UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DCD.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
Form 10-K
(Mark One)
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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013
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For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010
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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Commission file number: 001-12537
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QUALITY SYSTEMS, INC.
(Exact name of Registrantregistrant as specified in its charter)
California
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
95-2888568
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California
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95-2888568
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18111 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 600,700, Irvine, California
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
92612
(Zip Code)
(949) 255-2600
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(949) 255-2600
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Common Stock, $0.01 Par Value
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The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant as of September 30, 2009: $1,168,507,0002012: $737,323,000 (based on the closing sales price of the Registrant’s common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market on that date of $61.57$18.53 per share).*
The Registrant has no non-voting common equity.
Indicate theThe number of shares outstanding of eachshares of the Registrant’s classes of common stock as of the latest practicable date.May 24, 2013 was 59,552,380 shares.
Common Stock, $0.01 Par Value
28,884,481
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DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
The following documents (or parts thereof)Portions of the Proxy Statement for the 2013 annual meeting of shareholders are incorporated by reference into the following parts of thisForm 10-K:
Proxy Statement for the 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders — Part III Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.III.





QUALITY SYSTEMS, INC.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
2013 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K
For the Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2010

INDEX
ItemPage
   
Item 1.
Item 1A.
Item 1B.
Item 2.
Item 3.
Item 4.Mine and Safety Disclosures
    
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Business4
Risk Factors13
Unresolved Staff Comments24
Properties25
Legal Proceedings25
Reserved25
PART II
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Item 7A.52
 
Item 8.53
 
Item 9.
Item 9A.
Item 9B.
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 Controls and Procedures  53 
Other Information54
PART III
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Item 13.54
 
Item 14.
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PART IV
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EX-10.37
EX-10.38
EX-10.39
EX-10.40
EX-10.41
EX-10.42
EX-10.43
EX-10.44
EX-21
EX-23.1
EX-23.2
EX-31.1
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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
Statements madeThis Annual Report on Form 10-K (this "Report") and certain information incorporated herein by reference contain forward-looking statements within the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements included or incorporated by reference in this Annual Report, onForm 10-K (this “Report”), the Annual Report to Shareholders in which this Report is made a part, other reports and proxythan statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”), communications to shareholders, press releases and oral statements made by our representatives that are notpurely historical, in nature, or that state our or management’s intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations or predictions of the future, may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Forward-looking statements can often be identified by the use ofare forward-looking terminology,statements. Words such as “could,“anticipate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “seek,” “estimate,” “will,” “should,” “will,“would,“will be,” “will lead,” “will assist,” “intended,” “continue,” “believe,“could,” “may,” “expect,” “hope,” “anticipate,” “goal,” “forecast,” “plan,” or “estimate” or variations thereof orand similar expressions. Forward-lookingexpressions also identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, discussions of our product development plans, business strategies, future operations, financial condition and prospects, developments in and the impacts of government regulation and legislation and market factors influencing our results. Our expectations, beliefs, objectives, intentions and strategies regarding our future results are not guarantees of future performance.
Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. It is important to note that any such performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties, both foreseen and unforeseen, that could cause actual results financial condition or business, couldto differ materially from those expressedresults contemplated in suchour forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differencesThese risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the riskour ability to continue to develop new products and increase systems sales in markets characterized by rapid technological evolution, consolidation, and competition from larger, better-capitalized competitors. Many other economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors discussed in Item 1A of this Report as well as factors discussed elsewhere in thiscould affect our ability to achieve our goals, and other reports and documents we file with the Commission. Other unforeseen factors not identified herein could also have such an effect. We undertake no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in future operating results, financial condition or business over time unless required by law. Interestedinterested persons are urged to review the risks described under Itemfactors discussed in “Item 1A. “RiskRisk Factors” and in Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”this Report, as well as in our other public disclosures and filings with the Commission.Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Because of these risk factors, as well as other variables affecting our financial condition and results of operations, past financial performance may not be a reliable indicator of future performance and historical trends should not be used to anticipate results or trends in future periods. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of the filing of this Report.


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PART I

ITEM 1. BUSINESS
PART I
ITEM 1.BUSINESS
Company Overview
Quality Systems, Inc., including and its wholly-owned subsidiaries isoperate as four business divisions (each, a "Division") which are comprised ofof: (i) the QSI Dental Division, (ii) the NextGen Division, (iii) the Hospital Solutions Division (formerly Inpatient Solutions) and (iv) the RCM Services Division (formerly Practice Solutions). In fiscal year 2011, we opened a captive entity in India called Quality Systems India Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.Private Limited (“NextGen Division”), including NextGen Sphere, LLC and Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc., and Lackland Acquisition II, LLC dba Healthcare Strategic Initiatives (“HSI”) and Practice Management Partners, Inc. (“PMP”) (“Practice Solutions Division”) (collectively, the “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”QSIH”). The Company developsWe derive revenue primarily by developing and marketsmarketing healthcare information systems that automate certain aspects of medical and dental practices, networks of practices such as physician hospital organizations (“PHOs”), independent practice associations ("IPAs") and management service organizations (“MSOs”), ambulatory care centers, community health centers and medical and dental schools. The Company also providesschools along with comprehensive systems implementation, maintenance and support and add on complementary services such as revenue cycle management (“RCM”) and electronic data interchange (“EDI”). Our systems and services provide our clients with the ability to redesign patient care and other workflow processes while improving productivity through the Practice Solutions Division.facilitation of managed access to patient information. Utilizing our proprietary software in combination with third-party hardware and software solutions, our products enable the integration of a variety of administrative and clinical information operations.
Quality Systems, Inc. was incorporated in California in 1974. Our principal offices are located at 18111 Von Karman Ave., Suite 700, Irvine, California, 92612. We operate on a fiscal year ending on March 31.
The Company a California corporation formed in 1974, was founded with an early focus on providing information systems to dental group practices. This focus area would later become the QSI Dental Division. In the mid-1980’s,mid-1980s, we capitalized on the increasing focus on medical cost containment and further expanded our information processing systems to serve the medicalambulatory market. In the mid-1990’s,mid-1990s, we made two acquisitions that accelerated our penetration of the medical market. These two acquisitionsambulatory market and formed the basis for the NextGen Division. More recently in the last few years, we acquired several companies, which operate under the Hospital Solutions Division, as part of our strategy to expand into the small and specialty hospital market. Today, we serve the dental, ambulatory, hospital and RCM services markets through our QSI Dental Division, NextGen Division, Hospital Solutions Division and RCM Services Division.
The Divisions have historically operated as stand-alone operations, with each Division maintaining its own distinct product lines, product platforms, development, implementation and support teams and branding. However, there are a growing number of customers who are simultaneously utilizing software or services from more than one of our Divisions. In an effort to encourage this cross selling of our products and services between Divisions, we are in the process of further integrating our ambulatory and inpatient products to provide a more robust and comprehensive platform to offer our customers. The Divisions also share the resources of our “corporate office,” which includes a variety of accounting and other administrative functions.
In September 2012, we announced certain organizational changes to achieve greater efficiency and integration in our operations as well as to enhance our ability to cross sell products and services to our customers. The changes consolidated Sales, Marketing, Information Technology, and Software Development responsibilities into separate Company-wide roles. We also announced the hiring of a Chief Operating Officer, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer responsible for the operations of the Company across all Divisions. We are continuing to evaluate the organizational structure of the Company with the objective to achieve greater synergies and further integration of our products and services.
The QSI Dental Division, NextGen Division and Hospital Solutions Division develop and market software that is designed to automate and streamline a number of the administrative functions required for operating a medical, dental, or hospital practice, such as patient scheduling and billing. It is important to note that since in both the medical and dental environments, practice management software systems have already been implemented by the vast majority of practices, we actively compete for the replacement market. These Divisions also develop

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and market software that automates patient records in physician practices, community health centers (CHCs) and hospital settings. In this patient records area of our business, we are typically competing to replace paper-based patient record alternatives as opposed to replacing previously purchased systems. The Hospital Solutions Division develops and markets throughfinancial management and billing software products, which perform administrative functions required for operating small and specialty hospitals as well as clinical offerings such as multi-disciplinary clinical documentation and computerized physician order entry (CPOE). The RCM Services Division provides technology solutions and consulting services to cover the full spectrum of healthcare providers' RCM needs, with a primary focus on billing and collection services.
In January 2011, QSIH was formed in Bangalore, India to function as our NextGen DivisionIndia-based captive to offshore technology application development and QSI Dental Division.business processing services.As of March 31, 2013, we had 219 full time employees in our Bangalore facility primarily engaged in software development and quality assurance activities.
Business Segments
Historically, the Company has operated principally through two operating divisions: QSI Dental DivisionWe continue to pursue product and NextGen Division. Throughservice enhancement initiatives within each of our acquisitionsDivisions. The majority of HSI and PMP in 2008, we continuedsuch expenditures are currently targeted to strengthen our RCM service offerings. During fiscal year 2010, as a result of certain organizational changes, the composition of the Company’s NextGen Division was revised to exclude the former NextGen Practice Solutions unit and the Company’s RCM entities (HSI and PMP), both of which are now administered and aggregated in the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Following the reorganization, the Company now operates three reportable operating segments (not including Corporate), comprised of the NextGen and Hospital Solutions Division the QSI Dental Divisionproduct lines and the Practice Solutions Division. As a result, our fiscal year 2010 and 2009 results have beenre-casted to reflect this change.client bases.
The following table breaks down our reported segment revenue and segment revenue growth by divisionDivision for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008:2011:
                         
  Segment Revenue Breakdown
  Segment Revenue Growth
 
  for the Year Ended March 31,  for the Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008  2010  2009  2008 
 
QSI Dental Division  5.9%  6.5%  8.6%  8.1%  (1.2)%  (3.3)%
NextGen Division  79.4%  83.1%  91.4%  13.6%  19.6%  21.3%
Practice Solutions Division  14.7%  10.4%  0.0%  67.5%  N/A   N/A 
                         
Consolidated  100.0%  100.0%  100.0%  18.9%  31.6%  18.7%
                         
 
Segment Revenue Breakdown
Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 
Segment Revenue Growth
Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011 2013 2012 2011
QSI Dental Division4.3% 4.6% 5.7% 2.0 % (1.9)% 16.6%
NextGen Division74.9% 75.7% 75.3% 5.8 % 22.1 % 16.5%
Hospital Solutions Division6.8% 8.0% 5.1% (8.9)% 92.6 % 519.1%
RCM Services Division14.0% 11.7% 13.9% 28.2 % 2.8 % 13.7%
Consolidated100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 7.1 % 21.6 % 21.1%
QSI Dental Division. The QSI Dental Division, co-located with our Corporate Headquarterscorporate headquarters in Irvine, California, currently focuses on developing, marketing and supporting software suites sold to dental group organizations located throughout the United States. The QSI Dental Division sells additional licenses to its legacy products as existing clients expand their operations, and certain niche medical practices. In addition, the Division supports a number of medical clients that utilizesells its UNIX based medicalWeb-based SaaS model practice management software product and Software as a Service, or SaaS model, based NextDDS financial and clinical software.
software solutions to new customers. This software solution, QSIDental™ Web™, is marketed primarily to multi-location dental group practices in which the QSI Dental Division has historically been a dominant player. Further, QSI Dental sells its Electronic Dental Chart in conjunction with NextGen PM ("Practice Management") and EHR ("Electronic Health Record") and marketed as NextGen EDR (“Electronic Dental Record”) to Federally Qualified Health Centers (“FQHC”) and other safety net entities further defined below.
The QSI Dental Division’sDivision participates jointly with the NextGen Division in providing software and services to safety-net clinics like FQHCs and other “safety net” health centers, including Public Health Centers, Community Health Centers, Free Clinics, as well as Rural and Tribal Health Centers. FQHCs are community-based organizations and are funded by the federal government, which provide medical and dental services to underprivileged and underserved communities. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law in March 2010, reserved $11 billion over a multi-year period for FQHCs, creating unprecedented opportunities for FQHCs growth and the formation of new FQHCs. When combined and used in tandem, NextGen® Ambulatory EHR, NextGen® Electronic Dental Record and NextGen® Practice Management provides a unique product in this marketplace - an integrated patient record accessible by both physicians and dentists. On May 9, 2012, NextGen® EDR version 4.2 was ONC-ATCB certified by the Certification Commission for Health Information (CCHIT®) as a complete EHR and complies with all clinical quality measures for Eligible Providers. The additional software NextGen® EDR version 4.2 relied on to demonstrate compliance was NextGen® Ambulatory EHR version 5.6 SP1.
The QSI Dental Division's legacy practice management software suite utilizesuses a UNIXUNIX® operating system. ItsIt's Clinical Product Suite (“CPS”) utilizes a Windows NT operating system and can be fully integrated with the client server-based practice management software offered from each Division.of our Divisions. When integrated and delivered with the NextGen® Practice Management solution, CPS is re-branded as NextGen® EDR. CPS/EDR incorporates a wide range of clinical tools including, but not limited to, periodontal charting and digital imaging of X-ray and inter-oral camera images as part of the electronic patient record. The QSI Dental Division also develops, markets, and manages our Electronic Data Interchange (“EDI”)/connectivity applications. The QSInet Application Service Provider (“ASP/Internet”) offering is also developed and marketed by the Division.


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In July 2009, we licensed source code from PlanetDDS, Inc. that will allow usprovides EDI services to deliver hosted, web-based SaaS model practice management and clinical software solutionsdental practices, including electronic submission of claims to the dental industry. The software solution will be marketed primarily to the multi-location dental group practice market in which the Division has historically been a dominant player. This new software solution (NextDDS) brings the QSI Dental Division to the forefront of the emergence of internet based applications and cloud computing and represents a significant growth opportunity for the Division to sell both to its existing customer baseinsurance providers as well as new customers.automated patient statements.
NextGen Division. The NextGen Division, with headquarters in Horsham, Pennsylvania and a significant locationslocation in Atlanta, Georgia, and Austin, Texas, provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory inpatient and dental provider organizations.
On August 12, 2009, we acquired NextGen Sphere, LLC (“Sphere”), a provider of financial information systems to the small hospital inpatient market. This acquisition is also part of our strategy to expand into the small hospital market and to add new customers by taking advantage of cross selling opportunities between the ambulatory and inpatient markets.
On February 10, 2010, we acquired Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (“Opus”), a provider of clinical information systems to the small hospital inpatient market. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Opus delivers web-based clinical solutions to hospital systems and integrated health networks nationwide. This acquisition complements and will be integrated with the assets of Sphere. Both companies are established developers of software and services for the inpatient market and will operate under the Company’s NextGen Division.
The NextGen Division’sDivision's major product categories include:include the NextGen® Ambulatory product suite and NextGen Community Connectivity.
The NextGen® Ambulatory product suite streamlines patient care with standardized, real-time clinical and administrative workflows within a physician’s practice, and consists of:
• NextGen ambulatory product suite that integrates as one system to streamline patient care with standardized, real-time clinical and administrative workflow through the practice, which consists of:
NextGen® Electronic Health Records to ensure complete, accurate documentation to manage patient care electronically and to improve clinical processes and patient outcomes with electronic charting at the point of care;
○ NextGen Electronic Health Records (“NextGenehr”) to ensure complete, accurate documentation to manage patient care electronically and to improve clinical processes and patient outcomes with electronic charting at the point of care; and
○ NextGen Enterprise Practice Management (“NextGenepm”) to automate business processes, from front-end scheduling to back-end collections and financial and administrative processes for increased performance and efficiencies.
NextGen® Practice Management to automate business processes, from front-end scheduling to back-end collections and financial and administrative processes for increased performance and efficiencies;
• NextGen inpatient products that deliver secure, highly adaptable, and easy to use applications to patient centered hospitals and health systems, which consists of:

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○ NextGen Clinicals, which resides on an advanced truly active web 2.0 platform — and is designed to initiate widespread work efficiency and communication, reduce errors andtime-to-chart, and improve care; and
○ NextGen Financials, which is a financial and administrative system that helps hospitals significantly improve the smart operations and financial and regulatory management of their facilities.

• NextGen Community Connectivity, which consists of:

NextGen® Dashboard, which allows providers to view patient data in a visually rich graphical format. Using bar charts, pie charts, gauges and more, the system displays information at the practice or single provider level;
○ NextGen Health Information Exchange (“HIE”), formerly Community Health Solution, to exchange patient data securely with community healthcare organizations;
○ NextGen Patient Portal (“NextMD.com”) to communicate with patients online and import information directly into NextGenehr; and
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NextGen Mobile, which improves patient care through anytime, anywhere access of patient data. In addition, NextGen Mobile has the capability to increase revenue by easily capturing charges at the point of care resulting in potential reduction of medical liability through better documentation of out-of-office actions; and
NextGen NextPen ("NextPen"), which is a revolutionary digital pen that quickly captures manually-entered data into NextGen Ambulatory EHR. NextPen captures structured data and graphic drawings as part of the patient record without scanning or transcription. This technology requires no learning curve for adoption.
NextGen® Population Health, introduced in 2012, is an integrated set of communication tools designed to enhance collaborative care. It includes interactive voice response (IVR), texting, email, NextGen® Patient Portal, and clinical data from NextGen® Ambulatory EHR. It can be fully integrated with NextGen® Health Quality Measures (HQM) and has a built-in population profiler for patient outreach.
NextGen® Community Connectivity consists of:
NextGen® Health Information Exchange (“HIE”) to exchange patient data securely with community healthcare organizations;
NextGen® Patient Portal (“NextMD.com”) is 2014 ONC Certified for Meaningful Use 2; allows providers to communicate with patients online and import information directly into NextGen Ambulatory EHR; allows patients access to their clinical data; and
NextGen® Health Quality Measures (“HQM”) to allow seamless quality measurement and reporting for practice and physician performance initiatives.
The NextGen Division products utilize Microsoft Windows technology and can operate in a client-server environment as well as via private intranet, the Internet, or in an ASP environment.


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Services provided by the NextGen Division include:
EDI services that are intended to automate the entire patient statement process, reducing labor and printing costs associated with producing statements in-house. In addition, the NextGen Division's EDI works with the most innovative clearinghouses to transform electronic claims submissions into payments;
Hosting services that allow practices seeking the benefits of IT automation without the burden of maintaining in-house hardware and networking;
NextGen® NextGuard, a data protection service that provides an off-site, data archiving, restoration and disaster recovery preparedness solution for practices to protect clinical and financial data; and
Consulting services, including:
strategic governance models and operational transformation;
• EDI services that are intended to automate a number of manual, often paper-based or telephony intensive communications between patientsand/or providersand/or payors;
• Hosting services that allow practices seeking the benefits of IT automation but not the maintenance of in-house hardware and networking;
• NextGuard — Data Protection services that provide an off-site, data archiving, restoration, and disaster recovery preparedness solution for practices to protect clinical and financial data;
• Consulting services,technical consulting, such as data conversions or interface development, thatwhich allow practices to build custom add-on features; and
• Physician Resources servicesphysician consulting resources that allow practices to consult with the NextGen Division’s physician team.team; and
eHealth consulting services that assist in connecting communities of practices for data sharing.
PracticeHospital Solutions Division. The PracticeHospital Solutions Division, with its primary location in Austin, Texas, provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for rural, community and specialty hospitals. This Hospital Solutions Division also develops and markets an equivalent revenue cycle management and clinical information systems software products for the small and specialty hospital market, which perform the administrative functions required for operating hospitals.
In the last few years, we have continued to acquire companies that were established developers of software and services for the inpatient market to operate under the Hospital Solutions Division. On May 1, 2012, we acquired The Poseidon Group ("Poseidon"), a provider of emergency department software. On July 26, 2011, we acquired CQI Solutions, Inc. ("CQI"), a provider of hospital systems for surgery management. On April 29, 2011, we acquired IntraNexus, Inc. ("IntraNexus"), a provider of Web-based integrated clinical and hospital information systems. On February 10, 2010, we acquired Opus Healthcare Solutions, LLC ("Opus"), a provider of Web-based clinical solutions to hospital systems and integrated health networks nationwide and on August 12, 2009 we acquired Sphere Health Systems, Inc. ("Sphere"), a provider of financial information systems to the small hospital inpatient market. These acquisitions are part of our strategy to continue to expand in the small and specialty hospital market and to add new clients by taking advantage of cross selling opportunities between the ambulatory and inpatient markets.
The Hospital Solutions Division's products deliver secure, highly adaptable and easy to use applications to patient centered hospitals and health systems. These products consist of:
NextGen® Inpatient Clinicals, a system which resides on an active web platform, and is designed to initiate widespread work efficiency and communication, reduce errors, time-to-chart, and improve care. Our comprehensive clinical solutions include CPOE, clinical decision support, order management, clinical documentation, clinical data repository and more.

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NextGen® Inpatient Financials, a financial management and revenue cycle solution that helps hospitals improve the operations, financial and regulatory management of their facilities.
NextGen® Enterprise Scheduling, a system designed to provide hospital-wide, conflict-free patient scheduling for easier, more efficient patient, resource, and staff management.
NextGen® Surgical Management, a system designed to help hospitals optimize OR throughput, quality, efficiency, patient safety, revenue, and compliance.
NextGen® Emergency Department Solution, a comprehensive Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) designed to help hospitals reduce costs and medical errors, enhance care, and ensure proper documentation for reimbursement and regulatory compliance.
RCM Services Division. The RCM Services Division, with locations in St. Louis, Missouri, North Canton, Ohio and Hunt Valley, Maryland, focuses primarily on providing physician practices with RCM services, primarily billing and collection services for medical practices. This Division combines a web-delivered SaaS model and the NextGenepm software platform to execute its service offerings. We intend to transition our customer base onto the NextGen platform within the next two years. The Practice Solutions Division provides technology solutions and consulting services to cover the full spectrum of providers’ revenue cyclehealthcare providers' RCM needs, from patient access through claims denials, with a primary focus on billing and collection services. The RCM Services Division combines a Web-delivered SaaS model and the NextGen® Practice Management software platform to claims denials.
Practice Solutions Division revenue growth in both fiscal years 2010 and 2009 was impacted byexecute its service offerings. Execution of the acquisitions of HSI and PMP in May 2008 and October 2008, respectively.
plan to transition our client base onto the NextGen platform is being implemented. On May 20, 2008,April 15, 2012, we acquired St. Louis-based HSI,Matrix Management Solutions, LLC (“Matrix”). Since 1998, North Canton, Ohio-based Matrix, a full-service healthcare RCM company. HSI operates under the umbrella of the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Founded in 1996, HSI providesvalue-added reseller for NextGen Healthcare, has provided RCM services, to providers including health systems, hospitals,healthcare IT solutions and physicians in private practice with an in-house team of more than 200 employees, including specialists in medical billing, coding and compliance, payor credentialing, and information technology. We intend to cross sell both software and RCM services to the acquired customer base of HSI and the NextGen Division.
On October 28, 2008, we acquired Maryland-based PMP, a full-service healthcare RCM company. This acquisition is also part of our growth strategy for our Practice Solutions Division. Similar to HSI, PMP operates under the umbrella of the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Founded in 2001, PMP provides physician billing and technology management services to healthcare providers, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region. We intend to cross sell both software and RCM services to the acquired customer base of PMP and the NextGen Division.
The three Divisions operate largely as stand-alone operations, with each Division maintaining its own distinct product lines, product platforms, development,training, implementation and support teams, sales staffingcentered on NextGen® technology, to its clients nationwide. The acquisition has enabled our RCM Services Division to expand its footprint among private and branding. The three Divisions share the resources of our “corporate office,” which includes a variety of accountinghospital-based physicians and other administrative functions. Additionally, there are a small but growing number of clients who are simultaneously utilizing software or services from more than one of our three Divisions.groups by leveraging Matrix's RCM expertise.
We continue to pursue product and service enhancement initiatives within each Division. The majority of such expenditures are currently targeted to the NextGen Division product line and client base.
Industry Background
The turbulence in the worldwide economy has impacted almost all industries. While healthcare is not immune to economic cycles, we believe it is more resilientheavily influenced by US-based regulatory and national health projects than most segmentsby the economic cycles of theour economy. The impact of the current economic conditions on our existing and prospective clients has been mixed. WeWhile we continue to see organizations that are doing fairly well operationally; however,operationally, some organizations, especially those with a large dependency on Medicaid populations, are beinghave been impacted by the challenging financial condition of theconditions faced by many state governments in whose jurisdictions they conduct business. A positive factor forgovernments. Various factors have had, and are anticipated to continue to have, a meaningful impact on the U.S. healthcare is the fact thatindustry, including the Obama Administration is pursuingAdministration's broad healthcare reform aimed at improving issues surrounding healthcare. Theefforts (particularly the HITECH portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”)and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), which became lawthe individual state responses to the government-requested Medicaid expansion to address new insureds, and the increasing focus of private businesses on February 17, 2009, includesmoving their employee health benefit offerings to a more than $20 billion to help healthcare


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organizations modernize operations through the acquisition ofwellness-based health care information technology. While we are unsure of the immediate impact from the ARRA, the long-term potential could be significant.
platform.
Moreover, to compete in the continually changing healthcare environment, providers are increasingly using technology to help maximize the efficiency of their business practices, to assist in enhancing patient care, and to maintain the privacy of patient information.
As the reimbursement environment continues to evolve, more healthcare providers enter into contracts, often with multiple entities, which define the terms under which care is administered and paid. The diversity of payorpayer organizations, as well as additional government regulation and changes in reimbursement models, have greatly increased the complexity of pricing, billing, reimbursement and records management for medical and dental practices. To operate effectively, healthcare provider organizations must efficiently manage patient care and other information and workflow processes, which increasingly extend across multiple locations, disparate systems, and business entities.
In response, healthcare provider organizations have placed increasing demands on their information systems. Initially, these information systems automated financial and administrative functions. As it became necessary to manage patient flow processes, the need arose to integrate “back-office” data with such clinical information as patient test results and office visits. We believe information systems must facilitate management of patient information incorporating administrative, financial and clinical information from multiple entities. In addition, large healthcare organizations increasingly require information systems that can deliver high performance in environments with multiple concurrent computer users.
Many existing healthcare information systems were designed for limited administrative tasks such as billing and scheduling and can neither accommodate multiple computing environments nor operate effectively across multiple locations and entities. We believe that practices that leverage technology to more efficiently handle patient clinical data as well as administrative, financial and other practice management data will be best able to enhance patient flow, pursue cost efficiencies and improve quality of care. As healthcare organizations transition to new computer platforms and newer technologies, we believe such organizations will be migrating toward the implementation of enterprise-wide, patient-centric computing systems embedded with automated clinical patient records.
Our Strategy
Our strategy is at present, to focus on providingaddressing upcoming needs of accountable care organizations around interoperability, patient engagements, population health and data analytics. We believe that our core strength lies in the central role our software products and services play in the delivery of healthcare by the primary physician in an ambulatory setting. We intend to medical practices, dental practices, hospitals,remain at the forefront of upcoming new regulatory requirements including ICD-10 and meaningful use requirements for stimulus payments. We believe that the expanded requirements for continued eligibility for incentive payments under meaningful use rules will result in an expanded replacement market for electronic health centers,records software. We intend to continue the development and otherenhancement of our software solutions to support healthcare providers. Amongreform and the key elements of this strategy are:
• Continued development and enhancement of select software solutions in target markets;
• Continued investments in our infrastructure including, but not limited to, product development, sales, marketing, implementation, and support;
• Continued efforts to make infrastructure investments within an overall context of maintaining reasonable expense discipline;
• Addition of new customers through maintaining and expanding sales, marketing and product development activities;
• Expanding our relationship with existing customers through delivery of add-on and complementary products and services; and
• Continuing our gold standard commitment of service in support of our customers.
While these are the keytransition from fee for service to pay for performance/quality initiatives such as collaborative accountable care organizations. Key elements of our current strategy, there canfuture software development will be no guaranteeto continue to integrate our ambulatory and inpatient products, making our products more intuitive and easy to use, expanding on our interoperability and enhancing our ability to deliver our software over the cloud with the latest technology.

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We are also focusing on capitalizing on the significant cross selling opportunities within our customer base for RCM and other services. We believe that the increased complexity related to the billing and collections process, which goes into effect with ICD-10 in October of 2014, will create additional opportunities for our RCM Services Division.
We want to continue investments in our infrastructure, including but not limited to product development, sales, marketing, implementation and support, to continue efforts to make infrastructure investments within an overall context of maintaining reasonable expense discipline, to add new clients through maintaining and expanding sales, marketing and product development activities and to expand our relationship with existing clients through delivery of add-on and complementary products and services while continuing our gold-standard commitment of service in support of our client satisfaction programs. We believe that our strategy will not change, orgrowing customer base that is using our software on a daily basis is a strategic asset, and we will succeedintend to expand our product and service offerings towards this customer base in achieving these goals individually or collectively.order to leverage this strategic asset. We believe there is a significant long term opportunity in the small hospital market (under 100 beds) and are making significant investments to build infrastructure and capabilities to support our growing base of small hospital customers with a high degree of customer satisfaction.
Products and Services
In response to the growing need for more comprehensive, cost-effective healthcare information solutions for medical practices, dental practices, hospitals, health centers and other healthcare providers, our systems and services provide our clients with the ability to redesign patient care and other workflow processes while improving


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care quality and productivity through facilitation of managed access to patient information. Utilizing our proprietary software in combination with third party hardware and software solutions, our products enable the integration of a variety of administrative clinical and clinical informationfinancial operations. Leveraging more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare information services industry, we believe we continue to add value by providing our clients with sophisticated, full-featured software systems along with comprehensive systems implementation, training, consultation, revenue cycle management, maintenance and support services. Any single transaction may or may not include software, hardware or services.
NextGen® Ambulatory Practice Management Systems. Our products consist primarily of proprietary healthcare software applications together with third party hardware and other non-industry specific software. The systems range in capacity from one to thousands of users, allowing us to address the needs of both small and large organizations. The systems are modular in design and may be expanded to accommodate changing client requirements. We offer both standard licenses and SaaS arrangements in our software offerings; although to date, SaaS arrangements have represented less than 5%do not represent a significant portion of our arrangements.
NextGenepmNextGen® Practice Management (PM) is the NextGen Division’s practice management offering. NextGenepmNextGen® PM has been developed with a functionallyfunctional graphical user interface (“GUI”) certified for use with Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems. The product leverages a relational database (Microsoft SQL Server) with support on both 32 and 64 bit enterprise servers. NextGenepmNextGen® PM is a scalable, multi-module solution that includes a master patient index, enterprise-wide appointment scheduling with referral tracking, clinical support and centralized or decentralized patient financial management based on either a managed care orfee-for-service model. The NextGenepmNextGen® PM product is a highly configurable, cost-effective proven solution that enables the effective management of both single and multi-practice settings.
NextGen® Ambulatory Clinical Systems. The NextGen Division provides clinical software applications that are complementary to, and are integrated with, our medical practice management offerings and interface with many of the other leading practice management software systems on the market. The applications incorporated into our practice management solutions and others such as scheduling, eligibility, billing and claims processing are augmented by clinical information captured by NextGenehr,NextGen® Ambulatory EHR, including services rendered, clinical documentation and diagnoses used for billing purposes. We believe that we currently provide a comprehensive information management solution for the medicalambulatory marketplace.
NextGen® Ambulatory EHR version 5.8 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as a Complete EHR on March 1, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable Eligible certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The ONC 2014 Edition criteria support both Stage 1 and 2 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ("ARRA").
NextGenehrNextGen® Ambulatory EHR was developed with client-server architecture, and a GUI and utilizes Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT or Windows XP on each workstation and either Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP or UNIX on the database server. NextGenehrNextGen® Ambulatory EHR maintains data using industry standard relational database engines such as Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle. The system is scalable from one to thousands of workstations. NextGenehrNextGen® Ambulatory EHR stores and maintains clinical data including:
• Data captured using user-customizable input “templates”;
• Scanned or electronically acquired images, including X-rays and photographs;
• Data electronically acquired through interfaces with clinical instruments or external systems;
• Other records, documents or notes, including electronically captured handwriting and annotations; and
• Digital voice recordings.
NextGenehrScanned or electronically acquired images, including X-rays and photographs;
Data electronically acquired through interfaces with clinical instruments or external systems;
Other records, documents or notes, including electronically captured handwriting and annotations; and
Digital voice recordings.
NextGen® Ambulatory EHR also offers a workflow module, prescription management, automatic document and letter generation, patient education, referral tracking, interfaces to billing and lab systems, physician alerts and reminders and powerful reporting and data analysis tools. NextGen Express isIn 2012, a versionpopulation health management solution named NextGen® Population Health was introduced to enhance collaborative care capabilities. It features integrated, multi-modal cascading communication tools including interactive voice response (IVR), texting, email, NextGen® Patient Portal, and clinical data from NextGen® Ambulatory EHR. NextGen® Population Health can be fully integrated with

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NextGen® Health Quality Measures (HQM) and has an easy-to-use, built-in population profiler to define protocols for small practices.patient outreach using billing data from NextGen® Practice Management and clinical data from NextGen® Ambulatory EHR.
QSI Dental Division Practice Management and Clinical Systems. In fiscal year 2010, weQSI began selling hosted Software as a hosted SaaSService (SaaS) practice management and clinical software solutions to the dental industry. TheThis software solution is marketed primarily to the multi-location dental group practice market for which the Division has historically beenremains a dominate player. This new software solution, bringsformerly called NextDDS and now named QSIDental™Web™ to better identify it as a web-based solution, moves the QSI Dental Division to the forefront of the emergence of internet basedInternet-based applications and cloud computing and represents a significant growth opportunity for us to sell to both to our existing customerclient base as well asand new customers.


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In addition to the SaaS practice management offering, the QSI Dental Division also sells a character-based practice management system using the IBM RS6000 central processing unit and IBM’S AIX version of the UNIX operating system platform. The hardware components, as well as the requisite operating system licenses, are purchased from manufacturers or distributors of those components. We configure and test the hardware components and incorporate our software and other third party packages into completed systems. We continually evaluate third party hardware components with a view toward utilizing hardware that is functional, reliable and cost-effective.
clients.
In addition to the SaaS clinical offering, ourQSI's dental charting software system, known as the CPS isClinical Product Suite (CPS), provides a comprehensive solution designed specifically for the dental group practice environment. CPS integrates theQSI's dental practice management product with a computer-based clinical information system that incorporates a wide range of clinical tools, including electronic charting of dental procedures, treatment plans andplanning, existing conditions, periodontal charting via light-pen, voice-activation or keyboard entry for full periodontal examinations and PSR scoring,scoring. In addition, digital imaging of X-ray and intra-oral camera images, computer-based patient education modules are viewable chair-side to enhance case presentation, full access to patient information, treatment plans and insurance plans via a fully integrated interface with our dental practice management product andproduct. All this is supported by document and image scanning for digital storage and linkage to the electronic patient record.
The result is a comprehensive clinical information management system that helps practices save time, reduce costs, improve case presentation and enhance the delivery of dental services and quality of care. Clinical information is managed and maintained electronically, thus forming an electronic patient record that allows for the implementation of the “chartless” office.
CPS incorporates Windows-based client-server technology consisting of one or more file servers together with any combination of one or more desktop, laptop, or pen-based PC workstations. The file server(s) used in connection with CPS utilize(s) Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 operating system and the hardware is typically an Intel-based single or multi-processor platform. Based on the server configuration chosen, CPS is scalable from one to hundredsthousands of workstations. The hardware components, including the requisite operating system licenses, are purchased from third party manufacturers or distributors either directly by the customerclient or by us for resale to the customer.

NextGen Inpatient Solutions.  NextGen inpatient solutions includes bothHospital Solutions. The Hospital Solutions Division provides clinical, financial, enterprise scheduling, surgery management, emergency department, and financialEHR-related applications and services to provide value based solutions for even rural, community and community hospitalsspecialty hospitals. These solutions are designed to help improve patient safety, automate order entry and facilitate real-time communication of patient information throughout the hospital. NextGen inpatienthospital and across the patient care continuum. The Inpatient solutions are highly scalable, secure and easy to use with a Web 2.0 based2.0-based clinical component that leverages full “cloud computing” capabilities. In May, 2012, QSI announced it had acquired the Poseidon Group Inc. to extend its suite of solutions and footprint across hospitals and to integrate their emergency department solutions into the NextGen Healthcare product offerings. Key Inpatient products consist of:

NextGen® Inpatient Clinicals - a suite of CCHIT ONC 2011-certified solutions based on a scalable, secure and web-based enterprise platform that leverages mobile and 'cloud computing' technology. Clinicians can enter and retrieve relevant inpatient clinical information (patient vitals, lab results, allergies, medications, and imaging results) from bedside or remote locations. NextGen Inpatient Clinicals' CPOE, Clinical Documentation, and Clinical Decision support capabilities and help enable hospitals to achieve Stage 1 through Stage 4 adoption for ARRA meaningful use reimbursement and the HIMSS® EMR Adoption Model. The NextGen® Inpatient Clinicals version 2.6 is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as an electronic health record (EHR) Module on May 1, 2013 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), in accordance with the applicable Hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The ONC 2014 Edition criteria support both Stage 1 and 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under ARRA.

NextGen® Inpatient Financials - a financial and administrative system that helps hospitals streamline operations and improve financial and regulatory management of their facilities. The system is designed to automate and consolidate financials processes at single or multiple facilities, including critical access, rural community and specialty hospitals and physician offices. NextGen® Inpatient Financials uses a common patient database and community-based master patient index. It is designed to help optimize revenue management and claims results.

NextGen® Emergency Department Solution - a comprehensive, web-based emergency department information system (EDIS) for hospital emergency departments. It consists of nurse, physician, administration, coding, and billing functionality to reduce costs and medical errors, enhance care, and ensure proper documentation. It offers templates and forms to streamline workflow and augment and enhance a hospital's existing forms set. The NextGen Emergency Department Solutions is interoperable and integrates with other hospital systems.

NextGen® Enterprise Scheduling - a system designed to provide hospital-wide, conflict-free patient scheduling for easier, more efficient patient, resource, and staff management. It can be used as a single module or integrated with any combination of NextGen® Inpatient Clinical Applications. It is designed so that, whether used as a single module or integrated with clinical applications, hospital operations can benefit with better use of resources for increased capacity and patient throughput.

NextGen® Surgical Management - a system designed to help hospitals optimize OR throughput, quality, efficiency, patient safety, revenue, and compliance. Detailed reporting provides surgery directors and hospital administrators with information to fine tune surgical processes, quickly identify cases where costs have exceeded a normal range, and improve use of precious OR resources. Hidden surgical procedure cost drivers can be identified and eliminated. The system also helps ensure compliance with Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) and National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) reporting requirements.

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Revenue Cycle Management Services.  Our Practice Solutions RCM Services Division offerspartners with private and hospital-based physicians and groups to implement the NextGen® product suite with best practice, customizable RCM services in order to physicians.help them optimize revenue, better leverage automation, and help them focus on practicing medicine. RCM services capabilities include:

Billing and Collections- A robust set of internal controls, best practice methodologies and comprehensive reporting ensures accuracy and addresses the entire revenue cycle: from patient registration and charge capture, to claim submission, payment posting, denial management and accounts receivable resolution.

Electronic Claims Submission - These services generate HIPAA-compliant insurance transactions to submit client insurance claims electronically to insurance payers nationwide. Automating the electronic claims submission ("ECS") process using the NextGen EPM application is another best practice that reduces costly manual labor. Our solutions support the CMS-1500, UB-04 and ADA Dental Claim Forms and also accommodate proprietary claim formats.

Electronic Remittance & Payment Posting - These automated services help ensure payments are posted accurately and promptly. Using the NextGen® Document Management, we link an image of each explanation of benefit (“EOB”) to the corresponding encounter at the time of payment posting to minimize the need for storage of paper EOBs. The services also use electronic remittance and digital lockboxes to post payments and capture specific denial information for management and tracking.

Accounts Receivable Follow-Up - An accounts receivable management methodology designed in cooperation with our clients helps establish joint follow-up parameters, adjustment rules, standards for account elevation, as well as customized follow-up activities. The RCM service automatesServices team will work with the client to replace costly manual processes with workflow automation tools and manages billing-related functions for physicianbest practices to help manage reimbursement quicklyreduce denials and efficiently.improve collections.

Expertise and Support - Our team of experts consists of analysts, billing and coding specialists, auditors, customer service professionals, and account managers - all working for our clients to answer patients' billing questions, monitor RCM services generally include:performance and trends, provide credentialing assistance and identify opportunities for improvement to optimize collected revenue.
• Electronic claims submission service that submits Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) compliant insurance claims electronically to insurance payers;
• Electronic remittance and payment posting service that uses NextGen Document Management system to link an image of each explanation of benefit (“EOB”) to the corresponding encounter at the time of payment posting to minimizes the need for storage of paper EOBs; and
• Accounts receivablefollow-up methodology that allows practices to establish parameters, adjustment rules and standards for account elevation.
Electronic Data Interchange. We make available EDI capabilities and connectivity services to our customers.clients. The EDI/connectivity capabilities encompass direct interfaces between our products and external third party systems, as well as transaction-based services. EDI products are intended to automate a number of manual, often paper-based or telephony intensive communications between patientsand/or providersand/or payors. payers. Two of the more common EDI services are forwarding insurance claims electronically from providers to payorspayers and assisting practices with issuing statements to patients. Most client practices utilize at least some of these services from us or one of our competitors. Other EDI/connectivity services are used more sporadically by client practices.


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We typically compete to displace incumbent vendors for claims and statements accounts and attempt to increase usage of other elements in our EDI/connectivity product line. In general, EDI services are only sold to those accounts utilizing software from either the QSI Dental or NextGen Divisions. On November 14, 2011, the Company acquired ViaTrack, a developer and provider of information technologies that enhance EDI offerings. This acquisition has provided the Company with in house EDI capabilities at less cost to the Company compared to third party providers. We believe that significant opportunities exist to add EDI services to our portfolio of service offerings in the inpatient market and ViaTrack will provide a platform to pursue this opportunity.
Services include:
• Electronic claims submission through our relationships with a number of payorsElectronic claims submission through our relationships with a number of payers and national claims clearinghouses;
• Electronic patient statement processing, appointment reminder cards and calls, recall cards, patient letters, and other correspondence;
• Electronic insurance eligibility verification; and
• Electronic posting of remittances from insurance carriers into the accounts receivable application.
Electronic patient statement processing, appointment reminder cards and calls, recall cards, patient letters and other correspondence;
Electronic insurance eligibility verification; and
Electronic posting of remittances from insurance carriers into the accounts receivable application.
Community Connectivity. The NextGen Division also markets NextGenNextGen® HIE to facilitate cross-enterprise data sharing, enabling individual medicalphysician practices in a given community to selectively share critical data, such as demographics, referrals, medications lists, allergies, diagnoses, lab results, histories and more. This is accomplished through a secure, community-wide data repository that links health care providers, whether they have the NextGenehsNextGen® Ambulatory EHR system, another compatible electronic medical records system, or no electronic medicalhealth records system, together with hospitals, payors,payers, labs and other entities. The product is designed to facilitate adata exchange within an Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) or Regional Health Information Organization.Organization (“RHIO”). The result is that for every health care encounter in the community, a patient-centric and complete record is accessible for the provider. The availability, currencyaccuracy and completeness of information plus the elimination of duplicate data entry can lead to significantly improved patient safety, enhanced decision making capabilities, time efficiencies and cost savings. Our NextGen Division maintains an Internet-basedinternet-based patient health portal, NextMD.com.NextGen® Patient Portal. NextMD.com is athe URL for our vertical portal for the healthcare industry, linking patients with their physicians, while providing a centralized source of health-oriented information for both consumers and medical professionals. Patients whose physicians are linked to the portal are able to request appointments, send appointment changes or cancellations, receive test results on-line, request prescription refills, viewand/or pay their statements, and communicate with their physicians, all in a secure, on-line environment. Our NextGenNextGen® suite of information systems are or can be linked to NextMD.com, integrating a number of these features with physicians’ existing systems.
Proprietary Rights

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We rely on a combination of patents, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secret laws and contractual restrictions to establish and protect proprietary rights in our products and services. To protect our proprietary rights, we enter into confidentiality agreements and invention assignment agreements with our employees with whom such controls are relevant. Certain qualified employees enter into additional agreements that permit them access under certain circumstances, to software matters that are both confidential and more strictly controlled. In addition, we include intellectual property protective provisions in many of our client contracts.
We rely on software that we license from third parties for certain components of our products and services to enhance our products and services, and meet evolving customer needs. The failure to license any necessary technology, or to maintain our existing licenses, could result in reduced demand for our products.
Because the software industry is characterized by rapid technological change, we believe such factors as the technological and creative skills of our personnel, new product developments, frequent product enhancements, name recognition, and reliable product maintenance are more important to establishing and maintaining a technology leadership position than the various legal protections of our technology.
Although we believe our products and services, and other proprietary rights, do not infringe upon the proprietary rights of third parties, third parties may assert intellectual property infringement claims against us in the future. Any such claims may result in costly, time-consuming litigation and may require us to enter into royalty or cross-license arrangements.
Sales and Marketing
We sell and market our products nationwide primarily through a direct sales force. The efforts of the direct sales force are augmented byand a small number of reseller relationships established by us.channel. Software license sales to resellers represented less than 10% of total revenue for the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008.
2011.
Our direct sales force typically makes presentations to potential clients by demonstrating the system and our capabilities on the prospective client’s premises. Sales efforts aimed at smaller practices can be performed on the prospective clients’ premises, or remotely via telephone or Internet-based presentations. Both the direct and reseller channel sales force is concentrating on more multi-product sales opportunities. These are opportunities where we might sell our ambulatory, inpatient, dental and RCM services or some combination thereof to prospective clients.
Our sales and marketing employees identify prospective clients through a variety of means, including referrals from existing clients, industry consultants, contacts at professional society meetings, trade shows and web-based seminars, trade journal advertising, online advertising, direct mail and email advertising and telemarketing.
Resources have shifted more heavily to Web-based marketing to take advantage of buyers that now tend to do more Web research before contacting a vendor. In addition, we focus on more thought leadership marketing to highlight our industry knowledge, expertise and the success of our client base.
Our sales cycle can vary significantly and typically ranges from six to twenty-four months from initial contact to contract execution. Software licenses are normally delivered to a customerclient almost immediately upon receipt of an order. Implementation and training services are normally rendered based on a mutually agreed upon timetable. As part of the fees paid by our clients, we normally receive up-front licensing fees. Clients have the option to purchase maintenance services which, if purchased, are invoiced on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis.
Several clients have purchased our practice management softwaresuite of enterprise products and, in turn, are providing either time-share or billing services to single and group practice practitioners. Under the time-share or billing service agreements, the client provides the use of our software for a fee to one or more practitioners. Although we typically do not receive a fee directly from the distributor’s customers,clients, implementation of such arrangements has, from time to time, resulted in the purchase of additional software capacity by the distributor, as well as new software purchases made by the distributor’s customers should such customers decide to perform the practice management functions in-house.


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We continue to concentrate our direct sales and marketing efforts on medical and dental practices, networks of such practices including MSOsIPAs and PHOs, professional schools, community health centers, hospitals and other ambulatory care settings.
MSOs,IPAs, PHOs and similar networks to which we have sold systems provide use of our software to those group and single physician practices associated with the organization or hospital on either a service basis or by directing us to contract with those practices for the sale of stand-alone systems.
We have also entered into marketing assistance agreements with certain of our clients pursuant to which the clients allow us to demonstrate to potential clients the use of systems on the existing clients’ premises.
From time to time we assist prospective clients in identifying third party sources for financing the purchase of our systems. The financing is typically obtained by the client directly from institutional lenders and typically takes the form of a loan from the institution secured by the system to be purchased or a leasing arrangement. We do not guarantee the financing nor retain any continuing interest in the transaction.
We have numerous clients and do not believe that the loss of any single client would adversely affect us. No client accounted for 10% or more of our net revenue during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 or 2008.2011.
CustomerClient Service and Support
We believe our success is attributable in part to our customerclient service and support departments. We offer support to our clients seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
Our client support staff is comprised of specialists who are knowledgeable in the areas of software and hardware as well as in theday-to-day operations of a practice.practice or hospital. System support activities range from correcting minor procedural problems in the client’s system to performing complex database reconstructions or software updates.

