Accounts Payable and Accured Liabilities (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Schedule of Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities

At March 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, accounts payable and accrued liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):



	March 31, 2015		December 31, 2014
Compensation and benefit-related liabilities (1)	$	8,014	$	23,032
Royalties	12,315		17,624
Contract services (2)	7,488		2,335
Accounts payable	2,800		2,779
Purchase of unrestricted common stock (3)	2,246		1,159
Facilities	1,482		1,942
Legal	1,687		1,355
Market linkage	1,179		1,183
Other	7,382		7,157
Total	$	44,593	$	58,566

(1) For the period ended March 31, 2015, primarily reflects costs for 2015 incentive compensation expense and self-insurance expenses. Prior year primarily reflects 2014 annual incentive compensation expense which was paid in the first quarter of 2015.

(2) Reflects costs primarily for certain regulatory functions and contract programming work related to projects that are in process. For comparability purposes, contract services balances previously reflected in other as of December 31, 2014 have been included on this line.

(3) Reflects shares purchased at the end of the period that are not settled until three trading days after the trade occurs.