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C.1 Notes and forward-looking statements

This document includes supplemental ﬁnancial measures that

are or may be non-GAAP ﬁnancial measures. Orders and order

backlog; adjusted or organic growth rates of revenue and or-

ders; book-to-bill ratio; Total Sectors proﬁt; return on equity

(after tax), or ROE (after tax); return on capital employed (ad-

justed), or ROCE (adjusted); Free cash ﬂow, or FCF; adjusted

EBITDA; adjusted EBIT; adjusted EBITDA margins, earnings ef-

fects from purchase price allocation, or PPA effects; net debt

and adjusted industrial net debt are or may be such non-GAAP

ﬁnancial measures. These supplemental ﬁnancial measures

should not be viewed in isolation as alternatives to measures

of Siemens’ ﬁnancial condition, results of operations or cash

ﬂows as presented in accordance with IFRS in its Consolidated

Financial Statements. Other companies that report or describe

similarly titled ﬁnancial measures may calculate them differ-

ently. Deﬁnitions of these supplemental ﬁnancial measures, a

discussion of the most directly comparable IFRS ﬁnancial mea-

sures, information regarding the usefulness of Siemens’ sup-

plemental ﬁnancial measures, the limitations associated with

these measures and reconciliations to the most comparable

IFRS ﬁnancial measures are available on Siemens’ Investor Re-

lations website at WWW.SIEMENS.COM/NONGAAP. For addition-

al information, see supplemental ﬁnancial measures and the

related discussion in Siemens’ most recent annual report on

Form -F, which can be found on our Investor Relations web-

site or via the EDGAR system on the website of the United

States Securities and Exchange Commission.

This document contains statements related to our future busi-

ness and ﬁnancial performance and future events or develop-

ments involving Siemens that may constitute forward-looking

statements. These statements may be identiﬁed by words such

as “expects,” “looks forward to,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,”

“believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “will,” “project” or words of sim-

ilar meaning. We may also make forward-looking statements

in other reports, in presentations, in material delivered to

shareholders and in press releases. In addition, our representa-

tives may from time to time make oral forward-looking state-

ments. Such statements are based on the current expectations

and certain assumptions of Siemens’ management, and are,

therefore, subject to certain risks and uncertainties. A variety

of factors, many of which are beyond Siemens’ control, affect

Siemens’ operations, performance, business strategy and re-

sults and could cause the actual results, performance or

achievements of Siemens to be materially different from any

future results, performance or achievements that may be

expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or

anticipated on the basis of historical trends. These factors in-

clude in particular, but are not limited to, the matters described

in Item : Key information – Risk factors of our most recent

annual report on Form -F ﬁled with the SEC, in the chapter

C.. RISKS in this Annual Report prepared in accordance

with the German Commercial Code.

Further information about risks and uncertainties affecting

Siemens is included throughout this Annual Report, as well as

our most recent earnings release, which are available on the

Siemens website, WWW.SIEMENS.COM, and throughout our

most

recent

ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM -F and in our other

ﬁlings with the SEC, which are available on the Siemens

website, WWW.SIEMENS.COM, and on the SEC’s website,

WWW.SEC.GOV. Should one or more of these risks or un-

certainties mate rialize, or should underlying assumptions

prove incorrect, actual results, performance or achievements

of Siemens may vary materially from those described in the

relevant forward-looking statement as being expected, antici-

pated, intended, planned, believed, sought, estimated or pro-

jected. Siemens neither intends, nor assumes any obligation,

to update or revise these forward-looking statements in light

of developments which differ from those anticipated.

Due to rounding, numbers presented throughout this and oth-

er documents may not add up precisely to the totals provided

and percentages may not precisely reﬂect the absolute ﬁgures.