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We utilize automated online support systems which assist clients in resolving minor problems and facilitate automated electronic retrieval of problems and symptoms following a client’s call to the automated support system. Additionally, our online support systems maintain call records, available at both the client’s facility and our offices.
We offer our clients support services for most system components, including hardware and software, for a fixed monthly, quarterly or annual fee. CustomersClients also receive access to future unspecified versions of the software, on awhen-and-if available when-available basis, as part of support services. We also subcontract, in certain instances, with third party vendors to perform specific hardware maintenance tasks.
Implementation and Training
We offer full service implementation and training services. When a client signs a contract for the purchase of a system that includes implementation and training services, a client manager/manager and implementation specialist trained in medicaland/or dental group practice proceduresthe specifics of the client's business. The implementation team is assigned to assist the client in the installation of the system and the training of appropriate practice staff. Implementation and Training is responsible for ensuring proficiency in the use of the system which ultimately improves the practice's performance and quality of care. Implementation services include loading the software, training customerclient personnel, data conversion, running test data and assisting in the development and documentation of procedures. Implementation and training services are provided by our employees as well as certified third parties and certain resellers.
Training may include a combination of computer assisted instruction or CAI,(“CAI”) for certain of our products, remote training techniques and training classes conducted at the client’s or our office(s). CAI consists of workbooks, computer interaction and self-paced instruction. CAI is also offered to clients, for an additional charge, after the initial training program is completed for the purpose of training new and additional employees. Remote training allows a trainer at our offices to train one or more people at a client site via telephone and computer connection, thus allowing an interactive and client-specific mode of training without the expense and time required for travel. In addition, our on-line “help” and other documentation features facilitate client training as well as ongoing support.


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The Company has relationships with third party implementation providers to supplement the Company's in house implementation resources.


In addition, NextGen“E-learning”NextGen® “E-learning” is an on-line learning subscription service which allows end users to train on the software on the internet.E-learning allows end users to self manage their own learning with their personal learning path and pace. The service allows users to track the status of courses taken.
At present, our training facilities are located in (i) Horsham, Pennsylvania, (ii) Atlanta, Georgia (iii) Dallas, Texas, and (iv)(iii) Irvine, California. We are in the process of building a fourth training center in Austin, Texas which is scheduled to open late summer 2013.
Competition
The markets for healthcare information systems and services are intensely competitive. The industry is highly fragmented and includes numerous competitors, none of which we believe dominates these markets. Our principal existing competitors in the healthcare information systems and services market include: eClinicalWorks, GE Healthcare (“GE”), Allscripts-MisysAllscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (“Allscripts”), EPIC, athenahealth, Inc., Cerner, Greenway, McKesson and other competitors.
Our recent In addition, our entry into the small hospital market has introduced new competitors, including Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., Healthland and Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.
The electronic patient records and connectivity markets, in particular, are subject to rapid changes in technology, and we expect that competition in these market segments will increase as new competitors enter the market. We believe our principal competitive advantages are the features and capabilities of our products and services, our high level of customerclient support and our extensive experience in the industry.
The revenue cycle managementRCM market is also intensely competitive as other healthcare information systems companies, such as GE, McKesson and Allscripts, are also in the market of selling both practice management and electronic health records software and medical billing and collection services.
Product Enhancement and Development
The healthcare information management and computer software and hardware industries are characterized by rapid technological change requiring us to engage in continuing investments to update, enhance and improve our systems. During fiscal years 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008,2011, we expended approximately $24.5$60.4 million $19.7, $44.5 million and $17.4$32.5 million, respectively, on research and development activities, including capitalized software amounts of $7.9$29.5 million $5.9, $13.1 million and $6.0$10.7 million, respectively. In addition, a portion of our product enhancements have resulted from software development work performed under contracts with our clients.
Employees
OTHER INFORMATION
Employees
As of March 31, 2010,2013, we employed approximately 1,5022,333 persons, of which 1,4662,295 were full-time employees. We believe that our future success depends in part upon recruiting and retaining qualified sales, marketing and technical personnel as well as other employees.
Intellectual Property
To protect our intellectual property, we enter into confidentiality agreements and invention assignment agreements with our employees with whom such controls are relevant. Certain qualified employees enter into additional agreements that permit them access under certain circumstances, to software matters that are both confidential and more strictly controlled. In addition, we include intellectual property protective provisions in many of our customer contracts.
Available Information
Our Internet Web sitewebsite address iswww.qsii.com. We make our periodic and current reports, together with amendments to these reports, filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, available on our Internet Web site,website, free of charge, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Commission.SEC. You may access such filings under the “Investor Relations” button on our Web site.website. Members of the public may also read and copy any materials we file with, or furnish to, the CommissionSEC at the Commission’sSEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. To


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obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room, please call the SEC at1-800-SEC-0330. The CommissionSEC maintains an Internet site atwww.sec.gov that contains the reports, proxy statements and other information that we file electronically with the Commission. TheSEC. Our website and the information on our Internet Web sitecontained therein or connected thereto is not intended to be incorporated by reference into this Report or any other report or information we file with the Commission.SEC.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
You should carefully consider the risks described below, as well as the other cautionary statements and risks described elsewhere and the other information contained in this Report and in our other filings with the SEC, including subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. We operate in a rapidly changing environment that involves a number of risks. The more prominent risks and uncertainties inherent in our businessdescribed below are described below. However, additionalnot the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impairaffect our business operations. If any of the followingthese known or unknown risks actually occur, our business, financial condition or results of operations will likely suffer. Anycould be materially and adversely affected, in which case the trading price of these or other factors could harm our businesscommon stock may decline and future results of operations andyou may cause you to lose all or part of your investment.
Risks Related to Our Business
The effects of the recentongoing uncertainty in global economic crisisconditions may negatively impact our business, operating results or financial condition. The recentcontinuing unfavorable global economic crisis hasconditions and uncertainty have caused a general tightening in the credit markets, lower levels of liquidity, increases in the rates of default and bankruptcy and extreme volatility in credit, equity and fixed income markets. These macroeconomic developmentsconditions could negatively affect our business, operating results or financial condition in a number of ways. For example, current or potential customersclients may be unable to fund software purchases, which could cause them to delay, decrease or cancel purchases of our products and services or to not pay us or to delay paying us for previously purchased products and services. Our clients may cease business operations or conduct business on a greatly reduced basis. Finally, our investment portfolio which includes auction rate securities, is generally subject to general credit, liquidity, counterparty, market and interest rate risks that may be exacerbated by the recentthese global financial crisis.conditions. If the banking system or the fixed income, credit or equity markets continue to deteriorate or remain volatile, our investment portfolio may be impacted and the values and liquidity of our investments could be adversely affected as well.
We face significant, evolving competition which, if we fail to properly address, could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and price of our stock. The markets for healthcare information systems are intensely competitive, and we face significant competition from a number of different sources. Several of our competitors have significantlysubstantially greater name recognition as well as substantially greaterand financial, technical, product development and marketing resources than we do. There has been significant merger and acquisition activity among a number of our competitors in recent years. Transaction induced pressures, or other related factors may result in price erosion or other negative market dynamics that could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and price of our stock.
We compete in all of our markets with other major healthcare related companies, information management companies, systems integrators and other software developers. Competitive pressures and other factors, such as new product introductions by us or our competitors, may result in price or market share erosion that could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Also, there can be no assurance that our applications will achieve broad market acceptance or will successfully compete with other available software products.
OurSaturation or consolidation in the healthcare industry could result in the loss of existing customers, a reduction in our potential customer base and downward pressure on the prices for our products and services. As the healthcare information systems market evolves, saturation of this market with our products or our competitors' products could limit our revenues and opportunities for growth. There has also been increasing consolidation amongst healthcare industry participants in recent years, creating integrated healthcare delivery systems with greater market power. As provider networks and managed care organizations consolidate, the number of market participants decreases and competition to provide products and services like ours will become more intense. The importance of establishing relationships with key industry participants will become greater and our inability to make initial sales of our systems to, or maintain relationships with, newly formed groupsand/or healthcare providers that are replacing or substantially modifying their healthcare information systems could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. These consolidated industry participants may also try to use their increased market power to negotiate price reductions for our products and services. If new systems sales do not materialize,we were forced to reduce our near term and longer term revenue will be adversely affected.prices, our business would become less profitable unless we were able to achieve corresponding reductions in our expenses.
Many of our competitors have greater resources than we do. In order to compete successfully, we must keep pace with our competitors in anticipating and responding to the rapid changes involving the industry in which we operate, or our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected. The software market generally is characterized by rapid technological change, changing customerclient needs, frequent new product introductions and evolving industry standards. The introduction of products incorporating new technologies and the emergence of new industry standards could render our existing products obsolete and unmarketable. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in developing and marketing new products that respond to technological changes or evolving industry standards. New product development depends upon significant research and development expenditures which depend ultimately upon sales growth. Any material shortfall in revenue or research


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funding could impair our ability to respond to technological advances or opportunities in the marketplace and to remain competitive. If we are unable, for technological or other reasons, to develop and introduce new products in a timely manner in response to changing market conditions or customerclient requirements, our business, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected.
In response to increasing market demand, we are currently developing new generations of certain of ourtargeted software products. There can be no assurance that we will successfully develop these new software products or that these products will operate successfully, or that any such development, even if successful, will be completed concurrently with or prior to introduction of competing products. Any such failure or delay could adversely affect our competitive position or could make our current products obsolete.
We face riskand/or the possibility of claims from activities related to strategic partners, which could be expensive and time-consuming, divert personnel and other resources from our business and result in adverse publicity that could harm our business. We rely on third parties to provide services that affectfor our business. For example, we use national clearinghouses in the processing of some insurance claims and we outsource some of our hardware maintenance services and the printing and delivery of patient statements for our customers.clients. These third parties

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could raise their pricesand/or be acquired by our competitors, of ours, which could potentially create short and long-term disruptions to our business, negatively impacting our revenue, profitand/or stock price. We also have relationships with certain third parties where these third parties serve as sales channels through which we generate a portion of our revenue. Due to these third-party relationships, we could be subject to claims as a result of the activities, products, or services of these third-party service providers even though we were not directly involved in the circumstances leading to those claims. Even if these claims do not result in liability to us, defending and investigating these claims could be expensive and time-consuming, divert personnel and other resources from our business and result in adverse publicity that could harm our business.
We may engage in future acquisitions, which may be expensive, and time consuming, subject to inherent risks and from which we may not realize anticipated benefits. We may acquire additional businesses, technologies and products if we determine that these additional businesses, technologies and products are likely to serve our strategic goals. During fiscal year 2009, we acquired HSI and PMP, both of which are full-service healthcare RCM companies servicing physician groups and other healthcare clients. During fiscal year 2010, weWe acquired Opus and Sphere bothduring fiscal year 2010, IntraNexus and CQI during fiscal year 2012 and Poseidon during fiscal year 2013, all of which are developers of software and services for the inpatient market. The specificWe also acquired ViaTrack Systems, LLC ("ViaTrack") during fiscal year 2012 which develops information technologies that enhance EDI offerings, and Matrix during fiscal year 2013 which provides revenue cycle management services. Acquisitions have inherent risks, wewhich may encounter in these types of transactions includehave a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, operating results or prospects, including, but are not limited to the following:
failure to achieve projected synergies and performance targets;
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potentially dilutive issuances of our securities, the incurrence of debt and contingent liabilities and amortization expenses related to intangible assets with indefinite useful lives, which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition;
• use of cash as acquisition currency may adversely affect interest or investment income, thereby potentially adversely affecting our earnings and /or earnings per share;
• difficulty in effectively integrating any acquired technologies or software products into our current products and technologies;
• difficulty in predicting and responding to issues related to product transition such as development, distribution and customer support;
• the possible adverse effect of such acquisitions on existing relationships with third party partners and suppliers of technologies and services;
• the possibility that staff or customers of the acquired company might not accept new ownership and may transition to different technologies or attempt to renegotiate contract terms or relationships, including maintenance or support agreements;
• the possibility that the due diligence process in any such acquisition may not completely identify material issues associated with product quality, product architecture, product development, intellectual property issues, key personnel issues or legal and financial contingencies, including any deficiencies in internal controls and procedures and the costs associated with remedying such deficiencies;


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using cash as acquisition currency may adversely affect interest or investment income, which may in turn adversely affect our earnings and /or earnings per share;
difficulty in fully or effectively integrating the acquired technologies, software products, services, business practices or personnel, which would prevent us from realizing the intended benefits of the acquisition;
• difficulty in integrating acquired operations due to geographical distance, and language and cultural differences; and
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failure to maintain uniform standard controls, policies and procedures across acquired businesses;
difficulty in predicting and responding to issues related to product transition such as development, distribution and client support;
the possible adverse effect of such acquisitions on existing relationships with third party partners and suppliers of technologies and services;
the possibility that staff or clients of the acquired company might not accept new ownership and may transition to different technologies or attempt to renegotiate contract terms or relationships, including maintenance or support agreements;
the assumption of known and unknown liabilities;
the possibility that the due diligence process in any such acquisition may not completely identify material issues associated with product quality, product architecture, product development, intellectual property issues, key personnel issues or legal and financial contingencies, including any deficiencies in internal controls and procedures and the costs associated with remedying such deficiencies;
difficulty in entering geographic and/or business markets in which we have no or limited prior experience;
difficulty in integrating acquired operations due to geographical distance and language and cultural differences;
diversion of management's attention from other business concerns; and
the possibility that acquired assets become impaired, requiring us to take a charge to earnings which could be significant.
A failure to successfully integrate acquired businesses or technology could, for any of these reasons, could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
Our failure to manage growth could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition. We have in the past experienced periods of growth which have placed, and may continue to place, a significant strain on our non-cash resources. We also anticipate expanding our overall software development, marketing, sales, client management and training capacity. In the event we are unable to identify, hire, train and retain qualified individuals in such capacities within a reasonable timeframe, such failure could have an adverse effect on us.the operation of our business. In addition, our ability to manage future increases, if any, in the scope of our operations or personnel will depend on significant expansion of our research and development, marketing and sales, management and administrative and financial capabilities. The failure of our management to effectively manage expansion in our business could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our operations are dependent upon our key personnel. If such personnel were to leave unexpectedly, we may not be able to execute our business plan. Our future performance depends in significant part upon the continued service of our key technicaldevelopment and senior management personnel manyand successful recruitment of whom have been with us for a significant period of time.new talent. These personnel have acquired specialized knowledge and skills with respect to our business. We maintain key man life insurance on only one ofbusiness and our employees.industry. Because we have a relatively small number of employees when compared to other leading companies in our industry, our dependence on maintaining our relationships with key employees and successful recruiting is particularly significant. We are also dependent on our ability to attract high quality personnel, particularly in the areas

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The industry in which we operate is characterized by a high level of employee mobility and aggressive recruiting of skilled personnel. There can be no assurance that our current employees will continue to work for us. Loss of services of key employees could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Furthermore, we may need to grant additional equity incentives to key employees and provide other forms of incentive compensation to attract and retain such key personnel. Equity incentives may be dilutive to our per share financial performance. Failure to provide such types of incentive compensation could jeopardize our recruitment and retention capabilities.
Continuing worldwide political and economic uncertainties may adversely affect our revenue and profitability.profitability. The last several years have been periodically marked by concerns including but not limited to inflation, decreased consumer confidence, the lingering effects of international conflicts, energy costs and terrorist and military activities. These conditionsAlthough certain indices and economic data have shown signs of stabilization in the United States and certain global markets, there can be no assurance that these improvements will be broad-based or sustainable. This instability can make it extremely difficult for our customers,clients, our vendors and us to accurately forecast and plan future business activities, and they could cause constrained spending on our products and services, delays and a lengthening of our sales cycles and/or delay difficulty in collection of our accounts receivable. Bankruptcies or similar insolvency events affecting our clients may cause us to incur bad debt expense at levels higher than historically experienced. Further, an ongoing economic stability in the global markets could limit our ability to access the capital markets at a time when we would like, or need, to raise capital, which could have an impact on our ability to react to changing business conditions or new opportunities. Accordingly, if worldwide political and lengthen sales cycles.economic uncertainties continue or worsen, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.
If we are unable to manage our growth in the new markets we may enter, our business and financial results could suffer. Our future financial results will depend in part on our ability to profitably manage our business in new markets that we may enter. We are engaging in the strategic identification of, and competition for, growth and expansion opportunities in new markets or offerings, including but not limited to the areas of interoperability, patient engagements, data analytics and population health. In order to successfully execute on these future initiatives, we will need to, among other things, manage changing business conditions and develop expertise in areas outside of our business's traditional core competencies. Difficulties in managing future growth in new markets could have a significant negative impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We may not be successful in developing or launching our new software products and services, which could have a negative impact on our financial condition and results of operations. We invest significant resources in the research and development of new and enhanced software products and services. Over the last few years we have incurred, and will continue to incur, significant internal research and development expenses that are recorded as capitalized software costs. We cannot provide assurances that we will be successful in our efforts to develop or sell new software products, which could result in an impairment of the value of the related capitalized software costs, an adverse effect on our financial condition and operating results and a negative impact the future of our business.
We have implemented a new company-wide enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) system. The failureimplementation process is complex and involves a number of auction rate securitiesrisks that may adversely affect our business and results of operations. During fiscal 2013, we replaced our multiple legacy business systems at different sites with a new company-wide, integrated ERP system to sell at their reset dateshandle various business, operating and financial processes. The new system will enhance a variety of important functions, such as order entry, invoicing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, financial consolidation, and internal and external financial and management reporting matters.
ERP implementations are complex and time-consuming projects that involve substantial expenditures on system hardware and software and implementation activities that often continue for several years. Such an integrated, wide-scale implementation is extremely complex and requires transformation of business and financial processes in order to reap the benefits of the ERP system. Significant efforts are required for requirements identification, functional design, process documentation, data conversion, user training and post implementation support. Problems in any of these areas could result in operational issues including delayed billing and accounting errors and other operational issues. System delays or malfunctioning could also disrupt our ability to timely and accurately process and report results of our operations, financial position and cash flows, which could impact our ability to timely complete important business processes such as the liquidityevaluation of its internal controls and attestation activities pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
We own a captive facility, located in India that subjects us to regulatory, economic, social and political uncertainties in India. We are subject to several risks associated with having a portion of our assets and operations located in India. Many US companies have benefited from many policies of the Government of India and the Indian state governments in the states in which we operate, which are designed to promote foreign investment generally and the business process services industry in particular, including significant tax incentives, relaxation of regulatory restrictions, liberalized import and export duties and preferential rules on foreign investment and repatriation. There is no assurance that such policies will continue. Various factors, such as changes in the current Government of India, could negatively impacttrigger significant changes in India’s economic liberalization and deregulation policies and disrupt business and economic conditions in India generally and our business in particular. In addition, our financial performance and the market price of our common stock may be adversely affected by general economic conditions and economic and fiscal policy in India, including changes in exchange rates and controls, interest rates and taxation policies, as well as social stability and political, economic or diplomatic developments affecting India in the future. In particular, India has experienced significant economic growth over the last several years, but faces major challenges in sustaining that growth in the years ahead. These challenges include the need for substantial infrastructure development and improving access to healthcare and education. Our ability to recruit, train and retain qualified employees, develop and operate our captive facility could be adversely affected if India does not successfully meet these challenges.
We could suffer further charges due to asset impairment that could reduce our income. We test our goodwill for impairment annually during our first fiscal quarter, and on interim dates should events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value of goodwill may not be recoverable in accordance with provisions of ASC 350, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other. During the investment.  Our investments include auction rate securities (“ARS”). ARS are securities that are structured with short-term interest rate reset dates of generally less than ninety days but with longer contractual maturities that range, for our holdings, from nine to 28 years. At the end of each reset period, investors can typically sell at auction or continue to hold the securities at par. These securities are subject to fluctuations in interest rate depending on the supply and demand at each auction. As ofquarter ended March 31, 2010,2013, we were holdingrecorded a total$17.4 million goodwill impairment charge relating to our Hospital Solutions Division (see “Management's Discussion and

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Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section for additional information regarding this charge). Declines in business performance or other factors could cause the fair value of our Hospital Solutions Division, or any of our other operating segments to be further revised downward, resulting in further impairment charges. If the financial outlook for any of our operating segments warrants additional impairments of goodwill, the resulting write-downs could materially affect our reported net of unrealized loss, in ARS. The Company’s ARS are held by UBS Financial Services Inc. (“UBS”). On November 13, 2008, the Company entered into an Auction Rate Security Rights Agreement (the “Rights Agreement”) with UBS, whereby the Company accepted UBS’s offer to purchase the Company’s ARS investments at any time during the period of June 30, 2010 through July 2, 2012. As a result, the Company had obtained an asset, ARS put option rights, whereby the Company has a right to “put” the ARS back to UBS. The Company expects to exercise its ARS put option rights and put its ARS back to UBS on June 30, 2010, the earliest date allowable under the Rights Agreement. While we believe that UBS has the ability to honor the terms of its


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agreement to purchase the ARS investments from the Company at par, the failure of UBS to purchase these investments would result in the Company being unable to liquidate these securities in the near future. While these debt securities are all highly-rated investments, generally with AAA/Aaa ratings, continued failure to sell at their reset dates could impact the liquidity of the investment which in turn could negatively impact our liquidity position.earnings.
Risks Related to Our Products and Service
If our principal products, and our new product developmentdevelopments or implementation, training and support services fail to meet the needs of our clients, we may fail to realize future growth.growth, suffer reputational harm and face the risk of losing existing clients. We currently derive substantially all of our net revenue from sales of our healthcare information systems and related services. We believe that a primary factor in the market acceptance of our systems has been our ability to meet the needs of users of healthcare information systems. Our future financial performance will depend in large part on our ability to continue to meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of our clients through the timely development and successful introduction and implementation of new and enhanced versions of our systems and other complementary products, as well as our ability to provide high quality implementation, training and support services for our products. We have historically expended a significant percentage of our net revenue on product development and believe that significant continuing product development efforts will be required to retain our existing clients and sustain our growth. Continued investment in our sales staff and our client implementation, training and support staffs will also be required to support future growth.
retain and grow our client base.
There can be no assurance that we will be successful in our customer satisfaction or product development efforts, that the market will continue to accept our existing products and services, or that new products or product enhancements will be developed and implemented in a timely manner, meet the requirements of healthcare providers, or achieve market acceptance. If new products or product enhancements are delayed or do not achieve market acceptance, or if our implementation, training and support services do not achieve a high degree of customer satisfaction, our reputation, business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected. At certain times in the past, we have also experienced delays in purchases of our products by clients anticipating our launch, or the launch of our competitors, of new products. There can be no assurance that material order deferrals in anticipation of new product introductions from ourselves or other entities will not occur.
If the emerging technologies and platforms of Microsoft and others upon which we build our products do not gain or continue to maintain broad market acceptance, or if we fail to develop and introduce in a timely manner new products and services compatible with such emerging technologies, we may not be able to compete effectively and our ability to generate revenue will suffer.Our software products are built and depend upon several underlying and evolving relational database management system platforms such as those developed by Microsoft. To date, the standards and technologies upon which we have chosen to develop our products have proven to have gained industry acceptance. However, the market for our software products is subject to ongoing rapid technological developments, quickly evolving industry standards and rapid changes in customerclient requirements, and there may be existing or future technologies and platforms that achieve industry standard status, which are not compatible with our products.products.
We are dependent on our license rights and other services from third parties, which may cause us to discontinue, delay or reduce product shipments. We depend upon licenses for some of the technology used in our products as well as other services from third-party vendors. Most of these arrangements can be continued/renewed only by mutual consent and may be terminated for any number of reasons. We may not be able to continue using the products or services made available to us under these arrangements on commercially reasonable terms or at all. As a result, we may have to discontinue, delay or reduce product shipments or services provided until we can obtain equivalent technology or services. Most of our third-party licenses are non-exclusive. Our competitors may obtain the right to use any of the business elements covered by these arrangements and use these elements to compete directly with us. In addition, if our vendors choose to discontinue providing their technology or services in the future or are unsuccessful in their continued research and development efforts, we may not be able to modify or adapt our own products.
We may experience interruption at our data centers or client support facilities. We perform data center and/or hosting services for certain clients, including the storage of critical patient and administrative data at company-owned facilities and through third-party hosting arrangements. In addition, we provide support services to our clients through various client support facilities. We have invested in reliability features such as multiple power feeds, multiple backup generators and redundant telecommunications lines, as well as technical (such as multiple overlapping security applications, access control and other countermeasures) and physical security safeguards, and structured our operations to reduce the likelihood of disruptions. However, complete failure of all local public power and backup generators, impairment of all telecommunications lines, a concerted denial of service cyber-attack, a significant data breach, damage, injury or impairment (environmental, accidental, intentional or pandemic) to the buildings, the equipment inside the buildings housing our data centers, the personnel operating such facilities or the client data contained therein, or errors by the personnel trained to operate such facilities could cause a disruption in operations and negatively impact clients who depend on us for data center and system support services. Any interruption in operations at our data centers and/or client support facilities could damage our reputation, cause us to lose existing clients, hurt our ability to obtain new clients, result in significant revenue loss, create potential liabilities for our clients and us and increase insurance and other operating costs.
We face the possibility of having to adopt new pricing strategies, such as subscription pricing which may force us to adjust our sales, marketing and pricing strategies.or bundling. In April 2009, we announced a new subscription based Softwaresoftware as a service delivery model which includes monthly subscription pricing. This model is designed for smaller practices to quickly access the NextGenehrNextGen® Ambulatory EHR or NextGenepmNextGen® PM products at a modest monthly per provider price. We currently derive substantially all of our systems revenue from traditional software license, implementation and training fees, as well as the resale of computer hardware. Today, the majority of our customersclients pay an initial license fee for the use of our products, in addition to a periodic maintenance fee. While the intent of the new subscription based delivery model is to further penetrate the smaller practice market, there can be no assurance that this delivery model will not become increasingly popular with both small and large customers.clients. In addition, we have experienced a recent increase in the demand for bundling our software and systems with RCM service arrangements, which has also caused

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us to modify our standard upfront license fee pricing model. If the marketplace increasingly demands subscription or bundled pricing, we may be forced to further adjust our sales, marketing and pricing strategies accordingly, by offering a higher percentage of our products and services through these means. Shifting to a significantly greater degree of subscription or bundled pricing could adversely affect our financial condition, cash flows and quarterly and annual revenue and results of operations, as our revenue would initially decrease substantially. There can be no assurance that the marketplace will not increasingly embrace subscription pricing.
We face the possibility of claims based upon our Web sitewebsite content, which may cause us expense and management distraction. We could be subject to third party claims based on the nature and content of information supplied on our Web sitewebsite by us or third parties, including content providers or users. We could also be subject to


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liability for content that may be accessible through our Web sitewebsite or third party Web siteswebsites linked from our Web sitewebsite or through content and information that may be posted by users in chat rooms, bulletin boards or on Web siteswebsites created by professionals using our applications. Even if these claims do not result in liability to us, investigating and defending against these claims could be expensive and time consuming and could divert management’s attention away from our operations.
If our security measures are breached or fail and unauthorized access is obtained to a client’s data, our services may be perceived as not being secure, clients may curtail or stop using our services, and we may incur significant liabilities.Our services involve the storage and transmission of clients’ proprietary information and protected health information of patients. Because of the sensitivity of this information, security features of our software are very important. If our security measures are breached or fail as a result of third-party action, employee error, malfeasance, insufficiency, defective design, or otherwise, someone may be able to obtain unauthorized access to client or patient data. As a result, our reputation could be damaged, our business may suffer, and we could face damages for contract breach, penalties for violation of applicable laws or regulations and significant costs for remediation and remediation efforts to prevent future occurrences. We rely upon our clients as users of our system for key activities to promote security of the system and the data within it, such as administration of client-side access credentialing and control of client-side display of data. On occasion, our clients have failed to perform these activities. Failure of clients to perform these activities may result in claims against us that this reliance was misplaced, which could expose us to significant expense and harm to our reputation. Because techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventive measures. If an actual or perceived breach of our security occurs, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed and we could lose sales and clients. In addition, our clients may authorize or enable third parties to access their client data or the data of their patients on our systems. Because we do not control such access, we cannot ensure the complete propriety of that access or integrity or security of such data in our systems.
Failure by our clients to obtain proper permissions and waivers may result in claims against us or may limit or prevent our use of data, which could harm our business. We require our clients to provide necessary notices and to obtain necessary permissions and waivers for use and disclosure of the information that we receive, and we require contractual assurances from them that they have done so and will do so. If they do not obtain necessary permissions and waivers, then our use and disclosure of information that we receive from them or on their behalf may be limited or prohibited by state or federal privacy laws or other applicable laws. This could impair our functions, processes and databases that reflect, contain, or are based upon such data and may prevent use of such data. In addition, this could interfere with or prevent creation or use of rules and analyses or limit other data-driven activities that benefit us.are beneficial to our business. Moreover, we may be subject to claims or liability for use or disclosure of information by reason of lack of valid notice, permission or waiver. These claims or liabilities could subject us to unexpected costs and adversely affect our operating results.
We face the possibility of damages resulting from internal and external security breaches and viruses. In the course of our business operations, we compile and transmit confidential information, including patient health information, in our processing centers and other facilities. A breach of security in any of these facilities could damage our reputation and result in damages being assessed against us. In addition, the other systems with which we may interface, such as the Internet and related systems may be vulnerable to security breaches, viruses, programming errors, or similar disruptive problems. The effect of these security breaches and related issues could disrupt our ability to perform certain key business functions and could potentially reduce demand for our services. Accordingly, we have expended significant resources toward establishing and enhancing the security of our related infrastructures, although no assurance can be given that they will be entirely free from potential breach. Maintaining and enhancing our infrastructure security may require us to expend significant capital in the future.
The success of our strategy to offer our EDI services and Internet solutions depends on the confidence of our customersclients in our ability to securely transmit confidential information. Our EDI services and Internet solutions rely on encryption, authentication and other security technology licensed from third parties to achieve secure transmission of confidential information. We may not be able to stop unauthorized attempts to gain access to or disrupt the transmission of communications by our customers.clients. Anyone who is able to circumvent our security measures could misappropriate confidential user information or interrupt our, or our customers’clients’, operations. In addition, our EDI and Internet solutions may be vulnerable to viruses, physical or electronic break-ins and similar disruptions.


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Any failure to provide secure infrastructureand/or electronic communication services could result in a lack of trust by our customersclients causing them to seek out other vendors and/or damage our reputation in the market, making it difficult to obtain new customers.clients.
We are subjectOur business depends on continued and unimpeded access to the developmentInternet by us and maintenance of the Internet infrastructure,our customers, which is not within our control, and which may diminish Internet usage and availability as well as access to our Web site.control. We deliver Internet-based services and, accordingly, we are dependentdepend on our ability and the maintenanceability of our customers to access the InternetInternet. This access is currently provided by third parties. Theparties that have significant market power in the broadband and Internet infrastructure may be unable to support the demands placed on itaccess marketplace, including incumbent telephone companies, cable companies, mobile communications companies and our performance may decrease if the Internet continues to experience its historic trendgovernment-owned service provides -- all of expanding usage. As a result of damage to portions of its infrastructure, the Internet has experienced a variety of performance problems which may continue into the foreseeable future. Such Internet related problems may diminish Internet usage and availability of the Internet to us for transmittalwhom are outside of our Internet-based services.control. In addition,the event of any difficulties, outages and delays by Internet service providers, online service providers and other Web site operatorswe may obstruct or diminish access to our Web site by our customersbe impeded from providing services, resulting in a loss of potential or existing users of our services.customers.
Our productsWe may be subject to claims for system errors, warranties or product liability, legal claims, which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.  Certain Our software solutions are intended for use in collecting, storing and displaying clinical and healthcare-related information used in the diagnosis and treatment of patients and in related healthcare settings such as admissions and billing. Therefore, users of our software solutions have a greater sensitivity to errors than the market for software products provide applications that relate to patient clinical information.generally. Any

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failure by our products to provide accurate and timely information concerning patients, their medication, treatment and health status, generally, could result in claims against us which could materially and adversely impact our financial performance, industry reputation and ability to market new system sales. In addition, a court or government agency may take the position that our delivery of health information directly, including through licensed practitioners, or delivery of information by a third party site that a consumer accesses through our Web sites,websites, exposes us to assertions of malpractice, other personal injury liability, or other liability for wrongful delivery/handling of healthcare services or erroneous health information. We maintain insurance to protect against claims associated with the use of our products as well as liability limitation language in our end-user license agreements, but there can be no assurance that our insurance coverage or contractual language would adequately cover any claim asserted against us. A successful claim brought against us in excess of or outside of our insurance coverage could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Even unsuccessful claims could result in our expenditure of funds for litigation and management time and resources.
Certain healthcare professionals who use our Internet-based products will directly enter health information about their patients including information that constitutes a record under applicable law that we may store on our computer systems. Numerous federal and state laws and regulations, the common law and contractual obligations, govern collection, dissemination, use and confidentiality of patient-identifiable health information, including:
state and federal privacy and confidentiality laws;
• state and federal privacy and confidentiality laws;
• our contracts with customers and partners;
• state laws regulating healthcare professionals;
• Medicaid laws;
• the HIPAA and related rules proposed by the Health Care Financing Administration; and
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our contracts with clients and partners;
state laws regulating healthcare professionals;
Medicaid laws;
the HIPAA and related rules proposed by the Health Care Financing Administration; and
Health Care Financing Administration standards for Internet transmission of health data.
HIPAA establishes elements including, but not limited to, federal privacy and security standards for the use and protection of Protected Health Information. Any failure by us or by our personnel or partners to comply with applicable requirements may result in a material liability to us.
Although we have systems and policies in place for safeguarding Protected Health Information from unauthorized disclosure, these systems and policies may not preclude claims against us for alleged violations of applicable requirements. Also, third party sitesand/or links that consumers may access through our web sites may not maintain adequate systems to safeguard this information, or may circumvent systems and policies we have put in place. In addition, future laws or changes in current laws may necessitate costly adaptations to our policies, procedures, or systems.


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There can be no assurance that we will not be subject to product liability claims, that such claims will not result in liability in excess of our insurance coverage, that our insurance will cover such claims or that appropriate insurance will continue to be available to us in the future at commercially reasonable rates. Such product liability claims could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We are subject to the effect of payorpayer and provider conduct which we cannot control and accordingly, there is no assurance that revenue for our services will continue at historic levels. We offer certain electronic claims submission products and services as part of our product line. While we have implemented certain product features designed to maximize the accuracy and completeness of claims submissions, these features may not be sufficient to prevent inaccurate claims data from being submitted to payors.payers. Should inaccurate claims data be submitted to payors,payers, we may be subject to liability claims.
Electronic data transmission services are offered by certain payorspayers to healthcare providers that establish a direct link between the provider and payor.payer. This process reduces revenue to third party EDI service providers such as us. As a result of this, orand other market factors, we are unable to ensure that we will continue to generate revenue at or in excess of prior levels for such services.
A significant increase in the utilization of direct links between healthcare providers and payorspayers could adversely affect our transaction volume and financial results. In addition, we cannot provide assurance that we will be able to maintain our existing links to payorspayers or develop new connections on terms that are economically satisfactory to us, if at all.
Risks Related to Regulation
We face increasing involvement of the federal government in our industry, which may give rise to uncertain and unwarranted expectations concerning the benefits we are to receive from government funding and programs.  In February 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”), which allocates over $20 billion dollars to healthcare IT over the next several years. The provision of the legislation that addresses health information technology specifically is known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH Act”). Under the provisions of HITECH Act, the ARRA includes significant financial incentives to healthcare providers who can demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology beginning in 2011. While the Company expects the ARRA to create significant opportunities for sales of NextGenehr over the next several years, we are unsure of the immediate impact from the ARRA and the long-term potential could be significant.
We face the risks and uncertainties that are associated with litigation against us, which may adversely impact our marketing, distract management and have a negative impact upon our business, results of operations and financial condition.We face the risks associated with litigation concerning the operation of our business. The uncertainty associated with substantial unresolved litigation may have an adverse effect on our business. In particular, such litigation could impair our relationships with existing customersclients and our ability to obtain new customers.clients. Defending such litigation may result in a diversion of management’smanagement's time and attention away from business operations, which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Such litigation may also have the effect of discouraging potential acquirers from bidding for us or reducing the consideration such acquirers would otherwise be willing to pay in connection with an acquisition.
There can be no assurance that such litigation will not result in liability in excess of our insurance coverage, that our insurance will cover such claims or that appropriate insurance will continue to be available to us in the future at commercially reasonable rates.
Because we believe that proprietaryProprietary rights are material to our success, and the misappropriation of these rights could adversely affect our business and our financial condition. We are heavily dependent on the maintenance and protection of our intellectual property and we rely largely on technical security measures, license agreements, confidentiality procedures and employee nondisclosure agreements to protect our intellectual property. OurThe majority of our software is not patented and existing copyright laws offer only limited practical protection.

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superior to ours. Further, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States and are often not enforced as vigorously as those in the United States.
We do not believe that our operations or products infringe on the intellectual property rights of others. However, there can be no assurance that others will not assert infringement or trade secret claims against us with respect to our current or future products or that any such assertion will not require us to enter into a license agreement or royalty arrangement or other financial arrangement with the party asserting the claim. Responding to and defending any such claims may distract the attention of our management and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. In addition, claims may be brought against third parties from which we purchase software, and such claims could adversely affect our ability to access third party software for our systems.
If we are deemed to infringe on the proprietary rights of third parties, we could incur unanticipated expense and be prevented from providing our products and services. We arehave been, and may continue to be in the future, subject to intellectual property infringement claims as the number of our competitors grows and our applications’applications' functionality is viewed as similar or overlapping with competitive products. We do not believe that we have infringed or are infringing on any proprietary rights of third parties. However, claims are occasionally asserted against us, and we cannot assure you that infringement claims will not be asserted against us in the future. Also, we cannot assure you that any such claims will be unsuccessful. We could incur substantial costs and diversion of management resources defending any infringement claims - even if we are ultimately successful in the defense of such matters. Furthermore, a party making a claim against us could secure a judgment awarding substantial damages, as well as injunctive or other equitable relief that could effectively block our ability to provide products or services. In addition, we cannot assure you that licenses for any intellectual property of third parties that might be required for our products or services will be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all.
Risks Related to Regulation
We are dependent on our license rights and other services from third parties, which may cause us to discontinue, delay or reduce product shipments.  We depend upon licenses for some of the technology used in our products as well as other services from third-party vendors. Most of these arrangements can be continued/renewed only by mutual consent and may be terminated for any number of reasons. We may not be ablesee the benefits from government funding programs initiated to continue usingaccelerate the products or services made availableadoption and utilization of health information technology. While government programs have been implemented to us under these arrangements on commercially reasonable terms or at all. As a result, we may have to discontinue, delay or reduce product shipments or services provided until we can obtain equivalent technology or services. Most of our third-party licenses are non-exclusive. Our competitors may obtainimprove the right to use anyefficiency and quality of the healthcare sector, including expenditures to stimulate business elements covered by these arrangements and use these elements to compete directly with us. In addition, if our vendors choose to discontinue providing theiraccelerate the adoption and utilization of healthcare technology, or services in the future or are unsuccessful in their continued research and development efforts, we may not see the anticipated benefits of such programs. In February 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”), which allocates over $20 billion dollars to healthcare IT over the next several years. The provision of the legislation that addresses health information technology specifically is known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH Act”). In 2010 the Obama Administration enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”), which mandates insurance for all US citizens and significant reform of the healthcare delivery system. Under the ARRA and the PPACA, unprecedented government financial resources are being invested in healthcare, including significant financial incentives to healthcare providers who can demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHR technology since 2011. While we expect the ARRA and the PPACA to continue to create significant sales opportunities over the next several years, we are unsure of the immediate or long-term impact of these government actions.
Although we believe that our service offerings will meet the requirements of the HITECH Act to allow our customers to qualify for financial incentives for implementing and using our services, there can be ableno guaranty that our customers will achieve meaningful use or actually receive such planned financial incentives for our services. We also cannot predict the speed at which healthcare providers will adopt electronic health record systems in response to modifythese government incentives, whether healthcare providers will select our products and services or adaptwhether healthcare providers will implement an electronic health record system at all. Any delay in the purchase and implementation of electronic health records systems by healthcare providers in response to government programs, or the failure of healthcare providers to purchase an electronic health record system, could have an adverse effect on our own products.business, financial condition and results of operations. It is also possible that additional regulations or government programs related to electronic health records or an amendment or repeal of the HITECH Act could require us to undertake additional efforts to meet meaningful use standards, materially impact our ability to compete in the evolving healthcare IT market or have other impacts that would be unfavorable to our business.
There is significant uncertainty in the healthcare industry in which we operate, and we are subject to the possibility of changing government regulation, which may adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.The healthcare industry is subject to changing political, economic and regulatory influences that may affect the procurement processes and operation of healthcare facilities. During the past several years, the healthcare industry has been subject to an increase in governmental regulation of, among other things, reimbursement rates and certain capital expenditures.
Recently enacted public laws reforming the U.S. healthcare system may have an impact on our business. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590; Public Law 111-148) (“PPACA”) and The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872) (the “Reconciliation Act”), which amends the PPACA (collectively the “Health Reform Laws”), were signed into law in March 2010. The Health Reform Laws contain various provisions which may impact us and our customers. Some of these provisions may have a positive impact, by expanding the use of electronic health records in certain federal programs, for example, while others, such as reductions in reimbursement for certain types of providers, may have a negative impact due to fewer available resources. Increases in fraud and abuse penalties may also adversely affect participants in the health care sector, including us.
In the past, variousVarious legislators have announced that they intend to examine further proposals to reform certain aspects of the U.S. healthcare system including proposals which may change governmental involvement in healthcare and reimbursement rates, and otherwise alter the operating environment for us and our clients.system. Healthcare providers may react to these proposals, and the uncertainty surrounding such proposals, by curtailing or deferring investments, including those for our systems and related services. Cost-containment measures instituted by healthcare providers as a result of regulatory reform or otherwise could result in a reduction in the allocation of capital funds. Such a reduction could have an adverse effect on our ability to sell our systems and related services. On the other hand, changes in the regulatory environment have increased and may continue to increase the needs of healthcare organizations for cost-effective data management and thereby enhance the overall market for healthcare

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management information systems. We cannot predict what effect, if any, such proposals or healthcare reforms might have on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
As existing regulations mature and become better defined, we anticipate that these regulations will continue to directly affect certain of our products and services, but we cannot fully predict the effect at this time. We have taken


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steps to modify our products, services and internal practices as necessary to facilitate our compliance with the regulations, but there can be no assurance that we will be able to do so in a timely or complete manner. Achieving compliance with these regulations could be costly and distract management’s attention and divert other company resources, and any noncompliance by us could result in civil and criminal penalties.
Developments of additional federal and state regulations and policies have the potential to positively or negatively affect our business.
Our software may potentially be subject to regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) as a medical device. Such regulation could require the registration of the applicable manufacturing facility and software and hardware products, application of detailed record-keeping and manufacturing standards, and FDA approval or clearance prior to marketing. An approval or clearance requirement could create delays in marketing, and the FDA could require supplemental filings or object to certain of these applications, the result of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
The United States Congress in 2009 enacted legislation that would cut Medicare reimbursement to physicians by 21% per procedure. Congress has passed several successive acts postponing the cuts and there is discussion to rescind the cut. However, should the cuts be implemented by Medicare, there would be a direct material adverse revenue and earnings impact to our RCM revenue stream. The impact would vary by client depending on the client’s concentration of Medicare patients. Disruption could also affect system sales due to client reexamination of IT spending.
We may be subject to false or fraudulent claim laws.laws. There are numerous federal and state laws that forbid submission of false information or the failure to disclose information in connection with submission and payment of physician claims for reimbursement. In some cases, these laws also forbid abuse of existing systems for such submission and payment. Any failure of our RCM services to comply with these laws and regulations could result in substantial liability including, but not limited to, criminal liability, could adversely affect demand for our services and could force us to expend significant capital, research and development and other resources to address the failure. Errors by us or our systems with respect to entry, formatting, preparation or transmission of claim information may be determined or alleged to be in violation of these laws and regulations. Determination by a court or regulatory agency that our services violate these laws could subject us to civil or criminal penalties, invalidate all or portions of some of our client contracts, require us to change or terminate some portions of our business, require us to refund portions of our services fees, cause us to be disqualified from serving clients doing business with government payorspayers and have an adverse effect on our business.
In most cases where we are permitted to do so, we calculate charges for our RCM services based on a percentage of the collections that our clients receive as a result of our services. To the extent that violations or liability for violations of these laws and regulations require intent, it may be alleged that this percentage calculation provides us or our employees with incentive to commit or overlook fraud or abuse in connection with submission and payment of reimbursement claims. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has stated that it is concerned that percentage-based billing services may encourage billing companies to commit or to overlook fraudulent or abusive practices.
A portion of our business involves billing of Medicare claims on behalf of its clients. In an effort to combat fraudulent Medicare claims, the federal government offers rewards for reporting of Medicare fraud which could encourage others to subject us to a charge of fraudulent claims, including charges that are ultimately proven to be without merit.
If our products fail to comply with evolving government and industry standards and regulations, we may have difficulty selling our products. We may be subject to additional federal and state statutes and regulations in connection with offering services and products via the Internet. On an increasingly frequent basis, federal and state legislators are proposing laws and regulations that apply to Internet commerce and communications. Areas being affected by these regulations include user privacy, pricing, content, taxation, copyright protection, distribution, and quality of products and services. To the extent that our products and services are subject to these laws and regulations, the sale of our products and services could be harmed.
We are subject to changes in and interpretations of financial accounting matters that govern the measurement of our performance, one or more of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows, revenue and results of operations. Based on our reading and interpretations of relevant guidance, principles or


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concepts issued by, among other authorities, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Commission, we believe our current sales and licensing contract terms and business arrangements have been properly reported. However, there continue to be issued interpretations and guidance for applying the relevant standards to a wide range of sales and licensing contract terms and business arrangements that are prevalent in the software industry. Future interpretations or changes by the regulators of existing accounting standards or changes in our business practices could result in changes in our revenue recognitionand/or other accounting policies and practices that could adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows, revenue and results of operations.
Failure to maintain effective internal controls in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 could have an adverse effect on our business, and our per share price may be adversely affected. Pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“Section 404”) and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC to implement Section 404, we are required to include in ourForm 10-K a report by our management regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. The report includes, among other things, an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. The assessment must include disclosure of any material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting identified by management.
As part of the ongoing evaluation being undertaken by management and our independent registered public accountants pursuant to Section 404, our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of March 31, 2010.2013. However, if we fail to maintain an effective system of disclosure controls or internal controls over financial reporting, we may discover material weaknesses that we would then be required to disclose. Any material weaknesses identified in our internal controls could have an adverse effect on our business. We may not be able to accurately or timely report on our financial results, and we might be subject to investigation by regulatory authorities. This could result in a loss of investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which may have an adverse effect on our stock price.

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No evaluation process can provide complete assurance that our internal controls will detect and correct all failures within our company to disclose material information otherwise required to be reported. The effectiveness of our controls and procedures could also be limited by simple errors or faulty judgments. In addition, if we continue to expand, through either organic growth or through acquisitions (or both), the challenges involved in implementing appropriate controls will increase and may require that we evolve some or all of our internal control processes.
It is also possible that the overall scope of Section 404 may be revised in the future, thereby causing our auditors and ourselves to review, revise or reevaluate our internal control processes which may result in the expenditure of additional human and financial resources.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock
The unpredictability of our quarterly operating results may cause the price of our common stock to fluctuate or decline. Our revenue may fluctuate in the future from quarter to quarter and period to period, as a result of a number of factors including, without limitation:
the size and timing of orders from clients;
• the size and timing of orders from clients;
• 
the specific mix of software, hardware and services in client orders;
• the length of sales cycles and installation processes;
• the ability of our clients to obtain financing for the purchase of our products;
• changes in pricing policies or price reductions by us or our competitors;
• the timing of new product announcements and product introductions by us or our competitors;
• changes in revenue recognition or other accounting guidelines employed by usand/or established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board or other rule-making bodies;
• accounting policies concerning the timing of the recognition of revenue;
• the availability and cost of system components;


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the length of sales cycles and installation processes;
the ability of our clients to obtain financing for the purchase of our products;
• the financial stability of clients;
• market acceptance of new products, applications and product enhancements;
• our ability to develop, introduce and market new products, applications and product enhancements;
• our success in expanding our sales and marketing programs;
• deferrals of client orders in anticipation of new products, applications, product enhancements, or public/private sector initiatives;
• execution of or changes to our strategy;
• personnel changes; and
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changes in pricing policies or price reductions by us or our competitors;
the timing of new product announcements and product introductions by us or our competitors;
changes in revenue recognition or other accounting guidelines employed by us and/or established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") or other rule-making bodies;
accounting policies concerning the timing of the recognition of revenue;
the availability and cost of system components;
the financial stability of clients;
market acceptance of new products, applications and product enhancements;
our ability to develop, introduce and market new products, applications and product enhancements;
our success in expanding our sales and marketing programs;
deferrals of client orders in anticipation of new products, applications, product enhancements, or public/private sector initiatives;
execution of or changes to our strategy;
personnel changes; and
general market/economic factors.
Our software products are generally shipped as orders are received and accordingly, we have historically operated with a minimal backlog of license fees. As a result, revenue in any quarter is dependent on orders booked and shipped in that quarter and is not predictable with any degree of certainty. Furthermore, our systems can be relatively large and expensive, and individual systems sales can represent a significant portion of our revenue and profits for a quarter such that the loss or deferral of even one such sale can adversely affect our quarterly revenue and profitability.
Clients often defer systems purchases until our quarter end, so quarterly results generally cannot be predicted and frequently are not known until after the quarter has concluded.
Our sales are dependent upon clients’ initial decisions to replace or substantially modify their existing information systems, and subsequently, their decision concerning which products and services to purchase. These are major decisions for healthcare providers and, accordingly, the sales cycle for our systems can vary significantly and typically ranges from six to twenty fourtwenty-four months from initial contact to contract execution/shipment.
Because a significant percentage of our expenses are relatively fixed, a variation in the timing of systems sales, implementations and installations can cause significant variations in operating results from quarter to quarter. As a result, we believe that interimperiod-to-period comparisons of our results of operations are not necessarily meaningful and should not be relied upon as indications of future performance. Further, our historical operating results are not necessarily indicative of future performance for any particular period.
We currently recognize revenue pursuant to Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic985-605,Software, Revenue Recognition, orASC 985-605.ASC 985-605 summarizesin accordance with the FASB’s views in applying generally acceptedapplicable accounting principles to revenue recognition in financial statements.
guidance as defined by the FASB.
There can be no assurance that application and subsequent interpretations of these pronouncements will not further modify our revenue recognition policies, or that such modifications would not adversely affect our operating results reported in any particular quarter or year.
Due to all of the foregoing factors, it is possible that our operating results may be below the expectations of public market analysts and investors. In such event, the price of our common stock would likely be adversely affected.

