UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 10-Q

 


 

(Mark One)

☒     QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018.

or

☐     TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from          to           

 

Commission file number   001-33601

 

GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Delaware

74-2785449

State or Other Jurisdiction of

I.R.S. Employer Identification No.

Incorporation or Organization

 I.R.S. Employer Identification No.
  

4500 Lockhill-Selma, Suite 150

San Antonio, Texas

78249

Address of Principal Executive Offices

Zip Code

 

210-308-8267

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code

210-308-8267

 

                                                                                                        

Former Name, Former Address and Former Fiscal Year, if Changed Since Last Report

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (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 the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer ☐

Accelerated filer ☒

Non-accelerated filer ☐ (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Smaller reporting company 

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

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

 

APPLICABLE ONLY TO ISSUERS INVOLVED IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS DURING THE PRECEDING FIVE YEARS:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed all documents and reports required to be filed by Section 12, 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 subsequent to the distribution of securities under a plan confirmed by a court.     Yes ☐     No ☐

APPLICABLE ONLY TO CORPORATE ISSUERS

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date. As of July 31,September 30, 2018 there were 21,873,13117,968,268 shares of common stock outstanding.

 

 

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GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q

For the Quarter ended June September 30, 2018

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Page

 

   

Part I.

Financial Information

 

   

Item 1.

Financial Statements

 

 

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

2

 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss)

3

 

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

4

 

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity

5

 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

6

   

Item 2.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

2726

   

Item 3.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

4745

   

Item 4.

Controls and Procedures

4745

   

Part II.

Other Information

4948

   

Item 1.

Legal Proceedings

4948

   

Item 1A.

Risk Factors

4948

   

Item 5.2.

Other InformationUnregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

4948

   

Item 6.

Exhibits

5049

  

Signatures

5150

 

 

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Preliminary Notes

 

GlobalSCAPE®, CuteFTP®, CuteFTP Pro®, DMZ Gateway®, EFT Cloud Services®, GlobalSCAPE Securely Connected®, and Mail Express® are registered trademarks of GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

 

Secure FTP Server™, Wide Area File Services™, WAFS™, CDP™, Advanced Workflow Engine™, AWE™, EFT Server™, EFT Workspaces™, EFT Insight™, Enhanced File Transfer™, Enhanced File Transfer Server™, Secure Ad Hoc Transfer™, SAT™, EFT Server Enterprise™, Enhanced File Transfer Server Enterprise™, Desktop Transfer Client™, DTC™, Mobile Transfer Client™, MTC™, Web Transfer Client™, Workspaces™, Accelerate™, WTC™, Content Integrity Control™, Advanced Authentication™, AAM™ and scConnect™ are trademarks of GlobalSCAPE, Inc. 

 

TappIn® and design are registered trademarks of TappIn, Inc., our wholly-owned subsidiary. 

 

TappIn Secure Share™, Social Share™, Now Playing™, and Enhanced A La Carte Playlist™ are trademarks of TappIn, Inc., our wholly-owned subsidiary. 

 

Other trademarks and trade names in this Quarterly Report are the property of their respective owners.

 

In this report,Report, we use the following terms:

 

“BYOL” means bring your own license.

 

“Cloud” or “cloud computing” refers to pooled computing resources, delivered on-demand, over the Internet. In the same manner that electricity is delivered on-demand from large scale power plants, cloud computing is delivered from centralized data centers to users all over the world.

 

“DMZ” or Demilitarized Zone refers to a computer host or perimeter network inserted between a trusted internal network and an untrusted public network such as the Internet.

 

“FTP” or File Transfer Protocol is a protocol used to exchange or manipulate files over a computer network such as the Internet.

 

“MFT” or Managed File Transfer refers to software solutions that facilitate the secure transfer of data from one computer to another through a network.

 

“SaaS” or Software-as-a-Service uses hosted, cloud computing approaches in which the customer does not need to install the underlying software on its own computer systems to access the application.

 

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Part I. Financial Information

Item 1. Financial Statements

 

GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(in thousands except share amounts)

 

 

June 30,

  

December 31,

  

September 30,

  

December 31,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 
 

(Unaudited)

      

(Unaudited)

     

Assets

                

Current assets:

                

Cash and cash equivalents

 $11,914  $11,583  $9,630  $11,583 

Certificates of deposit, short term

  4,311   4,291   1,530   4,291 

Accounts receivable, net

  4,246   5,925   4,853   5,925 

Federal income tax receivable

  979   822   740   822 

Prepaid and other current assets

  1,694   675   3,173   675 

Total current assets

  23,144   23,296   19,926   23,296 
                

Certificates of deposit, long term

  11,617   11,503   -   11,503 

Capitalized software development costs, net

  3,580   3,786   3,384   3,786 

Goodwill

  12,712   12,712   12,712   12,712 

Deferred tax asset, net

  379   651   330   651 

Property and equipment, net

  464   481   442   481 

Other assets

  616   84   577   84 

Total assets

 $52,512  $52,513  $37,371  $52,513 
                

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

                

Current liabilities:

                

Accounts payable

 $2,192  $1,900  $1,982  $1,900 

Accrued expenses

  1,571   1,671   3,378   1,671 

Deferred revenue

  13,022   13,315   12,341   13,315 

Total current liabilities

  16,785   16,886   17,701   16,886 
                

Deferred revenue, non-current portion

  2,991   3,735   2,795   3,735 

Other long term liabilities

  176   176   128   176 
                

Commitments and contingencies

                
                

Stockholders’ equity:

                

Preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, 10,000,000 authorized, no shares issued or outstanding

  -   -   -   - 

Common stock, par value $0.001 per share, 40,000,000 authorized, 22,276,712 and 22,196,712 shares issued at June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively

  22   22 

Common stock, par value $0.001 per share, 40,000,000

authorized, 22,382,862 and 22,196,712 shares issued:

17,968,268 and 21,793,131 outstanding at

September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively

  22   22 

Additional paid-in capital

  24,655   23,793   25,106   23,793 

Treasury stock, 403,581 shares, at cost, at June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017

  (1,452)  (1,452)

Treasury stock, 4,414,594 and 403,581 shares, at cost, at

September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively

  (18,714)  (1,452)

Retained earnings

  9,335   9,353   10,333   9,353 

Total stockholders’ equity

  32,560   31,716   16,747   31,716 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

 $52,512  $52,513  $37,371  $52,513 

 

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

 

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GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss)

(In thousands, except per share amounts)

(Unaudited)

 

 

Three months ended June 30,

  

Six months ended June 30,

  

Three months ended September 30,

  

Nine months ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 
                                

Operating Revenues:

                                

Software licenses

 $2,722  $2,700  $4,882  $5,279  $2,843  $2,488  $7,726  $7,768 

Maintenance and support

  5,285   5,222   10,385   10,343   5,488   5,360   15,872   15,702 

Professional services

  449   551   900   1,283   649   368   1,549   1,652 

Total Revenues

  8,456   8,473   16,167   16,905   8,980   8,216   25,147   25,122 

Cost of revenues

                

Cost of revenues:

                

Software licenses

  734   752   1,505   1,509   721   725   2,225   2,234 

Maintenance and support

  539   425   1,062   838   514   446   1,574   1,283 

Professional services

  292   353   616   717   264   402   880   1,120 

Total cost of revenues

  1,565   1,530   3,183   3,064   1,499   1,573   4,679   4,637 

Gross profit

  6,891   6,943   12,984   13,841   7,481   6,643   20,468   20,485 

Operating expenses

                

Operating expenses:

                

Sales and marketing

  2,889   3,196   6,001   6,485   2,261   3,079   8,229   9,564 

General and administrative

  1,470   1,554   3,293   3,047   1,589   1,573   4,883   4,607 

Legal and professional

  1,046   335   2,725   556   1,510   1,002   4,235   1,550 

Severance

  381   -   488   21 

Research and development

  637   1,213   1,358   1,935   368   594   1,654   2,530 

Total operating expenses

  6,042   6,298   13,377   12,023   6,109   6,248   19,489   18,272 

Income (loss) from operations

  849   645   (393)  1,818 

Income from operations

  1,372   395   979   2,213 

Interest income (expense), net

  80   77   156   146   (93)  75   63   221 

Income (loss) before income taxes

  929   722   (237)  1,964 

Income before income taxes

  1,279   470   1,042   2,434 

Income tax expense

  336   265   105   676   281   194   386   870 

Net income (loss)

 $593  $457  $(342) $1,288 

Comprehensive income (loss)

 $593  $457  $(342) $1,288 

Net income

 $998  $276  $656  $1,564 

Comprehensive income

 $998  $276  $656  $1,564 
                                

Net income (loss) per common share -

                

Net income per common share -

                

Basic

 $0.03  $0.02  $(0.02) $0.06  $0.05  $0.01  $0.03  $0.07 

Diluted

 $0.03  $0.02  $(0.02) $0.06  $0.05  $0.01  $0.03  $0.07 
                                

Weighted average shares outstanding:

                                

Basic

  21,838   21,675   21,816   21,610   21,688   21,792   21,746   21,672 

Diluted

  22,169   22,170   21,816   22,094   21,940   22,247   22,044   22,145 
                

Cash dividends declared per share

 $0.015  $0.015  $0.030  $0.030 

 

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

 

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GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

(Unaudited)

 

 

For the Six Months Ended June 30,

  

For the Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Operating Activities:

                

Net income (loss)

 $(342) $1,288 

Net income

 $656  $1,564 

Items not involving cash at the time they are recorded in the statement of operations:

Items not involving cash at the time they are recorded in the statement of operations:

     

Items not involving cash at the time they are recorded in the statement of operations:

     

Provision (recoveries) for doubtful accounts receivable

  (64)  11   (64)  15 

Depreciation and amortization

  1,120   1,056   1,641   1,604 

Share-based compensation

  862   671   972   1,053 

Deferred taxes

  12   (129)  61   28 

Subtotal before changes in operating assets and liabilities

  1,588   2,897   3,266   4,264 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

                

Accounts receivable

  1,743   261   1,136   1,798 

Prepaid and other current assets

  (389)  106   (1,868)  163 

Deferred revenue

  (1,037)  (1,284)  (1,914)  (1,526)

Accounts payable

  292   18   82   448 

Accrued expenses

  (100)  (138)  1,707   404 

Other assets

  77   143   116   154 

Accrued interest receivable

  (134)  (128)  -   (195)

Other long-term liabilities

  -   19   (48)  22 

Federal income tax receivable

  (157)  (669)  82   (759)

Net cash provided by operating activities

  1,883   1,225   2,559   4,773 

Investing Activities:

                

Software development costs capitalized

  (793)  (938)  (1,057)  (1,464)

Purchase of property and equipment

  (104)  (231)  (143)  (249)

Net cash (used in) investing activities

  (897)  (1,169)

Redemption of Certificates of Deposit

  14,264   - 

Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities

  13,064   (1,713)

Financing Activities:

                

Proceeds from exercise of stock options

  -   458   341   471 

Purchase of Treasury Stock

  (17,262)  - 

Dividends paid

  (655)  (652)  (655)  (979)

Net cash (used in) financing activities

  (655)  (194)

Net cash used in financing activities

  (17,576)  (508)

Net increase (decrease) in cash

  331   (138)  (1,953)  2,552 

Cash at beginning of period

  11,583   8,895   11,583   8,895 

Cash at end of period

 $11,914  $8,757  $9,630  $11,447 
                

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:

                

Cash paid during the period for:

                

Interest

 $-  $-  $-  $- 

Income tax payments

 $213  $1,504  $238  $1,616 

 

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

 

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GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Stockholders' Equity

(in thousands, except number of shares)

(unaudited)

 

         

Additional

                      

Additional

             
 

Common Stock

  

Paid-in

  

Treasury

  

Retained

      

Common Stock

  

Paid-in

  

Treasury

  

Retained

     
 

Shares

  

Amount

  

Capital

  

Stock

  

Earnings

  

Total

  

Shares

  

Amount

  

Capital

  

Stock

  

Earnings

  

Total

 
                                                
                                                

Balance at December 31, 2017

  22,196,712  $22  $23,793  $(1,452) $9,353  $31,716 

Balance at December 31, 2016

  21,920,912  $22  $21,756  $(1,452) $9,289   29,615 
                                                

Retained Earnings Adjustment due to ASC 606

                  979   979 

Shares issued upon exercise of stock options

  191,500       458           458 

Stock-based compensation expense

                        

Stock options

          533           533 

Restricted stock

  80,000       138           138 

Common stock cash dividends, $0.030 per share

                  (652)  (652)

Net income

                  1,288   1,288 

Balance at June 30, 2017

  22,192,412  $22  $22,885  $(1,452) $9,925  $31,380 
                        

Shares issued upon exercise of stock options

  4,300       14           14 

Stock-based compensation expense

                        

Stock options

          296           296 

Restricted stock

          85           85 

Common stock cash dividends, $0.015 per share

                  (327)  (327)

Net income

                  276   276 

Balance at September 30, 2017

  22,196,712  $22  $23,280  $(1,452) $9,874  $31,724 
                                                

Stock-based compensation expense

                                                

Stock options

          742           742           428           428 

Restricted stock

  80,000       120           120           85           85 

Common stock cash dividends, $0.015 per share

                  (328)  (328)

Net income

                  (193)  (193)

Balance at December 31, 2017

  22,196,712  $22  $23,793  $(1,452) $9,353  $31,716 
                                                

Common stock cash dividends

                  (655)  (655)

Retained Earnings Adjustment due to ASC 606

                  979   979 

Stock-based compensation expense

                        

Stock options

          742           742 

Restricted stock

  80,000       120           120 

Common stock cash dividends, $0.030 per share

                  (655)  (655)

Net Income

                  (342)  (342)

Balance at June 30, 2018

  22,276,712  $22  $24,655  $(1,452) $9,335  $32,560 
                                                

Net loss

                  (342)  (342)
                        

Balance at June 30, 2018

  22,276,712  $22  $24,655  $(1,452) $9,335  $32,560 

Purchase of Treasury Stock

              (17,262)      (17,262)

Cancellation of Restricted Stock

  (40,000)                  - 

Shares issued upon exercise of stock options

  146,150       341           341 

Stock-based compensation expense

                        

Stock options

          110           110 

Net Income

                  998   998 

Balance at September 30, 2018

  22,382,862  $22  $25,106  $(18,714) $10,333  $16,747 

 

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

 

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GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

 

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

 

As of June September 30, 2018 and For the Three and SixNine

 

Months Then Ended

 

(Unaudited)

 

1.

Nature of Business

 

GlobalSCAPE, Inc. and, together with its wholly-owned subsidiary (together(collectively referred to as the “Company”, “GlobalSCAPE”, “we”, “us” or “we”“our”) provide, provides secure information exchange capabilities for enterprises and consumers through the development and distribution of software, delivery of managed and hosted solutions, and provisioning of associated services. Our solution portfolio facilitates transmission of critical information such as financial data, medical records, customer files, vendor files, personnel files, transaction activity, and other similar documents between diverse and geographically separated network infrastructures while supporting a range of information protection approaches to meet privacy and other security requirements. In addition to enabling secure, flexible transmission of critical information using servers, desktop and notebook computers, and a wide range of network-enabled mobile devices, our products also provide customers with the ability to monitor and audit file transfer activities. Our primary product is Enhanced File Transfer, or EFT. We have other products that complement our EFT product.

 

In June 2017, we introduced a data integration product that we planned to sell under the brand name Kenetix. We licensed the technology for this product from a third party. This product is a cloud-based, integration-as-a-service, or iPaaS, solution used to connect applications, microservices, application program interfaces (or API’s), data and processes within and between organizations. We have experienced issues with the third-party technology and have determined to suspendsuspended marketing of the product as we evaluate optionsproduct. We have settled the dispute with the third-party and determine whetherhave accrued a liability in these financial statements in the licensor can effectively addressamount of the issues.settlement, including any anticipated settlement fees.

 

We also sellmarket other products that are synergistic to EFT including Mail Express, WAFS, and CuteFTP. Collectively, these products aimed at consumers and small businesses, constitute less than 5% of our total revenue.

 

Throughout these notes unless otherwise noted, our references to the 2018 quarter and the 2017 quarter refer to the three months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Our references to the 2018 sixnine months and the 2017 sixnine months refer to the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

 

2.

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X, “Interim Financial Statements”, as prescribed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. Accordingly, they do not include all information and footnotes required under United States generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all accounting entries necessary for a fair presentation of our financial position and results of operations have been made. The results of operations for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year. The information included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, or this Report, should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, filed with the SEC on June 14, 2018, which we refer to as the 2017 Form 10-K, as well as Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations also included in our 2017 Form 10-K and in this report.Report.

 

We follow accounting standards set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB. This board sets GAAP, which we follow in preparing financial statements that report our financial position, results of operations, and sources and uses of cash. We also follow the reporting regulations of the SEC.

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The preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires the use of estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities known to exist as of the date the financial statements are published, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Uncertainties with respect to such estimates and assumptions are inherent in the preparation of our financial statements. It is possible the actual results could differ from these estimates and assumptions and could have a material effect on the reported amounts of our financial position and results of operations.

 

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3.

Significant Accounting Policies

 

Principles of Consolidation

 

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in conformity with GAAP. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

 

Reclassification of Expenses

 

We have revised the classification of certain of our operating expenses. To ensure comparability between periods, we revised the previous period financial statements presented to conform to the method of presentation in the current period financial statements. These reclassifications had no impact on the net income (loss) for the periods presented or total stockholders’ equity at JuneSeptember 30, 2018.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

Nature of Our Products and Services

 

We earn revenue by delivering the following software products and services:

 

 

Perpetual software licenses under which customers install our products in their information systems environment on computers they manage, and either own or otherwise procure from a cloud services provider, including deployingprovider. Customers also deploy our products at awith cloud services providerproviders in a bring-your-own-licenseBYOL environment.

 

Cloud-based, hosted SaaS solutions that we sell on an ongoing subscription basis resulting in our earning recurring, monthly subscription and usage fees to access the service.

 

Maintenance and support services, (“or M&S”)&S, that generally consist of telephone support and access to unspecified future software upgrades.

 

Professional services for product integration and configuration that generally do not significantly modify our software products.

 

We earn the majority of our revenue from the sale of perpetual software licenses and associated contracts for M&S.

 

We recognize revenue when we have satisfied a performance obligation by transferring control over a product or delivering a service to a customer. We measure revenue based upon the consideration set forth in an arrangement or contract with a customer. The revenue recognition criteria we apply to each of our software products and services are as follows:

 

 

Perpetual software licenses – These licenses grant a right to use our functional intellectual property. We recognize revenue at the point in time when we electronically deliver to our customer the software license key that provides the ability to access and use our product. If our customer is a reseller who will further transfer the ability to access and use our product to a third party under a separate arrangement that the reseller has with that third party, we recognize revenue at the time we deliver the software license key to the reseller since our contract is with the reseller.

