UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FormForm 10-Q
 
(Mark One)
xQUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020
or
oTRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to .
Commission File Number 0-27084
CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware75-2275152
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
Delaware75-2275152
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
851 West Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
33309
Fort Lauderdale
Florida33309
(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)
Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code:
(954) 267-3000
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act
Title of each classTrading symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $.001 per shareCTXSThe NASDAQ Global Select Market
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes x   No  o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).   Yes x   No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer," “smaller reporting company,” and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
x ☒
Large accelerated filer
o Accelerated filer
o
 Non-accelerated filer
oSmaller reporting company
o
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes o     No  x
As of October 27, 2017,April 28, 2020, there were 150,675,226123,450,644 shares of the registrant’s Common Stock, $.001 par value per share, outstanding.

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CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
Form 10-Q
For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020
CONTENTS


Page
Number
PART I:
Page
Number
PART I:
Item 1.
Item 2.
Item 3.
Item 4.
PART II:
Item 1.
Item 1A.
Item 2.
Item 6.3.
Item 4.
Item 5.
Item 6.



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PART I: FINANCIAL INFORMATION


ITEM 1. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Unaudited)
March 31, 2020December 31, 2019
September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016(Unaudited)(Derived from audited financial statements)
(In thousands, except par value) (In thousands, except par value)
Assets   Assets
Current assets:   Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$940,869
 $836,095
Cash and cash equivalents$524,881  $545,761  
Short-term investments, available-for-sale562,893
 726,923
Short-term investments, available-for-sale25,644  43,055  
Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $3,508 and $5,883 at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively464,801
 681,206
Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $18,374 and $9,557 at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectivelyAccounts receivable, net of allowances of $18,374 and $9,557 at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively700,026  720,359  
Inventories, net14,892
 12,522
Inventories, net17,323  15,898  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets168,218
 124,842
Prepaid expenses and other current assets193,179  187,659  
Current assets of discontinued operations
 179,689
Total current assets2,151,673
 2,561,277
Total current assets1,461,053  1,512,732  
Long-term investments, available-for-sale1,054,952
 980,142
Long-term investments, available-for-sale12,721  16,640  
Property and equipment, net254,297
 261,954
Property and equipment, net225,098  231,894  
Operating lease right-of-use assetsOperating lease right-of-use assets204,974  206,154  
Goodwill1,617,124
 1,585,893
Goodwill1,798,408  1,798,408  
Other intangible assets, net168,093
 173,681
Other intangible assets, net101,132  108,478  
Deferred tax assets, net195,755
 233,900
Deferred tax assets, net367,074  361,814  
Other assets57,502
 54,449
Other assets160,767  152,806  
Long-term assets of discontinued operations
 538,931
Total assets$5,499,396
 $6,390,227
Total assets$4,331,227  $4,388,926  
Liabilities, Temporary Equity and Stockholders' Equity   
Liabilities and Stockholders' (Deficit) EquityLiabilities and Stockholders' (Deficit) Equity
Current liabilities:   Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$56,772
 $72,724
Accounts payable$105,218  $84,538  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities225,036
 256,799
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities362,386  331,680  
Income taxes payable3,493
 39,771
Income taxes payable65,989  60,036  
Current portion of deferred revenues1,173,348
 1,208,229
Current portion of deferred revenues1,340,456  1,352,333  
Short-term debt40,000
 
Convertible notes, short-term
 1,348,156
Current liabilities of discontinued operations
 172,670
Total current liabilities1,498,649
 3,098,349
Total current liabilities1,874,049  1,828,587  
Long-term portion of deferred revenues505,723
 476,135
Long-term portion of deferred revenues414,347  443,458  
Convertible notes, long-term1,376,673
 
Long-term debtLong-term debt1,730,961  742,926  
Long-term income taxes payableLong-term income taxes payable259,391  259,391  
Operating lease liabilitiesOperating lease liabilities201,336  209,382  
Other liabilities122,740
 119,813
Other liabilities70,072  67,526  
Long-term liabilities of discontinued operations
 7,708
Commitments and contingencies
 
