Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Policies)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates, and such differences could be material to the financial statements.

Except for the accounting policies related to lease accounting that were updated as a result of the adoption of Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-02, Leases (Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 842) issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”), there have been no changes to significant accounting policies described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the SEC on February 26, 2019, that have had a material impact on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes. See Note 14, Leases, for updated policies related to lease accounting.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02 which supersedes ASC Topic 840, Leases, and creates a new topic, ASC Topic 842, Leases. During the year ended December 31, 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-10, Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases, ASU No. 2018-11, Leases – Targeted Improvement, and ASU No. 2018-20, Leases (Topic 842): Narrow Scope Improvements for Lessors which further amended ASU No. 2016-02. These updates require a lessee to recognize on its balance sheet lease liabilities and right of use (“ROU”) assets for all leases, including operating leases, with a term greater than 12 months. The Company adopted the standard as of January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective transition method provided by ASU No. 2018-11. The Company elected the package of practical expedients granted by ASU No. 2016-02 and did not reassess whether existing contracts contained a lease, the classification of existing leases, and unamortized indirect costs as of January 1, 2019. The Company also elected the practical expedient related to the combination of lease and non-lease components and included fixed payments related to common area maintenance expense for the Company’s office leases in the measurement of the Company’s ROU assets and lease liabilities as of January 1, 2019 and September 30, 2019, respectively. There was no impact on net income or net assets as a result of adoption. 

The Company had ROU asset balances of $27.5 million and lease liability balances of $28.4 million on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet as of September 30, 2019.  There was no material impact on the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019. Refer to Note 14, Leases, for additional disclosures resulting from the adoption of ASU No. 2016-02 and its amendments.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, which amended the guidance of FASB ASC Topic 326, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. ASU No. 2016-13 requires the immediate recognition of estimated credit losses expected to occur over the remaining life of many financial assets, including trade receivables. This update is effective for the Company on January 1, 2020 and requires adoption using a modified retrospective

approach. The Company is currently evaluating the effect that ASU No. 2016-13 will have on its consolidated financial statements and disclosures.

Revenue from Contract with Customer

The Company’s revenues consist of services and software and hardware sales. In accordance with ASC Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, revenues are recognized when control of services or goods are transferred to clients, in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for those services or goods.

Services Revenues

Services revenues are primarily comprised of professional services that include developing, implementing, automating and extending business processes, technology infrastructure, and software applications. The Company’s professional services span multiple industries, platforms and solutions; however, the Company has remained relatively diversified and does not believe that it has significant revenue concentration within any single industry, platform or solution.

Professional services revenues are recognized over time as services are rendered. Most projects are performed on a time and materials basis, while a portion of revenues is derived from projects performed on a fixed fee or fixed fee percent complete basis. For time and material contracts, revenues are generally recognized and invoiced by multiplying the number of hours expended in the performance of the contract by the hourly rates. For fixed fee contracts, revenues are generally recognized and invoiced by multiplying the fixed rate per time period established in the contract by the number of time periods elapsed. For fixed fee percent complete contracts, revenues are generally recognized using an input method based on the ratio of hours expended to total estimated hours, and the client is invoiced according to the agreed-upon schedule detailing the amount and timing of payments in the contract.

Clients are typically billed monthly for services provided during that month but can be billed on a more or less frequent basis as determined by the contract. If the time is worked and approved at the end of a fiscal period and the invoice has not yet been sent to the client, the amount is recorded as revenue once the Company verifies all other revenue recognition criteria have been met, and the amount is classified as a receivable as the right to consideration is unconditional at that point. Amounts invoiced and collected in excess of revenues recognized are contract liabilities, which are classified as deferred revenues in the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. The term between invoicing and payment due date is not significant. Contracts for professional services provide for a general right, to the client or the Company, to cancel or terminate the contract within a given period of time (generally 10 to 30 days’ notice is required). The client is responsible for any time and expenses incurred up to the date of cancellation or termination of the contract. Certain contracts may include volume discounts or holdbacks, which are accounted for as variable consideration, but are not typically significant. The Company estimates variable consideration based on historical experience and forecasted sales and includes the variable consideration in the transaction price.

