stock-based compensation expense, expense related to stock-based payments for
services rendered by consultants, expense related to costs associated with mergers, acquisitions divestitures, and capital raising activities, legal, tax, and regulatory reserves or settlements,
and legal expenses related to regulatory investigations and litigations arising from the 2019 withdrawn IPO.
Adj. EBITDA: is a non-GAAP measure we define as net loss before income tax (benefit) provision, interest and other (income) expenses, net, depreciation and amortization expense,
restructuring and other related cost, impairment /(gain on sale) of goodwill, intangibles and other assets, stock-based compensation expense, expense related to stock-based payments for
services rendered by consultants, change in fair value of contingent consideration liabilities associated with acquisitions, legal, tax and regulatory reserves and settlements, legal costs
incurred by the Company in connection with regulatory investigations and litigation, and expenses related to costs associated with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and capital raising
activities.
Operating Cash Flow: cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities as presented on our consolidated statements of cash flows.
Free Cash Flow: is defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities less purchases of property and equipment, each as presented in the Company's condensed consolidated
statements of cash flows and calculated in accordance with GAAP.
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