10-Q 1 a05-18209_110q.htm QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 13 OR 15(D)

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

ý    QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2005

or

o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from                  to                   

 

 

1-12181-01

 

1-12181

(Commission File Number)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

 

 

PROTECTION ONE, INC.

 

PROTECTION ONE ALARM MONITORING, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant

 

(Exact Name of Registrant

As Specified In its Charter)

 

As Specified In its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware

 

Delaware

(State or Other Jurisdiction

 

(State or Other Jurisdiction

Of Incorporation or Organization)

 

Of Incorporation or Organization)

 

 

 

93-1063818

 

93-1064579

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

1035 N 3rd Street, Suite 101

 

1035 N 3rd Street, Suite 101

Lawrence, Kansas 66044

 

Lawrence, Kansas 66044

(Address of Principal Executive Offices,

 

(Address of Principal Executive Offices,

Including Zip Code)

 

Including Zip Code)

 

 

 

(785) 856-5500

 

(785) 856-5500

(Registrant’s Telephone Number,

 

(Registrant’s Telephone Number,

Including Area Code)

 

Including Area Code)

 

Indicate by check mark whether each of the registrants (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that such registrants were required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ý  No o

 

Indicate by check mark whether each of the registrants is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).  Yes o  No ý

 

Indicate by check mark whether either registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o  No ý

 

As of November 10, 2005, Protection One, Inc. had outstanding 18,198,571 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share. As of such date, Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc. had outstanding 110 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.10 per share, all of which shares were owned by Protection One, Inc.

 

 



 

 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the materials incorporated by reference herein include “forward-looking statements” intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  These forward-looking statements generally can be identified as such because the context of the statement includes words such as we “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “will,” “should” or other words of similar import.  Similarly, statements herein that describe our objectives, plans or goals also are forward-looking statements.  Such statements include those made on matters such as our earnings and financial condition, litigation, accounting matters, our business, our efforts to consolidate and reduce costs, our customer account acquisition strategy and attrition, our efforts to implement new financial software, our liquidity and sources of funding and our capital expenditures.  All forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.  The forward-looking statements included herein are made only as of the date of this report and we undertake no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.  Certain factors that could cause actual results to differ include: our history of losses, which are likely to continue; principal and interest payment requirements of our indebtedness; competition, including competition from companies that are larger than we are and have greater resources than we do; losses of our customers over time and difficulty acquiring new customers; changes in technology that may make our services less attractive or obsolete; the development of new services or service innovations by our competitors; potential liability for failure to respond adequately to alarm activations; changes in management; the potential for environmental or man-made catastrophes in areas of high customer account concentration; changes in conditions affecting the economy or security alarm monitoring service providers generally; and changes in federal, state or local government or other regulations or standards affecting our operations.  For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in our forward-looking statements, please refer to “Risk Factors” in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, as amended.

 


 

INTRODUCTION

 

Unless the context otherwise indicates, all references in this report to the “Company,” “Protection One,” “we,” “us” or “our” or similar words are to Protection One, Inc., its direct wholly owned subsidiary, Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc., and Protection One Alarm Monitoring’s wholly owned subsidiaries.  Protection One’s sole asset is Protection One Alarm Monitoring and Protection One Alarm Monitoring’s wholly owned subsidiaries, and accordingly, there are no separate financial statements for Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc.  Each of Protection One and Protection One Alarm Monitoring is a Delaware corporation organized in September 1991.

 

In February 2005, we completed a one-share-for-fifty-shares reverse stock split of our outstanding shares of common stock.  All prior share and per share amounts included in this report give retroactive effect to the reverse stock split.

 

Stockholders and other security holders or buyers of our securities or our other creditors should not assume that material events subsequent to the date of this report have not occurred.

 

Change in Majority Owner

 

On February 17, 2004, our former majority stockholder, Westar Industries, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Westar Energy, Inc., which we refer to collectively as Westar, consummated the sale of approximately 87% of our common stock to POI Acquisition I, Inc., which was formed by Quadrangle Capital Partners LP, Quadrangle Select Partners LP, Quadrangle Capital Partners-A LP and Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd, which we refer to collectively as Quadrangle.  The transaction also included the assignment of Westar’s rights and obligations as the lender under our revolving credit facility to POI Acquisition, L.L.C., which subsequently assigned one-third of its interest to Quadrangle Master Funding, Ltd.

 

On November 12, 2004, we entered into a debt-for-equity exchange agreement with Quadrangle that provided for the principal balance outstanding under the Quadrangle credit facility to be reduced by $120.0 million in exchange for the issuance to Quadrangle of 16 million shares of our common stock.   The exchange was completed on February 8, 2005 and was accompanied by a one-share-for-fifty-shares reverse stock split of our common stock.  The newly issued shares, together with shares already owned by Quadrangle, resulted in Quadrangle owning approximately 97.3% of our common stock.

 

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New Basis of Accounting

 

As a result of Quadrangle’s increased ownership interest from the February 8, 2005 debt-for-equity exchange, we have ‘‘pushed down’’ Quadrangle’s basis to a proportionate amount of our underlying assets and liabilities acquired based on the estimated fair market values of the assets and liabilities.  The “push-down” accounting adjustments did not impact cash flows.   The primary changes to the balance sheet reflect (1) the reduction of deferred customer acquisition costs and revenues, which have been subsumed into the estimated fair market value adjustment for customer accounts; (2) adjustments to the carrying values of debt to estimated fair market value (or Quadrangle’s basis in the case of the credit facility);  (3) adjustments to historical goodwill to reflect goodwill arising from the push down accounting adjustments; (4) the recording of a value for our trade names; and (5) an increase to the equity section from these adjustments.  The primary changes to the income statement include (1) the reduction in other revenue due to a lower level of amortization from the reduced amortizable base of deferred customer acquisition revenues; (2) the reduction in other costs of revenue and selling expenses due to a lower level of amortization from the reduced amortizable base of deferred customer acquisition costs; (3) an increase in interest expense due to amortization of debt discounts arising from differences in fair values and carrying values of our debt instruments; and (4) the reduction in amortization related to the reduction in the amortizable base of customer accounts.

 

Due to the impact of the changes resulting from the push down accounting adjustments described above, the income statement presentation separates our results into two periods:  (1) the period ending with the February 8, 2005 consummation of the exchange transaction and (2) the period beginning after that date utilizing the new basis of accounting.  The results are further separated by a heavy black line to indicate the effective date of the new basis of accounting.  Similarly, the current and prior period amounts reported on the balance sheet are separated by a heavy black line to indicate the application of a new basis of accounting between the periods presented.

 

 

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PART I

 

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1.    FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

PROTECTION ONE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(Dollars in thousands, except for per share amounts)

 

 

 

September 30,
2005

 

 

December 31,
2004

 

 

 

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

 

 

 

(See Note 1)

 

 

 

 

ASSETS

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

14,590

 

 

$

52,528

 

Restricted cash

 

569

 

 

926

 

Receivables, net

 

26,167

 

 

24,219

 

Inventories, net

 

4,779

 

 

5,228

 

Prepaid expenses

 

2,730

 

 

5,793

 

Other miscellaneous receivables

 

45

 

 

5,494

 

Other

 

2,866

 

 

2,375

 

Total current assets

 

51,746

 

 

96,563

 

Property and equipment, net

 

20,128

 

 

31,152

 

Restricted cash, net of current portion

 

1,567

 

 

 

Customer accounts, net

 

241,962

 

 

176,155

 

Goodwill

 

12,160

 

 

41,847

 

Trade name

 

25,812

 

 

 

Deferred customer acquisition costs

 

64,163

 

 

107,310

 

Other

 

8,632

 

 

8,017

 

Total Assets

 

$

426,170

 

 

$

461,044

 

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIENCY IN ASSETS)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current portion of long-term debt, including $201,000 due to related parties at December 31, 2004

 

$

2,356

 

 

$

395,417

 

Accounts payable

 

2,358

 

 

2,266

 

Accrued liabilities

 

20,147

 

 

37,088

 

Due to related party

 

 

 

335

 

Deferred revenue

 

36,042

 

 

34,017

 

Total current liabilities

 

60,903

 

 

469,123

 

Long-term debt, net of current portion

 

320,643

 

 

110,340

 

Deferred customer acquisition revenue

 

33,839

 

 

57,433

 

Other liabilities

 

1,568

 

 

1,757

 

Total Liabilities

 

416,953

 

 

638,653

 

Commitments and contingencies (see Note 7)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $0.10 par value, 5,000,000 shares authorized

 

 

 

 

Common stock, $0.01 par value, 150,000,000 shares authorized, 18,198,571 shares issued at September 30, 2005 and 2,562,512 shares issued at December 31, 2004

 

182

 

 

26

 

Additional paid-in capital

 

159,939

 

 

1,380,728

 

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

 

(127

)

 

162

 

Deficit

 

(150,777

)

 

(1,523,913

)

Treasury stock, at cost, 596,858 shares at December 31, 2004

 

 

 

(34,612

)

Total stockholders’ equity (deficiency in assets)

 

9,217

 

 

(177,609

)

Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficiency in Assets)

 

$

426,170

 

 

$

461,044

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

 

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PROTECTION ONE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

 

(Dollars in thousands, except for per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

January 1 -
September 30

 

 

 

(See Note 1)

 

 

(See Note 1)

 

 

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

158,143

 

 

$

26,455

 

$

185,974

 

Other

 

9,832

 

 

2,088

 

15,959

 

Total revenues

 

167,975

 

 

28,543

 

201,933

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

44,501

 

 

7,400

 

52,252

 

Other

 

12,709

 

 

3,314

 

23,085

 

Total cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below)

 

57,210

 

 

10,714

 

75,337

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling

 

19,651

 

 

3,989

 

24,047

 

General and administrative

 

41,536

 

 

8,104

 

52,489

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

5,939

 

22,046

 

Corporate consolidation costs

 

1,866

 

 

 

 

Amortization and depreciation

 

32,922

 

 

6,638

 

58,881

 

Total operating expenses

 

95,975

 

 

24,670

 

157,463

 

Operating income (loss)

 

14,790

 

 

(6,841

)

(30,867

)

Other (income) expense:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

 

20,912

 

 

2,602

 

20,021

 

Related party interest

 

1,951

 

 

1,942

 

13,399

 

Loss on retirement of debt

 

6,657

 

 

 

 

Other

 

(628

)

 

(15

)

(100

)

Loss before income taxes

 

(14,102

)

 

(11,370

)

(64,187

)

Income tax expense

 

(316

)

 

(35

)

(278,464

)

Net loss

 

$

(14,418

)

 

$

(11,405

)

$

(342,651

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income, net of tax:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized gain (loss) on marketable securities

 

(162

)

 

 

72

 

Unrealized loss on interest rate cap

 

(127

)

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

 

$

(14,707

)

 

$

(11,405

)

$

(342,579

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and diluted per share information:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss per common share

 

$

(0.79

)

 

$

(5.80

)

$

(174.29

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average common shares outstanding (in thousands)

 

18,199

 

 

1,966

 

1,966

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these

consolidated financial statements.

 

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PROTECTION ONE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF

OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

 

(Dollars in thousands, except for per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Three Months Ended September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

 

2004

 

 

 

(See Note 1)

 

 

 

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

61,519

 

 

$

62,272

 

Other

 

4,104

 

 

5,256

 

Total revenues

 

65,623

 

 

67,528

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

17,606

 

 

17,918

 

Other

 

5,049

 

 

7,869

 

Total cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below)

 

22,655

 

 

25,787

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling

 

8,228

 

 

8,486

 

General and administrative

 

15,772

 

 

16,882

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

2,109

 

Corporate consolidation costs

 

1,866

 

 

 

Amortization and depreciation

 

12,843

 

 

19,546

 

Total operating expenses

 

38,709

 

 

47,023

 

Operating income (loss)

 

4,259

 

 

(5,282

)

Other (income) expense:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

 

7,500

 

 

6,734

 

Related party interest

 

 

 

4,568

 

Other

 

(78

)

 

(17

)

Loss before income taxes

 

(3,163

)

 

(16,567

)

Income tax expense

 

(122

)

 

(85

)

Net loss

 

$

(3,285

)

 

$

(16,652

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other comprehensive income, net of tax:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrealized gain on marketable securities

 

 

 

63

 

Unrealized loss on interest rate cap

 

(127

)

 

 

Comprehensive loss

 

$

(3,412

)

 

$

(16,589

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic and diluted per share information:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss per common share

 

$

(0.18

)

 

$

(8.47

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weighted average common shares outstanding (in thousands)

 

18,199

 

 

1,966

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these

consolidated financial statements.

 

 

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PROTECTION ONE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Dollars in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

January 1 -
September 30

 

 

 

(See Note 1)

 

 

(See Note 1)

 

 

 

Cash flows from operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

$

(14,418

)

 

$

(11,405

)

$

(342,651

)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss on early retirement of debt

 

6,657

 

 

 

 

(Gain) loss on sale of assets

 

(721

)

 

8

 

(76

)

Amortization and depreciation

 

32,922

 

 

6,638

 

58,881

 

Amortization of debt costs and premium

 

6,039

 

 

2

 

523

 

Amortization of deferred customer acquisition costs in excess of amortization of deferred revenues

 

5,460

 

 

2,837

 

15,567

 

Deferred income taxes

 

 

 

 

286,398

 

Provision for doubtful accounts

 

837

 

 

272

 

486

 

Other

 

(92

)

 

(15

)

(76

)

Changes in assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions and dispositions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Receivables, net

 

(2,347

)

 

(263

)

(624

)

Tax receivable from Westar

 

 

 

 

(7,933

)

Other assets

 

6,607

 

 

5,500

 

(2,420

)

Accounts payable

 

(4,363

)

 

5,114

 

(2,244

)

Deferred revenue

 

567

 

 

1,346

 

261

 

Other liabilities

 

(11,200

)

 

(6,324

)

453

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

 

25,948

 

 

3,710

 

6,545

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Installations and purchases of new accounts

 

 

 

 

(14

)

Deferred customer acquisition costs

 

(33,480

)

 

(4,218

)

(31,879

)

Deferred customer acquisition revenues

 

17,008

 

 

1,991

 

15,808

 

Purchase of property and equipment

 

(3,228

)

 

(250

)

(4,826

)

Deposit of restricted cash

 

(1,200

)

 

 

 

Proceeds from disposition of marketable securities

 

660

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from redemption of preferred stock

 

4,399

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from disposition of assets

 

263

 

 

4

 

314

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

(15,578

)

 

(2,473

)

(20,597

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Payments on long-term debt

 

(212,125

)

 

 

 

Payment on credit facility

 

(81,000

)

 

 

 

Proceeds from borrowings

 

250,000

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sale of common stock

 

1,750

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sale of trademark

 

 

 

 

160

 

Debt issue costs

 

(6,978

)

 

 

 

Stock issue costs

 

(270

)

 

 

 

Payment for interest rate caps

 

(922

)

 

 

 

Funding from Westar, as former parent

 

 

 

 

220

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

(49,545

)

 

 

380

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 

(39,175

)

 

1,237

 

(13,672

)

Cash and cash equivalents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning of period

 

53,765

 

 

52,528

 

35,203

 

End of period

 

$

14,590

 

 

$

53,765

 

$

21,531

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid for interest

 

$

20,991

 

 

$

6,451

 

$

37,957

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash paid for taxes

 

$

270

 

 

$

6

 

$

264

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these

consolidated financial statements.

 

 

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PROTECTION ONE, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

(Unaudited)

 

 

1.     Basis of Consolidation and Interim Financial Information:

 

Protection One, Inc., referred to as Protection One or the Company, a Delaware corporation, is a publicly-traded security alarm monitoring company.  Protection One is principally engaged in the business of providing security alarm monitoring services, which includes sales, installation and related servicing of security alarm systems for residential and business customers.  On February 17, 2004, the Company’s former majority owner, Westar Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation, referred to as Westar Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of Westar Energy, Inc., which together with Westar Industries is referred to as Westar, sold approximately 87% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, to POI Acquisition I, Inc., a subsidiary of POI Acquisition, L.L.C. and Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd.  POI Acquisition, L.L.C., Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd and POI Acquisition I, Inc. are entities formed by Quadrangle Capital Partners LP, Quadrangle Select Partners LP, Quadrangle Capital Partners-A LP and Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd, collectively referred to as Quadrangle.  Westar retained approximately 1% of the Company’s common stock, representing shares underlying restricted stock units granted to current and former employees of Westar.  As part of the sale transaction, Westar Industries also assigned its rights and obligations as the lender under the revolving credit facility to POI Acquisition, L.L.C., which subsequently assigned one-third of its interest to Quadrangle Master Funding, Ltd.  Quadrangle paid an aggregate of approximately $154.7 million to Westar as consideration for both the common stock and the revolving credit facility, including accrued interest of $2.2 million, with approximately $2.1 million of the payments being consideration for the common stock.

 

Upon completion of the Westar sale transaction and as a result of liquidity problems caused by its significant debt burden and continuing net losses, the Company retained Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Capital as its financial advisor and began discussions regarding a potential debt restructuring.  In November 2004, the Company received $73.0 million pursuant to a tax sharing settlement agreement with Westar that terminated the Westar tax sharing agreement, generally settled all claims with Westar relating to the tax sharing agreement and generally settled all claims between Quadrangle and Westar relating to the Westar sale transaction. Contemporaneously, the Company entered into a debt-for-equity exchange agreement with Quadrangle that provided for the principal balance outstanding under the Quadrangle credit facility to be reduced by $120.0 million in exchange for the issuance to Quadrangle of 16 million shares of the Company’s common stock.   The exchange was completed on February 8, 2005 and was accompanied by a one-share-for-fifty-shares reverse stock split of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock.  The newly issued shares, together with shares already owned by Quadrangle, resulted in Quadrangle owning approximately 97.3% of the Company’s common stock.

 

As a result of Quadrangle’s increased ownership interest, the Company has ‘‘pushed down’’ Quadrangle’s basis to a proportionate amount of the Company’s underlying assets and liabilities acquired based on the estimated fair market values of the assets and liabilities.  The “push-down” accounting adjustments did not impact cash flows.   The primary changes to the balance sheet reflect (1) the reduction of deferred customer acquisition costs and revenues, which have been subsumed into the estimated fair market value adjustment for customer accounts; (2) adjustments to the carrying values of debt to estimated fair market value (or Quadrangle’s basis in the case of the credit facility); (3) adjustments to historical goodwill to reflect goodwill arising from the push down accounting adjustments; (4) the recording of a value for our trade names; and (5) an increase to the equity section from these adjustments.  The primary changes to the income statement include (1) the reduction in other revenue due to a lower level of amortization from the reduced amortizable base of deferred customer acquisition revenues; (2)  the reduction in other costs of revenue and selling expenses due to lower level of amortization from the reduced amortizable base of deferred customer acquisition costs; (3) an increase in interest expense due to amortization of debt discounts arising from differences in fair values and carrying values of the Company’s debt instruments; and (4) the reduction in amortization related to the reduction in the amortizable base of customer accounts.