Other services revenues are comprised of hosting fees, partner referral fees, maintenance agreements, training and internally developed software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) sales. Revenues from hosting fees, maintenance agreements, training and internally developed SaaS sales are generally recognized over time using a time-based measure of progress as services are rendered. Partner referral fees are recorded at a point in time upon meeting specified requirements set by each partner to earn the respective fee.

On many professional service projects, the Company is also reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses including travel and other project-related expenses.  These reimbursements are included as a component of the transaction price of the respective professional services contract and are invoiced as the expenses are incurred. The Company structures its professional services arrangements to recover the cost of reimbursable expenses without a markup.

Software and Hardware Revenues

Software and hardware revenues are comprised of third-party software and hardware resales, in which the Company is considered the agent, and sales of internally developed software, in which the Company is considered the principal. Third-party software and hardware revenues are recognized and invoiced when the Company fulfills its obligation to arrange the sale, which occurs when the purchase order with the vendor is executed and the customer has access to the software or the hardware has been shipped to the customer. Internally developed software revenues are recognized and invoiced when control is transferred to the customer, which occurs when the software has been made available to the customer and the license term has commenced. Revenues from third-party software and hardware sales are recorded on a net basis, while revenues from internally developed software sales are recorded on a gross basis. There are no significant cancellation or termination-type provisions for the Company’s software and hardware sales, and the term between invoicing and payment due date is not significant.

Revenues are presented net of taxes assessed by governmental authorities. Sales taxes are generally collected and subsequently remitted on all software and hardware sales and certain services transactions as appropriate.

Arrangements with Multiple Performance Obligations

Arrangements with clients may contain multiple promises such as delivery of software, hardware, professional services or post-contract support services. These promises are accounted for as separate performance obligations if they are distinct.  For arrangements with clients that contain multiple performance obligations, the transaction price is allocated to the separate performance obligations based on estimated relative standalone selling price, which is estimated by the expected cost plus a margin approach, taking into consideration market conditions and competitive factors. Because contracts that contain multiple performance obligations are typically short term due to the contract cancellation provisions, the allocation of the transaction price to the separate performance obligations is not considered a significant estimate.

Contract Costs

In accordance with the terms of the Company’s sales commission plan, commissions are not earned until the related revenue is recognized. Therefore, sales commissions are expensed as they are earned. Certain sales incentives are accrued based on achievement of specified bookings goals. For these incentives, the Company applies the practical expedient that allows the Company to expense the incentives as incurred, since the amortization period would have been one year or less.

Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation is accounted for in accordance with ASC Topic 718, Compensation – Stock Compensation. Under this guidance, the Company recognizes share-based compensation ratably using the straight-line attribution method over the requisite service period, which is generally three years. In addition, the Company has elected to estimate the amount of expected forfeitures when calculating share-based compensation, instead of accounting for forfeitures as they occur. The fair value of restricted stock awards is based on the value of the Company’s common stock on the date of the grant.

Goodwill and Intangible Assets

Goodwill represents the excess purchase price over the fair value of net assets acquired, or net liabilities assumed, in a business combination. In accordance with ASC Topic 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other, the Company performs an annual impairment review in the fourth quarter and more frequently if events or changes in circumstances indicate that goodwill might be impaired. There was no indication that goodwill became impaired as of September 30, 2019.

Other intangible assets include customer relationships, non-compete arrangements, trade names, customer backlog, and developed software, which are being amortized over the assets’ estimated useful lives using the straight-line method. Estimated useful lives range from less than one year to ten years. Amortization of customer relationships, non-compete arrangements, trade names, customer backlog, and developed software is considered an operating expense and is included in “Amortization” in the accompanying Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. The Company periodically reviews the estimated useful lives of its identifiable intangible assets, taking into consideration any events or circumstances that might result in a lack of recoverability or revised useful life.

