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 September 30March 31, 2019.2020

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)

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

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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 every Interactive Data File required to be submitted 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 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.

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 ☒

As of October 31, 2019April 30, 2020 there were 17,371,37518,710,314 shares of common stock outstanding.

GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q

For the Quarter ended September 30March 31, 20192020

Index

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 on Form 10-Q (this “Report”) are the property of their respective owners.

In this 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 customerclient does not need to install the underlying software on its own computer systems to access the application.

Part I. Financial Information

Item 1. Financial Statements

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

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

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

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

GlobalSCAPE, Inc.

Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

As of September 30March 31, 20192020 and For the Three and Nine

Months Then Ended

(Unaudited)

GlobalSCAPE, Inc., together with its wholly-owned subsidiary (collectively referred to as the “Company”, “GlobalSCAPE”, “we”, “us” or “our”), 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, customerclient 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 customersclients 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.

We sell other products that are synergistic to EFT including CuteFTP. Collectively, these products aimed at consumers and small businesses constitute less than 3%2% of our total revenue. We continue to offer product support for Mail Express and WAFS, which we discontinued as products for sale as of January 1, 2019.

Throughout these notes unless otherwise noted, our references to the 20192020 quarter and the 20182019 quarter refer to the three months ended September 30,March 31, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively, and references to the 2019 nine months and the 2018 nine months refer to the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

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 the 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 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, 2018,2019, filed with the SEC on March 18, 2019,16, 2020, which we refer to as the 20182019 Form 10-K, as well as Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations also included in our 20182019 Form 10-K and in this Report.

We follow accounting standards set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB. The FASB 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.

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.

Principles of Consolidation

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

Revenue Recognition

Products and Services

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

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.client. We measure revenue based upon the consideration set forth in an arrangement or contract with a customer.client. The revenue recognition criteria we apply to each of our software products and services are as follows:

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

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):

Multi-Element Transactions

At the time customersclients purchase perpetual software licenses, they also typically purchase M&S although it is not 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. CustomersClients 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 customersclients seeking assistance with products they have previously purchased from us, or SaaS subscriptions to customersclients 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,clients, we use the residual approach under FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 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.

SalesSales Tax

We collect sales tax on many of our transactions with customersclients 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.

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.clients. This amount is included in accrued liabilities in our condensed consolidated balance sheets.

Contract Assets

We generally bill customersclients for professional services when we have fully delivered the services specified in the 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 products paid to third parties. These are costs we would not incur if we did not obtain a contract to deliver our goods and services. We account for these costs as follows:

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

At September 30, 2019, $577,000March 31, 2020, $582,000 was recorded in prepaid and current other assets and $357,000$351,000 was recorded in noncurrent other assets in our condensed consolidated balance sheet. At December 31, 20182019, we had $571,000$577,000 recorded in prepaid and other current assets and $438,000$366,000 recorded in noncurrent other assets in our condensed consolidated balance sheet.

Leases

We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use (“ROU”) assets, other current liabilities, and operating lease liabilities on our condensed consolidated balance sheets. Operating lease ROU assets and operating lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at commencement date. As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use our incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. The operating lease ROU asset also includes any lease payments made and excludes lease incentives and initial direct costs incurred. Lease expense for minimum lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. We have lease agreements with lease and non-lease components, which are generally accounted for separately. On April 18, 2019, the Company signed a new operating lease for our existing office space location. The lease is for a period of 10 years at an average annual rent of $462,000 beginning May 1, 2019. We recorded a right-of-use asset and lease liability of approximately $3 million at the commencement of the lease.

Cash and cash equivalents

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

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

For financial assets and liabilities recorded at fair value on a recurring or non-recurring basis, fair value is the price we would receive to sell an asset, or pay to transfer a liability, in an orderly transaction with a market participant at the measurement date. In the absence of such data, fair value is estimated using internal information consistent with what market participants would use in a hypothetical transaction. In determining fair value, observable inputs reflect market data obtained from independent sources, while unobservable inputs reflect our market assumptions; preference is given to observable inputs. These two types of inputs create the following fair value hierarchy:

Level 1: Quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets.

Level 2: Quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and model derived valuations whose inputs are observable or whose significant value drivers are observable.

Level 3: Significant inputs to the valuation model are unobservable.