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Our common stock price has been volatile, which could result in substantial losses for investors purchasing shares of our common stock and in litigation against us. Volatility may be caused by a number of factors including but not limited to:
actual or anticipated quarterly variations in operating results;
• actual or anticipated quarterly variations in operating results;
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rumors about our performance, software solutions, or merger and acquisition activity;
• changes in expectations of future financial performance or changes in estimates of securities analysts;
• governmental regulatory action;
• health care reform measures;


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changes in expectations of future financial performance or changes in estimates of securities analysts;
governmental regulatory action;
• client relationship developments;
• purchases or sales of company stock;
• activities by one or more of our major shareholders concerning our policies and operations;
• changes occurring in the markets in general;
• macroeconomic conditions, both nationally and internationally; and
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health care reform measures;
client relationship developments;
purchases or sales of company stock;
activities by one or more of our major shareholders concerning our policies and operations;
changes occurring in the markets in general;
macroeconomic conditions, both nationally and internationally; and
other factors, many of which are beyond our control.
Furthermore, the stock market in general, and the market for software, healthcare and high technology companies in particular, has experienced extreme volatility that often has been unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies. These broad market and industry fluctuations may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock, regardless of actual operating performance.
Moreover, in the past, securities class action litigation has often been brought against a company following periods of volatility in the market price of its securities. We may in the future be the target of similar litigation. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and divert management’s attention and resources.
Two of ourcurrent and former directors are significant shareholders, which makes it possible for them to have significant influence over the outcome of all matters submitted to our shareholders for approval and which influence may be alleged to conflict with our interests and the interests of our other shareholders.Two One of our directors and principal shareholdersis a significant shareholder who beneficially owned an aggregate ofowns approximately 33.5%17.1% of the outstanding shares of our common stock at March 31, 2010.2013. Another former director, who owns approximately 9.6% (based on publicly filed information) of the outstanding shares of our common stock at March 31, 2013, recently resigned from our Board of Directors, but likely maintains a large enough ownership stake to reelect himself to our Board of Directors under cumulative voting. California law and our Bylaws permit our shareholders to cumulate their votes, the effect of which is to provide shareholders with sufficiently large concentrations of our shares the opportunity to assure themselves one or more seats on our Board of Directors. The amounts required to assure a seat on our Board positionof Directors can vary based upon the number of shares outstanding, the number of shares voting, the number of directors to be elected, the number of “broker non-votes,” and the number of shares held by the shareholder exercising the cumulative voting rights. In the event that cumulative voting is invoked, it is likely that thethese two of our directors holding an aggregate of approximately 33.5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock at March 31, 2010individuals that are significant shareholders will each have sufficient votes to assure themselves of one or more seats on our Board of Directors. With or without cumulative voting, these two significant shareholders will have significantsubstantial influence over the outcome of all matters submitted to our shareholders for approval, including the election of our directors and other corporate actions. InThis influence may be alleged to conflict with our interests and the interests of our other shareholders. For example, in fiscal year 2009, one of2013, the principal shareholders, Ahmed Hussein, proposedformer director launched a proxy contest to elect a different slate of directors than what theour Company proposed to shareholders. The CompanyWe spent approximately $1.5$1.3 million to defend against the Company’s slate.proxy contest and elect the Company's slate of directors. In addition, such influence by one or both of these shareholders could have the effect of discouraging others from attempting to purchase us, implement a change overacquire our BoardCompany or create actual or perceived governance instabilities that could adversely affect the price of Directors and management,and/or reducing the market price offered for our common stock in such an event.stock.
Our future policy concerning the payment of dividends is uncertain, which could adversely affect the price of our stock. We have announced our intention to pay a quarterly dividend commencing with the conclusion of our first fiscal quarter of 2008 (June 30, 2007) and pursuant to this policy our Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend ranging from $0.25$0.125 to its most recent level of $0.30$0.175 per share on our outstanding shares of common stock, each quarter thereafter. We anticipate that future quarterly dividends, if and when declared by our Board of Directors pursuant to this policy, would likely be distributable on or about the fifth day of each of the months of October, January, April and July. There can be no guarantees that we will have the financial wherewithalability to fund this dividend in perpetuity or to pay it at historic rates. Further, our Board of Directors may decide not to pay the dividend at some future time for financial or non-financial reasons. Unfulfilled expectations regarding future dividends could adversely affect the price of our stock.

ITEM 1B.
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
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ITEM 2.ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Our principal administrative, accounting,corporate headquarters, the QSI Dental Division operations and the NextGen Division training operations are located in Irvine, California. We believe that our present facilities are adequate for our current needs. Should we continue to grow, we may be required to lease or acquire additional space. We believe that suitable additional or substitute space is available, if needed, at market rates.
As of March 31, 2010,2013, we leaseleased an aggregate of approximately 305,500436,800 square feet of space with expiration dates, excluding options, ranging frommonth-to-month to September 2016,lease agreements expiring at various dates. Significant locations are as follows:
 Square Feet
QSI Dental Division (including Corporate Headquarters) 
Irvine, California — Corporate Headquarters54,500
Augusta, Georgia24,0007,300
Other U.S. locations1,8005,000
NextGen Division 
Horsham, Pennsylvania110,000
Atlanta, Georgia34,800
Other locations9,300
Hospital Solutions Division 98,000
Austin, Texas45,00039,000
Atlanta, GeorgiaOther locations3,20035,000
Laguna Hills, California4,500
Practice SolutionsRCM Services Division 
St. Louis, Missouri55,00066,500
Hunt Valley, Maryland33,500
North Canton, Ohio22,100
Other locations6,900
India Healthcare Private Limited53,400
Total leased properties436,800305,500


ITEM 3.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
In the normal course of business, we are involved in various claims and legal proceedings. While the ultimate resolution of these currently pending matters has yet to be determined, we do not presently believe that their outcome will adversely affect our financial position, results of operations or liquidity.
We have experienced legal claims by customers regarding product and contract disputes, by other third parties asserting that we have infringed their intellectual property rights.rights and by current and former employees regarding certain employment matters. We believe that these claims are without merit and intend to defend against them vigorously; however, we could incur substantial costs and diversion of management resources defending any infringementsuch claim, — even if we are ultimately successful in the defense of such matter. Litigation is inherently uncertain and always difficult to predict. We refer you to the discussion of infringement and litigation risks in ourwithin “Item 1A. Risk Factors section of this Report.Factors".

ITEM 4.RESERVED
ITEM 4. MINE AND SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable

PART II

ITEM 5.MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED SHAREHOLDER
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Market Price and Holders
Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “QSII.”

On July 27, 2011, our Board of Directors approved a two-for-one split of our common stock and a proportional increase in the number of our common shares authorized from 50 million to 100 million. Each shareholder of record at the close of business on October 6, 2011 received one additional share for every outstanding share held on the record date. The additional shares were distributed October 26, 2011 and trading began on a split-adjusted basis on October 27, 2011. All share and per share amounts have been restated for all periods presented to reflect the two-for-one split of our common stock.
The following table sets forth for the quarters indicated the high and low sales prices for each period indicated, as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market:

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  High Low
 
Quarter Ended        
June 30, 2008 $35.97  $29.00 
September 30, 2008 $47.94  $27.34 
December 31, 2008 $44.98  $25.70 
March 31, 2009 $48.46  $34.26 
June 30, 2009 $62.00  $43.44 
September 30, 2009 $64.16  $50.87 
December 31, 2009 $65.98  $57.63 
March 31, 2010 $68.59  $51.30 


 High Low
Three Months Ended   
June 30, 2011$45.79 $38.64
September 30, 2011$50.70 $37.05
December 31, 2011$49.22 $33.08
March 31, 2012$45.00 $35.82
June 30, 2012$44.19 $23.93
September 30, 2012$28.22 $15.04
December 31, 2012$19.14 $16.02
March 31, 2013$20.96 $17.16

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At May 21, 2010,20, 2013, there were approximately 8885 holders of record of our common stock.
Dividends
Dividends
In January 2007, our Board of Directors adopted a policy whereby we intend to pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share on our outstanding common stock, subject to further Board review and approval and the establishment of record and distribution dates by our Board of Directors prior to the declaration of each such quarterly dividend. In August 2008, our Board of Directors increased the quarterly dividend to $0.30 per share. We anticipate that future quarterly dividends, if and when declared by our Board of Directors pursuant to this policy, would likely be distributable on or about the fifth day of each of the months of October, January, April and July.
On May 26, 2010,22, 2013, the Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30$0.175 per share on ourthe Company’s outstanding shares of common stock,Common Stock, payable to shareholders of record as of June 17, 201014, 2013 with an expected distribution date on or about July 6, 2010.5, 2013.
TheOur Board of Directors declared the following dividends have been declared induring the 2010, 2009, and 2008 fiscal years on the dates indicated:periods presented:
         
  Record
 Payment
 Dividend
Board Approval Date
 
Date
 
Date
 
Amount
 
Fiscal year 2010
        
January 27, 2010 March 23, 2010 April 5, 2010 $0.30 
October 28, 2009 December 23, 2009 January 5, 2010  0.30 
July 23, 2009 September 25, 2009 October 5, 2009  0.30 
May 27, 2009 June 12, 2009 July 6, 2009  0.30 
Fiscal year 2009
        
January 28, 2009 March 11, 2009 April 3, 2009 $0.30 
October 30, 2008 December 15, 2008 January 5, 2009  0.30 
August 4, 2008 September 15, 2008 October 1, 2008  0.30 
May 29, 2008 June 15, 2008 July 2, 2008  0.25 
Fiscal year 2008
        
January 30, 2008 March 14, 2008 April 7, 2008 $0.25 
October 25, 2007 December 14, 2007 January 7, 2008  0.25 
July 31, 2007 September 14, 2007 October 5, 2007  0.25 
May 31, 2007 June 15, 2007 July 5, 2007  0.25 
Declaration Date Record Date Payment Date Per Share Dividend
May 24, 2012 June 15, 2012 July 3, 2012 $0.175
July 25, 2012 September 14, 2012 October 5, 2012 0.175
October 25, 2012 December 14, 2012 December 28, 2012 0.175
January 23, 2013 March 15, 2013 April 5, 2013 0.175
Fiscal year 2013     $0.700
       
May 25, 2011 June 17, 2011 July 5, 2011 $0.175
July 27, 2011 September 19, 2011 October 5, 2011 0.175
October 26, 2011 December 20, 2011 January 5, 2012 0.175
January 25, 2012 March 20, 2012 April 5, 2012 0.175
Fiscal year 2012     $0.700
       
May 26, 2010 June 17, 2010 July 6, 2010 $0.150
July 28, 2010 September 17, 2010 October 5, 2010 0.150
October 25, 2010 December 17, 2010 January 5, 2011 0.150
January 26, 2011 March 17, 2011 April 5, 2011 0.175
Fiscal year 2011     $0.625

Payment of future dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors after taking into account various factors, including without limitation, our financial condition, operating results, current and anticipated cash needs and plans for expansion.


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Performance Graph
The following graph compares the cumulative total returns of our common stock, the NASDAQ Composite Index and the NASDAQ Computer & Data Processing Services Stock Index over the five-year period ended March 31, 20102013 assuming $100 was invested on March 31, 20052008 with all dividends, if any, reinvested. This performance graph shall not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities under that Section and shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended or the Exchange Act.

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COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*
Among Quality Systems, Inc., The NASDAQ Composite Index
And The NASDAQ Computer & Data Processing Index

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* $100 invested on 3/31/2005 in stock or index, including reinvestment of dividends. Fiscal year ending March 31.
*$100 invested on 3/31/2008 in stock or index, including reinvestment of dividends. Fiscal year ending March 31.
The last trade price of our common stock on each of March 31, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 20102013 was published by NASDAQ and, accordingly for the periods ended March 31, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 20102013, the reported last trade price was utilized to compute the total cumulative return for our common stock for the respective periods then ended. Shareholder returns over the indicated periods should not be considered indicative of future stock prices or shareholder returns.


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ITEM 6.ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following selected financial data with respect to our Consolidated Statementsconsolidated statements of Incomeincome data for each of the five years in the period ended March 31, 20102013 and the Consolidated Balance Sheetsconsolidated balance sheets data as of the end of each such fiscal year are derived from our audited Consolidated Financial Statements.consolidated financial statements. The following information should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto and “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included elsewhere herein.
Consolidated Financial Data
(In thousands, except per share data)
                     
  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008  2007  2006 
  (In thousands, except per share data) 
 
Statements of Income Data:                    
Revenue $291,811  $245,515  $186,500  $157,165  $119,287 
Cost of revenue  110,807   88,890   62,501   50,784   39,828 
                     
Gross profit  181,004   156,625   123,999   106,381   79,459 
Selling, general and administrative expenses  86,951   69,410   53,260   45,337   35,554 
Research and development costs  16,546   13,777   11,350   10,166   8,087 
Amortization of acquired intangible assets  1,783   1,035          
                     
Income from operations  75,724   72,403   59,389   50,878   35,818 
Interest income  226   1,203   2,661   3,306   2,108 
Other income (expense)  268   (279)  953       
                     
Income before provision for income taxes  76,218   73,327   63,003   54,184   37,926 
Provision for income taxes  27,839   27,208   22,925   20,952   14,604 
                     
Net income $48,379  $46,119  $40,078  $33,232  $23,322 
                     
Basic net income per share $1.69  $1.65  $1.47  $1.24  $0.88 
Diluted net income per share $1.68  $1.62  $1.44  $1.21  $0.85 
Basic weighted average shares outstanding  28,635   28,031   27,298   26,882   26,413 
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding  28,796   28,396   27,770   27,550   27,356 
Dividends declared per common share $1.20  $1.15  $1.00  $1.00  $0.875 

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 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Statements of Income Data:         
Revenue$460,229
 $429,835
 $353,363
 $291,811
 $245,515
Cost of revenue189,652
 151,223
 127,482
 110,807
 88,890
Gross profit270,577
 278,612
 225,881
 181,004
 156,625
Selling, general and administrative148,353
 128,846
 108,310
 86,951
 69,410
Research and development costs30,865
 31,369
 21,797
 16,546
 13,777
Amortization of acquired intangible assets4,859
 2,198
 1,682
 1,783
 1,035
Impairment of goodwill17,400
 
 
 
 
Income from operations69,100
 116,199
 94,092
 75,724
 72,403
Interest income (expense), net(107) 247
 263
 226
 1,203
Other income (expense), net(79) (139) 61
 268
 (279)
Income before provision for income taxes68,914
 116,307
 94,416
 76,218
 73,327
Provision for income taxes26,190
 40,650
 32,810
 27,839
 27,208
Net income$42,724
 $75,657
 $61,606
 $48,379
 $46,119
Basic net income per share$0.72
 $1.29
 $1.06
 $0.84
 $0.82
Diluted net income per share$0.72
 $1.28
 $1.06
 $0.84
 $0.81
Basic weighted average shares outstanding59,392
 58,729
 57,894
 57,270
 56,062
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding59,462
 59,049
 58,236
 57,592
 56,792
Dividends declared per common share$0.700
 $0.700
 $0.625
 $0.600
 $0.575
                     
  March 31,
 March 31,
 March 31,
 March 31,
 March 31,
  2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
 
Balance Sheet Data:                    
Cash and cash equivalents $84,611  $70,180  $59,046  $60,028  $57,255 
Working capital $118,935  $98,980  $79,932  $76,616  $61,724 
Total assets $310,180  $242,101  $187,908  $150,681  $122,247 
Total liabilities $121,891  $86,534  $74,203  $59,435  $49,838 
Total shareholders’ equity $188,289  $155,567  $113,705  $91,246  $72,409 

 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
 March 31,
2011
 March 31,
2010
 March 31,
2009
Balance Sheet Data:         
Cash and cash equivalents$105,999
 $134,444
 $116,617
 $84,611
 $70,180
Working capital$170,297
 $183,277
 $145,758
 $118,935
 $98,980
Total assets$443,055
 $440,352
 $378,686
 $310,180
 $242,101
Total liabilities$136,006
 $145,175
 $154,016
 $121,891
 $86,534
Total shareholders’ equity$307,049
 $295,177
 $224,670
 $188,289
 $155,567

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ITEM 7.ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations or (“MD&A,&A”), including discussions of our product development plans, business strategies and market factors influencing our results, may include forward-looking statements that involve certain risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ from those anticipated by us as a result of various factors, both foreseen and unforeseen, including, but not limited to, our ability to continue to develop new products and increase systems sales in markets characterized by rapid technological evolution, consolidation and competition from larger, better capitalizedbetter-capitalized competitors. Many other economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors could affect our ability to achieve our goals and interested persons are urged to review theany risks that may be described in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” as set forth above,herein, as well as in our other public disclosures and filings with the Commission.Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
Overview
This MD&A, is provided as a supplement to the Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this Report in order to enhance your understanding of our results of operations and financial condition and the following discussion should be read in conjunction with, and is qualified in its entirety by, the Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this Report. Historical results of operations, percentage margin fluctuations and any trends that may be inferred from the discussion below are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for any future period.
Our MD&A is organized as follows:
• Management Overview.  This section provides a general description of our Company and operating segments, a discussion as to how we derive our revenue, background information on certain trends and developments affecting our Company, a summary of our acquisition transactions and a discussion on management’s strategy for driving revenue growth.
• Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates.  This section discusses those accounting policies that are considered important to the evaluation and reporting of our financial condition and results of operations, and whose application requires us to exercise subjective or complex judgments in making estimates and assumptions. In addition, all of our significant accounting policies, including our critical accounting policies, are summarized in Note 2 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Report.
• Overview of Results of Operations and Results of Operations by Operating Divisions.  These sections provide our analysis and outlook for the significant line items on our Consolidated Statements of Income, as well as other information that we deem meaningful to understand our results of operations on both a consolidated basis and an operating division basis.
• Liquidity and Capital Resources.  This section provides an analysis of our liquidity and cash flows and discussions of our contractual obligations and commitments as of March 31, 2010.
• New Accounting Pronouncements.  This section provides a summary of the most recent authoritative accounting standards and guidance that have either been recently adopted by our Company or may be adopted in the future.
Management OverviewOverview. This section provides a general description of our Company and operating segments, a discussion as to how we derive our revenue, background information on certain trends and developments affecting our Company, a summary of our acquisition transactions and a discussion on management’s strategy for driving revenue growth.

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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates. This section discusses those accounting policies that are considered important to the evaluation and reporting of our financial condition and results of operations, and whose application requires us to exercise subjective or complex judgments in making estimates and assumptions. In addition, all of our significant accounting policies, including our critical accounting policies, are summarized in Note 2, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” of our notes to consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Report.
Company Overview. This section provides a more detailed description of our Company, operating segments, products and services offered.
Our
Overview of Results of Operations and Results of Operations by Operating Divisions. These sections provide our analysis and outlook for the significant line items on our consolidated statements of income, as well as other information that we deem meaningful to understand our results of operations on both a consolidated basis and an operating division basis.
Liquidity and Capital Resources. This section provides an analysis of our liquidity and cash flows and discussions of our contractual obligations and commitments as of March 31, 2013.
New Accounting Pronouncements. This section provides a summary of the most recent authoritative accounting standards and guidance that have either been recently adopted by our Company isor may be adopted in the future.
Management Overview
Quality Systems, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries operate as four business divisions (each, a "Division") which are comprised ofof: (i) the QSI Dental Division, (ii) the NextGen Division, and(iii) the Practice Solutions Division. Operationally, HSI and PMP are considered and administered as part of the PracticeHospital Solutions Division while Opus(formerly Inpatient Solutions) and Sphere operate under(iv) the NextGen Division.RCM Services Division (formerly Practice Solutions). In fiscal year 2011, we opened a captive entity in India called Quality Systems India Healthcare Private Limited (“QSIH”). We primarily derive revenue by developing and marketing healthcare information systems that automate certain aspects of medical and dental practices, networks of practices such as PHOsphysician hospital organizations (“PHOs”) and MSOs,management service organizations (“MSOs”), ambulatory care centers, community health centers and medical and dental schools along with comprehensive systems implementation, maintenance and support and add on complementary services such as RCMrevenue cycle management (“RCM”) and EDI.electronic data interchange (“EDI”). Our systems and services provide our clients with the ability to redesign patient care


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and other workflow processes while improving productivity through the facilitation of managed access to patient information. Utilizing our proprietary software in combination with third partythird-party hardware and software solutions, our products enable the integration of a variety of administrative and clinical information operations.
In the last few years, we have continued to acquire companies that were established developers of software and services for the inpatient market to operate under the Hospital Solutions Division. On May 20, 2008,1, 2012, we acquired HSI,Poseidon, a full-service healthcare RCM company. HSI operates under the umbrellaprovider of the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Founded in 1996, HSI provides RCM services to providers including health systems, hospitals, and physicians in private practice with an in-house team of more than 200 employees, including specialists in medical billing, coding and compliance, payor credentialing, and information technology.
emergency department software. On October 28, 2008,July 26, 2011, we acquired PMP,CQI, a full-service healthcare RCM company. This acquisition is also partprovider of our growth strategyhospital systems for our Practice Solutions Division. Similarsurgery management. On April 29, 2011, we acquired IntraNexus, a provider of Web-based integrated clinical and hospital information systems. On February 10, 2010, we acquired Opus, a provider of Web-based clinical solutions to HSI, PMP operates under the umbrella of the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Founded in 2001, PMP provides physician billinghospital systems and technology management services to healthcare providers, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Onintegrated health networks nationwide and on August 12, 2009 we acquired Sphere, a provider of financial information systems to the small hospital inpatient market. This acquisition is alsoThese acquisitions are part of our strategy to continue to expand intoin the small hospital market and to add new customersclients by taking advantage of cross selling opportunities between the ambulatory and inpatient markets.
On November 14, 2011, we acquired ViaTrack, a developer and provider of information technologies that enhance EDI offerings. This acquisition provides a platform to pursue significant opportunities that exist to add EDI services to our portfolio of offerings in the Inpatient market and is operating under the QSI Dental Division.
On February 10, 2010,April 15, 2012, we acquired Opus,Matrix, a providervalue-added reseller for NextGen Healthcare, that provides RCM services, healthcare IT solutions and training, implementation and support centered on NextGen® technology, to its clients nationwide. The acquisition will enable our RCM Services Division to expand its footprint among private and hospital-based physicians and groups by leveraging Matrix's RCM expertise.
In January 2011, QSIH was formed in Bangalore, India to function as our India-based captive to offshore technology application development and business processing services.
We have benefited and hope to continue to benefit from the increased demands on healthcare providers for greater efficiency and lower costs, financial incentives from the ARRA to physicians who adopt electronic health records, as well as increased adoption rates for electronic health records and other technology in the healthcare arena. We also believe that healthcare reform and the movement towards pay for performance/quality initiatives will also stimulate demand for robust electronic health record solutions as well as new HIT solutions from bundled billing capabilities to patient engagement and population health management.
While we expect to benefit from the increasing demands for greater efficiency as well as government support for increased adoption of clinical information systemselectronic health records, the market for physician based electronic health records software is becoming increasingly saturated while physician group practices are rapidly being consolidated by hospital, insurance payers and other entities. Hospital software providers are leveraging their position with their hospital customers to the smallgain market share with hospital inpatient market. Founded in 1987owned physician practices. Insurance providers and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Opus delivers web-based clinical solutions to hospital systems and integrated health networks nationwide. This acquisition complements and will be integrated with the assets of Sphere. Both companieslarge physician groups are established developers ofalso consolidating physician offices creating additional opportunity for ambulatory software and services for the inpatient market and will operate under the Company’s NextGen Division.
providers such as NextGen. Our strategy is at present, to focus on providingaddressing upcoming needs of accountable care organizations around interoperability, patient engagements, population health, and data analytics. We believe that our core strength lies in the central role our software products and services play in the delivery of healthcare by the primary physician in an ambulatory setting. We intend to medicalremain at the forefront of upcoming new regulatory requirements including ICD-10 and dental practices. The key elements of this strategy aremeaningful use requirements for stimulus payments. We believe that the expanded requirements for continued eligibility for incentive payments under meaningful use rules will result in an expanded replacement market for electronic health records software. We intend to continue the development and enhancement of selectour software solutions in target markets,to support healthcare reform and the

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transition from fee for service to pay for performance/quality initiatives such as accountable care organizations. Key elements of our future software development will be to continue to integrate our ambulatory and inpatient products, making our products more intuitive and easy to use, and enhancing our ability to deliver our software over the cloud with the latest technology.
We also want to continue investments in our infrastructure including but not limited to product development, sales, marketing, implementation and support, to continue efforts to make infrastructure investments within an overall context of maintaining reasonable expense discipline, to add new customersclients through maintaining and expanding sales, marketing and product development activities and to expand our relationship with existing customersclients through delivery of add-on and complementary products and services and to continuewhile continuing our gold standardgold-standard commitment of service in support of our customers.client satisfaction programs. We believe that our growing customer base that is using our software on a daily basis is a strategic asset, and we intend to expand our product and service offerings towards this customer base in order to leverage this strategic asset.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The discussion and analysis of our Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements and results of operations is based upon our Consolidated Financial Statements,consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The preparation of these Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. On an on-going basis, we evaluate estimates including(including but not limited to those related to revenue recognition, valuation of marketable securities, ARS put option rights, uncollectible accounts receivable, software development cost, intangible assets and self-insurance accrualsaccruals) for reasonableness. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that management believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that may not be readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.


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We believe that the significant accounting policies, as described in Note 2 of our Consolidated Financial Statements,consolidated financial statements, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” should be read in conjunction with Management’s Discussionmanagement’s discussion and Analysisanalysis of Financial Conditionfinancial condition and Resultsresults of Operations.operations. We believe the following table depicts the most critical accounting policies that affect our Consolidated Financial Statements:consolidated financial statements:
Revenue Recognition Judgments and Uncertainties
   
Revenue RecognitionJudgments and Uncertainties
We generate revenue from the sale of licensing rights to use our software products sold directly to end-users and value-added resellers, or VARs. We also generate revenue from sales of hardware and third party software, implementation, training, software customization, EDI, post-contract support (maintenance) and other services, including RCM and hosting services, performed for customersclients who license our products.


Revenue from implementation and training services is recognized as the corresponding services are performed. Maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the contractual maintenance period. RCM revenue is derived from services fees, which include amounts charged for ongoing billing and other related services and are generally billed to the customerclient as a percentage of total collections. We do not recognize revenue for services fees until these collections are made as the services fees are not fixed or determinable until such time. Contract accounting is applied where services include significant software modification, development or customization.
 
A typical system contract contains multiple elements of the above items. FASB ASC Topic 985-605-25,Software,items discussed. Revenue Recognition, Multiple Elements,or ASC 985-605-25, requires revenue earned on software arrangements involving multiple elements to beis allocated to each element based on the relative fair values of those elements. The fair value of an element must beis based on vendor specificvendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”). We limit ourThe Company limits its assessment of VSOE for each element to either the price charged when the same element is sold separately or the price established by management having the relevant authority to do so, for an element not yet sold separately. VSOE calculations are updated and reviewed at the end of each quarterquarterly or annually depending on the nature of the product or service. We have establishedThe Company generally establishes VSOE for the related undelivered elements based on the bell-shaped curve method. Maintenance VSOE for ourthe Company's largest customersclients is based on stated renewal rates only if the rate is determine ddetermined to be substantive and falls within ourthe Company's customary pricing practices.

When evidence of fair value exists for the delivered and undelivered elements of a transaction, then discounts for individual elements are aggregated and the total discount is allocated to the individual elements in proportion to the elements' fair value relative to the total contract fair value.

When evidence of fair value exists for the undelivered elements only, the residual method provided for under ASC 985-605, is used. Under the residual method, we deferthe Company defers revenue related to the undelivered elements in a system sale based on VSOE of fair value of each of the undelivered elements and allocateallocates the remainder of the contract price net of all discounts to revenue recognized from the delivered elements. Undelivered elements of a system sale may include implementation and training services, hardware and third party software, maintenance, future purchase discounts, or other services. If VSOE of fair value of any undelivered element does not exist, all revenue is deferred until VSOE of fair value of the undelivered element is established or the element has been delivered.


We bill for the entire system sales contract amount upon contract execution, except for maintenance which is billed separately. Amounts billed in excess of the amounts contractually due are recorded in accounts receivable as advance billings. Amounts are contractually due when services are performed or in accordance with contractually specified payment dates.
Provided the fees are fixed or determinable and collection is considered probable, revenue from licensing rights and sales of hardware and third partythird-party software is generally recognized upon physical or electronic shipment and transfer of title. In certain transactions whose collectionswhere collection risk is high, the cash basis methodrevenue is used to recognize revenue.deferred until collection occurs or becomes probable. If the fee is not fixed or determinable, then the revenue recognized in each period (subject to application of other revenue recognition criteria) will be the lesser of the aggregate of amounts due and payable or the amount of the arrangement fee that would have been recognized if the fees were being recognized using the residual method. Fees which are considered fixed or determinable at the inception of ourthe Company's arrangements must include the following characteristics:characteristic:
   

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¤    The fee must be negotiated at the outset of an arrangement and generally be based on the specific volume of products to be delivered without being subject to change based on variable pricing mechanisms such as the number of units copied or distributed or the expected number of users; andusers.
   
  •   Payment terms must not be considered extended. If a significant portion of the fee is due more than 12 months after delivery or after the expiration of the license, the fee is presumed not fixed or determinable.


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Revenue Recognition (continued)Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions
   
  Although we believe that our approach to estimates and judgments as described herein is reasonable, actual results could differ and we may be exposed to increases or decreases in revenue that could be material.
   
Valuation of Marketable Securities and ARS Put Option Rights

Our investments at March 31, 2010 and 2009 are in tax exempt municipal ARS which are classified as either current or non-current marketable securities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets, depending on the liquidity and timing of expected realization of such securities.

Our ARS are held by UBS Financial Services Inc.. On November 13, 2008, we entered into an Auction Rate Security Rights Agreement with UBS, whereby the we accepted UBS’s offer to purchase the Company’s ARS investments at any time during the period of June 30, 2010 through July 2, 2012. As a result, we had obtained an asset, ARS put option rights, whereby the we have a right to “put” the ARS back to UBS. We expect to exercise its ARS put option rights and put its ARS back to UBS on June 30, 2010, the earliest date allowable under the Rights Agreement.
Judgments and Uncertainties

Marketable securities are recorded at fair value, based on quoted market rates or on valuation analysis when appropriate. The cost of marketable securities sold is based upon the specific identification method. Realized gains or losses and other-than-temporary declines in the fair value of marketable securities are determined on a specific identification basis and reported in interest and other income, net, as incurred.

The fair value of our marketable securities has been estimated by management based on certain assumptions of what market participants would use in pricing the asset in a current transaction, or level 3 — unobservable inputs in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 820-10,Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures-Overall, or ASC 820-10. Management used a model to estimate the fair value of these securities that included certain level 2 inputs as well as assumptions, including a liquidity discount, based on management’s judgment, which are highly subjective and therefore considered level 3 inputs in the fair value hierarchy. The estimate of the fair value of the marketable securities could change based on market conditions.

Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions

Although we believe that our approach to estimates and judgments as described herein is reasonable, actual results could differ and we may be exposed to increases or decreases in gains and losses that could be material.
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Judgments and Uncertainties
We maintain allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of our customersclients to make required payments. We perform credit evaluations of our customersclients and maintain reserves for estimated credit losses. Reserves for potential credit losses are determined by establishing both specific and general reserves. 
Specific reserves are based on management’s estimate of the probability of collection for certain troubled accounts. General reserves are established based on our historical experience of bad debt expense and the aging of our accounts receivable balances net of deferred revenue and specifically reserved accounts. If the financial condition of our customersclients were to deteriorate resulting in an impairment of their ability to make payments, additional allowances would be required.

Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions

Although we believe that our approach to estimates and judgments as described herein is reasonable, actual results could differ and we may be exposed to increases or decreases in required reserves that could be material.

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Software Development Costs Judgments and Uncertainties
   
Development costs incurred in the research and development of new software products and enhancements to existing software products for external use are expensed as incurred until technological feasibility has been established. After technological feasibility is established, with the completion of a working model of the enhancement or product, any additional external software development costs are capitalized in accordance with FASB ASC Topic985-20,Software, Costs of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed,orASC 985-20. Such capitalized costs areand amortized on a straight linestraight-line basis over the estimated economic life of the related product, which is generallytypically three years. 
We perform an annual review ofperiodically reassess the estimated economic life and the recoverability of such capitalized software costs. At the timeIf a determination is made that capitalized amounts are not recoverable based on the estimated cash flows to be generated from the applicable software, any remaining capitalized amounts are written off.


Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions


Although we believe that our approach to estimates and judgments as described herein is reasonable, actual results could differ and we may be exposed to increases or decreases in revenue that could be material.
   
Goodwill Judgments and Uncertainties
   
Goodwill is related to the NextGen Division and the HSI, PMP, Sphere, and Opus acquisitions, which closed on May 20, 2008, October 28, 2008, August 12, 2009, and February 10, 2010, respectively. In accordance with FASB ASC Topic 350-20,Intangibles — Goodwill and Other, Goodwill, or ASC 350-20, we testThe Company tests goodwill for impairment annually at the end of ourduring its first fiscal quarter, referred to as the annual test date. WeThe Company will also test for impairment between annual test dates if an event occurs or circumstances change that would indicate the carrying amount may be impaired. Impairment testing for goodwill is performed at a reporting unitreporting-unit level, which is defined as an operating segment or one level below an operating segment (referred to as a component). A component of an operating segment is a reporting unit if the component constitutes a business for which discrete financial information is available and segment management regularly reviews the operating results of that component. An impairment loss would generally be recognized when the carrying amount of the reporting unit’s net assets exceeds the estimated fair value of the reporting unit.
   
  Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions
   

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We have not made any material changes in the accounting methodology we use to assess impairment loss during the past three fiscal years.
  
In fiscal 2013 we adopted the new provisions issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB"), that intended to simplify goodwill impairment testing. The updated guidance permits us to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If we conclude that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, we conduct a two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test. The first step of the impairment test involves comparing the fair values of the applicable reporting units with their carrying values. If the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeds the reporting unit's fair value, we perform the second step of the goodwill impairment test. The second step of the goodwill impairment test involves comparing the implied fair value of the affected reporting unit's goodwill with the carrying value of that goodwill. The amount by which the carrying value of the goodwill exceeds its implied fair value, if any, is recognized as an impairment loss. During the quarter ended December 31, 2012 and subsequently at March 31, 2013, certain events and circumstances indicated the possibility that the carrying value of goodwill could potentially be impaired. Refer to the "Impairment of Goodwill" section within the "Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended March 31, 2013 and March 31, 2012" discussion below for information regarding the impairment of goodwill at March 31, 2010 were $46.2 million. We have determined that there was no risk of impairment to our goodwill as of March 31, 2010.
2013.

We do not believe there is a reasonable likelihood that there will be a material change in the future estimates or assumptions we use to test for impairment losses on goodwill and other intangible assets.goodwill. However, if actual results are not consistent with our estimates or assumptions, we may be exposed to anfuture impairment chargecharges that could be material.

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Business Combinations — Purchase Price Allocations

Judgments and Uncertainties
During the last three fiscal years, we completed three significantfive acquisitions:

In February 2010, we acquired Opus for $20.6 million.

In October 2008, we acquired PMP for $19.7 million, including transaction costs.

In May 2008, we acquired HSI for $15.6 million, including transaction costs. Poseidon, Matrix, ViaTrack, CQI and IntraNexus.
 
Judgments and Uncertainties

In accordance with the accounting for business combination accounting under FASB ASC Topic 805,Business Combinations, or ASC 805,combinations, we allocate the purchase price of acquired businesses to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values. Our purchase price allocation methodology contains uncertainties because it requires management to make assumptions and to apply judgment to estimate the fair value of acquired assets and liabilities. Management estimates the fair value of assets and liabilities based upon quoted market prices, the carrying value of the acquired assets and widely accepted valuation techniques, including discounted cash flows and market multiple analyses. Unanticipated events or circumstances may occur which could affect the accuracy of our fair value estimates, including assumptions regarding industry economic factors and business strategies.
   
  Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions
   
  We do not believe there is a reasonable likelihood that there will be a material change in the future estimates or assumptions we use to complete the purchase price allocation and estimate the fair value of acquired assets and liabilities. However, if actual results are not consistent with our estimates or assumptions, we may be exposed to losses or gains that could be material.
   
Intangible Assets Judgments and Uncertainties
   
Intangible assets consist of capitalized software costs, customer relationships, trade names and certain intellectual property. Intangible assets related tocontracts, customer relationships, and trade namessoftware technology, all is which arose in connection with the acquisition of HSI, PMP, Opus, and Sphere.acquisitions completed during the last three fiscal years. These intangible assets wereare recorded at fair value and are stated net of accumulated amortization and impairments. Intangible assets are amortized over their remaining estimated useful lives, ranging from 3 to 9 years. Our amortization policy foramortization. The Company currently amortizes the intangible assets is based on the principles in FASB ASC Topic 350-30,Intangibles — Goodwill and Other, General Intangibles Other than Goodwill, or ASC 350-30, which requiresusing a method that the amortization of intangible assets reflectreflects the pattern thatin which the economic benefits of the intangible assetsasset are consumed.
   
  Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions
   
  Although we believe that our approach to estimates and judgments as described herein is reasonable, actual results could differ and we may be exposed to decreases in the fair value of our intangible assets, resulting in impairment charges that could be material. We test intangible assets for impairment if we believe indicators of impairment exist.
   
Share-Based Compensation Judgments and Uncertainties
   

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We have a
Our stock-based compensation plan, which includesplans consist of stock options and restricted stock units.stock. See Note 2, “Summary9 of Significant Accounting Policies,” and Note 13, Consolidated Financial Statements of this Reportour consolidated financial statements for a complete discussion of our stock-based compensation programs. We apply the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 718,Compensation — Stock Compensation,or ASC 718, which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all share-based payment awards made to employees and directors based on estimated fair values. ASC 718 requires us to estimate
The Company estimates the fair value of “Share-Based Awards,” to the share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model. We estimate the expectedExpected term of the optionis estimated using historical exercise experience. We estimate volatilityVolatility is estimated by using the weighted averageweighted-average historical volatility of ourthe Company’s common stock, which we believe approximates expected volatility. The risk free rate is the implied yield available on the U.S Treasury zero-coupon issues with remaining terms equal to the expected term. The expected dividend yield is the average dividend rate during a period equal to the expected term of the option. Those inputs are then entered into the Black Scholes model to determine the estimated fair value. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized ratably as expense over the requisite service period in our Consolidated Statementsthe Company’s consolidated statements of Income.

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income.
On May 24, 2012, the Board of Directors approved its fiscal year 2013 equity incentive program for certain employees to be awarded options to purchase the Company's common stock. Under the program, executives are eligible to receive options based on meeting certain target increases in EPS performance and revenue and operating growth during fiscal year 2013. Non-executive employees are also eligible to receive options based on satisfying certain management established criteria and recommendations of senior management. The options shall be issued pursuant to one of the Company's shareholder approved option plans, have an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company's shares on the date of grant, a term of eight years and vesting in five equal annual installments commencing one year following the date of grant.

Compensation expense associated with the performance based awards under the Company’s 2013 incentive plan are initially based on the number of options expected to vest after assessing the probability that certain performance criteria will be met. Cumulative adjustments are recorded quarterly to reflect subsequent changes in the estimated outcome of performance-related conditions.


   
Share-Based Compensation (continued) Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions
   
  We do not believe there is a reasonable likelihood there will be a material change in the future estimates or assumptions we use to determine stock-based compensation expense. However, if actual results are not consistent with our estimates or assumptions, we may be exposed to changes in stock-based compensation expense that could be material.
   
Self-Insured Liabilities Judgments and Uncertainties
   
Effective January 1, 2010, the Companywe became self-insured with respect to healthcare claims, subject to stop-loss limits. The Company accruesWe accrue for estimated self-insurance costs and uninsured exposures based on claims filed and an estimate of claims incurred but not reported as of each balance sheet date. However, it is possible that recorded accruals may not be adequate to cover the future payment of claims. Adjustments, if any, to estimated accruals resulting from ultimate claim payments will be reflected in earnings during the periods in which such adjustments are determined. 
Our self-insured liabilities contain uncertainties because management is required to make assumptions and to apply judgment to estimate the ultimate cost to settle reported claims and claims incurred but not reported at the balance sheet date.


Effect if Actual Results Differ from Assumptions


We do not believe there is a reasonable likelihood that there will be a material change in the estimates or assumptions we use to calculate our self-insured liabilities. However, if actual results are not consistent with our estimates or assumptions, we may be exposed to losses or gains that could be material.

Overview of Our Results
Consolidated revenue increased 7.1% in the year ended March 31, 2013, as compared to the prior year period. Revenue was positively impacted by growth in all of our service revenue categories, which in total grew 19.8%. The increase in consolidated revenue, however, was largely offset by a 16.9% decline in system sales revenue.
• Our total revenue increased 18.9% and income from operations grew 4.6% on a consolidated basis for
Consolidated gross profit as a percentage of revenue decreased to 58.8% in the year ended March 31, 2013, as compared to 64.8% in the prior year period. The decline in gross profit as a percentage of revenue was primarily attributable to a change in revenue mix away from higher margin software license revenue toward lower margin service revenue. Software license revenue represented 19.2% of total revenue compared to 28.5% in the prior year. Accordingly, total gross profit from system sales declined 35.0% to $70.9 million versus $109.1 million in the prior year. Partially offsetting the decline in system sales gross profit, however, was an increase in gross profit from service revenue, including maintenance, revenue cycle management and EDI, which grew 17.8% to $199.6 million compared to $169.5 million in the prior year.
Consolidated operating income decreased 40.5% in the year ended March 31, 2013, as compared to the prior year period primarily due to the following factors: (a) a change in the mix of revenue towards lower margin service revenue resulting in a decline in gross profit, (b) higher selling, general and administrative expenses, which was primarily a result of increased headcount and selling-related expenses

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at the year ended March 31, 2010. Revenue was positively impacted by growth in recurring revenue, including maintenance, EDI and RCM revenue, which grew 22.4%, 18.7% and 71.1% respectively, offset by higher corporate expenses.
• Uncertainty over the final rules regarding incentive payments tied to the ARRA continued to negatively impact system sales revenue in fiscal year 2010. We have made investments in our sales and marketing areas in anticipation of receiving the final rules related to the ARRA.
• Our year over year growth in revenue and operating income during the year ended March 31, 2010 was partially attributable to the HSI and PMP acquisitions. HSI and PMP combined generated $42.7 million of revenue for fiscal year 2010 as compared to a total of $24.4 million of revenue for the ten and five months of respective results in fiscal year 2009.
• Operating income was negatively impacted by a shift in revenue mix with an increased share of hardware, EDI, and RCM revenue, resulting in a decline in our gross profit margin. We also experienced higher selling, general and administrative expenses primarily due to higher selling related expenses incurred in preparation for the ARRA, which was enacted in February 2009, as well as higher corporate related expenses.
• We do not believe the revenue mix changes noted above represent a change in the overall purchasing environment. On top of the potential benefits from the ARRA, we have benefited and hope to continue to benefit from the increased demands on healthcare providers for greater efficiency and lower costs, as well as increased adoption rates for electronic medical records and other technology in the healthcare arena.
• While we expect to benefit from the increasing demands for greater efficiency as well as government support for increased adoption of electronic health records, the current economic environment, combined with unpredictability of the federal government’s plans to promote increased adoption of electronic medical records, makes the near term achievement of such benefits and, ultimately, their impact on system sales, uncertain.

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NextGen Division and (c) higher corporate-related expenses, primarily due to the impairment of goodwill relating to the Hospital Solutions Division.
• NextGenQSI Dental Division revenue increased 13.6% in the year ended March 31, 2010 and divisional operating income (excluding unallocated corporate expenses) increased 8.3% from the year ended March 31, 2009. Organic revenue growth in the NextGen Division was 11.6% and 20.4% for the years ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
• The acquisitions of Opus and Sphere in fiscal year 2010 added approximately $2.9 million in revenue for the year ended March 31, 2010 and $0.7 million in additional operating income in the same period a year ago.
• Recurring revenue, consisting of maintenance and EDI revenue, represented $111.9 million and accounted for 48.3% of total NextGen Division revenue during fiscal year 2010. In the same period a year ago, recurring revenue represented 44.3% of total NextGen Division revenue, or $90.3 million.
• During the year ended March 31, 2010, we added staffing resources in anticipation of future growth from the ARRA. We intend to continue doing so in future periods to maximize our opportunities from the ARRA.
• Our goals include taking maximum advantage of future benefits related to the ARRA and continuing to further enhance and expand the marketing and sales of our existing products, developing new products for targeted markets, continuing to add new customers, selling additional software and services to existing customers, expanding penetration of connectivity and other services to new and existing customers, and capitalizing on growth and cross selling opportunities within the Practice Solutions Division and the recently acquired acute care software product lines.
QSI Dental Division revenue increased 2.0% in the year ended March 31, 2013, and divisional operating income (excluding unallocated corporate expenses) decreased 9.9%, as compared to the same prior year period. The decline in operating income is the result of a decrease in system sales and higher selling, general and administrative expenses. It should be noted that the QSI Dental Division's new software solution (“QSIDental™ Web”) is being sold as a SaaS solution, which typically spreads revenue over a longer period of time rather than being recognized upfront. Revenue recognized from QSIDental Web was not significant in the year ended March 31, 2013.
• QSI Dental Division revenue increased 8.1% in the year ended March 31, 2010 and divisional operating income (excluding unallocated corporate expenses) increased 2.2% from the year ended March 31, 2009.
• An increase in system sales revenue offset by an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses were the chief contributors to the operating income results in fiscal year 2010.
• In July 2009, we licensed source code from PlanetDDS, Inc. that will allow us to deliver hosted, web-based SaaS practice management and clinical software solutions to the dental industry. The software solution will be marketed primarily to the multi-location dental group practice market in which the Division has historically been a dominant player. This new software solution (NextDDS) brings the QSI Dental Division to the forefront of the emergence of internet based applications and cloud computing and represents a significant growth opportunity for us to sell both to our existing customer base as well as new customers.
• Our goal for the QSI Dental Division is to maximize profit performance given the constraints represented by a relatively weak purchasing environment in the dental group practice market while taking advantage of opportunities with the new NextDDS product. The QSI Dental Division also intends to leverage the NextGen Division’s sales force to sell its dental electronic medical records software to practices that provide both medical and dental services such as Federal Qualified Health Centers,The QSI Dental Division is well-positioned to sell to the FQHCs market and intends to continue leveraging the NextGen Division's sales force to sell its dental electronic medical records software to practices that provide both medical and dental services, such as FQHCs, which are receiving grants as part of the ARRA.
Our goal for the QSI Dental Division is to maximize profit performance given the constraints represented by a relatively weak purchasing environment in the dental group practice market while taking advantage of opportunities with the new QSIDental™ Web product.
NextGen Division
PracticeNextGen Division revenue increased 5.8% in the year ended March 31, 2013, as compared to the prior year period. NextGen revenue was positively impacted by 19.6% growth in service revenue, largely offset by a 16.5% decline in system sales revenue. Recurring revenue, which consists of maintenance and EDI revenue, increased 17.1% to $188.2 million and accounted for 54.7% of total NextGen Division revenue for the year ended March 31, 2013. In the same period a year ago, recurring revenue of $160.8 million represented 49.4% of total NextGen Division revenue.
NextGen Division operating income (excluding unallocated corporate expenses) decreased 4.8% in the year ended March 31, 2013, as compared to the prior year period. The decline in operating income is primarily the result of a decrease in system sales as mentioned above, as well as a 5.1% increase in selling, general and administrative expenses in the current period.
Our goals include taking maximum advantage of benefits related to the ARRA and continuing to further enhance our existing products, including continued efforts to maintain our status as a qualified vendor under the ARRA, expanding our software and service offerings supporting pay-for-performance initiatives around accountable care organizations, bringing greater ease of use and intuitiveness to our software products, expanding our interoperability capabilities, integrating our inpatient and ambulatory software products and further development and enhancements of our portfolio of specialty focused templates within our EHR software. We intend to remain at the forefront of upcoming new regulatory requirements, including ICD-10 and meaningful use requirements for stimulus payments. We believe that the expanded requirements for continued eligibility for incentive payments under meaningful use rules will result in an expanded replacement market for electronic health records software. We also intend to continue selling additional software and services to existing clients, expanding penetration of connectivity and other services to new and existing clients, and capitalizing on growth and cross selling opportunities within the RCM Services Division and the Hospital Solutions Division.
The NextGen Division’s growth is attributed to a strong brand name and reputation within a growing marketplace for electronic health records and investments in sales and marketing activities, including new marketing campaigns, trade show attendance and other expanded advertising and marketing expenditures. We have also recently expanded our relationship with certain value added resellers with significant resources both domestically and internationally.
Hospital Solutions Division
Hospital Solutions Division revenue decreased 8.8% in the year ended March 31, 2013, as compared to the prior year period. Revenue was negatively impacted by a 21.3% decline in system sales, as well as slightly lower maintenance revenue and higher reserves for sales returns.
• Practice Solutions Division revenue increased 67.5% in the year ended March 31, 2010 and divisional operating income (excluding unallocated corporate expenses) decreased 5.7% from the year ended March 31, 2009. A significant driver of the increase in revenue was that fact that fiscal year 2010 included a full year of results for HSI and PMP versus approximately ten and five months of respective results in fiscal year 2009. The Practice Solutions Division also benefited from organic growth achieved through cross selling RCM services to existing NextGen Division customers.