 

Due to the impact of the changes resulting from the push down accounting adjustments described above, the income statement presentation separates the Company’s results into two periods:  (1) the period ending with the February 8, 2005 consummation of the exchange transaction and (2) the period beginning after that date utilizing the new basis of accounting.  The results are further separated by a heavy black line to indicate the effective date of the new basis of accounting.  Similarly, the current and prior period amounts reported on the Balance Sheet are separated by a heavy black line to indicate the application of a new basis of accounting between the periods presented.

 

The Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, for interim financial information and in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q.  Accordingly, certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements presented in accordance with generally accepted

 

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accounting principles have been condensed or omitted. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2004 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC.

 

In December 2002, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, or SFAS, No. 148, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation — Transition and Disclosure,” which amends SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation.”  SFAS No. 148 provides alternative methods of transition for a voluntary change to the fair value based method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation.  In addition, it amends the disclosure requirements of SFAS No. 123 to require prominent disclosures in both annual and interim financial statements about the method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation and the effect of the method used on reported results.  This statement requires that companies follow the prescribed format and provide the additional disclosures in their annual reports for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2002. The Company applies the recognition and measurement principles of Accounting Principles Board, or APB, Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees,” as allowed by SFAS Nos. 123 and 148, and related interpretations in accounting for its stock-based compensation plans.  The Company has adopted the disclosure requirements of SFAS No. 148.

 

For purposes of the pro forma disclosures required by SFAS No. 148, the estimated fair value of options is amortized to expense on a straight-line method over the options’ vesting period.  Under SFAS No. 123, additional compensation expense and the resulting pro forma impact on earnings and earnings per share is as follows:

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

February 9-
September 30

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

Nine Months Ended
September 30

 

 

 

(See Note 1)

 

(See Note 1)

 

 

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands except per share amounts)

 

Loss available for common stock, as reported

 

$

(14,418

)

 

$

(11,405

)

$

(342,651

)

Add: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported net loss, net of related tax effects

 

 

 

 

34

 

Deduct: Total stock option expense determined under fair value method for all awards, net of related tax effects

 

(1,811

)

 

(16

)

(596

)

Loss available for common stock, pro forma

 

$

(16,229

)

 

$

(11,421

)

$

(343,213

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss per common share (basic and diluted):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As reported

 

$

(0.79

)

 

$

(5.80

)

$

(174.29

)

Pro forma

 

$

(0.89

)

 

$

(5.81

)

$

(174.57

)

 

 

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Three Months Ended September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

(See Note 1)

 

 

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands except per share amounts)

 

Loss available for common stock, as reported

 

$

(3,285

)

 

$

(16,652

)

Add: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported net loss, net of related tax effects

 

 

 

 

Deduct: Total stock option expense determined under fair value method for all awards, net of related tax effects

 

(781

)

 

(75

)

Loss available for common stock, pro forma

 

$

(4,066

)

 

$

(16,727

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss per common share (basic and diluted):

 

 

 

 

 

 

As reported

 

$

(0.18

)

 

$

(8.47

)

Pro forma

 

$

(0.22

)

 

$

(8.51

)

 

 

In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123R, Share-Based Payment, which requires that the compensation cost relating to share-based payment transactions be recognized in financial statements based on alternative fair value models.  The share-based compensation cost will be measured based on the fair value of the equity or liability instruments issued.  The Company currently discloses pro forma compensation expense quarterly and annually by calculating the stock option grants’ fair value using the Black-Scholes model and disclosing the impact on net income and net income per share in a Note to the Consolidated Financial Statements.  Upon adoption, pro forma disclosure will no longer be an alternative.  The Company will begin to apply SFAS No. 123R beginning in the year ending December 31, 2006.

 

In the opinion of management of the Company, all adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation of the financial statements have been included. The results of operations presented for the three months ended September 30, 2005, the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 (the “post-push down” period) and January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 (the “pre-push down” period) are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year.

 

Restricted cash on the accompanying balance sheet represents a trust account established as collateral for the benefit of the former insurer of the Company’s workers’ compensation claims and collateral for the Company’s surety bonding requirements.  The workers’ compensation collateral is required to support reserves established on claims filed during the period covered by the former insurer.  The Company receives interest income earned by the trust.  The surety bond collateral is required by the Company’s liability insurance carrier.  The funds have been deposited into a money market account which earns interest income.

 

For the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, the Company had 1.0 million stock options that represented dilutive potential common shares.  For the third quarter of 2005, the Company had 0.9 million stock options that represented dilutive potential common shares.  These securities were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share because to do so would have been antidilutive for the period.  The Company had no stock options or warrants that represented dilutive potential common shares for the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 or for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2004.

 

All prior share and per share amounts included in the financial statements and the accompanying notes give retroactive effect to a one-share-for-fifty shares reverse stock split effected February 8, 2005.

 

Certain reclassifications have been made to prior year information to conform with the current year presentation.

 

2.     Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation:

 

Restructuring

 

General.  On November 12, 2004, the Company received proceeds of $73.0 million pursuant to a tax sharing settlement agreement with Westar, which settlement was facilitated by the contemporaneous execution of an exchange agreement with Quadrangle that provided for the principal balance outstanding under the Quadrangle credit facility to be reduced by $120.0 million in exchange for the issuance to Quadrangle of 16 million shares of the Company’s common stock.  Other aspects of the restructuring included a one-share-for-fifty-shares reverse stock split of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock and the implementation of a management incentive plan.

 

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Debt-for-Equity Exchange.  On November 12, 2004, the Company entered into an exchange agreement with Quadrangle to restructure the debt under the Quadrangle credit facility.  Upon the closing of the exchange agreement on February 8, 2005, Quadrangle reduced the aggregate principal amount outstanding under the Quadrangle credit facility by $120.0 million in exchange for 16 million shares of the Company’s common stock.  The newly issued shares, together with the shares currently owned by Quadrangle, resulted in Quadrangle’s owning approximately 97.3% of the Company’s common stock as of the closing of the debt-for-equity exchange.   In connection with the closing, the Company also amended its certificate of incorporation, implemented a management incentive plan and entered into an amended and restated credit facility, stockholders agreement and registration rights agreement with Quadrangle.

 

Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation.  In connection with the debt-for-equity exchange, following stockholder approval on February 8, 2005, the Company amended and restated its certificate of incorporation to provide for a one-share-for-fifty-shares reverse stock split of its outstanding shares of common stock, the elimination of its Series F and Series H preferred stock and an election not to be governed by Section 203 of the Delaware Corporation Law, which section potentially restricts transactions involving certain interested stockholders.

 

Amendment of the Quadrangle Credit Facility.  Pursuant to the exchange agreement entered into in connection with the restructuring, Quadrangle agreed to extend the final maturity on the Quadrangle credit facility to August 15, 2005 and to otherwise amend and restate the Quadrangle credit facility.  Quadrangle also waived and released all defaults and events of default under the Quadrangle credit facility existing immediately prior to the consummation of the debt-for-equity exchange.  See Note 5, “Debt — Refinancing,” for information related to the April 2005 repayment of the Quadrangle credit facility.

 

Westar Tax Sharing Settlement.  On November 12, 2004, the Company entered into a tax sharing settlement with Westar and Quadrangle that, among other things, terminated the Westar tax sharing agreement, generally settled all of its claims with Westar relating to the tax sharing agreement and generally settled all claims between Quadrangle and Westar relating to the Westar sale transaction.  Execution of the exchange agreement with Quadrangle facilitated Quadrangle’s and Westar’s ability to agree upon the amount of, and accelerate the payment of, contingent payments that would be paid by Quadrangle to Westar under their purchase agreement and to otherwise settle claims between Quadrangle and Westar relating to the Westar sale transaction.  Westar’s ability to reach agreement with Quadrangle on these matters facilitated the settlement of the Company’s dispute with Westar over the tax sharing agreement and the delivery of the settlement payment from Westar to the Company on November 12, 2004.

 

In accordance with the Westar tax sharing settlement, Westar, among other things, paid the Company approximately $45.9 million in cash and transferred to the Company a portion of its 73/8% senior notes due 2005, with aggregate principal and accrued interest of approximately $27.1 million, that had been held by Westar.  The Company cancelled the 73/8% senior notes due 2005 that it received pursuant to the Westar tax sharing settlement, resulting in an approximately $26.6 million reduction in the principal amount of its indebtedness.  The Company used a portion of the proceeds from the Westar tax sharing settlement to make a $14.5 million principal payment and a $2.2 million interest payment on the Quadrangle credit facility, further reducing its outstanding indebtedness.  Quadrangle paid $32.5 million to Westar as additional consideration relating to the Westar sale transaction.

 

The tax sharing settlement also provided for a mutual general release, except with respect to (i) certain indemnification obligations pursuant to the purchase agreement between Quadrangle and Westar, (ii) security system service agreements under which the Company provides services to Westar and (iii) administrative service agreements between the Company and Westar.  In addition, Westar and POI Acquisition I, Inc. agreed to join in making Section 338(h)(10) elections under the Internal Revenue Code.  As part of the settlement, the parties mutually agreed to the purchase price allocation to be used for the election.

 

Stockholders Agreement and Composition of the Board of Directors.  In connection with the restructuring, the Company also entered into a stockholders agreement with Quadrangle.  The stockholders agreement contained certain agreements with respect to the Company’s corporate governance following the restructuring, including, but not limited to, the composition of its board of directors.  The parties to the stockholders agreement were generally required to use their reasonable best efforts to cause the board of directors to consist of five members immediately following the completion of the debt-for-equity exchange, comprised as follows:

 

·                  three members designated by Quadrangle (two directors designated by POI Acquisition, L.L.C. and one director designated by Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd);

·                  the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard Ginsburg; and

·                  one independent director selected by a majority of the other directors.

 

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In connection with the closing of the debt-for-equity exchange, the size of the Company’s board of directors was increased to four directors, and David Tanner, Steven Rattner and Michael Weinstock, managing principals of Quadrangle, were appointed to the board.  Ben M. Enis, a Company director since 1994, and James Q. Wilson, a Company director since 1996, resigned from the board to accommodate these additions.  The Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard Ginsburg, continues to serve as a director.  At the Company’s March 11, 2005 board meeting, Robert J. McGuire was appointed to the board as the independent director and was selected as chairman of the board’s audit committee.

 

In the event POI Acquisition, L.L.C. or its permitted transferees owns less than 25% of the Company’s common shares issued and outstanding as of the date of the restructuring, POI Acquisition, L.L.C. shall have the right to designate one director instead of two.  In the event either POI Acquisition, L.L.C. or Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd owns less than 10% of the Company’s common shares issued and outstanding as of the restructuring, such entity will lose the ability to designate a member to the Company’s board of directors.  If and for so long as POI Acquisition, L.L.C. owns at least 40% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, it shall have the right to elect to increase the size of the board by one director, which it shall be entitled to designate.

 

In accordance with the stockholders agreement, the Company amended its bylaws following the restructuring to prevent it from voluntarily filing for bankruptcy, merging or consolidating with another entity until February 8, 2007 or from selling all or substantially all of its assets without the written consent of Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd.  The stockholders agreement also includes voting agreements, certain restrictions on the transfer of the Company’s common stock, drag-along rights in favor of POI Acquisition, L.L.C. and tag-along rights in favor of Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd, all upon customary terms and subject to certain customary exceptions (including exceptions for certain transfers among affiliates).  In addition, the stockholders agreement provides the Quadrangle parties with the right to participate on a proportional basis in any future equity issuance by the Company, except for issuances pursuant to registered public offerings, business combination transactions or officer, employee, director or consultant arrangements.

 

Registration Rights Agreement.  As a condition to the consummation of the debt-for-equity exchange, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with POI Acquisition, L.L.C. and Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd.  The registration rights agreement provides, among other things, that the Company will register, upon notice, shares of its common stock owned by such parties.  Under the registration rights agreement, POI Acquisition, L.L.C. is permitted up to four demand registrations and Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd is permitted up to two demand registrations, subject to certain conditions described in the agreement.  POI Acquisition, L.L.C. and Quadrangle Master Funding Ltd also received piggyback registration rights whereby they shall have the opportunity to register their securities pursuant to any registration statement the Company may file in the future, subject to certain conditions.  The Company is also obligated to pay certain of their expenses pursuant to the registration of their securities under the registration rights agreement.

 

Repurchase of Outstanding 135/8% Senior Subordinated Discount Notes.  In connection with the restructuring and as required by the indenture governing the Company’s outstanding 135/8% senior subordinated discount notes due 2005, the Company  initiated a change of control repurchase offer at 101% for its approximately $29.9 million of outstanding 135/8% senior subordinated discount notes due 2005.  The Company completed the repurchase of all of these notes on March 11, 2005.  The Company recorded a loss in the first quarter of 2005 of approximately $0.6 million associated with the repurchase.

 

Refinancing Enabling Redemption of Outstanding 73/8% Senior Notes and Repayment of Quadrangle Credit Facility.  On April 18, 2005, the Company entered into a new credit agreement enabling it to, among other things, complete a redemption of its 73/8% senior notes due 2005 for approximately $166.3 million plus accrued interest (approximately $164.3 million aggregate principal amount outstanding) and the repayment of its Quadrangle credit facility (approximately $78.0 million aggregate principal amount outstanding).  The 73/8% senior notes due 2005 and the Quadrangle credit facility each had a maturity date of August 15, 2005.  The Company recorded a loss in the second quarter of 2005 of approximately $6.1 million associated with such redemption and repayment.  See “Refinancing” below for information regarding the new credit facility.

 

Payment of Transaction-Related Bonuses and Fees.  In order to retain the services of senior management and selected key employees who may have felt uncertain about the Company’s future ownership and direction due to the discussions with its creditors regarding the restructuring of its indebtedness, the Company’s board of directors authorized senior management in June 2004 to implement a new key employee retention plan.  The retention plan applied to approximately 30 senior managers and selected key employees and provided incentives for such individuals to remain with the Company through the restructuring.  These retention agreements superseded and replaced previous retention agreements which provided additional severance upon a change of control.   The aggregate payout under the plan was approximately $3.9 million, of which approximately $3.5 million was accrued for and approximately $0.7 million was paid as of December 31, 2004.  For the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 the Company accrued $0.4 million and paid $1.3 million and for the period February 9, 2005 through March 31, 2005 the Company  paid $1.9 million.  Approximately $0.9 million was accrued for the nine months ended September 30, 2004.

 

 

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 Upon the change of control on February 17, 2004, $11.0 million was paid to executive management, $3.5 million was paid to the financial advisor to the Company’s Special Committee of its board of directors and $1.6 million of expense was recorded for director and officer insurance that lapsed upon the change of control.  In addition to its own financial and legal advisors, the Company also agreed to pay the financial advisory and legal fees incurred on behalf of Quadrangle and certain holders of the Company’s publicly-held debt.  For the six months ended June 30, 2004 the Company incurred expenses relating to these advisors of approximately $3.8 million.  For the period from January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, the Company recorded expense of $5.9 million, including $5.6 million in fees paid on February 8, 2005 upon completion of the restructuring.

 

 

Management Incentive Plan; Retention Bonuses

 

As a condition to the completion of the debt-for-equity exchange, the Company implemented a management incentive plan that included an equity investment opportunity for its executive officers, stock appreciation rights (SARs) for its senior executive officers and a new stock option plan.

 

Equity Investment.  As part of the management incentive plan offered in connection with the restructuring, certain members of management invested an aggregate of $1.75 million and received an aggregate of 233,334 shares of common stock.  Messrs. Ginsburg, Nevin, Pefanis, Williams and Griffin invested $600,000, $500,000, $250,000, $225,000 and $50,000, respectively, and received 80,000, 66,667, 33,333, 30,000 and 6,667 shares of common stock, respectively.  The shares were purchased pursuant to a management shareholders’ agreement entered into among the Company, Quadrangle and the management stockholders.  The agreement contains tag-along, drag-along, piggyback registration rights and other provisions.

 

Stock Appreciation Rights Plan.  Pursuant to the management incentive plan, Messrs. Ginsburg, Nevin, Pefanis and Williams received an aggregate of approximately 798,473, 532,981, 465,111 and 199,618  SARs, respectively.  The SARs vest and become payable upon the earlier of (1) a qualified sale as defined in the SAR Plan, which generally means Quadrangle’s sale of at least 60% of its equity interest in the Company, provided that if the qualified sale is not a permissible distribution event (as defined in the SAR Plan) the payment will be made, with interest, in connection with a subsequent permissible distribution event, and (2) February 8, 2011.  The exercise price of the SARs is $4.50 and increases by 9% per annum, which is referred to as the fixed return, compounded annually, beginning on February 8, 2006.  If Quadrangle sells less than 60% of its equity interest in the Company, the exercise price applicable to an equivalent percentage of management’s SARs would be based on the fixed return through the date of such sale.  Each SAR that vests and becomes payable in connection with a qualified sale will generally entitle the holder of a SAR to receive the difference between the exercise price and the lesser of (1) the value of the consideration paid for one share of stock in such qualified sale, or the fair market value of one share of stock if the qualified sale is not a sale to a third party and (2) $7.50, provided that if a SAR holder’s right to receive stock is converted pursuant to the SAR Plan into a right to receive cash from a grantor trust that the Company may establish, the amount of cash payable will be credited with interest at 6% per annum, compounded annually, from the date such conversion is effective until the applicable payment date.  Because payment under the plan will only be made in the event of a qualified sale as defined in the SAR plan, no amounts have been accrued as of September 30, 2005.

 

2004 Stock Option Plan.  The 2004 Stock Option Plan became effective upon the consummation of the debt-for-equity exchange on February 8, 2005.  Under the 2004 Stock Option Plan, certain executive officers and selected management employees were granted options, which are subject to vesting, exercise and delivery restriction described below, to purchase an aggregate of 1,782,947 shares of common stock, including 621,035, 388,147, 388,147, 199,618 and 10,000 options that were granted to Messrs. Ginsburg, Nevin, Pefanis, Williams and Griffin, respectively.   The options initially granted under the plan will vest ratably each month during the 48 months after the date of grant, subject to accelerated vesting, in the case of certain senior executive officers, under certain circumstances following a qualified sale.  Under the option agreements applicable to the options granted, any shares of stock purchased through the exercise of options generally will be issued and delivered to the option holder, and any net payment that may be due to such holder in accordance with the plan, will be paid to such holder upon the earlier of: (1) specified dates following the occurrence of certain permissible distribution events (as defined in the SAR Plan) and (2) February 8, 2011, provided that if an option holder’s right to receive stock is converted pursuant to the plan into a right to receive cash, the amount of cash payable will be credited with interest at 6% per annum, compounded annually, from the date such conversion is effective until the applicable payment date.