 

Cloud-based, hosted SaaS solutions – These solutions grant a right to access our functional intellectual property. We recognize revenue over time on a monthly basis as we deliver the services to which our customers subscribe. This revenueRevenue can include basic monthly fees to access the software and usage fees based upon the volume of certain resources the customer consumes (such as volumes of storage or bandwidth). We are generally paid for these services on a month-to-month basis, but if a customer pays us in advance for services we will deliver in the future, we record as deferred revenue the amount of such payment related to services we have not yet delivered.

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M&S – We provide these services to purchasers of perpetual software licenses under agreements with terms generally ranging from one to three years. We require up-front payment of our M&S fee in an amount that covers the entire term of the agreement.  We record as deferred revenue amounts paid that relate to future periods during which we will provide the M&S service. We reduce deferred revenue and recognize revenue ratably in future periods as we deliver the M&S service.

 

Professional services – We recognize revenue from these services when the services are completed. If we are paid in advance for these services, we record such payment as deferred revenue until we complete the services.

 

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The delivery of our software products and services generally does not involve any variable consideration, financing components or consideration payable to a customer such as rebates or other incentives that reduce amounts owed to us by customers.

Deferred Revenue Classification and Activity

 

Deferred revenue related to services we will deliver within one year is presented as a current liability. Deferred revenue related to services that we will deliver more than one year into the future is presented as a non-current liability.

 

The activity in our deferred revenue balances has been as follows ($in thousands):

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

  

Three Months Ended September 30,

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Deferred revenue, beginning of period

 $15,733  $16,322  $17,050  $17,445  $16,013  $16,160  $17,050  $17,445 

Deferred revenue resulting from new contracts with customers

  5,659   5,228   9,557   9,445   4,764   4,769   14,321   14,214 

Deferred revenue at the beginning of the period that was amortized to revenue

  (4,827)  (4,897)  (9,614)  (9,816)  (5,113)  (4,554)  (14,727)  (14,370)

Deferred revenue arising during the period that was amortized to revenue

  (552)  (493)  (980)  (914)  (528)  (456)  (1,508)  (1,370)

Deferred revenue, end of period

 $16,013  $16,160  $16,013  $16,160  $15,136  $15,919  $15,136  $15,919 

 

Multi-Element Transactions

 

At the time our customers purchase perpetual software licenses, they also typically also purchase M&S although it is not mandatory that they do so to use the software.mandatory. We do not sell separate M&S to subscribers to our SaaS solutions as M&S is provided as part of their SaaS subscription. Our customersCustomers may also purchase professional services at the time they purchase perpetual software licenses or a SaaS subscription. Each of the components of these multi-element transactions is a separately identifiable performance obligation.

 

For multi-element transactions, we allocate the transaction price to each performance obligation on a relative stand-alone selling price basis. We determine that stand-alone selling price for each item at the inception of the transaction involving these multiple elements.

 

We sell, as stand-alone transactions, renewals of pre-existing M&S contracts, professional services to customers seeking assistance with products they have previously purchased from us, or SaaS subscriptions to customers not requiring any of our other products or services. Accordingly, we are able to estimate the stand-alone selling price of these items based upon our observation of those transactions. Since most of our sales of perpetual software licenses are part of multi-element transactions that also involve M&S and/or professional services, and because the selling price of those licenses can vary significantly among customers, we use the residual approach under FASB Accounting Standards Codification Top 606, or ASC 606, to estimate the selling price of perpetual software licenses in a multi-element transaction by reference to the total transaction price less the sum of the observable stand-alone selling prices of M&S and/or professional services.

 

We allocate discounts proportionally to all of the components of a multi-element transaction.

 

Sales Tax

 

We collect sales tax on many of our transactions with customers as required under applicable law. We do not include sales tax collected in our revenue. We record it as a liability payable to taxing authorities.

 

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Allowance for Sales Returns

 

We provide an allowance for sales returns. We estimate this allowance based upon our historical experience and the nature of recent transactions with customers. This amount is included in accrued liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance sheet.

 

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Contract Assets

 

We generally bill our customers for professional services when we have fully delivered the services specified in the contract with the customer.contract. We may incur costs in delivering the services prior to that time. Such costs are generally not material. Accordingly, we do not record a contract asset for professional service engagements in process but not yet billed.

 

Incremental Costs of Obtaining a Contract to Deliver Goods and Services

 

We incur incremental costs in the form of sales commissions paid to our sales personnel and royalties on certain of our products paid to third parties. These are costs that we would not incur if we did not obtain a contract to deliver our goods and services. We account for these costs as follows:

 

 

If thesethe costs are associated with products and services for which we recognize revenue at a fixed point in time (primarily sales of perpetual software licenses and professional services), we expense these costs in full at the time we recognize that revenue.

 

If thesethe costs are associated with services for which we recognize revenue over time (primarily sales of M&S and SaaS subscriptions) for which we believe it is likely that the contract for those services will be renewed for additional terms in the future, provided we deem these costs to be recoverable, we record these costs as a deferred expense asset and amortize that cost to expense as follows:

 

 

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For the portion of the cost that we determine benefits us primarily only over the term of the specific underlying contract currently in force (such as the term of an M&S contract), we recognize expense ratably each month over that term.

 

o

For the portion of the cost that we determine benefits us over an overall customer relationship that is likely to span a period of time that is longer than an initial contract term (for example, an M&S contract renewed for multiple terms in the future), we recognize expense ratably monthly over the estimated life of the customer relationship.

 

Our activity in deferred costs of obtaining a contract to deliver goods and services has been as follows ($in thousands):

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

  

Three Months Ended September 30,

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2018

  

2018

  

2018

 

Deferred expense, beginning of period

 $1,184  $1,240  $1,172  $1,240 

Deferred expense resulting from new contracts with customers

  198   347   149   496 

Deferred expense amortized to expense

  (210)  (415)  (216)  (631)

Deferred expense, end of period

 $1,172  $1,172  $1,105  $1,105 

 

At JuneSeptember 30, 2018, $628,000$598,000 was recorded in prepaid and current other assets and $544,000$507,000 was recorded in other assets in our condensed consolidated balance sheet.

 

The following tables present our reported results under FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 606, or ASC 606 and a reconciliation to results using the historical accounting method:

 

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GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet

(in thousands)

As of JuneSeptember 30, 2018

(unaudited)

 

 

As Reported

  

Effect of ASC 606

  

ASC 605 Historical

  

As Reported

  

Effect of ASC 606

  

ASC 605 Historical

 

Assets

                        

Current assets:

                        

Cash and cash equivalents

 $11,914      $11,914  $9,630      $9,630 

Certificates of deposit, short term

  4,311       4,311   1,530       1,530 

Accounts receivable, net

  4,246   (100)  4,146   4,853   (75)  4,778 

Federal income tax receivable

  979   16   995   740   50   790 

Prepaid and other current assets

  1,694   (625)  1,069   3,173   (598)  2,575 

Total current assets

  23,144   (709)  22,435   19,926   (623)  19,303 
                        

Certificates of deposit, long term

  11,617       11,617 

Capitalized software development costs, net

  3,580       3,580   3,384       3,384 

Goodwill

  12,712       12,712   12,712       12,712 

Deferred tax asset, net

  379   249   628   330   161   491 

Property and equipment, net

  464       464   442       442 

Other assets

  616   (544)  72   577   (508)  69 

Total assets

 $52,512  $(1,004) $51,508  $37,371  $(970) $36,401 
                        

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

                        

Current liabilities:

                        

Accounts payable

  2,192       2,192   1,982       1,982 

Accrued expenses

  1,571   (100)  1,471   3,378   (75)  3,303 

Deferred revenue

  13,022       13,022   12,341       12,341 

Total current liabilities

  16,785   (100)  16,685   17,701   (75)  17,626 
                        

Deferred revenue, non-current portion

  2,991       2,991   2,795       2,795 

Other long term liabilities

  176       176   128       128 
                        

Stockholders' Equity:

                        

Preferred stock

  -       -   -       - 

Common stock

  22       22   22       22 

Additional paid-in capital

  24,655       24,655   25,106       25,106 

Treasury stock

  (1,452)      (1,452)  (18,714)      (18,714)

Retained earnings

  9,335   (904)  8,431   10,333   (895)  9,438 

Total stockholders’ equity

  32,560   (904)  31,656   16,747   (895)  15,852 
                        

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

 $52,512  $(1,004) $51,508  $37,371  $(970) $36,401 

 

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Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

For the Three Months Ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018

(unaudited)

 

 

As Reported

  

Effect of ASC 606

  

ASC 605 Historical

  

As Reported

  

Effect of ASC 606

  

ASC 605 Historical

 
                        

Operating revenues:

                        

Software licenses

 $2,722      $2,722  $2,843      $2,843 

Maintenance and support

  5,285       5,285   5,488       5,488 

Professional services

  449       449   649       649 

Total revenues

  8,456   -   8,456   8,980   -   8,980 

Costs of revenues

                        

Software licenses

  734   11   745   721   (28)  693 

Maintenance and support

  539       539   514       514 

Professional services

  292       292   264       264 

Total costs of revenues

  1,565   11   1,576   1,499   (28)  1,471 

Gross Profit

  6,891   (11)  6,880   7,481   28   7,509 

Operating expenses

                        

Sales and marketing

  2,889   (23)  2,866   2,261   (23)  2,238 

General and administrative

  1,470       1,470   1,589       1,589 

Legal and professional

  1,046       1,046   1,510       1,510 

Severance

  381       381 

Research and development

  637       637   368       368 

Total operating expenses

  6,042   (23)  6,019   6,109   (23)  6,086 

Income (loss) from operations

  849   12   861 

Income from operations

  1,372   51   1,423 

Interest income (expense), net

  80       80   (93)      (93)

Income (loss) before income taxes

  929   12   941 

Income before income taxes

  1,279   51   1,330 

Income tax expense

  336   4   340   281   11   292 

Net income

 $593  $8  $601  $998  $40  $1,038 

Comprehensive income

 $593  $8  $601  $998  $40  $1,038 
                        

Net income per common share - basic

 $0.03  $0.00  $0.03  $0.05  $0.00  $0.05 
                        

Net income per common share - diluted

 $0.03  $0.00  $0.03  $0.05  $0.00  $0.05 

 

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GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss)

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

For the SixNine Months Ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018

(unaudited)

 

 

As Reported

  

Effect of ASC 606

  

ASC 605 Historical

  

As Reported

  

Effect of ASC 606

  

ASC 605 Historical

 
                        

Operating revenues:

                        

Software licenses

 $4,882      $4,882  $7,726      $7,726 

Maintenance and support

  10,385       10,385   15,872       15,872 

Professional services

  900       900   1,549       1,549 

Total revenues

  16,167   -   16,167   25,147   -   25,147 

Costs of revenues

                        

Software licenses

  1,505   (14)  1,491   2,225   (42)  2,183 

Maintenance and support

  1,062       1,062   1,574       1,574 

Professional services

  616       616   880       880 

Total costs of revenues

  3,183   (14)  3,169   4,679   (42)  4,637 

Gross Profit

  12,984   14   12,998   20,468   42   20,510 

Operating expenses

                        

Sales and marketing

  6,001   (54)  5,947   8,229   (92)  8,137 

General and administrative

  3,293       3,293   4,883       4,883 

Legal and professional

  2,725       2,725   4,235       4,235 

Severance

  488       488 

Research and development

  1,358       1,358   1,654       1,654 

Total operating expenses

  13,377   (54)  13,323   19,489   (92)  19,397 

Income (loss) from operations

  (393)  68   (325)

Income from operations

  979   134   1,113 

Interest income (expense), net

  156       156   63       63 

Income (loss) before income taxes

  (237)  68   (169)

Income before income taxes

  1,042   134   1,176 

Income tax expense

  105   16   121   386   50   436 

Net income (loss)

 $(342) $52  $(290)

Comprehensive income (loss)

 $(342) $52  $(290)

Net income

 $656  $84  $740 

Comprehensive income

 $656  $84  $740 
                        

Net income (loss) per common share - basic

 $(0.02) $0.00  $(0.01)

Net income per common share - basic

 $0.03  $0.00  $0.03 
                        

Net income (loss) per common share - diluted

 $(0.02) $0.00  $(0.01)

Net income per common share - diluted

 $0.03  $0.00  $0.03 

 

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GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

For the SixNine Months Ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018

(unaudited)

 

 

As Reported

  

Effect of ASC 606

  

ASC 605 Historical

  

As Reported

  

Effect of ASC 606

  

ASC 605 Historical

 
                        

Operating Activities:

                        

Net loss

 $(342)  52  $(290)

Net Income

 $656   84  $740 

Items not involving cash at the time they are recorded in the statement of operations:

            

Items not involving cash at the time they are recorded in the statement of operations:

 

Provision (recoveries) for doubtful accounts receivable

  (64)      (64)  (64)      (64)

Depreciation and amortization

  1,120       1,120   1,641       1,641 

Share-based compensation

  862       862   972       972 

Deferred taxes

  12       12   61       61 

Subtotal before changes in operating assets and liabilities

  1,588   52   1,640   3,266   84   3,350 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

                        

Accounts receivable

  1,743   (100)  1,643   1,136   (75)  1,061 

Prepaid and other current assets

  (389)  (68)  (457)  (1,868)  (134)  (2,002)

Deferred revenues

  (1,037)      (1,037)  (1,914)      (1,914)

Accounts payable

  292       292   82       82 

Accrued expenses

  (100)  100   -   1,707   75   1,782 

Other assets

  77       77   116       116 

Accrued interest receivable

  (134)      (134)  -       - 

Other long-term liabilities

  (48)      (48)

Federal income tax receivable

  (157)  16   (141)  82   50   132 

Net cash provided by operating activities

  1,883   -   1,883   2,559   -   2,559 

Investing Activities:

                        

Software development costs

  (793)      (793)  (1,057)      (1,057)

Purchase of property and equipment

  (104)      (104)  (143)      (143)

Net cash (used in) investing activities

  (897)  -   (897)

Redemption of Certificates of Deposit

  14,264       14,264 

Net cash provided by investing activities

  13,064   -   13,064 

Financing Activities:

                        

Proceeds from exercise of stock options

  -       -   341       341 

Purchase of treasury stock

  (17,262)      (17,262)

Dividends paid

  (655)      (655)  (655)      (655)

Net cash (used in)financing activities

  (655)  -   (655)

Net cash used in financing activities

  (17,576)  -   (17,576)

Net increase in cash

  331       331   (1,953)      (1,953)

Cash at beginning of period

  11,583   -   11,583   11,583   -   11,583 

Cash at end of period

 $11,914  $-  $11,914  $9,630  $-  $9,630 
                        

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:

                        

Cash paid during the period for:

                        

Interest

 $-      $-  $-      $- 

Income tax payments

 $213      $213  $238      $238 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

Cash and cash equivalents includes all cash and highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less.

 

Property and Equipment

 

Property and equipment is comprised of furniture and fixtures, software, computer equipment and leasehold improvements which are recorded at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method over their estimated useful lives. Furniture, fixtures and equipment have a useful life of five to seven years, computer equipment and software have a useful life of three years and leasehold improvements have a useful life that is the shorter of the term of the lease under which the improvements were made or the estimated useful life of the asset.

 

Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are expensed as incurred.

 

Goodwill

 

Goodwill is not amortized. On atAt least an annual basis,annually, we test goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level using December 31 as the measurement date. We operate as a single reporting unit.

 

When testing goodwill, we first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not (that is, a likelihood of more than 50 percent) that the fair value of our reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, including goodwill. In performing this qualitative assessment, we assess events and circumstances relevant to us including, but not limited to:

 

Macroeconomic conditions.

Industry and market considerations.

Cost factors and trends for labor and other expenses of operating our business.

Our overall financial performance and outlook for the future.

Trends in the quoted market value and trading of our common stock.

 

In considering these and other factors, we consider the extent to which any adverse events and circumstances identified could affect the comparison of our reporting unit’s fair value with its carrying amount. We place more weight on events and circumstances that most affect our reporting unit’s fair value or the carrying amount of our net assets. We consider positive and mitigating events and circumstances that may affect our determination of whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of our reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. We evaluate, on the basis of the weight of the evidence, the significance of all identified events and circumstances in the context of determining whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of our reporting unit is less than its carrying amount.

 

If, after assessing the totality of these qualitative events and circumstances, we determine it is not more likely than not that the fair value of our reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, we conclude there is no impairment of goodwill and perform no further testing, in accordance with GAAP. If we conclude otherwise, we proceed with performing the first step, and if necessary, the second step, of the two-step goodwill impairment test prescribed by GAAP.

 

As of December 31, 2017, after assessing the totality of the relevant events and circumstances, we determined it not more likely than not that the fair value of our reporting unit was less than its carrying amount. Accordingly, we concluded there was no impairment of goodwill as of that date. There have been no material events or changes in circumstances since that time indicating that the carrying amount of goodwill may exceed its fair market value and that interim testing needed to be performed.

Capitalized Software Development Costs

 

When we complete research and development for a software product, and have in place a program plan and a detailed program design or a working model of that software product, we capitalize production costs incurred for that software product from that point forward until it is ready for general release to the public. Thereafter, we amortize capitalized software production costs to expense using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of that product, which is generally three years. We periodically assess the carrying value of capitalized software development costs and our method of amortizing them relative to our estimates of realizability through sales of products in the marketplace.

 

Research and Development

 

We expense research and development costs as incurred.

 

Advertising Expense

 

We expense advertising costs as incurred as a component of our sales and marketing expenses. Advertising expense was approximately $254,000$172,000 and $608,000$480,000 in the 2018 quarter and the 2017 quarter, respectively, and $577,000$750,000 and $1,028,000$1,508,000 in the 2018 sixnine months and 2017 sixnine months, respectively.

 

Share-Based Compensation

 

We measure the cost of share-based payment transactions at the grant date based on the calculated fair value of the award. We recognize this cost as an expense ratably over the recipient’s requisite service period during which that award vests or becomes unrestricted.

 

For stock option awards, we estimate their fair value at the grant date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model considering the following factors:

 

We estimate expected volatility based on historical volatility of our common stock.

We primarily use primarily the simplified method to derive an expected term which represents an estimate of the time options are expected to remain outstanding. We use this method because our options are plain-vanilla options, and we believe our historical option exercise experience is not adequately indicative of our future expectations.

We base the risk-free rate for periods within the contractual life of the option on the U.S. treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant.

We estimate a dividend yield based on our historical and expected future dividend payments.

 

For restricted stock awards, we use the quoted price of our common stock on the grant date as the fair value of the award.

 

Income Taxes

 

We account for income taxes using the asset and liability method. We record deferred tax assets and liabilities based on the difference between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying amount for financial reporting purposes, as measured by the enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are carried on the balance sheet with the presumption that they will be realizable in future periods in which we generate taxable income.

 

We assess the likelihood that deferred tax assets will be realized from future taxable income. Based on this assessment, we provide any necessary valuation allowance on our balance sheet with a corresponding increase in the tax provision on our statement of operations. Any valuation allowances we establish are determined based upon a number of assumptions, judgments, and estimates, including forecasted earnings, future taxable income, and the relative proportions of revenue and income before taxes in the various domestic jurisdictions in which we operate.