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Divisional operating income/loss (excluding unallocated corporate expenses) was a loss of $4.4 million, as compared to income of $10.4 million for the prior year period. Operating income was negatively impacted by increases in implementation and support costs related to expanding infrastructure to support a growing customer base, lower software revenue and an increase in selling, general and administrative and research and development expenses during the period, which grew $3.5 million and $2.1 million, respectively.
• Operating income as a percentage of revenue declined to approximately 5.4% of revenue versus 9.5% of revenue primarily as a result of a smaller amount of software sales to RCM customers compared to the prior year as well as costs related to transitioning to the NextGen platform including training of staff and initial set up and other costs related to achieving higher production volumes.
Our acquisition of Poseidon in May 2012 did not significantly impact the Hospital Solutions Division results for the period.
The Hospital Solutions Division has benefited from being able to offer both financial and CCHIT® certified clinical software, which has been packaged together, and in May 2013, the division's NextGen® Inpatient Clinicals software was certified for stage two of meaningful use. The Hospital Solutions Division has also benefited from cross sell opportunities with existing NextGen Division customers, including hospitals that are owned or affiliated with physician offices.

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The Hospital Solutions Division has incurred losses in the last several quarters and is expected to continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future while we continue to invest in implementation and training, support, and development to support our growing customer base and maximize customer satisfaction. We continue to believe in the long term opportunity in the small hospital market in spite of the recent losses which we have incurred.
RCM Services Division
RCM Services Division revenue increased 28.2% in the year ended March 31, 2013. Our acquisition of Matrix in April 2012 added approximately $12.5 million in revenue for the current period. Additionally, the RCM Services Division benefited from organic growth achieved through cross selling RCM services to existing NextGen Division clients, as well as new clients added during the year ended March 31, 2013.
Operating income as a percentage of revenue increased to approximately 12.7% of revenue in the year ended March 31, 2013 versus 11.6% of revenue in the same prior year period primarily as a result of a significant increase in the RCM Services Division's revenue compared to the prior year period, partially offset by higher selling, general and administrative expenses during the current period.
The Company believes that a significant opportunity exists to cross sell revenue cycle management services to existing NextGen Division customers. The portion of existing NextGen Division customers who are using the RCM Services Division's RCM services is less than 15%. We also believe that the increased complexity related to the billing and collections process, which goes into effect with ICD-10 in October of 2014, will create additional opportunities for our RCM Services Division.
There is also a significant opportunity to expand the RCM Services Division's services into the Hospital Solution and Dental Division's customers as well. Management is actively pursuing efforts to achieve faster growth from expanded efforts to leverage the existing NextGen Division's sales force towards selling revenue cycle management services.
Actual and expected customer turnover may result in a near term decline in revenues for the Division. However, we are encouraged by increased sales activity and a growing sales pipeline of RCM services.

The following table sets forth for the periods indicated the percentage of net revenue represented by each item in our Consolidated Statementsconsolidated statements of Incomeincome (certain percentages below may not sum due to rounding):

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  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008 
  (Unaudited) 
 
Revenues:            
Software, hardware and supplies  30.8%  34.8%  40.9%
Implementation and training services  4.9   5.4   7.2 
             
System sales  35.7   40.2   48.1 
Maintenance  30.6   29.7   30.3 
Electronic data interchange services  12.0   12.0   12.0 
Revenue cycle management and related services  12.6   8.7   0.5 
Other services  9.2   9.3   9.1 
             
Maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services  64.3   59.8   51.9 
             
Total revenues  100.0   100.0   100.0 
             
Cost of revenue:            
Software, hardware and supplies  4.2   5.4   5.8 
Implementation and training services  4.1   4.2   5.5 
             
Total cost of system sales  8.3   9.6   11.4 
Maintenance  4.6   4.8   6.7 
Electronic data interchange services  8.7   8.7   8.5 
Revenue cycle management and related services  9.5   6.0   0.3 
Other services  7.0   7.1   6.7 
             
Total cost of maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services  29.7   26.6   22.1 
Total cost of revenue  38.0   36.2   33.5 
             
Gross profit  62.0   63.8   66.5 
Operating expenses:            
Selling, general and administrative  29.8   28.3   28.6 
Research and development costs  5.7   5.6   6.1 
Amortization of acquired intangible assets  0.6   0.4   0.0 
             
Total operating expenses  36.1   34.3   34.6 
Income from operations  25.9   29.5   31.8 
Interest income  0.1   0.5   1.4 
Other income (expense)  0.1   (0.1)  0.5 
             
Income before provision for income taxes  26.1   29.9   33.8 
Provision for income taxes  9.5   11.1   12.3 
             
Net income  16.6%  18.8%  21.5%
             


 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Revenues:     
Software and hardware19.2% 28.5% 30.1%
Implementation and training services7.6
 6.1
 5.1
System sales26.9
 34.6
 35.2
Maintenance34.1
 32.3
 31.1
Electronic data interchange services13.0
 11.5
 11.6
Revenue cycle management and related services12.9
 10.6
 12.8
Other services13.2
 11.0
 9.3
Maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services73.1
 65.4
 64.8
Total revenues100.0
 100.0
 100.0
Cost of revenue:     
Software and hardware4.7
 4.3
 5.6
Implementation and training services6.7
 5.0
 4.2
Total cost of system sales11.4
 9.2
 9.8
Maintenance4.4
 4.0
 3.7
Electronic data interchange services8.3
 7.5
 7.8
Revenue cycle management and related services9.4
 8.0
 9.6
Other services7.6
 6.4
 5.2
Total cost of maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services29.8
 25.9
 26.2
Total cost of revenue41.2
 35.2
 36.1
Gross profit58.8
 64.8
 63.9
Operating expenses:     
Selling, general and administrative32.2
 30.0
 30.7
Research and development costs6.7
 7.3
 6.2
Amortization of acquired intangible assets1.1
 0.5
 0.5
Impairment of goodwill3.8
 0.0
 0.0
Total operating expenses43.8
 37.8
 37.3
Income from operations15.0
 27.0
 26.6
Interest income (expense), net0.0
 0.1
 0.1
Other income (expense), net0.0
 0.0
 0.0
Income before provision for income taxes15.0
 27.1
 26.7
Provision for income taxes5.7
 9.5
 9.3
Net income9.3% 17.6% 17.4%

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Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended March 31, 20102013 and March 31, 20092012
Net Income.  ForIncome. Our net income for the year ended March 31, 2010, our net income2013 was $48.4$42.7 million, or $1.69$0.72 per share on both a basic and $1.68 per share on a fully diluted basis. In comparison, we earned $46.1$75.7 million, or $1.65$1.29 per share on a basic and $1.62$1.28 per share on a fully diluted basis infor the year ended March 31, 2009.2012. The increasechange in net income for the year ended March 31, 20102013 was achieved primarily throughattributed to the following:
• an 18.9% increasea 35.0% decrease in consolidated revenue, including an increase of $27.7 million in revenue from our NextGen Division and an increase of $17.4 million in revenue from our Practice Solutions Division;
• a 13.6% increase in NextGen Division revenue, which accounted for 79.4% of consolidated system sales gross profit as a result of reduced software revenue;
• an increase of recurring revenue, including RCM, maintenance, and EDI revenue, offset by a decline in our gross profit margin due primarily to both a shift in revenue mix with increased RCM revenue and lower gross margins related to RCM revenue;
• an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue related to higher selling and corporate expenses and
• a decrease in interest income primarily due significantly lower interest rates, as compared to the prior year, on money market accounts in which we invest a majority of our cash.
an increase in recurring revenue based gross profit, including maintenance, RCM and EDI which grew 12.1%, 40.9% and 26.9%, respectively, compared to the prior year period;
an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses and amortization of acquired intangibles;
a $17.4 million impairment of goodwill relating to the Hospital Solutions Division; and
a decrease in the provision for income taxes primarily due to the extension of the research and development tax credit in the current year, as well as lower taxable income in comparison to the prior year period

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Revenue. Revenue for the year ended March 31, 20102013 increased 18.9%7.1% to $291.8$460.2 million from $245.5$429.8 million for the year ended March 31, 2009.2012. NextGen Division revenue increased 13.6%5.8% to $231.6$344.3 million from $204.0$325.5 million in the year ended March 31, 2009 while2013, QSI Dental Division revenue increased 8.1% during that same period2.0% to $17.1$20.0 million from $15.9$19.6 million, and Practice Solutionsthe RCM Services Division revenue increased 67.5% during that same period28.2% to $43.1$64.5 million from $25.7 million. Practice$50.3 million. These increases in revenue were partially offset by a decrease in revenue for the Hospital Solutions Division, revenue was impacted positively in fiscal year 2010 as a result of including a full year of results versus approximately ten and five months of results for HSI and PMP, respectively, in fiscal year 2009.
We divide revenue into two categories, “system sales” and “maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services.” Revenuewhich decreased 8.8% to $31.4 million from $34.5 million in the system sales category includes software license fees, third party hardware and software, and implementation and training services related to purchase of our software systems. The majority of the revenue in the system sales category is related to the sale of software. Revenue in the maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services category includes maintenance, EDI, RCM, follow-on training services, annual third party license fees, hosting and other services revenue.same prior year period.
System Sales.Sales. Revenue earned from Company-wide sales of systems for the year ended March 31, 2010 increased 5.4%2013 decreased 16.9% to $104.1$123.6 million from $98.8$148.8 million in the prior year.year period.
Our increasedecrease in revenue from sales of systems was principally the result of a 5.1% increase16.5% decrease in category revenue at our NextGen Division whoseand a 21.3% decrease at our Hospital Solutions Division. NextGen Division sales in this category grew from $93.3decreased $20.5 million to $103.5 million during the year ended March 31, 20092013 from $124.1 million during the same prior year period while the Hospital Solutions Division delivered a $3.8 million decrease in category revenue to $98.1$14.0 million during in the year ended March 31, 2010. This increase2013 as compared to $17.8 million in the same prior year period. The decrease in system sales was driven primarily by higherlower sales of ambulatory practice management and health records software to both new and existing clients, as well as increases inpartially offset by increased implementation revenue related to implementationat both the NextGen and training services.
Systems salesHospital Solutions Divisions. Implementation revenue is typically earned and recognized in the QSI Dental Division increased to approximately $3.9 million inquarters following the sale of the software. Implementation revenue grew for the year ended March 31, 20102013 as the Company was implementing system sales from $3.0 millionprior periods. Accordingly, implementation revenue grew in fiscal 2013 despite the year ended March 31, 2009 while systems sales revenuedecline in the Practice Solutions Division decreased to approximately $2.1 million in the year ended March 31, 2010 from $2.4 million in the year ended March 31, 2009. Systems sales in the QSI Dental Division was positively impacted by greater joint sales of dental and medical software to Federally Qualified Health Centers.system sales.


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The following table breaks down our reported system sales into software, hardware third partyand third-party software, supplies, and implementation and training services components by division:on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 (in thousands):
                 
     Hardware, Third
  Implementation
    
     Party Software
  and Training
  Total System
 
  Software  and Supplies  Services  Sales 
 
Year ended March 31, 2010                
QSI Dental Division $1,699  $1,409  $825  $3,933 
NextGen Division  79,832   4,944   13,284   98,060 
Practice Solutions Division  1,877      267   2,144 
                 
Consolidated $83,408  $6,353  $14,376  $104,137 
                 
Year ended March 31, 2009                
QSI Dental Division $915  $1,171  $938  $3,024 
NextGen Division  74,128   6,775   12,437   93,340 
Practice Solutions Division  2,397         2,397 
                 
Consolidated $77,440  $7,946  $13,375  $98,761 
                 
 Software 
Hardware, Third
Party Software
 
Implementation
and Training
Services
 
Total System
Sales
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2013       
QSI Dental Division$2,085
 $1,733
 $1,599
 $5,417
NextGen Division71,862
 5,697
 26,002
 103,561
Hospital Solutions Division5,717
 1,045
 7,207
 13,969
RCM Services Division431
 2
 200
 633
Consolidated$80,095
 $8,477
 $35,008
 $123,580
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012       
QSI Dental Division$2,865
 $1,662
 $1,104
 $5,631
NextGen Division100,517
 4,839
 18,708
 124,064
Hospital Solutions Division10,576
 987
 6,189
 17,752
RCM Services Division961
 
 390
 1,351
Consolidated$114,919
 $7,488
 $26,391
 $148,798

NextGen Division software license revenue increased 7.7% betweendecreased 28.5% in the year ended March 31, 2009 and2013 versus the year ended March 31, 2010.same period last year. The Division’sDivision's software revenue accounted for 81.4%69.4% of divisional system sales revenue during the year ended March 31, 2010,2013 compared to 79.4%81.0% during the same period a year ended March 31, 2009.ago. Software license revenue growth continues to be an area of primary emphasis for the NextGen Division. The Opus acquisition contributed approximately $0.9 millionOur decline in software revenue was related to a number of factors including higher adoption rates by large physician groups which resulted in a smaller number of new opportunities, the consolidation of physician offices by hospitals and other large enterprises thereby reducing the number of potential opportunities, and an extension to the NextGen Division’sdeadline to adopt stage two meaningful use requirements until calendar 2014.
We believe there are other trends which may positively impact future systems sales. Many of our existing large enterprise customers have plans to grow which will create future revenue opportunities as these customers purchase additional software license revenue duringand services to support their growth plans. We also expect to benefit from the year ended March 31, 2010.growth of a replacement market driven by an expected consolidation of EHR vendors. Finally, we believe many new opportunities will be created by the evolution of healthcare from a pay for services reimbursement model to a pay for performance model around the management of patient populations. We are developing new products around these new opportunities which are expected to help drive future growth. It is difficult to assess the relative impact as well as the timing of positive and negative trends, however, we believe the Company is well positioned to support the ever increasing need for healthcare information technology.
During the year ended March 31, 2010, 5.0%2013, 5.5% of the NextGen Division’sDivision's system sales revenue was represented by hardware and third partythird-party software compared to 7.3%3.9% during the same period a year ended March 31, 2009.ago. The number of customersclients who purchase hardware and third partythird-party software and the dollar amount of hardware and third partythird-party software revenue fluctuates each quarterperiod depending on the needs of customers.clients. The inclusion of hardware and third partythird-party software in the Division’sNextGen Division's sales arrangements is typically at the request of the customer and is not a priority focus for us.our clients.
Implementation and training revenue related to system sales at the NextGen Division increased 6.8%39.0% in the year ended March 31, 20102013 compared to the same prior year period. Implementation and training revenue related to system sales at the Hospital Solutions Division increased 16.4%, in the year ended March 31, 2009.2013 as compared to the same prior year period. The amount of implementation and training services revenue is dependent on several factors, including timing of client implementations, the availability of qualified staff and the mix of services being rendered. The number of implementation and training staff increased during the year ended March 31, 2013 versus the same

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prior year period in order to accommodate the increased amount of implementation services sold in conjunction with software sales. It should be noted however that we have experienced a decline in the level of systems sales in recent quarters which in turn have resulted in a decline in the amount of implementation services sold, specifically in the NextGen Division. We intend to address the fluctuation in demand for services by managing the use of third parties for implementation services. We have historically relied on third parties for a portion of our implementations in order to manage customer requirements. The Hospital Solutions Division required a greater reliance on third parties to handle increased demands for implementation services, especially in the first half of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.
Maintenance, EDI, RCM and Other Services. For the year ended March 31, 2013, our company-wide revenue from maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services grew 19.8% to $336.6 million from $281.0 million in the same prior year period. The increase is primarily due to an increase in maintenance, EDI and other services revenue from the NextGen Division and an increase in RCM revenue from the RCM Services Division.
Total NextGen Division maintenance revenue for the year ended March 31, 2013 grew 14.9% to $133.9 million from $116.5 million for the same prior year period while NextGen Division EDI revenue grew 22.8% to $54.3 million compared to $44.2 million in the same prior year period. Other services revenue for the NextGen Division, which consists primarily of third-party annual software license renewals, consulting services, SaaS fees and hosting services, increased 29.4% to $52.6 million in the year ended March 31, 2013 from $40.6 million in the same prior year period. Other services revenue benefited from a strong increase in consulting revenue to existing NextGen Division customers.
The Hospital Solutions Division maintenance, EDI and other services revenue for the year ended March 31, 2013 increased 4.4% as compared to the same prior year period primarily due to an increase in other services revenue. For the year ended March 31, 2013, RCM revenue for the RCM Services Division grew $13.6 million, or 29.9%, to $59.2 million compared to $45.6 million in the same prior year period. RCM revenue was positively impacted by the acquisition of Matrix which contributed $12.5 million in the current year.
The following table details maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services revenue by category on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 (in thousands):
 Maintenance EDI RCM Other Total
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2013         
QSI Dental Division$7,902
 $5,152
 $
 $1,519
 $14,573
NextGen Division133,904
 54,281
 
 52,569
 240,754
Hospital Solutions Division14,126
 41
 
 3,277
 17,444
RCM Services Division839
 235
 59,219
 3,585
 63,878
Consolidated$156,771
 $59,709
 $59,219
 $60,950
 $336,649
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012         
QSI Dental Division$7,639
 $5,045
 $
 $1,281
 $13,965
NextGen Division116,544
 44,214
 
 40,645
 201,403
Hospital Solutions Division14,553
 
 
 2,158
 16,711
RCM Services Division96
 
 45,572
 3,290
 48,958
Consolidated$138,832
 $49,259
 $45,572
 $47,374
 $281,037

Maintenance revenue for the NextGen Division increased by $17.4 million for the year ended March 31, 2013 as compared to the same prior year period. The growth in maintenance revenue is primarily a result of increases related to net additional licenses from new and existing clients.
The NextGen Division’s EDI revenue growth has come from new clients and from further penetration of the division’s existing client base while the growth in RCM revenue is attributable to both organic growth as well as the addition in revenue from the Matrix acquisition. We intend to continue to promote maintenance, EDI and RCM services to both new and existing clients. Growth in other services revenue is primarily due to increases in third-party annual software licenses, consulting services, SaaS fees, patient portal subscription fees and hosting services revenue.
Cost of Revenue. Cost of revenue for the year ended March 31, 2013 increased 25.4% to $189.7 million from $151.2 million in the same prior year period and the cost of revenue as a percentage of revenue increased to 41.2% from 35.2% driven primarily by a higher percentage of lower margin revenue streams such as implementation and RCM services, as well as slight cost increases across all revenue categories.
The following table details revenue and cost of revenue on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 (in thousands):

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 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 % 2012 %
QSI Dental Division       
Revenue$19,990
 100.0% $19,596
 100.0%
Cost of revenue10,453
 52.3% 9,097
 46.4%
Gross profit$9,537
 47.7% $10,499
 53.6%
NextGen Division       
Revenue$344,315
 100.0% $325,467
 100.0%
Cost of revenue114,788
 33.3% 93,723
 28.8%
Gross profit$229,527
 66.7% $231,744
 71.2%
Hospital Solutions Division       
Revenue$31,413
 100.0% $34,463
 100.0%
Cost of revenue16,703
 53.2% 10,540
 30.6%
Gross profit$14,710
 46.8% $23,923
 69.4%
RCM Services Division       
Revenue$64,511
 100.0% $50,309
 100.0%
Cost of revenue45,008
 69.8% 35,559
 70.7%
Gross profit$19,503
 30.2% $14,750
 29.3%
Unallocated cost of revenue (1)$2,700
 N/A
 $2,303
 N/A
Consolidated       
Revenue$460,229
 100.0% $429,835
 100.0%
Cost of revenue189,652
 41.2% 151,223
 35.2%
Gross profit$270,577
 58.8% $278,612
 64.8%
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(1)Relates to the amortization of acquired software technology intangible assets
Gross profit margins for the QSI Dental Division, NextGen Division and the Hospital Solutions Division decreased for the year ended March 31, 2013 compared to the same prior year period primarily due to a significant decrease in software sales during the current year. Gross profit margin in the RCM Services Division increased to 30.2% for the year ended March 31, 2013 as compared to 29.3% for the same prior year period primarily due to a significant increase in recurring revenue during the current year.
The following table details the individual components of cost of revenue and gross profit as a percentage of total revenue on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012:
 
Hardware,
Third Party
Software
 
Payroll and
Related
Benefits
 EDI Other 
Total Cost
of Revenue
 Gross Profit
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2013           
QSI Dental Division8.7% 19.8% 13.6% 10.2% 52.3% 47.7%
NextGen Division1.6% 12.1% 9.3% 10.3% 33.3% 66.7%
Hospital Solutions Division3.4% 28.9% 0.1% 20.8% 53.2% 46.8%
RCM Services Division% 45.3% 1.0% 23.5% 69.8% 30.2%
Consolidated1.8% 18.3% 7.7% 13.4% 41.2% 58.8%
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012           
QSI Dental Division7.1% 23.2% 7.9% 8.2% 46.4% 53.6%
NextGen Division1.3% 12.4% 7.8% 7.3% 28.8% 71.2%
Hospital Solutions Division3.2% 17.0% % 10.4% 30.6% 69.4%
RCM Services Division% 46.1% 2.2% 22.4% 70.7% 29.3%
Consolidated1.6% 17.2% 6.5% 9.9% 35.2% 64.8%

During the year ended March 31, 2013, hardware and third-party software constituted a slightly higher portion of cost of revenue compared to the same prior year period in the NextGen Division. The number of clients who purchase hardware and third-party software and the dollar amount of hardware and third-party software purchased fluctuates each quarter depending on the needs of our clients.

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Our payroll and benefits expense associated with delivering our products and services increased to 18.3% of consolidated revenue in the year ended March 31, 2013 compared to 17.2% during the same period last year. The absolute level of consolidated payroll and benefit expenses grew from $73.9 million in the year ended March 31, 2011 to $84.1 million in the year ended March 31, 2013, an increase of 13.8%, or approximately $10.2 million. Of the $10.2 million increase, approximately $6.0 million of the increase is related to the RCM Services Division as RCM is a service business, which inherently has higher percentage of payroll costs as a percentage of revenue. Increases of $1.5 million in the NextGen Division and $3.2 million for the Hospital Solutions Division for the year ended March 31, 2013 are primarily due to headcount additions and increased payroll and benefits expense associated with delivering products and services. The QSI Dental Division experienced a slight decrease in payroll and benefits expense compared to the same prior year period. The amount of share-based compensation expense included in cost of revenue was not significant for both the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012.
Other cost of revenue, which primarily consists of third-party annual license, hosting costs, third party implementation and consulting services, and outsourcing costs, increased to 13.4% of total revenue during the year ended March 31, 2013 as compared to 9.9% for the same period a year ago. The Hospital Solutions Division utilized third parties to perform a larger portion of implementation services in fiscal 2013, resulting in higher other costs compared to the prior year.
As a result of the foregoing events and activities, our gross profit percentage decreased to 58.8% for the year ended March 31, 2013 versus 64.8% for the same prior year period.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended March 31, 2013 increased 15.1% to $148.4 million as compared to $128.8 million for the same prior year period. The increase in these expenses resulted primarily from:
$6.9 million increase in salaries and related benefit expenses primarily as a result of headcount additions;
$1.6 million increase in support services, depreciation and maintenance fees related to the April 1, 2012 go-live of our ERP system;
$1.8 million of acquisition related expenses, including fair value adjustments;
$1.2 million increase in bad debt expense;
$0.7 million increase in sales commissions;
$1.3 million of proxy contest related expenses; and
$6.0 million net increase in other selling and administrative expenses.
Share-based compensation expense was approximately $1.9 million and $2.9 million for the year ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively, and is included in the aforementioned amounts. Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue increased from 30.0% in the year ended March 31, 2012 to 32.2% in the year ended March 31, 2013.
Research and Development Costs. Research and development costs for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 were $30.9 million and $31.4 million, respectively. Research and development costs as a percentage of revenue decreased to 6.7% in the year ended March 31, 2013 from 7.3% for the prior year period. The slower growth in research and development expenses was primarily due to the achievement of technological feasibility for a major project, allowing us to begin to capitalize costs related to this project in the current year, offset by continued investment in enhancements to our specialty template development, preparation for ICD10 requirements, new products including NextGen Mobile, NextGen NextPen, NextGen Community Connectivity consisting of NextGen Health Information Exchange (“NextGen HIE,” formerly Community Health Solution), NextGen Patient Portal (“NextMD.com”), and NextGen Health Quality Measures (“NextGen HQM”), and other enhancements to our existing products. Additions to capitalized software costs offset increases in research and development costs. For the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, our additions to capitalized software were $29.5 million and $13.1 million, respectively, as we continue to enhance our software to meet the Meaningful Use definitions under the ARRA as well as further integrate both ambulatory and inpatient products. The increase in capitalized software added in the year ended March 31, 2013 included $3.0 million paid for the source code of a pharmacy system which supports customers in the Hospital Solutions Division as well as greater investment in this division. For the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, total research and development expenditures including costs expensed and costs capitalized were $60.4 million and $44.5 million, respectively. We intend to continue to invest heavily in research and development expenses as we develop a new integrated inpatient and outpatient, web-based software platform as well as continue to bring additional functionality and features to the medical community. Share-based compensation expense included in research and development costs was not significant for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012.
Amortization of Acquired Intangible Assets. Amortization included in operating expense related to acquired intangible assets for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 was $4.9 million and $2.2 million, respectively.
Impairment of Goodwill. During the second quarter of fiscal 2013, the operating performance of the Hospital Solutions Division ("Hospital reporting unit" or "Hospital") weakened, relative to the historic performance of this division. Revenues and operating results further declined during the third quarter of 2013. Accordingly, we assessed the conditions giving rise to the operating performance and evaluated the carrying amount of Hospital's goodwill balance. At such time, we concluded that the fair value of the Hospital reporting unit exceeded the carrying amount of the related goodwill, and therefore the value of the goodwill required no impairment. During the latter part of the quarter ended March 31, 2013, however, we reassessed the short-term and longer-term business strategies and operating expectations relating to the Hospital Solutions Division. From this assessment, we concluded that it was necessary to re-evaluate Hospital's goodwill for impairment during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013.

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Based upon the above, the Company performed step one of the goodwill impairment test and determined that the fair value of the Hospital reporting unit, which was based on a combination of discounted cash flow analysis and market approach, was lower than the carrying value. The failure of step one triggered step two of the impairment test.
As a result of the step two analysis, the Company determined the implied fair value of the Hospital reporting unit's goodwill and concluded that the carrying value of goodwill exceeded its implied fair value. Based upon the resulting computations, an impairment charge of $17.4 million was recognized during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013.
The Company determined the implied fair value of the Hospital reporting unit's goodwill in the same manner as the amount of goodwill recognized in a business combination. Therefore, the excess of the fair value of a reporting unit over the amounts assigned to its assets and liabilities is the implied fair value of goodwill.
Key assumptions affecting the results of the goodwill impairment test include: a) the near-term continuation of recent results of operations for the Division and b) our detailed reassessment of the strategies of the Division and the actions required to achieve those strategies. Such reassessment resulted in a reprioritization of the objectives for the Division in the next fiscal year and a determination that additional investment and expenditures would be required to achieve those objectives. Specifically, the Division will place client satisfaction as its highest priority, de-emphasizing near-term growth.
To achieve high client satisfaction, the Division plans to implement several initiatives designed to enhance the Division's ability to deliver better value for its customers including implementation, support, and software development. First, the Division will work to aggressively add employees to its implementation, support, and software development departments to increase the ratio of employees-to-customers. This will enable the Division to be more hands-on and responsive during the implementation and support phases. Additionally, during the next fiscal year, the Division plans to bear the cost of providing additional training and implementation services to certain customers, to enable those customers to make better use of the functionality of the system. We believe that by completing this work and adding to the support, implementation, and development teams, the Division will greatly improve its customer experience, and thereby help the Division improve its ability to have more of its client base serve as reference sites.
Additionally, the revenue assumptions relating to the Hospital Division outlook for the next several years reflect planned constraints on: a) the rate of new implementation engagements, to accommodate the client satisfaction initiative, and b) the timing and extent of product sales in light of other operational and product development considerations.
Though we have confidence in our assumptions regarding the future performance of the Hospital Solutions Division, if the future financial results relating to the Division fall short of our assumptions, the fair value of the reporting unit could be negatively impacted, resulting in an additional impairment of goodwill and/or other intangible assets.
The Company will continue to monitor the operating performance of its reporting units in future periods for evidence of any additional indicators of impairment.
Interest and Other Income (Expense). Total interest and other income (expense) for the year ended March 31, 2013 was $0.2 million of expense as compared to income of $0.1 million for the year ended March 31, 2012. Interest and other income (expense) consists primarily of dividends and interest earned on our investments along with foreign currency gains or losses for the period.
Our investment policy is determined by our Board of Directors. We currently maintain our cash in very liquid short term assets including tax exempt and taxable money market funds, Certificates of Deposit and short term Municipal Bonds with maturities of 365 days or less at the time of purchase. Our Board of Directors continues to review alternate uses for our cash including, but not limited to, payment of a special dividend, initiation of a stock buyback program, an expansion of our investment policy and other items. Additionally, it is possible that we will utilize some or all of our cash to fund acquisitions or other similar business activities. Any or all of these programs could significantly impact our investment income in future periods.
Provision for Income Taxes. The provision for income taxes for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012 were $26.2 million and $40.6 million, respectively. The effective tax rates were 38.0% and 35.0% for the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The effective rate for the year ended March 31, 2013 increased as compared to the prior year period primarily due to the non-deductibility of $5.1 million (tax effected) relating to the impairment of goodwill. Partially offsetting this impact are increased benefits to the overall effective tax rate from the state effective tax rate, research and development credits and qualified production activities deductions.
During the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, we recognized research and development tax credits of approximately $1.5 million and $1.0 million, respectively. The Company also claimed the qualified production activities deduction under Section 199 of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) of approximately $9.0 million and $10.0 million (pre-tax) during the years ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Research and development credits and the qualified production activities income deduction calculated by us involve certain assumptions and judgments regarding qualification of expenses under the relevant tax code provision.

Comparison of the Fiscal Years Ended March 31, 2012 and March 31, 2011
Net Income. Our net income for the year ended March 31, 2012 was $75.7 million, or $1.29 per share on a basic and $1.28 per share on a fully diluted basis. In comparison, we earned $61.6 million, or $1.06 per share on both a basic and fully diluted basis for the year ended March 31, 2011. The increase in net income for the year ended March 31, 2012 was primarily attributed to the following:
a 21.6% increase in consolidated revenue, including an increase in revenues of $58.9 million from our NextGen Division and $16.6 million from our Hospital Solutions Division;
21.3% increase in consolidated software license revenue, which accounted for 77.2% of total system sales;

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a 19.2% increase in recurring revenue, including RCM, maintenance and EDI revenue; offset by
an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses and research and development costs.
Revenue. Revenue for the year ended March 31, 2012 increased 21.6% to $429.8 million from $353.4 million for the year ended March 31, 2011. NextGen Division revenue increased 22.1% to $325.5 million from $266.5 million in the year ended March 31, 2012, QSI Dental Division revenue decreased 1.9% to $19.6 million from $20.0 million, RCM Services Division revenue increased 2.8% to $50.3 million from $49.0 million, and Hospital Solutions Division revenue increased 92.5% to $34.5 million from $17.9 million in the same prior year period.
System Sales. Revenue earned from Company-wide sales of systems for the year ended March 31, 2012 increased 19.5% to $148.8 million from $124.5 million in the prior year period.
Our increase in revenue from sales of systems was principally the result of a 13.9% increase in category revenue at our NextGen Division and a 114.4% increase at our Hospital Solutions Division. NextGen Division sales in this category grew $15.2 million to $124.1 million during the year ended March 31, 2012 from $108.9 million during the same prior year period while the Hospital Solutions Division delivered a $9.5 million increase in category revenue to $17.8 million in the year ended March 31, 2012 as compared to $8.3 million in the same prior year period. The increases were driven by higher sales of software to both new and existing clients at the NextGen Division and higher software and implementation revenue at the Hospital Solutions Division.
The following table breaks down our reported system sales into software, hardware and third-party software, and implementation and training services components on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 2012 and 2011 (in thousands):
 Software 
Hardware, Third
Party Software
 
Implementation
and Training
Services
 
Total System
Sales
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012       
QSI Dental Division$2,865
 $1,662
 $1,104
 $5,631
NextGen Division100,517
 4,839
 18,708
 124,064
Hospital Solutions Division10,576
 987
 6,189
 17,752
RCM Services Division961
 
 390
 1,351
Consolidated$114,919
 $7,488
 $26,391
 $148,798
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2011       
QSI Dental Division$3,239
 $2,190
 $1,066
 $6,495
NextGen Division84,812
 8,979
 15,097
 108,888
Hospital Solutions Division6,187
 612
 1,482
 8,281
RCM Services Division473
 22
 370
 865
Consolidated$94,711
 $11,803
 $18,015
 $124,529

NextGen Division software license revenue increased 18.5% in the year ended March 31, 2012 versus the same period last year. The Division’s software revenue accounted for 81.0% of divisional system sales revenue during the year ended March 31, 2012 compared to 77.9% during the same period a year ago. Software license revenue continues to be an area of primary emphasis for the NextGen Division.
Hospital Solutions Division software license revenue increased 70.9% in the year ended March 31, 2012 versus the same period last year. The Division’s software revenue accounted for 59.6% of divisional system sales revenue during the year ended March 31, 2012 compared to 74.7% during the same period a year ago.
During the year ended March 31, 2012, 3.9% of the NextGen Division’s system sales revenue was represented by hardware and third-party software compared to 8.2% during the same period a year ago. The number of clients who purchase hardware and third-party software and the dollar amount of hardware and third-party software revenue fluctuates each period depending on the needs of clients. The inclusion of hardware and third-party software in the NextGen Division’s sales arrangements is typically at the request of our clients.
Implementation and training revenue related to system sales at the NextGen Division increased 23.9% in the year ended March 31, 2012 compared to the same prior year period. Implementation and training revenue related to system sales at the Hospital Solutions Division increased 317.6%, in the year ended March 31, 2012 as compared to the same prior year period. The amount of implementation and training services revenue is dependent on several factors, including timing of client implementations, the availability of qualified staff and the mix of services being rendered. The number of implementation and training staff increased during the year ended March 31, 20102012 versus 2009the same prior year period in order to accommodate the increased amount of implementation services sold in conjunction with increased software sales. In order to achieve growth in this area, additional staffing increases and additional training facilities are anticipated, though actual future increases in revenue and staff will depend upon the availability of qualified staff, business mix and conditions and our ability to retain current staff members.
The NextGen Division’s growth has come in part from investments in sales and marketing activities including a revamped NextGen.com Web site, new NextGen logo, new marketing campaigns, trade show attendance, and other expanded advertising and marketing expenditures. We have also benefited from winning numerous industry awards for the NextGen Division’s flagship NextGenehr and NextGenepm software products and the increasing acceptance of electronic medical records technology in the healthcare industry.
For the QSI DentalRCM Services Division, total system sales increased 30.1%$0.5 million, or 56.2%, to $1.4 million in the year ended March 31, 20102012 as compared to the same prior year ended March 31, 2009. Systems sales in the QSI Dental Division were positively impacted by greater joint sales of dental and medical software to Federally Qualified Health Centers. In addition, the Division began selling the SaaS based NextDDS product during the year ended March 31, 2010.


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For the Practice Solutions Division, total system sales decreased by 10.6% in the year ended March 31, 2010 compared to the year ended March 31, 2009.period. Systems sales revenue within the Practice SolutionsRCM Services Division is composed of sales to existing RCM customers only.clients only and can fluctuate given the size of the current client base of the RCM Services Division.

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Maintenance, EDI, Revenue Cycle ManagementRCM and Other Services.Services. For the year ended March 31, 2010, Company-wide2012, our company-wide revenue from maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services grew 27.9%22.8% to $187.7$281.0 million from $146.8$228.8 million forin the same prior year ended March 31, 2009.period. The increase in this category resulted fromis primarily due to an increase in maintenance, EDI RCM and other services revenue from the NextGen and PracticeHospital Solutions Divisions.
Total NextGen Division maintenance revenue for the year ended March 31, 20102012 grew 24.9%24.1% to $81.9$116.5 million from $65.6$93.9 million infor the same prior year. The Opus acquisition contributed $1.2 million to the NextGen Division’s maintenance revenue during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010.period while NextGen Division EDI revenue grew 21.2%22.4% to $30.0$44.2 million compared to $24.8$36.1 million in the prior year. RCM revenue grew to $36.7 million from $21.4 million in thesame prior year primarily as a result of increases in RCM revenue to existing customers as well as including a full year of results for HSI and PMP in fiscal year 2010 versus approximately ten and five months of respective results in fiscal year 2009.period. Other services revenue for the NextGen Division, which consists primarily of third partythird-party annual software license renewals, follow-on training hours, consulting services and hosting services, increased 6.9%47.1% to $21.7$40.6 million from $20.3 million a year ago. QSI Dental Division maintenance, EDI and other services revenue increased 2.9% to $13.2 million forin the year ended March 31, 2010 compared to $12.82012 from $27.6 million in the same prior year.
year period. Other services revenue benefited from a strong increase in consulting revenue and follow-on training services revenue to existing NextGen Division customers.
The following table details maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services revenue by category on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 20102012 and 2009:2011 (in thousands):

                     
        Revenue Cycle
       
  Maintenance  EDI  Management  Other  Total 
 
Year ended March 31, 2010                    
QSI Dental Division $7,217  $5,038  $  $940  $13,195 
NextGen Division  81,867   29,997      21,697   133,561 
Practice Solutions Division  108      36,665   4,145   40,918 
                     
Consolidated $89,192  $35,035  $36,665  $26,782  $187,674 
                     
Year ended March 31, 2009                    
QSI Dental Division $7,167  $4,766  $  $894  $12,827 
NextGen Division  65,559   24,756      20,299   110,614 
Practice Solutions Division  136      21,431   1,746   23,313 
                     
Consolidated $72,862  $29,522  $21,431  $22,939  $146,754 
                     
 Maintenance EDI RCM Other Total
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012         
QSI Dental Division$7,639
 $5,045
 $
 $1,281
 $13,965
NextGen Division116,544
 44,214
 
 40,645
 201,403
Hospital Solutions Division14,553
 
 
 2,158
 16,711
RCM Services Division96
 
 45,572
 3,290
 48,958
Consolidated$138,832
 $49,259
 $45,572
 $47,374
 $281,037
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2011         
QSI Dental Division$7,329
 $4,891
 $
 $1,251
 $13,471
NextGen Division93,890
 36,131
 
 27,637
 157,658
Hospital Solutions Division8,642
 
 
 975
 9,617
RCM Services Division158
 
 45,065
 2,865
 48,088
Consolidated$110,019
 $41,022
 $45,065
 $32,728
 $228,834

Maintenance revenue for the NextGen Division increased by $22.7 million for the year ended March 31, 2012 as compared to the same prior year period. The growth in maintenance revenue for the NextGen Division has comeis primarily a result of increases related to net additional licenses from new customersclients and existing clients as well as a price increase that have been added eachbecame effective during the quarter existing customers who have purchased additional licenses, and our relative success in retaining existing maintenance customers.ended September 30, 2011.
The NextGen Division’s EDI revenue growth has come from new customersclients and from further penetration of the Division’sdivision’s existing customer base. Theclient base while the growth in RCM is a result of the HSI and PMP acquisitions and future growth is expectedrevenue has come from new clients that have been acquired from cross selling opportunities betweenwith the customer bases.NextGen Division client base. We intend to continue to promote maintenance, EDI and RCM services to both new and existing customers.clients. Growth in other services revenue is primarily due to increases in third-party annual software licenses, follow on training services, consulting services and hosting services revenue.
Cost of Revenue. Cost of revenue for the year ended March 31, 20102012 increased 24.7%18.6% to $110.8$151.2 million from $88.9$127.5 million forin the same prior year ended March 31, 2009period and the cost of revenue as a percentage of revenue increaseddecreased to 38.0%35.2% from 36.2%36.1% primarily due to a lower amount of hardware included in systems sales as compared to the fact thatsame prior year period as well as strong software sales achieved in the rate of growth in cost of revenue grew faster than the aggregate revenue growth rate for the Company.current year period.


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The following table details revenue and cost of revenue on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 20102012 and 2009:2011 (in thousands):

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 Year Ended March 31, 
 2010 % 2009 % Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
2012 % 2011 %
QSI Dental Division                       
Revenue $17,128   100.0% $15,851   100.0%$19,596
 100.0% $19,966
 100.0%
Cost of revenue  7,788   45.5%  7,582   47.8%9,097
 46.4% 9,034
 45.2%
         
Gross profit $9,340   54.5% $8,269   52.2%$10,499
 53.6% $10,932
 54.8%
         
NextGen Division                       
Revenue $231,621   100.0% $203,954   100.0%$325,467
 100.0% $266,546
 100.0%
Cost of revenue  73,534   31.7%  65,311   32.0%93,723
 28.8% 78,496
 29.4%
         
Gross profit $158,087   68.3% $138,643   68.0%$231,744
 71.2% $188,050
 70.6%
         
Practice Solutions Division                
Hospital Solutions Division       
Revenue $43,062   100.0% $25,710   100.0%$34,463
 100.0% $17,898
 100.0%
Cost of revenue  29,485   68.5%  15,997   62.2%10,540
 30.6% 4,671
 26.1%
         
Gross profit $13,577   31.5% $9,713   37.8%$23,923
 69.4% $13,227
 73.9%
         
RCM Services Division       
Revenue$50,309
 100.0% $48,953
 100.0%
Cost of revenue35,559
 70.7% 34,896
 71.3%
Gross profit$14,750
 29.3% $14,057
 28.7%
Unallocated cost of revenue (1)$2,303
 N/A
 $385
 N/A
Consolidated                       
Revenue $291,811   100.0% $245,515   100.0%$429,835
 100.0% $353,363
 100.0%
Cost of revenue  110,807   38.0%  88,890   36.2%151,223
 35.2% 127,482
 36.1%
         
Gross profit $181,004   62.0% $156,625   63.8%$278,612
 64.8% $225,881
 63.9%
         
____________________
(1)Relates to the amortization of acquired software technology intangible assets
Gross profit margins at the NextGen Division for the year ended March 31, 2010 increased slightly to 68.3% from 68.0% from the year ended March 31, 2009 primarily as a result of a lower amount of hardware revenue in fiscal year 2010 versus fiscal year 2009. Gross profit margins at the QSI Dental Division for the year ended March 31, 20102012 decreased to 53.6% from 54.8% for the same prior year period primarily as a result of lower software license revenue included in total revenue. Gross profit margins at the NextGen Division for year ended March 31, 2012 increased to 54.5% from 52.2%71.2% compared to 70.6% for the same prior year period due to strong software sales and an increase in maintenance revenue, which yields higher margins than other services, along with improvements in EDI margins. Gross margin in the Hospital Solutions Division decreased to 69.4% for the year ended March 31, 2009 also2012 as result ofcompared to 73.9% for the same prior year period due to growth in implementation and training revenue which carries lower percentage of payroll and related benefits in system sales in fiscal year 2010 versus fiscal year 2009.profit margins compared to software. Gross margin in the Practice SolutionsRCM Services Division declinedincreased to 29.3% for the year ended March 31, 2012 as a result of a smaller proportion of software revenue included in revenue versuscompared to 28.7% for the same prior year as well as costs relatedperiod due to transitioning to the NextGen Division platform and otherramp-up costs.
growth in higher margin software revenue.
The following table details the individual components of cost of revenue and gross profit as a percentage of total revenue on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 20102012 and 2009:2011:
                         
  Hardware,
  Payroll and
             
  Third Party
  Related
        Total Cost of
  Gross
 
  Software  Benefits  EDI  Other  Revenue  Profit 
 
Year ended March 31, 2010                        
QSI Dental Division  8.5%  13.8%  16.0%  7.2%  45.5%  54.5%
NextGen Division  2.5%  13.2%  9.5%  6.5%  31.7%  68.3%
Practice Solutions Division  0.5%  43.6%  1.1%  23.3%  68.5%  31.5%
                         
Consolidated  2.5%  17.7%  8.7%  9.1%  38.0%  62.0%
                         
Year ended March 31, 2009                        
QSI Dental Division  7.6%  19.8%  17.1%  3.3%  47.8%  52.2%
NextGen Division  3.9%  11.0%  9.1%  8.0%  32.0%  68.0%
Practice Solutions Division  0.2%  45.0%  0.0%  17.0%  62.2%  37.8%
                         
Consolidated  3.7%  15.1%  8.4%  9.0%  36.2%  63.8%
                         

 
Hardware,
Third Party
Software
 
Payroll and
Related
Benefits
 EDI Other 
Total Cost
of Revenue
 Gross Profit
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2012           
QSI Dental Division7.1% 23.2% 7.9% 8.2% 46.4% 53.6%
NextGen Division1.3% 12.4% 7.8% 7.3% 28.8% 71.2%
Hospital Solutions Division3.2% 17.0% % 10.4% 30.6% 69.4%
RCM Services Division% 46.1% 2.2% 22.4% 70.7% 29.3%
Consolidated1.6% 17.2% 6.5% 9.9% 35.2% 64.8%
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2011           
QSI Dental Division8.7% 17.7% 11.6% 7.2% 45.2% 54.8%
NextGen Division2.9% 11.8% 8.1% 6.6% 29.4% 70.6%
Hospital Solutions Division5.4% 16.7% % 4.0% 26.1% 73.9%
RCM Services Division% 43.8% 0.5% 27.0% 71.3% 28.7%
Consolidated3.0% 16.8% 6.9% 9.4% 36.1% 63.9%

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During the year ended March 31, 2010,2012, hardware and third partythird-party software constituted a smallerlower portion of cost of revenue compared to the same prior year period in the NextGen Division. The number of customersclients who purchase hardware and third partythird-party software and the dollar amount of hardware and third partythird-party software purchased fluctuates each quarter depending on the needs of the customers and is not a priority focus for us.
our clients.
Our payroll and benefits expense associated with delivering our products and services increased to 17.7%17.2% of consolidated revenue in the year ended March 31, 20102012 compared to 15.1%16.8% during the same period last year. The absolute level of consolidated payroll and benefit expenses grew from $59.3 million in the year ended March 31, 2009 primarily due2011 to inclusion$73.9 million in the year ended March 31, 2012, an increase of a full year24.5%, or approximately $14.6 million. Of the $14.6 million increase, approximately $1.8 million of HSI and PMP transactions in fiscal year 2010 versus a partial period in fiscal year 2009.the increase is related to the RCM Services Division as RCM is a service business, which inherently has higher percentage of payroll costs as a percentage of revenue.
The absolute level Increases of consolidated payroll$8.9 million in the NextGen Division, $2.9 million for the Hospital Solutions Division and benefit expenses grew from $37.1$1.0 million in the QSI Dental Division for the year ended March 31, 20092012 are primarily due to $51.8 million in the year ended March 31, 2010, an increase of 39.4% or approximately $14.6 million. Of the $14.6 million increase, approximately $7.2 million of the increase is related to the Practice Solutions Division, which included a full year of HSIheadcount additions and PMP expenses during fiscal year 2010 versus approximately ten and five months of respective expense in fiscal year 2009. For the NextGen Division, an increase of approximately $8.2 million was related to increased headcount and payroll and benefits expense associated with delivering products and services Payrollservices. The amount of share-based compensation expense included in cost of revenue was $0.3 million for both the years ended March 31, 2012 and benefits2011.
Other expense, associated with delivering productswhich primarily consists of third-party annual license, hosting costs and services in the QSI Dental Division decreased $0.7 million from $3.1 million inoutsourcing costs, increased to 9.9% of total revenue during the year ended March 31, 20092012 as compared to $2.4 million in9.4% for the same period a year ended March 31, 2010. The application of ASC 718 added approximately $0.1 million and $0.2 million in compensation expense to cost of revenue in the years ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
ago.
As a result of the foregoing events and activities, theour gross profit percentage for the Company decreasedincreased to 64.8% for the year ended March 31, 20102012 versus 63.9% for the same prior year.year period.
We anticipate continued additions to headcount in the NextGen Division in areas related to delivering products and services in future periods but due to the uncertainties in the timing of our sales arrangements, our sales mix, the acquisition and training of qualified personnel, and other issues, we cannot accurately predict if related headcount expense as a percentage of revenue will increase or decrease in the future.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended March 31, 20102012 increased 25.3%19.0% to $87.0$128.8 million as compared to $69.4$108.3 million for the same prior year period. The increase in these expenses resulted primarily from:
$12.6 million increase in salaries and related benefit expenses primarily as a result of headcount additions and acquisitions;
$2.9 million increase in sales commissions primarily related to the NextGen Division;
$1.9 million increase in bad debt expense; and
$3.1 million net increase in other selling and administrative expenses.
Share-based compensation expense was approximately $2.9 million and $3.3 million for the year ended March 31, 2009. The increase in these expenses resulted primarily from a:
• $9.9 million increase in salaries and related expenses in the NextGen Division primarily as a result of headcount additions;
• $2.5 million increase in marketing and trade shows in the NextGen Division;
• $1.5 million increase from the acquisition of Sphere and Opus;
• $3.3 million increase in corporate related expenses, primarily as a result of headcount additions, and
• $0.4 million increase in other selling and administrative expenses.
The application of ASC 718 added approximately $1.9 million2012 and $1.5 million in compensation expense to selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended March 31, 2010 and 2009,2011, respectively, and is included in the aforementioned amounts. Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue increaseddecreased from 28.3%30.7% in the year ended March 31, 20092011 to 29.8%30.0% in the year ended March 31, 2010.