 

Retention Bonus Program.  Included with the retention plan discussed above in “Restructuring - Payment of Transaction-Related Bonuses and Feesand pursuant to the terms of their new employment agreements, Messrs. Ginsburg, Nevin, Pefanis, Williams and Griffin were each entitled to receive two retention bonuses.  The Company accrued $1.9 million as general and administrative expense in 2004 and an additional $0.2 million of expense in January 2005 for these retention bonuses.  The first retention bonus was paid on January 5, 2005, and the second was paid in February 2005 upon the completion of the debt-for-equity exchange.  Each retention bonus payment was equal to a specified percentage of each executive officer’s annual base salary at the following rates:  Richard Ginsburg—75.0%, Darius G. Nevin—72.5%, Peter J. Pefanis—67.5%, Steve V. Williams—67.5%, and J. Eric Griffin—50.0%.

 

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Refinancing

 

New Credit Facility.  To facilitate the redemption of its 73/8% senior notes due 2005 and the repayment of its Quadrangle credit facility, the Company entered into a Credit Agreement, dated as of April 18, 2005 (the “bank credit agreement”), with the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time parties to the bank credit agreement.

 

The bank credit agreement provides for a $25.0 million revolving credit facility and a $250.0 million term loan facility.  The revolving credit facility matures in 2010 and the term loan matures in 2011, subject to earlier maturity if the Company does not refinance its 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 before July 2008.  The new revolving credit facility is undrawn as of

November 10, 2005.  The Company intends to use any other proceeds from borrowings under the bank credit agreement, from time to time, for working capital and general corporate purposes.  Letters of credit are also available to the Company under the bank credit agreement.

 

Pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, dated as of April 18, 2005 (the “Guarantee Agreement”), by the Company and its subsidiaries in favor of Bear Stearns Corporate Lending Inc., the new credit facilities are guaranteed by Protection One Systems, Inc., Protection One Data Services, Inc., Security Monitoring Services, Inc., Protection One Alarm Monitoring of Mass, Inc. and Network Multifamily Security Corporation (collectively with the Company, the “Guarantors”), the Company’s domestic subsidiaries, and secured by a perfected first priority security interest in substantially all of the Company’s and the Guarantors’ present and future assets.

 

Borrowings under the bank credit agreement bear interest at a rate calculated according to a base rate or a Eurodollar rate, at the Company’s discretion, plus an applicable margin.  The applicable margin with respect to the term loan is 2.0% for a base rate borrowing and 3.0% for a Eurodollar borrowing.  Depending on the Company’s leverage ratio at the time of borrowing, the applicable margin with respect to a revolving loan may range from 1.25% to 2.25% for a base rate borrowing and 2.25% to 3.25% for a Eurodollar borrowing.

 

The bank credit agreement required the Company to enter into a hedge agreement to provide interest rate protection on at least $70.0 million of the term loans for not less than two years.  To satisfy this requirement and to further limit its exposure to interest rate risk on the variable rate bank credit facility, the Company entered into two separate interest rate cap agreements in May 2005 for a one-time aggregate cost of approximately $0.9 million.  The Company’s objective is to protect against increases in interest expense caused by fluctuation in the LIBOR interest rate.  One interest rate cap provides protection on $75 million of our long term debt over a five-year period if LIBOR exceeds 6%.  A second interest rate cap provides protection on $75 million of our long term debt over a three-year period if LIBOR exceeds 5%.

 

The unamortized costs of the cap agreements are included in other assets.  The Company will amortize the costs of the interest rate caps to interest expense over the respective lives of the agreements.  The difference between fair market value and carrying value of the interest rate caps is reported in other comprehensive income.

 

Corporate Consolidation

 

In August 2005, the Company began efforts to consolidate management and other functions with its Network Multifamily subsidiary.   Approximately twenty-five positions were eliminated, including the President, Senior Vice President-Sales, Senior Vice President-Legal and Vice President-Finance.  In the third quarter of 2005, Network Multifamily accrued and paid approximately $1.9 million in severance and short term incentive payments.  Additional position eliminations are expected during the fourth quarter with anticipated severance and retention costs of approximately $0.5 million.

 

In addition, Network Multifamily has completed a conversion of its billing system to Mastermind, which is the billing system used by Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc.  Network Multifamily is in the process of converting its general ledger, inventory management, accounts payable and payroll software to Lawson,  which is the same software currently used by Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc.   The anticipated conversion date is December 31, 2005.

 

3.     Intangible Assets:

 

As discussed in Note 1, “Basis of Consolidation and Interim Financial Information,” because Quadrangle acquired substantially all of the Company’s common stock, resulting in a new basis of accounting, new values for intangible assets were recorded in the first quarter of 2005.  The following reflects the Company’s carrying value in customer accounts as of the following periods (dollar amounts in thousands):

 

 

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Protection One Monitoring

 

Network Multifamily

 

Total Company

 

 

 

9/30/2005

 

 

12/31/2004

 

 

9/30/2005

 

 

12/31/2004

 

9/30/2005

 

12/31/2004

 

Customer accounts

 

$

260,319

 

 

$

646,229

 

 

$

51,872

 

 

$

34,691

 

$

312,191

 

 

$

680,920

 

Accumulated Amortization

 

$

(60,850

)

 

$

(478,856

)

 

$

(9,379

)

 

$

(25,909

)

$

(70,229

)

 

$

(504,765

)

Customer accounts, net

 

$

199,469

 

 

$

167,373

 

 

$

42,493

 

 

$

8,782

 

$

241,962

 

 

$

176,155

 

 

Amortization expense was $23.4 million for the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, $5.6 million for the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 and $9.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2005.  Amortization expense was $51.4 million and $17.1 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004, respectively.  The table below reflects the estimated aggregate customer account amortization expense for the remainder of 2005 and each of the four succeeding fiscal years on the existing customer account base as of September 30, 2005:

 

 

 

2005

 

2006

 

2007

 

2008

 

2009

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Estimated amortization expense

 

$

9,087

 

$

32,528

 

$

29,687

 

$

28,726

 

$

28,301

 

 

The new basis of accounting also resulted in new recorded values for trade names and for goodwill in the first quarter of 2005 for both segments.  Neither of these intangible assets is amortizable and they are therefore subject to annual impairment testing.  The Company completed its annual impairment testing during the third quarter of 2005 and determined that no impairment of its non-amortizable intangible assets was required as of July 1, 2005.  The Company also determined that no impairment was required due to the impact of Hurricane Katrina.  The following table reflects these amounts as of the following periods (dollar amounts in thousands):

 

 

 

Protection One Monitoring

 

Network Multifamily

 

Total Company

 

 

 

9/30/2005

 

 

12/31/2004

 

9/30/2005

 

 

12/31/2004

 

9/30/2005

 

 

12/31/2004

 

Trade name

 

$

22,987

 

 

$

 

$

2,825

 

 

$

 

$

25,812

 

 

$

 

Goodwill

 

$

7,430

 

 

$

 

$

4,730

 

 

$

41,847

 

$

12,160

 

 

$

41,847

 

 

4.    Property and Equipment:

 

As discussed in Note 1, “Basis of Consolidation and Interim Financial Information,” because Quadrangle acquired substantially all of the Company’s common stock, resulting in a new basis of accounting, new values for fixed assets were recorded as of February 8, 2005.  The following reflects the Company’s carrying value in property and equipment as of the following periods (dollar amounts in thousands):

 

 

 

 

September 30,
2005

 

 

December 31,
2004

 

Furniture, fixtures and equipment

 

$

3,831

 

 

$

8,112

 

Data processing and telecommunication

 

23,067

 

 

75,474

 

Leasehold improvements

 

2,231

 

 

3,819

 

Vehicles

 

8,958

 

 

14,501

 

Buildings and other

 

5,415

 

 

6,188

 

 

 

43,502

 

 

108,094

 

Less accumulated depreciation

 

(23,374

)

 

(76,942

)

Property and equipment, net

 

$

20,128

 

 

$

31,152

 

 

 

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Depreciation expense was $9.5 million for the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, $1.0 million for the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 and $3.8 million for the three months ended September 30, 2005.  Depreciation expense was $7.4 million and $2.4 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004, respectively.

 

5.     Debt:

 

Long-term debt and the fixed or weighted average interest rates are as follows (dollar amounts in thousands):

 

 

 

September 30,

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

Quadrangle Credit Facility (a)

 

$

 

 

$

201,000

 

Senior Subordinated Notes, maturing January 2009, fixed
8.125% (b)

 

88,588

 

 

110,340

 

Senior Notes (b)

 

 

 

164,285

 

Senior Subordinated Discount Notes (c)

 

 

 

30,132

 

Bank Credit Facility (d)

 

234,411

 

 

 

 

 

322,999

 

 

505,757

 

Less current portion (e)

 

(2,356

)

 

(395,417

)

Total long-term debt

 

$

320,643

 

 

$

110,340

 


(a)  The weighted-average annual interest rate before fees on borrowings at December 31, 2004 was 9.0%.  The Quadrangle credit facility was repaid in April 2005 as part of the refinancing described in Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation.”

(b)         See “Valuation of Debt” below regarding the discount amount associated with the debt instruments.  The stated interest rate on the Senior Notes on December 31, 2004 was 7.375%.  The effective rate to the Company due to the accretion of debt discounts is approximately 15.9% on the Senior Subordinated Notes and was approximately 13.2% on the Senior Notes. All outstanding Senior Notes were redeemed in April 2005 as part of the refinancing described in Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation.”

(c)          All outstanding Senior Subordinated Discount Notes were repurchased at 101% in March 2005 pursuant to a change of control repurchase offer.  At December 31, 2004, the carrying value of the notes included an unamortized premium of approximately $0.3 million.

(d)         At September 30, 2005, the weighted average annual interest rate before fees was 6.8%.  See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for additional discussion regarding the maturity date, variable interest rate and applicable margins.  The bank credit facility is secured by substantially all assets of the Company.

(e)          The Bank Credit Facility requires quarterly principal reduction payments of approximately $0.6 million.

 

Valuation of Debt

 

As discussed in Note 1, “Basis of Consolidation and Interim Financial Information,” because Quadrangle acquired substantially all of the Company’s common stock, resulting in a new basis of accounting, new values for the Company’s debt instruments were determined based on estimated fair market values.  As of September 30, 2005, the unamortized discount on the 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 was $21.8 million.

 

Refinancing

 

On April 18, 2005, the Company entered into a new credit agreement enabling it to complete a redemption of its 73/8% senior notes due 2005 for approximately $166.3 million plus accrued interest (approximately $164.3 million aggregate principal amount outstanding) and the repayment of its Quadrangle credit facility (approximately $78.0 million aggregate principal amount outstanding).  The 73/8% senior notes due 2005 and the Quadrangle credit facility each had a maturity date of August 15, 2005.  The Company recorded a loss in the second quarter of 2005 of approximately $6.1 million associated with such redemption and repayment.  See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for information related to these transactions.

 

Debt Covenants

 

The indenture relating to the Company’s 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 and the bank credit facility contain certain covenants and restrictions, including with respect to the Company’s ability to incur debt and pay dividends, based on earnings before

 

 

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interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or EBITDA.  The definition of EBITDA varies between the indenture and the bank credit facility.  EBITDA is generally derived by adding to income (loss) before income taxes, the sum of interest expense and depreciation and amortization expense, including amortization of deferred customer acquisition costs and deducting amortization of deferred revenues.  However, under the varying definitions, additional adjustments are sometimes required.

 

The Company’s bank credit facility and the indenture relating to its 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 contain the financial covenants and current tests, respectively, summarized below:

 

Debt Instrument

 

Financial Covenant and Current Test

Bank Credit Facility

 

Consolidated total debt on last day of period/ consolidated EBITDA for most recent four fiscal quarters—less than 5.25 to 1.0; and Consolidated EBITDA for most recent four fiscal quarters/consolidated interest expense for most recent four fiscal quarters—greater than 2.35 to 1.0

81/8% Senior Subordinated Notes

 

Current fiscal quarter EBITDA/current fiscal quarter interest expense—greater than 2.25 to 1.0

 

At September 30, 2005, the Company was in compliance with these financial covenants and tests.

 

6.     Related Party Transactions:

 

Administrative Services and Management Services Agreements

 

Westar Energy provided administrative services at its fully loaded cost to the Company pursuant to an agreement which is referred to as the administrative services agreement, that includes accounting, tax, audit, human resources, legal, purchasing and facilities services.  The agreement terminated effective February 17, 2005.  The Company expensed approximately $0.1 million for the period February 9, 2005 through February 17, 2005 and $0.1 million for the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005.  The Company recorded expense of approximately $2.6 million and $0.8 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004, respectively, and had a net balance due to Westar Energy of $0.4 million at December 31, 2004, for these services.  Prior to relocation of corporate headquarters on November 18, 2004, the Company rented office space for its corporate headquarters from Westar on a month-to-month basis.  The Company paid approximately $0.4 million and $0.1 million for rent for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004, respectively.

 

Westar Energy has claimed that the Company should reimburse Westar Energy for as much as $1.2 million for an allocation of the costs incurred by Westar in the development of the application systems shared with the Company under the administrative service agreement.  See Note 7, “Commitments and Contingencies—Administrative Services Agreement,” for further discussion related to the claim.

 

Credit Facility

 

The Company had outstanding borrowings under the credit facility with Quadrangle of $201.0 million at December 31, 2004.  The Quadrangle credit facility, with a principal balance of $78 million, was repaid in full on April 18, 2005 in connection with the consummation of the bank credit agreement.  The following table indicates the amount of interest accrued and paid on the Quadrangle credit facility for the periods listed (dollar amounts in millions).

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

Three Months Ended
September 30

 

Nine Months Ended
September 30

 

Three Months Ended
September 30

 

Interest Accrued

 

$

1.5

 

$

1.9

 

 

$

12.7

 

$

4.4

 

Interest Paid

 

$

1.5

 

$

1.9

 

 

$

12.7

 

$

8.6

 

 

The Company also paid Quadrangle a one-time fee of $1.15 million upon consummation of the debt-for-equity exchange in connection with the amendment to the credit facility.  See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for information related to the refinancing of the Quadrangle credit facility and other related party transactions.

 

 

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Quadrangle Debt Restructuring Reimbursement

 

In addition to interest accrued and paid under the Quadrangle credit facility, discussed above, the Company expensed $0.2 million for legal expenses incurred by Quadrangle for the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005.  Pursuant to contractual requirements, the Company also paid the costs for the financial and legal advisors for both the senior and subordinated debt holders relating to the restructuring of the Company’s indebtedness.  See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for information relating to the debt restructuring.

 

Quadrangle Management Agreements

 

On April 18, 2005, the Company entered into management agreements with each of Quadrangle Advisors LLC (“QA”) and Quadrangle Debt Recovery Advisors LLC (“QDRA,” and together with QA, the “Advisors”), pursuant to which the Advisors, affiliates of Quadrangle, will provide business and financial advisory and consulting services to the Company in exchange for annual fees of $1.0 million (in the case of QA) and $0.5 million (in the case of QDRA), payable in advance in quarterly installments.  The Quadrangle management agreements also provide that when and if the Advisors advise or consult with the Company’s board of directors or senior executive officers with respect to an acquisition by the Company, divesture (if the Company does not engage a financial advisor with respect to such divesture) or financing transaction, they may also invoice the Company for, and the Company shall pay, additional fees in connection with any such transaction in an amount not to exceed 0.667% (in the case of QA) and 0.333% (in the case of QDRA) of the aggregate value of such transaction.  The Quadrangle management agreements are effective as of February 8, 2005 and shall continue in effect from year to year unless amended or terminated by mutual consent of the parties, subject to automatic termination in certain specified situations and subject to termination at any time upon ninety days notice by either party.  For the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, and the three months ended September 30, 2005, approximately $1.0 million and $0.4 million, respectively, was expensed related to these agreements.

 

7.     Commitments and Contingencies:

 

Dealer Litigation

 

The company is a defendant in an arbitration proceeding brought by Ira Beer, the owner of two former Protection One dealers,  Security Response Network and Homesafe Security, Inc.  Mr. Beer alleges breach of contract, improper calculation of holdback amounts, and other causes of action.  Discovery is ongoing in this matter.

 

Other Protection One dealers have threatened, and may bring, claims against the Company based upon a variety of theories surrounding calculations of holdbacks and other payments, or based on other theories of liability.  The Company believes that it has materially complied with the terms of its contracts with its dealers.  In the opinion of management, none of these pending or threatened dealer claims, either alone or in the aggregate, will have a material adverse effect upon the Company’s consolidated financial position or results of operations.

 

Milstein Litigation

 

On May 20, 2003, Joseph G. Milstein filed a putative class action suit against the Company in Los Angeles Superior Court (Milstein v.  Protection One Alarm Services, Inc., John Does 1-100, including Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc., Case No.  BC296025), which was subsequently referred to arbitration in accordance with the terms of the customer contract.  The parties mutually agreed to settle the claims underlying the dispute, and on September 20, 2005, the Court entered an order dismissing the lawsuit with prejudice.

 

General Claims and Disputes

 

The Company is a party to claims and matters of litigation incidental to the normal course of its business.  Additionally, the Company receives notices of consumer complaints filed with various state agencies.  The Company has developed a dispute resolution process for addressing these administrative complaints.  The ultimate outcome of such matters cannot presently be determined; however, in the opinion of management, the resolution of such matters will not have a material adverse effect upon the Company’s consolidated financial position or results of operations.

 

Administrative Services Agreement

 

Westar Energy, the Company’s former majority stockholder, has claimed that the Company is obligated to reimburse Westar Energy for as much as $1.2 million for an allocation of the costs incurred by Westar in the development of the application systems

 

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shared with the Company under the administrative services agreement.   The Company disputes these claims.  In the opinion of management, this matter will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position or results of operations.