 

We account for uncertainty in income taxes using a two-step process to determine the amount of tax benefit to be recognized. First, we evaluate the tax position to determine the likelihood that it will be sustained upon external examination. If the tax position is deemed “more-likely-than-not” to be sustained, we assess the tax position to determine the amount of benefit to recognize in the condensed consolidated financial statements. The amount of the benefit we recognize is the largest amount that we believe has a greater than 50 percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. Unrecognized tax benefits represent tax positions for which reserves have been established.

 

Earnings Per Share

 

We compute basic earnings per share using the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the periods. We compute diluted earnings per share using the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding plus the number of common shares that would be issued assuming conversion of all potentially dilutive common shares outstanding.

 

Awards of non-vested restricted stock and options are considered potentially dilutive common shares for the purpose of computing earnings per common share. We apply the treasury stock method to non-vested options under which the assumed proceeds include the amount the employee must pay to exercise the option plus the amount of unrecognized cost attributable to future periods less any expected tax benefits.

 

Recent accounting pronouncementsRecently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

 

The Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB has issued the Accounting Standard Updates, (ASU)or ASU described below that we believe may be relevant to our business and to the preparation of our condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

ASU 2017-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting (issued September 2017) – This update provides guidance about which changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award require an entity to apply modification accounting. It states that in these situations, modification accounting should be applied unless the fair value of the modified award is the same as the fair value of the original award immediately before the original award was modified, the vesting conditions of the modified award are the same as the vesting conditions of the original award immediately before the original award was modified, and the classification of the modified award as equity or a liability is the same as the classification of the original award immediately before the original award was modified. This update is effective for all entities for annual periods, and interim periods within those annual periods, beginning after December 15, 2017. We adopted this pronouncement in the first quarter of 2018 and do not expect this pronouncement to have a material effect on how we account for the changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award.

 

ASU 2017-04, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (issued January 2017) - To simplify the subsequent measurement of goodwill, Step 2 was eliminated from the goodwill impairment test. In computing the implied fair value of goodwill under Step 2, an entity had to perform procedures to determine the fair value at the impairment testing date of its assets and liabilities (including unrecognized assets and liabilities) following the procedure that would be required in determining the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination. Instead, under the amendments in this update, an entity should perform its annual, or interim, goodwill impairment test by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An entity should recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value. Any loss recognized should not exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. Additionally, an entity should consider income tax effects from any tax deductible goodwill on the carrying amount of the reporting unit when measuring the goodwill impairment loss, if applicable. This update also eliminated the requirements for any reporting unit with a zero or negative carrying amount to perform a qualitative assessment and, if it fails that qualitative test, to perform Step 2 of the goodwill impairment test. Therefore, the same impairment assessment applies to all reporting units. An entity is required to disclose the amount of goodwill allocated to each reporting unit with a zero or negative carrying amount of net assets. An entity still has the option to perform the qualitative assessment for a reporting unit to determine if the quantitative impairment test is necessary. A public business entity that is a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)an SEC filer is required to adopt the amendments in this update for its annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. We expect that the application of the provisions of this updateASU 2017-04 will not have a material effect on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

ASU 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows – Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments (issued June 2016) - This pronouncement provides guidance as to the treatment of transactions in a statement of cash flows with respect to eight specific cash flow issues. During 2017 and the first sixnine months of 2018, we had no transactions of the type cited in the statementour Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows and do not anticipate having any such transactions in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, we do not expect this pronouncement to have a material effect on how we present items in our consolidated statement of cash flows.

 

ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (issued June 2016) - Among the provisions of this ASU 2016-13 is a requirement that assets measured at amortized cost, which includes trade accounts receivable, be presented at the net amount expected to be collected. This pronouncement requires that an entity reflect all of its expected credit losses based on current estimates which will replace the current standard requiring that an entity need consider only past events and current conditions in measuring an incurred loss. We are subject to this guidance effective with consolidated financial statements we issue for the year ending December 31, 2020, and the quarterly periods during that year. We do not expect the amounts we report as accounts receivable in those future periods under this guidance to be materially affected relative to current guidance.

 

ASU 2016-02, Leases (issued February 2016) - The main difference between existing GAAP and this ASU 2016-02 is the presentation by lessees on their financial statements of lease assets and lease liabilities arising from operating leases. Since this new standard retains the distinction between finance and operating leases, the effect of leases in the statement of operations and the statement of cash flows will be largely unchanged from existing GAAP. Our only lease of significance is our operating lease for our corporate office space for which we will present a right-to-use asset and a lease liability on our consolidated balance sheet when we implement this standard. We are in the process of determining those amounts. In accordance with this standard, we will implement it beginning with our interim and annual consolidated financial statements for 2019. The extent of the effect of this standard on our consolidated financial statements for 2019 and later will depend upon the leases, if any, that we have in effect at that date.

 

ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (issued May 2014) - The core principle of this guidance is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. We have implemented these new principles using the modified retrospective transition method and recorded an increase (tax effected) to retained earnings at January 1, 2018 of $979,000. We also recorded as an asset deferred expense of approximately $1.2 million. We are accounting for these costs we incur to obtain a contract as follows:

 

●     If these costs are associated with products and services for which we recognize revenue at a point in time (primarily sales of perpetual software licenses and professional services), we expense these costs in full at the time we recognize that revenue.

●     If these costs are associated with services for which we recognize revenue over time (primarily sales of M&S and SaaS subscriptions) for which we believe it is likely that the contract for those services will be renewed for additional terms in the future, provided we deem these costs to be recoverable, we record these costs as deferred expense asset and amortize that cost to expense as follows:

 

o     For the portion of the cost that we determine benefits us primarily only over the term of the specific underlying contract currently in force (such as the term of an M&S contract), we will recognize expense ratably each month over that term.

o     For the portion of the cost that we determine benefits us over an overall customer relationship that is likely to span a period of time that is longer than an initial contract term (for example, an M&S contract renewed for multiple terms in the future), we will recognize expense ratably monthly over the estimated life of the customer relationship.

 

We have reviewed all recently issued accounting pronouncements. The pronouncements that we have already adopted did not have a material effect on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows or reporting thereof, and except as otherwise noted above, we do not believe that any of the pronouncements that we have not yet adopted will have a material effect upon our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows or reporting thereof.

4.

Certificates of Deposit

 

Our certificatescertificate of deposit areis held at a bank and will mature at various dates through December 2021.in October 2018. Certificates of deposit with contractual maturity dates less than one year from the balance sheet date are presented as current assets. Certificates of deposit with contractual maturity dates beyond one year from the balance sheet date are presented as non-current assets.

 

We have the ability to hold these certificates of deposit until their maturity dates and as of the date of this report intend to do so. We measure these investments on a recurring basis using Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy prescribed by GAAP which results in them being presented at original cost plus accrued interest earned. There is no amortization of original cost associated with our certificates of deposit.

 

5.

Accounts Receivable, Net

 

We bill our customers and issue them an invoiceinvoices when we have delivered our goods or services to them.services. In addition, when our customers agree to purchase or renew M&S services, we bill and invoice our customers at that time which could be before the date we begin delivering those services. In that event, we exclude from accounts receivable (and from the related deferred revenue, see Note 3) the invoices we have issued for which the M&S services commencement date is in the future and which have not been paid by the customer as of the date of our condensed consolidated financial statements. We continually assess the collectability of our accounts receivable. If we deem it less than probable that we will collect an amount due us, we write-off that balance against our allowance for doubtful accounts. Accordingly, we determine our accounts receivable, net, as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

June 30,

2018

  

December 31,

2017

  

September 30, 2018

  

December 31, 2017

 

Total invoices issued and unpaid

 $5,001  $6,644  $5,324  $6,644 

Less: Unpaid invoices relating to M&S contracts with a start date subsequent to the balance sheet date

  (655)  (441)  (371)  (441)

Gross accounts receivable

  4,346   6,203   4,953   6,203 

Allowance for doubtful accounts

  (100)  (278)  (100)  (278)

Accounts receivable, net

 $4,246  $5,925  $4,853  $5,925 

 

6.

6.     Capitalized Software Development Costs, Net

 

Our capitalized software development costs balances and activities were as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

June 30,

  

December 31,

  

September 30,

  

December 31,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Gross capitalized cost

 $9,971  $9,179  $10,235  $9,179 

Accumulated amortization

  (6,391)  (5,393)  (6,851)  (5,393)

Capitalized software development costs, net

 $3,580  $3,786  $3,384  $3,786 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

  

Three Months Ended September 30,

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Amount capitalized

 $390  $476  $793  $938  $264  $527  $1,057  $1,464 

Amortization expense

  (464)  (446)  (999)  (920)  (460)  (484)  (1,459)  (1,404)

 

  

Released

  

Unreleased

 
  

Products

  

Products

 

Gross capitalized amount at June 30, 2018

 $9,388  $583 

Accumulated amortization

  (6,391)  - 

Net capitalized cost at June 30, 2018

 $2,997  $583 
  

Released

  

Unreleased

 
  

Products

  

Products

 

Gross capitalized amount at September 30, 2018

 $9,624  $611 

Accumulated amortization

  (6,851)  - 

Net capitalized cost at September 30, 2018

 $2,773  $611 

 

Future amortization expense:

        

Six months ending December 31, 2018

  854     

Year ending December 31,

        

2019

  1,288     

2020

  778     

2021

  77     

Total

 $2,997     

Future amortization expense:

        

Three months ending December 31, 2018

  431     

Year ending December 31,

        

2019

  1,367     

2020

  857     

2021

  118     

Total

 $2,773     

 

The future amortization expense of the gross capitalized software development costs related to unreleased products will be determinable at a future date when those products are ready for general release to the public.

 

7.      Deferred Revenue

 

As described in Note 5 regarding accounts receivable, when our customers agree to purchase or renew M&S services, we bill and invoice our customers at that time which could be before the date we begin delivering those services. In that event, we exclude from deferred revenue (and from the related accounts receivable) the invoices we have issued for which the M&S services commencement date is in the future and which have not been paid by the customer as of the date of our financial statements. Accordingly, we determine our deferred revenue as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

June 30, 2018

  

December 31, 2017

  

September 30, 2018

  

December 31, 2017

 

Total invoiced for M&S contracts for which revenue will be recognized in future periods

 $16,668  $17,491  $15,507  $17,491 

Less: Unpaid invoices relating to M&S contracts with a start date subsequent to the balance sheet date

  (655)  (441)  (371)  (441)

Total deferred revenue

 $16,013  $17,050  $15,136  $17,050 
                

Deferred revenue, current portion

 $13,022  $13,315  $12,341  $13,315 

Deferred revenue, non-current portion

  2,991   3,735   2,795   3,735 

Total deferred revenue

 $16,013  $17,050  $15,136  $17,050 

 

8.

Stock Options, Restricted Stock and Share-BasedStock-Based Compensation

 

We have stock-based compensation plans under which we have granted, and may grant in the future, incentive stock options, non-qualified stock options, and restricted stock to employees and non-employee members of theour Board of Directors. Our share-basedstock-based compensation expense was as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

  

Three Months Ended June 30,

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Share-based compensation expense

 $191  $335  $862  $671 
  

Three Months Ended September 30,

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Share-based compensation expense

 $110  $381  $972  $1,053 

Stock Options

 

We have granted stock options to our officers and employees under long-term equity incentive plans that originated in 2000, 2010 and 2016. During the 2018 quarter, we granted stock options only under the 2016 plan.Employee Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (the “2016 Plan”).

 

Provisions and characteristics of the options granted to our officers and employees under our long-term equity incentive plans include the following:

 

 

The exercise price, term and other conditions applicable to each stock option or stock award granted are determined by the Compensation Committee of theour Board of Directors.

 

The exercise price of stock options is set on the grant date and may not be less than the fair market value per share of our stock at market close on that date.

 

Stock options we issue generally become exercisable ratably over a three-year period, expire ten years from the date of grant, and are exercisable for a period of ninety days after the end of employment.

 

Upon exercise of a stock option, we issue new shares from the shares of common stock we are authorized to issue.

 

We currently issue stock-based awards to our officers and employees only under the 2016 planPlan which authorizes the issuance of up to 5,000,000 shares of common stock for stock-based incentives including stock options and restricted stock awards. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2018, stock-based incentives for up to 4,219,6163,955,830 shares remained available for issuance in the future under this plan.the 2016 Plan.

 

We have not previously issued any restricted stock under any of thesethe Company’s plans.

 

Our stock option activity has been as follows:

 

     

Weighted

         
     

Weighted Average

  

Weighted Average

  

Aggregate

      

Average

  

Weighted Average

  

Aggregate

 
     

Exercise

  

Remaining

  

Intrinsic

      

Exercise

  

Remaining

  

Intrinsic

 
 

Number of

  

Price

  

Contractual

  

Value

  

Number of

  

Price

  

Contractual

  

Value

 
 

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Term in Years

  

(000's)

  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Term in Years

  

(000's)

 
                                

Outstanding at December 31, 2017

  2,585,210  $3.34   6.77  $1,015   2,585,210  $3.34   6.77  $1,015 

Granted

  110,737  $3.61           504,737  $3.67         

Forfeited

  (447,155) $3.56           (809,142) $3.56         

Exercised

  -  $-           (146,150) $2.34         

Outstanding at June 30,2018

  2,248,792  $3.30   6.29  $1,431 

Outstanding at September 30, 2018

  2,134,655  $3.40   6.59  $1,413 
                                

Exercisable at June 30, 2018

  1,357,682  $2.94   4.74  $1,266 

Exercisable at September 30, 2018

  1,163,958  $3.09   4.60  $1,115 

 

Additional information about our stock options is as follows:

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

  

Three Months Ended September 30,

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Weighted average fair value of options granted

 $1.60  $1.87  $1.55  $1.61  $1.57  $1.94  $1.56  $1.67 

Intrinsic value of options exercised

 $-  $242,223  $-  $342,609  $205,111  $9,284  $205,111  $351,893 

Cash received from stock options exercised

 $-  $368,235  $-  $458,349  $341,489  $13,440  $341,489  $471,789 
                                

Number of options that vested

  78,327   107,030   439,152   402,154   72,748   28,570   511,900   430,724 

Fair value of options that vested

 $129,731  $173,857  $707,951  $653,600  $139,406  $44,843  $861,904  $698,442 
                                

Unrecognized compensation expense related to non-vested options at end of period

 $1,127,715  $2,210,862  $1,127,715  $2,210,862  $1,286,260  $1,994,289  $1,286,260  $1,994,289 

Weighted average years over which non-vested option expense will be recognized

  1.73   2.17   1.73   2.17   2.15   2.11   2.15   2.11 

 

Plan

 

Shares outstanding

 

2000 Stock Option Plan

  84,77025,000 

2010 Employee LT Equity Incentive Plan

  1,383,6381,066,319 

2016 Employee LT Equity Incentive Plan

  780,3841,043,336 

Total shares outstanding at JuneSeptember 30, 2018

  2,248,7922,134,655 

 

As of June 30, 2018

 
      

Options Outstanding

  

Options Exercisable

 
      

Weighted

             
      

Average

  

Weighted

      

Weighted

 
  

Underlying

  

Remaining

  

Average

  

Number of

  

Average

 

Range of

 

Shares

  

Contractual

  

Exercise

  

Underlying

  

Exercise

 

Exercise Prices

 

Outstanding

  

Life

  

Price

  

Shares

  

Price

 

$0.85 - $1.43

  50,700   1.74  $1.02   50,700  $1.02 

$1.47 - $2.32

  335,070   2.43  $1.85   335,070  $1.85 

$2.34 - $3.52

  767,637   5.33  $3.29   618,859  $3.26 

$3.53 - $5.30

  1,090,385   8.33  $3.86   353,053  $3.70 

$5.44 - $5.44

  5,000   9.05  $5.44   -  $- 

Total options

  2,248,792           1,357,682     

As of September 30, 2018

 
      

Options Outstanding

  

Options Exercisable

 
      

Weighted

             
      

Average

  

Weighted

      

Weighted

 
  

Underlying

  

Remaining

  

Average

  

Number of

  

Average

 

Range of

 

Shares

  

Contractual

  

Exercise

  

Underlying

  

Exercise

 

Exercise Prices

 

Outstanding

  

Life

  

Price

  

Shares

  

Price

 

$1.43 - $2.32

  289,350   2.14  $1.86   289,350  $1.86 

$2.34 - $3.52

  708,636   5.77  $3.29   506,860  $3.23 

$3.53 - $5.30

  1,135,002   8.25  $3.86   366,081  $3.85 

$5.44 - $5.44

  1,667   0.24  $5.44   1,667  $5.44 

Total options

  2,134,655           1,163,958     

 

We used the following assumptions to determine compensation expense for our stock options using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model:

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

  

Three Months Ended September 30,

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Expected volatility

  48%  51%  49%  49%  48%  50%  48%  49%

Expected annual dividend yield

  1.50%  1.50%  1.50%  1.50%  1.50%  1.50%  1.50%  1.50%

Risk free rate of return

  2.77%  1.93%  2.57%  1.94%  2.80%  1.95%  2.75%  1.94%

Expected option term (years)

  6.00   6.00   6.00   6.00   6.00   6.00   6.00   6.00 

Restricted Stock Awards

 

Our 2015 Non-Employee Directors Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan (“2015(the “2015 Directors Plan”) provides for the issuance of either stock options or restricted stock awards for up to 500,000 shares of our common stock. Provisions and characteristics of this plan include the following:

 

 

The exercise price, term and other conditions applicable to each stock option or stock award granted are determined by the Compensation Committee of theour Board of Directors.

 

Restricted stock awards are initially issued as restricted shares with a legend restricting transferability of the shares until the recipient satisfies the vesting provision of the award, which is generally continuing service for one year subsequent to the date of the award, after which time the restrictive legend is removed from the shares.

 

Restricted shares participate in dividend payments and may be voted.

 

As of JuneSeptember 30, 2018, stock based incentives for up to 260,000280,000 shares remained available for issuance in the future under this plan.the 2015 Directors Plan.

Our restricted stock awards activity has been as follows:

          

Total

 
      

Grant Date

  

Fair Value of

 
  

Number of

  

Fair Value

  

Shares That

 
  

Shares

  

Per Share

  

Vested

 

Restricted shares outstanding at December 31, 2017

  80,000  $4.24     

Shares granted with restrictions

  -  $-     

Shares vested and restrictions removed

  (80,000) $4.24  $297,600 

Restricted shares outstanding at June 30, 2018

  -  $-     
             

Unrecognized compensation expense for non-vested shares as of June 30, 2018

     

Expense to be recognized in future periods

 $-         

Weighted average number of months over which expense is expected to be recognized

  -         

 

9.

Income Taxes

 

The components of our income tax expense (benefit) are as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

  

Three months ended June 30,

  

Six months ended June 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 
  

Current

  

Deferred

  

Total

  

Current

  

Deferred

  

Total

  

Current

  

Deferred

  

Total

  

Current

  

Deferred

  

Total

 

Federal

 $37  $266  $303  $317  $(94) $223  $78  $7  $85  $707  $(116) $591 

State

  39   (6)  33   55   (13)  42   15   5   20   98   (13) $85 

Total

 $76  $260  $336  $372  $(107) $265  $93  $12  $105  $805  $(129) $676 

  

Three months ended September 30,

  

Nine months ended September 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 
  

Current

  

Deferred

  

Total

  

Current

  

Deferred

  

Total

  

Current

  

Deferred

  

Total

  

Current

  

Deferred

  

Total

 

Federal

 $166  $43  $209  $29  $146  $175  $243  $51  $294  $733  $33  $766 

State

  67   5   72   10   9   19   82   10   92   109   (5) $104 

Total

 $233  $48  $281  $39  $155  $194  $325  $61  $386  $842  $28  $870 

 

Deferred income taxes on our consolidated balance sheet reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.