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We anticipate increased expenditures for trade shows, advertising and the employment of additional sales and administrative staff at the NextGen Division. We also anticipate future increases in corporate expenditures being made in a wide range of areas including professional services. While we expect selling, general and administrative expenses to increase on an absolute basis, we cannot accurately predict the impact these additional expenditures will have on selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue.2012.
Research and Development Costs. Research and development costs for the years ended March 31, 20102012 and 20092011 were $16.5$31.4 million and $13.8$21.8 million, respectively. The increases in research and development expenses were due in part to increased investment in the NextGen and Hospital Solutions Division product line. Additionally, the applicationlines. We have also invested significantly in enhancements to our specialty template development, preparation for ICD10 requirements, new products including NextGen Mobile, NextGen NextPen, NextGen Community Connectivity consisting of ASC 718 added approximately $0.1 millionNextGen Health Information Exchange (“NextGen HIE,” formerly Community Health Solution), NextGen Patient Portal (“NextMD.com”), and $0.2 million in the years ended March 31, 2010NextGen Health Quality Measures (“NextGen HQM”), and 2009, respectively, in compensation expenseother enhancements to research and development costs, net of amounts capitalized as software development in those fiscal years.our existing products. Additions to capitalized software costs offset increases in research and development costs. For the yearyears ended March 31, 2010, $7.9 million was added2012 and 2011, our additions to capitalized software costs while $5.9were at $13.1 million was capitalized duringand $10.7 million, respectively, as we continue to enhance our software to meet the year ended March 31, 2009.Meaningful Use definitions under the ARRA as well as further integrate both ambulatory and inpatient products. Research and development costs as a percentage of revenue increased to 5.7%7.3% in the year ended March 31, 20102012 from 5.6% in6.2% for the same prior year ended March 31, 2009.period. Research and development expenses are expected to continue at or above current dollar levels.levels as we develop a new integrated inpatient and outpatient, web-based software platform. Share-based compensation expense included in research and development costs was $0.2 million for both the years ended March 31, 2012 and 2011.
Amortization of Acquired Intangible Assets. Amortization included in operating expense related to acquired intangible assets for the years ended March 31, 20102012 and 2009 were $1.82011 was $2.2 million and $1.0$1.7 million, respectively. The increase in amortization expense is primarily due to the addition of customer relationships
Interest and software technology intangible assets, which were acquired through the acquisitions of OpusOther Income. Total interest and Sphere during fiscal year 2010.
Interest Income.  Interestother income for the year ended March 31, 2010 decreased to $0.22012 was $0.1 million as compared to $1.2$0.3 million in the year ended March 31, 2009 primarily due to significantly lower interest rates received on the Company’s cash investments, which are primarily in institutional money market accounts. Short term interest rates were at historic lows for most of the year ended March 31, 2010.
Our investment policy is determined by our Board of Directors. We currently maintain our cash in very liquid short term assets including tax exempt and taxable money market funds. We owned approximately $7.2 million in ARS as of March 31, 2010, which are illiquid due to the auction failures in the ARS market. Our Board of Directors continues to review alternate uses for our cash including, but not limited to, payment of a special dividend, initiation of a stock buyback program, an expansion of our investment policy to include investments with longer maturities of greater than 90 days, or other items. Additionally, it is possible that we will utilize some or all of our cash to fund acquisitions or other similar business activities. Any or all of these programs could significantly impact our investment income in future periods.
Other Income (Expense).  Other income (expense) for the year ended March 31, 2010 consists2011. Interest and other income consist primarily of gainsdividends and losses in fair value recordedinterest earned on our ARS investments as well as on our ARS put option rights. We recorded an overall gain on our ARS and ARS put option rights of approximately $0.3 million.along with foreign currency gains or losses for the period.
Provision for Income Taxes.  The provision for income taxes for the year ended March 31, 2010 was approximately $27.8 million as compared to approximately $27.2 million for the prior year. The effective tax rates for fiscal years 2010 and 2009 were 36.5% and 37.1%, respectively. The provision for income taxes for the years ended March 31, 20102012 and 2009 differs from the combined statutory rates primarily due to the impact of varying state income2011 were $40.6 million and $32.8 million, respectively. The effective tax rates researchwere 35.0% and development tax credits,34.8% for the qualified production activities deduction,years ended March 31, 2012 and exclusions for Company-owned life insurance proceeds and tax-exempt interest income.2011, respectively. The change in the effective rate for the year ended March 31, 2010 includes an increase in2012 increased slightly as compared to the benefit fromprior year period primarily due to the qualified production activities deduction and a decreaseresearch and development credits and fluctuations in the state incomeeffective tax expense.
rate.
During both the year ended March 31, 20102012 and 2009,2011, we claimedrecognized research and development tax credits of approximately $0.7 million and $1.0 million, respectively.million. The Company also claimed the qualified production activities deduction under Section 199 of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) of approximately $4.1$10.0 million and $2.7$8.1 million during the years ended March 31, 20102012 and 2009,2011, respectively. Research and development credits and the qualified production activities income deduction takencalculated by us involve certain assumptions and judgments regarding qualification of expenses under the relevant tax code provision.


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Comparison of Fiscal Years Ended March 31, 2009 and March 31, 2008
During fiscal year 2010, as a result of certain organizational changes, the composition of the Company’s NextGen Division was revised to exclude the former NextGen Practice Solutions unit and the Company’s RCM entities (HSI and PMP), both of which are now administered and aggregated in the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Following the reorganization, the Company now operates three reportable operating segments (not including Corporate), comprised of the NextGen Division, the QSI Dental Division and the Practice Solutions Division. During fiscal year 2009, we strengthened our position in the RCM market with the acquisitions of HSI and PMP, which closed on May 20, 2008 and October 28, 2008, respectively. Prior to fiscal year 2009, the Company had no material operations in the RCM area and as such, fiscal year 2008 result of operations are not re-casted to reflect the change in reportable segments established in fiscal year 2010. Further for purposes of the presentation of the comparison of fiscal years ended March 31, 2009 and March 31, 2008, the tables and discussion therein are not re-casted to reflect the change in reportable segments. See the presentation of the comparison of fiscal years ended March 31, 2010 and March 31, 2009 for re-casted reportable segment results for fiscal year 2009.
Net Income.  For the year ended March 31, 2009, our net income was $46.1 million or $1.65 per share on a basic and $1.62 per share on a fully diluted basis. In comparison, we earned $40.1 million or $1.47 per share on a basic and $1.44 per share on a fully diluted basis in the year ended March 31, 2008. The increase in net income for the year ended March 31, 2009 was achieved primarily through the following:
• a 31.6% increase in consolidated revenue, including $21.4 million in RCM revenue from our recently acquired entities;
• a 34.7% increase in NextGen Division revenue which accounted for 93.5% of consolidated revenue;
• a shift in revenue mix with increased maintenance, EDI and RCM revenue resulting in a decline in our gross profit margin;
• an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue related to higher than usual legal expenses, primarily as a result of certain legal matters related to intellectual property infringement claims in the NextGen Division and a proxy contest; and
• a decrease in interest income primarily due a greater proportion of funds invested in short-term U.S Treasuries and tax free money market accounts which returned significantly lower interest rates as compared to the prior year.
Revenue.  Revenue for the year ended March 31, 2009 increased 31.6% to $245.5 million from $186.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2008. NextGen Division revenue increased 34.7% to $229.7 million from $170.5 million in the year ended March 31, 2008, while QSI Dental Division revenue decreased by 1.2% during that same period, to $15.9 million from $16.0 million. NextGen Division revenue is inclusive of approximately $15.6 million in revenue from HSI and $8.6 million in revenue from PMP, our two fiscal year 2009 RCM acquisitions.
We divide revenue into two categories, “system sales” and “maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services.” Revenue in the system sales category includes software license fees, third party hardware and software, and implementation and training services related to purchase of our software systems. The majority of the revenue in the system sales category is related to the sale of software. Revenue in the maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services category includes maintenance, EDI, RCM, follow-on training services, annual third party license fees, hosting and other services revenue.
System Sales.  Revenue earned from Company-wide sales of systems for the year ended March 31, 2009 increased 10.0% to $98.8 million from $89.8 million in the prior year.
Our increase in revenue from sales of systems was principally the result of a 9.9% increase in category revenue at our NextGen Division whose sales in this category grew from $87.1 million during the year ended March 31, 2008 to $95.7 million during the year ended March 31, 2009. This increase was driven by higher sales of NextGenehr and NextGenepm software to both new and existing clients, as well as increases in sales of hardware, third party software and supplies and implementation and training services.


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Systems sales revenue in the QSI Dental Division increased to approximately $3.0 million in the year ended March 31, 2009 from $2.6 million in the year ended March 31, 2008.
The following table breaks down our reported system sales into software, hardware, third party software, supplies, and implementation and training services components by division:
                 
     Hardware, Third
  Implementation
    
     Party Software
  and Training
  Total System
 
  Software  and Supplies  Services  Sales 
 
Year ended March 31, 2009                
QSI Dental Division $915  $1,171  $938  $3,024 
NextGen Division  76,525   6,775   12,437   95,737 
                 
Consolidated $77,440  $7,946  $13,375  $98,761 
                 
Year ended March 31, 2008                
QSI Dental Division $360  $1,134  $1,154  $2,648 
NextGen Division  69,276   5,593   12,252   87,121 
                 
Consolidated $69,636  $6,727  $13,406  $89,769 
                 
NextGen Division software license revenue increased 10.5% between the year ended March 31, 2008 and the year ended March 31, 2009. The Division’s software revenue accounted for 79.9% of divisional system sales revenue during the year ended March 31, 2009, compared to 79.5% during the year ended March 31, 2008. Software license revenue growth continues to be an area of primary emphasis for the NextGen Division.
During the year ended March 31, 2009, 7.1% of NextGen Division’s system sales revenue was represented by hardware and third party software compared to 6.4% during the year ended March 31, 2008. The number of customers who purchase hardware and third party software and the dollar amount of hardware and third party software revenue fluctuates each quarter depending on the needs of customers. The inclusion of hardware and third party software in the Division’s sales arrangements is typically at the request of the customer and is not a priority focus for us.
Implementation and training revenue related to system sales at the NextGen Division increased 1.5% in the year ended March 31, 2009 compared to the year ended March 31, 2008. The amount of implementation and training services revenue is dependent on several factors, including timing of customer implementations, the availability of qualified staff, and the mix of services being rendered. The number of implementation and training staff increased during the year ended March 31, 2009 versus 2008 in order to accommodate the increased amount of implementation services sold in conjunction with increased software sales. In order to achieve growth in this area, additional staffing increases and additional training facilities are anticipated, though actual future increases in revenue and staff will depend upon the availability of qualified staff, business mix and conditions, and our ability to retain current staff members.
The NextGen Division’s growth has come in part from investments in sales and marketing activities including a revamped NextGen.com Web site, new NextGen logo, new marketing campaigns, trade show attendance, and other expanded advertising and marketing expenditures. We have also benefited from winning numerous industry awards for the NextGen Division’s flagship NextGenehr and NextGenepm software products and the apparent increasing acceptance of electronic medical records technology in the healthcare industry.
For the QSI Dental Division, total system sales increased 14.2% in the year ended March 31, 2009 compared to the year ended March 31, 2008. We do not presently foresee any material changes in the business environment for the Division with respect to the weak purchasing environment in the dental group practice market that has existed for the past several years.
Maintenance, EDI, Revenue Cycle Management and Other Services.  For the year ended March 31, 2009, Company-wide revenue from maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services grew 51.7% to $146.8 million from $96.7 million for the year ended March 31, 2008. The increase in this category resulted from an increase in maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services revenue from the NextGen Division. Total NextGen Division maintenance revenue for the year ended March 31, 2009 grew 33.3% to $65.7 million from $49.3 million in


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the prior year, while EDI revenue grew 38.4% to $24.8 million compared to $17.9 million in the prior year. RCM grew to $21.4 million primarily as a result of the HSI and PMP acquisitions. Other services revenue for the NextGen Division, which consists primarily of third party annual software license renewals, consulting services and hosting services increased 43.9% to $22.0 million from $15.3 million a year ago. QSI Dental Division maintenance, EDI and other services revenue decreased 4.2% to $12.8 million for the year ended March 31, 2009 compared to $13.4 million in the prior year.
The following table details maintenance, EDI, RCM, and other services revenue by category for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008:
                     
        Revenue Cycle
       
  Maintenance  EDI  Management  Other  Total 
 
Year ended March 31, 2009                    
QSI Dental Division $7,167  $4,766  $  $894  $12,827 
NextGen Division  65,695   24,756   21,431   22,045   133,927 
                     
Consolidated $72,862  $29,522  $21,431  $22,939  $146,754 
                     
Year ended March 31, 2008                    
QSI Dental Division $7,186  $4,564  $  $1,639  $13,389 
NextGen Division  49,269   17,886   871   15,316   83,342 
                     
Consolidated $56,455  $22,450  $871  $16,955  $96,731 
                     
The growth in maintenance revenue for the NextGen Division has come from new customers that have been added each quarter, existing customers who have purchased additional licenses, and our relative success in retaining existing maintenance customers. NextGen Division’s EDI revenue growth has come from new customers and from further penetration of the Division’s existing customer base. The growth in RCM is a result of the HSI and PMP acquisitions and future growth is expected from cross selling opportunities between the customer bases.
Cost of Revenue.  Cost of revenue for the year ended March 31, 2009 increased 42.2% to $88.9 million from $62.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2008 and the cost of revenue as a percentage of revenue increased to 36.2% from 33.5% due to the fact that the rate of growth in cost of revenue grew faster than the aggregate revenue growth rate for the Company.
The following table details revenue and cost of revenue on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008:
                 
  Year Ended March 31, 
  2009  %  2008  % 
 
QSI Dental Division                
Revenue $15,851   100.0% $16,037   100.0%
Cost of revenue  7,582   47.8%  7,545   47.0%
                 
Gross profit $8,269   52.2% $8,492   53.0%
                 
NextGen Division                
Revenue $229,664   100.0% $170,463   100.0%
Cost of revenue  81,308   35.4%  54,956   32.2%
                 
Gross profit $148,356   64.6% $115,507   67.8%
                 
Consolidated                
Revenue $245,515   100.0% $186,500   100.0%
Cost of revenue  88,890   36.2%  62,501   33.5%
                 
Gross profit $156,625   63.8% $123,999   66.5%
                 


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Gross profit margins at the NextGen Division for the year ended March 31, 2009 decreased to 64.6% from 67.8% from the year ended March 31, 2008. Gross profit margins at the QSI Dental Division for the year ended March 31, 2009 decreased to 52.2% from 53.0% for the year ended March 31, 2008.
The following table details the individual components of cost of revenue and gross profit as a percentage of total revenue on a consolidated and divisional basis for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008:
                         
  Hardware,
  Payroll and
             
  Third Party
  Related
        Total Cost of
  Gross
 
  Software  Benefits  EDI  Other  Revenue  Profit 
 
Year ended March 31, 2009                        
QSI Dental Division  7.6%  19.8%  17.1%  3.3%  47.8%  52.2%
NextGen Division  3.5%  14.8%  7.8%  9.3%  35.4%  64.6%
                         
Consolidated  3.7%  15.1%  8.4%  9.0%  36.2%  63.8%
                         
Year ended March 31, 2008                        
QSI Dental Division  8.0%  19.1%  15.7%  4.2%  47.0%  53.0%
NextGen Division  3.8%  11.2%  7.5%  9.7%  32.2%  67.8%
                         
Consolidated  4.2%  11.8%  8.2%  9.3%  33.5%  66.5%
                         
The increase in our consolidated cost of revenue as a percentage of revenue between the year ended March 31, 2009 and the year ended March 31, 2008 is primarily attributable to an increase in RCM revenue, which carries higher payroll and related benefits as a percentage of revenue and higher EDI costs in both divisions, offset by a decrease in hardware and third party software, and other expense as a percentage of revenue. Other expense, which consists of outside service costs, amortization of software development costs and other costs, decreased to 9.0% of total revenue during the year ended March 31, 2009 from 9.3% of total revenue during the year ended March 31, 2008.
During the year ended March 31, 2009, hardware and third party software constituted a smaller portion of consolidated cost of revenue compared to the prior year period in the NextGen Division. The number of customers who purchase hardware and third party software and the dollar amount of hardware and third party software purchased fluctuates each quarter depending on the needs of the customers and is not a priority focus for us.
Our payroll and benefits expense associated with delivering our products and services increased to 15.1% of consolidated revenue in the year ended March 31, 2009 compared to 11.8% during the year ended March 31, 2008 primarily due to the acquisition of HSI and PMP which as service businesses have an inherently higher percentage of payroll costs as a percentage of revenue.
The absolute level of consolidated payroll and benefit expenses grew from $22.1 million in the year ended March 31, 2008 to $37.1 million in the year ended March 31, 2009, an increase of 67.9% or approximately $15.0 million. Of the $15.0 million increase, approximately $4.8 million was a result of the HSI acquisition and $3.9 million was a result of the PMP acquisition. In addition, related headcount, payroll and benefits expense associated with delivering products and services in the NextGen Division increased by $6.1 million in the year ended March 31, 2009 to $25.1 million from $19.0 million in the year ended March 31, 2008. Payroll and benefits expense associated with delivering products and services in the QSI Dental Division remained consistent at $3.1 million in the year ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The application of ASC 718 added approximately $0.2 million and $0.5 million in compensation expense to cost of revenue in the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
As a result of the foregoing events and activities, the gross profit percentage for the Company and both our Divisions decreased for the year ended March 31, 2009 versus the prior year.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses.  Selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended March 31, 2009 increased 32.3% to $70.4 million as compared to $53.3 million for the year ended March 31, 2008. The increase in these expenses resulted from a:
• $2.7 million increase in legal expenses in the NextGen Division;
• $1.7 million increase in compensation expense in the NextGen Division;


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• $1.2 million increase in outside services and consulting services in the NextGen Division;
• $0.9 million increase in advertising in the NextGen Division;
• $6.7 million increase in other selling, general and administrative expenses in the NextGen Division; and
• $3.9 million increase in corporate related expenses.
Approximately $1.5 million of the year over year increase in corporate related expense was related to expenses associated with the proxy contest which occurred in conjunction with the 2008 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. Amortization of identifiable intangibles related to the HSI and PMP acquisitions of approximately $1.0 million and an increase in corporate salaries and related benefits of $0.7 million also contributed to the year over year corporate increase.
The application of ASC 718 added approximately $1.5 million and $2.5 million in compensation expense to selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and is included in the aforementioned amounts. Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue increased slightly from 28.6% in the year ended March 31, 2008 to 28.7% in the year ended March 31, 2009.
Research and Development Costs.  Research and development costs for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 were $13.8 million and $11.4 million, respectively. The increases in research and development expenses were due in part to increased investment in the NextGen Division product line. Additionally, the application of ASC 718 added approximately $0.2 million and $0.8 million in the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, in compensation expense to research and development costs, net of amounts capitalized as software development in those fiscal years. Additions to capitalized software costs offset research and development costs. For the year ended March 31, 2009, $5.9 million was added to capitalized software costs while $6.0 million was capitalized during the year ended March 31, 2008. Research and development costs as a percentage of revenue decreased to 5.6% in the year ended March 31, 2009 from 6.1% in the year ended March 31, 2008.
Amortization of Acquired Intangible Assets.  Amortization expense related to acquired intangible assets for the year ended March 31, 2009 was $1.0 million. The amortization expense relates to the addition of customer relationships and trade name intangible assets, which were acquired through the acquisitions of HSI and PMP during fiscal year 2009.
Interest Income.  Interest income for the year ended March 31, 2009 decreased to $1.2 million compared to $2.7 million in the year ended March 31, 2008 primarily due to:
• a lower amount of investments held in ARS when compared to the prior year;
• larger amounts invested in money market accounts which earned significantly lower interest rates as compared to the prior year; and
• overall comparatively lower amounts of funds available for investment during the year due to payments of $8.2 million and $17.0 million, respectively, for the Company’s acquisitions of HSI and PMP and increased quarterly dividend payments.
Other Income (Expense).  Other income (expense) for the year ended March 31, 2009 consists of gains and losses in fair value recorded on our ARS investments as well as on our ARS put option rights. We recognized a pre-tax unrealized loss on our ARS of approximately $0.7 million. At the same time, we estimated the fair value of our ARS put option rights at approximately $0.4 million.
Included in other income for the year ended March 31, 2008 was approximately $1.0 million, resulting from a gain on life insurance proceeds due to the passing of Gregory Flynn, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the QSI Dental Division. Mr. Flynn participated in our deferred compensation plan which is funded through the purchase of life insurance policies with the Company named as beneficiary. There was no gain or loss recorded on investment securities during the year ended March 31, 2008.
Provision for Income Taxes.  The provision for income taxes for the year ended March 31, 2009 was approximately $27.2 million as compared to approximately $22.9 million for the prior year. The effective tax rates for fiscal 2009 and 2008 were 37.1% and 36.4%, respectively. The provision for income taxes for the years ended


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March 31, 2009 and 2008 differs from the combined statutory rates primarily due to the impact of varying state income tax rates, research and development tax credits, the qualified production activities deduction, and exclusions for Company-owned life insurance proceeds and tax-exempt interest income. The change in the effective rate for the year ended March 31, 2009 includes an increase in the benefit from research and development credits, which was mostly offset by a decrease in qualified production activities deduction and an increase in state income tax expense.
During the year ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, we claimed research and development tax credits of approximately $1.0 million and $0.8 million, respectively. The Company also claimed the qualified production activities deduction under Section 199 of the IRC of approximately $2.7 million and $3.1 million during the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Research and development credits and the qualified production activities income deduction taken by us involve certain assumptions and judgments regarding qualification of expenses under the relevant tax code provision.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The following table presents selected financial statistics and information for each of the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008:2011 (in thousands):

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 Year Ended March 31,
 2010 2009 2008Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
2013 2012 2011
Cash and cash equivalents $84,611  $70,180  $59,046 $105,999
 $134,444
 $116,617
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents $14,431  $11,134  $(982)$(28,445) $17,827
 $32,006
Net income $48,379  $46,119  $40,078 $42,724
 $75,657
 $61,606
Net cash provided by operating activities $55,220  $48,712  $43,599 $68,041
 $78,105
 $70,317
Number of days of sales outstanding(1)  125   125   136 122
 122
 131
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(1) Days sales outstanding is equal to accounts receivable divided by average daily revenue

Cash FlowFlows from Operating Activities
Cash provided by operations has historically been our primary source of cash and has primarily been driven by our net income plus adjustments to add back non-cash expenses, includingsuch as depreciation, amortization of intangibles and capitalized software costs, provisions for bad debts and inventory obsolescence, share-based compensation, changes in fair value of contingent consideration and deferred taxes.
The following table summarizes our Consolidated Statementsconsolidated statements of Cash Flowscash flows for the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008:2011 (in thousands):
             
  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008 
 
Net income $48,379  $46,119  $40,078 
Non-cash expenses  16,152   17,719   11,299 
Gain on life insurance proceeds, net        (755)
Tax benefit from exercise of stock options, net     1   65 
Change in deferred revenue  12,528   3,130   5,447 
Change in accounts receivable  (18,944)  (11,369)  (13,811)
Change in other assets and liabilities  (2,895)  (6,888)  1,276 
             
Net cash provided by operating activities $55,220  $48,712  $43,599 
             
 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Net income$42,724
 $75,657
 $61,606
Non-cash expenses42,824
 14,932
 17,243
Change in deferred revenue(17,993) 5,993
 13,211
Change in accounts receivable(7,988) (10,389) (36,094)
Change in other assets and liabilities8,474
 (8,088) 14,351
Net cash provided by operating activities$68,041
 $78,105
 $70,317

Net Income.Income. As referenced in the above table, net income makes up the majority of our cash generated from operations for the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008. The NextGen Division’s contribution to net income has increased each year due to that Division’s operating income increasing more quickly than our Company as a whole.2011.
Non-Cash Expenses.Expenses. Non-cash expenses include depreciation, amortization of intangibles and amortization of capitalized software costs, provisions for bad debts and inventory obsolescence, share-based compensation, changes in fair value of contingent consideration, impairment of goodwill and deferred taxes. Total non-cash expenses were $16.2$42.8 million $17.7, $14.9 million and $11.3$17.2 million for the years ended March 31, 2010,


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20092013, 2012 and 2008,2011, respectively.
The change$27.9 million increase in non-cash expenses for the year ended March 31, 20102013 as compared to the same prior year period is primarily due to $17.4 million related to the impairment of goodwill, as well as increases of approximately $1.7 million in depreciation, $1.4 million of amortization of capitalized software costs, $1.2 million of bad debt expense, $3.1 million of amortization of other intangibles, a $0.1 million increase in the provision for inventory obsolescence, $4.3 million of excess tax benefit from share-based compensation and $1.3 million in fair value adjustments for contingent consideration, partially offset by a $1.0 million decrease in share-based compensation and a $1.5 million increase in deferred income tax benefit.
The $2.3 million decrease in non-cash expenses for the year ended March 31, 2012 as compared to the prior year period is primarily related to an increaseincreases of approximately $0.8$0.9 million in depreciation, $0.8$1.2 million of amortization of capitalized software costs, $0.7$1.2 million of amortization of other intangibles, and $1.4$1.9 million in the allowance for bad debt expense and a $0.1 million loss on disposal of fixed assets, offset by a $0.4 million decrease of $5.2in share-based compensation, a $0.8 million decrease in fair value adjustments for contingent consideration, a $2.6 million increase in excess tax benefit from share-based compensation and a $3.8 million increase in deferred income tax expense.benefit.
Tax Benefits From Stock Options.  Tax benefitsDeferred Revenue. Cash from the exerciseoperations was negatively impacted by a decrease in deferred revenues of stock options were $1.6approximately $18.0 million $3.4 million and $1.4 million for the yearsyear ended March 31, 2010, 20092013 versus an increase of $6.0 million and 2008, respectively. Our application of ASC 718 required excess tax benefits to be reclassed to financing activities, resulting in a corresponding decrease in our net cash provided by operating activities of $1.6$13.2 million $3.4 million and $1.3 million in the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092012 and 2008,2011, respectively.
Deferred Revenue.  Cash from operations benefited significantly from increases The decline in deferred revenue was primarily due to an increaselower deferred implementation services, which was related to a decline in system sales during the period. Deferred implementation revenue was also impacted by a change in the volume ofCompany's standard payment terms for implementation and maintenance services invoiced byservices. During the NextGen Division which had not yet been rendered or recognized as revenue. This benefit is offset by the increase in unpaid deferred revenue. Deferred revenue grew by approximately $12.5 million for the yearquarter ended March 31, 2010 versus growth2012, the Company modified its standard payment terms for implementation services sold in conjunction with software to separate license fee payments from services and to bill for services as such services are provided. This change results in implementation service fees not being recorded as both accounts receivable and deferred revenue upon the execution of $3.1 milliona contract. In future periods, deferred implementation and $5.4 million for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008, resultingtraining revenue is not expected to be as significant due to this change in increases to cash provided by operating activities for the respective periods.standard payment terms.
Accounts Receivable. Accounts receivable grew by approximately $18.9$8.0 million $11.4, $10.4 million and $13.8$36.1 million for the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008,2011, respectively. The increase in accounts receivable in the periods is primarily due to the following factors:
• NextGen Division revenue grew 13.6%, 19.6% and 21.3%
Consolidated revenue grew 7.1%, 21.6% and 21.1% for the years ended March 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively;
• Turnover of accounts receivable is generally slower in the NextGen Division due to the fact that the systems sales related revenue have longer payment terms, generally up to one year, which historically have accounted for a major portion of NextGen Division sales;
• The Opus acquisition added approximately $2.1 million of accounts receivable as of March 31, 2010; and
• We experienced an increase in the volume of undelivered services billed in advance by the NextGen Division which were unpaid as of the end of each period and included in accounts receivable. This resulted in an increase in both deferred revenue and accounts receivable of approximately $9.5 million, $1.2 million and $4.9 million for the years ended March 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
The turnover of accounts receivable measured in terms of days sales outstanding (“DSO”) fluctuated during the year, but remained consistent at 125 days during the yearyears ended March 31, 20102013, 2012 and 2011, respectively;

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Accounts receivable growth was partially offset by a smaller amount of services sold in advance of being rendered. This is a result of the Company modifying its standard payment terms for implementation services sold in conjunction with software to separate license fee payments from services and instead billing for services as compared to the prior year.
If amounts includedservices are incurred. This change results in implementation service fees not being recorded as both accounts receivable and deferred revenue were netted, our turnoverupon the execution of accounts receivable expressed as DSO would be 79 days as of March 31, 2010 and 83 days as of March 31, 2009. a contract;
Provided turnover of accounts receivable, deferred revenue and profitability remain consistent with the 2013 fiscal year, ended March 31, 2010, we anticipate being able to continue to generategenerating cash from operations during fiscal 2011year 2014 primarily from our net income.
Other Assets and Liabilities. Cash from operations in the year ended March 31, 2013 was positively impacted by a net $8.5 million increase in other assets and liabilities compared to a net decrease of $8.1 million for the year ended March 31, 2012. For the year ended March 31, 2013, the $8.5 million change in other assets and liabilities is primarily the result of an increase in accounts payable of $6.2 million, an increase of $4.7 million in other current and non-current liabilities primarily due to contingent consideration and other acquisition related liabilities in the current period, partially offset by a $2.4 million net decrease in all other assets and liabilities.
Cash flows from investing activitiesoperations in the year ended March 31, 2012 was negatively impacted by a net $8.1 million decrease in other assets and liabilities compared to a net increase of $14.4 million for the year ended March 31, 2011. For the year ended March 31, 2012, the $8.1 million change in other assets and liabilities is primarily the result of an decrease in accounts payable of $2.2 million, an increase in income tax receivable of $2.6 million, a decrease in other current assets of $3.0 million, and a net decrease of $0.3 million for all other assets and liabilities.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities for the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 20082011 was $13.9$53.6 million $19.4, $34.9 million and $30.2$10.6 million, respectively. The decrease in cash used in investing activities forDuring the year ended March 31, 2010 is due mainly to the fact that we acquired2013 cash balancesflows from investing consists of $2.0 million from the acquisition of Opus whereas for the year ended March 31, 2009, we hadnet cash paid approximately $8.2 million and $17.0 million for the acquisitions of HSIMatrix and PMP,Poseidon of $5.1 million and $2.0 million, respectively, offset by proceeds fromin addition to increases of $29.5 million and $10.0 million, respectively, for capitalized software and equipment and improvements and $7.1 million for the salepurchase of marketable securities of $14.8 million. Other net cash outflows duringsecurities.
During the year ended March 31, 2010 include payments2012, cash flows from investing primarily consists of $0.3net cash paid for the acquisitions of IntraNexus, CQI and ViaTrack of $3.3 million, $2.5 million and $5.7 million, respectively, in addition to increases of $13.1 million and $10.3 million, respectively for eachcapitalized software and equipment and improvements.
During the year ended March 31, 2011, $17.2 million of our two fiscal year 2010 acquisitions, Opus and Sphere, and paymentcash was used for net additions of contingent consideration related to the PMP acquisition of $3.0 million as well as additions to equipment and improvements and capitalized software costs totaling $12.9 million.and $1.1 million for the purchase of marketable securities, offset by proceeds of $7.7 million received from the sale of our ARS investments.


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Cash flowsFlows from financing activitiesFinancing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities for the years ended March 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 was $42.9 million, $25.4 million and $27.7 million, respectively. During the year ended March 31, 2010 was $26.8 million and consisted of dividends paid to shareholders totaling $34.3 million, offset by2013, we received proceeds of $5.9$0.9 million from the exercise of stock options. options, paid $41.5 million in dividends to shareholders, and paid $2.4 million in contingent consideration related to acquisitions compared to proceeds of $12.8 million from the exercise of stock options, payment of $41.0 million in dividends to shareholders and payment of $1.3 million in contingent consideration during the year ended March 31, 2012 and proceeds of $5.7 million from the exercise of stock options, payment of $34.7 million in dividends to shareholders and payment of $0.3 million in contingent consideration during the year ended March 31, 2011.
We recorded a reduction in incomeour tax liabilitybenefit from share-based compensation of $1.6$4.1 million and $1.5 million during the years ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively, related to excess tax deductions received from employee stock option exercises. The benefit was recorded as additional paid in capital. The tax benefit from share-based compensation was not significant for the year ended March 31, 2013.
Cash and cash equivalentsCash Equivalents and marketable securitiesMarketable Securities
At March 31, 2010,2013, we had cash and cash equivalents of $84.6$106.0 million. We may use a portion of these funds towards future acquisitions although the timing and marketable securitiesamount of $7.2 million.funds to be used has not been determined. We intend to expend some of these funds for the development of products complementary to our existing product line as well as new versions of certain of our products. These developments are intended to take advantage of more powerful technologies and to increase the integration of our products. We have no additional significant current capital commitments.
On February 10, 2010, we acquired OpusSuch expenditures will be funded from our cash on hand and on August 12, 2009, we acquired Sphere. The Opus purchase price of $20.6 million consisted of approximately $0.3 million in cash plus up to $11.6 million in contingent consideration tied to future performance. The Sphere purchase price of $1.4 million consisted of approximately $0.3 million in cash plus an estimated $1.1 million (but in no event to exceed $2.5 million) in contingent consideration tied to future performance.
On October 28, 2008, we acquired PMP and on May 20, 2008, we acquired HSI. The PMP purchase price consisted of approximately $17.0 million in cash (including direct transaction costs) plus up to $3.0 million in contingent consideration tied to future performance, which has been paid as of March 31, 2010. The HSI purchase price consisted of approximately $8.2 million in cash (including direct transaction costs) plus up to approximately $1.7 million in contingent consideration tied to future performance.
flows from operations.
In January 2007, our Board of Directors adopted a policy whereby we intend to pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share on our outstanding common stock, subject to further Board review and approval and the establishment of record and distribution dates by our Board of Directors prior to the declaration of each such quarterly dividend. In August 2008, our Board of Directors increased the quarterly dividend to $0.30 per share. We anticipate that future quarterly dividends, if and when declared by our Board of Directors pursuant to this policy, would likely be distributable on or about the fifth day of each of the months of October, January, April and July.
On May 26, 2010,22, 2013, the Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30$0.175 per share on our outstanding shares of common stock, payable to shareholders of record as of June 17, 201014, 2013 with an expected distribution date on or about July 6, 2010.5, 2013.


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TheOur Board of Directors declared the following dividends have been declared induring the 2010, 2009, and 2008 fiscal years on the dates indicated:periods presented (stock split adjusted):

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      Dividend
Board Approval Date
 
Record Date
 
Payment Date
 Amount
 
Fiscal year 2010
        
January 27, 2010 March 23, 2010 April 5, 2010 $0.30 
October 28, 2009 December 23, 2009 January 5, 2010  0.30 
July 23, 2009 September 25, 2009 October 5, 2009  0.30 
May 27, 2009 June 12, 2009 July 6, 2009  0.30 
Fiscal year 2009
        
January 28, 2009 March 11, 2009 April 3, 2009 $0.30 
October 30, 2008 December 15, 2008 January 5, 2009  0.30 
August 4, 2008 September 15, 2008 October 1, 2008  0.30 
May 29, 2008 June 15, 2008 July 2, 2008  0.25 
Fiscal year 2008
        
January 30, 2008 March 14, 2008 April 7, 2008 $0.25 
October 25, 2007 December 14, 2007 January 7, 2008  0.25 
July 31, 2007 September 14, 2007 October 5, 2007  0.25 
May 31, 2007 June 15, 2007 July 5, 2007  0.25 
Declaration Date Record Date Payment Date Per Share Dividend
May 24, 2012 June 15, 2012 July 3, 2012 $0.175
July 25, 2012 September 14, 2012 October 5, 2012 0.175
October 25, 2012 December 14, 2012 December 28, 2012 0.175
January 23, 2013 March 15, 2013 April 5, 2013 0.175
Fiscal year 2013     $0.700
May 25, 2011 June 17, 2011 July 5, 2011 $0.175
July 27, 2011 September 19, 2011 October 5, 2011 0.175
October 26, 2011 December 20, 2011 January 5, 2012 0.175
January 25, 2012 March 20, 2012 April 5, 2012 0.175
Fiscal year 2012     $0.700
May 26, 2010 June 17, 2010 July 6, 2010 $0.150
July 28, 2010 September 17, 2010 October 5, 2010 0.150
October 25, 2010 December 17, 2010 January 5, 2011 0.150
January 26, 2011 March 17, 2011 April 5, 2011 0.175
Fiscal year 2011     $0.625

Management believes that its cash and cash equivalents on hand at March 31, 2010,2013, together with its marketable securities and cash flows from operations, if any, will be sufficient to meet its working capital and capital expenditure requirements as well as any dividends to be paid in the ordinary course of business for the remainder of fiscal year 2011.2014.
Contractual Obligations
Contractual Obligations.The following table summarizes our significant contractual obligations all of which relate to operating leases, at March 31, 20102013 and the effect that such obligations are expected to have on our liquidity and cash in future periods:
     
Year Ended March 31,    
2011 $4,413 
2012  4,565 
2013  4,577 
2014  3,963 
2015 and beyond  7,215 
     
  $24,733 
     
  For the year ended March 31,
Contractual ObligationsTotal20142015201620172018 and beyond
Operating lease obligations$32,848
$8,152
$7,043
$6,519
$4,595
$6,539
Contingent consideration and other acquisition related liabilities3,050
1,778
646
313
313

Total$35,898
$9,930
$7,689
$6,832
$4,908
$6,539

New Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note 2, of our Consolidated Financial Statements, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies”Policies,” of our notes to consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Report for a discussion of new accounting standards.

ITEM 7A.
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISKS
We currently maintain investmentsour cash in very liquid short term assets including tax exempt municipal ARS which are classified as current and non-current marketabletaxable money market funds and short-term U.S. Treasury securities onwith maturities of 90 days or less at the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets. A small portiontime of purchase.

ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
See our portfolio is invested in closed-end funds which invest in tax exempt municipal ARS. At March 31, 2010, we had approximately $7.2 million of ARS on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The ARS are rated by one or more national rating agencies and have contractual terms of up to 30 years but generally have interest rate reset dates that occur every 7, 28 or 35 days.
Despite the underlying long-term maturity of ARS, such securities were priced and subsequently traded as short-term investments because of the interest rate reset feature. If there are insufficient buyers, the auction is said to “fail” and the holders are unable to liquidate the investments through auction. A failed auction does not result in a


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default of the debt instrument. The securities will continue to accrue interest and be auctioned until the auction succeeds, the issuer calls the securities, or the securities mature. In February 2008, we began to experience failed auctions on our ARS and auction rate preferred securities. To determine their estimated fair values at March 31, 2010, factors including credit quality, the likelihood of redemption, and yields or spreads of fixed rate municipal bonds or other trading instruments issued by the same or comparable issuers, were considered. Based on our ability to access our cash and other short-term investments, our expected operating cash flows, and our other sources of cash, we do not anticipate the current lack of liquidity on these investments to have a material impact on ourconsolidated financial condition or results of operation.
ITEM 8.FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Our Consolidated Financial Statementsstatements identified in the Index to Financial Statements appearing under “Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules” of this Report are incorporated herein by reference to Item 15.Report.

ITEM 9.
ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
None.

ITEM 9A.
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively) have concluded, based on their evaluation as of March 31, 2010,2013, that the design and operation of our “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined inRule 13a-15(e) and15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) are effective to provide reasonable assurance that

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information required to be disclosed by us in the reports filed or submitted by us under the Security Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding whether or not disclosure is required.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined inRule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Our internal control over financial reporting is supported by written policies and procedures, that:
(1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets;
(2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of our company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors; and
(3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.
(1)pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets;
(2)provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of our company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors; and
(3)provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risks that


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controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Management of the Company has assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 20102013 in making our assessment of internal control over financial reporting, management used the criteria set forth inInternal Control — Integrated Frameworkissued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on our evaluation, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of March 31, 2010.2013.
The effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 20102013 has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which appears herein.contained in Item 15 of Part IV of this Report, "Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules."
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
During the quarter ended March 31, 2010, there were noOn April 1, 2012, we implemented a corporate-wide Enterprise Resource Planning ("ERP") system. Our new ERP system will standardize and automate business processes, improve operational and financial performance, and enhance internal controls. The implementation of our new ERP system has resulted in changes into our “internal controlbusiness processes and internal controls over financial reporting” (as defined inRule 13a-15(f) underreporting. The key controls surrounding the Exchange Act) that have materially affected, orERP system are reasonably likelybeing identified and are subject to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.Sarbanes-Oxley testing.

ITEM 9B.
ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
None.

PART III

ITEM 10.
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The information required by Item 10 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement for our 20102013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be filed with the Commission.SEC.

ITEM 11.
ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The information required by Item 11 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement for our 20102013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be filed with the Commission.SEC.

ITEM 12.SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED SHAREHOLDER
ITEM 12.  SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
The information required by Item 12 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement for our 20102013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be filed with the Commission.SEC.

ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

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ITEM 13.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
The information required by Item 13 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement for our 20102013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be filed with the Commission.SEC.

ITEM 14.
ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The information required by Item 14 is incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement for our 20102013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to be filed with the Commission.SEC.


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PART IV

ITEM 15. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
ITEM 15.EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULESPage
(a) 
(1) Index to Financial Statements:
 
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(2) The following supplementary financial statement schedule of Quality Systems, Inc., required to be included in Item 15(a)(2) on Form10-K is filed as part of this Report.
  
• (2) The following supplementary financial statement schedule of Quality Systems, Inc., required to be included in Item 15(a)(2) on Form 10-K is filed as part of this Report.
  
98Schedules other than that listed above have been omitted since they are either not required, not applicable, or because the information required is included in the Consolidated Financial Statements or the notes thereto. 
(3) The exhibits listed in the Index to Exhibits hereof are attached hereto or incorporated herein by reference and filed as a part of this Report.


Schedules other than that listed above have been omitted since they are either not required, not applicable, or because the information required is included in the Consolidated Financial Statements or the notes thereto.
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(3) The exhibits listed in the Index to Exhibits hereof are attached hereto or incorporated herein by reference and filed as a partTable of this Report.Contents


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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
     
Exhibit
  
Number
 
Description
 
 3.1 Restated Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California on September 8, 1989, are hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement onForm S-1 (RegistrationNo. 333-00161) filed January 11, 1996.
 3.2 Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California effective March 4, 2005, is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1.1 of the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2005.
 3.3 Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California effective October 6, 2005 is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.01 of the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed October 11, 2005.
 3.4 Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California effective March 3, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed March 6, 2006.
 3.5 Amended and Restated Bylaws of Quality Systems, Inc., effective October 30, 2008, are hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed October 31, 2008.
 10.1* Amended and Restated 1998 Stock Option Plan is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10.1 of the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2005.
 10.2* Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement for Amended and Restated 1998 Stock Option Plan is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Quarterly Report onForm 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2004.
 10.3* Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement for Amended and Restated 1998 Stock Option Plan is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10Q for the quarter ended September 20, 2004.
 10.4* 2005 Stock Option and Incentive Plan is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.01 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed October 5, 2005.
 10.5* Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement for 2005 Stock Incentive Plan is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed June 5, 2007.
 10.6* Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement for 2005 Stock Incentive Plan is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed June 5, 2007.
 10.7* 1993 Deferred Compensation Plan is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-KSB for the year ended March 31, 1994.
 10.8* 1998 Employee Stock Contribution Plan is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement onForm S-8 (RegistrationNo. 333-63131).
 10.9* Form of Second Amended and Restated Indemnification Agreement for directors and executive officers is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed on February 2, 2010.
 10.10 Lease Agreement between Company and Tower Place, L.P. dated November 15, 2000, commencing February 5, 2001 is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2001.
 10.11 Fourth Amendment to lease agreement between the Company and Tower Place, L.P. dated September 22, 2005 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.24 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2006.
 10.12 Fifth Amendment to lease agreement between the Company and Tower Place, L.P. dated January 31, 2007 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2007.
 10.13 Lease Agreement between the Company and HUB Properties LLC dated May 8, 2002 is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2003.