 

Tax Sharing Agreement

 

The Company is potentially entitled to certain contingent payments, depending on whether Westar claims and receives certain additional tax benefits in the future with respect to the February 17, 2004 sale transaction.  While these potential contingent payments, if any, could be significant, the Company is unable to determine at this time whether Westar will claim any such benefits or, if Westar were to claim any such benefits, the amount of the benefits that Westar would claim or when or whether Westar would actually receive any such benefits.  Due to this uncertainty, the Company has not recorded any tax benefit with respect to any such potential contingent payments.

 

8.     Segment Reporting:

 

The Company’s operating segments are defined as components for which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker.  The operating segments are managed separately because each operating segment represents a strategic business unit that serves different markets.

 

Protection One’s reportable segments include Protection One Monitoring and Network Multifamily.  Protection One Monitoring provides residential, commercial and wholesale security alarm monitoring services, which include sales, installation and related servicing of security alarm systems for residential and business customers in the United States of America.  Network Multifamily provides security alarm services to apartments, condominiums and other multi-family dwellings.

 

The accounting policies of the operating segments are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, as amended.  The Company manages its business segments based on earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation, amortization (including amortization of deferred customer acquisition costs and revenues) and other items, referred to as Adjusted EBITDA.

 

 

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Reportable segments (dollar amounts in thousands):

 

 

 

 

2005

 

 

 

Protection One Monitoring(1)

 

Network Multifamily(2)

 

Adjustments(3)

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

Revenues

 

$

145,168

 

 

$

24,480

 

$

22,807

 

 

$

4,063

 

$

 

 

$

167,975

 

 

$

28,543

 

Adjusted EBITDA(4)

 

44,840

 

 

7,228

 

10,211

 

 

1,780

 

 

 

55,051

 

 

9,008

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

28,755

 

 

6,112

 

4,167

 

 

526

 

 

 

32,922

 

 

6,638

 

Amortization of deferred costs in excess of amortization of deferred revenues

 

5,081

 

 

2,239

 

379

 

 

598

 

 

 

5,460

 

 

2,837

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

5,939

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5,939

 

Corporate consolidation costs

 

 

 

 

1,866

 

 

 

 

 

1,866

 

 

 

Key employee retention plan expense

 

 

 

354

 

 

 

81

 

 

 

 

 

435

 

Corporate consolidation retention costs

 

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

 

 

13

 

 

 

Segment assets

 

431,544

 

 

 

64,990

 

 

 

(70,364

)

426,170

 

 

 

Expenditures for property

 

3,138

 

 

249

 

90

 

 

1

 

 

 

3,228

 

 

250

 

Investment in new accounts, net

 

15,405

 

 

1,902

 

1,067

 

 

325

 

 

 

16,472

 

 

2,227

 

 

 

 

 

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2004

 

 

 

Protection One Monitoring(1)

 

Network Multifamily(2)

 

Adjustments(3)

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

(dollars amounts in thousands)

 

Revenues

 

$

173,512

 

$

28,421

 

$

 

$

201,933

 

Adjusted EBITDA(4)

 

54,191

 

12,352

 

 

 

66,543

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

55,203

 

3,678

 

 

 

58,881

 

Amortization of deferred costs in excess of amortization of deferred revenues

 

11,997

 

3,570

 

 

 

15,567

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

20,503

 

1,543

 

 

 

22,046

 

Key employee retention plan expense

 

779

 

137

 

 

 

916

 

Segment assets

 

456,522

 

84,739

 

(66,243

)

475,018

 

Expenditures for property

 

4,498

 

328

 

 

 

4,826

 

Investment in new accounts, net

 

13,705

 

2,380

 

 

 

16,085

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended September 30, 2005

 

 

 

Protection One Monitoring(1)

 

Network Multifamily(2)

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

(dollars amounts in thousands)

 

Revenues

 

$

56,844

 

$

8,779

 

$

65,623

 

Adjusted EBITDA(4)

 

17,453

 

4,072

 

21,525

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

11,227

 

1,616

 

12,843

 

Amortization of deferred costs in excess of amortization of deferred revenues

 

2,379

 

165

 

2,544

 

Corporate consolidation costs

 

 

1,866

 

1,866

 

Corporate consolidation retention costs

 

 

13

 

13

 

Expenditures for property

 

1,958

 

43

 

2,001

 

Investment in new accounts, net

 

 

6,567

 

508

 

7,075

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended September 30, 2004

 

 

 

Protection One Monitoring(1)

 

Network Multifamily(2)

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

(dollars amounts in thousands)

 

Revenues

 

$

57,647

 

$

9,881

 

$

67,528

 

Adjusted EBITDA(4)

 

18,411

 

4,509

 

22,920

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

18,333

 

1,213

 

19,546

 

Amortization of deferred costs in excess of amortization of deferred revenues

 

4,379

 

1,252

 

5,631

 

Change in control and debt restructuring costs

 

2,109

 

 

2,109

 

Key employee retention plan expense

 

779

 

137

 

916

 

Expenditures for property

 

1,934

 

63

 

1,997

 

Investment in new accounts, net

 

4,929

 

725

 

5,654

 

 

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(1) Includes allocation of holding company expenses reducing Adjusted EBITDA by $0.3 million, $2.6 million and $0.8 million for the periods January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 and for the three months ended September 30, 2005, respectively.  Includes allocation of holding company expenses reducing Adjusted EBITDA by $2.4 million and $0.8 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004, respectively.

 

(2) Includes allocation of holding company expenses reducing Adjusted EBITDA by $0.1 million, $0.6 million and $0.2 million for the periods January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 and for the three months ended September 30, 2005, respectively.  Includes allocation of holding company expenses reducing Adjusted EBITDA by $0.6 million and $0.2 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004, respectively.

 

(3) Adjustment to eliminate intersegment accounts receivable.

 

(4) Adjusted EBITDA is used by management in evaluating segment performance and allocating resources, and management believes it is used by many analysts following the security industry.  This information should not be considered as an alternative to any measure of performance as promulgated under GAAP, such as income (loss) before income taxes or cash flow from operations.  Items excluded from Adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing the consolidated financial performance of the Company.  The Company’s calculation of Adjusted EBITDA may be different from the calculation used by other companies and comparability may be limited. Management believes that presentation of a non-GAAP financial measure such as Adjusted EBITDA is useful because it allows investors and management to evaluate and compare the Company’s operating results from period to period in a meaningful and consistent manner in addition to standard GAAP financial measures.  See the table below for the reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to consolidated income (loss) before income taxes.

 

 

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

Nine Months Ended
September 30

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Loss before income taxes

 

$

(14,102

)

 

$

(11,370

)

$

(64,187

)

Plus:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

 

22,863

 

 

4,544

 

33,420

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

32,922

 

 

6,638

 

58,881

 

Amortization of deferred costs in excess of amortization of deferred revenues

 

5,460

 

 

2,837

 

15,567

 

Change in control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

5,939

 

22,046

 

Key employee retention plan expense (a)

 

 

 

435

 

916

 

Corporate consolidation severance payments (b)

 

1,866

 

 

 

 

Corporate consolidation retention costs (c)

 

13

 

 

 

 

Loss on retirement of debt

 

6,657

 

 

 

 

Less:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income

 

(628

)

 

(15

)

(100

)

Adjusted EBITDA

 

$

55,051

 

 

$

9,008

 

$

66,543

 


(a)                See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for additional information regarding retention agreements related to debt restructuring.  The cost of these agreements is recorded in general and administrative expense.

(b)               Network Multifamily severance payments related to corporate consolidation.   See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for additional information.

(c)                Network Multifamily has entered into agreements with selected individuals to retain their services until corporate consolidation and system conversion activities have been completed.  The cost of these agreements is recorded in general and administrative expense.

 

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Consolidated

 

 

 

Three Months Ended September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Loss before income taxes

 

$

(3,163

)

 

$

(16,567

)

Plus:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense

 

7,500

 

 

11,302

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

12,843

 

 

19,546

 

Amortization of deferred costs in excess of amortization of deferred revenues

 

2,544

 

 

5,631

 

Change in control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

2,109

 

Key employee retention plan expense (a)

 

 

 

916

 

Corporate consolidation severance payments (b)

 

1,866

 

 

 

Corporate consolidation retention costs (c)

 

13

 

 

 

Less:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other income

 

(78

)

 

(17

)

Adjusted EBITDA

 

$

21,525

 

 

$

22,920

 


(a)   See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for additional information regarding retention agreements related to debt restructuring.  The cost of these agreements is recorded in general and administrative expense.

(b)   Network Multifamily severance payments related to corporate consolidation.   See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for additional information.

(c)   Network Multifamily has entered into agreements with selected individuals to retain their services until corporate consolidation and system conversion activities have been completed.  The cost of these agreements is recorded in general and administrative expense.

 

9.     Income Taxes:

 

For the period February 9 through September 30, 2005, the Company recorded net tax expense related to state income taxes of approximately $0.3 million, including $0.1 million for the three months ended September 30, 2005.  For the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004, the Company recorded a tax benefit of $18.8 million and $5.6 million, respectively, and tax expense primarily to record a valuation allowance on its deferred tax assets of $297.3 million and $5.7 million, respectively.  Net income tax expense was $278.5 million and $0.1 million for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004, respectively.

 

Management believes the Company’s net deferred tax assets, including those related to net operating losses, are not likely realizable and therefore its deferred tax assets are fully reserved.  In assessing whether deferred taxes are realizable, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all deferred tax assets will be realized.  The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible.  Management considers the projected future taxable income and tax planning strategies in making this assessment.

 

10.  Management’s Plan:

 

During most of 2004, the Company faced liquidity problems caused by continuing net losses, the impact of the change of control on the Company’s cash flow from operations and a significant debt burden.  During the fourth quarter of 2004, the Company improved its capital structure through a tax sharing settlement with Westar and Quadrangle.  The Company also completed a debt-for-equity exchange with Quadrangle and extended the maturity of the Quadrangle credit facility on February 8, 2005.  The Company has reduced the face amount of its outstanding debt to $344.8 million at September 30, 2005 from $505.5 million at December 31, 2004 and has extended the maturities on its debt that had a 2005 maturity date.  See Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation,” for additional information.

 

The Company’s overall goal is to strengthen its leadership position in delivering security monitoring services and related installation services in principal markets across the United States in order to improve returns on the capital it invests creating and serving customers.  Specific goals include (i) increasing RMR additions; (ii) increasing the efficiency of monitoring and service activities; (iii) lowering attrition rates; and (iv) reducing acquisition costs for each dollar of recurring monthly revenue (“RMR”) created.  The Company plans to achieve these objectives by building upon its core strengths, including its national branch platform, its improving brand recognition, its internal sales force model and its highly skilled and experienced management team and workforce.

 

 

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11.       Summarized Combined Financial Information of the Subsidiary Guarantors of Debt

 

Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, has debt securities outstanding (see Note 2, “Restructuring, Management Incentive Plan, Refinancing and Corporate Consolidation — Refinancing” and Note 5, “Debt”) that are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Protection One, Inc. and wholly owned subsidiaries of Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc.  The following tables present condensed consolidating financial information for Protection One, Inc., Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc., and all other subsidiaries.  Condensed financial information for Protection One, Inc. and Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc. on a stand-alone basis is presented using the equity method of accounting for subsidiaries in which they own or control twenty percent or more of the voting shares.

 

 

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Condensed Consolidating Statement of Operations

For the Period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

 

$

128,578

 

$

29,565

 

$

 

$

158,143

 

Other

 

 

9,771

 

61

 

 

9,832

 

Total revenues

 

 

138,349

 

29,626

 

 

167,975

 

Cost of revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

 

36,796

 

7,705

 

 

44,501

 

Other

 

 

12,243

 

466

 

 

12,709

 

Total cost of revenues

 

 

49,039

 

8,171

 

 

57,210

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling

 

 

18,040

 

1,611

 

 

19,651

 

General and administrative

 

3,391

 

31,670

 

6,475

 

 

41,536

 

Corporate consolidation costs

 

 

 

1,866

 

 

1,866

 

Amortization and depreciation

 

3

 

28,171

 

4,748

 

 

32,922

 

Holding company allocation

 

(3,172

)

2,538

 

634

 

 

 

Corporate overhead allocation

 

 

(655

)

655

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

 

222

 

79,764

 

15,989

 

 

95,975

 

Operating income (loss)

 

(222

)

9,546

 

5,466

 

 

14,790

 

Other income (expense)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income (expense)

 

 

(20,917

)

5

 

 

(20,912

)

Related party interest

 

 

(1,951

)

 

 

(1,951

)

Loss on retirement of debt

 

 

(6,657

)

 

 

(6,657

)

Other

 

 

663

 

(35

)

 

628

 

Equity earnings (loss) in subsidiary

 

(14,196

)

5,120

 

 

9,076

 

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

 

(14,418

)

(14,196

)

5,436

 

9,076

 

(14,102

)

Income tax expense

 

 

 

(316

)

 

 

(316

)

Net income (loss)

 

$

(14,418

)

$

(14,196

)

$

5,120

 

$

9,076

 

$

(14,418

)

 

 

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Condensed Consolidating Statement of Operations

For the Period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

 

$

21,455

 

$

5,000

 

$

 

$

26,455

 

Other

 

 

1,916

 

172

 

 

2,088

 

Total revenues

 

 

23,371

 

5,172

 

 

28,543

 

Cost of revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

 

6,151

 

1,249

 

 

7,400

 

Other

 

 

2,571

 

743

 

 

3,314

 

Total cost of revenues

 

 

8,722

 

1,992

 

 

10,714

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling

 

 

3,699

 

290

 

 

3,989

 

General and administrative

 

792

 

6,054

 

1,258

 

 

8,104

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

5,939

 

 

 

 

5,939

 

Amortization and depreciation

 

 

6,058

 

580

 

 

6,638

 

Holding company allocation

 

(437

)

350

 

87

 

 

 

Corporate overhead allocation

 

 

(110

)

110

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

 

6,294

 

16,051

 

2,325

 

 

24,670

 

Operating income (loss)

 

(6,294

)

(1,402

)

855

 

 

(6,841

)

Other income (expense)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense (b)

 

 

(2,499

)

(103

)

 

(2,602

)

Related party interest

 

 

(1,942

)

 

 

(1,942

)

Other

 

 

15

 

 

 

15

 

Equity earnings (loss) in subsidiary

 

(5,111

)

717

 

 

4,394

 

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

 

(11,405

)

(5,111

)

752

 

4,394

 

(11,370

)

Income tax expense

 

 

 

(35

)

 

(35

)

Net income (loss)

 

$

(11,405

)

$

(5,111

)

$

717

 

$

4,394

 

$

(11,405

)


(b)  Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc. allocated $103 of its interest expense to Network Multifamily

 

 

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Condensed Consolidating Statement of Operations

For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2005

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

 

$

50,066

 

$

11,453

 

$

 

$

61,519

 

Other

 

 

4,078

 

26

 

 

4,104

 

Total revenues

 

 

54,144

 

11,479

 

 

65,623

 

Cost of revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

 

14,418

 

3,188

 

 

17,606

 

Other

 

 

4,851

 

198

 

 

5,049

 

Total cost of revenues

 

 

19,269

 

3,386

 

 

22,655

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling

 

 

7,648

 

580

 

 

8,228

 

General and administrative

 

1,088

 

12,431

 

2,253

 

 

15,772

 

Corporate consolidation costs

 

 

 

1,866

 

 

1,866

 

Amortization and depreciation

 

1

 

10,999

 

1,843

 

 

12,843

 

Holding company allocation

 

(1,088

)

871

 

217

 

 

 

Corporate overhead allocation

 

 

(247

)

247

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

 

1

 

31,702

 

7,006

 

 

38,709

 

Operating income (loss)

 

(1

)

3,173

 

1,087

 

 

4,259

 

Other income (expense)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income (expense)

 

 

(7,502

)

2

 

 

(7,500

)

Other

 

 

77

 

1

 

 

78

 

Equity earnings (loss) in subsidiary

 

(3,284

)

975

 

 

2,309

 

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

 

(3,285

)

(3,277

)

1,090

 

2,309

 

(3,163

)

Income tax expense

 

 

(7

)

(115

)

 

(122

)

Net income (loss)

 

$

(3,285

)

$

(3,284

)

$

975

 

$

2,309

 

$

(3,285

)

 

 

26



 

 

Condensed Consolidating Statement of Operations

For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2004

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors (a)

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

 

$

151,173

 

$

34,801

 

$

 

$

185,974

 

Other

 

 

14,690

 

1,269

 

 

15,959

 

Total revenues

 

 

165,863

 

36,070

 

 

201,933

 

Cost of revenues

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

 

43,002

 

9,250

 

 

52,252

 

Other

 

 

18,460

 

4,625

 

 

23,085

 

Total cost of revenues

 

 

61,462

 

13,875

 

 

75,337

 

Operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling

 

 

21,963

 

2,084

 

 

24,047

 

General and administrative

 

3,787

 

41,000

 

7,702

 

 

52,489

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

18,850

 

1,654

 

1,542

 

 

22,046

 

Amortization and depreciation

 

1

 

54,816

 

4,064

 

 

58,881

 

Holding company allocation

 

(3,008

)

2,407

 

601

 

 

 

Corporate overhead allocation

 

 

(848

)

848

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

 

19,630

 

120,992

 

16,841

 

 

157,463

 

Operating income (loss)

 

(19,630

)

(16,591

)

5,354

 

 

(30,867

)

Other income (expense)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense (b)

 

 

(16,902

)

(3,119

)

 

(20,021

)

Related party interest

 

 

(13,399

)

 

 

(13,399

)

Other

 

 

100

 

 

 

100

 

Equity loss in subsidiary

 

(324,873

)

(1,242

)

 

326,115

 

 

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

 

(344,503

)

(48,034

)

2,235

 

326,115

 

(64,187

)

Income tax (expense) benefit

 

1,852

 

(276,839

)

(3,477

)

 

(278,464

)

Net loss

 

$

(342,651

)

$

(324,873

)

$

(1,242

)

$

326,115

 

$

(342,651

)


(a) Includes Protection One Data Services, Inc. and Security Monitoring Service, Inc., which became subsidiary guarantors in connection with the April 18, 2005 bank credit facility.

(b) Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc. allocated $3,121 of its interest expense to Network Multifamily.