Significant components of our deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

June 30,

  

December 31,

  

September 30,

  

December 31,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Deferred tax assets:

                

Deferred revenue

 $834  $775  $829  $775 

Share-based compensation

  319   351   302   351 

Compensation and benefits

  115   111   55   111 

Texas franchise tax R&D credit

  189   185   189   185 

Prepaid expenses not deductible for tax

  -   84   -   84 

Allowance for doubtful accounts

  42   58   37   58 

Net operating loss carryforward

  10   20   5   20 

Deferred state income taxes

  56   61   51   61 

Federal R&D credits

  -   -   -   - 

Accrued expenses not deducted for tax

  11   9   5   9 

Valuation allowance

  (189)  (185)  (189)  (185)

Total deferred tax assets

  1,387   1,469   1,284   1,469 
                

Deferred tax liabilities:

                

Intangible assets

  762   805   721   805 

Book expenses deductible for tax purposes

  246   -   232   - 

Depreciation

  -   13 

Depreciable Assets

  1   13 

Total gross deferred tax liabilities

  1,008   818   954   818 
                

Net deferred tax assets

 $379  $651  $330  $651 

 

In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, we consider whether it is more-likely-than-not that some portion or all the deferred tax asset will not 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. We have concluded it is more-likely-than-not that our ability to generate future taxable income will allow us to realize those deferred tax assets.

 

As of JuneSeptember 30, 2018, we had federal income tax net operating loss carryforwards of $47,000$23,000 available to offset future federal taxable income. We expect to fully utilize this net operating loss in 2018. TheIf not used, this net operating loss expires in 2038.

 

As of JuneSeptember 30, 2018, we had Texas Research and Development tax credit carryforwards of $189,000. We believe it is uncertain that we will have sufficient Texas Franchise Tax in the future to support utilization of these carryforward credits. Accordingly, we have provided a valuation allowance for the full amount of these credit carryforwards.

These carryforwards expire in years 2034 through 2038.

 

The aggregate changes in the balance of our gross unrecognized tax benefits were as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

 

Balance at beginning of period

 $158  $121 

Increases for tax positions related to the current year

  7   11 

Increases for tax positions related to prior years

  -   15 

Balance at end of period

 $165  $147 

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

 

Balance at beginning of period

 $158  $121 

Increases for tax positions related to the current year

  10   16 

Increases for tax positions related to prior years

  -   16 

Decreases for tax positions where the statue has expired

  (48)  - 

Balance at end of period

 $120  $153 

 

Our unrecognized tax benefit is related to research and development credits taken on our U.S. income tax returns from 2011 toin 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017 and the uncertainty related to the realization of a portion of those credits based on prior experience. We believe it reasonably possible that we will not recognize any of our unrecognized tax benefits at least through December 31, 2018. If we realized and recognized any of our unrecognized tax benefits, such benefits would reduce our effective tax rate in the year of recognition.

 

We record interest and penalty expense related to income taxes as interest and other expense, respectively. At JuneSeptember 30, 2018, no interest or penalties had been or arewere required to be accrued. Our openWe file income tax returns in the US and in various state jurisdictions with varying statues of limitations. We are no longer subject to income tax examination by tax authorities for years areprior to 2011 and forward forwith respect to our federal income tax returns and years prior to 2013 and forward forwith respect to most of our state income tax returns. We do not file, and are not required to file, any foreign income tax returns.

 

Our income tax expense (benefit) reconciles to an income tax expense resulting from applying an assumed statutory federal income rate of 21% for the 2018 quarter and 2018 sixnine months and 34% for the 2017 quarter and 2017 sixnine months to income before income taxes as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

Three months ended June 30,

  

Six months ended June 30,

  

Three months ended September 30,

  

Nine months ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Income tax expense (benefit) at federal statutory rate

 $195  $245  $(50) $668 

Income tax expense at federal statutory rate

 $269  $160  $219  $828 

Increase (decrease) in taxes resulting from:

                                

State taxes, net of federal benefit

  25   23   30   51   58   16   89   67 

Stock based compensation

  121   24   151   84   14   37   164   121 

Other

  10   6   5   13   2   7   7   19 

R&D tax credit uncertain tax position (net)

  4   6   7   26   (45)  6   (38)  32 

Research and development credit

  (19)  (31)  (38)  (147)  (17)  (30)  (55)  (177)

Domestic production activities deduction

  -   (8)  -   (19)  -   (2)  -   (20)

Income tax expense per the statements of operations

 $336  $265  $105  $676  $281  $194  $386  $870 

 

On June 21, 2018, in South Dakota v Wayfair Inc.Inc., the United States Supreme Court held that states may charge sales tax on purchases made from out-of-state sellers, even if the seller does not have a physical presence in the taxing state.

We are evaluating our state income tax filings with respect to the recent Wayfair decision.

Currently, we file state income tax returns in those states in which we have a physical presence and/or are otherwise required by a state to register to do business.

 

10.

Earnings (Loss)per Common Share

 

Earnings (loss) per share for the periods indicated were as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):

 

   

Three Months Ended

  

Six Months Ended

 
   

June 30,

  

June 30,

 
   

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Numerators

                 

Numerator for basic and diluted earnings per share:

                
 

Net income (loss)

 $593  $457  $(342) $1,288 
                  

Denominators

                

Denominators for basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share:

                
 

Weighted average shares outstanding - basic

  21,838   21,675   21,816   21,610 
                  

Dilutive potential common shares

                

Stock options and awards

  331   495   -   484 

Denominator for diluted earnings (loss) per share

  22,169   22,170   21,816   22,094 
                  
 

Net income (loss) per common share - basic

 $0.03  $0.02  $(0.02) $0.06 
 

Net income (loss) per common share – diluted

 $0.03  $0.02  $(0.02) $0.06 

Due to the loss for the six months ended June 30, 2018, potentially dilutive securities related to stock options and awards of 323,000 have not been included in the dilutive earnings (loss) computation above as they are antidilutive.

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 
                 

Numerator for basic and diluted earnings per share:

                

Net income

 $998  $276  $656  $1,564 
                 

Denominators

                

Denominators for basic and diluted earnings per share:

                

Weighted average shares outstanding - basic

  21,688   21,792   21,746   21,672 
                 

Dilutive potential common shares

                

Stock options and awards

  252   455   298   473 

Denominator for diluted earnings per share

  21,940   22,247   22,044   22,145 
                 

Net income per common share - basic

 $0.05  $0.01  $0.03  $0.07 

Net income per common share – diluted

 $0.05  $0.01  $0.03  $0.07 

 

As a result of our implementation of ASU 2016-09, Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting (issued March 2016), the estimated proceeds resulting from equity compensation deductible for federal income tax purposes being greater than the associated share-basedstock-based compensation expense are no longer considered as part of the treasury stock method used in computing diluted earnings per share. This change had no material effect on our earnings per share computations.

 

11.

Dividends

 

We paid dividends during the 2018 sixnine months and 2017 sixnine months as follows:

 

 

Three Months Ended

  

Three Months Ended

 
 

March 31, 2018

  

March 31, 2017

  

June 30, 2018

  

June 30, 2017

  

March 31, 2018

  

March 31, 2017

  

June 30, 2018

  

June 30, 2017

  

September 30, 2017

 

Dividend per share of common stock

 $0.015  $0.015  $0.015  $0.015  $0.015  $0.015  $0.015  $0.015  $0.015 

Dividend record date

 

March 9, 2018

  

February 23, 2017

  

June 8, 2018

  

May 23, 2017

  

March 9, 2018

  

February 23, 2017

  

June 8, 2018

  

May 23, 2017

  

August 23, 2017

 

Dividend payment date

 

March 23, 2018

  

March 8, 2017

  

June 22, 2018

  

June 8, 2017

  

March 23, 2018

  

March 8, 2017

  

June 22, 2018

  

June 8, 2017

  

September 8, 2017

 

 

12.

Commitments and Contingencies

 

Severance Payments

We have agreements with key personnel that provide for severance payments to them in the event of a change“change in controlcontrol” of the Company, as defined in those agreements, and their employment is terminated in connection with that change in control. In such event, our aggregate severance payments to those employees would be $1.5approximately $1.3 million.

Contractual Obligations

We have an obligation under a contract with a third party to make future minimum prepaid royalty payments in the amount of $800,000 in September 2018 and $1.2 million in November 2019.

Legal and Regulatory Matters

As previously disclosed in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 15, 2017, on August 9, 2017, a securities class action complaint, Anthony Giovagnoli v. GlobalSCAPE, Inc.Inc., et. al., Case No. 5:17-cv-00753, was filed against the Company in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. On November 6, 2017, the Court appointed Irfan Rahman as lead plaintiff, and he filed the First Amended Complaint on July 26, 2018. The Amended Complaint names the Company, Matthew Goulet, James Albrecht, Thomas Brown, David Mann, Frank Morgan, and Thomas Hicks as defendants for allegedly making materially false and misleading statements regarding, inter alia, the Company’s previously reported financial statements. The Amended Complaint alleges violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder. The Amended Complaint seeks unspecified damages, costs, attorneys’ fees, and equitable relief. Management intendsThe parties reached a settlement and submitted a Stipulation of Settlement to vigorously defendthe Court on September 13, 2018. Under this settlement, the Company’s and Individual Defendants’ insurance carrier will provide the Class with a cash payment of $1,400,000, which includes the cash amount of any attorney’s fees or litigation expenses that the Court may award Lead Plaintiff’s counsel and costs Lead Plaintiff may incur in administering and providing notice of the settlement. In exchange, Lead Plaintiff has agreed that the settlement will include a dismissal of the Class Action with prejudice and a release of all claims against this action. At this time, the Company cannot predict howand the courts will ruleIndividual Defendants by the Class. This settlement was preliminarily approved by the Court on the meritsOctober 2, 2018. The Court has scheduled a hearing on December 18, 2018 to determine whether an Order and Final Judgment of the claimssettlement should be entered. The settlement will not become effective until finally approved by the Court. The Company has accrued the $1,400,000 expense in the third quarter of 2018 and has also accrued a receivable of $1,400,000 as this settlement will be funded by our insurance carrier.

On October 12, 2018, the Company received a letter from a stockholder demanding that the Company take action to remedy alleged harm caused to the Company, including to remedy alleged breaches of fiduciary duties by certain current and/or the scopeformer directors and executive officers of the potential lossCompany (“the Derivative Demand”).  The stockholder alleges, inter alia, that certain current and former directors and executive officers violated their fiduciary duties beginning at least in July 2016, causing GlobalSCAPE to suffer damages by overstating financial results for the eventfourth quarter of an adverse outcome. Should the Company ultimately be found liable, the resulting damages could have a material adverse effect on its financial position, liquidity, or results of operations.2016. 

 

On October 20, 2017, the Company received a demand letter from a stockholder seeking the inspection of books and records of the Company pursuant to Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “Section 220 Demand”). This stockholder’s stated purpose for the demand is, inter alia, to investigate whether the Company’s Board of Directors and officers engaged in an illegal scheme to misrepresent the Company’s performance by falsely reporting accounts receivable, license revenue, total current assets and total assets, total stockholders’ equity, and total liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2016, as well as the Board’s independence to consider a stockholder derivative demand. The Company intends to fully respond to the Section 220 Demand to the extent required under Delaware law.

 

The Board has established a special litigation committee (“Special Litigation Committee”) consisting of Dr. Thomas Hicks and Frank Morgan to analyze and investigate claims that could potentially be asserted in stockholder derivative litigation related to facts connected to the claims and allegations asserted in the litigation related to the Restatement, and the Section 220 Demand, and the Derivative Demand (the “Potential Derivative Litigation”). The Special Litigation Committee will determine what actions are appropriate and in the best interests of the Company, and decide whether it is in the best interests of the Company to pursue, dismiss, or consensually resolve any claims that may be asserted in the Potential Derivative Litigation. The Board determined that each member of the Special Litigation Committee is disinterested and independent with respect to the Potential Derivative Litigation. Among other things, the Special Litigation Committee has the power to retain counsel and advisors, as appropriate, to assist it in the investigation, to gather and review relevant documents relating to the claims, to interview persons who may have knowledge of the relevant information, to prepare a report setting forth its conclusions and recommended course of action with respect to the Potential Derivative Litigation, and to take any actions, including, without limitation, directing the filing and prosecution of litigation on behalf of the Company, as the Special Litigation Committee in its sole discretion deems to be in the best interests of the Company in connection with the Potential Derivative Litigation. The Special Litigation Committee’s findings and determinations shall be final and not subject to review by the Board and in all respects shall be binding upon the Company.

 

As disclosed in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 16, 2018, the Fort Worth, Texas Regional Office of the SEC has opened a formal investigation of issues relating to the Restatement, with which the Company is cooperating fully.  At this time, the Company is unable to predict the duration, scope, result or related costs associated with the SEC’s investigation.  The Company is also unable to predict what, if any, action may be taken by the SEC, or what penalties or remedial actions the SEC may seek.  Any determination by the SEC that the Company’s activities were not in compliance with existing laws or regulations, however, could result in the imposition of fines, penalties, disgorgement, equitable relief, or other losses, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, liquidity, or results of operations.

 

On May 31, 2018, the Company was served with a subpoena issued by a grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (the “Grand Jury Subpoena”). The Grand Jury Subpoena requests all documents and emails relating to the Company’s investigation of the potential improper recognition of software license revenue. The Company intends to fully cooperate with the Grand Jury Subpoena and related investigation being conducted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas (the “U.S. Attorney’s Investigation”). At this time, the Company is unable to predict the duration, scope, result or related costs of the U.S. Attorney’s Investigation. The Company is also unable to predict what, if any, further action may be taken in connection with the Grand Jury Subpoena and the U.S. Attorney’s Investigation, or what, if any, penalties, sanctions or remedial actions may be sought. Any determination by the U.S. Attorney’s office that the Company’s activities were not in compliance with existing laws or regulations, however, could result in the imposition of fines, penalties, disgorgement, equitable relief, or other losses, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, liquidity, or results of operations.

 

13.

Concentration of Business Volume and Credit Risk

 

In order to leverage the resources of third parties, we make our products available for purchase by end users through third-party, channel distributors even though those end users can also purchase those products directly from us. In the 2018 quarter and 2017 quarter, we earned approximately 15%12% and 12%14%, respectively, of our revenue from such sales through our largest third-party channel distributor. During the 2018 sixnine months and 2017 sixnine months, we earned approximately 14%13% and 13%14%, respectively, of our revenue from such sales through our largest, third-party channel distributor. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2018, approximately 23%17% of our accounts receivable were due from this channel distributor with payment for substantially all such amounts having been received subsequent to that date.

 

14.      Segment and Geographic Disclosures      

Segment and Geographic Disclosures

 

In accordance with FASB ASC Topic 280, Segment Reporting, we view our operations and manage our business as principally one segment. As a result, the financial information disclosed herein represents all of the material financial information related to our principal operating segment.

 

Revenues derived from customers and partners located outside the United States accounted for approximately 26%30% of our total revenues in the 2018 quarter and the 2017 quarter, and 28%29% and 24%26% for the 2018 sixnine months and 2017 sixnine months, respectively. Revenue derived from customers and partners in the United Kingdom were 13% of our revenue in the 2017 quarter. Each individual foreign country accounts for less than 10% of total revenuesrevenue in all periods.the 2018 quarter.  We attribute revenues to countries based on the country in which the customer or partner is located. None of our property and equipment was located in a foreign country as of JuneSeptember 30, 2018.

 

15.     Subsequent Events

 

On August 3, 2018, we implemented a plan to restructure our organization, which included a reduction in workforce of approximately 40 employees. We will record a charge of approximately $400,000 in the third quarter of 2018 relating to this reduction in force, consisting primarily of one-time severance payments and termination benefits.

 

 

 

 

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Quarterly Report”), and any documents incorporated by reference herein contain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the “Securities Act”) and Section 21E of the Securitas Exchange Act.Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). “Forward-looking statements” are those statements that are not of historical fact but describe management’s beliefs and expectations. We have identified many of the forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report by using words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “may,” “expect,” “potentially” and “intend.” Although we believe these expectations are reasonable, our operations involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including those described in the “Risk Factors” section of our 2017Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017 (the “2017 Form 10-K”) and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Commission (the “SEC”). Therefore, GlobalSCAPE’s actual results of operations and financial condition in the future could differ materially from those discussed in this Quarterly Report.

 

In the following discussion, our references to the 2018 quarter and the 2017 quarter refer to the three months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Our references to the 2018 sixnine months and the 2017 sixnine months refer to the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively.

 

Overview

 

We developGlobalSCAPE, Inc., together with its wholly-owned subsidiary (collectively referred to as the “Company”, “GlobalSCAPE”, “we”, “us” or “our”), develops and sellsells computer software that provides secure information exchange, data transfer and sharing capabilities for enterprises and consumers. We have been in business for more than twenty years having sold our products to thousands of enterprises and more than one million individual consumers globally.

 

Our primary business is selling and supporting managed file transfer or MFT,(“MFT”) software for enterprises. MFT software facilitates the transfer of data from one location to another across a computer network within a single enterprise or between multiple computer networks in multiple enterprises.

 

Our MFT products are based upon our Enhanced File Transfer or EFT,(“EFT”) platform. This on-premise and cloud-based delivery platform emphasizes secure and efficient data exchange for virtually any organization. It enables business partners, customers and employees to share information safely and securely. The EFT platform provides enterprise-level security while automating the integration of back-end systems which are features often missing from traditional file transfer software. The EFT platform features built-in regulatory compliance, governance, and visibility controls to maintain data safety and security. It can replace legacy systems, homegrown servers, expensive leased lines and virtual area networks, all of which can be insecure, with a top-performing, scalable alternative. The EFT platform promotes ease of administration while providing the detailed capabilities necessary for complete control of a file transfer system.

 

We earn most of our revenue from the sale of products and services that are part of our EFT platform. Our customersCustomers can purchase the capabilities of our EFT platform in two ways:

 

 

Under a perpetual software license for which they pay a one-time fee and under which they typically install our product on computers that they own and/or manage. Our brand name for this product is EFT. Almost all customers who purchase EFT also purchase a maintenance and support or (“M&S,&S”), contract for which they pay us an annual recurring fee. Most of the revenue we have earned from our EFT platform products has been from sales of perpetual software licenses and related M&S.

 

As a software-as-a-service or SaaS,(“SaaS”), under which they pay us ongoing fees to access the capabilities of the EFT platform in the cloud. Through 2017, EFT Cloud was our SaaS offering of the EFT platform which users accessed for a flat monthly subscription fee. In January 2018, we introduced EFT Arcus, our SaaS offering of the EFT platform going forward, for which users will pay a base monthly subscription fee plus an additional variable amount determined based upon their metered usage of EFT Arcus resources.

