3. Acquisitions During fiscal 2018, the Company completed two acquisitions. The first acquisition, completed August 31, 2017 ( the second quarter of fiscal 2018 ) , was of taskforce  Management on Demand AG (taskforce) , a German based professional services firm founded in 2007, that provides clients with senior interim management and project management expertise. Subsequent to the acquisition, taskforce continues to operate as a separate brand. The Company paid initial consideration of 5.8 million (approximately $6.9 million at the date of acquisition) in a combination of cash and restricted stock. In addition, the purchase agreement for taskforce requires additional earn-out payments to be made based on performance in calendar years 2017, 2018 and 2019. Under accounting rules for business combinations, obligations that are contingently payable to the sellers based upon the occurrence of one or more future events are recorded as a discounted liability on the Companys balance sheet. The Company is obligated to pay the sellers in Euros as follows: for calendar year 2017, Adjusted EBITDA times 6.1 times 20% ; and for both calendar years 2018 and 2019, Adjusted EBITDA times 6.1 times 15% ; (Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as defined in the purchase agreement). The payment for calendar 2017 of 2.1 million was made March 28, 2018. The Company estimated the fair value of the obligation to pay the remaining contingent consideration for calendar years 2018 and 2019 based on a number of different projections of the estimated Adjusted EBITDA for each such years. The Company recorded this future obligation using a discount rate of approximately 11.0% , representing the Companys weighted average cost of capital. The current estimated fair value of the contractual obligation to pay the contingent consideration for calendar years 2018 and 2019 totals 3.9 million (approximately $4.4 million based on the exchange rate on the last day of the second quarter of fiscal 2019) as of November 24, 2018. Each reporting period, the Company will estimate changes in the fair value of contingent consideration and any change in fair value will be recognized in the Companys Consolidated Statements of Operations. The estimate of fair value of contingent consideration requires very subjective assumptions to be made of various potential Adjusted EBITDA results and discount rates. Future revisions to these assumptions could materially change the estimate of the fair value of contingent consideration and therefore could materially affect the Companys future operating results. D uring the three and six months ended November 24, 2018 , the Company decreased the estimated contingent consideration by 114,000 ( $130,000 ) and 30,000 ( $33,000 ), respectively, and also recognized accretion expense on the discounted liability. T he se amounts are included in S, G &amp; A for the respective periods. Results of operations of taskforce are included in the Consolidated Statements of Operations from the date of acquisition. The second acquisition occurred December 4, 2017 (the third quarter of fiscal 2018) when the Company acquired substantially all of the assets and assumed certain liabilities of Accretive Solutions, Inc. (Accretive). Accretive was a professional services firm that provided expertise in accounting and finance, enterprise governance, business technology and business transformation solutions to a wide variety of organizations in the U.S. and supported startups through its Countsy suite of back office services. The Company paid consideration of $20.0 million in cash and issued 1,072,000 shares of Resources Connection, Inc. common stock restricted for sale for four years; additional cash and shares of Company stock will be due after settlement of working capital adjustments. In addition, additional amounts maybe paid to the sellers at the end of a certain period of time if there are no claims or may bem used to satisfy any pracquisition claims in favor of the buyers. As of the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2019, the amounts due based on initial estimates of the resolution of these items are $0.1 million in cash and 108,000 in additional shares of common stock and are accrued as a liability on the balance sheet as of November 24, 2018. The Company completed its integration of the operations of Accretive into its business model as of the first day of fiscal 2019 and thus the Company is unable to estimate the impact of additional revenue attributable to the Accretive acquisition during fiscal 2019. ? ? ? ? ?