 

 

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Condensed Consolidating Statement of Operations

For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2004

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors (a)

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

 

$

50,192

 

$

12,080

 

$

 

$

62,272

 

Other

 

 

4,855

 

401

 

 

5,256

 

Total revenues

 

 

55,047

 

12,481

 

 

67,528

 

Cost of revenues

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

 

14,659

 

3,259

 

 

17,918

 

Other

 

 

6,289

 

1,580

 

 

7,869

 

Total cost of revenues

 

 

20,948

 

4,839

 

 

25,787

 

Operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling

 

 

7,826

 

660

 

 

8,486

 

General and administrative

 

1,751

 

12,452

 

2,679

 

 

16,882

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

2,109

 

 

 

 

2,109

 

Amortization and depreciation

 

 

18,207

 

1,339

 

 

19,546

 

Holding company allocation

 

(972

)

777

 

195

 

 

 

Corporate overhead allocation

 

 

(291

)

291

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

 

2,888

 

38,971

 

5,164

 

 

47,023

 

Operating income (loss)

 

(2,888

)

(4,872

)

2,478

 

 

(5,282

)

Other income (expense)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest expense (b)

 

 

(5,921

)

(813

)

 

(6,734

)

Related party interest

 

 

(4,568

)

 

 

(4,568

)

Other

 

 

17

 

 

 

17

 

Equity loss in subsidiary

 

(14,417

)

617

 

 

13,800

 

 

Loss from continuing operations before income taxes

 

(17,305

)

(14,727

)

1,665

 

13,800

 

(16,567

)

Income tax (expense) benefit

 

653

 

310

 

(1,048

)

 

(85

)

Net loss

 

$

(16,652

)

$

(14,417

)

$

617

 

$

13,800

 

$

(16,652

)


(a) Includes Protection One Data Services, Inc. and Security Monitoring Services, Inc., which became subsidiary guarantors in connection with the April 18, 2005 bank credit facility.

(b) Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc. allocated $814 of its interest expense to Network Multifamily.

 

 

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Consolidating Statement of Assets and Liabilities (Deficiency in Assets)

September 30, 2005

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection One
Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

 

$

14,271

 

$

319

 

$

 

$

14,590

 

Restricted cash

 

 

569

 

 

 

569

 

Receivables, net

 

 

20,993

 

5,174

 

 

26,167

 

Inventories, net

 

 

2,829

 

1,950

 

 

4,779

 

Prepaid expenses

 

(8

)

2,059

 

679

 

 

2,730

 

Other miscellaneous receivables

 

 

45

 

 

 

45

 

Other

 

 

2,854

 

12

 

 

2,866

 

Total current assets

 

(8

)

43,620

 

8,134

 

 

51,746

 

Property and equipment, net

 

11

 

18,260

 

1,857

 

 

20,128

 

Restricted cash, net of current portion

 

 

1,567

 

 

 

1,567

 

Customer accounts, net

 

 

195,047

 

46,915

 

 

241,962

 

Goodwill

 

 

6,142

 

6,018

 

 

12,160

 

Trade name

 

 

22,987

 

2,825

 

 

25,812

 

Deferred customer acquisition costs

 

 

57,422

 

6,741

 

 

64,163

 

Other

 

 

8,632

 

 

 

8,632

 

Accounts receivable (payable) from (to) associated companies (a)

 

79,466

 

(28,306

)

(51,160

)

 

 

Investment in POAMI

 

(69,614

)

 

 

69, 614

 

 

Investment in subsidiary guarantors

 

 

14,209

 

 

(14,209

)

 

Total assets

 

$

9,855

 

$

339,580

 

$

21,330

 

$

55,405

 

$

426,170

 

Liabilities and Stockholder Equity (Deficiency in Assets)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current portion of long-term debt

 

$

 

$

2,356

 

$

 

$

 

$

2,356

 

Accounts payable

 

 

1,965

 

393

 

 

2,358

 

Accrued liabilities

 

638

 

18,048

 

1,461

 

 

20,147

 

Deferred revenue

 

 

32,511

 

3,531

 

 

36,042

 

Total current liabilities

 

638

 

54,880

 

5,385

 

 

60,903

 

Long-term debt, net of current portion

 

 

320,643

 

 

 

320,643

 

Deferred customer acquisition revenue

 

 

32,715

 

1,124

 

 

33,839

 

Other

 

 

956

 

612

 

 

1,568

 

Total Liabilities

 

638

 

409,194

 

7,121

 

 

416,953

 

Stockholders’ Equity (Deficiency in Assets)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock

 

182

 

2

 

1

 

(3

)

182

 

Additional paid in capital

 

159,939

 

1,344,051

 

151,132

 

(1,495,183

)

159,939

 

Accum other comprehensive income

 

(127

)

(127

)

 

127

 

(127

)

Deficit

 

(150,777

)

(1,413,540

)

(136,924

)

1,550,464

 

(150,777

)

Total stockholders’ equity (deficiency in assets)

 

9,217

 

(69,614

)

14,209

 

55,405

 

9,217

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity (deficiency in assets)

 

$

9,855

 

$

339,580

 

$

21,330

 

$

55,405

 

$

426,170

 


(a) Includes $53,976 payable to Protection One Alarm Monitoring from Network Multifamily related to allocations of interest charges.

 

 

29



 

 

Condensed Consolidating Statement of Assets and Liabilities (Deficiency in Assets)

December 31, 2004

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors (a)

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

 

$

51,944

 

$

584

 

$

 

$

52,528

 

Restricted cash

 

 

926

 

 

 

926

 

Receivables, net

 

 

20,662

 

3,557

 

 

24,219

 

Inventories, net

 

 

3,016

 

2,212

 

 

5,228

 

Prepaid expenses

 

248

 

4,567

 

978

 

 

5,793

 

Other miscellaneous receivables

 

 

5,494

 

 

 

5,494

 

Other

 

 

2,336

 

39

 

 

2,375

 

Total current assets

 

248

 

88,945

 

7,370

 

 

96,563

 

Property and equipment, net

 

14

 

29,061

 

2,077

 

 

31,152

 

Customer accounts, net

 

 

166,542

 

9,613

 

 

176,155

 

Goodwill

 

 

 

41,847

 

 

41,847

 

Deferred customer acquisition costs

 

 

82,496

 

24,814

 

 

107,310

 

Other

 

 

8,017

 

 

 

8,017

 

Accounts receivable (payable) from (to) associated companies (b)

 

(33,088

)

85,144

 

(52,056

)

 

 

Investment in POAMI

 

(141,475

)

 

 

141,475

 

 

Investment in subsidiary guarantors

 

 

22,738

 

 

(22,738

)

 

Total assets

 

$

(174,301

)

$

482,943

 

$

33,665

 

$

118,737

 

$

461,044

 

Liabilities and Stockholder Equity (Deficiency in Assets)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current portion of long-term debt

 

$

 

$

395,417

 

$

 

$

 

$

395,417

 

Accounts payable

 

 

1,496

 

770

 

 

2,266

 

Accrued liabilities

 

3,308

 

31,164

 

2,616

 

 

37,088

 

Due to related parties

 

 

335

 

 

 

335

 

Deferred revenue

 

 

32,447

 

1,570

 

 

34,017

 

Total current liabilities

 

3,308

 

460,859

 

4,956

 

 

469,123

 

Long-term debt, net of current portion

 

 

110,340

 

 

 

110,340

 

Deferred customer acquisition revenue

 

 

52,186

 

5,247

 

 

57,433

 

Other

 

 

1,033

 

724

 

 

1,757

 

Total Liabilities

 

3,308

 

624,418

 

10,927

 

 

638,653

 

Stockholders’ Equity (Deficiency in Assets)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock

 

26

 

2

 

1

 

(3

)

26

 

Additional paid in capital

 

1,380,728

 

1,344,325

 

161,232

 

(1,505,557

)

1,380,728

 

Accum other comprehensive income

 

162

 

162

 

 

(162

)

162

 

Deficit

 

(1,523,913

)

(1,485,964

)

(138,495

)

1,624,459

 

(1,523,913

)

Treasury stock

 

(34,612

)

 

 

 

(34,612

)

Total stockholders’ equity (deficiency in assets)

 

(177,609

)

(141,475

)

22,738

 

118,737

 

(177,609

)

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity (deficiency in assets)

 

$

(174,301

)

$

482,943

 

$

33,665

 

$

118,737

 

$

461,044

 


(a) Includes Protection One Data Services, Inc. and Security Monitoring Services, Inc., which became subsidiary guarantors in connection with the April 18, 2005 bank credit facility.

(b) Includes $53,873 payable to Protection One Alarm Monitoring from Multifamily related to allocations of interest charges.

 

 

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Condensed Consolidating Statement of Cash Flows

For the Period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

$

(2,139

)

$

18,108

 

$

9,979

 

$

 

$

25,948

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred customer acquisition costs

 

 

(32,278

)

(1,202

)

 

(33,480

)

Deferred customer acquisition revenue

 

 

16,873

 

135

 

 

17,008

 

Purchase of property and equipment

 

 

(3,111

)

(117

)

 

(3,228

)

Increase in restricted cash

 

 

(1,200

)

 

 

(1,200

)

Proceeds from redemption of preferred stock

 

 

4,399

 

 

 

4,399

 

Proceeds from disposition of marketable securities and other assets

 

 

896

 

27

 

 

923

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

 

(14,421

)

(1,157

)

 

(15,578

)

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Payments on long-term debt

 

 

(212,125

)

 

 

(212,125

)

Payment on credit facility

 

 

(81,000

)

 

 

(81,000

)

Proceeds from borrowings

 

 

250,000

 

 

 

250,000

 

Proceeds from sale of common stock

 

1,750

 

 

 

 

1,750

 

Debt issue costs

 

 

(6,978

)

 

 

(6,978

)

Stock issue costs

 

(270

)

 

 

 

(270

)

Payment for interest rate cap

 

 

(922

)

 

 

(922

)

To (from) related companies

 

659

 

8,352

 

(9,011

)

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

2,139

 

(42,673

)

(9,011

)

 

(49,545

)

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

 

 

(38,986

)

(189

)

 

(39,175

)

Cash and cash equivalents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning of period

 

 

53,257

 

508

 

 

53,765

 

End of period

 

$

 

$

14,271

 

$

319

 

$

 

$

14,590

 

 

 

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Condensed Consolidating Statement of Cash Flows

For the Period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005

(dollar amounts in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

$

(6,787

)

$

8,265

 

$

2,232

 

$

 

$

3,710

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred customer acquisition costs

 

 

(4,049

)

(169

)

 

(4,218

)

Deferred customer acquisition revenue

 

 

2,147

 

(156

)

 

1,991

 

Purchase of property and equipment

 

 

(249

)

(1

)

 

(250

)

Proceeds from disposition of assets and sale of customer accounts

 

 

 

4

 

 

4

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

 

(2,151

)

(322

)

 

(2,473

)

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To (from) related companies

 

6,787

 

(4,801

)

(1,986

)

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

6,787

 

(4,801

)

(1,986

)

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

 

 

1,313

 

(76

)

 

1,237

 

Cash and cash equivalents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning of period

 

 

51,944

 

584

 

 

52,528

 

End of period

 

$

 

$

53,257

 

$

508

 

$

 

$

53,765

 

 

Condensed Consolidating Statement of Cash Flows

For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2004

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

 

 

Protection
One, Inc.

 

Protection
One Alarm
Monitoring

 

Subsidiary
Guarantors (a)

 

Eliminations

 

Consolidated

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

 

$

(15,446

)

$

14,106

 

$

7,885

 

$

 

$

6,545

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Installations and purchases of new accounts

 

 

 

(14

)

 

(14

)

Deferred customer acquisition costs

 

 

(29,025

)

(2,854

)

 

(31,879

)

Deferred customer acquisition revenue

 

 

15,334

 

474

 

 

15,808

 

Purchase of property and equipment

 

(4

)

(4,358

)

(464

)

 

(4,826

)

Proceeds from disposition of assets and sale of customer accounts

 

 

282

 

32

 

 

314

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

(4

)

(17,767

)

(2,826

)

 

(20,597

)

Cash flows from financing activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds from sale of trademark

 

 

160

 

 

 

160

 

Funding from Westar, as former parent

 

(53

)

273

 

 

 

220

 

To (from) related companies

 

15,503

 

(10,335

)

(5,168

)

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

15,450

 

(9,902

)

(5,168

)

 

380

 

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

 

 

(13,563

)

(109

)

 

(13,672

)

Cash and cash equivalents:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning of period

 

 

33,831

 

1,372

 

 

35,203

 

End of period

 

$

 

$

20,268

 

$

1,263

 

$

 

$

21,531

 


(a) Includes Protection One Data Services, Inc. and Security Monitoring Services, Inc., which became subsidiary guarantors in connection with the April 18, 2005 bank credit facility.

 

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ITEM 2.  MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations is complementary to and updates the information provided in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, as amended and our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2005 and June 30, 2005.

 

Overview

 

Our monitoring and related services revenue for the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 and customer base compositions at September 30, 2005 were as follows:

 

Market

 

Percentage of Total

 

 

 

Monitoring
and Related
Services
Revenue

 

Customer
Sites

 

Single family and commercial

 

81.1

%

51.3

%

Wholesale

 

4.5

 

17.2

 

Protection One Monitoring Total

 

85.6

%

68.5

%

Network Multifamily Total

 

14.4

 

31.5

 

Total

 

100.0

%

100.0

%

 

For the periods February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 and January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, we generated consolidated revenue of $168.0 million and $28.5 million, respectively.  For the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, Protection One Monitoring accounted for 86.4% of consolidated revenues, or $145.2 million, while Network Multifamily accounted for the 13.6% of consolidated revenues, or $22.8 million.  For the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, Protection One Monitoring accounted for 85.8% of consolidated revenues, or $24.5 million, while Network Multifamily accounted for the 14.2% of consolidated revenues, or $4.0 million.

 

Important Matters

 

New Basis of Accounting

 

As a result of Quadrangle’s increased ownership interest from the February 8, 2005 debt-for-equity exchange, we have ‘‘pushed down’’ Quadrangle’s basis to a proportionate amount of our underlying assets and liabilities acquired based on the estimated fair market values of the assets and liabilities.  The “push-down” accounting adjustments did not impact cash flows.   The primary changes to the balance sheet reflect (1) the reduction of deferred customer acquisition costs and revenues, which have been subsumed into the estimated fair market value adjustment for customer accounts; (2) adjustments to the carrying values of debt to estimated fair market value (or Quadrangle’s basis in the case of the credit facility); (3) adjustments to historical goodwill to reflect goodwill arising from the push down accounting adjustments; (4) the recording of a value for our trade names; and (5) an increase to the equity section from these adjustments.  The primary changes to the income statement include (1) the reduction in other revenue due to a lower level of amortization from the reduced amortizable base of deferred customer acquisition revenues; (2) the reduction in other costs of revenue and selling expenses due to a lower level of amortization from the reduced amortizable base of deferred customer acquisition costs; (3) an increase in interest expense due to amortization of debt discounts arising from differences in fair values and carrying values of our debt instruments; and (4) the reduction in amortization related to the reduction in the amortizable base of customer accounts.

 

Due to the impact of the changes resulting from the push down accounting adjustments described above, the income statement presentation separates our results into two periods:  (1) the period ending with the February 8, 2005 consummation of the exchange transaction and (2) the period beginning after that date utilizing the new basis of accounting.  The results are further separated by a heavy black line to indicate the effective date of the new basis of accounting.  Similarly, the current and prior period amounts reported on the balance sheet are separated by a heavy black line to indicate the application of a new basis of accounting between the periods presented.

 

Stockholders and other security holders or buyers of our securities or our other creditors should not assume that material events subsequent to the date of this Form 10-Q have not occurred.

 

 

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Summary of Other Significant Matters

 

Net Loss.  We incurred a net loss of $14.4 million, $11.4 million and $3.3 million for the periods February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 and the three months ended September 30, 2005, respectively.  The net loss for the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 includes a loss of $6.7 million related to the early extinguishment of debt.  The net loss for the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 includes charges of $5.9 million relating to the change of control and subsequent restructuring efforts.  Additional net losses reflect substantial charges incurred by us for amortization of customer accounts and interest incurred on indebtedness, including amortization of debt discounts.  We currently do not expect to have earnings in the foreseeable future.

 

Recurring Monthly Revenue.  At various times during each year, we measure all of the monthly revenue we are entitled to receive under contracts with customers in effect at the end of the period.  Our computation of recurring monthly revenue may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies, and recurring monthly revenue should not be viewed by investors as an alternative to actual monthly revenue, as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.   We had approximately $19.7 million and $20.0 million of recurring monthly revenue as of September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively.  Except for suspensions and customer losses arising from Hurricane Katrina, our recurring monthly revenue has stabilized substantially in 2005, with a slight decrease from the beginning of the year.   Our current focus on RMR additions, combined with growth in our wholesale markets and improvements in attrition rates have contributed to the stabilization of RMR.  We believe that we will see improvements in RMR as we continue to strengthen our financial position and have access to enough capital to invest in creating new accounts.  If we are unable to generate sufficient new RMR to replace RMR losses, it could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

In September 2005, we suspended billing for our customers in the areas most heavily affected by Hurricane Katrina.  We have begun the process of contacting each of these customers to determine if our services will be needed in the future.  As of September 30, 2005, Protection One Monitoring estimated the loss of  4,548 customer accounts, including 1,194 wholesale customer accounts, and Network Multifamily estimated the loss of 2,563 customer accounts   Estimated RMR losses related to these accounts were $93.5 thousand and $25.9 thousand for Protection One Monitoring and Network Multifamily, respectively, or less than 1% of our total RMR.

 

Our recurring monthly revenue includes amounts billable to customers with past due balances which we believe are collectible. We seek to preserve the revenue stream associated with each customer contract, primarily to maximize our return on the investment we made to generate each contract. As a result, we actively work to collect amounts owed to us and to retain the customer at the same time.  In some instances, we may allow up to six months to collect past due amounts, while evaluating the ongoing customer relationship. After we have made every reasonable effort to collect past due balances, we will disconnect the customer and include the loss in attrition calculations.

 

We believe the presentation of recurring monthly revenue is useful to investors because the measure is used by investors and lenders to value companies such as ours with recurring revenue streams.  The table below reconciles our recurring monthly revenue to revenues reflected on our consolidated statements of operations.

 

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30, 2005

 

Nine months ended
September 30, 2004

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in millions)

 

Recurring Monthly Revenue at September 30

 

$

19.7

 

 

$

20.0

 

Amounts excluded from RMR:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization of deferred revenue

 

0.4

 

 

0.7

 

Other revenues (a)

 

1.7

 

 

1.8

 

Revenues (GAAP basis):

 

 

 

 

 

 

September

 

21.8

 

 

22.5

 

February 9 — August 31, 2005

 

146.2

 

 

 

January — August, 2004

 

 

 

179.4

 

Total period revenue

 

$

168.0

 

 

$

201.9

 

 

 

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Three months ended
September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in millions)

 

Recurring Monthly Revenue at September 30

 

$

19.7

 

 

$

20.0

 

Amounts excluded from RMR:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization of deferred revenue

 

0.4

 

 

0.7

 

Other revenues (a)

 

1.7

 

 

1.8

 

Revenues (GAAP basis):

 

 

 

 

 

 

September

 

21.8

 

 

22.5

 

July — August

 

43.8

 

 

45.0

 

Total period revenue

 

$

65.6

 

 

$

67.5

 


(a) Revenues that are not pursuant to monthly contractual billings.