Commitments and contingencies
Temporary equity from Convertible notes
 79,495
Stockholders' equity:   
Stockholders' (deficit) equity:Stockholders' (deficit) equity:
Preferred stock at $.01 par value: 5,000 shares authorized, none issued and outstanding
 
Preferred stock at $.01 par value: 5,000 shares authorized, none issued and outstanding—  —  
Common stock at $.001 par value: 1,000,000 shares authorized; 305,436 and 302,851 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively305
 303
Common stock at $.001 par value: 1,000,000 shares authorized; 320,437 and 318,760 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectivelyCommon stock at $.001 par value: 1,000,000 shares authorized; 320,437 and 318,760 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively320  319  
Additional paid-in capital4,994,854
 4,761,588
Additional paid-in capital6,125,589  6,249,065  
Retained earnings3,790,452
 4,010,737
Retained earnings4,794,964  4,660,145  
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(8,667) (28,704)Accumulated other comprehensive loss(7,810) (5,127) 
8,776,944
 8,743,924
10,913,063  10,904,402  
Less - common stock in treasury, at cost (154,807 and 146,552 shares at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively)(6,781,333) (6,135,197)
Total stockholders' equity1,995,611
 2,608,727
Total liabilities, temporary equity and stockholders' equity$5,499,396
 $6,390,227
Less - common stock in treasury, at cost (197,436 and 188,693 shares at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively)Less - common stock in treasury, at cost (197,436 and 188,693 shares at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively)(11,131,992) (10,066,746) 
Total stockholders' (deficit) equityTotal stockholders' (deficit) equity(218,929) 837,656  
Total liabilities and stockholders' (deficit) equityTotal liabilities and stockholders' (deficit) equity$4,331,227  $4,388,926  
See accompanying notes.

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CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(Unaudited)
 
 Three Months Ended March 31,
 20202019
 (In thousands, except per share information)
Revenues:
Subscription$268,236  $141,606  
Product and license172,858  135,022  
Support and services419,851  442,515  
Total net revenues860,945  719,143  
Cost of net revenues:
Cost of subscription, support and services86,040  71,428  
Cost of product and license revenues21,256  25,744  
Amortization of product related intangible assets8,281  10,301  
Total cost of net revenues115,577  107,473  
Gross margin745,368  611,670  
Operating expenses:
Research and development134,458  130,263  
Sales, marketing and services326,109  274,655  
General and administrative80,099  77,547  
Amortization of other intangible assets702  3,529  
Restructuring2,453  2,832  
Total operating expenses543,821  488,826  
Income from operations201,547  122,844  
Interest income1,605  9,674  
Interest expense(14,611) (18,033) 
Other income, net2,098  3,699  
Income before income taxes190,639  118,184  
Income tax expense9,417  7,836  
Net income$181,222  $110,348  
Earnings per share:
Basic$1.45  $0.84  
Diluted$1.42  $0.78  
Weighted average shares outstanding:
Basic124,737  131,483  
Diluted127,577  141,025  
 Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
 (In thousands, except per share information)
Revenues:       
Product and licenses$192,102
 $206,041
 $594,708
 $627,581
Software as a service45,810
 34,673
 126,053
 98,552
License updates and maintenance420,951
 398,171
 1,232,734
 1,178,053
Professional services32,062
 29,851
 93,334
 97,310
Total net revenues690,925
 668,736
 2,046,829
 2,001,496
Cost of net revenues:       
Cost of product and license revenues27,277
 28,059
 89,723
 93,077
Cost of services and maintenance revenues61,096
 55,337
 184,922
 168,874
Amortization of product related intangible assets17,564
 14,775
 43,062
 43,222
Total cost of net revenues105,937
 98,171
 317,707
 305,173
Gross margin584,988
 570,565
 1,729,122
 1,696,323
Operating expenses:       
Research and development107,113
 101,741
 316,478
 304,624
Sales, marketing and services249,499
 244,495
 764,564
 724,343
General and administrative79,378
 79,617
 237,033
 236,775
Amortization of other intangible assets3,733
 3,907
 11,071
 11,449
Restructuring8,552
 12,176
 18,678
 61,312
Total operating expenses448,275
 441,936
 1,347,824
 1,338,503
Income from operations136,713
 128,629
 381,298
 357,820
Interest income7,873
 4,193
 19,045