Long-term Debt

In accordance with accounting for debt with conversions and other options, the Company bifurcated the principal amount of the Notes into liability and equity components. The initial liability component of the Notes was valued at $122.9 million based on the contractual cash flows discounted at an appropriate comparable market non-convertible debt borrowing rate at the date of issuance of 5.7%. The equity component representing the conversion option and calculated as the residual amount of the proceeds was recorded as an increase in additional paid-in capital within stockholders’ equity of $20.9 million, partially offset by the associated deferred tax effect of $5.4 million. The amount recorded within additional paid-in capital is not to be remeasured as long as it continues to meet the conditions for equity classification. The resulting debt discount of $20.9 million is being amortized

to interest expense using the effective interest method with an effective interest rate of 5.7% over the period from the issuance date through the contractual maturity date of September 15, 2023. The Company utilizes the treasury stock method to calculate the effects of the Notes on diluted earnings per share.

Issuance costs totaling $4.8 million were allocated pro rata based on the relative fair values of the liability and equity components. Issuance costs of $4.1 million attributable to the liability component were recorded as a direct deduction from the carrying value of the Notes and are being amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the Notes. Issuance costs of $0.7 million attributable to the equity component were recorded as a charge to additional paid-in capital within stockholders’ equity, partially offset by the associated deferred tax effect of $0.2 million.

2023 Convertible Notes Hedges

In connection with the issuance of the Notes, the Company entered into privately negotiated convertible note hedge transactions (the “Notes Hedges”) with certain of the initial purchasers or their respective affiliates and/or other financial institutions (the “Option Counterparties”). The Notes Hedges provide the Company with the option to acquire, on a net settlement basis, approximately 3.8 million shares of common stock at a strike price of $37.60, which is equal to the number of shares of common stock that notionally underlie the Notes and corresponds to the conversion price of the Notes. If the Company elects cash settlement and exercises the Notes Hedges, the aggregate amount of cash received from the Option Counterparties will cover the aggregate amount of cash that the Company would be required to pay to the holders of the Notes, less the principal amount thereof. The Notes Hedges do not meet the criteria for separate accounting as a derivative as they are indexed to the Company’s stock and are accounted for as freestanding financial instruments. The Notes Hedges were recorded as a reduction in additional paid-in capital within stockholders’ equity of $20.7 million, partially offset by the deferred tax effect of $5.3 million.

2023 Convertible Notes Warrants

In connection with the issuance of the Notes, the Company also sold net-share-settled warrants (the “Notes Warrants”) in privately negotiated transactions with the Option Counterparties. The strike price of the Notes Warrants was approximately $46.62 per share, and is subject to certain adjustments under the terms of the Notes Warrants. As a result of the Notes Warrants and related transactions, the Company is required to recognize incremental dilution of earnings per share to the extent the average

share price is over $46.62 for any fiscal quarter. The Notes Warrants expire over a period of 100 trading days commencing on December 15, 2023 and may be settled in net shares of common stock or net cash at the Company’s election. The Notes Warrants were recorded as an increase in additional paid-in capital within stockholders’ equity of $12.1 million.

Derivatives

In the normal course of business, the Company uses derivative financial instruments to manage foreign currency exchange rate risk. Currency exposure is monitored and managed by the Company as part of its risk management program which seeks to reduce the potentially adverse effects that market volatility could have on operating results. The Company’s derivative financial instruments consist of non-deliverable foreign currency forward contracts. Derivative financial instruments are neither held nor issued by the Company for trading purposes.

Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments

Both the gain or loss on the derivatives not designated as hedging instruments and the offsetting loss or gain on the hedged item attributable to the hedged risk are recognized in current earnings.  Realized gains or losses and changes in the estimated fair value of foreign currency forward contracts that have not been designated as hedges were immaterial during each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018. Gains and losses on these contracts are recorded in net other expense (income) and net interest expense in the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and are offset by losses and gains on the related hedged items.