 

The following table identifies RMR by segment and in total for the periods indicated.

 

 

 

Nine months ended September 30, 2005

 

Nine months ended September 30, 2004

 



 

Protection
One
Monitoring

 

Network
Multi-
family

 

Total

 

Protection
One
Monitoring

 

Network
Multi-
family

 

Total

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Beginning RMR balance (a)

 

$

17,112

 

$

2,796

 

$

19,908

 

$

17,255

 

$

2,834

 

$

20,089

 

RMR retail additions

 

1,425

 

64

 

1,489

 

1,305

 

137

 

1,442

 

RMR retail losses, excluding Hurricane Katrina

 

(1,576

)

(146

)

(1,722

)

(1,641

)

(144

)

(1,785

)

RMR retail losses from Hurricane Katrina

 

(88

)

(26

)

(114

)

—-

 

—-

 

—-

 

Price changes and other

 

83

 

31

 

114

 

184

 

1

 

185

 

Net change in wholesale RMR, excluding losses from Hurricane Katrina

 

10

 

—-

 

10

 

38

 

—-

 

38

 

RMR wholesale losses from Hurricane Katrina

 

(6

)

—-

 

(6

)

 

—-

 

 

Ending RMR balance

 

$

16,960

 

$

2,719

 

$

19,679

 

$

17,141

 

$

2,828

 

$

19,969

 


(a)          Beginning RMR balance includes $903 and $850 wholesale customer RMR for the nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, in both the Protection One Monitoring segment and in total.  Our Network Multifamily segment RMR does not contain wholesale customer RMR.

 

 

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Three months ended September 30, 2005

 

Three months ended September 30, 2004

 



 

Protection
One
Monitoring

 

Network
Multi-
family

 

Total

 

 

Protection
One
Monitoring

 

Network
Multi-
family

 

Total

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Beginning RMR balance (a)

 

$

17,133

 

$

2,774

 

$

19,907

 

 

$

17,076

 

$

2,846

 

$

19,922

 

RMR retail additions

 

496

 

16

 

512

 

 

440

 

39

 

479

 

RMR retail losses, excluding Hurricane Katrina

 

(552

)

(55

)

(607

)

 

(562

)

(63

)

(625

)

RMR retail losses from Hurricane Katrina

 

(88

)

(26

)

(114

)

 

 

 

 

Price changes and other

 

(9

)

10

 

1

 

 

159

 

6

 

165

 

Net change in wholesale RMR, excluding losses from Hurricane Katrina

 

(14

)

 

(14

)

 

28

 

 

28

 

RMR wholesale losses from Hurricane Katrina

 

(6

)

 

(6

)

 

 

 

 

Ending RMR balance

 

$

16,960

 

$

2,719

 

$

19,679

 

 

$

17,141

 

$

2,828

 

$

19,969

 


(a)   Beginning RMR balance includes $926 and $861 wholesale customer RMR for the three months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, in both the Protection One Monitoring segment and in total.  Our Network Multifamily segment RMR does not contain wholesale customer RMR.

 

Monitoring and Related Services Margin.   Monitoring and related service revenues comprised  92% or more of our total revenues for each of the periods January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, the three months ended September 30, 2005 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2004.  As a result of our declining customer base, these revenues and associated costs have generally decreased slightly.  The rate of revenue decline has slowed and gross margin as a percentage of revenues has remained steady.  The table below identifies the monitoring and related services gross margin and gross margin percent for the presented periods.

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

Nine month ended
September 30,

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Monitoring and related services revenues

 

$

158,143

 

 

$

26,455

 

$

185,974

 

Cost of monitoring and related services revenues

 

44,501

 

 

7,400

 

52,252

 

Gross margin

 

$

113,642

 

 

$

19,055

 

$

133,722

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross margin%

 

71.9

%

 

72.0

%

71.9

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three months ended September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Monitoring and related services revenues

 

$

61,519

 

 

$

62,272

 

Cost of monitoring and related services revenues

 

17,606

 

 

17,918

 

Gross margin

 

$

43,913

 

 

$

44,354

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gross margin%

 

71.4

%

 

71.2

%

 

Customer Creation and Marketing.   Our current customer acquisition strategy for our Protection One Monitoring segment relies on internally generated sales.  We have resumed evaluating acquisition opportunities.  We currently have a salaried and commissioned sales force that utilizes our existing branch infrastructure in approximately fifty-five markets.  Our Network Multifamily segment also relies primarily on internally generated sales and utilizes a salaried and commissioned sales force to produce new accounts.  We are susceptible to macroeconomic downturns that may affect our ability to attract new customers.

 

 

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We are a partner in a marketing alliance with BellSouth to offer monitored security services to the residential, single family market and to small businesses in seventeen of the larger metropolitan markets in the nine-state BellSouth region.  Approximately 24.5% and 24.1% of our new accounts created in the first nine months of 2005 and 2004, respectively, were produced from this arrangement.  Termination of this agreement could have an adverse affect on our ability to generate new customers in this territory.

 

We continually evaluate our customer creation and marketing strategy, including evaluating each respective channel for economic returns, volume and other factors and may shift our strategy or focus, including the elimination of a particular channel.

 

Attrition.  Customer account attrition has a direct impact on our results of operations since it affects our revenues, amortization expense and cash flow.   We monitor attrition each quarter based on a quarterly annualized and trailing twelve-month basis. This method utilizes each segment’s average customer account base for the applicable period in measuring attrition.  Therefore, in periods of customer account growth, customer attrition may be understated and in periods of customer account decline, customer attrition may be overstated.

 

 In the table below, we define attrition as a ratio, the numerator of which is the gross number of lost customer accounts for a given period, net of the adjustments described below, and the denominator of which is the average number of accounts for a given period.  In some instances, we use estimates to derive attrition data.  We make adjustments to lost accounts primarily for the net change, either positive or negative, in our wholesale base.  We do not reduce the gross accounts lost during a period by “move in” accounts, which are accounts where a new customer moves into a home installed with our security system and vacated by a prior customer, or “competitive takeover” accounts, which are accounts where the owner of a residence monitored by a competitor requests that we provide monitoring services.

 

As defined above, customer attrition by business segment for the nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004 is summarized below:

 

 

 

Customer Account Attrition

 

 

 

September 30, 2005

 

September 30, 2005,
excluding Hurricane
Katrina (a)

 

September 30, 2004

 

 

 

Annualized
Third
Quarter

 

Trailing
Twelve
Month

 

Annualized
Third
Quarter

 

Trailing
Twelve
Month

 

Annualized
Third
Quarter

 

Trailing
Twelve
Month

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Protection One Monitoring

 

12.1

%

8.7

%

9.5

%

8.0

%

8.1

%

9.1

%

Protection One Monitoring, excluding wholesale

 

16.0

%

13.3

%

13.4

%

12.7

%

13.6

%

13.5

%

Network Multifamily

 

10.2

%(b)

7.4

%(b)

7.1

%

6.6

%

5.7

%

6.2

%

Total Company

 

11.5

%

8.3

%

8.7

%

7.6

%

7.3

%

8.2

%

 


(a)   We have estimated the loss of our customers in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.  As of September 30, 2005, Protection One Monitoring has estimated the loss of 4,548 customers, including 1,194 wholesale customers, and Network Multifamily has estimated the loss of 2,563 customers whose homes or businesses have been damaged beyond repair and will no longer need our monitoring services.  We have begun the process of contacting each customer in the hurricane damaged areas to determine if our services will be needed in the future.  Attrition rates for the remainder of the year will be affected by the results of our customer contacts.

(b)   Attrition results for Network Multifamily excludes the impact on the calculation of our customer base from the conversion of our billing system to our new technology platform, MAS.  Customers are defined differently in the new system and the result was a decrease in the number of customers in the new system.

 

In the table below we define the denominator the same as above but define the numerator as the gross number of lost customer accounts for a given period reduced by move-in accounts.

 

 

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Customer Account Attrition

 

 

 

September 30, 2005

 

September 30, 2005,
excluding Hurricane
Katrina (a)

 

September 30, 2004

 

 

 

Annualized
Third
Quarter

 

Trailing
Twelve
Month

 

Annualized
Third
Quarter

 

Trailing
Twelve
Month

 

Annualized
Third
Quarter

 

Trailing
Twelve
Month

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Protection One Monitoring

 

10.2

%

6.8

%

7.6

%

6.2

%

6.0

%

7.2

%

Protection One Monitoring, excluding wholesale

 

13.4

%

10.9

%

10.9

%

10.2

%

11.0

%

11.0

%

Network Multifamily

 

10.2

%(b)

7.4

%(b)

7.1

%

6.6

%

5.7

%

6.2

%

Total Company

 

10.2

%

7.0

%

7.4

%

6.3

%

5.9

%

6.9

%

 


(a)   We have estimated the loss of our customers in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.  As of September 30, 2005, Protection One Monitoring has estimated the loss of 4,548 customers, including 1,194 wholesale customers, and Network Multifamily has estimated the loss of 2,563 customers whose homes or businesses have been damaged beyond repair and will no longer need our monitoring services.  We have begun the process of contacting each customer in the hurricane damaged areas to determine if our services will be needed in the future.  Attrition rates for the remainder of the year will be affected by the results of our customer contacts.

(b)   Attrition results for Network Multifamily excludes the impact on the calculation of our customer base from the conversion of our billing system to our new technology platform, MAS.  Customers are defined differently in the new system and the result was a decrease in the number of customers in the new system.

 

Our actual attrition experience shows that the relationship period with any individual customer can vary significantly.  Customers discontinue service with us for a variety of reasons, including relocation, service issues and cost.  A portion of the acquired customer base can be expected to discontinue service every year.   Any significant change in the pattern of our historical attrition experience would have a material effect on our results of operations.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

Our discussion and analysis of results of operations and financial condition are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP.  The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. We evaluate our estimates on an on-going basis, including those related to bad debts, inventories, customer accounts, goodwill, income taxes, contingencies and litigation. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

 

Note 2 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, as amended, includes a summary of the significant accounting policies and methods used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.  As discussed above in “New Basis of Accounting,” estimates of fair market value were used to determine new values as of February 8, 2005 for some of our assets and liabilities.  The following is a brief description of the more significant accounting policies and methods we use:

 

Revenue and Expense Recognition. Revenues are recognized when security services are provided. System installation revenues, sales revenues on equipment upgrades and direct and incremental costs of installations and sales are deferred for residential customers with monitoring service contracts. For commercial customers and our national account customers, revenue recognition is dependent upon each specific customer contract. In instances when we pass title to a system, we recognize the associated revenues and costs related to the sale of the equipment in the period incurred regardless of whether the sale is accompanied by a service agreement. In cases where we retain title to the system, we defer and amortize revenues and direct costs.

 

Deferred system and upgrade installation revenues are recognized over the estimated life of the customer utilizing an accelerated method for our residential and commercial customers and a straight-line method for our Network Multifamily customers. Deferred costs in excess of deferred revenue are recognized utilizing a straight-line method over the initial contract term, typically two to three years for residential systems, five years for commercial systems and five to ten years for Network Multifamily systems. To the extent

 

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deferred costs are less than deferred revenues, such costs are recognized over the estimated life of the customer utilizing the same method as with the related deferred revenues.

 

The tables below reflect the impact of this accounting policy on the respective line items of the Statement of Operations for the periods February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, the nine months ended September 30, 2004 and for the three months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004.  The “Total Amount Incurred” line represents the current amount of billings that were made and the current costs that were incurred for the period.  We then subtract the deferral amount and add back the amortization of previous deferral amounts to determine the amount we report in the Statement of Operations.

 

 

 

 

2005

 

 

 

February 9 - September 30,

 

January 1 - February 8,

 

 

 

Revenues-
other

 

Cost of
revenues-other

 

Selling
expense

 

Revenues-
other

 

Cost of
revenues-other

 

Selling
 expense

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Protection One Monitoring segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

24,356

 

$

30,024

 

$

25,348

 

 

$

3,265

 

$

3,663

 

$

3,645

 

Amount deferred

 

(16,873

)

(21,373

)

(10,905

)

 

(2,147

)

(2,579

)

(1,470

)

Amount amortized

 

2,288

 

3,592

 

3,777

 

 

798

 

1,487

 

1,550

 

Amount included in Statement of Operations

 

$

9,771

 

$

12,243

 

$

18,220

 

 

$

1,916

 

$

2,571

 

$

3,725

 

Network Multifamily segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

135

 

$

1,237

 

$

1,422

 

 

$

(156

)

$

169

 

$

237

 

Amount deferred

 

(135

)

(1,191

)

(11

)

 

156

 

(160

)

(9

)

Amount amortized

 

61

 

420

 

20

 

 

172

 

734

 

36

 

Amount included in Statement of Operations

 

$

61

 

$

466

 

$

1,431

 

 

$

172

 

$

743

 

$

264

 

Total Company:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

24,491

 

$

31,261

 

$

26,770

 

 

$

3,109

 

$

3,832

 

$

3,882

 

Amount deferred

 

(17,008

)

(22,564

)

(10,916

)

 

(1,991

)

(2,739

)

(1,479

)

Amount amortized

 

2,349

 

4,012

 

3,797

 

 

970

 

2,221

 

1,586

 

Amount reported in Statement of Operations

 

$

9,832

 

$

12,709

 

$

19,651

 

 

$

2,088

 

$

3,314

 

$

3,989

 

 

 

 

 

For the nine months ended September 30, 2004

 

 

 

Revenues-
other

 

Cost of
revenues-other

 

Selling
expense

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Protection One Monitoring segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

25,391

 

$

28,642

 

$

24,402

 

Amount deferred

 

(15,334

)

(18,574

)

(10,451

)

Amount amortized

 

4,633

 

8,393

 

8,237

 

Amount included in Statement of Operations

 

$

14,690

 

$

18,461

 

$

22,188

 

Network Multifamily segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

549

 

$

2,827

 

$

1,746

 

Amount deferred

 

(474

)

(2,714

)

(140

)

Amount amortized

 

1,194

 

4,511

 

253

 

Amount included in Statement of Operations

 

$

1,269

 

$

4,624

 

$

1,859

 

Total Company:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

25,940

 

$

31,469

 

$

26,148

 

Amount deferred

 

(15,808

)

(21,288

)

(10,591

)

Amount amortized

 

5,827

 

12,904

 

8,490

 

Amount reported in Statement of Operations

 

$

15,959

 

$

23,085

 

$

24,047

 

 

 

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Three months ended September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

Revenues-
other

 

Cost of
revenues-other

 

Selling
Expense

 

Revenues-
other

 

Cost of
revenues-other

 

Selling
expense

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Protection One Monitoring segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

9,919

 

$

12,204

 

$

10,392

 

 

$

8,596

 

$

9,935

 

$

8,539

 

Amount deferred

 

(6,906

)

(9,009

)

(4,464

)

 

(5,450

)

(6,695

)

(3,683

)

Amount amortized

 

1,065

 

1,656

 

1,788

 

 

1,709

 

3,050

 

3,038

 

Amount included in Statement of Operations

 

$

4,078

 

$

4,851

 

$

7,716

 

 

$

4,855

 

$

6,290

 

$

7,894

 

Network Multifamily segment:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

53

 

$

529

 

$

551

 

 

$

157

 

$

863

 

$

537

 

Amount deferred

 

(53

)

(513

)

(48

)

 

(157

)

(850

)

(32

)

Amount amortized

 

26

 

182

 

9

 

 

401

 

1,566

 

87

 

Amount included in Statement of Operations

 

$

26

 

$

198

 

$

512

 

 

$

401

 

$

1,579

 

$

592

 

Total Company:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total amount incurred

 

$

9,972

 

$

12,733

 

$

10,943

 

 

$

8,753

 

$

10,798

 

$

9,076

 

Amount deferred

 

(6,959

)

(9,522

)

(4,512

)

 

(5,607

)

(7,545

)

(3,715

)

Amount amortized

 

1,091

 

1,838

 

1,797

 

 

2,110

 

4,616

 

3,125

 

Amount reported in Statement of Operations

 

$

4,104

 

$

5,049

 

$

8,228

 

 

$

5,256

 

$

7,869

 

$

8,486

 

 

Valuation of Intangible Assets. As discussed in “—New Basis of Accounting,” above, because Quadrangle acquired substantially all of our common stock, resulting in a new basis of accounting, new values for intangible assets were recorded in the first quarter of 2005 based on estimates of fair market values.  New values were recorded for customer accounts, trade names and goodwill.

 

Customer accounts were valued by segment based on a combination of (1) the income approach utilizing our projections of cash flow, operating margins and customer attrition and (2) the market approach based on available industry transaction data generally expressed as a multiple of  recurring monthly revenues.  Trade name values were based on the identifiable revenues associated with each segment and were valued based on the income approach.  Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of net assets acquired.  Goodwill and trade names are tested for impairment on at least an annual basis or as circumstances warrant.

 

Customer accounts are tested on a periodic basis or as circumstances warrant.  For purposes of this impairment testing, goodwill is considered to be directly related to the acquired customer accounts.  Factors we consider important that could trigger an impairment review include the following:

 

      high levels of customer attrition;

                  continuing recurring losses above our expectations; and

                  adverse regulatory rulings.

 

An impairment test of customer accounts would have to be performed when the undiscounted expected future operating cash flows by asset group, which consists primarily of capitalized customer accounts and related goodwill, is less than the carrying value of that asset group.  An impairment would be recognized if the fair value of the customer accounts is less than the net book value of the customer accounts.

 

We completed our annual impairment testing during the third quarter of 2005 and determined that no impairment of our non-amortizable intangible assets was required as of July 1, 2005.  We also determined that no impairment was required due to the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

 

Customer Account Amortization.  The choice of an amortization life and method is based on our estimates and judgments about the amounts and timing of expected future revenues from customer accounts and average customer account life.  Amortization methods and selected periods were determined because, in our opinion, they would adequately match amortization cost with anticipated revenue.  We periodically perform lifing studies on our customer accounts to assist us in determining appropriate lives of our customer accounts.  These reviews are performed specifically to evaluate our historic amortization policy in light of the inherent declining revenue curve over the life of a pool of customer accounts, and our historical attrition experience.  Prior to adopting a new basis of accounting as described in “—New Basis of Accounting,” above, we had identified three distinct pools of customer accounts as shown in the table below, each of which had distinct attributes that effected differing attrition characteristics.  For the Protection One

 

 

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Monitoring pools, the results of the lifing studies indicated to us that we can expect attrition to be greatest in years one through five of asset life and that a declining balance (accelerated) method would therefore best match the future amortization cost with the estimated revenue stream from these customer pools.  We switch from the declining balance method to the straight-line method in the year the straight-line method results in greater amortization expense.