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Exhibit
  
Number
 
Description
 
 10.14 Second Amendment to Office Lease agreement between the Company and HUB Properties LLC dated February 14, 2006 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.25 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2006.
 10.15 Amended and Restated Second Amendment to Office Lease agreement between the Company and HUB Properties LLC dated May 31, 2006 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.17 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2007.
 10.16 Lease agreement between the Company and Von Karman Michelson Corporation dated September 6, 2005 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.23 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2006.
 10.17 Office lease between the Company and SLTS Grand Avenue, L.P. dated May 3, 2006 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2007.
 10.18* Board Service Agreement between the Company and Patrick Cline is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2.1 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K dated May 31, 2005.
 10.19* Director Compensation Program is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed February 2, 2010.
 10.20 Settlement Agreement dated as of August 8, 2006 between the registrant and Ahmed Hussein is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed August 9, 2006.
 10.21* Description of Compensation Program for Named Executive Officers for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2010 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed June 1, 2009.
 10.22 Agreement and Plan of Merger dated May 16, 2008 by and among Quality Systems, Inc., Bud Merger Sub, LLC and Lackland Acquisition II, LLC, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.27 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2008.
 10.23 Office lease between the Company and Lakeshore Towers Limited Partnership Phase II, a California limited partnership, dated October 18, 2007, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.28 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2008.
 10.24 Standard Service Center Lease Agreement between the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lackland Acquisition II, LLC, dated November 28, 2001, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.29 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2008.
 10.25 First Amendment to Standard Service Center Lease Agreement between the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lackland Acquisition II, LLC, dated August 17, 2005, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.30 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2008.
 10.26 Standard Service Center Lease Agreement between the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and InfoNow Solutions of St. Louis, LLC, dated November 28, 2001, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.31 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2008.
 10.27 Second Amendment to Service Center Lease Agreement between the TM Properties, LLC, successor to the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lackland Acquisition II, LLC, dated August 17, 2005, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.32 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2008.
 10.28 Assignment of Lease between InfoNow Solutions of St. Louis, Lackland Acquisition II, LLC and TM Properties, LLC dated August 17, 2005, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.33 to the registrant’s Annual Report onForm 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2008.
 10.29 Agreement and Plan of Merger dated October 15, 2008 by and among (i) Quality Systems, Inc. (ii) NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc. (iii) Ruth Merger Sub, Inc. (iv) Practice Management Partners, Inc. and (v) certain shareholders set forth therein, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Quarterly Report onForm 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2008.

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Exhibit
  
Number
 
Description
 
 10.30 First Amendment to Lease Agreement between Hill Management Services, Inc. and Practice Management Partners, Inc., dated January 15, 2008, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the registrant’s Quarterly Report onForm 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2008.
 10.31 First Amendment to Sublease Agreement between RehabCare Group, Inc. and Practice Management Partners Inc., dated January 15 2008, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the registrant’s Quarterly Report onForm 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2008.
 10.32 Third Amendment to Lease Agreement between Pinecrest LLC and Practice Management Partners, Inc., dated April 30, 2007, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the registrant’s Quarterly Report onForm 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2008.
 10.33* Employment Agreement dated August 11, 2008 between Quality Systems, Inc., and Steven Plochocki, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed on August 12, 2008.
 10.34* Outside Directors Amended and Restated Restricted Stock Agreement is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed February 9, 2010.
 10.35* Employment Offer and Terms of Employment dated September 17, 2009, between Quality Systems, Inc. and Philip N. Kaplan, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Current Report onForm 8-K filed on September 21, 2009.
 10.36** Agreement and Plan of Merger dated February 10, 2010, by and among Quality Systems, Inc., OHS Merger Sub, Inc., Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc., and the Shareholders of Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
 10.37** Sixth Amendment to Lease Agreement between the Company and Tower Place, L.P. dated April 1, 2010.
 10.38** Third Amendment to Office Lease agreement between the Company and HUB Properties LLC dated January 1, 2010.
 10.39** Fourth Amendment to Office Lease agreement between the Company and HUB Properties LLC dated March 17, 2010.
 10.40** Third Amendment to Service Center Lease Agreement between the TM Properties, LLC, successor to the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lackland Acquisition II, LLC, dated March 15, 2010.
 10.41** Second Amendment to Lease Agreement between Hill Management Services, Inc. and Practice Management Partners, Inc., dated November 1, 2009.
 10.42** Modification of Lease #1 between Olen Commercial Realty Corp. and NXG Acute Care LLC, dated October 13, 2009.
 10.43** Lease between Olen Commercial Realty Corp. and NXG Acurate Care LLC, dated October 1, 2009.
 10.44** Sublease Agreement between Centex Homes and Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc., dated February   , 2009.
 21** List of subsidiaries.
 23.1** Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm — PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
 23.2** Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm — Grant Thornton LLP.
 31.1** Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required byRule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 31.2** Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required byRule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 32.1** Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Exhibit NumberDescription
3.1Restated Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California on September 8, 1989, are hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-00161) filed January 11, 1996.
3.2Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California effective March 4, 2005, is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1.1 of the registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2005.
3.3Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California effective October 6, 2005 is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.01 of the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed October 11, 2005.
3.4Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California effective March 3, 2006 is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed March 6, 2006.
3.5Amended and Restated Bylaws of Quality Systems, Inc., effective October 30, 2008, are hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed October 31, 2008.
3.6Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of Quality Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of California effective October 6, 2011 is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed October 6, 2011.
10.1*Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement for Amended and Restated 1998 Stock Option Plan is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10Q for the quarter ended September 20, 2004.
10.2*Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement for Amended and Restated 1998 Stock Option Plan is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2004.
10.3*Amended and Restated 1998 Stock Option Plan is hereby incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10.1 of the registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2005.
10.4*Second Amended and Restated 2005 Stock Option and Incentive Plan is incorporated by reference to Appendix to the registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on July 1, 2011.
10.5*Form of Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement for 2005 Stock Incentive Plan is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed June 5, 2007.
10.6*Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement for 2005 Stock Incentive Plan is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed June 5, 2007.
10.7*Employment Agreement with Steven Plochocki is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 12, 2008.
10.8**2009 Quality Systems, Inc. Amended and Restated Deferred Compensation Plan.
10.9*Form of Outside Directors Amended and Restated Restricted Stock Agreement is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 2, 2010.
10.10*Form of Outside Director's Restricted Stock Unit Agreement is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 15, 2011.
10.11*Description of 2013 Director Compensation Program for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2013 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 30, 2012.
10.12*Description of 2013 Executive Compensation Program for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2013 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 30, 2012.
10.13*Employment Arrangement dated September 19, 2012 between Quality Systems, Inc., and Daniel Morefield, is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 25, 2012.
10.14*Form of Indemnification Agreement is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 28, 2013.
10.15*Description of 2014 Executive Compensation Program for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2014 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 28, 2013.

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10.16*Form of Executive Officer Restricted Stock Agreement is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 28, 2013.
10.17*Description of 2014 Director Compensation Program for Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2014 is incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 28, 2013.
21**List of subsidiaries.
23.1**Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm — PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
31.1**Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2**Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1**Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101.INS***XBRL Instance
101.SCH***XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
101.CAL***XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation
101.LAB***XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label
101.PRE***XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation
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*This exhibit is a management contract or a compensatory plan or arrangement.
**Filed herewith.

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***XBRL information is furnished and not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of section 11 or 12 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1933, as amended, is deemed not filed for purposes of section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise is not subject to liability under these section.


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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) 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.

 By:  /s/ Steven T. Plochocki
Steven T. Plochocki 
Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) 
By:  /s/ Paul A. Holt  
Paul A. Holt 
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) 
Steven T. Plochocki
President and Chief Executive Officer
Date: May 26, 2010
30, 2013
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the persons whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Steven T. Plochocki and Paul A. Holt, each of them acting individually, as his attorney-in-fact, each with the full power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this Annual Report onForm 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorney-in-fact and any and all amendments to this Annual Report onForm 10-K.
Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this Report has been signed by the following persons on our behalf in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title 
Signature
Title
Date
     
/s/ Sheldon Razin

Sheldon Razin
 Chairman of the Board and Director May 26, 201030, 2013
Sheldon Razin  
/s/  Steven T. Plochocki

Steven T. Plochocki
Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer) and Director
May 26, 2010
/s/  Paul A. Holt

Paul A. Holt
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer) and Secretary
May 26, 2010
/s/  Patrick B. Cline

Patrick B. Cline
President and Chief Strategy Officer,
and Director
May 26, 2010
/s/  Murray Brennan

Murray Brennan
DirectorMay 26, 2010
/s/  George Bristol

George Bristol
DirectorMay 26, 2010

Ahmed Hussein
Director  
     

Joseph Davis/s/ Steven T. Plochocki
 Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and DirectorMay 30, 2013
Steven T. Plochocki  
     
/s/ Craig Barbarosh

Craig BarbaroshPaul A. Holt
 DirectorChief Financial Officer (Principal Accounting Officer) and Executive Vice President May 26, 201030, 2013
Paul A. Holt
     
/s/ Russell Pflueger

Russell PfluegerCraig Barbarosh
Director May 30, 2013
Craig Barbarosh
/s/ Mark DavisDirector May 30, 2013
Mark Davis
/s/ George BristolDirector May 30, 2013
George Bristol
 Director 
Michael Aghajanian
/s/ Russell PfluegerDirector May 26, 201030, 2013
Russell Pflueger
/s/ Lance RosenzweigDirector May 30, 2013
Lance Rosenzweig


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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRMReport of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Quality Systems, Inc.,

In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated financial balance sheets and the related consolidatedstatements listed in the index appearing under Item 15(a)(1),of comprehensive income, statements of shareholders' equity and statements of cash flow present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Quality Systems, Inc. and its subsidiariesat March 31, 2010,2013 and March 31, 2012, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the year thenthree years in the period ended March 31, 2013 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In addition, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule listed in the index appearing under Item 15(a)(2), presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein for the year ended March 31, 2010 when read in conjunction with the related consolidated financial statements. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2010,2013, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The Company’sCompany's management is responsible for these financial statements, and financial statement schedule, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management’sManagement's Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial statements, on the financial statement schedule, and on the Company’sCompany's internal control over financial reporting based on our integrated audit.audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the auditaudits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our auditaudits of the financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
We also have audited the adjustments to the financial statements for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 to retrospectively apply the change in reportable segments as described in Note 15. In our opinion, such adjustments are appropriate and have been properly applied. We were not engaged to audit, review, or apply any procedures to financial statements for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 of the Company other than with respect to the adjustments and, accordingly, we do not express an opinion or any other form of assurance on the financial statements for the years ended March 31, 2009 and 2008 taken as a whole.

A company’scompany's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’scompany's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’scompany's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Orange County, California
May 28, 201030, 2013


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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Irvine, California
May 27, 2009


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QUALITY SYSTEMS, INC.

(In thousands, except per share data)
         
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
  (In thousands) 
 
ASSETS
Current assets:        
Cash and cash equivalents $84,611  $70,180 
Restricted cash  2,339   1,303 
Marketable securities  7,158    
Accounts receivable, net  107,458   90,070 
Inventories, net  1,340   1,125 
Income taxes receivable  2,953   5,605 
Net current deferred tax assets  5,678   3,994 
Other current assets  8,684   6,312 
         
Total current assets  220,221   178,589 
Marketable securities     7,395 
Equipment and improvements, net  8,432   6,756 
Capitalized software costs, net  11,546   9,552 
Intangibles, net  20,145   8,403 
Goodwill  46,189   28,731 
Other assets  3,647   2,675 
         
Total assets $310,180  $242,101 
         
 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:        
Accounts payable $3,342  $5,097 
Deferred revenue  64,109   47,584 
Accrued compensation and related benefits  8,951   9,511 
Dividends payable  8,664   8,529 
Other current liabilities  16,220   8,888 
         
Total current liabilities  101,286   79,609 
Deferred revenue, net of current  474   521 
Net deferred tax liabilities  10,859   4,566 
Deferred compensation  1,883   1,838 
Other noncurrent liabilities  7,389    
         
Total liabilities  121,891   86,534 
Commitments and contingencies        
Shareholders’ equity:        
Common Stock        
$0.01 par value; authorized 50,000 shares; issued and        
outstanding 28,879 and 28,447 shares at March 31, 2010        
and March 31, 2009, respectively  289   284 
Additional paid-in capital  122,271   103,524 
Retained earnings  65,729   51,759 
         
Total shareholders’ equity  188,289   155,567 
         
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity $310,180  $242,101 
         
 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
ASSETS   
Current assets:   
Cash and cash equivalents$105,999
 $134,444
Restricted cash (Note 1)5,488
 1,962
Marketable securities12,012
 4,987
Accounts receivable, net (Note 9)148,257
 145,756
Inventories710
 1,242
Income taxes receivable
 2,628
Deferred income taxes, net12,140
 10,127
Other current assets12,720
 11,563
Total current assets297,326
 312,709
Equipment and improvements, net21,887
 17,841
Capitalized software costs, net39,781
 19,994
Intangibles, net27,550
 23,259
Goodwill45,761
 60,776
Other assets10,750
 5,773
Total assets$443,055
 $440,352
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY   
Current liabilities:   
Accounts payable$11,501
 $4,532
Deferred revenue65,207
 83,108
Accrued compensation and related benefits11,915
 11,870
Income taxes payable1,480
 
Dividends payable10,418
 10,354
Other current liabilities26,508
 19,568
Total current liabilities127,029
 129,432
Deferred revenue, net of current1,219
 1,293
Deferred income taxes, net
 5,351
Deferred compensation3,809
 3,497
Other noncurrent liabilities3,949
 5,602
Total liabilities136,006
 145,175
Commitments and contingencies (Note 13)

 

Shareholders’ equity:   
Common stock   
$0.01 par value; authorized 100,000 shares; issued and outstanding 59,543 and 59,180 shares at March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively595
 592
Additional paid-in capital179,743
 169,033
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)(11) (45)
Retained earnings126,722
 125,597
Total shareholders’ equity307,049
 295,177
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity$443,055
 $440,352

The accompanying notes to these Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these Consolidated Statements.consolidated financial statements.


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QUALITY SYSTEMS, INC.

(In thousands, except per share data)
             
  Fiscal Year Ended 
  March 31,
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009  2008 
  (In thousands, except per share data) 
 
Revenues:            
Software, hardware and supplies $89,761  $85,386  $76,363 
Implementation and training services  14,376   13,375   13,406 
             
System sales  104,137   98,761   89,769 
Maintenance  89,192   72,862   56,455 
Electronic data interchange services  35,035   29,522   22,450 
Revenue cycle management and related services  36,665   21,431   871 
Other services  26,782   22,939   16,955 
             
Maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services  187,674   146,754   96,731 
             
Total revenues  291,811   245,515   186,500 
             
Cost of revenue:            
Software, hardware and supplies  12,115   13,184   10,887 
Implementation and training services  11,983   10,286   10,341 
             
Total cost of system sales  24,098   23,470   21,228 
Maintenance  13,339   11,859   12,446 
Electronic data interchange services  25,262   21,374   15,776 
Revenue cycle management and related services  27,715   14,674   558 
Other services  20,393   17,513   12,493 
             
Total cost of maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services  86,709   65,420   41,273 
             
Total cost of revenue  110,807   88,890   62,501 
             
Gross profit  181,004   156,625   123,999 
Operating expenses:            
Selling, general and administrative  86,951   69,410   53,260 
Research and development costs  16,546   13,777   11,350 
Amortization of acquired intangible assets  1,783   1,035    
             
Total operating expenses  105,280   84,222   64,610 
             
Income from operations  75,724   72,403   59,389 
Interest income  226   1,203   2,661 
Other income (expense)  268   (279)  953 
             
Income before provision for income taxes  76,218   73,327   63,003 
Provision for income taxes  27,839   27,208   22,925 
             
Net income $48,379  $46,119  $40,078 
             
Net income per share:            
Basic $1.69  $1.65  $1.47 
Diluted $1.68  $1.62  $1.44 
Weighted average shares outstanding:            
Basic  28,635   28,031   27,298 
Diluted  28,796   28,396   27,770 
Dividends declared per common share $1.20  $1.15  $1.00 

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 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Revenues:     
Software and hardware$88,572
 $122,407
 $106,514
Implementation and training services35,008
 26,391
 18,015
System sales123,580
 148,798
 124,529
Maintenance156,771
 138,832
 110,019
Electronic data interchange services59,709
 49,259
 41,022
Revenue cycle management and related services59,219
 45,572
 45,065
Other services60,950
 47,374
 32,728
Maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services336,649
 281,037
 228,834
Total revenues460,229
 429,835
 353,363
Cost of revenue:     
Software and hardware21,750
 18,399
 19,779
Implementation and training services30,896
 21,298
 15,010
Total cost of system sales52,646
 39,697
 34,789
Maintenance20,316
 17,104
 12,948
Electronic data interchange services38,350
 32,422
 27,711
Revenue cycle management and related services43,324
 34,295
 33,815
Other services35,016
 27,705
 18,219
Total cost of maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services137,006
 111,526
 92,693
Total cost of revenue189,652
 151,223
 127,482
Gross profit270,577
 278,612
 225,881
Operating expenses:     
Selling, general and administrative148,353
 128,846
 108,310
Research and development costs30,865
 31,369
 21,797
Amortization of acquired intangible assets4,859
 2,198
 1,682
Impairment of goodwill17,400
 
 
Total operating expenses201,477
 162,413
 131,789
Income from operations69,100
 116,199
 94,092
Interest income (expense), net(107) 247
 263
Other income (expense), net(79) (139) 61
Income before provision for income taxes68,914
 116,307
 94,416
Provision for income taxes26,190
 40,650
 32,810
Net income$42,724
 $75,657
 $61,606
Other comprehensive income (loss):     
Foreign currency translation (net of $0 tax)34
 (3) 
Unrealized loss on AFS securities (net of $0 tax)
 (42) 
Comprehensive income$42,758
 $75,612
 $61,606
Net income per share:     
Basic$0.72
 $1.29
 $1.06
Diluted$0.72
 $1.28
 $1.06
Weighted-average shares outstanding:     
Basic59,392
 58,729
 57,894
Diluted59,462
 59,049
 58,236
Dividends declared per common share$0.700
 $0.700
 $0.625


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The accompanying notes to these Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these Consolidated Statements.consolidated financial statements.


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QUALITY SYSTEMS, INC.

(In thousands)
                         
              Accumulated
    
        Additional
     Other
  Total
 
  Common Stock  Paid-in
  Retained
  Comprehensive
  Shareholders’
 
  Shares  Amount  Capital  Earnings  Loss  Equity 
  (In thousands) 
 
Balance, March 31, 2007  27,123  $271  $65,666  $25,309  $  $91,246 
Exercise of stock options  325   3   4,757         4,760 
Tax benefit resulting from exercise of stock options        1,376         1,376 
Stock-based compensation        3,757         3,757 
Dividends declared           (27,316)     (27,316)
Net income           40,078      40,078 
Unrealized loss on marketable securities, net of tax              (196)  (196)
                         
Balance, March 31, 2008  27,448   274   75,556   38,071   (196)  113,705 
Exercise of stock options  697   7   12,512         12,519 
Tax benefit resulting from exercise of stock options        3,382         3,382 
Stock-based compensation        1,977         1,977 
Common stock issued for acquisitions  302   3   10,097         10,100 
Dividends declared           (32,431)     (32,431)
Net income           46,119      46,119 
Reclassification of unrealized loss on marketable securities, net of tax              196   196 
                         
Balance, March 31, 2009  28,447   284   103,524   51,759      155,567 
Exercise of stock options  238   3   5,852         5,855 
Tax benefit resulting from exercise of stock options        1,576         1,576 
Stock-based compensation        2,073         2,073 
Stock-based compensation related to acquisitions        433         433 
Common stock issued for acquisitions  194   2   8,813         8,815 
Dividends declared           (34,409)     (34,409)
Net income           48,379      48,379 
                         
Balance, March 31, 2010  28,879  $289  $122,271  $65,729  $  $188,289 
                         
 Common Stock 
Additional
 Paid-in
Capital
 
Retained
 Earnings
 Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss 
Total
Shareholders’
Equity
 Shares Amount    
Balance, March 31, 201057,758
 $578
 $121,982
 $65,729
 $
 $188,289
Exercise of stock options310
 3
 5,714
 
 
 5,717
Tax benefit resulting from exercise of stock options
 
 1,524
 
 
 1,524
Stock-based compensation
 
 3,748
 
 
 3,748
Dividends declared
 
 
 (36,214) 
 (36,214)
Net income
 
 
 61,606
 
 61,606
Balance, March 31, 201158,068
 581
 132,968
 91,121
 
 224,670
Exercise of stock options and issuance of restricted stock735
 7
 12,783
 
 
 12,790
Common stock issuance for earnout settlement286
 3
 11,885
 
 
 11,888
Common stock issuance for acquisitions91
 1
 3,931
 
 
 3,932
Tax benefit resulting from exercise of stock options
 
 4,145
 
 
 4,145
Stock-based compensation
 
 3,321
 
 
 3,321
Dividends declared
 
 
 (41,181) 
 (41,181)
Components of other comprehensive income (loss):           
Unrealized loss on AFS securities
 
 
 
 (42) (42)
Translation adjustments
 
 
 
 (3) (3)
Net income
 
 
 75,657
 
 75,657
Balance, March 31, 201259,180
 592
 169,033
 125,597
 (45) 295,177
Exercise of stock options and issuance of restricted stock83
 1
 947
 
 
 948
Common stock issuance for earnout settlement165
 1
 2,999
 
 
 3,000
Common stock issuance for acquisitions115
 1
 4,594
 
 
 4,595
Tax benefit resulting from exercise of stock options
 
 (157) 
 
 (157)
Stock-based compensation
 
 2,327
 
 
 2,327
Dividends declared
 
 
 (41,599) 
 (41,599)
Components of other comprehensive income (loss):           
Translation adjustments
 
 
 
 34
 34
Net income
 
 
 42,724
 
 42,724
Balance, March 31, 201359,543
 $595
 $179,743
 $126,722
 $(11) $307,049

The accompanying notes to these Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these Consolidated Statements.consolidated financial statements.


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QUALITY SYSTEMS, INC.

(In thousands)
             
  Fiscal Year Ended 
  March 31,
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009  2008 
  (In thousands) 
 
Cash flows from operating activities:            
Net income $48,379  $46,119  $40,078 
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:            
Depreciation  3,663   2,911   2,369 
Amortization of capitalized software costs  5,927   5,163   4,149 
Amortization of other intangibles  1,783   1,034    
Gain on life insurance proceeds, net        (755)
Provision for bad debts  3,465   2,089   1,171 
Provision (recovery) for inventory obsolescence  27   (13)  52 
Share-based compensation  2,073   1,977   3,757 
Deferred income tax (benefit) expense  (786)  4,462   (199)
Tax benefit from exercise of stock options  1,576   3,382   1,376 
Excess tax benefit from share-based compensation  (1,576)  (3,381)  (1,311)
Loss on disposal of equipment and improvements     96    
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of amounts acquired:            
Accounts receivable  (18,944)  (11,369)  (13,811)
Inventories  (238)  (88)  99 
Income taxes receivable  3,875   (5,433)   
Other current assets  (2,310)  (1,202)  (89)
Other assets  (894)  (448)  381 
Accounts payable  (1,810)  (299)  (561)
Deferred revenue  12,528   3,130   5,447 
Accrued compensation and related benefits  (1,006)  136   1,825 
Income taxes payable  (1,404)  (1,541)  1,226 
Other current liabilities  846   2,055   (1,232)
Deferred compensation  46   (68)  (373)
             
Net cash provided by operating activities  55,220   48,712   43,599 
             
Cash flows from investing activities:            
Additions to capitalized software costs  (7,921)  (5,863)  (6,019)
Additions to equipment and improvements  (4,935)  (3,218)  (2,113)
Proceeds from sale of marketable securities  425   14,825   91,825 
Purchases of marketable securities        (114,645)
Proceeds from life insurance policy, net        755 
Cash acquired from purchase of Opus  2,036       
Purchase of Opus  (250)      
Purchase of Sphere  (300)      
Purchase of PMP, including direct transaction costs     (16,950)   
Purchase of HSI, including direct transaction costs     (8,241)   
Payment of contingent consideration related to purchase of PMP  (3,000)      
             
Net cash used in investing activities  (13,945)  (19,447)  (30,197)
             


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 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Cash flows from operating activities:     
Net income$42,724
 $75,657
 $61,606
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:     
Depreciation6,928
 5,195
 4,304
Amortization of capitalized software costs9,668
 8,254
 7,091
Amortization of other intangibles7,559
 4,501
 3,255
Provision for bad debts6,885
 5,715
 3,780
Provision for inventory obsolescence193
 43
 27
Share-based compensation2,327
 3,321
 3,748
Deferred income tax benefit(9,565) (8,025) (4,194)
Excess tax benefit from share-based compensation157
 (4,145) (1,524)
Change in fair value of contingent consideration1,272
 
 789
Impairment of goodwill17,400
 
 
Loss (gain) on disposal of equipment and improvements
 73
 (33)
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of amounts acquired:     
Accounts receivable(7,988) (10,389) (36,094)
Inventories339
 (1,024) 1,052
Income taxes receivable2,628
 (2,628) 2,953
Other current assets(4,073) (2,955) (3,746)
Other assets(2,777) (841) (1,817)
Accounts payable6,223
 (2,184) 3,344
Deferred revenue(17,993) 5,993
 13,211
Accrued compensation and related benefits45
 1,623
 1,296
Income taxes payable1,082
 615
 5,054
Other current liabilities9,079
 (1,910) 12,560
Deferred compensation312
 1,009
 605
Other noncurrent liabilities(4,384) 207
 (6,950)
Net cash provided by operating activities68,041
 78,105
 70,317
Cash flows from investing activities:     
Additions to capitalized software costs(29,455) (13,098) (10,695)
Additions to equipment and improvements(9,969) (10,323) (6,804)
Proceeds from disposal of equipment and improvements
 11
 336
Proceeds from sale of marketable securities
 
 7,700
Purchases of marketable securities(7,100) 
 (1,120)
Cash acquired from purchase of ViaTrack
 10
 
Purchase of ViaTrack
 (5,710) 
Cash acquired from purchase of CQI
 222
 
Purchase of CQI
 (2,737) 
Purchase of IntraNexus
 (3,279) 
Purchase of Poseidon(2,033) 
 
Purchase of Matrix(5,073) 
 
Net cash used in investing activities(53,630) (34,904) (10,583)
Cash flows from financing activities:     
Excess tax benefit from share-based compensation84
 4,145
 1,524
Proceeds from exercise of stock options948
 12,789
 5,717
Dividends paid(41,535) (40,989) (34,716)
Payment of contingent consideration related to acquisitions(2,353) (1,319) (253)
Net cash used in financing activities(42,856) (25,374) (27,728)
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents(28,445) 17,827
 32,006
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period134,444
 116,617
 84,611
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$105,999
 $134,444
 $116,617
QUALITY SYSTEMS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS — (Continued)
(In thousands)
             
  Fiscal Year Ended 
  March 31,
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009  2008 
  (In thousands) 
 
Cash flows from financing activities:            
Excess tax benefit from share-based compensation  1,576   3,381   1,311 
Proceeds from exercise of stock options  5,855   12,519   4,760 
Dividends paid  (34,275)  (30,763)  (20,455)
Loan repayment     (3,268)   
             
Net cash used in financing activities  (26,844)  (18,131)  (14,384)
             
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents  14,431   11,134   (982)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year  70,180   59,046   60,028 
             
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year $84,611  $70,180  $59,046 
             
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:            
Cash paid during the period for income taxes, net of refunds $24,506  $26,455  $20,546 
             
Non-cash investing and financing activities:            
Unrealized gain (loss) on marketable securities, net of tax $  $196  $(196)
             
Issuance of stock options with fair value of $433 in connection with the purchase of PMP $433  $  $ 
             
Effective February 10, 2010, the Company acquired Opus in a transaction summarized as follows:            
Fair value of net assets acquired $32,209  $  $ 
Cash paid  (250)      
Common stock issued for Opus stock  (8,815)      
Fair value of contingent consideration  (11,516)      
             
Liabilities assumed $11,628  $  $ 
             
Effective August 12, 2009, the Company acquired Sphere in a transaction summarized as follows:            
Fair value of net assets acquired $1,453  $  $ 
Cash paid  (300)      
Fair value of contingent consideration  (1,074)      
             
Liabilities assumed $79  $  $ 
             
Effective October 28, 2008, the Company acquired PMP in a transaction summarized as follows:            
Fair value of net assets acquired $  $23,875  $ 
Cash paid     (16,950)   
Common stock issued for PMP stock     (2,750)   
             
Liabilities assumed $  $4,175  $ 
             
Effective May 20, 2008, the Company acquired HSI in a transaction summarized as follows:            
Fair value of net assets acquired $  $20,609  $ 
Cash paid     (8,241)   
Common stock issued for HSI stock     (7,350)   
             
Liabilities assumed $  $5,018  $ 
             
 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:     
Cash paid during the period for income taxes, net of refunds$31,656
 $50,605
 $29,044
Non-cash investing activities:     
Tenant improvement allowance received from landlord$965
 $
 $1,970
Common stock issued at fair value for Opus earnout settlement$
 $11,888
 $
Common stock issued at fair value for ViaTrack earnout settlement$3,000
 $
 $
Effective May 1, 2012, the Company acquired Poseidon in a transaction summarized as follows:     
Fair value of assets acquired$2,551
 $
 $
Cash paid(2,033) 
 
Purchase price holdback(500) 
 
Liabilities assumed$18
 $
 $
Effective April 16, 2012, the Company acquired Matrix in a transaction summarized as follows:     
Fair value of assets acquired$14,587
 $
 $
Cash paid(5,073) 
 
Common stock issued at fair value(3,953) 
 
Purchase price holdback(853) 
 
Fair value of contingent consideration(2,862) 
 
Fair value of non-compete agreement (liability)(1,100) 
 
Liabilities assumed$746
 $
 $
Effective November 14, 2011, the Company acquired ViaTrack in a transaction summarized as follows:     
Fair value of assets acquired$
 $11,048
 $
Cash paid
 (5,710) 
Common stock issued at fair value
 (1,068) 
Purchase price holdback
 (1,187) 
Fair value of contingent consideration
 (2,958) 
Liabilities assumed$
 $125
 $
Effective July 26, 2011, the Company acquired CQI in a transaction summarized as follows:     
Fair value of assets acquired$
 $11,417
 $
Cash paid
 (2,737) 
Common stock issued at fair value
 (2,864) 
Purchase price holdback
 (600) 
Fair value of contingent consideration
 (2,346) 
Liabilities assumed$
 $2,870
 $
Effective April 29 2011, the Company acquired IntraNexus in a transaction summarized as follows:     
Fair value of assets acquired$
 $4,524
 $
Cash paid
 (3,279) 
Purchase price holdback
 (125) 
Fair value of contingent consideration
 (800) 
Liabilities assumed$
 $320
 $

The accompanying notes to these Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these Consolidated Statements.consolidated financial statements.


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MARCH 31, 20102013 and 2009
(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARES AND PER SHARE DATA)
2012
1.  Organization of Business
(In thousands, except shares and per share data)

1. Organization of Business
Description of Business
Quality Systems, Inc. isand its wholly-owned subsidiaries operate as four divisions (each, a "Division") which are comprised ofof: (i) the QSI Dental Division, (ii) the NextGen Division, (iii) the Hospital Solutions Division (formerly Inpatient Solutions) and wholly-owned subsidiaries, NextGen(iv) the RCM Services Division (formerly Practice Solutions). In fiscal year 2011, we opened a captive entity in India called Quality Systems India Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.Private Limited (“NextGen Division”QSIH”), Lackland Acquisition II, LLC dba Healthcare Strategic Initiatives (“HSI”). We primarily derive revenue by developing and Practice Management Partners, Inc. (“PMP”) and most recently NextGen Sphere, LLC and Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (collectively, the Company). The Company develops and marketsmarketing healthcare information systems that automate certain aspects of medical and dental practices, networks of practices such as physician hospital organizations (“PHOs”) and management service organizations (“MSOs”), ambulatory care centers, community health centers and medical and dental schools. The Company also providesschools along with comprehensive systems implementation, maintenance and support and add on complementary services such as revenue cycle management (“RCM”) and electronic data interchange (“EDI”). Our systems and services provide our clients with the ability to redesign patient care and other workflow processes while improving productivity through the Practice Solutions Division.facilitation of managed access to patient information. Utilizing our proprietary software in combination with third-party hardware and software solutions, our products enable the integration of a variety of administrative and clinical information operations.
The Company a California corporation formed in 1974, was founded with an early focus on providing information systems to dental group practices. This focus area would later become the QSI Dental Division. In the mid-1980’s, the Companywe capitalized on the increasing focus on medical cost containment and further expanded itsour information processing systems to serve the medicalambulatory market. In the mid-1990’s, the Companywe made two acquisitions that accelerated itsour penetration of the medical market. These two acquisitionsambulatory market and formed the basis for the NextGen Division. More recently in the last few years, we acquired several companies, which operate under the Hospital Solutions Division, as part of our strategy to expand into the small and specialty hospital market. Today, we serve the Company serves the medicaldental, ambulatory, hospital and dentalRCM services markets through its NextGen Division and QSI Dental Division.
During fiscal year 2010, as a result of certain organizational changes, the composition of the Company’s NextGen Division was revised to exclude the former NextGen Practice Solutions unit and the Company’s RCM entities (HSI and PMP), both of which are now administered and aggregated in the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Following the reorganization, the Company now operates three reportable operating segments (not including Corporate), comprised of the NextGen Division, theour QSI Dental Division, NextGen Division, Hospital Solutions Division and the Practice SolutionsRCM Services Division.
The QSI Dental Division, co-located with the Corporate Headquarters in Irvine, California, currently focuses on developing, marketing and supporting software suites sold to dental and certain niche medical practices. In addition,organizations located throughout the Division supports a number of medical clients that utilize its UNIX based medical practice management software product and Software as a Service, or SaaS model, based NextDDS financial and clinical software.
US.
The NextGen Division, with headquarters in Horsham, Pennsylvania and a significant locationslocation in Atlanta, Georgia, provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory and dental provider organizations.
The Hospital Solutions Division, with its primary location in Austin, Texas, provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory, inpatientrural and dental provider organizations.
community hospitals.
The Practice SolutionsRCM Services Division, with locations in St. Louis, Missouri and Hunt Valley, Maryland, focuses primarily on providing physician practices with RCM services, primarily billing and collection services for medical practices. This Division combines a web-delivered SaaS model and the NextGenepmNextGen® PM software platform to execute its service offerings.
In January 2011, QSIH was formed in Bangalore, India to function as our India-based captive to offshore technology application development and business processing services.
The three Divisions operate largelyhave historically operated as stand-alone operations, with each Division maintaining its own distinct product lines, product platforms, development, implementation and support teams sales staffing and branding. However, there are a growing number of customers who are simultaneously utilizing software or services from more than one of our Divisions. In an effort to encourage this cross selling of our products and services between Divisions, we are in the process of further integrating our ambulatory and inpatient products to provide a more robust and comprehensive platform to offer our customers. The three Divisions also share the resources of the Company’sour “corporate office,” which includes a variety of accounting and other administrative functions. Additionally, there are a small but growing number of clients who are simultaneously utilizing software or services from more than one of the three Divisions.
Acquisitions
On May 20, 2008, the CompanyApril 15, 2012, we acquired St. Louis-based HSI,Matrix Management Solutions, LLC ("Matrix"), a full-service healthcare RCM company. HSI operates under the umbrella of the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Founded in 1996, HSIvalue-added reseller for NextGen Healthcare, that provides RCM


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services, healthcare IT solutions and training, implementation and support centered on NextGen® technology, to providers including health systems, hospitals,its clients nationwide. The acquisition will enable our RCM Services Division to expand its footprint among private and hospital-based physicians in private practice with an in-house team of more than 200 employees, including specialists in medical billing, coding and compliance, payor credentialing, and information technology.groups by leveraging Matrix's RCM expertise. On May 1, 2012, we acquired The Company intends to cross sell both software and RCM services to the acquired customer base of HSI and the NextGen Division.
On October 28, 2008, the Company acquired Maryland-based PMP, a full-service healthcare RCM company. This acquisition is also part of the Company’s growth strategy for the Practice Solutions Division. Similar to HSI, PMP operates under the umbrella of the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Founded in 2001, PMP provides physician billing and technology management services to healthcare providers, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region. The Company intends to cross sell both software and RCM services to the acquired customer base of PMP and the NextGen Division.
On August 12, 2009, the Company acquired NextGen Sphere, LLC (“Sphere”Poseidon Group ("Poseidon"), a provider of financial information systems to the small hospital inpatient market. This acquisition is also part of the Company’s strategy to expand into the small hospital market and to add new customers by taking advantage of cross selling opportunities between the ambulatory and inpatient markets.
On February 10, 2010, the Company acquired Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (“Opus”), a provider of clinical information systems to the small hospital inpatient market. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Opus delivers web-based clinical solutions to hospital systems and integrated health networks nationwide. This acquisition complements and will be integrated with the assets of Sphere. Both companies are established developers of software and services for the inpatient market andemergency department software. Poseidon will operate under the Company’s NextGenour Hospital Solutions Division.
2.  Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Stock Split
On July 27, 2011, the Board of Directors approved a two-for-one split of our common stock and a proportional increase in the number of our common shares authorized from 50 million to 100 million. Each shareholder of record at the close of business on October 6, 2011 received one additional share for every outstanding share held on the record date. The additional shares were distributed October 26, 2011 and trading began on a split-adjusted basis on October 27, 2011. All share and per share amounts in this Report have been restated for all periods presented to reflect the two-for-one split of our common stock.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

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Principles of Consolidation. The Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements include the accounts of Quality Systems, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, which consists of NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Lackland Acquisition II, LLC dba Healthcare Strategic Initiatives, Practice Management Partners, Inc.(“NextGen”), NextGen Sphere,RCM Services, LLC, and Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc.LLC (“Opus”), ViaTrack Systems, LLC (“ViaTrack”), Matrix Management Solutions, LLC ("Matrix"), QSI Management, LLC and Quality Systems India Healthcare Private Limited (“QSIH”) (collectively, the “Company”). All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.
Business Segments. The Company has prepared operating segment information in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 280,Segment Reporting,or ASC 280, which requires that companies disclose “operating segments” based on the manner in which management disaggregates the Company’s operations for making internal operating decisions. See Note 15.14.
Basis of Presentation. The accompanying Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”).
Certain prior yearperiod amounts have been reclassified to conform with fiscal year 20102013 presentation.
References to dollar amounts in the Consolidated Financial Statementconsolidated financial statement sections are in thousands, except for shares and per share data, unless otherwise specified.
Revenue Recognition.  The Company recognizes system sales revenue pursuant to FASB ASC Topic985-605,Software, Revenue Recognition, orASC 985-605.. The Company generates revenue from the sale of licensing rights to its software products directly to end-users and value-added resellers, or VARs. The Company also generates revenue from sales of hardware and third partythird-party software, implementation, training, Electronic Data Interchangeelectronic data interchange (“EDI”), post-contract support (maintenance), and other services, including RCM,revenue cycle management (“RCM”), performed for customersclients who license its products.
A typical system contract contains multiple elements of the above items. FASB ASC Topic985-605-25,Software, Revenue Recognition, Multiple Elements,orASC 985-605-25, requires revenue earned on software arrangements involving multiple elements to beis allocated to each element based on the relative fair values of those


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elements. The fair value of an element must beis based on vendor specificvendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”). The Company limits its assessment of VSOE for each element to either the price charged when the same element is sold separately or the price established by management having the relevant authority to do so, for an element not yet sold separately. VSOE calculations are updated and reviewed quarterly or annually depending on the nature of the product or service. The Company has establishedgenerally establishes VSOE for the related undelivered elements based on the bell-shaped curve method. Maintenance VSOE for the Company’sCompany's largest customersclients is based on stated renewal rates only if the rate is determined to be substantive and falls within the Company’sCompany's customary pricing practices.
When evidence of fair value exists for the delivered and undelivered elements of a transaction, then discounts for individual elements are aggregated and the total discount is allocated to the individual elements in proportion to the elements’elements' fair value relative to the total contract fair value.
When evidence of fair value exists for the undelivered elements only, the residual method provided for underASC 985-605, is used. Under the residual method, the Company defers revenue related to the undelivered elements in a system sale based on VSOE of fair value of each of the undelivered elements and allocates the remainder of the contract price net of all discounts to revenue recognized from the delivered elements. If VSOE of fair value of any undelivered element does not exist, all revenue is deferred until VSOE of fair value of the undelivered element is established or the element has been delivered.
The Company bills for the entire system sales contract amount upon contract execution except for maintenance which is billed separately. Amounts billed in excess of the amounts contractually due are recorded in accounts receivable as advance billings. Amounts are contractually due when services are performed or in accordance with contractually specified payment dates. Provided the fees are fixed or determinable and collection is considered probable, revenue from licensing rights and sales of hardware and third partythird-party software is generally recognized upon physical or electronic shipment and transfer of title. In certain transactions where collectionscollection risk is high, the cash basis methodrevenue is used to recognize revenue.deferred until collection occurs or becomes probable. If the fee is not fixed or determinable, then the revenue recognized in each period (subject to application of other revenue recognition criteria) will be the lesser of the aggregate of amounts due and payable or the amount of the arrangement fee that would have been recognized if the fees were being recognized using the residual method. Fees which are considered fixed or determinable at the inception of the Company’sCompany's arrangements must include the following characteristics:
characteristic:
• The fee must be negotiated at the outset of an arrangement and generally be based on the specific volume of products to be delivered without being subject to change based on variable pricing mechanisms such as the number of units copied or distributed or the expected number of users.
• Payment terms must not be considered extended. If a significant portion of the fee is due more than 12 months after delivery or after the expiration of the license, the fee is presumed not fixed or determinable.
Revenue from implementation and training services is recognized as the corresponding services are performed. Maintenance revenue is recognized ratably over the contractual maintenance period.
Contract accounting is applied where services include significant software modification, development or customization. In such instances, the arrangement fee is accounted for in accordance with FASB ASC Topic605-35,Revenue Recognition, Construction-Type and Production-Type Contracts,orASC 605-35. Pursuant toASC 605-35, the Company uses the percentage of completion method provided all of the following conditions exist:
• the contract includes provisions that clearly specify the enforceable rights regarding goods or services to be provided and received by the parties, the consideration to be exchanged, and the manner and terms of settlement;
• the customer can be expected to satisfy its obligations under the contract;
• the Company can be expected to perform its contractual obligations; and
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The Company measures completion using labor input hours. Costs of providing services, including services accounted for in accordance withASC 605-35, are expensed as incurred.
If a situation occurs in which a contract is so short term that the financial statements would not vary materially from using thepercentage-of-completion method or in which the Company is unable to make reliable estimates of progress of completion of the contract, the completed contract method is utilized.
Product returns are estimated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic605-15,Revenue Recognition, Products,orASC 605-15. The Company also ensures that the otherfollowing criteria inASC 605-15 have been met prior to recognition of revenue:
• the price is fixed or determinable;
• the customer is obligated to pay and there are no contingencies surrounding the obligation or the payment;
• the customer’scustomer's obligation would not change in the event of theft or damage to the product;
• the customer has economic substance;
• the amount of returns can be reasonably estimated; and
• the Company does not have significant obligations for future performance in order to bring about resale of the product by the customer.
The Company has historically offered short-term rights of return in certain sales arrangements. If the Company is able to estimate returns for these types of arrangements, revenue is recognized, net of an allowance for returns, and these arrangements are recorded in the Consolidated Financial Statements.consolidated

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financial statements. If the Company is unable to estimate returns for these types of arrangements, revenue is not recognized in the Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements until the rights of return expire.
expire, provided also, that all other criteria for revenue recognition have been met.
Revenue related to sales arrangements that include hosting or the right to use software stored on the Company’sCompany's hardware is accounted for under FASB ASC Topic985-605-05,Software, Revenue Recognition,Hosting Arrangements,orASC 985-605-05, which requires that for software licenses and related implementation servicesrecognized in accordance to continue to fall underASC 985-605-05,the same revenue recognition criteria discussed above only if the customer must havehas the contractual right to take possession of the software without incurring a significant penalty and it must beis feasible for the customer to either host the software themselves or through another third party. If an arrangement is not deemed to be accounted for underASC 985-605-05,third-party. Otherwise, the entire arrangement is accounted for as a service contract in accordance withASC 985-605-25. In that instance,which the entire arrangement would beis deferred and recognized asover the period that the hosting services are being performed.
From time to time, the Company offers future purchase discounts on its products and services as part of its sales arrangements. Pursuant to FASB ASC Topic985-605-55,Software, Revenue Recognition, Flowchart of Revenue Recognition on Software Arrangements, orASC 985-605-55, suchSuch discounts that are incremental to the range of discounts reflected in the pricing of the other elements of the arrangement, that are incremental to the range of discounts typically given in comparable transactions, and that are significant, are treated as an additional element of the contract to be deferred. Amounts deferred related to future purchase options are not recognized until either the customer exercises the discount offer or the offer expires.
RCM service revenue is derived from services fees, which include amounts charged for ongoing billing and other related services, and are generally billed to the customer as a percentage of total collections. The Company does not recognize revenue for services fees until these collections are made, as the services fees are not fixed or determinable until such time.
Revenue is divided into two categories, “system sales” and “maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services”.services.” Revenue in the system sales category includes software license fees, third partythird-party hardware and software and implementation and training services related to purchase of the Company’sCompany's software systems. Revenue in the maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services category includes maintenance, EDI, RCM services, follow on training and implementationconsulting services, annual third partythird-party license fees, hosting services, Software as a Service ("SaaS") fees and other services revenue.


