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April 16, 2021
Christopher Hatto
Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
General Motors Company
300 Renaissance Center
Detroit, Michigan 48265-3000
Re: General Motors
Company
Form 10-K for the
Year Ended December 31, 2020
Form 8-K dated
February 10, 2021
File No. 001-34960
Dear Mr. Hatto:
We have limited our review of your filings to the financial
statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we
may ask you to
provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.
After reviewing your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for the Year Ended December 31, 2020
Note 2. Significant Accounting Policies
Automotive Financing - GM Financial, page 56
1. Please tell us your
consideration of the qualitative disclosures required by ASC 842-30-
50-3a and 3b.
Form 8-K dated February 10, 2021
Exhibit 99.1, page 1
2. In the third bullet,
you highlight your Full-year EBIT-adjusted margin without providing
comparable GAAP
guidance. When presenting non-GAAP measures in your earnings
release, please present
the most directly comparable GAAP measure with equal or greater
prominence. Refer to
Item 10(e)(1)(i)(A) of Regulation S-K and Question 102.10 of the
Christopher Hatto
General Motors Company
April 16, 2021
Page 2
Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial
Measures. Exhibit
99.2 should be similarly revised.
3. Please revise your reconciliation of EBIT-adjusted on page 3 to begin
with the GAAP
measure, rather than the non-GAAP measure. Refer to Question 102.10 of
the Non-GAAP
Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Non-GAAP Financial
Measures.
In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are
responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review,
comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
You may contact Heather Clark at 202-551-3624 or Martin James, Senior
Advisor, at
202-551-3671 with any questions.
FirstName LastNameChristopher Hatto Sincerely,
Comapany NameGeneral Motors Company
Division of
Corporation Finance
April 16, 2021 Page 2 Office of
Manufacturing
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