 

We sell other products that are synergistic to our EFT platform including Mail Express, WAFS, and CuteFTP. Collectively, these products constituted less than 5% of our total revenue in the three months and sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018. Customers pay a one-time fee to purchase these products under a perpetual software license. Some customers also purchase an M&S contract. We do not offer a SaaS version of these products and have no plans to do so.

 

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We focus on selling our EFT platform products in a business-to-business environment. The majority of the resources we will expend in the future for product research, development, marketing and sales will focus on this product line. We expect to expend minimal resources developing and selling our other products. We believe our EFT platform products and business capabilities are well-positioned to compete effectively in the market for these products. For a more comprehensive discussion of the products we sell and the services we offer, see Software“Software Products and Services below.

 

As a corporation, weWe have won multiple awards for performance and reputation, including:

 

 

In 2018:

 

-

Gold winner in the IT World Network Product Guide Awards

 

-

Recognized for two Info Security Products Guide 2018 Global Excellence Awards for distinguished achievements in product innovation in categories that included:

 

BYOD/Security Category (Gold Winner) – EFT Workspaces v 7.4.2.

 

Innovations in Compliance Category (Bronze Winner) – EFT v 7.4.2.

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Amy Hensiek recognized as one of CRN’s 2018 Women of the Channel.

 

-

Named to The Channel Company’s list of CRN Channel Chiefs as top leaders in the IT channel for the 5th consecutive year.

 

-

Awarded a 5-star rating in The Channel Company’s 2018 CRN Partner Program Guide for the 4th consecutive year.

 

 

In 2017:

 

-

Named to the CRN 2017 Cloud Partner Program Guide which recognizes partner programs with distinguished margins, sales support and cloud resources

 

-

Received three awards from the 2017 Golden Bridge Awards for distinguished technology achievements which included:

 

Cloud/SaaS Innovations (Gold Winner) – EFT on Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.

 

Managed File Transfer Innovations (Gold Winner) – The EFT Accelerate module.

 

Governance, Risk and Compliance Innovations (Bronze Winner) – EFT platform.

 

-

Received two awards from the Network Product Guide 2017 IT World Awards for achievements in product excellence that included:

 

Governance, Risk and Compliance (Gold Winner) – EFT.

 

Cloud Security (Silver Winner) – EFT Cloud Services.

 

-

Recognized as a Best Place to Work in IT by Computerworld for the fourth consecutive year and sixth time overall.

 

-

Recognized for three Info Security Products Guide 2017 Global Excellence Awards for distinguished achievements in product innovation in categories that included:

 

Innovation in Compliance (Gold Winner) – Enhanced File Transfer.

 

Cloud/SaaS Solutions (Gold Winner) – EFT Cloud Services.

 

BYOD Security (Bronze Winner) – EFT Workspaces.

 

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Honored as a Best Company to Work for in Texas by Best Companies Group (BCG), Texas Monthly, the Texas Association of Businesses (TAB), and Texas SHRM.

 

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Received a 5-Star rating in The Channel Company’s CRN 2017 Partner Program Guide for the third year in a row.

 

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Honored with the 2017 Total Rewards & Benefits Excellence Award by the HRO Today Services and Technology Association.

 

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Selected as a finalist in the 2017 Cybersecurity Product Awards Secure File Transfer: EFT Enterprise.

 

Key Business Metrics

 

We review two key business metrics on an ongoing basis to help us monitor our performance and to identify material trends which may affect our business: revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA.

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Revenue Growth

 

We believe annual revenue growth is a key metric for monitoring our continued success in developing our business in future periods. Given our diverse solution portfolio, we regularly review our revenue mix and changes in revenue across all solutions to identify emerging trends. We believe our revenue growth is primarily dependent upon executing our business strategies which include:

 

 

Ongoing innovation of our EFT platform to address the expanding needs of our existing customers and to enhance our products’ appeal to new customers.

 

 

Licensing, developing and/or acquiring technologies with features and functions that are complementary to and synergistic with our EFT platform so as to expand the breadth of our products offerings.

 

 

Enhancing our sales and marketing programs to improve identification of potential demand for our products and to increase the rate at which we are successful in selling our products.

 

We remain alert for attractive opportunities to collaborate with others or perhaps combine other revenue-producing technologies with ours to expand our product offerings and reach. To that end, we continually assess products and services offered by others that might be synergistic with our existing products. We may elect to take advantage of those opportunities through cooperative marketing agreements or licensing arrangements or by acquiring an ownership position in the enterprise offering the opportunity.

 

In continuing to develop our demand generation activities, we have made and continue to make ongoing changes in sales and marketing including:

 

 

Aligning our sales group to enhance its industry and geographic focus.

 

Implementing new sales and marketing campaigns.

 

Enhancing our support of channel partners and engaging them to sell our products through training, orientation and marketing programs.

 

When we sell our licensed products, we also typically create a recurring revenue stream from M&S since almost all purchasers of our licensed enterprise products also purchase an M&S contract. Most of our M&S contracts are for one year although we also sell multi-year contracts. The customer pays us the M&S fee for the entire term of the agreement at the time the contract begins. We recognize that amount as revenue ratably in future periods over the term of the contract.

 

We typically experience a high renewal rate for M&S services for our enterprise products so long as a customer continues using the licensed product they purchased from us. As a result, growing license revenue not only contributes to increasing revenue growth at the time the license is sold but also provides a foundation for future recurring revenue as the purchasers of our licensed products renew M&S contracts to support their ongoing product support needs. This pattern of activity can create a cumulative effect for M&S renewals as a result of the cumulative number of licensed software installations soldare renewed over multiple years that create M&S renewals in any single year predictably (and in line with our expectations) exceeding the number of new software licenses we sell in a single year.successive years. We expect this cumulative effect to continue to grow if we continue to increase enterprise software license revenue in future periods. For these reasons, we expect M&S revenue will remain a substantial part of our total revenue.

 

See Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 and Comparison“Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the SixThree Months Ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018 and 20172017” and “Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 and 2017” for a discussion of trends in our revenue growth that we monitor using this metric.

 

In the past, we reported bookings and potential future revenue as key business metrics. With the refinement of our revenue growth key business metric discussed above, we no longer rely on bookings or potential future revenue as key business metrics since wemetrics. We have determined that our revenue growth metric is the primary metric upon which we rely to measure the success of sales and marketing programs and our outlook for revenue in the future.future revenue.

 

Adjusted EBITDA (Non-GAAP Measurement)

 

We utilize Adjusted EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Total Other Income/Expense, Depreciation, Amortization, other than amortization of capitalized software development costs, and Share-Based Compensation Expense) to provide us a view of income and expenses that is supplemental and secondary to our primary assessment of net income as presented in our consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss). We use Adjusted EBITDA to provide another perspective for measuring profitability that does not include the effects of the following items:

 

 

Expenses that typically do not require us to pay them in cash in the current period (such as depreciation, amortization and share-based compensation);

 

The cost of financing our business; and

 

The effects of income taxes.

 

We monitor Adjusted EBITDA to assess our performance relative to our intended strategies, expected patterns of action, and budgets. We use the results of that assessment to adjust our future activities to the extent we deem necessary.

 

Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP.United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). It should not be considered as a substitute for net income (loss) presented on our consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss). Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool and when assessing our operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered in isolation or without a simultaneous reading and consideration of our condensed consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

We compute Adjusted EBITDA as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

Three Months Ended

  

Six Months Ended

  

Three Months Ended

  

Nine Months Ended

 
 

June 30,

  

June 30,

  

September 30,

  

September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Net Income (loss)

 $593  $457  $(342) $1,288 

Net Income

 $998  $276  $656  $1,564 

Add (subtract) items to determine Adjusted EBITDA:

                                

Income tax expense

  336   265   105   676   281   194   386   870 

Interest (income) expense, net

  (80)  (77)  (156)  (146)  93   (75)  (63)  (221)

Depreciation and amortization:

                                

Total depreciation and amortization

  525   516   1,120   1,056   522   547   1,641   1,604 

Amortization of capitalized software development costs

  (464)  (446)  (999)  (920)  (460)  (484)  (1,459)  (1,404)

Share-based compensation expense

  191   335   862   671   110   381   972   1,053 

Adjusted EBITDA

 $1,101  $1,050  $590  $2,625  $1,544  $839  $2,133  $3,466 

 

See Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Three MonthsEnded June 30, 2018 and 2017and Comparison“Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the SixThree Months Ended JuneSeptember 30, 20182018 and 20172017” and “Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018 and 2017” for discussion of the variances between periods in the components comprising Adjusted EBITDA. 

 

Software Products and Services

 

We develop and sell computer software that provides secure information exchange, data transfer, and data sharing capabilities for enterprises and consumers. We have been in business for more than twenty years having sold our products to thousands of enterprises and more than one million individual consumers globally.

 

Our primary business is selling and supporting MFT software for enterprises. MFT software facilitates the transfer of data from one location to another across a computer network within a single enterprise or between multiple computer networks in multiple enterprises. These transfers may be ongoing, repetitive activities executed by automated software routines that occur without human intervention, or they may be transfers that people create and complete in the absence of automated routines or as a result of ad-hoc, special situations that arise from time-to-time. Examples of enterprise-level activities that rely on MFT software include:

 

 

Transfer of transactional information within an enterprise on a repetitive basis from one geographic location to another, such as a transfer of deposit and withdrawal information throughout the day from a branch of a bank to a central data processing center at another location.

 

Movement of accumulated information within an enterprise from one data processing application to another on a periodic basis, such as a transfer of bi-weekly payroll information from a payroll system that is used to pay employees to a job cost system that is used to manage the cost of a project.

 

Exchange of information between enterprises to facilitate the completion of one or more business transactions, such as a retailer transmitting inventory purchasing requirements produced by its material requirements planning system to an order entry system at a supplying vendor.

 

We earn over 90% of our revenue from the sale of MFT products and services that are part of our EFT platform. We have multiple revenue streams from the EFT platform that include:

 

 

Perpetual software licenses under which customers pay us a one-time fee for the right to install our products in their information systems environment on computers they manage and either own or otherwise procure from a cloud services provider, including deploying our products at a cloud services provider in a bring-your-own-license, or BYOL, environment. Our brand name for this product is EFT. Historically, most of the revenue we have earned from our EFT platform products has been from sales of EFT perpetual software licenses and related M&S.

 

Cloud-based, SaaS solutions that we sell on an ongoing subscription basis. Through the end of 2017, EFT Cloud was our SaaS offering of the EFT platform which users accessed for a flat monthly subscription fee. In January 2018, we introduced EFT Arcus, our SaaS offering of the EFT platform going forward, for which users will pay a base monthly subscription fee plus an additional variable amount based upon their metered usage of EFT Arcus resources.

 

M&S.

 

Professional services for product installation, integration and training.

 

We focus on selling our EFT platform products in a business-to-business environment. The majority of the resources we will expend in the future for product research, development, marketing and sales will focus on this product line. We expect to expend minimal resources developing and selling our other products. We believe our EFT platform products and business capabilities are well-positioned to compete effectively in the market for these products. For a more comprehensive discussion of the products we sell and the services we offer, see below.

 

In June 2017, we introduced a data integration product that we planned to sell under the brand name Kenetix. We licensed the technology for this product from a third party. We have experienced issues with the third-party technology and have determined to suspendsuspended marketing of the product as we evaluate optionsproduct. We have settled the dispute with the third-party and determine whetherhave accrued a liability in these financial statements in the licensor can effectively addressamount of the issues.settlement, including any anticipated settlement fees.

 

We earn less than 5% of our revenue from selling other products that can be synergistic to our EFT platform. These products have capabilities that:

 

 

Support information sharing and exchange capabilities using traditional email systems.

 

Enable enterprise file synchronization and sharing.

 

Enhance the ability to replicate, share and backup files within a wide area network or local area network, thereby allowing users to access their data at higher speeds than possible with most alternate approaches.

 

Support file transfers by individuals and small businesses.

 

We earn most of our revenue from the sale of our EFT platform products that support business-to-business activities and are strategically focused on selling products in that environment. We intend to expend the majority of our resources in the future for product research and development, marketing, and sales in a manner that concentrates on the business-to-business market and more specifically catering to the needs of our existing customer base.market. We believe our products and business capabilities are well-positioned to compete effectively in that market.

 

Some of our products support consumer-oriented file transfers and file sharing. Even though these products are profitable on an overall basis, we anticipate the future resources we will expend related to products sold to consumers and the associated revenue we earn from those products will continue to be a minor part of our business.

 

Our long-standing vision has been to simply and securely automate the flow of information between people, places and applications. Using that vision as a foundation, in 2018 we introduced a fundamentally new brand identity, logo and narrative that embodies our plan to evolve to being primarily a cloud software and services provider. EFT Arcus is the foundation of that evolution. In addition, we adopted a new visual identity built upon a new tagline: “Make Business Flow Brilliantly”. Our visual theme now features a shifting background wave of colors representing the perpetual flow of data both within and between enterprises using our technology as a conduit through which the flow of business and the data it creates can be managed, monitored, controlled and viewed in a secure manner.

The following discussion presents a summary description of our specific products and solutions.

 

Managed File Transfer – Enhanced File Transfer Platform

 

Enhanced File Transfer, or EFT, is the brand name of our core MFT product platform. Our EFT platform products received multiple industry awards in compliance categories in 2018 and 2017, including the 2018 and 2017 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards, the 2017 Golden Bridge awards and the Network Product Guide’s 2017 IT World Awards.

The EFT platform provides users the ability to securely transmit data from one location to another using any number of files of any size or configuration. It facilitates management, monitoring, and reporting on file transfers and delivers advanced data transfer workflow capabilities to move data and information into, out of, and throughout an enterprise.

 

The EFT platform provides a common, scalable MFT environment that accommodates a broad family of accompanying modules to provide enterprises with increased security, automation, compliance and performance when compared to traditional FTP-based and email delivery systems. Various optional modules allow users to select the solution configuration most applicable to their requirements for auditing, and reporting, encryption, ad hoc and web-based file transfers, operability in or through a DMZ network, and integration with back-end business processes, including workflow automation capabilities.

 

General features and capabilities of the EFT platform include:

 

 

State-of-the-art, enterprise-level security when transferring information within or between computer networks as well as for collaboration with business partners, customers, and employees. EFT also provides automation that supports effective integration of back-end systems. It has built-in regulatory compliance, governance, and visibility controls to provide a means of safely maintaining information. EFT offers a high level of performance and scalability to support operational efficiency and maintain business continuity. Administrative tools are provided at various levels of granularity to allowprovide for complete control and monitoring of file transfer activities.

 

Transmission of critical information such as financial data, medical records, customer files, vendor files, personnel files, transaction activity, and other similar documents between diverse and geographically separated network infrastructures while supporting a range of information protection approaches to meet privacy, compliance and other security requirements. In addition to enabling the secure, flexible transmission of critical information using servers, desktop, and notebook computers and a wide range of network-enabled mobile devices, our products also provide customers with the ability to monitor and audit file transfer activities.

 

Compliance with government regulations and industry standards relating to the protection of information while allowing users to reduce information systems and technologies costs, increase efficiency, track and audit transactions, and automate processes. Our solutions also provide data replication, acceleration of file transfer, sharing/sharing and collaboration, and continuous data backup and recovery.

 

During 2017 and the first six2018 nine months, of 2018, we continued to improve the features and capabilities of the EFT platform and announced several product upgrades that included:

 

 

EFT Insight, a new reporting platform to strengthen data governance and provide near real-time visibility into business criticalbusiness-critical data flows and exchanges.

 

Cloud storage support capabilities with the Cloud Connector Module.

 

Remote Agent Module for streamlining and centrally managing the data exchanges with branch offices and remote locations.

 

Major enhancements for clustering and High Availability configuration.

 

Over a dozen major features in the Workspaces module to enhance sharing and collaboration capabilities.

 

Enhanced Web Transfer Client user access to improve user experience.

 

Improved SFTP security setting configuration to enable more visibility into security settings and help administrators ensure compliance.

 

Major update to the Advanced Workflow Engine (AWE)(“AWE”) module.

 

New security features, including DMZ Gateway module enhancements and updates.

We expect to continue enhancing the EFT platform with capabilities that improve its speed and responsiveness of performance, provide additional administration flexibility supporting cross-platform implementation with our DMZ Gateway solution, offer more robust reporting capabilities, and provide additional language support.

 

EFT Platform – Delivery Offerings

 

Our customers can purchase the capabilities of our EFT platform in two ways:

 

 

Under a perpetual software license for which they pay a one-time fee and under which they typically install our product on computers that they own and/and or manage. The EFT platform purchased in this manner can also be used in a bring-your-own-license environment hosted by major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Almost all customers who purchase a perpetual license to use the EFT platform also purchase an M&S contract for which they pay us a recurring fee that is typically 20% to 30% of the perpetual license fee per year.

 

As a software-as-a-service, or SaaS, under which the customer pays us monthly subscription and usage fees to access the capabilities of the EFT platform in the cloud. Our brand name for this product is EFT Arcus. We introduced this product in January 2018. We have not yet earned significant revenue from the SaaS offering of our EFT platform.

 

Secure Information Sharing and Exchange Solution – Mail Express

 

Mail Express is a solution that provides secure information sharing and exchange capabilities leveraging traditional email workflow. It is a stand-alone product installed in a client-server environment that allows users to send and receive secure, encrypted email and attachments of virtually unlimited size. Mail Express was a Bronze Winner in Email Security and Management by Network Products Guide’s 2016 IT World Awards.

To broaden the appeal and capabilities of Mail Express, we continue to develop and add functionality that integrates the features of Mail Express into the EFT platform through the Workspaces Microsoft® Outlook Plugin. This integration takes the superior control, visibility and monitoring capabilities of the EFT platform and makes them available to administrators and users in an email environment. The Workspaces Microsoft® Outlook Plugin combines the technology and features available in Mail Express with the functionality of Workspaces and integrates them directly into EFT Enterprise.

 

Wide Area File Services Solution - WAFS

 

Our WAFS software product uses data synchronization to further enhance the ability to replicate, share and backup files within a wide area network or local area network thereby allowing users to access their data at higher speeds than possible with most alternate approaches. The software uses byte-level differencing technology to update changes to files with minimal impact on network bandwidth while also ensuring that files are never overwritten, even if opened by other remote users. Other key features of WAFS include native file locking, replication to multiple locations simultaneously, adherence to access control list file permissions, and full UTF-8 support.

 

We will continue to offer WAFS as a stand-alone product and provide M&S services to customers who purchased WAFS in the past and who purchase it in the future. We do not expect to expend significant resources in the future expanding the features and capabilities of WAFS.

 

File Transfer Solution for Consumers - CuteFTP 

 

CuteFTP is our original product introduced in 1996. It is a file transfer program generally used by individuals and small businesses. It remains popular today and generates incremental revenue for us at a relatively low cost.

CuteFTP continues to have significant brand recognition in the market. Our current CuteFTP Version 9 introduced several notable new features including:

Support for Unicode (UTF-8) characters that allows greater international use.

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) support to facilitate collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers.