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Cash and Cash Equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents generally consist of cash, money market funds and short-term U.S. Treasury securities with original maturities of 90 days or less than 90 days.at the time of purchase. The Company had cash deposits at U.S. banks and financial institutions at March 31, 20102013 of which $82,223$105.0 million was in excess of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limit of $250$250,000 per owner. The Company is exposed to credit loss for amounts in excess of insured limits in the event of non-performancenonperformance by the institutions; however, the Company does not anticipate non-performancenonperformance by these institutions.
The money market fund in which the Company holds a portion of its cash invests in only investment grade money market instruments from a variety of industries, and therefore bears relatively low market risk. The average maturity of the investments owned by the money market fund is approximately two months.
Restricted Cash. Restricted cash consists of cash which is being held by HSIthe Company acting as agent for the disbursement of certain state social services programs. The Company records an offsetting “Care Services liability” (see also Note 9) when it initially receives such cash from the government social service programs and relieves both restricted cash and the Care Services liability when amounts are disbursed. HSIThe Company earns an administrative fee which is based on a percentage of funds disbursed on behalf of certain government social service programs.
Marketable Securities and ARS Put Option Rights.. Marketable securities are classified as available-for-sale and are recorded at fair value, based on quoted market rates when observable or valuation analysis when appropriate. Unrealized gains and losses, are included in shareholders’ equity. Realized gains and losses on investments are included as interest income.
The Company’s investments at March 31, 2010 and 2009 are in tax exempt municipal Auction Rate Securities (“ARS”) which are classified as either current or non-current marketable securities on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets, depending on the liquidity and timing of expected realization of such securities. The ARS are rated by one or more national rating agencies and have contractual terms of up to 30 years, but generally have interest rate reset dates that occur every 7, 28 or 35 days. Despite the underlying long-term maturity of ARS, such securities were priced and subsequently traded as short-term investments because of the interest rate reset feature. If there are insufficient buyers, the auction is said to “fail” and the holders are unable to liquidate the investments through auction. A failed auction does not result in a default of the debt instrument. Under their respective terms, the securities will continue to accrue interest and be auctioned until the auction succeeds, the issuer calls the securities or the securities mature. In February 2008, the Company began to experience failed auctions on its ARS.
The Company’s ARS are held by UBS Financial Services Inc. (“UBS”). On November 13, 2008, the Company entered into an Auction Rate Security Rights Agreement (the “Rights Agreement”) with UBS, whereby the Company accepted UBS’s offer to purchase the Company’s ARS investments at any time during the period of June 30, 2010 through July 2, 2012. As a result, the Company had obtained an asset, ARS put option rights, whereby the Company has a right to “put” the ARS back to UBS. The Company expects to exercise its ARS put option rights and put its ARS back to UBS on June 30, 2010, the earliest date allowable under the Rights Agreement.
Prior to signing the Rights Agreement the Company had asserted that it had the intent and ability to hold these securities until anticipated recovery and classified its ARS as held for sale securities on its Consolidated Balance Sheets. By accepting the Rights Agreement, the Company could no longer assert that it has the intent to hold the auction rate securities until anticipated recovery and consequently elected to reclassify its investments in ARS as trading securities, as defined by FASB ASC Topic 320,Investments — Debt and Equity Securities,or ASC 320, on the date of Company’s acceptance of the Rights Agreement. As trading securities, the ARS are carried at fair value with changes recorded through earnings.
To determine the estimated fair values of the ARS at March 31, 2010 and 2009, factors including credit quality, assumptions about the likelihood of redemption, observable market data such as yields or spreads of fixed rate municipal bonds and other trading instruments issued by the same or comparable issuers, were considered. The Company has valued the ARS as the approximate midpoint between various fair values, measured as the difference between the par value of the ARS and the fair value of the securities, discounted by the credit risk of the broker and other factors such as the Company’s historical experience to sell ARS at par. Based on this analysis, the Company recognized a gain of approximately $188 through its earnings for the year ended March 31, 2010. The estimated fair


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value of the ARS as of March 31, 2010 was determined to be $7,158 and is included on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets.
As the Company will be permitted to put the ARS back to UBS at par value, the Company accounted for the ARS put option right as a separate asset that was measured at its fair value with changes recorded through earnings. The Company has valued the ARS put option right as the approximate midpoint between various fair values, measured as the difference between the par value of the ARS and the fair value of the securities, discounted by the credit risk of the broker and other factors such as the Company’s historical experience to sell ARS at par. Based on this analysis, the Company recognized a gain of approximately $80 through its earnings for the year ended March 31, 2010. The estimated fair value of the ARS put option rights as of March 31, 2010 was determined to be $548 and is included on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets in other current assets.
The Company is required to assess the fair value of these two individual assets and to record corresponding changes in fair value in each reporting period through the Consolidated Statements of Income until the ARS put option rights are exercised and the ARS are redeemed or sold. The Company expects that the fair value movements in the ARS will be largely offset by the future changes in the fair value of the ARS put option rights. Since the ARS put option rights represent the right to sell the securities back to UBS at par, the Company will be required to periodically assess the economic ability of UBS to meet that obligation in assessing the fair value of the ARS put option rights.
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. The Company provides credit terms typically ranging from thirty days to less than twelve months for most system and maintenance contract sales and generally does not require collateral. The Company performs credit evaluations of its customersclients and maintains reserves for estimated credit losses. Reserves for potential credit losses are determined by establishing both specific and general reserves. Specific reserves are based on management’s estimate of the probability of collection for certain troubled accounts. General reserves are established based on the Company’s historical experience of bad debt expense and the aging of the Company’s accounts receivable balances, net of deferred revenue and specifically reserved accounts. Accounts are written off as uncollectible only after the Company has expended extensive collection efforts.
Included in accounts receivable are amounts related to maintenance and services which were billed, but which had not yet been rendered as of the end of the period. Undelivered maintenance and services are included on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets in deferred revenue (see also Note 9).
Inventories. Inventories consist of hardware for specific customerclient orders and spare parts and are valued at lower of cost(first-in, (first-in, first-out) or market. Management provides a reserve to reduce inventory to its net realizable value.
Equipment and Improvements. Equipment and improvements are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Repair and maintenance costs that do not improve service potential or extend economic life are expensed as incurred. Depreciation and amortization of equipment and improvements are providedrecorded over the estimated useful lives of the assets, or the related lease terms if shorter, by the straight-line method. Useful lives range as follows:generally have the following ranges:    
l 
Computers and electronic testComputer equipment 3-5 years
l Furniture and fixtures 5-7 years
l Leasehold improvements lesser of lease term or estimated useful life of asset

Costs incurred to develop internal-use software during the application development stage are capitalized, stated at cost, and amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, which is typically seven years. Application development stage costs generally include costs associated with internal-use software configuration, coding, installation and testing. Costs of significant upgrades and enhancements that result in additional functionality are also capitalized, whereas costs incurred for maintenance and minor upgrades and enhancements are expensed as incurred.

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Software Development Costs. Development costs incurred in the research and development of new software products and enhancements to existing software products for external use are expensed as incurred until technological feasibility has been established. After technological feasibility is established, any additional external software development costs are capitalized in accordance with FASB ASC Topic985-20,Software, Costs of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed,orASC 985-20. Such capitalized costs areand amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated economic life of the related product, which is typically three years. The Company provides support services on the current and prior two versions of its software. Management performs an annual review of the estimated economic life and the


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recoverability of such capitalized software costs. If a determination is made that capitalized amounts are not recoverable based on the estimated cash flows to be generated from the applicable software, any remaining capitalized amounts are written off.
Goodwill.  Goodwill is related to the NextGen Division and the HSI, PMP, Sphere, and Opus acquisitions, which closed on May 20, 2008, October 28, 2008, August 12, 2009, and February 10, 2010, respectively (see Notes 5, 6 and 7).Business Combinations. In accordance with FASB ASC Topic350-20,Intangibles — Goodwillthe accounting for business combinations, the Company allocates the purchase price of acquired businesses to the tangible and Other, Goodwill,intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values. The purchase price allocation methodology contains uncertainties because it requires management to make assumptions and to apply judgment to estimate the fair value of acquired assets and liabilities. Management estimates the fair value of assets and liabilities based upon quoted market prices, the carrying value of the acquired assets and widely accepted valuation techniques, including discounted cash flows and market multiple analyses. Unanticipated events or circumstances may occur which could affect the accuracy of our fair value estimates, including assumptions regarding industry economic factors and business strategies.
ASC 350-20,Goodwill. the The Company tests goodwill for impairment annually at the end ofduring its first fiscal quarter, referred to as the annual test date. The Company will also test for impairment between annual test dates if an event occurs or circumstances change that would indicate the carrying amount may be impaired. Impairment testing for goodwill is performed at areporting-unit level. level, which is defined as an operating segment or one level below an operating segment (referred to as a component). A component of an operating segment is a reporting unit if the component constitutes a business for which discrete financial information is available and segment management regularly reviews the operating results of that component. An impairment loss would generally be recognized when the carrying amount of the reporting unit’sunit's net assets exceeds the estimated fair value of the reporting unit. The Company has determined that there was no indication of impairment to its goodwill as of
During the quarter ended December 31, 2012 and subsequently at March 31, 2010.2013, certain events and circumstances indicated the possibility that the carrying amount of goodwill could potentially be impaired. See also Note 6.6 for information regarding the impairment of goodwill at March 31, 2013.
Intangible Assets. Intangible assets consist of capitalized software costs, customer relationships, trade names and contracts and certain intellectual property. Intangible assets related to customer relationships and trade names arose in connection with the acquisition of HSI, PMP, Sphere, and Opus.software technology. These intangible assets wereare recorded at fair value and are stated net of accumulated amortization and impairments. Intangibleamortization. The Company currently amortizes the intangible assets are amortized over their remaining estimated useful lives,periods ranging from 3six months to 9 years. The Company’s amortization policy for intangible assets is based on the principles in FASB ASC Topic350-30,nineIntangibles — Goodwill and Other, General Intangibles Other than Goodwill, orASC 350-30, which requires years using a method that the amortization of intangible assets reflectreflects the pattern thatin which the economic benefits of the intangible assetsasset are consumed. Also, see discussion below regarding the recoverability of long-lived assets, which includes definite-lived intangible assets.
Long-Lived Assets. The Company assesses the recoverability of long-lived assets at least annually or whenever adverse events or changes in circumstances indicate that impairment may have occurred in accordance with FASB ASC Topic360-10,Property, Plant, and Equipment, Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, orASC 360-10.occurred. If the future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the related assets are less than the carrying value of such assets, an impairment has been incurred and a loss is recognized to reduce the carrying value of the long-lived assets to fair value, which is determined by discounting estimated future cash flows.
Management periodically reviews the carrying value of long-lived assets to determine whether or not impairment to such value has occurred and has determined that there was no impairment to its long-lived assets as of March 31, 2010.2013. In addition to the recoverability assessment, the Company routinely reviews the remaining estimated lives of its long-lived assets.
Income Taxes.  The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 740,Income Taxes,or ASC 740. Income taxes are provided based on current taxable income and the future tax consequences of temporary differences between the basis of assets and liabilities for financial and tax reporting. The deferred income tax assets and liabilities represent the future state and federal tax return consequences of those differences, which will either be taxable or deductible when the assets and liabilities are recovered or settled. Deferred income taxes are also recognized for operating losses that are available to offset future taxable income and tax credits that are available to offset future income taxes. At each reporting period, management assesses the realizable value of deferred tax assets based on, among other things, estimates of future taxable income and adjusts the related valuation allowance as necessary. Management makes a number of assumptions and estimates in determining the appropriate amount of expense to record for income taxes. These assumptions and estimates consider the taxing jurisdiction in which the Company operates as well as current tax regulations. Accruals are established for estimates of tax effects for certain transactions and future projected profitability of the Company’s businesses based on management’s interpretation of existing facts and circumstances.
On April 1, 2007, the Company adopted the provisions of ASC 740 related to the accounting for uncertain tax provisions. The adoption of the provisions of ASC 740 did not have a material effect on the Consolidated Financial Statements. As a result, there was no cumulative effect related to adopting ASC 740. However, certain amounts have


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been reclassified in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets in order to comply with the requirements of the statement. See Note 11.
Self-Insurance Liabilities.  Effective January 1, 2010, the Company became self-insured with respect to healthcare claims, subject to stop-loss limits. The Company accrues for estimated self-insurance costs and uninsured exposures based on claims filed and an estimate of claims incurred but not reported as of each balance sheet date. However, it is possible that recorded accruals may not be adequate to cover the future payment of claims. Adjustments, if any, to estimated accruals resulting from ultimate claim payments will be reflected in earnings during the periods in which such adjustments are determined. Periodically, the Company reevaluates the adequacy of the accruals by comparing amounts accrued on the balance sheetsheets for anticipated losses to an updated actuarial loss forecasts and third partythird-party claim administrator loss estimates and makes adjustments to the accruals as needed.
As of March 31, 2010, the The self-insurance accrual was approximately $516, which is included in other current liabilities on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheet.liabilities. If any of the factors that contribute to the overall cost of insurance claims were to change, the actual amount incurred for the self-insurance liabilities would be directly affected.
As of March 31, 2013 and 2012, the self-insurance accrual was approximately $1,336 and $934, respectively, and is included in other current liabilities on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. If any of the factors that contribute to the overall cost of insurance claims were to change, the actual amount incurred for the self-insurance liabilities would be directly affected.
Advertising Costs. Advertising costs are charged to operations as incurred. The Company does not have any direct-response advertising. Advertising costs, which includesinclude trade shows and conventions, were approximately $6,198, $3,459$6,499, $6,254 and $2,580$7,122 for the years ended March 31, 2010, 2009

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2013, 2012 and 2008,2011, respectively, and were included in selling, general and administrative expenses in the Consolidated Statementsaccompanying consolidated statements of Income.comprehensive income.
Marketing Assistance Agreements. The Company has entered into marketing assistance agreements with certain existing users of the Company’s products, which provide the opportunity for those users to earn commissions if they host specific site visits upon the Company’s request for prospective customersclients that directly result in a purchase of the Company’s software by the visiting prospects. Amounts earned by existing users under this program are treated as a selling expense in the period when earned.
Other Comprehensive Income.  Comprehensive income includes all changesForeign Currency Translation. The Indian Rupee is considered to be the functional currency for QSIH. Assets and liabilities are re-measured at the exchange rate on the balance sheet dates. Revenues and expenses are re-measured at weighted average exchange rates in Shareholders’ Equityeffect during a period except thosethe year. Any translation adjustments resulting from investments by owners and distributions to owners. The componentsthis process are shown as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), within shareholders' equity in the consolidated balance sheets. Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are included in other income (expense) in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income. The net of income tax, consist of unrealized losses on marketable securities of $(196) as of foreign currency gain (loss) for the year ended March 31, 2008. There were no other comprehensive income items for the years ended March 31, 2010 or 2009.2013 and 2012 was not significant.
             
  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008 
 
Net income $48,379  $46,119  $40,078 
Other comprehensive income:            
Unrealized loss on marketable securities, net of tax        (196)
             
Comprehensive income $48,379  $46,119  $39,882 
             
Earnings per Share.  Pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 260,Earnings Per Share, or ASC 260, the The Company provides dual presentation of “basic” and “diluted” earnings per share (“EPS”). Shares discussed below are in thousands.
Basic EPS excludes dilution from common stock equivalents and is computed by dividing income available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution from common stock equivalents.


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 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Net income$42,724
 $75,657
 $61,606
Basic net income per share:     
Weighted-average shares outstanding — Basic59,392
 58,729
 57,894
Basic net income per common share$0.72
 $1.29
 $1.06
Net income$42,724
 $75,657
 $61,606
Diluted net income per share:     
Weighted-average shares outstanding — Basic59,392
 58,729
 57,894
Effect of potentially dilutive securities70
 320
 342
Weighted-average shares outstanding — Diluted59,462
 59,049
 58,236
Diluted net income per common share$0.72
 $1.28
 $1.06

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The following table reconciles the weighted average shares outstanding for basic and diluted net income per share for the periods presented:
             
  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008 
 
Net income $48,379  $46,119  $40,078 
Basic net income per share:            
Weighted average shares outstanding — Basic  28,635   28,031   27,298 
             
Basic net income per common share $1.69  $1.65  $1.47 
             
Net income $48,379  $46,119  $40,078 
Diluted net income per share:            
Weighted average shares outstanding — Basic  28,635   28,031   27,298 
Effect of potentially dilutive securities  161   365   472 
             
Weighted average shares outstanding — Diluted  28,796   28,396   27,770 
             
Diluted net income per common share $1.68  $1.62  $1.44 
             
The computation of diluted net income per share does not include 74,962, 440,338966, 335 and 279,752514 options for the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008,2011, respectively, because their inclusion would have an anti-dilutive effect on earningsnet income per share.
Share-Based Compensation.  FASB ASC Topic 718Compensation — Stock Compensation,or ASC 718, requires companies to estimate The Company estimates the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model. Expected term is estimated using historical exercise experience. Volatility is estimated by using the weighted averageweighted-average historical volatility of the Company’s common stock, which approximates expected volatility. The risk free rate is the implied yield available on the U.S Treasury zero-coupon issues with remaining terms equal to the expected term. The expected dividend yield is the average dividend rate during a period equal to the expected term of the option. Those inputs are then entered into the Black Scholes model to determine the estimated fair value. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized ratably as expense over the requisite service period in the Company’s Consolidated Statementsconsolidated statements of Income.comprehensive income.
Share-based compensation is adjusted on a monthly basis for changes to estimated forfeitures based on a review of historical forfeiture activity. To the extent that actual forfeitures differ, or are expected to differ, from the estimate, share-based compensation expense is adjusted accordingly. The effect of the forfeiture adjustments for years ended March 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 was not significant.
The following table shows total stock-basedshare-based compensation expense included in the Consolidated Statementsconsolidated statements of Incomeincome for years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008, respectively:2011:

             
  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008 
 
Costs and expenses:            
Cost of revenue $85  $195  $496 
Research and development  108   242   800 
Selling, general and administrative  1,880   1,540   2,461 
             
Total share-based compensation  2,073   1,977   3,757 
Amounts capitalized in software development costs  (27)  (21)  (39)
             
Amounts charged against earnings, before income tax benefit $2,046  $1,956  $3,718 
Related income tax benefit  (608)  (549)  (969)
             
Decrease in net income $1,438  $1,407  $2,749 
             

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 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Costs and expenses:     
Cost of revenue$201
 $261
 $272
Research and development costs230
 184
 152
Selling, general and administrative1,896
 2,876
 3,324
Total share-based compensation2,327
 3,321
 3,748
Amounts capitalized in software development costs
 
 (2)
Amounts charged against earnings, before income tax benefit$2,327
 $3,321
 $3,746
Income tax benefit(726) (1,236) (1,343)
Decrease in net income$1,601
 $2,085
 $2,403

Sales Taxes.  In accordance with the guidance The Company records revenue net of FASB ASC Topic605-45,Revenue Recognition, Principal Agent Considerations, orASC 605-45, the Company accounts for sales taxes imposed on its goods and services on a net basistax obligation in the Consolidated Statementsconsolidated statements of Income.


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
Use of Estimates.Estimates. The preparation of Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates its estimates, including those related to uncollectible receivables, vendor specific objective evidence, valuation of marketable securities and ARS put option rights, self-insurance accruals and income taxes and related credits and deductions. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.
Newly AdoptedNew Accounting Standards. New accounting pronouncements implemented by the Company during the current year or requiring implementation in future periods are discussed below or in the notes, where applicable.
In September 2009, the FASB issued anfirst quarter of fiscal 2013, the Company adopted new accounting standards updateguidance intended to ASC 740. This update addressessimplify goodwill impairment testing. Under the needrevised guidance, entities testing goodwill for additional implementation guidance on accounting for uncertainties in income taxes, specifically,impairment have the option to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether income tax paid bythe existence of events or circumstances leads to a determination that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If, after assessing the totality of events or circumstances, an entity determines it is attributablemore likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then performing the two-step impairment test would be required. Under the revised guidance, an entity has the option to bypass the qualitative assessment for any reporting unit in any period and proceed directly to performing the first step of the two-step goodwill impairment test. An entity may resume performing the qualitative assessment in any subsequent period. The revised guidance does not change how goodwill is calculated or its owners; what constitutes a tax positionassigned to reporting units, nor does it revise the requirement to test goodwill annually for a pass-throughimpairment. In addition, the revised guidance does not amend the requirement to test goodwill for impairment between annual tests if events or circumstances warrant; however, it does revise the examples of events and circumstances that an entity or a tax-exempt entity; and how to apply the uncertainty in income taxes when a group of related entities comprise both taxable and nontaxable entities. This update also eliminates certain disclosures for nonpublic entities. Since the Company currently applies the standards for accounting for uncertainty in income taxes, this update was effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009.should consider. The adoption of this update did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
Company's financial position, results of operations or cash flows and is discussed further within this footnote.
In August 2009, the FASB issued an accounting standards update to ASC Topic 820,Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, or ASC 820. This update provides clarification that in circumstances in which a quoted price in an active market forfirst quarter of fiscal 2013, the identical liability is not available, a reporting entity is required to measure fair value using one or moreCompany adopted guidance regarding the presentation of comprehensive income. The new standard requires the following techniques: (i) a valuation technique that usespresentation of comprehensive income, the quoted pricecomponents of the identical liability when traded as an asset or the quoted prices for similar liabilities when traded as assets and (ii) another valuation technique that is consistent with the principles of ASC 820. This update also clarifies that when estimating the fair value of a liability, a reporting entity is not required to include a separate input or adjustment to other inputs relating to the existence of a restriction that prevents the transfer of the liability. Additionally, this update clarifies that both a quoted price in an active market for the identical liability at the measurement datenet income and the quoted price for the identical liability when traded as an assetcomponents of other comprehensive income either in an active market when no adjustments to the quoted pricea single continuous statement of the asset are required are Level 1 fair value measurements. This update was effective for the first reporting period beginning after issuance (the Company’s interim period ended September 30, 2009).comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. The adoption of this updateguidance did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
Company's financial statements.
In April 2009, the FASB issued three related accounting provisions intended to providefirst quarter of fiscal 2013, the Company adopted additional application guidance and enhanced disclosures regardingon fair value measurements andother-than-temporary impairmentsintended to clarify the application of securities: (i) FASB ASC Topic820-10-65,Fair Value Measurementsthe existing guidance and Disclosures — Transition and Open Effective Date Information, orASC 820-10-65; (ii) FASB ASC Topic320-10-65,Investments — Debt and Equity Securities — Transition and Open Effective Date Information, orASC 320-10-65; and (iii) FASB ASC Topic825-10-65,Financial Instruments — Transition and Open Effective Date Information, orASC 825-10-65.ASC 820-10-65 provides guidelines for makingdisclosure requirements, as well as change certain fair value measurements more consistent with themeasurement principles presented inASC 820-10.ASC 820-10-65 must be applied prospectively and retrospective application is not permitted.ASC 820-10-65 is effective for interim and annual periods ending after June 15, 2009, with early adoption permitted for periods ending after March 15, 2009. An entity early adoptingASC 820-10-65 must also early adoptASC 320-10-65.ASC 320-10-65 providesrequire additional guidance designed to create greater clarity and consistency in accounting for and presenting impairment losses on debt securities.ASC 320-10-65 is effective for interim and annual periods ending after June 15, 2009, with early adoption permitted for periods ending after March 15, 2009. An entity may early adoptdisclosures surrounding these provisions only if it also elects to early adoptASC 820-10-65. ASC825-10-65 enhances consistency in financial reporting by increasing the frequency of fair value disclosures.ASC 825-10-65 is effective for interim periods ending after June 15, 2009, with early adoption permitted for periods


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ending after March 15, 2009. However, an entity may early adopt these interim fair value disclosure requirements only if it also elects to early adoptASC 820-10-65 andASC 320-10-65.measurements. The adoption of these provisionsthis guidance did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.Company's financial statements.
In April 2009,February 2013, the FASB issued ASC TopicAccounting Standards Update No. 2013-02, 805-20,Business Combinations, Identifiable Assets and Liabilities, and Any Noncontrolling Interest, orASC 805-20.ASC 805-20 amends the guidance in ASC 805 to: (i) require that assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination that arise from contingencies be recognized at fair value if fair value can be reasonably estimated (if fair valueReporting of such an asset or liability cannot be reasonably estimated, the asset or liability would generally be recognized in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 450,Contingencies, or ASC 450), (ii) eliminate the requirement to disclose an estimateAmounts Reclassified Out of the range of outcomes of recognized contingencies at the acquisition date (for unrecognized contingencies, the FASB decided to require that entities include only the disclosures required by ASC 450 and that those disclosures be included in the business combination footnote); and (iii) require that contingent consideration arrangements of an acquiree assumed by the acquirer in a business combination be treated as contingent consideration of the acquirer and should be initially and subsequently measured at fair value in accordance with ASC 805.Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income ASC 805-20 is effective for assets or liabilities arising from contingencies in business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008.
In December 2007, the FASB issued ASC Topic805-10-65-1,Business Combinations — Overall — Transition Related toSFAS No. 141 (revised 2007),Business Combinations(SFAS 141(R)) and SFAS No. 160,Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements — an amendment of Accounting Review Bulletin No. 51, orASC 805-10-65-1, the provisions of which have been incorporated in ASC Topic805-10,Business Combinations — Overall, orASC 805-10, andASC 805-20.ASC 805-10-65-1 retains the fundamental requirements of the original pronouncement requiring that the purchase method be used for all business combinations.ASC 805-10-65-1 defines the acquirer as the entity that obtains control of one or more businesses in the business combination, establishes the acquisition date as the date that the acquirer achieves control and requires the acquirer to recognize the assets acquired, liabilities assumed and any noncontrolling interest (including goodwill) at their fair values as of the acquisition date. In addition,ASC 805-10-65-1 requires expensing of acquisition-related and restructure-related costs, remeasurement of earn out provisions at fair value, measurement of equity securities issued for purchase at the date of close of the transaction and non-expensing of in-process research and development related intangibles. ASC805-10-65-1 applies prospectively to business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008. An entity may not apply it before that date.ASU 2013-02). The Company adoptedASC 805-10 andASC 805-20 and applied the provisions of the pronouncement to the business combinations completed during fiscal year 2010.
In November 2008, the FASB ratified ASC Topic350-30-55,Intangibles — Goodwill and Other, Defensive Intangible Asset, orASC 350-30-55.ASC 350-30-55 clarifies the accounting for certain separately identifiable intangible assets that an acquirer does not intend to actively use but instead intends to hold to prevent its competitors from obtaining access to them.ASC 350-30-55new standard requires an acquirer in a business combinationentity to account for a defensive intangible asset as a separate unitprovide information about the amounts reclassified out of accounting, which should be amortized to expense over the period the asset diminishes in value.ASC 350-30-55 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, with early adoption prohibited.Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income by component. The adoption ofASC 350-30-55 did not have a material this guidance had no impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
In June 2008, the FASB issued ASC Topic260-10-45,Earnings Per Share, Required EPS PresentationCompany's consolidated financial statements, but may have an effect on the Facerequired disclosures for future reporting periods.
Out-of-Period Accounting Adjustments. During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, the Income Statement, orCompany recorded an adjustment which decreased pre-tax income by approximately ASC 260-10-45.ASC 260-10-45$2.6 million concluded that unvested share-based payment awards that contain nonforfeitable rights to dividends or dividend equivalents (whether paid or unpaid) are participating securities and shall be includedcorrect an accounting estimate for commissions, of which $2.1 million originated in years prior to fiscal 2013. Also recorded in the computationsame period was an adjustment increasing pre-tax income by $1.7 million as a result of basic earnings per share (“EPS”) pursuant tocapitalizing R&D labor which had been incorrectly expensed during the two-class method.ASC 260-10-45 became effective on April 1, 2009. Early adoption was not permitted; however, it does apply retrospectively to EPS data for all periods presented in the financial statements or in financial data.first three quarters of fiscal 2013. The Company does not currently have any share-based awards with nonforfeitable rightsbelieve these out-of-period adjustments, separately or in aggregate, are material to dividends or dividend


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equivalents and thereforeASC 260-10-45 did not have an impact on the Company’s EPS data inconsolidated financial statements for the fiscal year 2010ended March 31, 2013 or on EPS forto any prior periods presented in the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements oryears' consolidated financial data.statements.

3. Cash and Cash Equivalents
In April 2008, the FASB finalized ASC Topic350-30-65,Intangibles — Goodwill and Other, General Intangibles Other than Goodwill — Transition and Open Effective Date Information, orASC 350-30-65.ASC 350-30-65 amends the factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension assumptions used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under FASB ASC Topic350-20,Intangibles — Goodwill and Other, Goodwill.ASC350-30-65 applies to intangible assets that are acquired individually or with a group of other assets and both intangible assets acquired in business combinations and asset acquisitions.ASC 350-30-65 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008 and interim periods within those fiscal years. The adoption ofASC 350-30-65 did not have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards.  In January 2010, the FASB issued guidance that requires reporting entities to make new disclosures about recurring or nonrecurring fair value measurements, including significant transfers into and out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements and information on purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements on a gross basis in the reconciliation of Level 3 fair value measurements. The guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2009, except for Level 3 reconciliation disclosures that are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2010. The Company does not expect the disclosure provisions for Level 3 reconciliation to have a significant impact on its Consolidated Financial Statements.
In September 2009, the FASB reached a consensus on Accounting Standards Update, or ASU,2009-13,Revenue Recognition (Topic 605) — Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements, or ASU2009-13, and ASU2009-14,Software (Topic 985) — Certain Revenue Arrangements That Include Software Elements, or ASU2009-14. ASU2009-13 modifies the requirements that must be met for an entity to recognize revenue from the sale of a delivered item that is part of a multiple-element arrangement when other items have not yet been delivered. ASU2009-13 eliminates the requirement that all undelivered elements must have either: (i) VSOE or (ii) third-party evidence, or TPE, before an entity can recognize the portion of an overall arrangement consideration that is attributable to items that already have been delivered. In the absence of VSOE or TPE of the standalone selling price for one or more delivered or undelivered elements in a multiple-element arrangement, entities will be required to estimate the selling prices of those elements. Overall arrangement consideration will be allocated to each element (both delivered and undelivered items) based on their relative selling prices, regardless of whether those selling prices are evidenced by VSOE or TPE or are based on the entity’s estimated selling price. The residual method of allocating arrangement consideration has been eliminated. ASU2009-14 modifies the software revenue recognition guidance to exclude from its scope tangible products that contain both software and non-software components that function together to deliver a product’s essential functionality. These new updates are effective for revenue arrangements entered into or materially modified in fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of these ASUs will have on its Consolidated Financial Statements.
3.  Cash and Cash Equivalents
At March 31, 20102013 and 2009,2012, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $84,611$105,999 and $70,180,$134,444, respectively. Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash, money market funds and short-term U.S. Treasury securities with original maturities of less than 90 days. The money market

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fund in which the Company holds a portion of its cash invests in only investment grade money market instruments from a variety of industries, and therefore bears relatively low market risk.

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4.  Fair Value Measurements
The Company applies ASC 820 with respect to fair value measurements of (a) nonfinancialhierarchy the Company's financial assets and liabilities that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements on a recurring basis (at least annually) and (b) all financial assets and liabilities. The Company adopted the aspects of ASC 820 relative to nonfinancial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value, but are recognized and disclosed at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, prospectively effective April 1, 2009. ASC 820 prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value into the following hierarchy:
Level 1Quoted market prices in active marketswere accounted for identical assets or liabilities;
Level 2Observable inputs other than those included in Level 1 (for example, quoted prices for similar assets in active markets or quoted prices for identical assets in inactive markets); and
Level 3Unobservable inputs reflecting management’s own assumptions about the inputs used in estimating the value of the asset.
The following table summarizes the Company’s financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis in accordance with ASC 820 as of at March 31, 20102013 and March 31, 2009:2012:
                 
     Quoted Prices
  Significant
    
     in Active
  Other
    
  Balance at
  Markets for
  Observable
  Unobservable
 
  March 31,
  Identical Assets
  Inputs
  Inputs
 
  2010  (Level 1)  (Level 2)  (Level 3) 
 
Cash and cash equivalents $84,611  $84,611  $  $ 
Restricted cash  2,339   2,339       
Marketable securities(1)  7,158         7,158 
ARS put option rights(2)  548         548 
                 
  $94,656  $86,950  $  $7,706 
                 
 Balance at March 31, 2013 
Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
 
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
 
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
ASSETS       
Cash and cash equivalents (1)$105,999
 $105,999
 $
 $
Restricted cash5,488
 5,488
 
 
Marketable securities (2)12,012
 12,012
 
 
 $123,499
 $123,499
 $
 $
LIABILITIES       
Contingent consideration related to acquisitions$5,336
 
 $
 $5,336
 $5,336
 $
 $
 $5,336
                 
     Quoted Prices
  Significant
    
     in Active
  Other
    
  Balance at
  Markets for
  Observable
  Unobservable
 
  March 31,
  Identical Assets
  Inputs
  Inputs
 
  2009  (Level 1)  (Level 2)  (Level 3) 
 
Cash and cash equivalents $70,180  $70,180  $  $ 
Restricted cash  1,303   1,303       
Marketable securities(1)  7,395         7,395 
ARS put option rights(3)  468         468 
                 
  $79,346  $71,483  $  $7,863 
                 
 Balance at March 31, 2012 
Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
 
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
 
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
ASSETS       
Cash and cash equivalents (1)$134,444
 $134,444
 $
 $
Restricted cash1,962
 1,962
 
 
Marketable securities (2)4,987
 4,987
 
 
 $141,393
 $141,393
 $
 $
LIABILITIES       
Contingent consideration related to acquisitions$6,556
 $
 $
 $6,556
 $6,556
 $
 $
 $6,556
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(1)Cash and cash equivalents consists of money market funds.
Marketable securities consist of ARS
(2)ARS put option rights are included on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets in other current assets asMarketable securities consists of March 31, 2010.
(3)ARS put option rights are included on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets in other assets as of March 31, 2009.
The fair value of the Company’s ARS, including the Company’s ARS put option rights, has been estimated by management based on its assumptions of what market participants would use in pricing the asset in a current transaction, or Level 3 — unobservable inputs, in accordance with ASC 820, and represents $7,706 and $7,863 or


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
8.1% and 9.9%, of total financial assets measured at fair value in accordance with ASC 820 at March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. Management used a model to estimate the fair value of these securities that included certain Level 2 inputs as well as assumptions, such as a liquidity discount and credit rating of the issuers, based on management’s judgment, which are highly subjective and therefore considered Level 3 inputs in the fair value hierarchy. The estimate of the fair value of the ARS could change based on market conditions. For additional information on cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash or marketable securities, see Note 2.fixed-income securities.
The Company's contingent consideration liability is accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis and is adjusted to fair value when the carrying value differs from fair value. The categorization of the framework used to measure fair value of the contingent consideration liability is considered Level 3 due to the subjective nature of the unobservable inputs used. The fair values of the contingent consideration liability were estimated based on the probability of achieving certain business milestones and management's forecast of expected revenues. See Note 5.
The following table presents activity in the Company’sCompany's financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), as defined by ASC 820, as of and for the year ended March 31, 2010:2013:

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Balance at March 31, 2009 $7,863 
Transfer in/(out) of Level 3   
Proceeds from sale (at par)  (425)
Recognized gain  268 
     
Balance at March 31, 2010 $7,706 
     
 Total Liabilities
Balance at March 31, 2011$915
Acquisitions (Note 5)6,104
Earnout payments(463)
Fair value adjustments
Balance at March 31, 2012$6,556
Acquisitions (Note 5)2,862
Earnout payments (1)(5,354)
Fair value adjustments1,272
Balance at March 31, 2013$5,336
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To determine the estimated fair values(1) Earnout payments comprised of the ARS at March 31, 2010$2,354 in cash and 2009, factors including credit quality, assumptions about the likelihood of redemption, observable market data such as yields or spreads of fixed rate municipal bonds and other trading instruments issued by the same or comparable issuers, were considered. $3,000 in common stock
Non-Recurring Fair Value Measurements
The Company has valued the ARS as the approximate midpoint between variouscertain assets, including goodwill and other intangible assets, which are measured at fair values, measured as the difference between the par value on a non-recurring basis and are adjusted to fair value only if an impairment charge is recognized. The categorization of the ARS and the fair value of the securities, discounted by the credit risk of the broker and other factors such as the Company’s historical experienceframework used to sell ARS at par.
Interest income related to cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities for each of the three years ended March 31, 2010 is as follows:
             
  Year Ended March 31,
  2010 2009 2008
 
Interest Income $226  $1,203  $2,661 
             
5.  Business Combinations
On May 20, 2008, the Company acquired HSI, a full-service healthcare RCM company, and on October 28, 2008, the Company acquired PMP, a full-service healthcare RCM company. The Company accounted for these acquisitions as a business combination using the purchase method of accounting. The purchase price was allocated to HSI and PMP’s tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the respective acquisitions dates. Themeasure fair value of the assets is considered Level 3 due to the subjective nature of the unobservable inputs used. During the year ended March 31, 2013, there were no adjustments to fair value of such assets, except for the intangible assets acquired from Matrix and liabilities assumed represent management’s estimate of fair value.Poseidon as discussed below in Note 5.

5. Business Combinations
During fiscal year 2010,On May 1, 2012, the Company paid $3,000 in cashacquired Poseidon, a leading provider of hospital emergency department documentation and issued stock optionsweb-based electronic medical record solutions. The Poseidon purchase price totaled $2,533. Poseidon operates under the Hospital Solutions Division.
On April 16, 2012, the Company acquired Matrix, a provider of revenue cycle management services, healthcare IT solutions and training, implementation and support centered around the NextGen Division's suite of practice management software and electronic health record solutions. The Matrix purchase price totaled $13,841. The purchase price included contingent consideration payable over an 18-month period with a fair value of $433 as part of a contingent earn-out agreement relating to$2,862, which shall not exceed $4,000. The goodwill associated with this acquisition is deductible for tax purposes. Matrix operates under the acquisition of PMP. The additional consideration was recorded as an increase to goodwill. See Note 6.RCM Services Division.
Acquisition of Sphere
On August 12, 2009, the Company acquired certain assets of Sphere. The Company accounted for this acquisitionthe Matrix and Poseidon acquisitions as a purchase business combination as defined in ASC 805. Under the acquisition method of accounting, thecombinations. The purchase price for each was allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the applicable acquisition date. The fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed represent management’smanagement's estimate of fair value.


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
The purchase price totaled $1,374, including contingent consideration payable over a five year period, consisting of maintenance revenue and license fee payments, estimated at approximately $1,074 based on the probability of achieving certain business milestones, but which in no event shall exceed $2,500. The total purchase price for Sphere is as follows:
     
Cash paid $300 
Contingent consideration  1,074 
     
Total purchase price $1,374 
     
In connection with the acquisition, the Company recorded $275 of intangible assets related to customer relationships and software technology and $1,020 of goodwill. The Company is amortizing the customer relationships intangible asset over 4 years and the software technology over 3 years.
The following table summarizes the final allocation of the purchase price:
     
  August 12,
 
  
2009
 
 
Fair value of the net tangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed:    
Current assets (consisting of accounts receivable only) $158 
Current liabilities, including long-term debt due within one year  (79)
     
Total tangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed  79 
Fair value of identifiable intangible assets acquired:    
Customer relationships  156 
Software technology  119 
Goodwill (including assembled workforce of $84)  1,020 
     
Total identifiable intangible assets acquired  1,295 
     
Total purchase price $1,374 
     
The pro forma effects of this acquisition would not have been material to the Company’s results of operations for the year ended March 31, 2010 and is therefore not presented.
Acquisition of Opus
On February 10, 2010, the Company acquired Opus. The Company accounted for this acquisition as a purchase business combination as defined in ASC 805. Under the acquisition method of accounting, the purchase price was allocated to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date. The fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed represent management’s estimate of fair value.
The estimated fair value of the acquired tangible and intangible assets and liabilities assumed were determined using multiple valuation approaches depending on the type of tangible or intangible asset acquired, including but not limited to the income approach, the excess earnings method as well asand the relief from royalty method approach.
Key assumptions used to determine the fair value of tangible and intangible assets acquired were (a) expected cash flow period of 5 to 10 years; (b) a weighted average cost of capital discount rate ranging from 24% to 26%, calculated using the capital asset pricing model, thebuild-up and IRR methodologies; and (c) a risk free rate of 4.5%, which is based on the rates of long-term treasury securities.
The Company recognized approximately $200 of acquisition and integration related costs that were expensed in the year ended March 31, 2010.


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
The purchase price totaled $20,581, including approximately $11,516 in contingent consideration based primarily on Opus achieving certain EBITDA and strategic goal targets. The total purchase price for Opus isthe Matrix and Poseidon acquisitions during the year ended March 31, 2013 are summarized as follows:
     
Cash paid $250 
Common stock issued at fair value  8,815 
Contingent consideration  11,516 
     
Total purchase price $20,581 
     
In connection with the acquisition, the Company recorded $13,250 of intangible assets related to customer relationships and software technology and $13,005 of goodwill. The Company is amortizing the customer relationships intangible asset over 4 years and the software technology over 8 years.
 Matrix Poseidon
Cash paid$5,073
 $2,033
Purchase price holdback853
 500
Common stock issued at fair value3,953
 
Contingent consideration2,862
 
Non-compete agreement1,100
 
Total purchase price$13,841
 $2,533

The following table summarizes the final allocationpurchase price allocations for the Matrix and Poseidon acquisitions:

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 February 10,
 
 2010 
Matrix Poseidon
Fair value of the net tangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed:       
Cash and cash equivalents $2,036 
Current assets (including accounts receivable of $1,753)  3,435 
Current assets (including accounts receivable of $1,287 and $111 for Matrix and Poseidon, respectively)$1,755
 $143
Equipment and improvements and other long-term assets  483 966
 39
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities  (7,678)(746) 
Deferred revenues  (3,950)
 (18)
   
Total tangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed  (5,674)
Total net tangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed1,975
 164
Fair value of identifiable intangible assets acquired:       
Trade Name150
 
Customer relationships  1,250 8,650
 800
Software technology  12,000 
 1,150
Goodwill (including assembled workforce of $1,000)  13,005 
   
Non-compete agreement1,100
 
Goodwill1,966
 419
Total identifiable intangible assets acquired  26,255 11,866
 2,369
   
Total purchase price $20,581 $13,841
 $2,533
   

The pro forma effects of this acquisitionthe Matrix and Poseidon acquisitions would not have been material to the Company’s results of operations for the year ended March 31, 2010 and isare therefore not presented.

6.
Goodwill
In accordance withASC 350-20, theThe Company does not amortize goodwill as theour goodwill has been determined to have an indefinite useful life.


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Goodwill by division consists of the following:
             
  Balance at
     Balance at
 
  March 31,
  Additions to
  March 31,
 
  2009  Goodwill  2010 
 
NextGen Division            
Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc.  $  $13,005  $13,005 
NextGen Sphere, LLC     1,020   1,020 
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc.   1,840      1,840 
             
Total NextGen Division goodwill  1,840   14,025   15,865 
Practice Solutions Division            
Practice Management Partners, Inc.   16,052   3,433   19,485 
Healthcare Strategic Initiatives  10,839      10,839 
             
Total Practice Solutions Division goodwill  26,891   3,433   30,324 
             
Total goodwill $28,731  $17,458  $46,189 
             
 March 31, 2012 Acquisitions Impairment March 31, 2013
QSI Dental Division$7,289
 $
 $
 $7,289
NextGen Division1,840
 
 
 1,840
Hospital Solutions Division21,323
 419
 (17,400) 4,342
RCM Services Division30,324
 1,966
 
 32,290
Total goodwill$60,776
 $2,385
 $(17,400) $45,761
7.  
During the second quarter of fiscal 2013, the operating performance of the Hospital Solutions Division ("Hospital reporting unit" or "Hospital") weakened, relative to the historic performance of this division. Revenues and operating results further declined during the third quarter of 2013. Accordingly, we assessed the conditions giving rise to the operating performance and evaluated the carrying amount of Hospital's goodwill balance. At such time, we concluded that the fair value of the Hospital reporting unit exceeded the carrying amount of the related goodwill, and therefore the value of the goodwill required no impairment. During the latter part of the quarter ended March 31, 2013, however, we reassessed the short-term and longer-term business strategies and operating expectations relating to the Hospital Solutions Division. From this assessment, we concluded that it was necessary to re-evaluate Hospital's goodwill for impairment during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013.
Based upon the above, the Company performed step one of the goodwill impairment test and determined that the fair value of the Hospital reporting unit, which was based on a combination of discounted cash flow analysis and market approach, was lower than the carrying value. The failure of step one triggered step two of the impairment test.
As a result of the step two analysis, the Company determined the implied fair value of the Hospital reporting unit's goodwill and concluded that the carrying value of goodwill exceeded its implied fair value. Based upon the resulting computations, an impairment charge of $17.4 million was recognized during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013.
Intangible Assets
The Company haddetermined the followingimplied fair value of the Hospital reporting unit's goodwill in the same manner as the amount of goodwill recognized in a business combination. Therefore, the excess of the fair value of a reporting unit over the amounts assigned to its assets and liabilities is the implied fair value of goodwill.
Key assumptions affecting the results of the goodwill impairment test include: a) the near-term continuation of recent results of operations for the Division and b) our detailed reassessment of the strategies of the Division and the actions required to achieve those strategies. Such reassessment resulted in a reprioritization of the objectives for the Division in the next fiscal year and a determination that additional investment and expenditures would be required to achieve those objectives. Specifically, the Division will place client satisfaction as its highest priority, de-emphasizing near-term growth.

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To achieve high client satisfaction, the Division plans to implement several initiatives designed to enhance the Division's ability to deliver better value for its customers including implementation, support, and software development. First, the Division will work to aggressively add employees to its implementation, support, and software development departments to increase the ratio of employees-to-customers. This will enable the Division to be more hands-on and responsive during the implementation and support phases. Additionally, during the next fiscal year, the Division plans to bear the cost of providing additional training and implementation services to certain customers, to enable those customers to make better use of the functionality of the system. We believe that by completing this work and adding to the support, implementation, and development teams, the Division will greatly improve its customer experience, and thereby help the Division improve its ability to have more of its client base serve as reference sites.
Additionally, the revenue assumptions relating to the Hospital Division outlook for the next several years reflect planned constraints on: a) the rate of new implementation engagements, to accommodate the client satisfaction initiative, and b) the timing and extent of product sales in light of other operational and product development considerations.
Though we have confidence in our assumptions regarding the future performance of the Hospital Solutions Division, if the future financial results relating to the Division fall short of our assumptions, the fair value of the reporting unit could be negatively impacted, resulting in an additional impairment of goodwill and/or other intangible assets.
The Company will continue to monitor the operating performance of its reporting units in future periods for evidence of any additional indicators of impairment.