Fair Value Measurement

The fair value hierarchy is based on inputs to valuation techniques that are used to measure fair value that are either observable or unobservable. Observable inputs reflect assumptions market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability based on market data obtained from independent sources while unobservable inputs reflect a reporting entity’s pricing based upon its own market assumptions.

The fair value hierarchy consists of the following three levels:

• Level 1 – Inputs are quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

• Level 2 – Inputs are quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in an active market, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable and market-corroborated inputs which are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data.

• Level 3 – Inputs are derived from valuation techniques in which one or more significant inputs or value drivers are unobservable.

All highly liquid investments with maturities at date of purchase of three months or less are considered to be cash equivalents. Based on their short-term nature, the carrying value of cash equivalents approximate their fair value. As of September 30, 2019, $28.4 million of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents balance related to money-market fund investments and $3.0 million related to fixed time deposits. As of December 31, 2018, $37.7 million of the Company’s cash and cash equivalents balance related to money-market fund investments. These short-term money-market funds and fixed time deposits are considered Level 1 investments.

The Company estimates the fair value of each foreign exchange forward contract by using the present value of expected cash flows. The estimate takes into account the difference between the current market forward price and contracted forward price for each foreign exchange contract and applies the difference in the rates to each outstanding contract. Valuations for all derivatives fall within Level 2 of the GAAP valuation hierarchy. The fair value of the Company’s derivative instruments outstanding as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 was immaterial.

The Company has contingent consideration liabilities related to acquisitions which are measured on a recurring basis and recorded at fair value, determined using the discounted cash flow method. The inputs used to calculate the fair value of the contingent consideration liabilities are considered to be Level 3 inputs due to the lack of relevant market activity and significant management judgment. An increase in future cash flows may result in a higher estimated fair value while a decrease in future cash flows may result in a lower estimated fair value of the contingent consideration liabilities. Remeasurements to fair value are recorded in adjustment to fair value of contingent consideration in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Refer to Note 7, Balance Sheet Components, for the estimated fair value of the contingent consideration liabilities as of September 30, 2019.

The fair value of the Notes is measured using quoted price inputs. The Notes are not actively traded, and thus the price inputs represent a Level 2 measurement. As the quoted price inputs are highly variable from day to day, the fair value estimates could significantly increase or decrease.

The Notes are carried at their principal amount less unamortized debt discount and issuance costs, and are not carried at fair value at each period end. The original debt discount was calculated at a market interest rate for nonconvertible debt at the time of issuance, which represented a Level 3 fair value measurement. The approximate fair value of the Notes as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 was $168.2 million and $128.3 million, respectively, which is estimated on the basis of inputs that are observable in the market and is considered a Level 2 fair value measurement.

Leases

The Company leases office space under various operating lease agreements, which have remaining lease terms of one year to six years. Prior to January 1, 2019, the Company accounted for leases under ASC Topic 840. On January 1, 2019, the Company adopted ASC Topic 842, which replaced ASC Topic 840. The most significant impact upon adoption was the recognition of lease liabilities and ROU assets for all operating leases with a term greater than 12 months on its balance sheet. Refer to Note 3, Recent Accounting Pronouncements, for additional information on the impact of adoption.

The following discussion relates to the Company’s lease accounting policy, effective January 1, 2019, under ASC Topic 842 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019.

The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating leases are included in operating lease ROU assets, other current liabilities, and operating lease liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet. Operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at commencement date. The lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will exercise that option. In determining the expected lease term, the majority of the Company’s renewal options are not reasonably certain based on conditions of the Company’s existing leases and its overall business strategies. The Company will periodically reassess expected lease terms based on significant triggering events or compelling economic reasons to exercise renewal options. The Company utilizes its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. Operating lease expense for minimum lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. The Company accounts for lease and non-lease components as a single lease component.

Commitments and Contingencies

From time to time the Company is involved in legal proceedings, claims and litigation related to employee claims, contractual disputes and taxes in the ordinary course of business. Although the Company cannot predict the outcome of such matters, currently the Company has no reason to believe the disposition of any current matter could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or the ability to carry on any of its business activities.