I agree , I think they need new infrastructure funding to put them into the big leagues . In their current format they are on life support . Liberals want them reliant on the government , Conservatives want them dead . <| sep |> You can present nonGAAP numbers along with the required GAAP numbers . A good example of this is in Nestle ' s 2013 ? Annual report . They lost a major lawsuit against Starbucks . In their financial statements they presented GAAP earnings which included decrease in income due to the lawsuit , but in their management comment letter they stated , basically , if you remove the one time cost of the lawsuit then we would have hit our earnings goals . This lawsuit will not be an issue going forward . In that case , the nonGAAP disclosure was beneficial .