 

In conjunction with adopting a new basis of accounting, we identified only two distinct pools of customer accounts, the Protection One Monitoring pool and the Network Multifamily pool, and retained the same amortization methods and lives for each.  A separate pool for the customers acquired from Westinghouse Security Systems, Inc. in 1996 is no longer considered necessary, as the remaining customers from this acquisition are now included in the Protection One Monitoring customer pool.

 

Our amortization rates consider the average estimated remaining life and historical and projected attrition rates.  The amortization method for each customer pool is as follows:

 

Pool

 

Method

New amortization method (post February 8, 2005):

 

 

Protection One Monitoring

 

Ten-year 135% declining balance

Network Multifamily

 

Nine-year straight-line

 

 

 

Historical amortization method (pre February 9, 2005):

 

 

Protection One Monitoring:

 

 

     • Acquired Westinghouse Customers

 

Eight-year 120% declining balance (a)

     • Other Customers

 

Ten-year 135% declining balance

Network Multifamily

 

Nine-year straight-line


(a)   The Westinghouse customer pool was fully amortized as of December 31, 2004.

 

Amortization expense was $23.4 million for the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, $5.6 million for the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 and $9.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2005.   Amortization expense for the nine and three months ended September 30, 2004 was approximately $51.4 million and $17.1 million, respectively.  The amount of amortization expense would change if we changed the estimated life or amortization rate for customer accounts.

 

Income Taxes.  As part of the process of preparing our consolidated financial statements we are required to estimate our income taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate.  Significant management judgment is required in determining our provision for income taxes and our deferred tax assets and liabilities.  This process involves us estimating our actual current tax exposure together with assessing temporary differences resulting from differing treatment of items, such as depreciation and amortization, for tax and accounting purposes.  These differences result in deferred tax assets and liabilities, which are included within our consolidated balance sheet.  We must then assess the likelihood that our deferred tax assets will be recovered.  To the extent we believe that recovery is not more likely than not, we must establish a valuation allowance.  In the first quarter of 2004, due to Westar’s sale of its interest in us, we determined that our deferred tax assets would not be realizable.  We recorded a non-cash charge to income in the approximate amount of $285.9 million to establish a valuation allowance equal to the amount of net deferred tax assets determined not to be realizable.

 

We currently do not expect to be in a position to record tax benefits for losses incurred in the future.

 

Operating Results

 

We separate our business into two reportable segments:  Protection One Monitoring and Network Multifamily.  Protection One Monitoring provides security alarm monitoring services, which include sales, installation and related servicing of security alarm systems.  Network Multifamily provides security alarm services to apartments, condominiums and other multi-family dwellings.

 

 

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Nine Months Ended September 30, 2005 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2004

 

                Protection One Consolidated

 

As a result of the push down accounting adjustments described in “—New Basis of Accounting,” above, the activity for the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 (the “post-push down” period) is reported under the new basis of accounting while the activity for the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 (the “pre-push down” period) is reported on the historical basis of accounting, which was used in 2004.  For the post-push down period, the primary changes to the income statement reflect (1) the reduction in amortization related to the reductions to the amount of deferred acquisition costs and deferred acquisition revenues, (2) an increase in interest expense due to accretion of debt discounts arising from differences in fair values and carrying values of our debt instruments and (3) the reduction in amortization related to the reduction in the amortizable base of customer accounts.

 

Monitoring and related services revenues, which are not impacted by the push down adjustments, decreased slightly (less than 1%) in the first nine months of 2005 compared to the first nine months of 2004, primarily as a result of a decline in our customer base in 2004, but partially offset by price increases implemented in 2004.  Cost of monitoring and related services revenues, which are not impacted by the push down adjustments, also decreased slightly (approximately 1%) in the first nine months of 2005 compared to the first nine months of 2004.  Interest expense for the post-push down period includes approximately $4.7 million of amortized debt discounts.  In the first quarter of 2004, we recorded a non-cash charge to income in the approximate amount of $285.9 million to establish a valuation allowance equal to the amount of deferred tax assets determined not to be realizable.

 

                Protection One Monitoring Segment

 

The table below presents operating results for Protection One Monitoring for the periods presented.  Next to each period’s results of operations, we provide the relevant percentage of total revenues so you can make comparisons about the relative change in revenues and expenses.   As a result of the push down accounting adjustments described in “—New Basis of Accounting,” above, the post-push down period, the pre-push down period and the nine month information presented in the following tables may not be comparable.

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

Nine months ended
September 30

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

135,397

 

93.3

%

 

$

22,564

 

92.2

%

$

158,822

 

91.5

%

Other

 

9,771

 

6.7

 

 

1,916

 

7.8

 

14,690

 

8.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total revenues

 

145,168

 

100.0

 

 

24,480

 

100.0

 

173,512

 

100.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

39,604

 

27.3

 

 

6,627

 

27.1

 

46,338

 

26.7

 

Other

 

12,243

 

8.4

 

 

2,571

 

10.5

 

18,461

 

10.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below)

 

51,847

 

35.7

 

 

9,198

 

37.6

 

64,799

 

37.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling expense

 

18,220

 

12.6

 

 

3,725

 

15.2

 

22,188

 

12.8

 

General and administrative expense

 

35,342

 

24.3

 

 

6,922

 

28.3

 

45,110

 

26.0

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

 

5,939

 

24.3

 

20,503

 

11.8

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

28,755

 

19.8

 

 

6,112

 

24.9

 

55,203

 

31.8

 

Total operating expenses

 

82,317

 

56.7

 

 

22,698

 

92.7

 

143,004

 

82.4

 

Operating income (loss)

 

$

11,004

 

7.6

%

 

$

(7,416

)

(30.3

)%

$

(34,291

)

(19.7

)%

 

2005 Compared to 2004.   We had a net decrease of 7,687 customers in the first nine months of 2005 compared to a net decrease of 11,100 customers in the first nine months of 2004.  The net increase in wholesale customers was exceeded by the net decrease in retail customers, including those lost due to Hurricane Katrina.  The average customer base for the first nine months of 2005 and 2004 was 695,760 and 706,941, respectively, or a decrease of 11,181 customers.  The increase in annualized attrition is primarily due to the loss of customers from Hurricane Katrina.  While we may experience additional losses resulting from the hurricane, we believe our company-wide focus on retaining our current customers will offset those losses for minimal attrition deterioration.  We are currently focused on reducing attrition, developing cost effective marketing programs and generating positive cash flow.

 

 

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Further analysis of the change in the Protection One Monitoring account base between the two periods is set forth below.

 

 

 

Nine months ended
September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning Balance, January 1

 

699,603

 

712,491

 

Customer additions, excluding wholesale

 

40,517

 

39,937

 

Customer losses, excluding wholesale (a)

 

(53,756

)

(53,754

)

Change in wholesale customer base and other adjustments (b)

 

5,552

 

2,717

 

Ending Balance, September 30

 

691,916

 

701,391

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annualized attrition (c)

 

9.0

%

8.7

%


(a)   2005 includes estimated customer losses of 3,354 resulting from Hurricane Katrina.

(b)   2005 includes estimated wholesale customer losses of 1,194 resulting from Hurricane Katrina.

(c)   Annualized attrition excluding the losses from Hurricane Katrina is 8.1% for 2005.

 

Monitoring and related service revenues were not impacted by the push down accounting adjustments and decreased less than 1% in the first nine months of 2005 compared to the first nine months of 2004.  We believe a focus on customer retention coupled with price increases in the second half of fiscal 2004 and in the first half of fiscal 2005 will result in a slowdown in the loss of revenue.  These revenues consist primarily of contractual revenue derived from providing monitoring and maintenance service.

 

Other revenues include $2.3 million and $0.8 million in amortization of previously deferred revenues for the post-push down and pre-push down periods, respectively, and $4.6 million in the first nine months of 2004.  In the first nine months of 2005 compared to the first nine months of 2004, we experienced an increase in commercial lease arrangements in which upfront revenues are deferred and a decrease in outright commercial sale arrangements which result in immediate revenue recognition  Other revenues are generated from our internal installations of new alarm systems and consist primarily of sales of burglar alarms, closed circuit televisions, fire alarms and card access control systems to commercial customers, as well as amortization of previously deferred revenues.

 

Cost of monitoring and related services revenues were not impacted by the push down accounting adjustments and decreased less than 1% in the first nine months of 2005 compared to the first nine months of 2004.  These costs generally relate to the cost of providing monitoring service and include the costs of monitoring, billing, customer service and field operations.  Cost of monitoring and related services revenues as a percentage of the related revenues was 29.3% and 29.4% for the periods February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 and January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, respectively, and was 29.2% in the first nine months of 2004.

 

Cost of other revenues include $3.6 million and $1.5 million in amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs for the post-push down and pre-push down periods, respectively, and $8.4 million in the first nine months of 2004.  We also experienced a decrease in cost of other revenues related to the decrease in outright commercial sales in the first nine months of 2005 compared to the first nine months of 2004.  Cost of other revenues consist primarily of equipment and labor charges to install alarm systems, closed circuit televisions, fire alarms and card access control systems sold to our customers, as well as amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs.

 

Selling expenses include $3.8 million and $1.5 million in amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs for the post-push down and pre-push down periods, respectively, and $8.2 million in the first nine months of 2004.  In general, other selling expenses have increased over 2004 levels primarily due to an increase in the number of commercial salespeople.

 

General and administrative expenses generally decreased in 2005 due to reductions in insurance premiums and system charges.  As of December 31, 2004 (with respect to human resources software) and February 17, 2005 (with respect to financial systems software), we no longer incur system processing charges from our former parent company related to our usage of its software.  The pre-pushdown period includes $0.4 million in retention bonus expense and the first nine months of 2004 includes $0.9 million in retention bonus expense.

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs for the pre-push down period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005 included $5.6 million in fees paid upon completion of the restructuring as well as legal and other fees related to the debt restructuring.  In the first nine months of 2004, we made change of control payments to executive officers in the amount of $9.5 million, incurred $1.6 million in expenses for the write-off of director and officer insurance upon the change of control in February 2004, paid $3.5 million to the advisor to our board of directors and incurred approximately $5.9 million for legal and advisory fees related to the sale and restructuring efforts.

 

 

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Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense for the post-push down period is based on the newly recorded values of the customer accounts and fixed assets and their associated estimated remaining lives.  The customer accounts are amortized over a ten year life on an accelerated basis while the remaining asset lives for the components of fixed assets have generally been shortened.

 

                Network Multifamily Segment

 

The following table provides information for comparison of the Network Multifamily operating results for the periods presented.  Next to each period’s results of operations, we provide the relevant percentage of total revenues so that you can make comparisons about the relative change in revenues and expenses.   As a result of the push down accounting adjustments described in “—New Basis of Accounting,” above, the post-push down period, the pre-push down period and the nine months ended information presented in the following tables may not be comparable.

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

February 9 -
September 30

 

January 1 -
February 8

 

Nine months ended
September 30

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

22,746

 

99.7

%

 

$

3,891

 

95.8

%

 

27,152

 

95.5

%

Other

 

61

 

0.3

 

 

172

 

4.2

 

 

1,269

 

4.5

 

Total revenues

 

22,807

 

100.0

 

 

4,063

 

100.0

 

 

28,421

 

100.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

4,897

 

21.5

 

 

773

 

19.0

 

 

5,914

 

20.8

 

Other

 

466

 

2.0

 

 

743

 

18.3

 

 

4,624

 

16.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below)

 

5,363

 

23.5

 

 

1,516

 

37.3

 

 

10,538

 

37.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling expense

 

1,431

 

6.3

 

 

264

 

6.5

 

 

1,859

 

6.6

 

General and administrative expense

 

6,194

 

27.1

 

 

1,182

 

29.1

 

 

7,379

 

26.0

 

Change in control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1,543

 

5.4

 

Consolidation costs

 

1,866

 

8.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

4,167

 

18.3

 

 

526

 

12.9

 

 

3,678

 

12.9

 

Total operating expenses

 

13,658

 

59.9

 

 

1,972

 

48.5

 

 

14,459

 

50.9

 

Operating income

 

$

3,786

 

16.6

%

 

$

575

 

14.2

%

 

$

3,424

 

12.0

%

 

2005 Compared to 2004.  We had a net decrease of 11,738 customers in the first nine months of 2005 compared to a net decrease of 1,934 customers in the first nine months of 2004.  This decrease is due primarily to fewer customer additions.  Demand for our services from owners and managers of multifamily properties has been negatively affected by the increasing preference of occupants of multifamily units to subscribe only for cellular telephone services and not for traditional telephone service, which our alarm systems have historically used to transport alarm signals to our monitoring center.  We are marketing a new product which will allow monitoring of multifamily units without a landline in each unit, which we believe will improve the rate of site additions compared to the first nine months of 2005.  Customer losses include an estimate of 2,563 customers lost related to damage from Hurricane Katrina.  The “Conversion Adjustments” line item reflects the impact of the conversion of our billing system to our new technology platform, MAS.  Customers are defined differently in the new system and the result was a decrease in the number of customers in the new system.  The average customer base was 324,641 for the first nine months of 2005 compared to 334,862 for the first nine months of 2004.  The change in Network Multifamily’s customer base for the period is shown below.

 

 

 

Nine months ended
September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning Balance, January 1,

 

330,510

 

335,829

 

Customer additions

 

7,675

 

13,553

 

Customer losses (a)

 

(18,183

)

(15,487

)

Conversion adjustments

 

(1,230

)

 

Ending Balance

 

318,772

 

333,895

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annualized attrition (b)

 

8.0

%

6.2

%


(a)   2005 includes estimated customer losses of 2,563 resulting from Hurricane Katrina.

(b)   Annualized attrition excluding the losses from Hurricane Katrina is 6.4% for 2005.

 

 

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Monitoring and related services revenues were not impacted by the push down accounting adjustments and decreased $0.5 million from the first nine months of 2004. These revenues consist primarily of contractual revenue derived from providing monitoring and maintenance service.  The decline was due to a $0.4 million decrease in RMR related to the 3.1% decrease in the subscriber base and a $0.1 million decrease in repair billings.

 

Other revenues decreased $1.0 million for the first nine months of 2005 compared to the same period of 2004.  These consist primarily of revenue from the sale of access control systems and amortization of previously deferred revenues associated with the sale of alarm systems.  Other revenues include $61 thousand and $0.2 million in amortization of previously deferred revenues for the post-push down and pre-push down periods, respectively, and $1.2 million in the first nine months of 2004.

 

Cost of monitoring and related revenues were not impacted by the push down accounting adjustments and generally relate to the cost of providing monitoring service including the costs of monitoring, customer service and field operations.  These costs decreased approximately 4.1% in the first nine months of 2005 compared to the first nine months of 2004 primarily due to a $0.2 million dollar decrease in field service employment and material costs.  Cost of monitoring and related revenues as a percentage of related revenues was 21.5% in the post-push down period, 19.9% in the pre-push down period and 21.8% in the first nine months of 2004.

 

Cost of other revenues consist primarily of the costs to install access control systems and amortization of installation costs previously deferred.  These costs include $0.4 million and $0.7 million in amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs for the post-push down and pre-push down periods, respectively, and $4.5 million in the first nine months of 2004

 

Selling expenses include approximately $19.9 thousand and $36.0 thousand in amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs for the post-push down and pre-push down periods, respectively, and $0.3 million in the first nine months of 2004.  Other selling expenses in 2005 have remained consistent with 2004 expenses.

 

General and administrative costs remained consistent with those in 2004.  Increases in legal fees, management fees allocated from Protection One and property taxes were offset by decreases in employment costs, telecommunications costs and insurance costs.

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs in the first nine months of 2004 related to change of control payments to executive officers.

 

Consolidation costs include severance and retention bonuses related to our ongoing efforts to streamline our internal organizational structure.

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense for the post-push down period is based on the newly recorded values of the customer accounts and fixed assets and their associated estimated remaining lives.  The customer accounts are amortized over a nine year life on a straight-line basis, while the remaining asset lives for the components of fixed assets have generally been shortened.

 

 

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Three Months Ended September 30, 2005 Compared to Three Months Ended September 30, 2004

 

                Protection One Consolidated

 

Monitoring and related services revenues, which are not impacted by the push down adjustments, decreased slightly (approximately 1.2%) in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the third quarter of 2004, primarily as a result of a decline in our customer base, but partially offset by price increases implemented in 2004 and in 2005.  Cost of monitoring and related services revenues, which are not impacted by the push down adjustments, decreased by 1.7% in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the third quarter of 2004.  Interest expense for the third quarter of 2005 includes approximately $1.2 million of amortized debt discounts.

 

                Protection One Monitoring Segment

 

The table below presents operating results for Protection One Monitoring for the periods presented. Next to each period’s results of operations, we provide the relevant percentage of total revenues so you can make comparisons about the relative change in revenues and expenses.   As a result of the push down accounting adjustments described in “—New Basis of Accounting,” above, the quarter to quarter comparisons presented in the following tables may not be comparable.

 

 

 

 

Three months ended September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

52,766

 

92.8

%

 

52,792

 

91.6

%

Other

 

4,078

 

7.2

 

 

4,855

 

8.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total revenues

 

56,844

 

100.0

 

 

57,647

 

100.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

15,583

 

27.4

 

 

15,894

 

27.6

 

Other

 

4,851

 

8.5

 

 

6,290

 

10.9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below)

 

20,434

 

35.9

 

 

22,184

 

38.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling expense

 

7,716

 

13.6

 

 

7,894

 

13.7

 

General and administrative expense

 

13,620

 

24.0

 

 

14,316

 

24.8

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

 

2,109

 

3.7

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

11,227

 

19.7

 

 

18,333

 

31.8

 

Total operating expenses

 

32,563

 

57.3

 

 

42,652

 

74.0

 

Operating income (loss)

 

$

3,847

 

6.8

%

 

$

(7,189

)

(12.5%

)

 

2005 Compared to 2004.   We had a net decrease of 7,555 customers in the third quarter of 2005 compared to a net decrease of 1,585 customers in the third quarter of 2004.  The decrease is due in part to losses recorded due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina.  The average customer base for the third quarter of 2005 and 2004 was 695,694 and 702,184, respectively, or a decrease of 6,490 customers.  We are currently focused on reducing attrition, developing cost effective marketing programs and generating positive cash flow.  The change in Protection One Monitoring’s customer base for the period is shown below.