As of September 30, 2019,March 31, 2020, we did not have any assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis that would require disclosure based on the fair value hierarchy of valuation techniques. In addition, certain non-financial assets and liabilities are to be initially measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. This includes items such as non-financial assets and liabilities initially measured at fair value in a business combination (but not measured at fair value in subsequent periods) and non-financial, long-lived assets measured at fair value for an impairment assessment. In general, non-financial assets and liabilities including goodwill, capitalized software and property and equipment are measured at fair value using Level 3 inputs, which result in management’s best estimate of fair value from the perspective of a market participant, when there is an indication of impairment and are recorded at fair value only when impairment is recognized.

Our financial instruments consist principally of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accountsnotes payable. The carrying amount of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, and accounts payable, approximates fair value due to the short term maturity of these instruments, all of which mature within 12 months.

The carrying amount of our notes payable, including the current portion, as of March 31, 2020 was $48,125,000. This carrying value approximates fair value based on interest rates that are currently available to us for issuance of debt with similar terms and maturities.

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

We account for goodwill in accordance with FASB Accounting Standards Codification 350, or ASC 350, as amended by ASU 2017-04, Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment (effective January 1, 2020, as described in recent accounting pronouncements below). Goodwill is not amortized. Annually, we test goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level using December 31 as the measurement date, and will also evaluate throughout the year if any indicators of a potential impairment are identified. We operate as a single reporting unit.unit with $12,712,000 of goodwill. As of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, this single reporting unit had a negative carrying value.

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:

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-stepto perform a quantitative goodwill impairment test prescribed by GAAP.to identify both the existence of impairment and the amount of impairment loss. In a quantitative test, the fair value of a reporting unit is compared to its carrying amount, including goodwill. If the fair value of a reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, goodwill of the reporting unit is considered unimpaired. If the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment loss shall be recognized in an amount equal to that excess, limited to the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit.

As of December 31, 2018,2019, 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 (including the recent coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak), or changes in circumstances since that time indicating that the carrying amount of goodwillour reporting unit may exceed its fair market value and that interim testing needed to be performed. Additionally, because our single reporting unit has a negative carrying value, reasonable changes in the assumptions used would not indicate impairment.

Capitalized Software Development Costs

When we complete research and development for a software product, 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.

Cost of revenue

Cost of revenue consists of expenses associated with the production, delivery and support of the products and services we sell. Cost of license revenue consists primarily of amortization of the capitalized software development costs we incur when producing our software products, royalties we pay to use software developed by others for certain features of our products, and fees we pay to third parties who provide services supporting our SaaS solutions. 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.

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 $45,000$59,000 and $172,000$51,000 in the 2020 quarter and the 2019 quarter, and the 2018 quarter, respectively, and $140,000 and $750,000 in the 2019 nine months and 2018 nine months, respectively.

StockShare-Based-Based Compensation

We measure the cost of share-basedstock-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:

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 pronouncements

Accounting Standards Update (“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 an SEC filer is required to adopt the amendments in this update forWe adopted ASU 2017-04 effective January 1, 2020, and 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 update willadoption did not have a material effectimpact on our internal condensed consolidated financial statements.

ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (issued June 2016) - Among the provisions of this ASU 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 the condensed consolidated financial statements we issue for the year ending December 31, 2022,2023, 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 (Topic 842): In February 2016, the FASB issued a new standard related to leases to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by requiring the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet. Most prominent among the changes in the standard is the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases. Under the standard, disclosures are required to meet the objective of enabling users of financial statements to assess the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. We are also required to recognize and measure leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented using a modified retrospective approach, with certain practical expedients available. We adopted ASC 842 using the modified retrospective approach effective January 1, 2019. As leases in-place at the time of adoption were not material, no right-of-use assets or lease liabilities were recorded upon adoption. We elected the available practical expedients and implemented internal controls and key system functionality to enable the preparation of financial information on adoption. On April 18, 2019, the Company signed a new operating lease for our existing office space location. The lease is for a period of 10 years at an average annual rent of $462,000 beginning May 1, 2019. We recorded a right-of-use asset and lease liability of approximately $3 million at the commencement of the lease.

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:

We bill customersclients and issue invoices when we have delivered goods or services. In addition, when customersclients agree to purchase or renew M&S services, we bill and invoice customersclients 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)6) 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 customerclient 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 thousands):