Version 9 simplified our CuteFTP product line by consolidating all the features of our previous multi-product CuteFTP product line for Windows operating systems into this single version. We continue to offer CuteFTP Version 3.1 software for Mac platforms. We believe current versions of CuteFTP appeal to users wanting features more robust than offered in free alternatives such that it will be a product competitive in the marketplace for the foreseeable future.

We will continue selling CuteFTP as a stand-alone product and providing M&S services to customers, who purchased CuteFTP in the past and who purchase it in the future, but we will not invest significantly inenhancing or marketing the product. We do not expect to expend significant resources in the future expanding the features and capabilities of CuteFTP.

 

Professional Services

 

We offer a wide range of professional services to complement our on-premises and SaaS solutions. These professional services include system integration, solution “quickstart” implementations, business process and workflow, policy development, education and training, and solution health checks. In addition, we may provide longer-term engineering services, including supporting multi-year contracts, if necessary, to support certain solution implementations and integrations. can include:

System integration and implantation

Business process and workflow planning

Policy development

Education and training

Solution health checks

 

Maintenance and Support

 

We offer M&S contracts to licensees of all of our software products. These M&S contracts entitle the licensee to software upgrades and technical support services in accordance with the terms of our M&S contract. Standard technical support services are provided via email and telephone during our regular business hours. For certain of our products, we offer a Platinum M&S contract which provides access to emergency technical assistance 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.

 

Most of our M&S contracts are for one year although we also sell multi-year contracts. M&S is purchased by substantially all buyers of our EFT platform as well as by many customers who purchase our other products. Customers with M&S contracts pay us a recurring, annual amountfee that is typically 20% to 30% of the software license price. A majority of our customers with M&S contracts renew them each year.

 

Employees

 

Our number of employeesworkforce is organized as follows:

 

  

June 30,

 

Department

 

2018

  

2017

 

Sales and Marketing

  54   53 

Engineering

  27   34 

Professional Services

  5   7 

Customer Support

  25   23 

Management and Administration

  17   20 

Total

  128   137 

As a result of the reduction in force described in Note 15 to our condensed consolidated financial statements and also in Item 5 of this filing, we had a total of 94 employees as of August 9, 2018.

  

September 30,

 

Department

 

2018

  

2017

 

Sales and Marketing

  36   56 

Engineering

  9   30 

Professional Services

  5   6 

Customer Support

  24   23 

Management and Administration

  16   19 

Total

  90   134 

 

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On August 3, 2018, we implemented a plan to restructure our organization, which included a reduction in workforce of approximately 40 employees, representing approximately 30% of the Company’s total pre-restructuring workforce. We recorded a charge of $381,000 in the third quarter of 2018 relating to this reduction in force, consisting primarily of one-time severance payments and termination benefits. The Company’s goal in the restructuring is to better focus our workforce on retaining current customers, gaining incremental business from current customers, and winning new business in the market segments where we can leverage our expertise and long history as an EFT pioneer.

The Company expects for the realignment to result in a significant reduction in total expenses. Furthermore, to the extent that it can be successfully implemented without negatively impacting revenues or growth opportunities, the realignment offers an opportunity for the Company to realize significant increases in operating earnings in future periods, although there can be no assurance that any such increase will occur.

 

Solution Perspective and Trends

 

The components of our revenue are as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

  

Three Months Ended September 30,

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 
     

Percent of

      

Percent of

      

Percent of

      

Percent of

      

Percent of

      

Percent of

      

Percent of

      

Percent of

 
 

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

 
                                                                

Revenue By Type

                                                                

License

 $2,722   32.2% $2,700   31.9% $4,882   30.2% $5,279   31.2% $2,843   31.7% $2,488   30.3% $7,726   30.7% $7,768   30.9%

M&S

  5,285   62.5%  5,222   61.6%  10,385   64.2%  10,343   61.2%  5,488   61.1%  5,360   65.2%  15,872   63.1%  15,702   62.5%

Professional Services

  449   5.3%  551   6.5%  900   5.6%  1,283   7.6%  649   7.2%  368   4.5%  1,549   6.2%  1,652   6.6%
                                                                

Total Revenue

 $8,456   100.0% $8,473   100.0% $16,167   100.0% $16,905   100.0% $8,980   100.0% $8,216   100.0% $25,147   100.0% $25,122   100.0%
                                                                

Revenue by Product Line

                                                                

License

                                                                

EFT Platform

 $2,635   96.8% $2,551   94.5% $4,711   96.5% $4,950   93.8% $2,767   97.3% $2,388   96.0% $7,479   96.8% $7,338   94.5%

Other

  87   3.2%  149   5.5%  171   3.5%  329   6.2%  76   2.7%  100   4.0%  247   3.2%  430   5.5%
                                                                

Total License Revenue

  2,722   100.0%  2,700   100.0%  4,882   100.0%  5,279   100.0%  2,843   100.0%  2,488   100.0%  7,726   100.0%  7,768   100.0%
                                                                

M&S

                                                                

EFT Platform

  5,064   95.8%  4,953   94.8%  9,933   95.6%  9,794   94.7%  5,270   96.0%  5,100   95.1%  15,202   95.8%  14,893   94.8%

Other

  221   4.2%  269   5.2%  452   4.4%  549   5.3%  218   4.0%  260   4.9%  670   4.2%  809   5.2%
                                                                

Total M&S Revenue

  5,285   100.0%  5,222   100.0%  10,385   100.0%  10,343   100.0%  5,488   100.0%  5,360   100.0%  15,872   100.0%  15,702   100.0%
                                                                

Professional Services (all EFT Platform)

  449   100.0%  551   100.0%  900   100.0%  1,283   100.0%  649   100.0%  368   100.0%  1,549   100.0%  1,652   100.0%
                                                                

Total Revenue

                                                                

EFT Platform

  8,148   96.4%  8,055   95.1%  15,544   96.1%  16,027   94.8%  8,686   96.7%  7,856   95.6%  24,230   96.4%  23,883   95.1%

Other

  308   3.6%  418   4.9%  623   3.9%  878   5.2%  294   3.3%  360   4.4%  917   3.6%  1,239   4.9%
                                                                

Total Revenue

 $8,456   100.0% $8,473   100.0% $16,167   100.0% $16,905   100.0% $8,980   100.0% $8,216   100.0% $25,147   100.0% $25,122   100.0%

 

Revenue from our EFT platform products increased 1.2%10.6% for the 2018 quarter compared to the 2017 quarter and decreased 3.0%1.5% for the 2018 sixnine months compared to the 2017 sixnine months. Revenue for our other product lines decreased 26.3%18.3% for the 2018 quarter compared to the 2017 quarter and 29.0%26.0% for the 2018 sixnine months compared to the 2017 sixnine months, which is consistent with our expectations as discussed below. For a more detailed discussion of these revenue trends, see Comparison“Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2018September 30, 2018 and 20172017” and Comparison“Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the SixNine Months Ended June 30,September 30, 2018 and 2017.2017”.

 

We earn revenue primarily from the following activities:

 

License revenue from sales of our EFT platform products that we deliver as either perpetually-licensed software installed at the customer’s premises, for which we earn the full amount of the license revenue at the time the license is delivered, or as a cloud-based service under our EFT Cloud Services or EFT Arcus brands delivered using a SaaS model, for which we earn monthly subscription revenue as these services are delivered.

License revenue from sales of our Mail Express, WAFS and CuteFTP products that are installed at the customer’s premises under a perpetual license for which we earn the full amount of the license revenue at the time the license is delivered.

M&S revenue under contracts to provide ongoing product support and software updates to our customers who have purchased license software which wecustomers. We recognize revenue ratably over the contractual period, which is typically one year, but can be up to three years.

Professional services revenue from a variety of implementation and integration services, as well as delivery of education and training associated with our solutions, which we recognize as the services are performed and accepted by the client.

 

We earn most of our revenue from the sale of our EFT platform products and the associated M&S and professional services related to those products. With our core competency being in products that address the MFT market, we believe our EFT platform products provide the best opportunity for our future growth. Accordingly, expansion of the capabilities of the EFT platform will be our primary focus in the future. While we will continue to sell and support our other products for the foreseeable future, they will not be an area of emphasis for us going forward.

 

We believe that continuing to offer licensed products installed on-premises for which we recognize revenue up-front and that carry with them a recurring M&S revenue stream is important to our future success. At the same time, we recognize that a migration of capabilities to a SaaS platform is attractive to a growing number of customers. We have, and have had for quite some time, the capabilities in place to deliver our EFT platform in that manner through our EFT Cloud and Arcus products. While our SaaS revenue is not yet a material component of our total revenue, a migration by our customers to our EFT Cloud and Arcus products could create some near-term decreases in the growth rate of license revenue, and may result in similar decreases in future periods, because it typically takes approximately 24 to 36 months of SaaS revenue to yield total revenue equivalent to that realized up-front from the sale of a license for an on-premise installation.

 

In mid-2016, we reviewed the allocation of our product research and development resources across all of our products. As a result of that review, we decided to adjust that allocation to focus most of our engineering resources involved in product research and development on our EFT platform products in order to expand their capabilities and to remain positioned to be responsive to the evolving needs of our customers.

We have developed and offered individualconsumer product lines throughout our history that include EFT, Mail Express, WAFS, and CuteFTP. Each of these product lines addresses distinct needs in the marketplace. While some customers purchase products from more than one of these product lines, for the most part, customers in a particular market or vertical have needs that are addressed by only one of these products and, therefore, purchase only that product. While we will continue to offer Mail Express as a stand-alone product for the time being, the engineering resources we allocate to this technology will focus on migrating it to becoming an integrated component of our EFT platform. We do not expect to expend significant resources in the future on expanding the features and capabilities of WAFS and CuteFTP although we will continue to sell those products and support them.

 

In continuing to develop our demand generation activities, we have made and continue to make ongoing changes in sales and marketing including:

 

 

Aligning our sales group to enhance its industry and geographic focus.

 

Implementing new sales and marketing campaigns.

 

Enhancing our support of channel partners and engaging them to sell our products through training, orientation and marketing programs.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Our total cash, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and working capital positions were as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

June 30, 2018

  

December 31, 2017

  

September 30, 2018

  

December 31, 2017

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 $11,914  $11,583  $9,630  $11,583 

Short term certificates of deposit

  4,311   4,291   1,530   4,291 

Long term certificates of deposit

  11,617   11,503   -   11,503 

Total cash, cash equivalents and certificates of deposit

 $27,842  $27,377  $11,160  $27,377 
                

Current assets

 $23,144  $23,296  $19,926  $23,296 

Current liabilities

  (16,785)  (16,886)  (17,701)  (16,886)

Working capital

 $6,359  $6,410  $2,225  $6,410 

 

At JuneSeptember 30, 2018, our certificatescertificate of deposit in current assets mature on various dates throughmatures in October 2018. Our long term certificate of deposit matures in December 2021.

 

When assessing our liquidity and capital resources, we consider the following factors:

 

 

We may access and monetize our certificates of deposit at any time without risk of loss of the original amounts invested. If we were to redeem these certificates of deposit prior to their maturity, we may incur a penalty and forfeit certain amounts of accrued interest, but we view such amounts as not material.

 

Deferred revenue, unlike the other liability components of our working capital, is an obligation we will satisfy by providing services in the future to our customers as part of our ongoing operating activities from which we have historically generated cash flow. Our deferred revenue does not involve a disbursement of cash as a direct payment of that liability although we will incur operating expenses in the future as we deliver those M&S services.

 

Our capital requirements principally relate to our need to fund our ongoing operating expenditures, which are primarily related to employee salaries and benefits. We make these expenditures to enhance our existing products, develop new products, sell those products in the marketplace and support our customers after the sale.

 

We rely on cash and cash equivalents on hand and cash flows from operations to fund our operating activities and believe those items will be our principal sources of capital for the foreseeable future. If our revenue declines and/or our expenses increase, our cash flow from operations and cash on hand could decline.

 

Cash provided or used by our various activities consisted of the following ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

Cash Provided (Used) During the Six Months Ended June 30,

  

Cash Provided (Used) During the Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

Operating activities

 $1,883  $1,225  $2,559  $4,773 

Investing activities

  (897)  (1,169)  13,064   (1,713)

Financing activities

  (655)  (194)  (17,576)  (508)

 

Our cash provided by operating activities increaseddecreased during the 2018 sixnine months compared to the 2017 sixnine months primarily due to the following factors:

 

 

Accounts receivable decreasing $1.7$1.1 million during the 2018 sixnine months compared to decreasing $261,000$1.8 million during the 2017 sixnine months due primarily from increasedto more cash collectionscollected from customers and lower sales duringin the 2018 six2017 nine months as compared to the 2017 six months.a result of increased collection activities that concentrated on older, smaller outstanding receivables, which was not necessary in 2018.

 

 

Accounts payable increasing $292,000$82,000 during the 2018 sixnine months compared to increasing $18,000$448,000 during the 2017 sixnine months due to increased legal fees incurred in connection with our previously announced internal investigation and the matters discussed in note 12 of the notes to our condenses consolidated financial statements and normal variations in the timing of payments to our vendors.

 

 

Federal income tax receivable increasing $157,000 inDeferred revenue decreasing $1.9 million during the 2018 sixnine months compared to increasing $669,000 indecreasing $1.5 million during the 2017 sixnine months due primarily to paying $1.3 million morea decrease in income tax payments in the 2017 six months as compared to the 2018 six months.multi-year renewals.

 

 

Deferred revenue decreasing $1.0Prepaid and other current assets increasing $1.9 million duringin the 2018 sixnine months compared to decreasing $1.3 million during$163,000 in the 2017 sixnine months due primarily to a larger number of M&S sales during the 2018 six months.receivable from our insurance carrier relating to legal expense and securities class action complaint described in Footnote 12.

Offset by:

 

 

Net income (loss) after considering items not involving cash at the time they are recorded in the statement of operations and comprehensive income, (loss), as set forth on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, decreasing from $2.9$4.8 million in the 2017 sixnine months to $1.6$2.6 million in the 2018 sixnine months. See “See Comparison of the Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Six Nine Months Ended June 30, 2018September 30, 2018 and 2017 2017” for a discussion of the changes in the components of these amounts.

 

Offset by:

 

Prepaid and other current assetsAccrued expenses increasing $389,000$1.7 million in the 2018 sixnine months compared to decreasing $106,000increasing $404,000 in the 2017 sixnine months due primarily to the accrual of a receivable$1.4 million future payment related to an insurance claim that did not existthe settlement of the securities class action complaint described in 2017.footnote 12 and the accrual of one-time severance payments and termination costs in association with the reduction in force.

 

Federal income tax receivable decreasing $82,000 in the 2018 nine months compared to increasing $759,000 in the 2017 nine months due primarily to paying $1.3 million more in income tax payments in the 2017 nine months as compared to the 2018 nine months.

 

The amount of cash we used for investing activities during the 2018 sixnine months decreasedincreased compared to the 2017 sixnine months due primarily to:

The redemption of the majority of our certificates of deposit which caused an increase of $14.3 million in the 2018 nine months, for which no comparable event in the 2017 nine months occurred.

Offset by:

 

 

A decrease in the purchase of property and equipment as a result of remodeling of our sales and engineering office spaces in the 2017 sixnine months, for which there was no comparable event in the 2018 six months; andnine months.

 

A decrease in our software development costs capitalized due to it taking longer than expected to fill openthe reduction in force which significantly reduced the headcount in our engineering positions with the skillsets needed to support new product development as a result of competition in the marketplace for software engineers.department.

 

Financing activities used more cash during the 2018 sixnine months than during the 2017 sixnine months primarily due to a moratorium on issuing shares of our common stock in connection with stock option exercises in the 2018 six months that did not exist in the 2017 six months.to:

The purchase of $17.2 million of our common stock, predominantly through our tender offer.

A decrease in proceeds received from the exercise of stock options during the 2018 nine months compared to the 2017 nine months as a result of a moratorium on issuing shares of common stock in 2018, which was lifted in August of 2018.

Offset by:

No dividend payment in the third quarter of 2018 compared to a dividend payment of approximately $328,000 in the third quarter of 2017.

 

Contractual Obligations and Commitments

 

As of JuneSeptember 30, 2018, our contractual obligations and commitments consisted primarily of the following items:

 

 

An obligation to deliver services in the future to satisfy our right to earn our deferred revenue of $16.0$15.1 million. Those future services primarily relate to our obligations under M&S contracts. We will recognize this deferred revenue as revenue over the remaining life of those contracts which generally ranges from one to three years. Deferred revenue, unlike the other liability components of our working capital, is an obligation we will satisfy by providing services in the future to our customers as part of our ongoing operating activities from which we have historically generated cash flow. Our deferred revenue does not involve a disbursement of cash as a direct payment of that liability although we will incur operating expenses in the future as we deliver those M&S services.

 

We have an obligation under a contract with a third-party to prepay future minimum royalty payments in the amount of $800,000 in September 2018 and $1.2 million in November 2019.

��

Trade accounts payable and accrued liabilities which include our contractual obligations to pay software royalties to third parties that vary in amount based on our sales volume of products upon which royalties are payable.

 

Operating lease for our office space.

 

Federal and state taxes.

 

Our non-cancellable, contractual obligations at JuneSeptember 30, 2018, consisted primarily of the following ( $in($ in thousands):

 

  

Amounts Due for the Period

 
  

Six Months Ending

December 31,

  

Fiscal Years

 
  

2018

  

2019

  

2020

  

Thereafter

  

Total

 
                     

Prepaid royalty fees

 $800  $1,200  $-  $-  $2,000 

Operating leases

  180   120   -   -   300 

Total

 $980  $1,320  $-  $-  $2,300 
  

Amounts Due for the Period

 
  

Three Months Ending

December 31,

  

Fiscal Years

 
  

2018

  

2019

  

2020

  

Thereafter

  

Total

 
                     

Operating leases

 $90  $120  $0  $0  $210 

 

As of JuneSeptember 30, 2018, we had no interest-bearing obligations in the form of loans, notes payable or similar debt instruments.

 

Due to the change in business strategy, more fully described in item 5, we plan to continue to expend resources in the future on product development and sales and marketing, but at a lower rate than in past quarters.

Comparison of the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations for the Three Months Ended June September 30, 2018 and 2017

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

      

Three Months Ended September 30,

     
 

2018

  

2017

  

$Change

  

2018

  

2017

  

$ Change

 
 

$in thousands

  

$ in thousands

 
                        

Total revenues

 $8,456  $8,473  $(17) $8,980  $8,216  $764 

Total cost of revenues

  1,565   1,530   35   1,499   1,573   (74)

Gross profit

  6,891   6,943   (52)  7,481   6,643   838 

Operating expenses

                        

Sales and marketing

  2,889   3,196   (307)  2,261   3,079   (818)

General and administrative

  1,470   1,529   (59)  1,589   1,573   16 

Legal and professional

  1,046   360   686   1,510   1,002   508 

Severance

  381   -   381 

Research and development

  637   1,213   (576)  368   594   (226)

Total operating expenses

  6,042   6,298   (256)  6,109   6,248   (139)

Income from operations

  849   645   204   1,372   395   977 

Other income

  80   77   3   (93)  75   (168)

Income before income taxes

  929   722   207   1,279   470   809 

Income tax expense

  336   265   71   281   194   87 

Net income

 $593  $457  $136  $998  $276  $722 

 

In the discussion below, we refer to the three months ended June 30, 2018 as the “2018 quarter” and the three months ended June 30, 2017 as the “2017 quarter”. The percentage changes cited in our discussions are based on the 2018 quarter amounts compared to the 2017 quarter amounts.