 

 

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Three Months Ended
September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning Balance, July 1

 

699,471

 

702,976

 

Customer additions, excluding wholesale

 

14,048

 

13,372

 

Customer losses, excluding wholesale (a)

 

(20,854

)

(18,359

)

Change in wholesale customer base and other adjustments (b)

 

(749

)

3,402

 

Ending Balance, September 30

 

691,916

 

701,391

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annualized quarterly attrition (c)

 

12.1

%

8.1

%


(a)   2005 includes estimated customer losses of 3,354 resulting from Hurricane Katrina.

(b)   2005 includes estimated wholesale customer losses of 1,194 resulting from Hurricane Katrina.

(c)   Annualized quarterly attrition excluding the losses from Hurricane Katrina is 9.5% for 2005.

 

Monitoring and related service revenues were not impacted by the push down accounting adjustments and decreased slightly in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the third quarter of 2004.  We believe a focus on customer retention coupled with price increases in the second half of fiscal 2004 and in the first nine months of fiscal 2005 have contributed to a slowdown in the loss of revenue.  These revenues consist primarily of contractual revenue derived from providing monitoring and maintenance service.

 

Other revenues include $1.1 million in amortization of previously deferred revenues for the third quarter of 2005 and $1.7 million in the third quarter of 2004. We also experienced a decrease in outright commercial sales in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the third quarter of 2004.  These revenues are generated from our internal installations of new alarm systems and consist primarily of sales of burglar alarms, closed circuit televisions, fire alarms and card access control systems to commercial customers, as well as amortization of previously deferred revenues.

 

Cost of monitoring and related services revenues were not impacted by the push down accounting adjustments.  These costs decreased 2.0% in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the third quarter of 2004.  These costs generally relate to the cost of providing monitoring service and include the costs of monitoring, billing, customer service and field operations.  Cost of monitoring and related services revenues as a percentage of the related revenues decreased to 29.5% in the third quarter from 30.1% in the third quarter of 2004.

 

Cost of other revenues includes $1.7 million in amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs for the third quarter of 2005 and $3.1 million in the third quarter of 2004.  We also experienced a decrease in cost of other revenues related to the decrease in outright commercial sales in the third quarter of 2005 compared to the third quarter of 2004.  These costs consist primarily of equipment and labor charges to install alarm systems, closed circuit televisions, fire alarms and card access control systems sold to our customers, as well as amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs.

 

Selling expenses include $1.8 million in amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs for the third quarter of 2005 and $3.0 million in the third quarter of 2004.  In general, other selling expenses have increased over 2004 levels primarily due to an increase in the number of commercial salespeople.

 

General and administrative expenses remained relatively stable with increases in wages and other benefits offset by reductions in insurance premiums and system charges.  As of December 31, 2004 (with respect to human resources software) and February 17, 2005 (with respect to financial systems software), we no longer incur system processing charges from our former parent company related to our usage of its software.

 

Change of control and debt restructuring costs ceased during the second quarter of 2005 with the consummation of our debt refinancing on April 18, 2005.  In the third quarter of 2004, we incurred approximately $2.1 million for legal and advisory fees related to the sale and restructuring efforts.

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense for the post-push down period is based on the newly recorded values of the customer accounts and fixed assets and their associated estimated remaining lives.  The customer accounts are amortized over a ten year life on an accelerated basis while the remaining asset lives for the components of fixed assets have generally been shortened.

 

 

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Network Multifamily Segment

 

The following table provides information for comparison of the Network Multifamily operating results for the periods presented.  Next to each period’s results of operations, we provide the relevant percentage of total revenues so that you can make comparisons about the relative change in revenues and expenses.   As a result of the push down accounting adjustments described in “—New Basis of Accounting,” above, the quarter to quarter information presented in the following tables may not be comparable.

 

 

 

For the three months ended September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Revenues:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

$

8,753

 

99.7

%

 

9,480

 

95.9

%

Other

 

26

 

0.3

 

 

401

 

4.1

 

Total revenues

 

8,779

 

100.0

 

 

9,881

 

100.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monitoring and related services

 

2,023

 

23.0

 

 

2,024

 

20.5

 

Other

 

198

 

2.3

 

 

1,579

 

16.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues (exclusive of amortization and depreciation shown below)

 

2,221

 

25.3

 

 

3,603

 

36.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling expense

 

512

 

5.8

 

 

592

 

6.0

 

General and administrative expense

 

2,152

 

24.5

 

 

2,566

 

25.9

 

Change in control and debt restructuring costs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidation costs

 

1,866

 

21.3

 

 

 

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense

 

1,616

 

18.4

 

 

1,213

 

12.3

 

Total operating expenses

 

6,146

 

70.0

 

 

4,371

 

44.2

 

Operating income

 

$

412

 

4.7

%

 

$

1,907

 

19.3

%

 

2005 Compared to 2004.  We had a net decrease of 6,851 customers in the third quarter of 2005 compared to a net decrease of 545 customers in the third quarter of 2004.  Customer losses include an estimate of 2,563 customers lost related to damage from Hurricane Katrina.  The “Conversion Adjustments” line item reflects the impact of the conversion of our billing system to our new technology platform, MAS.  Customers are defined differently in the new system and the result was a decrease in the number of customers in the new system.  The average customer base was 322,198 for the third quarter of 2005 compared to 334,168 for the third quarter of 2004.  The change in Multifamily’s customer base for the period is shown below.

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended
September 30,

 

 

 

2005

 

2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beginning Balance, July 1,

 

325,623

 

334,440

 

Customer additions

 

2,629

 

4,245

 

Customer losses (a)

 

(8,250

)

(4,790

)

Conversion adjustments

 

(1,230

)

 

Ending Balance, September 30,

 

318,772

 

333,895

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annualized quarterly attrition (b)

 

10.2

%

5.7

%


(a)   2005 includes estimated customer losses of 2,563 resulting from Hurricane Katrina.

(b)   Annualized quarterly attrition excluding the losses from Hurricane Katrina is 7.1% for 2005.

 

Monitoring and related services revenues were not impacted by the push down accounting adjustments.  These revenues consist primarily of contractual revenue derived from providing monitoring and maintenance service.  The revenues decreased from the third quarter of 2004, primarily due to a $0.4 million decrease in contract buyouts, a $0.2 million decrease in RMR related to the 3.6% decrease in the customer base and a $0.1 million decline in repair billings.

 

 

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Other revenues include $26.0 thousand in amortization of previously deferred revenues for the third quarter of 2005 and $0.4 million in the third quarter of 2004.  These revenues consist primarily of revenue from the sale of access control systems and amortization of previously deferred revenues associated with the sale of alarm systems.

 

Cost of monitoring and related revenues were not impacted by the push down accounting adjustments and generally relate to the cost of providing monitoring service including the costs of monitoring, customer service and field operations.  These costs in the third quarter of 2005 were consistent with the third quarter of 2004.  Decreases in field service employment costs were offset by an increase in material costs.  Cost of monitoring and related revenues as a percentage of related revenues was 23.1% in the third quarter of 2005 and 21.4% in the third quarter of 2004.

 

Cost of other revenues decreased $1.4 million for the third quarter of 2005 compared to the same period of 2004.  These costs consist primarily of the costs to install access control systems and amortization of installation costs previously deferred.  There was $0.2 million in amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs for the third quarter of 2005 and $1.6 million amortization in the third quarter of 2004.

 

Selling expenses for the third quarter of 2005 compared to the third quarter of 2004 decreased $80 thousand.  Selling expenses include approximately $8.6 thousand in amortization of previously deferred customer acquisition costs for the third quarter of 2005 and $87 thousand in the third quarter of 2004.

 

General and administrative costs in the third quarter of 2005 were 16.1% lower than those in 2004 primarily due to a $0.4 million decrease in employment costs, offset by a $0.1 million increase in property taxes.

 

Consolidation costs include severance and retention bonuses related to our ongoing efforts to streamline our internal organizational structure.

 

Amortization of intangibles and depreciation expense for the post-push down period is based on the newly recorded values of the customer accounts and fixed assets and their associated estimated remaining lives.  The customer accounts continue to be amortized over a nine year life on a straight-line basis, while the remaining asset lives for the components of fixed assets have generally been shortened.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

We have improved our capital structure by reducing the face amount of outstanding debt by $160.7 million to $344.8 million at September 30, 2005 from $505.5 million at December 31, 2004, primarily through the $120 million debt-for-equity exchange with Quadrangle.  We expect to generate operating cash flows in excess of that required for operations and for required principal and interest payments.

 

On April 18, 2005, we entered into a new credit agreement, which enabled us to redeem our 73/8% senior notes due 2005 for approximately $166.3 million plus accrued interest (approximately $164.3 million aggregate principal amount outstanding) and repay the Quadrangle credit facility (approximately $78.0 million aggregate principal amount outstanding).  The 73/8% senior notes and the Quadrangle credit facility would have matured on August 15, 2005.  The bank credit facility provides for a $25.0 million revolving credit facility and a $250.0 million term loan facility.  The revolving credit facility matures in 2010 and the term loan matures in 2011, subject to earlier maturity if we do not refinance our 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 before July 2008.  The new revolving credit facility is undrawn as of November 10, 2005.  We intend to use any other proceeds from borrowings under the bank credit agreement, from time to time, for working capital and general corporate purposes.  Letters of credit are also available under the bank credit agreement.

 

In an effort to limit our exposure to interest rate risk on our variable rate bank credit facility, we purchased interest rate caps in the aggregate amount of $0.9 million during the second quarter of 2005.  Our objective is to protect against increases in interest expense caused by fluctuation in LIBOR.  One interest rate cap provides protection on a $75 million tranche of our long term debt over a five-year period if LIBOR exceeds 6%.  A second interest rate cap provides protection on a separate $75 million tranche of our long term debt over a three-year period if LIBOR exceeds 5%.

 

Operating Cash Flows for the Nine months Ended September 30, 2005.  Our operations provided a net $25.9 million and $3.7 million in cash flow for the periods February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 and January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, respectively, and provided a net $6.5 million in cash flow in the first nine months of 2004.

 

Investing Cash Flows for the Nine months Ended September 30, 2005.   We used a net $15.6 million and $2.5 million for our investing activities in the periods February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 and January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005, respectively.  We invested a net $16.5 million in cash to install and acquire new accounts, invested $3.2 million to acquire fixed assets,

 

 

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increased restricted cash by $1.2 million and we received an aggregate $5.3 million from the disposition of marketable securities and other assets and from the redemption of preferred stock in the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005.  We invested a net $2.2 million in cash to install and acquire new accounts and $0.3 million to acquire fixed assets in the period January 1, 2005 through February 8, 2005.  In the first nine months of 2004, we invested a net $16.1 million in cash to install and acquire new accounts and $4.8 million to acquire fixed assets.

 

Financing Cash Flows for the Nine months Ended September 30, 2005.   Financing activities used a net $49.5 million in cash in the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005 and provided net cash of $0.4 million in the first nine months of 2004.  In the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005, we used $293.1 million to retire debt, $7.2 million for debt and stock issuance costs and $0.9 million for interest rate caps.  We received $250.0 million for the new bank credit facility and $1.8 million in proceeds from the sale of common stock in the period February 9, 2005 through September 30, 2005.

 

Material Commitments.  We have future, material, long-term commitments, which, as of September 30, 2005, include $0.6 million due in 2005 related to payments on our $250 million bank credit facility.

 

The following reflects our commitments as of November 10, 2005:

 

 

 

Payment Due by Period (a)

 

 

 

Total

 

Remainder of 2005

 

2006-2007

 

2008-2009

 

After 2009

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Contractual Obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long-Term Debt Obligations (b)

 

$

344,751

 

$

589

 

$

4,712

 

$

115,052

 

$

224,398(e

)

Interest Obligations on Long-Term Debt (c)

 

31,378

 

 

17,930

 

13,448

 

 

Operating Leases Obligations

 

9,683

 

838

 

6,098

 

1,847

 

900

 

Purchase Obligations (d)

 

11,875

 

625

 

7,500

 

3,750

 

 

Total

 

$

397,687

 

$

2,052

 

$

36,240

 

$

134,097

 

$

225,298

 


(a)   Total contractual obligations at December 31, 2004, as reported in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, as amended, were $384,059.

(b)   Long-term debt obligations are shown at face value.

(c)   Represents contractual interest obligations relating to our 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 and assumes such notes remain outstanding until maturity, but excludes interest on our variable rate bank credit facility.

(d)   Represents contract tariff for telecommunication services.

(e)   The bank credit facility is subject to earlier maturity if we do not refinance our 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 before July 2008.  In addition, the bank credit facility contains excess cash flow covenants that require excess cash flows, as defined in the agreement, to be used for annual prepayments commencing in 2007.

 

The table below shows our total commercial commitments and the expected expiration per period:

 

 

 

Amount of Commitment Expiration Per Period (a)

 

At November 10, 2005:

 

Total

 

2005

 

2006-2007

 

2008-2009

 

Thereafter

 

 

 

(dollar amounts in thousands)

 

Other Commercial Commitments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Standby letters of credit (b)

 

$—

 

$—

 

 

 

 

Total commercial commitments

 

$—

 

$—

 

$—

 

$—

 

$—

 


(a)           Total commercial commitments at December 31, 2004, as reported in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, as amended, were $208,944.

(b)          Our standby letter of credit associated with our surety bonds was closed upon the change in the holder of our surety bonds.  We anticipate a new letter of credit to be issued with our current surety bond during the fourth quarter of 2005.

 

The indenture relating to our 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 and the bank credit facility contain certain covenants and restrictions, including with respect to our ability to incur debt and pay dividends, based on earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA.  The definition of EBITDA varies between the indenture and the bank credit facility.  EBITDA is generally derived by adding to income (loss) before income taxes, the sum of interest expense, depreciation and amortization expense, including amortization of deferred customer acquisition costs less amortization of deferred customer acquisition revenue.  However, under the varying definitions, additional adjustments are sometimes required.

 

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Our bank credit facility and the indenture relating to our 81/8% senior subordinated notes due 2009 contain the financial covenants and current tests, respectively, summarized below:

 

Debt Instrument

 

Financial Covenant and Current Test

Bank Credit Facility

 

Consolidated total debt on last day of period /consolidated EBITDA for most recent four fiscal quarters less than 5.25 to 1.0; and

 

 

 

 

 

Consolidated EBITDA for most recent four fiscal quarters/consolidated interest expense for most recent four fiscal quarters greater than 2.35 to 1.0

 

 

 

Senior Subordinated Notes

 

Current fiscal quarter EBITDA/current fiscal quarter interest expense greater than 2.25 to 1.0

 

At September 30, 2005, we were in compliance with the financial covenants and tests.

 

These debt instruments also restrict our ability to pay dividends to stockholders, but do not otherwise restrict our ability to fund cash obligations.

 

  Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements.  We had no off-balance sheet transactions or commitments as of or for the nine months ended September 30, 2005, other than as disclosed above.

 

Credit Ratings.  Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) are independent credit-rating agencies that rate our debt securities.   As of November 10, 2005, our debt instruments were rated as follows:

 

 

 

Bank Credit Facility

 

81/8% Senior
Subordinated
Notes Due 2009

 

Outlook

 

S & P

 

B+

 

B-

 

Negative

 

Moody’s

 

B2

 

Caa1

 

Stable

 

 

Capital Expenditures.  We anticipate making total net capital expenditures of approximately $31.1 million in all of 2005. Of such amount, we plan to expend approximately $25.5 million in customer acquisition costs and $5.6 million for fixed assets.  Assuming we have available funds, capital expenditures for 2006 are expected to be approximately $37.2 million, of which approximately $27.2 million would be used for customer acquisition costs, with the balance to be used for fixed assets. These estimates are prepared for planning purposes and are revised from time to time.  Actual expenditures for these and other items not presently anticipated may vary materially from these estimates during the course of the years presented.

 

Tax Matters.  Due to Westar’s sale of its interests in us in the first quarter of 2004, we are no longer entitled to receive tax sharing payments from Westar.  We determined that most of our deferred tax assets would not be realizable, and we recorded a non-cash charge to income in the first quarter of 2004 in the approximate amount of $285.9 million to establish a valuation allowance equal to the amount of net deferred tax assets determined not to be realizable.  We currently do not expect to be in a position to record tax benefits for losses incurred in the future.

 

ITEM 3.  QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

 

Our new bank credit facility is a variable rate debt instrument, and as of November 10, 2005, we had borrowings of $234.4 million outstanding.  A 100 basis point change in the debt benchmark rate would affect pretax income by approximately $2.3 million.  Interest rate caps purchased in the second quarter of 2005 cap LIBOR (i) for three years at 5% on a $75.0 million tranche of borrowings and (ii) for five years at 6% on a separate $75.0 million tranche.

 

ITEM 4.  CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

 

As of September 30, 2005, the end of the period covered by this report, we, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and our chief financial officer, performed an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures.  Based on this evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures  (a) were effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is timely recorded, processed, summarized and

 

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reported and (b) include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including its chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.  Our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, recognize that any set of controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving management’s control objectives.  Our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, believe that, as of September 30, 2005, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance of achieving management’s control objectives.

 

During the third fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2005, no change in our internal control over financial reporting occurred that, in our judgment, either materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

PART II

 

OTHER INFORMATION

 

ITEM 1.   LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

 

Information relating to legal proceedings is set forth in Note 7 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I of this report, which information is incorporated herein by reference.

 

ITEM 2.   CHANGES IN SECURITIES, USE OF PROCEEDS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.

 

None.

 

ITEM 3.   DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES.

 

None.

 

ITEM 4.   SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS.

 

None.

 

ITEM 5.   OTHER INFORMATION.

 

None.

 

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ITEM 6.   EXHIBITS.

 

Exhibits. The following exhibits are filed or furnished with this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q:

 

Exhibit

 

 

 

Number

 

Exhibit Description

 

31.1

 

Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.+

 

31.2

 

Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.+

 

32.1

 

Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.+

 

32.2

 

Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.+

 

 


+  Filed or furnished herewith.

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

Date:

November 10, 2005

 

PROTECTION ONE, INC.

 

PROTECTION ONE ALARM MONITORING, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/

Darius G. Nevin

 

 

 

Darius G. Nevin, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and duly authorized officer 

 

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