12,108
Interest expense(11,726) (11,254) (35,286) (33,605)
Other income (expense), net981
 494
 3,166
 (781)
Income from continuing operations before income taxes133,841
 122,062
 368,223
 335,542
Income tax expense7,121
 10,325
 62,349
 44,262
Income from continuing operations126,720
 111,737
 305,874
 291,280
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income taxes

20,164

$(42,704)
$44,982
Net income$126,720
 $131,901
 $263,170
 $336,262
Basic earnings (loss) per share:       
Income from continuing operations$0.84
 $0.72
 $2.01
 $1.88
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
 0.13
 (0.28) 0.29
Basic net earnings per share$0.84
 $0.85
 $1.73
 $2.17
        
Diluted earnings (loss) per share:       
Income from continuing operations$0.82
 $0.71
 $1.96

$1.86
Income (loss) from discontinued operations

 0.13
 (0.28)
0.29
Diluted net earnings per share:$0.82
 $0.84
 $1.68

$2.15
        
Weighted average shares outstanding:       
Basic151,156
 155,525
 151,896
 154,847
Diluted154,627
 157,532
 156,384
 156,697


See accompanying notes.

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CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(Unaudited)
 
 Three Months Ended March 31,
 20202019
 (In thousands)
Net income$181,222  $110,348  
Other comprehensive income:
Available for sale securities:
Change in net unrealized gains155  2,188  
Less: reclassification adjustment for net gains included in net income(13) (558) 
Net change (net of tax effect)142  1,630  
Gain on pension liability —  
Cash flow hedges:
Change in unrealized (losses) gains(2,585) 147  
Less: reclassification adjustment for net (gains) losses included in net income(248) 894  
Net change (net of tax effect)(2,833) 1,041  
Other comprehensive (loss) income(2,683) 2,671  
Comprehensive income$178,539  $113,019  
 Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
 (In thousands)
Net income$126,720
 $131,901
 $263,170
 $336,262
Other comprehensive income:       
Available for sale securities:       
Change in net unrealized gains (losses)60
 (1,029) 1,500

4,863
Less: reclassification adjustment for net losses (gains) included in net income120
 (928) (340) (1,220)
Net change (net of tax effect)180
 (1,957) 1,160
 3,643
Gain on pension liability272
 
 263
 
Cash flow hedges:       
Change in unrealized gains776
 382
 4,663
 386
Less: reclassification adjustment for net (gains) losses included in net income(1,116) 641
 551
 1,663
Net change (net of tax effect)(340) 1,023
 5,214
 2,049
Other comprehensive income (loss)112
 (934) 6,637
 5,692
Comprehensive income$126,832
 $130,967
 $269,807
 $341,954


See accompanying notes.