 

Revenue. The components of our revenues were as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

  

Three Months Ended June 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

 
      

Percent of

      

Percent of

 
  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

 
                 

Revenue By Type

                

License

  2,722   32.2%  2,700   31.9%

M&S

  5,285   62.5%  5,222   61.6%

Professional Services

  449   5.3%  551   6.5%
                 

Total Revenue

 $8,456   100.0% $8,473   100.0%
                 

Revenue by Product Line

                

License

                

EFT Platform

 $2,635   96.8% $2,551   94.5%

Other

  87   3.2%  149   5.5%
                 
   2,722   100.0%  2,700   100.0%

M&S

                

EFT Platform

  5,064   95.8%  4,953   94.8%

Other

  221   4.2%  269   5.2%
                 
   5,285   100.0%  5,222   100.0%
                 

Professional Services (all EFT Platform)

  449   100.0%  551   100.0%
                 

Total Revenue

                

EFT Platform

  8,148   96.4%  8,055   95.1%

Other

  308   3.6%  418   4.9%
                 
  $8,456   100.0% $8,473   100.0%

  

Three Months Ended September 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

 
      

Percent of

      

Percent of

 
  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

 
                 

Revenue By Type

                

License

 $2,843   31.7% $2,488   30.3%

M&S

  5,488   61.1%  5,360   65.2%

Professional Services

  649   7.2%  368   4.5%
                 

Total Revenue

 $8,980   100.0% $8,216   100.0%
                 

Revenue by Product Line

                

License

                

EFT Platform

 $2,767   97.3% $2,388   96.0%

Other

  76   2.7%  100   4.0%
                 
   2,843   100.0%  2,488   100.0%

M&S

                

EFT Platform

  5,269   96.0%  5,100   95.1%

Other

  219   4.0%  260   4.9%
                 
   5,488   100.0%  5,360   100.0%
                 

Professional Services (all EFT Platform)

  649   100.0%  368   100.0%
                 

Total Revenue

                

EFT Platform

  8,685   96.7%  7,856   95.6%

Other

  295   3.3%  360   4.4%
                 
  $8,980   100.0% $8,216   100.0%

 

Our total revenue remained relatively flat.increased 9.3%. Revenue from our EFT platform products and services increased 1.2%10.6%. Revenue from our other products that consist of Mail Express, WAFS, CuteFTP, and TappIn decreased to comprising 3.6%3.3% of our total revenue, which is a trend that is in line with our ongoing de-emphasis of those products.

 

EFT Platform Products

 

License revenue from our EFT platform products increased 3.3%15.9%. This increase was primarily due to an increase in the number of large transactions, including transactions that were expected to originally close in the previous quarter and a change in our lead generation strategy toward the end of 2017 which led to an increase in selling opportunities in the 2018 quarter.

 

To improve our ability to successfully sell existing EFT platform products as well as new products produced by our software engineering team, we continued to make, and will continue to make, ongoing changes in sales and marketing personnel and activities including:

 

 

Aligning our sales group to enhance its industry and geographic focus.

 

Implementing new sales and marketing campaigns.

 

Enhancing our support of channel partners and engaging them to sell our products through training, orientation and marketing programs.

 

M&S revenue from our EFT platform products increased 2.2%3.3% primarily due to:

 

 

Ongoing license sales since a majority of license sales are accompanied by an M&S contract. The change in M&S revenue typically lags behind the related change in license revenue because license sales are recognized as revenue in full in the period the license is delivered while the related M&S revenue is recognized in future periods as those services are delivered.

 

Sustaining high renewal rates of M&S contracts by customers who initially purchased these services in earlier periods. We believe these renewals result from our programs designed to provide high-quality and responsive M&S services to our customers.

 

Our professional services revenue was $102,000 less$281,000 more for the 2018 quarter compared to the 2017 quarter which is a decreasean increase of 18.5%76.4%. This decreaseincrease was primarily due to lower headcountan increase in oursoftware license sales, which typically results in higher professional services department which resulted in less resources available to deliver professional services in the 2018 quarter.service revenue.

 

When we sell our licensed products, we also typically create a recurring revenue stream from M&S since almost all purchasers of our licensed products also purchase an M&S contract. In general, and depending upon the level of M&S a customer purchases, this recurring revenue stream is 20% to 30% per year of the price of the underlying software license to which the M&S relates.

 

Our M&S contracts are typically for one year, with some customers buying two or three year contracts. The customer pays usCustomers pay the M&S fee for the entire term of the agreement at the time the contract begins. We recognize that amount as revenue ratably in future periods over the term of the contract.

 

We typically experience a high renewal rate for M&S services for our enterprise products so long as a customer continues using the licensed product they purchased from us. As a result, growing license revenue not only contributes to increasing revenue growth at the time the license is sold but also provides a foundation for future recurring revenue as the purchasers of our licensed products continually renew M&S contracts to support their ongoing product support needs. This pattern of activity can create a cumulative effect for M&S renewals as a result of the cumulative number of licensed software installations sold over multiple years that create M&S renewals in any single year predictably (and in line with our expectations) exceeding the number of new software licenses we sell in a single year. We expect this cumulative effect to continue to grow if we continue to increase enterprise software license revenue in future periods.

 

Other Products

 

In mid-2016, we announced that our focus would be on our EFT platform products. At the same time, we announced that while we would continue selling our Mail Express, WAFS, CuteFTP, and TappIn products that collectively constitute less than 3.6%3.3% of our total revenue in the quarter, in the future we would de-emphasize these stand-alone products that are not part of our EFT platform. Accordingly, during the second half of 2016, we began to curtail our product development and engineering resources for these products and significantly reduced our sales and marketing activities supporting them. As a result, our license and M&S revenue from those products collectively declined 26.3%18.1% in the 2018 quarter compared to the 2017 quarter. Our future focus will be on our EFT platform such that we expect to see a continuing decline in revenue from these other, productshowever although we do expect them to continue to produce a modest contribution margin that contributes to our future profitability.margin.

Cost of Revenues. These expenses are associated with the production, delivery and support of our products and services. We believe it is most meaningful to view cost of revenues as a percent of the revenues to which those costs relate since many of those costs are variable relative to revenue.

 

Cost of license revenue primarily consists primarily of:

 

 

Amortization of capitalized software development costs we incur when producing our software products. This amortizationAmortization begins when a product is ready for general release to the public and generally is an expense that is not directly variable relative to revenue.

 

Royalties we pay to use software developed by others for certain features of our products that is generally an expense that is variable relative to revenue.

 

Fees we pay to third parties who provide services supporting our SaaS and cloud-based subscription solutions that generally have components that are both variable and not variable relative to revenue.

 

Cost of M&S revenue and cost of professional services revenue consist primarily of salaries and related costs of our employees and third parties we use to deliver these services.

 

Cost of software license revenue decreased 2.4%0.6% and as a percent of software license revenue was 27.0%25.4% in the 2018 quarter compared to 27.9%29.1% in the 2017 quarter. These decreases were primarily due to lower royalty expense, which can fluctuate based upon the mix of products sold, offset by slight increases in third partythird-party hosting fees for our SaaS products and an increase in amortization of capitalized software development costs.

 

Cost of M&S revenue as a percent of M&S revenue was 10.2%9.4% in the 2018 quarter as compared to 8.1%8.3% in the 2017 quarter. Cost of revenue for M&S in absolute dollars increased by 26.8%15.2%. These increases were a combination of increasing our headcount in our customer support department and the decision by the U.S. Army to consolidate certain of their operations resulting in the non-renewal of their M&S contract in September of 2017.

 

Cost of professional services revenue as a percent of that revenue was 65.0%40.6% in the 2018 quarter as compared to 64.1%109.2% in the 2017 quarter. This variation resulted from the varying scope and mix of the professional services we deliver that can change from period-to-period in response to the circumstances of the customer environments in which we are working. Because the cost of revenue for professional services is highly variable relative to our revenue from our services, this cost in absolute dollars decreased 17.3%34.3% due to a decrease in our professional services revenue for the reasons discussed above.headcount.

 

Sales and Marketing.  We believe it most meaningful to view cost of sales and marketing as a percent of revenues since many of those costs, particularly sales commissions, are variable relative to revenue. These expenses were 34.2%25.2% of total revenue for the 2018 quarter compared to 37.7%37.5% of total revenue for the 2017 quarter. In absolute dollars these expenses decreased 9.6%26.6% due primarily to decreased marketing expenses related to a decrease in our spending for content syndication in order to instead use those resources to enhance our business development representative program.and reduced headcount.

 

General and Administrative. These expenses decreased 3.9%increased 1.0% primarily due to a decreasefees related to our 2018 Shareholder Meeting which was held in share-based compensation.October of 2018, whereas our 2017 Shareholder Meeting was held in May of 2017.

 

Legal and Professional. These expenses increased 191% or approximately $686,00050.7% primarily due to increases in professional fees and related expenses associated with the previously disclosed internal investigation, the restatement of certain of our financial statements and related litigation described in note 12 of the notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

Severance. These expenses increased $381,000 due to the one-time severance payments and termination benefits associated with the reduction in force.

 

Research and Development.  The overall profile of our research and development or R&D,“R&D” activities was as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

  

Three Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

R&D expenditures expensed

 $637  $1,213  $368  $594 

R&D expenditures capitalized

  390   476   264   527 

Total R&D expenditures (non-GAAP measurement)

 $1,027  $1,689  $632  $1,121 

 

Our total R&D expenditures decreased 39.2%43.6% during the 2018 quarter as compared with the 2017 quarter primarily due to a reduction of expenses related to researching technologies available from third parties and shortages of qualifiedfewer employed software engineers and technical personnel that caused some of our open positions that arise during the normal course of business to take longer to fill.personnel.

 

Total resources expended for R&D set forth above as total R&D expenditures serves to illustrate our total corporate efforts to improve our existing products and to develop new products regardless of whether or not our expenditures for those efforts were expensed or capitalized. Total resources expended for R&D is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for R&D expense (set forth above as R&D expenditures expensed) and capitalized software development costs (set forth above as R&D expenditures capitalized) individually. While we believe the non-GAAP, total resources expended for R&D amount provides useful supplemental information regarding our overall corporate product improvement and new product creation activities, there are limitations associated with the use of this non-GAAP measurement. Total resources expended for R&D is a non-GAAP measure not prepared in accordance with GAAP and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies since there is no standard for preparing this non-GAAP measure. As a result, this non-GAAP measure of total resources expended for R&D has limitations and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, R&D expense and capitalized software development costs individually.

 

Interest Income (Expense), Net. Interest income (expense), net consistshas historically consisted primarily of interest income earned on certificates of deposit. This income increased 3.9% duringIn the 2018 quarter as comparedthe amount is an expense due to the 2017 quarter dueforfeiture of approximated $155,000 in accrued interest. This forfeiture was the result of redeeming a long term certificate of deposit before its scheduled maturity date in order to an increase infund the ratepurchase of interest on certain of our certificates.shares related to the tender offer.

 

Income Taxes. Our effective rate differed from the federal statutory tax rate of 21% in the 2018 quarter and 34% in the 2017 quarter primarily due to:

 

 

Certain expenses in our consolidated financial statements, such as a portion of meals and entertainment expenses and stock based compensation that are not deductible on our federal income tax return.

 

State income taxes included in income tax expense in our consolidated financial statements.

 

Offset by:

 

 

The domestic production activities deduction (in the 2017 quarter) and the research and development credit which are tax credit incentives that serve to reduce the rate at which we pay federal income taxes in exchange for us conducting certain aspects of our business in a manner promoted by the Internal Revenue Code.

 

Comparison of theCondensed Consolidated Statement of Operations for the SixNine Months Ended June September 30, 2018 and 2017

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

      

Nine Months Ended September 30,

     
 

2018

  

2017

  

$Change

  

2018

  

2017

  

$ Change

 
 

$in thousands

  

$ in thousands

 
                        

Total revenues

 $16,167  $16,905  $(738) $25,147  $25,122  $25 

Total cost of revenues

  3,183   3,064   119   4,679   4,637   42 

Gross profit

  12,984   13,841   (857)  20,468   20,485   (17)

Operating expenses

                        

Sales and marketing

  6,001   6,485   (484)  8,229   9,564   (1,335)

General and administrative

  3,293   3,047   246   4,883   4,607   276 

Legal and professional

  2,725   556   2,169   4,235   1,550   2,685 

Severance

  488   21   467 

Research and development

  1,358   1,935   (577)  1,654   2,530   (876)

Total operating expenses

  13,377   12,023   1,354   19,489   18,272   1,217 

Income (loss) from operations

  (393)  1,818   (2,211)

Income from operations

  979   2,213   (1,234)

Other income

  156   146   10   63   221   (158)

Income (loss) before income taxes

  (237)  1,964   (2,201)

Income before income taxes

  1,042   2,434   (1,392)

Income tax expense

  105   676   (571)  386   870   (484)

Net income (loss)

 $(342) $1,288  $(1,630)

Net income

 $656  $1,564  $(908)

 

In the discussion below, we refer to the six months ended June 30, 2018 as the “2018 six months” and the six months ended June 30, 2017 as the “2017 six months.” The percentage changes cited in our discussions are based on the 2018 sixnine month amounts compared to the 2017 sixnine month amounts.

Revenue. The components of our revenues were as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

  

Six Months Ended June 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

 
      

Percent of

      

Percent of

 
  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

 
                 

Revenue By Type

                

License

  4,882   30.2%  5,279   31.2%

M&S

  10,385   64.2%  10,343   61.2%

Professional Services

  900   5.6%  1,283   7.6%
                 

Total Revenue

 $16,167   100.0% $16,905   100.0%
                 

Revenue by Product Line

                

License

                

EFT Platform

 $4,711   96.5% $4,950   93.8%

Other

  171   3.5%  329   6.2%
                 
   4,882   100.0%  5,279   100.0%

M&S

                

EFT Platform

  9,933   95.6%  9,794   94.7%

Other

  452   4.4%  549   5.3%
                 
   10,385   100.0%  10,343   100.0%
                 

Professional Services (all EFT Platform)

  900   100.0%  1,283   100.0%
                 

Total Revenue

                

EFT Platform

  15,544   96.1%  16,027   94.8%

Other

  623   3.9%  878   5.2%
                 
  $16,167   100.0% $16,905   100.0%

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
  

2018

  

2017

 
      

Percent of

      

Percent of

 
  

Amount

  

Total

  

Amount

  

Total

 
                 

Revenue By Type

                

License

 $7,726   30.7% $7,768   30.9%

M&S

  15,872   63.1%  15,702   62.5%

Professional Services

  1,549   6.2%  1,652   6.6%
                 

Total Revenue

 $25,147   100.0% $25,122   100.0%
                 

Revenue by Product Line

                

License

                

EFT Platform

 $7,479   96.8% $7,338   94.5%

Other

  247   3.2%  430   5.5%
                 
   7,726   100.0%  7,768   100.0%

M&S

                

EFT Platform

  15,202   95.8%  14,893   94.8%

Other

  670   4.2%  809   5.2%
                 
   15,872   100.0%  15,702   100.0%
                 

Professional Services (all EFT Platform)

  1,549   100.0%  1,652   100.0%
                 

Total Revenue

                

EFT Platform

  24,230   96.4%  23,883   95.1%

Other

  917   3.6%  1,239   4.9%
                 
  $25,147   100.0% $25,122   100.0%

 

Our total revenue decreased 4.4%.was relatively flat for the 2018 nine months as compared to the 2017 nine months. Revenue from our EFT platform products and services decreased 3.0%increased 1.5%. Revenue from our other products that consist of Mail Express, WAFS, CuteFTP, and TappIn decreased to comprising 3.9%3.6% of our total revenue, which is a trend that is in line with our ongoing de-emphasis of those products.

 

EFT Platform Products

 

License revenue from our EFT platform products decreased 4.8%increased 1.9%. This decreaseincrease was primarily due to an unusually largeincrease in the number of potential customers deferring their buying decisionslarge transactions, including transactions that were expected to later periods as a result of their assessment of business factors unique to each of them and a changeclose in our lead generation strategy toward the end of 2017 which lead to a temporary drop in selling opportunities in 2018. While the second half of the 2018 six months saw a marked improvement, it was not enough to offset the effects of these events attributable to the first half of the 2018 six months.2017.

 

To improve our ability to successfully sell existing EFT platform products as well as new products produced by our software engineering team, we continued to make and will continue to make, ongoing changes in sales and marketing personnel and activities including:

Aligning our sales group to enhance its industry and geographic focus.

Implementing new sales and marketing campaigns.

Enhancing our support of channel partners and engaging them to sell our products through training, orientation and marketing programs.

 

M&S revenue from our EFT platform products increased 1.4%2.1% primarily due to:

 

 

Ongoing license sales since a majority of license sales are accompanied by an M&S contract. The change in M&S revenue typically lags behind the related change in license revenue because license sales are recognized as revenue in full in the period the license is delivered while thedelivered. The related M&S revenue is recognized in future periods as those services are delivered.

 

Sustaining high renewal rates of M&S contracts by customers who initially purchased these services in earlier periods. We believe these renewals result from our programs designed to provide high-quality and responsive M&S services to our customers.

 

Our professionalProfessional services revenue decreased $383,000 which is$103,000 primarily due to a decrease of 30%. This decrease was primarily related to the decreased license revenue from our EFT platform since there generally is a direct relationship between the licenses our customers purchase and their need for professional services and lower headcount in our professional services department which resulted in lessfewer resources available to deliver these services.

 

When we sell our licensed products, we also typically create a recurring revenue stream from M&S since almost all purchasers of our licensed products also purchase an M&S contract. In general, and depending upon the level of M&S a customer purchases, this recurring revenue stream is 20% to 30% per year of the price of the underlying software license to which the M&S relates.

 

Our M&S contracts are typically for one year, with some customers buying two or three year contracts. The customer pays us the M&S fee for the entire term of the agreement at the time the contract begins. We recognize that amount as revenue ratably in future periods over the term of the contract.

 

We typically experience a high renewal rate for M&S services for our enterprise products so long as a customer continues using the licensed product they purchased from us. As a result, growing license revenue not only contributes to increasing revenue growth at the time the license is sold but also provides a foundation for future recurring revenue as the purchasers of our licensed products continually renew M&S contracts to support their ongoing product support needs. This pattern of activity can create a cumulative effect for M&S renewals as a result of the cumulative number of licensed software installations sold over multiple years that create M&S renewals in any single year predictably (and in line with our expectations) exceeding the number of new software licenses we sell in a single year. We expect this cumulative effect to continue to grow if we continue to increase enterprise software license revenue in future periods.

