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SEC Comment Letter for EQUIFAX INC (EFX) (CIK 0000033185) (EFX) — Jul 1, 2009

EQUIFAX INC (EFX) (CIK 0000033185)
Date: July 1, 2009 · CIK: 0000033185 · Accession: 0000000000-09-034920

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File numbers found in text: 001-06605

Referenced dates: June 3, 2009, May 8, 2009

Date
July 1, 2009
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EQUIFAX INC (EFX) (CIK 0000033185)

Letter

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 DIVISION OF CORPORATION FINANCE Mail Stop 3720 July 1, 2009 Mr. Lee Adrean Chief Financial Officer Equifax, Inc. 1550 Peachtree Street, N.W. Atlanta, GA 30309 Re: Equifax, Inc. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2008 Filed February 26, 2009 Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2009 Filed April 28, 2009 File No. 001-06605

Dear Mr. Adrean: We have reviewed your supplemental response letter dated June 3, 2009 as well as your filing and have the following comments. As noted in our comment letter dated May 8, 2009, we have limited our review to your financial statements and related disclosures and do not intend to expand our review to other portions of your documents. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Application of Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets, page 44

1. We note your response to prior comment 2. With respect to your reporting units with significant goodwill, including Consumer Information Solutions (including Mortgage Solutions), Credit Marketing Services, Latin America, The Work Number, and Tax Management Services, you should provide the following disclosures as previously requested to supplement your current proposed disclosures:

Mr. Lee Adrean Equifax, Inc. July 1, 2009 Page 2 • Aside from the reallocation of goodwill related to the TALX acquisition, disclose any changes to your allocations of goodwill by reporting unit and the reasons for such changes.

• Disclose the discount rate for each reporting unit and how those discount rates were determined, including your consideration of any market risk premiums.

• Provide a more detailed discussion of your estimates of future cash flows:

o Provide a discussion of your historical cash flow growth rates and explain how your historical growth rates were considered when determining the growth rate to be utilized in your cash flow projections. o Disclose the growth rate you need to achieve in your cash flow projections in order to avoid having a goodwill impairment charge. 2. Further, disclose more specific details as to the weighting of each of the income and market approaches for each reporting unit and the reasons for such weighting. For those reporting units whose fair value relies to some extent on the values derived from the market approach, please provide more details of the benchmarks used for those reporting units and explain why those benchmarks are appropriate. 3. Tell us why you utilize your own weighted-average cost of capital rather than that of a market participant when determining your discount rates. 4. For each reporting unit, supplementally provide us with the percentage cushion by which the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value.

* * * * Please respond to these comments through correspondence over EDGAR within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. You may contact Michael Henderson, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3384 or Kyle Moffatt, Accountant Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3836 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact me at (202) 551-3810 with any other questions.

S i n c e r e l y ,

L a r r y S p i r g e l A s s i s t a n t D i r e c t o r

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

       DIVISION OF
CORPORATION FINANCE

Mail Stop 3720

       July 1, 2009
 Mr. Lee Adrean Chief Financial Officer Equifax, Inc. 1550 Peachtree Street, N.W.  Atlanta, GA 30309
 Re: Equifax, Inc.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2008
  Filed February 26, 2009
Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2009
  Filed April 28, 2009   File No. 001-06605

Dear Mr. Adrean:
We have reviewed your supplemental response letter dated June 3, 2009 as well
as your filing and have the following comments.  As noted in our comment letter dated May 8, 2009, we have limited our review to your financial statements and related disclosures and do not intend to expand our review to other portions of your documents.   Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008

 Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations
 Application of Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 Goodwill and Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets, page 44

 1. We note your response to prior comment 2.  With respect to your reporting units with
significant goodwill, including Consumer Information Solutions (including Mortgage Solutions), Credit Marketing Services, Latin America, The Work Number, and Tax Management Services, you should provide the following disclosures as previously requested to supplement your current proposed disclosures:

Mr. Lee Adrean
Equifax, Inc. July 1, 2009 Page 2
• Aside from the reallocation of goodwill related to the TALX acquisition, disclose
any changes to your allocations of goodwill by reporting unit and the reasons for such changes.

• Disclose the discount rate for each reporting unit and how those discount rates
were determined, including your consideration of any market risk premiums.

• Provide a more detailed discussion of your estimates of future cash flows:

o Provide a discussion of your historical cash flow  growth rates and explain
how your historical growth rates were considered when determining the growth rate to be utilized in your cash flow projections.
o Disclose the growth rate you need to achieve in your cash flow projections in
order to avoid having a goodwill impairment charge.
 2. Further, disclose more specific details as to the weighting of each of the income and
market approaches for each reporting unit and the reasons for such weighting.  For those reporting units whose fair value relies to some extent on the values derived from the market approach, please provide more details of the benchmarks used for those reporting units and explain why those benchmarks are appropriate.
 3. Tell us why you utilize your own weighted-average cost of capital rather than that of
a market participant when determining your discount rates.
 4. For each reporting unit, supplementally provide us with the percentage cushion by
which the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying value.

*    *    *    *
 Please respond to these comments through correspondence over EDGAR within
10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response.  You may contact Michael Henderson, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3384 or Kyle Moffatt, Accountant
Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3836 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters.  Please contact me at (202) 551-3810 with any other questions.

         S i n c e r e l y ,

        L a r r y  S p i r g e l          A s s i s t a n t  D i r e c t o r