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CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
Nine Months Ended September 30, Three Months Ended March 31,
2017 2016 20202019
(In thousands) (In thousands)
Operating Activities   Operating Activities
Net income$263,170
 $336,262
Net income$181,222  $110,348  
Loss (income) from discontinued operations42,704
 (44,982)
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:   Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation, amortization and other149,813
 166,381
Depreciation, amortization and other53,701  62,472  
Stock-based compensation expense127,219
 115,271
Stock-based compensation expense58,323  65,234  
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation
 (12,374)
Deferred income tax expense (benefit)32,367
 (23,912)
Deferred income tax (benefit) expenseDeferred income tax (benefit) expense(5,575) 23,993  
Effects of exchange rate changes on monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies(8,063) (3,489)Effects of exchange rate changes on monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies2,794  (1,939) 
Other non-cash items9,608
 6,385
Other non-cash items7,871  845  
Total adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities310,944
 248,262
Total adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities117,114  150,605  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of acquisitions:   Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of acquisitions:
Accounts receivable216,139
 190,685
Accounts receivable11,314  204,406  
Inventories(3,350) (5,354)Inventories(1,944) (1,876) 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets(15,836) 13,651
Prepaid expenses and other current assets(7,029) 17,534  
Other assets(2,393) (7,722)Other assets(23,277) (15,891) 
Income taxes, net(58,278) 70,753
Income taxes, net7,011  (49,379) 
Accounts payable(17,039) (19,288)Accounts payable20,529  6,134  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities(17,372) (6,236)Accrued expenses and other current liabilities17,149  (81,979) 
Deferred revenues(10,746) (51,078)Deferred revenues(40,989) (77,855) 
Other liabilities2,645
 14,664
Other liabilities3,147  5,519  
Total changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of acquisitions93,770
 200,075
Total changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of the effects of acquisitions(14,089) 6,613  
Net cash provided by operating activities of continuing operations
710,588
 739,617
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities of discontinued operations
(56,070) 117,166
Net cash provided by operating activities654,518
 856,783
Net cash provided by operating activities284,247  267,566  
Investing Activities   Investing Activities
Purchases of available-for-sale investments(966,067) (1,411,077)Purchases of available-for-sale investments(4,420) (7,094) 
Proceeds from sales of available-for-sale investments678,533
 1,156,168
Proceeds from sales of available-for-sale investments—  772,954  
Proceeds from maturities of available-for-sale investments377,719
 511,023
Proceeds from maturities of available-for-sale investments25,755  134,325  
Purchases of property and equipment(61,670) (66,267)Purchases of property and equipment(10,503) (17,277) 
Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired(60,449) (11,456)
Cash paid for licensing agreements and technology(5,865) (25,755)
Cash paid for licensing agreements, patents and technologyCash paid for licensing agreements, patents and technology(1,682) (590) 
Other490
 464
Other884  575  
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities of continuing operations
(37,309) 153,100
Net cash used in investing activities of discontinued operations
(3,891) (39,395)
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities(41,200) 113,705
Net cash provided by investing activitiesNet cash provided by investing activities10,034  882,893  
Financing Activities   Financing Activities
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under stock-based compensation plans2,094
 39,438
Proceeds from credit facility165,000
 
Repayment of credit facility(125,000) 
Repayment of acquired debt(4,000) 
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation
 12,374
Proceeds from term loan credit agreement, net of issuance costsProceeds from term loan credit agreement, net of issuance costs998,846  —  
Repayment of term loan credit agreementRepayment of term loan credit agreement(750,000) —  
Proceeds from 2030 Notes, net of issuance costsProceeds from 2030 Notes, net of issuance costs738,107  —  
Stock repurchases, net(574,957) (28,689)Stock repurchases, net(999,903) (93,805) 
Accelerated share repurchase programAccelerated share repurchase program(200,000) —  
Cash paid for tax withholding on vested stock awards(71,179) (55,402)Cash paid for tax withholding on vested stock awards(54,247) (17,662) 
Transfer of cash to GoTo Business resulting from the separation(28,523) 
Cash paid for dividendsCash paid for dividends(42,839) (46,024) 
Net cash used in financing activities(636,565) (32,279)Net cash used in financing activities(310,036) (157,491) 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents7,160
 1,956
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents(5,125) 945  
Change in cash and cash equivalents(16,087) 940,165
Change in cash and cash equivalents(20,880) 993,913  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period, including cash of discontinued operations of $120,861 and $57,762, respectively956,956
 368,518
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of periodCash and cash equivalents at beginning of period545,761  618,766  
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period940,869
 1,308,683
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$524,881  $1,612,679  
Less cash of discontinued operations


 (79,020)
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
$940,869
 $1,229,663
See accompanying notes.