 

Other Products

In mid-2016, we announced that our focus would be on our EFT platform products. At the same time, we announced that while we would continue selling our Mail Express, WAFS, CuteFTP, and TappIn products that collectively constitute less than 5% of our total revenue, in the future we would de-emphasize these stand-alone products that are not part of our EFT platform. Accordingly, during the second half of 2016, we curtailed our product development and engineering resources for these products and significantly reduced our sales and marketing activities supporting them. As a result, our license and M&S revenue from those products collectively declined 29% in the 2018 six months compared to the 2017 six months. Our future focus will be on our EFT platform such that we expect to see a continuing decline in revenue from these other products although we do expect them to continue to produce a modest contribution margin that contributes to our future profitability.

Cost of Revenues. These expenses are associated with the production, delivery and support of our products and services. We believe it is most meaningful to view cost of revenues as a percent of the revenues to which those costs relate since many of those costs are variable relative to revenue.

 

Cost of license revenue consists primarily of:

 

 

Amortization of capitalized software development costs we incur when producing our software products. This amortizationAmortization begins when a product is ready for general release to the public and generally is an expense that is not directly variable relative to revenue.

 

Royalties we pay to use software developed by others for certain features of our products that is generally an expense that is variable relative to revenue.

 

Fees we pay to third parties who provide services supporting our SaaS and cloud-based subscription solutions that generally have components that are both variable and not variable relative to revenue.

 

Cost of M&S revenue and cost of professional services revenue consist primarily of salaries and related costs of our employees and third parties we use to deliver these services.

 

Cost of software license revenue was relatively flat and as a percent of software license revenue was 30.8%28.8% in the 2018 sixnine months as compared to 28.6% in theand 2017 sixnine months. While the change in absolute dollars was minimal, the cost as a percent of the related revenue increased primarily due to the amortization of capitalized software development costs which is a cost that does not fluctuate based upon the number of units sold. TheAn increase in amortization of capitalized software development cost was offset by a combination of lower royalty expense and an increase in third-party hosting fees for our SaaS products which resulted in a negligible decrease in overall costs.was offset by lower royalty expense.

 

Cost of M&S revenue as a percent of M&S revenue was 10.2%9.9% in the 2018 sixnine months as compared to 8.1%8.2% in the 2017 sixnine months. Cost of revenue for M&S in absolute dollars increased by 26.7%22.7%. These increases were a combination of increasing our headcount in our customer support department and the decision by the U.S. Army to consolidate certain of their operations resulting in the non-renewal of their M&S contract in September of 2017.

 

Cost of professional services revenue as a percent of that revenue was 68.4%56.8% in the 2018 sixnine months as compared to 55.9%67.8% in the 2017 sixnine months. This variation resulted from the varying scope and mix of the professional services we deliver that can change from period-to-period in response to the circumstances of the customer environments in which we are working. Because the cost of revenue for professional services is highly variable relative to our revenue from our services, this cost in absolute dollars decreased 14.1%21.4% due to a decrease in our professional services revenue for the reasons discussed above.

 

Sales and Marketing.  We believe it most meaningful to view cost of sales and marketing as a percent of revenues since many of those costs, particularly sales commissions, are variable relative to revenue. These expenses were 37.1%32.7% of total revenue for the 2018 sixnine months compared to 38.4%38.1% of total revenue for the 2017 sixnine months. In absolute dollars these expenses decreased 7.5%14.0%, due primarily to decreaseda decrease in the headcount of our sales commissions due to lower sales andrepresentatives, a change in the way in which we compensate our sales people and decreased marketing expenses due to a decrease in our spending for content syndication in order to instead use those resources to enhance our business development representative program.content.

 

General and Administrative. These expenses increased 8.1%6.0% primarily due to a one-time share based compensation expense related to modification of certain stock options of our former Chief Financial Officer, offset by a credit to bad debt expense as a result of reducing the balance in our allowance for doubtful accounts to better reflect our potential exposure.

Legal and Professional. These expenses increased 390%173.2% or $2.2$2.7 million due to an increase of professional fees and related expenses associated with the previously disclosed internal investigation, the restatement of certain of our financial statements and related litigation described in note 12 of the notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements

Severance. These expenses increased $467,000 due mainly to the one-time severance payments and termination benefits associated with the reduction in force.

Research and Development.  The overall profile of our research and development activities was as follows ( $in($ in thousands):

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

  

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 
 

2018

  

2017

  

2018

  

2017

 

R&D expenditures expensed

 $1,358  $1,935  $1,654  $2,530 

R&D expenditures capitalized

  792   938   1,057   1,464 

Total R&D expenditures (non-GAAP measurement)

 $2,150  $2,873  $2,711  $3,994 

 

Our total R&D expenditures decreased 25.2%32.1% primarily due to a reduction of expenses related to researching technologies available from third parties and shortages of qualifiedfewer software engineers and technical personnel that caused some of our open positions that arise during the normal course of business to take longer to fill.personnel.

 

Total resources expended for R&D set forth above as total R&D expenditures serves to illustrate our total corporate efforts to improve our existing products and to develop new products regardless of whether or not our expenditures for those efforts were expensed or capitalized. Total resources expended for R&D is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered a substitute for R&D expense (set forth above as R&D expenditures expensed) and capitalized software development costs (set forth above as R&D expenditures capitalized) individually. While we believe the non-GAAP, total resources expended for R&D amount provides useful supplemental information regarding our overall corporate product improvement and new product creation activities, there are limitations associated with the use of this non-GAAP measurement. Total resources expended for R&D is a non-GAAP measure not prepared in accordance with GAAP and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies since there is no standard for preparing this non-GAAP measure. As a result, this non-GAAP measure of total resources expended for R&D has limitations and should not be considered in isolation from, or as a substitute for, R&D expense and capitalized software development cost individually.

 

Interest Income (Expense), Net. OtherInterest income consistshas historically consisted primarily of interest income earned on certificates of deposit. ThisThe reduction in income increased 6.8% during thein 2018 six months as comparedis due to the 2017 six months dueforfeiture of approximated $155,000 in accrued interest. This forfeiture was the result of redeeming a long term certificate of deposit before its scheduled maturity date in order to an increase infund the ratepurchase of interest on certain of our certificates.shares relate to the tender offer.

 

Income Taxes. Our effective tax rate differed from the federal statutory tax rate of 21% for the 2018 sixnine months and 34% for the 2017 sixnine months primarily due to:

 

 

Certain expenses in our consolidated financial statements, such as a portion of meals and entertainment expenses and stock based compensation that are not deductible on our federal income tax return.

 

State income taxes included in income tax expense in our financial statements.

 

Offset by:

 

 

The domestic production activities deduction (in the 2017 sixnine months) and the research and development credit that are tax credit incentives that serve to reduce the rate at which we pay federal income taxes in exchange for us conducting certain aspects of our business in a manner promoted by the Internal Revenue Code.

 

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

 

We have not utilized derivative financial instruments or derivative commodity instruments. We do not expect to employ these or other strategies to hedge market risk in the foreseeable future. We may invest our cash in money market funds which are subject to minimal credit and market risk. We believe that the interest rate risk and other relevant market risks associated with these financial instruments are immaterial.

 

During the 2018 quarter and 2017 quarter, we earned approximately 15%12% and 12%14%, respectively, of our revenue from a single third partythird-party channel distributor who purchases products from us and resells them to their customers. During the 2018 sixnine months and 2017 sixnine months, we earned approximately 14%13% and 13%14%, respectively, of our revenue from the same third-party channel distributor. Approximately 23%17% of our accounts receivable as of JuneSeptember 30, 2018 were due from this distributor. We have since received payment for substantially all of these accounts receivable.

 

We earned approximately 26%30% of our revenue from customers outside the United States during the 2018 quarter and the 2017 quarter, and 28%29% and 24%26% for the 2018 sixnine months and 2017 sixnine months, respectively. We receive all revenue in U.S. dollars, so we have no material exchange rate risk with regard to our sales. We charge Value Added Taxes to our non-business customers in the European Union. We remit these taxes periodically in pound sterling. The impact of this currency translation has not been material to our business.

 

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

 

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Our management, including our President and Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, evaluated our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act)) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on this evaluation, our President and Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that due to material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, the company’sour disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of JuneSeptember 30, 2018.

 

As previously reported in our 2017 Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange CommissionSEC on June 14, 2018, in connection with our assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting at the end of our last fiscal year, management identified the following material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2017 and is in the process of remediation as of JuneSeptember 30, 2018.

 

We had material weaknesses in our control environment and monitoring:

 

 

We did not implement effective oversight of our finance and accounting processes (including organizational structure and reporting hierarchy), which impacted our ability to make appropriate decisions regarding revenue recognition.

 

We did not effectively design and implement appropriate oversight controls over our period-end financial closing and reporting processes, and our review controls were not sufficient to ensure that errors regarding revenue recognition would be detected.

 

We did not effectively monitor (review, evaluate and assess) the risks associated with key internal control activities that provide the revenue information contained in our financial statements.

 

We had material weaknesses related to internal control monitoring and activities to support the financial reporting process:

 

 

We did not maintain effective controls over the invoicing process to ensure that proper supporting documentation was received prior to preparing invoices.

 

We did not maintain effective controls over the revenue recognition process to ensure revenue was only recognized when all four criteria of our revenue recognition policy were met.

 

This section of Item 4, “Controls and Procedures,” should be read in conjunction with Item 9A, “Controls and Procedures,” included in our 2017 Form 10-K, for additional information on Managements Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.

 

Status of Remediation Plan

 

We designed a remediation plan to strengthen our internal control over financial reporting and haven taken, and will continue to take, remediation steps to address the material weaknesses described above. We also continue to take meaningful steps to enhance our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal controls over financial reporting.

 

Our remediation plan includes the following:

 

 

We have clearly defined and communicated to the sales and finance teams the management-approved, standard terms and conditions that may be offered to customers during the sales process and require appropriate management approval of requested deviations from these standard terms and conditions before a sale is consummated with a customer and a sales invoice is created.

 

We have created and implemented a policy communicated to the sales and finance teams clearly stating that all terms and conditions of agreements with customers are to be recorded in writing, communicated to finance and accounting personnel, and recorded in our permanent records prior to the creation of a sales invoice.

 

Beginning in September 2018, we intend to conductbegan conducting periodic training sessions and briefings on a quarterly basis to communicate to our sales and finance teams our policies and procedures regarding our standard terms and conditions that we offer to customers and our policies and procedures related to documentation and approval on any deviations from those standard terms and conditions.

 

We have enhanced the breadth and depth of our review of all sales invoices and their underlying supporting documentation. We have performed extensive training sessions with our finance and accounting personnel to review all sales invoices and their underlying supporting documentation to help identify any unusual items which may need further analysis to determine appropriate revenue recognition. We have ensured that all finance and accounting personnel are involved in the recognition of revenue to promote transparency and accuracy.

 

We have established a total invoice dollar amount threshold over which finance and accounting personnel must examine all actual invoices and underlying supporting documentation to confirm the purchase by the customer and the appropriate revenue recognition profile.

 

We have published guidelines that personnel can reference which set forth the requirements to be met for revenue to be recognized from a sale transaction and will be conducting periodic meetings on a quarterly basis, beginning in the third quarter with the sales and finance teams to educate and remind them of these guidelines.

 

Our management is monitoring the effectiveness of these and other processes, procedures and controls and will make any further changes deemed appropriate. Our management believes the foregoing actions will effectively remediate the material weaknesses. However, our material weaknesses will not be considered remediated until the above controls are in place for a period of time, the controls are tested and management concludes that these controls are properly designed and operating effectively.

 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

Except as described above with respect to our remediation plan, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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Part II. Other Information

 

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

 

The information set forth under “Note 12 – Commitments and Contingencies – Legal and Regulatory Matters” to the condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

 

In addition to the other information set forth in this report,Quarterly Report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our 2017 Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange CommissionSEC on June 14, 2018. Except as set forth in this Quarterly Report and as provided below, the risks and uncertainties described in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” of our 2017 Form 10-K have not materially changed. These risk factors could materially affect our business, financial condition or future results, but they are not the only risks facing GlobalSCAPE.the Company. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial also may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, and/or operating results.

 

Item 5. Other InformationWe face risks related to an ongoing investigation by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas..

Annual Meeting

 

On August 7,May 31, 2018, we were served with a subpoena issued by a grand jury sitting in the BoardUnited States District Court for the Western District of DirectorsTexas (the “Grand Jury Subpoena”). The Grand Jury Subpoena requests all documents and emails relating to the Company’s investigation of GlobalSCAPE, Inc. (“GlobalSCAPE”the potential improper recognition of software license revenue. We intend to fully cooperate with the Grand Jury Subpoena and related investigation being conducted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas (the “U.S. Attorney’s Investigation”). At this time, we are unable to predict the duration, scope, result or related costs of the “Company”) determinedU.S. Attorney’s Investigation. We are also unable to predict what, if any, further action may be taken in connection with the Grand Jury Subpoena and the U.S. Attorney’s Investigation, or what, if any, penalties, sanctions or remedial actions may be sought. Any determination by the U.S. Attorney’s office that the Company’s 2018 annual meetingactivities were not in compliance with existing laws or regulations, however, could result in the imposition of stockholders (the “2018 Annual Meeting”) will be heldfines, penalties, disgorgement, equitable relief, or other losses, which could have a material adverse effect on October 10, 2018, at 9:00 a.m., local time, at the Company’s corporate headquartersconsolidated financial position, liquidity, or at such other time and location to be determined by the authorized officers and set forth in the Company’s proxy statement for the 2018 Annual Meeting, and established August 17, 2018 as the record date for determining stockholders entitled to noticeresults of and to vote at, the 2018 Annual Meeting.operations.

 

The 2018 Annual Meeting is more than 30 days from the first anniversaryItem 2. Unregistered Sales of the Company’s 2017 annual meeting of stockholders, which was held on May 10, 2017. As a result, stockholders of the Company who wish to have a proposal considered for inclusion in the Company’s proxy materials for the 2018 Annual Meeting pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), must provide written notice that is received by the Corporate Secretary at the Company’s corporate headquarters, 4500 Lockhill-Selma Road, Suite 150, San Antonio, Texas 78249, on or before August 24, 2018, which the Company has determined to be a reasonable time before it expects to make its proxy materials available. Stockholder proposals intended to be considered for inclusion in the Company’s proxy materials for the 2018 Annual Meeting must comply with the requirements, including the deadline set forth above, as well as all the applicable rules and regulations promulgated by theEquity Securities and Exchange Commission under the Exchange Act.Use of Proceeds.

 

In addition, pursuant to the Company’s bylaws, stockholders who wish to present a proposal of business or nominate a director at the 2018 Annual Meeting but do not intend for the proposal to be included in the Company’s Proxy Statement under Rule 14a-8 must provide written notice that is received by the Corporate Secretary at the Company’s corporate headquarters on or before August 20, 2018. Any such written notice must be directed to the attention of the Company’s Corporate Secretary at the Company’s corporate headquarters and must comply with the applicable provisions of the Company’s bylaws, as amended.

Period

 

(a) Total number of shares (or units) purchased

  

(b) Average price paid per share (or unit)

  

(c) Total number of shares (or units) purchased as part of publicly accounced plans or programs

  

(d) Maximum number (or approximate dollar value) of shares (or units) that may yet be purchased under the plans or programs

 

September 1, 2018 - September 30, 2018

  4,011,013  $4.20   -   - 

Total

  4,011,013  $4.20   -   - 

 

The Company issued a press release announcing the 2018 Annual Meetingcommenced on August 8,22, 2018 a modified dutch tender offer to purchase $15,000,000 of shares of our common stock at a price not greater than $4.50 nor less than $4.00 per share, to expire on September 19, 2018. A copyBased on the final count by American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the Depositary for the Tender Offer, the Company accepted for purchase 4,011,013 common shares at a purchase price of $4.20 per share, for an aggregate cost of approximately $16.8 million, excluding fees and expenses relating to the Tender Offer. Included within the shares accepted for purchase are 439,585 shares that we elected to purchase pursuant to our right to increase the size of the press release is included as Exhibit 99.1Tender Offer by up to this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Strategic Change

On August 8, 2018,2.0% of the Company’s outstanding common stock. As such, the Company announcedused a setproration factor of cost reduction actions designed to concentrate resources on key strategic opportunities. These changes are partapproximately 77.1% of an initiative to focus on the company’s flagship offering of EFT and to be a stronger technological partner to existing customers while remaining agile and responsive to market demands.

shares from each tendering stockholder. The actions in this plan include the Company initiating a targeted reductioncommon shares purchased represent approximately 18.2% of our global workforce by 30%. We made significant reductions in the following areas: Marketing, Salescommon stock issued and Product Development. The majorityoutstanding as of September 24, 2018. Following consummation of the impact is within North America. Additionally, program-level savings will reach into all departments throughout the execution of these actions.Tender Offer, we had 17,968,268 common shares outstanding.

 

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The Company estimates that it will incur total costs in connection with the Restructuring Plan of approximately $400,000; primarily for severance and termination benefits which will consist of cash expenditures. The Company expects this Restructuring Plan to result in a significant annualized total reduction in spending.

Appointment of Chief Financial Officer

On August 8, 2018, Karen Young, formerly the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, was appointed Chief Financial Officer. In connection with her appointment, Ms. Young’s annual salary was set at $200,000 and the Company agreed to grant Ms. Young options to purchase a total of 100,000 shares of common stock.

Ms. Young will also be eligible for an annual bonus of up to 35% of her annual salary pursuant to the terms of the Company’s annual bonus plan. Ms. Young will also receive a one-time bonus of $5,000.

The Company issued a press release announcing the appointment on August 8, 2018. A copy of the press release is included as Exhibit 99.3 to this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Ms. Young previously served as GlobalSCAPE’s Interim Chief Financial Officer since March 2018 and prior to this she served as the Company’s Controller since January 2015. From June 2014 to January 2015, Ms. Young was the owner of a CPA practice in which she provided accounting and managerial consulting services to businesses. Prior to operating her own CPA practice, Ms. Young served as Controller of PIC Business Systems, Inc., a provider of web-based integrated Enterprise Resource Planning solutions, where she worked from May 1995 to August 1999 and again from December 2001 to June 2014. At PIC Business Systems, Inc., Ms. Young prepared the company’s financial statements and was responsible for oversight of the company’s accounting department and other administrative functions. Between her time at PIC Business Systems, Ms. Young worked for a public accounting firm working mainly in the tax area. Ms. Young began her career at Valero Energy Corporation, an independent petroleum refiner, where she focused on budgeting and forecasting for the company and its subsidiaries.

Ms. Young is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of experience as a corporate controller. She has a B.B.A. in Accounting from The University of Texas at San Antonio and is a member of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

 

Item 6. Exhibits

 

(a)

Exhibits

 

 

31.131.1*

Certification by Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

   

 

31.231.2*

Certification by Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 20022002.

   

 

32.132.1*

Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

   

99.1

Press Release dated August 8, 2018101

Interactive Data File.

   
 

99.2*

Press Release dated August 7, 2018

99.3

Press Release dated August 8, 2018

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Interactive Data File.Filed herewith.

 

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Signatures

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

 

GLOBALSCAPE, INC.

    

August 9,November 8, 2018

 

By:

/s/ Karen J. Young

Date

 

 

Karen J. Young

 

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

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