7. Intangible Assets
In connection with the Poseidon acquisition, the Company recorded $1,950 of intangible assets related to customer relationships and software technology. The Company is amortizing the customer relationships over five years and the software technology over five years.
In connection with the Matrix acquisition, the Company recorded $9,900 of intangible assets related to a trade name, customer relationships and non-compete agreements. The Company is amortizing the trade name over six months, the customer relationships over five years and the non-compete over four years.
The Company’s definite-lived intangible assets, other than capitalized software development costs, with determinable livesare summarized as of March 31, 2010:follows:
                 
  Customer
  Trade
  Software
    
  Relationships  Name  Technology  Total 
 
Gross carrying amount $10,206  $637  $12,119  $22,962 
Accumulated amortization  (2,357)  (269)  (191)  (2,817)
                 
Net intangible assets $7,849  $368  $11,928  $20,145 
                 
Aggregate amortization expense during the year $1,434  $158  $191  $1,783 
                 
 March 31, 2013
 
Customer
Relationships
 Trade Name & Contracts 
Software
Technology
 Total
Gross carrying amount$23,156
 $2,018
 $20,509
 $45,683
Accumulated amortization(10,028) (1,112) (6,993) (18,133)
Net intangible assets$13,128
 $906
 $13,516
 $27,550

 March 31, 2012
 
Customer
Relationships
 Trade Name & Contracts 
Software
Technology
 Total
Gross carrying amount$13,706
 $768
 $19,359
 $33,833
Accumulated amortization(5,901) (606) (4,067) (10,574)
Net intangible assets$7,805
 $162
 $15,292
 $23,259


Activity related to the intangible assets for the yearyears ended March 31, 20102013 and 2012 is summarized as follows:

                 
  Customer
  Trade
  Software
    
  Relationships  Name  Technology  Total 
 
Balance as of April 1, 2009 $7,877  $526  $  $8,403 
Acquisition  1,406      12,119   13,525 
Amortization  (1,434)  (158)  (191)  (1,783)
                 
Balance as of March 31, 2010 $7,849  $368  $11,928  $20,145 
                 
 
Customer
Relationships
 Trade Name & Contracts 
Software
Technology
 Total
Balance at March 31, 2011$6,327
 $208
 $10,355
 $16,890
Acquisition3,500
 130
 7,240
 10,870
Amortization (1)(2,022) (176) (2,303) (4,501)
Balance at March 31, 20127,805
 162
 15,292
 23,259
Acquisition9,450
 1,250
 1,150
 11,850
Amortization (1)(4,127) (506) (2,926) (7,559)
Balance at March 31, 2013$13,128
 $906
 $13,516
 $27,550
____________________
(1)Amortization of the customer relationships and trade name intangible assets is included in operating expenses and amortization of the software technology intangible assets is included in cost of revenue for software and hardware.
The following table represents the remaining estimated amortization of definite-lived intangible assets with determinable lives as of March 31, 2010:2013:

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For the year ended March 31,    
2011 $3,255 
2012  3,320 
2013  3,184 
2014  3,055 
2015 and beyond  7,331 
     
Total $20,145 
     


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For the year ended March 31, 
2014$7,391
20156,335
20165,998
20175,228
2018 and beyond2,598
Total$27,550

8. Capitalized Software Costs
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
8.  Capitalized Software Costs
As of March 31, 2010 and 2009, the Company had the following amounts related toThe Company’s capitalized software costs:development costs are summarized as follows:
         
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
 
Gross carrying amount $41,429  $33,508 
Accumulated amortization  (29,883)  (23,956)
         
Net capitalized software costs $11,546  $9,552 
         
Aggregate amortization expense during the year $5,927  $5,163 
         
 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
Gross carrying amount$94,676
 $65,221
Accumulated amortization(54,895) (45,227)
Net capitalized software costs$39,781
 $19,994

Activity related to net capitalized software costs for the years ended March 31, 20102013 and 20092012 is summarized as follows:
         
  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009 
 
Beginning of the year $9,552  $8,852 
Capitalization  7,921   5,863 
Amortization  (5,927)  (5,163)
         
End of the year $11,546  $9,552 
         
 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012
Beginning of the year$19,994
 $15,150
Capitalized29,455
 13,098
Amortization(9,668) (8,254)
End of the year$39,781
 $19,994

The following table represents the remaining estimated amortization of capitalized software costs as of March 31, 2010:2013:
     
For the year ended March 31,    
2011 $5,729 
2012  3,783 
2013  1,768 
2014  266 
2015 and beyond   
     
Total $11,546 
     
For the year ended March 31, 
2014$10,073
201513,294
20169,516
20176,323
2018 and beyond575
Total$39,781

9.
Composition of Certain Financial Statement Captions
Accounts receivable include amounts related to maintenance and services that were billed but not yet rendered as of the end of the fiscal year.at each period end. Undelivered maintenance and services are included on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheets as parta component of the deferred revenue balance.balance on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
         
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
 
Accounts receivable, excluding undelivered software, maintenance and services $72,500  $64,003 
Undeliverable software, maintenance and implementation services billed in advance, included in deferred revenue  39,447   29,944 
         
Accounts receivable, gross  111,947   93,947 
Allowance for doubtful accounts  (4,489)  (3,877)
         
Accounts receivable, net $107,458  $90,070 
         


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 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
Accounts receivable, gross$160,080
 $154,237
Allowance for doubtful accounts(11,823) (8,481)
Accounts receivable, net$148,257
 $145,756
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)

Inventories are summarized as follows:

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  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
 
Computer systems and components, net of reserve for obsolescence of $237 and $210, respectively $1,322  $1,105 
Miscellaneous parts and supplies  18   20 
         
Inventories, net $1,340  $1,125 
         


 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
Computer systems and components$710
 $1,236
Miscellaneous parts
 6
Inventories$710
 $1,242

Equipment and improvements are summarized as follows:
         
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
 
Computer and electronic test equipment $18,599  $15,384 
Furniture and fixtures  5,136   3,520 
Leasehold improvements  1,969   1,595 
         
   25,704   20,499 
Accumulated depreciation and amortization  (17,272)  (13,743)
         
Equipment and improvements, net $8,432  $6,756 
         
 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
Computer equipment$31,633
 $24,936
Furniture and fixtures8,416
 6,358
Leasehold improvements7,125
 4,906
 47,174
 36,200
Accumulated depreciation and amortization(25,287) (18,359)
Equipment and improvements, net$21,887
 $17,841

Current and non-current deferred revenue are summarized as follows:
 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
Maintenance$12,085
 $12,742
Implementation services36,899
 55,235
Annual license services9,906
 11,730
Undelivered software and other6,317
 3,401
Deferred revenue$65,207
 $83,108
Deferred revenue, net of current$1,219
 $1,293

Accrued compensation and related benefits are summarized as follows:
         
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
 
Payroll, bonus and commission $4,185  $5,768 
Vacation  4,766   3,743 
         
Accrued compensation and related benefits $8,951  $9,511 
         
Short and long-term deferred revenue are summarized as follows:
 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
Payroll, bonus and commission$3,842
 $4,890
Vacation8,073
 6,980
Accrued compensation and related benefits$11,915
 $11,870
         
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
 
Maintenance $13,242  $8,776 
Implementation services  38,137   28,631 
Annual license services  8,214   7,988 
Undelivered software and other  4,516   2,189 
         
Deferred revenue $64,109  $47,584 
         
Deferred revenue, net of current $474  $521 
         


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Other current and non-current liabilities are summarized as follows:

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  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
 
Contingent consideration related to acquisition $5,275  $ 
Care services liabilities  2,336   1,303 
Accrued EDI expense  2,000   1,258 
Customer deposits  1,036   674 
Accrued royalties  926   933 
Deferred rent  641   782 
Self insurance reserve  516    
Sales tax payable  506   602 
Commission payable  468   385 
Professional services  391   409 
Other accrued expenses  2,125   2,542 
         
Other accrued liabilities $16,220  $8,888 
         


10.  Other Income (Expense)
Other income (expense) of $268 for the year ended March 31, 2010 consists predominantly of gains and losses in fair value recorded on the Company’s ARS investments as well as on its ARS put option rights. For the year ended March 31, 2010, the Company recognized a gain on the ARS of approximately $188 and a gain on the ARS put option rights of approximately $80. See Note 2.
 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
Contingent consideration and other liabilities related to acquisitions$8,426
 $5,482
Care services liabilities5,488
 1,962
Accrued Consulting2,602
 880
Accrued EDI expense1,452
 2,588
Self insurance reserve1,336
 934
Accrued royalties1,331
 1,974
Sales tax payable869
 527
Deferred rent689
 610
Outside commission payable461
 520
Accrued travel384
 509
Customer deposits262
 1,297
Other accrued expenses3,208
 2,285
Other current liabilities$26,508
 $19,568
    
Deferred rent$2,448
 $2,476
Contingent consideration and other liabilities related to acquisitions1,382
 2,989
Other liabilities119
 137
Other non-current liabilities$3,949
 $5,602

11.  Income Taxes
10. Income Tax
During the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012, and 2008,2011, the Company claimedrecognized federal research and development tax credits of $605, $859$1,461, $1,055 and $779,$927, respectively, and state research and development tax credits of approximately $129, $166$145, $165 and $113,$119, respectively. Due to the expiration of theThe Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) statute related to research and development credits expired on December 31, 2009, the Company’s2011 and was retroactively reinstated on January 2, 2013 for 2012 and 2013. The Company's research and development credits claimed for the year ended March 31, 20102012 represent credits for the nine-month period from April 1, 20092011 through December 31, 2009. 2011. The credit for the year ended March 31, 2013 includes the twelve month period from April 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013.
The Company also claimed the qualified production activities deduction under Section 199 of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) for $4,133, $2,747$9,032, $10,025, and $3,069$8,134 (pre-tax) during the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012, and 2008,2011, respectively. The research and development credits and the qualified production activities income deduction takencalculated by the Company involve certain assumptions and judgments regarding qualification of expenses under the relevant tax code provisions.


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The provision (benefit) for income taxes consists of the following components:
             
  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008 
 
Current:            
Federal taxes $23,750  $18,818  $18,120 
State taxes  5,043   4,992   4,348 
             
   28,793   23,810   22,468 
             
Deferred:            
Federal taxes  (768)  2,802   333 
State taxes  (186)  596   124 
             
   (954)  3,398   457 
             
Total $27,839  $27,208  $22,925 
             
The
 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Current:     
Federal taxes$30,382
 $36,109
 $28,979
State taxes5,019
 8,614
 6,501
Foreign taxes190
 73
 
Total current taxes35,591
 44,796
 35,480
Deferred:     
Federal taxes$(8,469) $(3,571) $(2,168)
State taxes(742) (502) (502)
Foreign taxes(190) (73) 
Total deferred taxes(9,401) (4,146) (2,670)
Provision for income taxes$26,190
 $40,650
 $32,810

The provision for income taxes differs from the amount computed at the federal statutory rate as follows:

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  Year Ended March 31, 
  2010  2009  2008 
 
Current:            
Federal income tax statutory rate  35.0%  35.0%  35.0%
Increase (decrease) resulting from:            
State income taxes, net of Federal benefit  4.3   5.2   4.8 
Research and development tax credits  (0.9)  (1.3)  (1.3)
Qualified production activities income deduction  (2.0)  (1.4)  (1.8)
Other  0.1   (0.4)  (0.3)
             
Effective income tax rate  36.5%  37.1%  36.4%
             


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 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Current:     
Federal income tax statutory rate35.0 % 35.0 % 35.0 %
Increase (decrease) resulting from:     
State income taxes, net of Federal benefit4.0
 4.5
 4.1
Research and development tax credits(2.1) (0.9) (1.0)
Qualified production activities income deduction(4.6) (3.0) (3.0)
Impairment of goodwill7.5
 
 
Other(1.8) (0.6) (0.3)
Effective income tax rate38.0 % 35.0 % 34.8 %
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)

The net deferred tax assets (liabilities)and liabilities in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheetsconsolidated balance sheets consist of the following:
         
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009 
 
Deferred tax assets:        
Deferred revenue and allowance for doubtful accounts $5,577  $3,271 
Inventory valuation  115   100 
Purchased in-process research and development  601   912 
Accrued compensation and benefits  2,325   1,955 
Deferred compensation  783   789 
State income taxes  640   185 
Compensatory stock option expense  252   125 
Other  125   779 
         
Total deferred tax assets  10,418   8,116 
         
Deferred tax liabilities:        
Accelerated depreciation  (1,529)  (1,114)
Capitalized software  (4,806)  (4,126)
Intangibles assets  (6,938)  (1,412)
Prepaid expense  (2,326)  (2,036)
         
Total deferred tax liabilities  (15,599)  (8,688)
         
Deferred tax assets (liabilities), net $(5,181) $(572)
         
 March 31,
2013
 March 31,
2012
Deferred tax assets:   
Deferred revenue$11,483
 $8,618
Inventory valuation224
 113
Accrued compensation and benefits3,898
 3,788
Deferred compensation1,615
 1,455
State income taxes17
 255
Compensatory stock option expense2,291
 1,828
Allowance for doubtful accounts7,182
 4,235
Other3,207
 4,813
Total deferred tax assets29,917
 25,105
Deferred tax liabilities:   
Accelerated depreciation$(1,876) $(2,319)
Capitalized software(7,717) (7,797)
Intangibles assets(4,124) (7,307)
Prepaid expense(1,859) (2,979)
Other
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Total deferred tax liabilities(15,576) (20,329)
Deferred tax assets (liabilities), net$14,341
 $4,776

The deferred tax assets and liabilities have been shown net in the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheetsconsolidated balance sheets based on the long-term or short-term nature of the items that give rise to the deferred amount. No valuation allowance has been made against the deferred tax assets as management expects to receive the full benefit of the assets recorded.
Uncertain tax positions
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits, which is recorded in income taxes payable in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheet,consolidated balance sheet, is as follows:
     
Balance at March 31, 2008 $613 
Additions for prior year tax positions  15 
Reductions for prior year tax positions  (561)
     
Balance at March 31, 2009 $67 
Additions for prior year tax positions  598 
Reductions for prior year tax positions  (9)
     
Balance at March 31, 2010 $656 
     
Balance at March 31, 2011$672
Additions for prior year tax positions26
Reductions for prior year tax positions(285)
Balance at March 31, 2012$413
Additions for current/prior year tax positions455
Reductions for prior year tax positions(135)
Balance at March 31, 2013$733


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The total amount of unrecognized tax benefit that, if recognized, would decrease the income tax provision is $656.$733.
The Company’s continuing practice is to recognize estimated interestand/or penalties related to income tax matters in general and administrative expenses. The Company had approximately $59$118 and $12$75 of accrued interest related to income tax matters at March 31, 20102013 and 2009,2012, respectively. No penalties were accrued.
The Company’sCompany is no longer subject to U.S. federal income tax returns filedexaminations for tax years 2006 through 2008 and 2005 through 2008 arebefore 2012. With few exceptions, the Company is no longer subject to examination by the federal and state taxing authorities, respectively. The Company is currently not under examination by the IRS or any statelocal income tax authority.examinations for tax years before 2008. The Company does not anticipate that total unrecognized


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tax benefits will significantly change due to the settlement of audits or the expiration of statute of limitations within the next twelve months.months.

12.  11. Employee Benefit Plans
The Company has a 401(k) plan available to substantially all of its employees. Participating employees may defer up to the IRS limit based on the IRC per year. The annual contribution is determined by a formula set by the Company’s Board of Directors and may include matchingand/or discretionary contributions. The amount of the Company match is discretionary and subject to change. The retirement plans may be amended or discontinued at the discretion of the Board of Directors. Contributions of $371, $357$889, $630 and $317$479 were made by the Company to the 401(k) plan for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008,2011, respectively.
The Company has a deferred compensation plan (the “Deferral Plan”) for the benefit of those employees who qualify for inclusion. Participating employees may defer up to 75% of their salary and 100% of their annual bonus for a Deferral Plan year. In addition, the Company may, but is not required to, make contributions into the Deferral Plan on behalf of participating employees, and the amount of the Company match is discretionary and subject to change. Each employee’s deferrals together with earnings thereon are accrued as part of the long-term liabilities of the Company. Investment decisions are made by each participating employee from a family of mutual funds. Deferred compensation liability was $1,883$3,809 and $1,838$3,497 at March 31, 20102013 and 2009,2012, respectively. To offset this liability, the Company has purchased life insurance policies on some of the participants. The Company is the owner and beneficiary of the policies and the cash values are intended to produce cash needed to help make the benefit payments to employees when they retire or otherwise leave the Company. The Company intends to hold the life insurance policy until the death of the plan participant. The net cash surrender value of the life insurance policies for deferred compensation was $2,670$3,728 and $1,715$2,959 at March 31, 20102013 and 2009,2012, respectively. The values of the life insurance policies and the related Company obligation are included on the accompanying Consolidated Balance Sheetsconsolidated balance sheets in long-term other assets and long-term deferred compensation, respectively. The Company made contributions of $48, $29$49, $66 and $29$33 to the Deferral Plan for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008,2011, respectively.
The Company has a voluntary employee stock contribution plan for the benefit of full-time employees. The plan is designed to allow qualified employees to acquire shares of the Company’s common stock through automatic payroll deduction. Each eligible employee may authorize the withholding of up to 10% of his or her gross payroll each pay period to be used to purchase shares on the open market by a broker designated by the Company. In addition, the Company will match 5%of each employee’s contribution and will pay all brokerage commissions and fees in connection with each purchase. The amount of the Company match is discretionary and subject to change. The plan is not intended to be an employee benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and is therefore not required to comply with that Act. Contributions of approximately $35, $14$47, $47 and $28$39 were made by the Company for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008,2011, respectively.

13.  
12. Share-Based Awards
Employee Stock Option Plans
In September 1998, the Company’sCompany's shareholders approved a stock option plan (the “1998 Plan”) under which 4,000,0008,000,000 shares of Common Stockcommon stock were reserved for the issuance of options. The 1998 Plan provides that employees, directors and consultants of the Company may, at the

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discretion of the Board of Directors or a duly designated compensation committee, be granted options to purchase shares of Common Stock.common stock. The exercise price of each option granted was determined by the Board of Directors at the date of grant, and options under the 1998 Plan expire no later than ten years from the grant date. Options granted will generally become exercisable in accordance with the terms of the agreement pursuant to which they were granted. Certain option grants to directors became exercisable three months from the date of grant. Upon an acquisition of the Company by merger or asset sale, each


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outstanding option may be subject to accelerated vesting under certain circumstances. The 1998 Plan terminated on December 31, 2007. As of March 31, 2010,2013, there were 301,46240,000 outstanding options related to thisthe 1998 Plan.
In October 2005, the Company’sCompany's shareholders approved a stock option and incentive plan (the “2005 Plan”) under which 2,400,0004,800,000 shares of Common Stockcommon stock were reserved for the issuance of awards, including stock options, incentive stock options and non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, unrestricted stock, restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units (including performance options) and other share-based awards. The 2005 Plan provides that employees, directors and consultants of the Company may, at the discretion of the Board of Directors or a duly designated compensation committee, be granted awards to acquire shares of Common Stock.common stock. The exercise price of each option award shall be determined by the Board of Directors at the date of grant in accordance with the terms of the 2005 Plan, and under the 2005 Plan awards expire no later than ten years from the grant date. Options granted will generally become exercisable in accordance with the terms of the agreement pursuant to which they were granted. Upon an acquisition of the Company by merger or asset sale, each outstanding option may be subject to accelerated vesting under certain circumstances. The 2005 Plan terminates on May 25, 2015, unless terminated earlier by the Board of Directors. At As of March 31, 2010, 1,771,1852013, there were 1,119,183 outstanding options and 3,012,491 shares were available for future grant underrelated to the 2005 Plan. As of March 31, 2010, there were 570,501 outstanding options related to this Plan.
A summary of stock option transactions during the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 20082011 is as follows:

                 
        Weighted
    
     Weighted
  Average
  Aggregate
 
     Average
  Remaining
  Intrinsic
 
     Exercise
  Contractual
  Value
 
  Number of Shares  Price  Life  (In thousands) 
 
Outstanding, March 31, 2007  1,461,950  $18.46         
Granted  225,500  $38.78         
Exercised  (325,266) $14.64      $4,955 
Forfeited/Canceled  (58,450) $21.12         
                 
Outstanding, March 31, 2008  1,303,734  $22.81         
Granted  298,331  $38.71         
Exercised  (697,083) $17.96      $17,182 
Forfeited/Canceled  (84,900) $25.93         
                 
Outstanding, March 31, 2009  820,082  $32.39   3.63     
Granted  289,484  $58.44   7.75     
Exercised  (237,603) $24.64   2.49  $8,254 
Forfeited/Canceled               
                 
Outstanding, March 31, 2010  871,963  $43.15   4.51  $15,945 
                 
Vested and expected to vest, March 31, 2010  861,701  $43.10   4.50  $15,806 
                 
Exercisable, March 31, 2010  261,127  $31.92   2.49  $7,708 
                 


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Number of
Shares
 
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
per Share
 
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (years)
 
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
(in thousands)
Outstanding, March 31, 20101,743,926
 $21.58
    
Granted110,000
 29.15
    
Exercised(307,428) 18.60
   $7,093
Forfeited/Canceled(148,942) 27.50
    
Outstanding, March 31, 20111,397,556
 $22.20
    
Granted459,400
 43.04
    
Exercised(697,157) 18.34
   $17,698
Forfeited/Canceled(171,462) 36.66
    
Outstanding, March 31, 2012988,337
 $32.09
 5.4  
Granted556,500
 27.78
 7.2  
Exercised(56,366) 16.81
 0.3 $82
Forfeited/Canceled(329,288) 31.42
 5.8  
Outstanding, March 31, 20131,159,183
 $30.54
 5.5 $31
Vested and expected to vest, March 31, 20131,096,365
 $30.98
 5.5 $31
Exercisable, March 31, 2013354,843
 $27.72
 3.3 $29
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)

The Company continues to utilizeutilizes the Black-Scholes valuation model for estimating the fair value of share-based compensation after the adoption of ASC 718 with the following assumptions:
       
  Year Ended March 31,
  2010 2009 2008
 
Expected life 4.42 - 4.75 years 4.01 years 3.75 - 4.01 years
Expected volatility 45.49% - 47.65% 42.00% - 46.70% 42.37% - 44.81%
Expected dividends 1.90% - 2.20% 2.90% - 3.50% 2.67% - 3.38%
Risk-free rate 0.82% - 2.41% 1.07% - 3.40% 2.46% - 5.09%
During
Year EndedYear EndedYear Ended
March 31, 2013March 31, 2012March 31, 2011
Expected life 5.0 years 4.3 years 4.2 years
Expected volatility41.3% - 45.1%41.2%42.6% - 44.7%
Expected dividends2.4% - 4.0%1.6%1.9% - 2.2%
Risk-free rate0.7% - 0.8%1.8%1.5% - 2.1%

The weighted-average grant date fair value of stock options granted during the years ended March 31, 20102013, 2012 and 2009, 289,4842011 was $8.22, $13.32 and 298,331 options were granted, respectively, under the 2005 Plan. $9.24 per share, respectively.
The Company issues new shares to satisfy option exercises. Based on historical experience of option cancellations, the Company has estimated an annualized forfeiture rate of 1.7%8.0%, 4.1% and 3.6% for employee options for the years ended March 31, 2013, 2012and 2011 and

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0.0% for director options.options for the years ended March 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011. Forfeiture rates will be adjusted over the requisite service period when actual forfeitures differ, or are expected to differ, from the estimate. The weighted average grant date fair value of stock options granted during
During the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 2008 was $19.30, $11.22 and $12.41 per share, respectively. The expected dividend yield is the average dividend rate during a period equal to the expected life of the option.
On February 16, 2010, the Board of Directors granted2011, a total of 121,059556,500, 459,400 and 110,000 options, respectively, were granted under the Company’s 2005 Plan to selected employees at an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($56.95 per share). Of the totalgrant. A summary of stock options 118,059 options vest in five equal annual installments beginning February 16, 2011 and expire on February 16, 2018 and 3,000 options vest in two equal annual installments beginning February 16, 2011 and expire on February 16, 2013.
On December 7, 2009, the Board of Directors granted a total of 63,425 options under the Company’s 2005 Plan to selected employees at an exercise price equal toduring the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($60.29 per share). The options vest in five equal annual installments beginning December 7, 2010years ended March 31, 2013, 2012 and expire on December 7, 2017.2011 is as follows:
On November 30, 2009, the Board of Directors granted a total of 75,000 options under the Company’s 2005 Plan, of which 53,000 were granted to selected employees and 22,000 options were granted as part of an earn-out provision relating to the acquisition of PMP (see Note 6), at an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($59.49 per share). The options vest in five equal annual installments beginning November 30, 2010 and expire on November 30, 2017.
Option Grant Date Number of Shares Exercise Price 
Vesting
Terms (1)
 Expires
January 23, 2013 40,000
 $19.00
 Five years January 23, 2021
November 5, 2012 5,000
 $17.68
 Five years November 5, 2020
September 25, 2012 20,000
 $18.42
 Five years September 25, 2020
May 24, 2012 346,000
 $29.17
 Five years May 24, 2020
May 24, 2012 30,000
 $29.17
 Four years May 24, 2020
May 23, 2012 115,500
 $29.45
 Five years May 23, 2020
Fiscal year 2013 option grants 556,500
      
         
May 31, 2011 459,400
 $43.04
 Five years May 31, 2019
Fiscal year 2012 option grants 459,400
      
         
November 29, 2010 20,000
 $32.16
 Five years November 29, 2018
August 3, 2010 10,000
 $27.62
 Five years August 3, 2018
June 4, 2010 50,000
 $28.15
 Five years June 4, 2018
June 2, 2010 30,000
 $29.31
 Five years June 2, 2018
Fiscal year 2011 option grants 110,000
      
____________________
(1)Options vest in equal annual installments on each grant anniversary date beginning one year after the grant date.
On September 17, 2009, the Board of Directors granted a total of 30,000 options under the Company’s 2005 Plan to an employee at an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($58.03 per share). The options vest in five equal annual installments beginning September 17, 2010 and expire on September 17, 2017.
On November 5, 2008, the Board of Directors granted a total of 80,141 options under the Company’s 2005 Plan to selected employees at an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($42.20 per share). The options vest in four equal annual installments beginning November 5, 2009 and expire on November 5, 2013.
On September 9, 2008, the Board of Directors granted a total of 35,000 options under the Company’s 2005 Plan to non-management directors pursuant to the Company’s previously announced compensation plan for non-management directors, at an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($45.61 per share). The options vest in four equal annual installments beginning September 9, 2009 and expire on September 9, 2015.
On August 18, 2008, the Board of Directors granted a total of 50,000 options under the Company’s 2005 Plan to an employee at an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($40.08 per share). The options vest in four equal annual installments beginning August 18, 2009 and expire on August 18, 2013.


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On August 11, 2008, the Board of Directors granted a total of 25,000 options under the Company’s 2005 Plan to selected employees at an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($40.71 per share). The options vest in four equal annual installments beginning August 11, 2009 and expire on August 11, 2013.
On June 13, 2008, the Board of Directors granted a total of 108,190 options under the Company’s 2005 Plan to selected employees at an exercise price equal to the market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant ($32.79 per share). The options vest in four equal annual installments beginning June 13, 2009 and expire on June 13, 2013.
Performance-Based Awards
On May 27, 2009,24, 2012, the Board of Directors approved its fiscal 2010year 2013 equity incentive program for certain employees to be awarded options to purchase the Company’s common stock. The maximum number of options available under the equity incentive program plan is 320,000,600,000, of which 105,000220,000 are reserved for the Company’s Named Executive Officersnamed executive officers and 215,000380,000 for non-executive employees of the Company. Under the program, executives are eligible to receive cash bonuses and options based on meeting certain target increases in earnings per shareEPS performance and revenue and operating income growth during fiscal year 2010 and for one executive, a portion of the options is based on retention of employment status through the end of fiscal 2010.2013. Under the program, the non-executive employees are eligible to receive options based on recommendationsatisfying certain management established criteria and recommendations of senior management. The options shall be issued pursuant to one of the Company’s shareholder approved option plans, have an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s shares on the date of grant, a term of eight years and vesting in five equal annual installments commencing one year following the date of grant. Compensation expense for the non-executive options will commence when granted.
Compensation expense associated with the executive performance based awards under the Company’s equity incentive plans are initially based on the number of options expected to vest after assessing the probability that certain performance criteria will be met. Cumulative adjustments are recorded quarterly to reflect subsequent changes in the estimated outcome of performance-related conditions. The Company utilized the Black-Scholes option valuation model with the assumptions below and the recorded stock compensation expense related to the executive performance based awards of $616 and $788 for the years ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Stock compensation expense related to the performance based awards was approximately $35 duringnot significant for the year ended March 31, 2010.2013.
The following assumptions were utilized for performance based awards under the Company’s 2010 incentive plan during the year ended March 31, 2010:
 Year Ended
March 31, 2013 Year Ended
March 31, 20102012
 Year Ended
March 31, 2011
Expected life 5.0 years4.42 4.3 years 4.3 years
Expected volatility41.7% - 45.0%45.49%41.2% - 42.2%41.6%
Expected dividends2.5% - 4.0%2.20%1.4% - 1.9%1.5%
Risk-free rate0.6% - 0.7%2.32%0.8 % - 1.8%2.2%

Non-vested stock option award activity, including employee stock options and performance-based awards, forduring the yearyears ended March 31, 2010,2013, 2012 and 2011 is summarized as follows:
         
     Weighted
 
  Non-Vested
  Average
 
  Number of
  Fair Value
 
  Shares  Price 
 
Outstanding, April 1, 2009  465,345  $11.74 
Granted  289,484  $19.30 
Vested  (143,993) $12.03 
Forfeited/Canceled       
         
Outstanding, March 31, 2010  610,836  $15.26 
         


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Non-Vested
Number of
Shares
 
Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value
per Share
Outstanding, March 31, 20101,221,672
 $7.63
Granted110,000
 9.24
Vested(379,694) 6.43
Forfeited/Canceled(148,942) 9.41
Outstanding, March 31, 2011803,036
 $8.08
Granted459,400
 13.32
Vested(312,655) 7.22
Forfeited/Canceled(171,462) 11.55
Outstanding, March 31, 2012778,319
 $10.76
Granted556,500
 8.22
Vested(201,191) 8.43
Forfeited/Canceled(329,288) 9.92
Outstanding, March 31, 2013804,340
 $9.89

As of March 31, 2010, $7,9952013, $5,575 of total unrecognized compensation costs related to stock options is expected to be recognized over a weighted averageweighted-average period of 5.383.6 years. This amount does not include the cost of new options


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
that may be granted in future periods or any changes in the Company’s forfeiture percentage. The total fair value of options vested during the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 20082011 was $1,732, $3,236$1,696, $2,256 and $1,345,$2,442, respectively.
Restricted Stock Units
On May 27, 2009,24, 2012, the Board of Directors approved its Outside2013 Director Compensation Plan,Program, whereby each non-employee Directordirector is to be awarded shares of restricted stock units upon election or re-election to the Board.Board of Directors. The shares of restricted stock units are awarded under the 2005 Plan. Such shares of restricted unitsstock vest in two equal, annual installments on the first and second anniversaries of the grant date and are nontransferable for one year following vesting. Upon each vestingThe weighted-average grant date fair value for the restricted stock was estimated using the market price of the award, two shares of common stock shall be issued for each restricted stock unit.on the date of grant. The Company estimated the fair value of the restricted stock units using the market price of its common stock on the date of the grant ($53.86 per share on August 13, 2009, the grant date). The fair value of these restricted units is amortized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period.
The Company recorded compensation expense related to restricted stock of approximately $566, $540 and $427 for the years ended March 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively. Restricted stock activity for the years ended March 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 is summarized as follows:
 
Number of
Shares
 
Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value
per Share
Outstanding, March 31, 201016,000
 $26.93
Granted18,292
 27.31
Vested(11,396) 27.22
Outstanding, March 31, 201122,896
 $27.09
Granted22,668
 39.75
Vested(15,563) 27.51
Outstanding, March 31, 201230,001
 $36.32
Granted18,939
 19.32
Vested(18,555) 32.14
Outstanding, March 31, 201330,385
 $27.09

As of March 31, 2010, 8,000 restricted units were issued and approximately $136 of compensation expense was recorded under this Plan during the year ended March 31, 2010.
As of March 31, 2010, $2952013, $529 of total unrecognized compensation costs related to restricted stock units is expected to be recognized over a weighted averageweighted-average period of 1.371.7 years. This amount does not include the cost of new restricted stock units that may be granted in future periods or any changes in the Company’s forfeiture percentage. During the year ended March 31, 2010, no restricted stock units became vested.periods.

14.  13. Commitments, Guarantees and Contingencies
Rental Commitments
The Company leases facilities and offices under irrevocable operating lease agreements expiring at various dates through May 2017 with rent escalation clauses. Rent expense related to these leases is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease terms. Rent expense for the years ended March 31, 2010, 20092013, 2012 and 20082011 was $4,264, $3,560$5,753, $4,330 and $2,737,$3,964, respectively. RentalThe following table summarizes our significant contractual obligations, including rental commitments, under these agreements are as follows:at March 31, 2013:
     
Year Ended March 31,    
2011 $4,413 
2012  4,565 
2013  4,577 
2014  3,963 
2015 and beyond  7,215 
     
  $24,733 
     
  For the year ended March 31,
Contractual ObligationsTotal20142015201620172018 and beyond
Operating lease obligations$32,848
$8,152
$7,043
$6,519
$4,595
$6,539
Contingent consideration and other acquisition related liabilities3,050
1,778
646
313
313

Total$35,898
$9,930
$7,689
$6,832
$4,908
$6,539

Commitments and Guarantees
SoftwareThe Company's software license agreements in both the QSI and NextGen Divisions include a performance guarantee that the Company’sCompany's software products will substantially operate as described in the applicable program documentation for a period of 365 days after delivery. To date, the Company has not incurred any significant costs associated with its performance guarantee or other related warranties and does not expect to incur significant warranty costs in the future. Therefore, no accrual has been made for potential costs associated with these warranties. Certain arrangements also include performance guarantees related to response time, availability for operational use, and other performance-related guarantees. Certain arrangements also include penalties in the form of maintenance credits should the performance of the software fail to meet the performance guarantees. To date, the Company has not incurred any significant costs associated with these warranties and does not expect to incur significant warranty costs in the future. Therefore, no accrual has been made for potential costs associated with these warranties.


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
The Company has historically offered short-term rights of return in certain sales arrangements. If the Company is able to estimate returns for these types of arrangements and all other criteria for revenue recognition have been met, revenue is recognized and these arrangements are recorded in the Consolidated Financial Statements.consolidated financial statements. If the Company is unable to estimate returns for these types of arrangements, revenue is not recognized in the Consolidated Financial Statementsconsolidated financial statements until the rights of return expire, provided also, that all other criteria of revenue recognition have been met.
The Company’sCertain standard sales agreements contain a money back guarantee providing for a performance guarantee that is already part of the software license agreement as well as training and support. The money back guarantee also warrants that the software will remain robust and flexible to allow participation in the NextGen Divisionfederal health incentive programs. The specific elements of the performance guarantee pertain to aspects of the software, which the Company has already tested and confirmed to consistently meet using the Company's existing software without any modifications or enhancements. To date, the Company has not incurred any costs associated with this guarantee and does not expect to incur significant costs in the future. Therefore, no accrual has been made for potential costs associated with this guarantee.
The Company's standard sales agreements contain an indemnification provision pursuant to which it shall indemnify, hold harmless, and reimburse the indemnified party for losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified party in connection with any United States patent, any copyright or other intellectual property infringement claim by any third partythird-party with respect to its software. The QSI Dental Division arrangements occasionally utilize this type of language as well. As the Company has not incurred any significant costs to defend lawsuits or settle claims related to these indemnification agreements, the Company believes that its estimated exposure on these agreements is currently minimal. Accordingly, the Company has no liabilities recorded for these indemnification obligations.

14. Operating Segment Information
The Company has entered into marketing assistance agreements with existing users of the Company’s products which provide the opportunity for those users to earn commissions if they host specific site visits upon the Company’s request for prospective customers that directly result in a purchase of the Company’s software by the visiting prospects. Amounts earned by existing users under this program are treated as a selling expense in the period when earned.
Litigation
The Company has experienced certain legal claims by parties asserting that it has infringed certain intellectual property rights. The Company believes that these claims are without merit and the Company has defended them vigorously. However, in order to avoid the further legal costs and diversion of management resources it is reasonably possible that a settlement may be reached which could result in a liability to the Company. However, at this time it is not possible to estimate with reasonable certainty what amount, if any, may be incurred as a result of a settlement. Litigation is inherently uncertain and always difficult to predict.
15.  Operating Segment Information
The Company has prepared operating segment information in accordance with ASC 280 to report componentsfour reportable segments that are evaluated regularly by its chief operating decision maker, or decision making group (Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer) in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance.
Operating segment data is as follows:

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As a result of certain organizational changes, the composition of the Company’s NextGen Division was revised
 Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
 2013 2012 2011
Revenue:     
QSI Dental Division$19,990
 $19,596
 $19,966
NextGen Division344,315
 325,467
 266,546
Hospital Solutions Division31,413
 34,463
 17,898
RCM Services Division64,511
 50,309
 48,953
Consolidated revenue$460,229
 $429,835
 $353,363
Operating income (loss):     
QSI Dental Division$3,020
 $3,352
 $4,672
NextGen Division120,974
 127,032
 104,391
Hospital Solutions Division(4,354) 10,417
 5,362
RCM Services Division8,180
 5,835
 4,235
Unallocated corporate expense (1)(58,720) (30,437) (24,568)
Consolidated operating income$69,100
 $116,199
 $94,092
_______________________
(1)    Unallocated corporate expense includes eliminations relating to exclude the former NextGen Practice Solutions unitQSIH revenues and the Company’s RCM entities (HSI and PMP), both of which are now administered and aggregated in the Company’s Practice Solutions Division. Following the reorganization, the Company now operates three reportable operating segments (not including Corporate), comprised of the NextGen Division, the QSI Dental Division and the Practice Solutions Division.
Prior period segment results were revised to reflect this reorganization for the Company’s NextGen Division and Practice Solution Division. The results of operations related to the HSI and PMP acquisitions areexpenses included in the Practice Solutions Division. The results of operations related to
operating segments. For the Opusyears ended March 31, 2013, 2012 and Sphere acquisitions are included in2011, eliminations were not significant. For fiscal year 2013,
unallocated corporate expense also includes the NextGen Division.impairment of goodwill.

The QSI Dental Division, co-located with the Company’s Corporate Headquarters in Irvine, California, currently focuses on developing, marketing and supporting software suites sold to dental and certain niche medical practices. In addition, the Division supports a number of medical clients that utilize the Division’s UNIX based medical practice management software product.


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
The NextGen Division, with headquarters in Horsham, Pennsylvania, and significant locations in Atlanta, Georgia and Austin, Texas, focuses principally on developing and marketing products and services for medical practices.
The Practice Solutions Division, with locations in St. Louis, Missouri and Hunt Valley, Maryland, focuses primarily on providing physician practices with RCM services, primarily billing and collection services for medical practices. This Division combines a web-delivered SaaS model and the NextGenepm software platform to execute its service offerings.
The three Divisions operate largely as stand-alone operations, with each Division maintaining its own distinct product lines, product platforms, development, implementation and support teams, sales staffing and branding. The three Divisions share the resources of the Company’s “corporate office” which includes a variety of accounting and other administrative functions. Additionally, there are a small but growing number of clients who are simultaneously utilizing software or services from more than one of its three Divisions.
The accounting policies of the Company’s operating segments are the same as those described in Note 2 of the Consolidated Financial Statements, “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies,” except that the disaggregated financial results of the segments reflect allocation of certain functional expense categories consistent with the basis and manner in which Company management internally disaggregates financial information for the purpose of assisting in making internal operating decisions. Certain corporate overhead costs, such as executive and accounting department personnel-related expenses, are not allocated to the individual segments by management. Management evaluates performance based onupon stand-alone segment operating income. Because the Company does not evaluate performance based onupon return on assets at the operating segment level, assets are not tracked internally by segment. Therefore, segment asset information is not presented.

Operating segment data is as follows:15. Subsequent Events
             
  March 31,
  March 31,
  March 31,
 
  2010  2009  2008 
 
Revenue:            
QSI Dental Division $17,128  $15,851  $16,037 
NextGen Division  231,621   203,954   170,463 
Practice Solutions Division  43,062   25,710    
             
Consolidated revenue $291,811  $245,515  $186,500 
             
Operating income:            
QSI Dental Division $3,460  $3,385  $3,662 
NextGen Division  88,108   81,323   66,558 
Practice Solutions Division  2,314   2,455    
Unallocated corporate expense  (18,158)  (14,760)  (10,831)
             
Consolidated operating income $75,724  $72,403  $59,389 
             
All of the recorded goodwill at March 31, 2010 relates to the Company’s NextGen Division and Practice Solutions Division. As a result of the reorganization discussed above, the goodwill relating to the fiscal year 2009 acquisitions of HSI and PMP is now recorded in the Practice Solutions Division. The goodwill relating to the acquisitions of Opus and Sphere is recorded in the NextGen Division.


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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
16.  Subsequent Events
On May 26, 2010,22, 2013, the Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30$0.175 per share on the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock, payable to shareholders of record as of June 17, 201014, 2013 with an expected distribution date on or about July 6, 2010.5, 2013.

17.  
16. Selected Quarterly Operating Results (unaudited)
The following table presents quarterly unaudited consolidated financial information for the eight quarters in the period ended preceding March 31, 2010.2013. Such information is presented on the same basis as the annual information presented in the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements.consolidated financial statements. In management’s opinion, this information reflects all adjustments that are necessary for a fair presentation of the results for these periods.

                                 
  Quarter Ended 
  06/30/08  09/30/08  12/31/08  03/31/09  06/30/09  09/30/09  12/31/09  03/31/10 
  (Unaudited) 
 
Revenues:                                
Software, hardware and supplies $21,369  $21,297  $22,336  $20,384  $17,776  $22,856  $24,346  $24,783 
Implementation and training services  3,585   3,486   2,675   3,629   3,457   3,380   3,313   4,226 
                                 
System sales  24,954   24,783   25,011   24,013   21,233   26,236   27,659   29,009 
Maintenance  17,136   17,234   19,152   19,340   21,640   21,475   22,139   23,938 
Electronic data interchange services  6,670   6,985   8,008   7,859   8,161   8,796   8,897   9,181 
Revenue cycle management and related services  1,957   4,527   6,835   8,112   8,992   8,888   9,602   9,183 
Other services  4,507   5,452   6,473   6,507   6,612   6,303   6,665   7,202 
                                 
Maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services  30,270   34,198   40,468   41,818   45,405   45,462   47,303   49,504 
                                 
Total revenues  55,224   58,981   65,479   65,831   66,638   71,698   74,962   78,513 
                                 
Cost of revenue:                                
Software, hardware and supplies  3,486   3,395   3,030   3,273   2,704   3,737   2,810   2,864 
Implementation and training services  3,015   2,626   2,143   2,502   2,881   3,296   2,898   2,908 
                                 
Total cost of system sales  6,501   6,021   5,173   5,775   5,585   7,033   5,708   5,772 
Maintenance  3,082   2,947   2,826   3,004   3,025   3,255   3,392   3,667 
Electronic data interchange services  4,891   5,256   5,541   5,686   5,890   6,164   6,525   6,683 
Revenue cycle management and related services  1,305   3,132   4,475   5,762   6,522   6,856   7,124   7,213 
Other services  3,448   3,866   5,085   5,114   4,867   5,003   5,560   4,963 
                                 
Total cost of maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services  12,726   15,201   17,927   19,566   20,304   21,278   22,601   22,526 
                                 
Total cost of revenue  19,227   21,222   23,100   25,341   25,889   28,311   28,309   28,298 
                                 
Gross profit  35,997   37,759   42,379   40,490   40,749   43,387   46,653   50,215 


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 Quarter Ended
(Unaudited)6/30/2011 9/30/2011 12/31/2011 3/31/2012 6/30/2012 9/30/2012 12/31/2012 3/31/2013
Revenues:               
Software and hardware$28,911
 $31,860
 $35,074
 $26,562
 $25,844
 $23,720
 $21,899
 $17,109
Implementation and training services5,472
 6,094
 6,555
 8,270
 12,046
 8,535
 7,266
 7,161
System sales34,383
 37,954
 41,629
 34,832
 37,890
 32,255
 29,165
 24,270
Maintenance31,502
 35,214
 36,245
 35,871
 38,568
 38,715
 39,463
 40,025
Electronic data interchange services12,092
 11,985
 12,101
 13,081
 13,823
 15,024
 15,209
 15,653
Revenue cycle management and related services11,881
 11,142
 11,147
 11,402
 14,401
 14,486
 15,015
 15,317
Other services10,584
 11,339
 11,643
 13,808
 13,614
 15,648
 15,658
 16,030
Maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services66,059
 69,680
 71,136
 74,162
 80,406
 83,873
 85,345
 87,025
Total revenues100,442
 107,634
 112,765
 108,994
 118,296
 116,128
 114,510
 111,295
Cost of revenue:               
Software and hardware4,614
 4,187
 4,622
 4,976
 5,771
 5,624
 4,660
 5,695
Implementation and training services4,075
 5,050
 5,994
 6,179
 9,145
 7,507
 7,221
 7,023
Total cost of system sales8,689
 9,237
 10,616
 11,155
 14,916
 13,131
 11,881
 12,718
Maintenance3,854
 3,994
 4,412
 4,844
 4,811
 4,741
 5,259
 5,505
Electronic data interchange services7,962
 7,964
 7,890
 8,606
 9,248
 9,151
 9,852
 10,099
Revenue cycle management and related services8,826
 8,456
 8,405
 8,608
 10,870
 10,556
 10,918
 10,980
Other services5,597
 6,369
 7,011
 8,728
 8,550
 8,785
 8,686
 8,995
Total cost of maintenance, EDI, RCM and other services26,239
 26,783
 27,718
 30,786
 33,479
 33,233
 34,715
 35,579
Total cost of revenue34,928
 36,020
 38,334
 41,941
 48,395
 46,364
 46,596
 48,297
Gross profit65,514
 71,614
 74,431
 67,053
 69,901
 69,764
 67,914
 62,998
Operating expenses:               
Selling, general and administrative29,386
 32,169
 33,096
 34,195
 36,681
 37,832
 35,532
 38,308
Research and development costs6,827
 7,358
 8,277
 8,907
 8,576
 6,272
 7,786
 8,231
Amortization of acquired intangible assets482
 520
 543
 653
 1,137
 1,316
 1,212
 1,194
Impairment of goodwill
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17,400
Total operating expenses36,695
 40,047
 41,916
 43,755
 46,394
 45,420
 44,530
 65,133
Income (loss) from operations28,819
 31,567
 32,515
 23,298
 23,507
 24,344
 23,384
 (2,135)
Interest income (expense), net82
 75
 55
 35
 35
 (62) 13
 (93)
Other income (expense), net(38) (144) (218) 261
 (213) 220
 (122) 36
Income (loss) before provision for income taxes28,863
 31,498
 32,352
 23,594
 23,329
 24,502
 23,275
 (2,192)
Provision for income taxes9,880
 11,002
 11,247
 8,521
 7,832
 8,811
 7,649
 1,898
Net income (loss)$18,983
 $20,496
 $21,105
 $15,073
 $15,497
 $15,691
 $15,626
 $(4,090)
Net income (loss) per share:               
Basic*$0.33
 $0.35
 $0.36
 $0.26
 $0.26
 $0.26
 $0.26
 $(0.07)
Diluted*$0.32
 $0.35
 $0.36
 $0.25
 $0.26
 $0.26
 $0.26
 $(0.07)
Weighted-average shares outstanding:               
Basic58,362
 58,511
 58,847
 59,048
 59,281
 59,347
 59,400
 59,541
Diluted58,800
 58,902
 59,128
 59,232
 59,388
 59,386
 59,405
 59,541
Dividends declared per common share$0.175
 $0.175
 $0.175
 $0.175
 $0.175
 $0.175
 $0.175
 $0.175
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
                                 
  Quarter Ended 
  06/30/08  09/30/08  12/31/08  03/31/09  06/30/09  09/30/09  12/31/09  03/31/10 
  (Unaudited) 
 
Operating expenses:                                
Selling, general and administrative  15,182   18,000   18,276   17,952   20,093   20,061   21,574   25,223 
Research and development costs  3,119   3,342   3,624   3,692   3,977   4,346   3,954   4,269 
Amortization of acquired intangible assets  70   283   325   357   357   367   377   682 
                                 
Total operating expenses  18,371   21,625   22,225   22,001   24,427   24,774   25,905   30,174 
                                 
Income from operations  17,626   16,134   20,154   18,489   16,322   18,613   20,748   20,041 
Interest income  374   340   328   161   78   59   43   46 
Other income           (279)  58      136   74 
                                 
Income before provision for income taxes  18,000   16,474   20,482   18,371   16,458   18,672   20,927   20,161 
Provision for income taxes  6,886   5,975   7,332   7,015   6,112   6,852   7,775   7,100 
                                 
Net income $11,114  $10,499  $13,150  $11,356  $10,346  $11,820  $13,152  $13,061 
                                 
Net income per share:                                
Basic* $0.40  $0.38  $0.46  $0.40  $0.36  $0.41  $0.46  $0.45 
Diluted* $0.40  $0.37  $0.46  $0.40  $0.36  $0.41  $0.46  $0.45 
Weighted average shares outstanding:                                
Basic  27,465   27,930   28,340   28,393   28,492   28,597   28,667   28,784 
Diluted  27,771   28,211   28,473   28,526   28,635   28,742   28,833   28,929 
Dividends declared per common share $0.25  $0.30  $0.30  $0.30  $0.30  $0.30  $0.30  $0.30 
____________________
*Quarterly EPS willmay not sum to annual EPS due to rounding

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SCHEDULE II — Valuation and Qualifying Accounts
VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
ALLOWANCE FOR DOUBTFUL ACCOUNTS
 Sales Return Reserve
(in thousands)
For the year ended
Balance at Beginning of Year Additions Charged Against Revenue Deductions Balance at End of Year
March 31, 2013$2,229
 $4,277
 $
 $6,506
March 31, 2012$1,726
 $503
 $
 $2,229
March 31, 2011$961
 $765
 $
 $1,726

                 
  Balance at
 Additions
   Balance at
  Beginning of
 Charged to Costs
   End of
  Year and Expenses Deductions Year
  (In thousands)
 
For the Year Ended                
March 31, 2010 $3,877  $3,465  $(2,853) $4,489 
March 31, 2009 $2,528  $2,089  $(740) $3,877 
March 31, 2008 $2,438  $1,171  $(1,081) $2,528 
ALLOWANCE FOR INVENTORY OBSOLESCENCE
 Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
(in thousands)
For the year ended
Balance at Beginning of Year Additions Charged to Costs and Expenses Deductions Balance at End of Year
March 31, 2013$8,481
 $6,885
 $(3,543) $11,823
March 31, 2012$6,717
 $5,715
 $(3,951) $8,481
March 31, 2011$4,489
 $3,780
 $(1,552) $6,717

                 
  Balance at
 Additions
   Balance at
  Beginning of
 Charged to Costs
   End of
  Year and Expenses Deductions Year
  (In thousands)
 
For the Year Ended                
March 31, 2010 $210  $27  $  $237 
March 31, 2009 $223  $  $(13) $210 
March 31, 2008 $324  $52  $(153) $223 


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INDEX TO EXHIBITS ATTACHED TO THIS REPORT

     
Exhibit
  
Number
 
Description
 
 10.36 Agreement and Plan of Merger dated February 10, 2010, by and among Quality Systems, Inc., OHS Merger Sub, Inc., Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc., and the Shareholders of Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
 10.37 Sixth Amendment to Lease Agreement between the Company and Tower Place, L.P. dated April 1, 2010.
 10.38 Third Amendment to Office Lease agreement between the Company and HUB Properties LLC dated January 1, 2010.
 10.39 Fourth Amendment to Office Lease agreement between the Company and HUB Properties LLC dated March 17, 2010.
 10.40 Third Amendment to Service Center Lease Agreement between the TM Properties, LLC, successor to the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lackland Acquisition II, LLC, dated March 15, 2010.
 10.41 Second Amendment to Lease Agreement between Hill Management Services, Inc. and Practice Management Partners, Inc., dated November 1, 2009.
 10.42 Modification of Lease #1 between Olen Commercial Realty Corp. and NXG Acute Care LLC, dated October 13, 2009.
 10.43 Lease between Olen Commercial Realty Corp. and NXG Acurate Care LLC, dated October 1, 2009.
 10.44 Sublease Agreement between Centex Homes and Opus Healthcare Solutions, Inc., dated February   , 2009.
 21  List of subsidiaries.
 23.1 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm — PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
 23.2 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm — Grant Thornton LLP.
 31.1 Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required byRule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 31.2 Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required byRule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 32.1 Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Exhibit
Number
Description
21List of subsidiaries.
23.1Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm — PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
31.1Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required by Rule 13a-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101.INS*XBRL Instance
101.SCH*XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
101.CAL*XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation
101.LAB*XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label
101.PRE*XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation
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*XBRL information is furnished and not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of section 11 or 12 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1933, as amended, is deemed not filed for purposes of section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise is not subject to liability under these section.

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