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CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
1. BACKGROUND AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Background
On January 31, 2017, Citrix Systems, Inc. ("Citrix" or the "Company") completed the spin-off of its GoTo family of service offerings (the “Spin-off”) and subsequent merger of that business with LogMeIn, Inc. (the “Merger”) pursuant to a pro rata distribution to its stockholders of 100% of the shares of common stock of GetGo, Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary ("GetGo"). Pursuant to the transaction, the Company transferred its GoTo Business to GetGo, and after the close of business on January 31, 2017, the Company distributed approximately 26.9 million shares of GetGo common stock to the Company’s stockholders of record as of the close of business on January 20, 2017 (the “Record Date”). Immediately following the distribution, Lithium Merger Sub, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of LogMeIn, merged with and into GetGo, with GetGo as the surviving corporation (the “Merger”). In connection with the Merger, GetGo became a wholly-owned subsidiary of LogMeIn, and each share of GetGo common stock was converted into the right to receive one share of LogMeIn common stock. As a result of these transactions, the Company’s stockholders received approximately 26.9 million shares of LogMeIn common stock in the aggregate, or 0.171844291 of a share of LogMeIn common stock for each share of the Company’s common stock held of record by such stockholders on the Record Date. No fractional shares of LogMeIn were issued, and the Company’s stockholders instead received cash in lieu of any fractional shares.
The Company's revenues are derived from sales of its Workspace Services products, Networking products (formerly Delivery Networking), Data offerings (formerly Cloud) and related License updates and maintenance and Professional services. Prior to the Spin-off, the Company also derived its revenues from sales of the GoTo Business, which were delivered as cloud-based Software as a service ("SaaS"), and included Communications Cloud and Workflow Cloud service offerings. Subsequent to the Spin-off, the Company determined that it has one reportable segment. The Company identified its segment using the “management approach” which designates the internal organization that is used by management for making operating decisions and assessing performance. See Note 10 for more information on the Company's segment.
Basis of presentation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the CompanyCitrix Systems, Inc. (the "Company") have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States for complete financial statements. All adjustments, which, in the opinion of management, are considered necessary for a fair presentation of the results of operations for the periods shown, are of a normal recurring nature and have been reflected in the condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. The results of operations for the periods presented are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the full year or for any future period partially because of the seasonality of the Company’s business. Historically, the Company’s revenue for the fourth quarter of any year is typically higher than the revenue for the first quarter of the subsequent year. However, during the three months ended March 31, 2020, this trend was impacted by the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic, and the Company's first quarter revenues were higher than the fourth quarter of 2019 due to the Company's decision to make limited use Workspace licenses of Citrix Workspace available in the form of shorter-duration, discounted on-premises term offerings to quickly help the Company's customers with their immediate business needs. The information included in these condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” contained in this report and the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016.2019.
The condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company include the accounts of its wholly-owned subsidiaries in the Americas,Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”),; and Asia-Pacific and Japan ("APJ"(“APJ”). All significant transactions and balances between the Company and its subsidiaries have been eliminated in consolidation.

The Company's revenues are derived from sales of its Workspace and Networking solutions, and related Support and services. The Company operates under 1 reportable segment. See Note 10 for more information on the Company's segment.
2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
During the first quarter of 2020, the Company adopted new accounting guidance related to current expected credit losses and fair value measurements, which are described below. There have been no other significant changes in the Company’s accounting policies during the three months ended March 31, 2020 as compared to the significant accounting policies described in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Current Expected Credit Losses
In theseJune 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on the measurement of credit losses on financial instruments. Previously, credit losses were measured using an incurred loss approach when it was probable that a credit loss had been incurred. The new guidance changes the credit loss model from an incurred loss to an expected loss approach. It requires the application of a current expected credit loss (“CECL”) impairment model to financial assets measured at amortized cost (including trade accounts receivable) and certain off-balance-sheet credit exposures. Under the CECL model, lifetime expected credit losses on such financial assets are measured and recognized at each reporting date based on historical, current, and forecasted information. The standard also changes the impairment model for available-for-sale debt securities, eliminating the concept of other than temporary impairment and requiring credit losses to be recorded through an allowance for credit losses. The amount of the allowance for credit losses for available-for-sale debt securities is limited to the amount by which fair value is below amortized cost. The Company adopted this standard as of January 1, 2020 using the required modified retrospective adoption method. Results for periods beginning after January 1, 2020 are presented under the new guidance, while prior period amounts are not adjusted and continue to be reported under the previous accounting guidance. Adoption of the new standard did not have a material impact on the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements, unless otherwise indicated, references to Citrix and the Company, refer to Citrix Systems, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries after giving effect to the Spin-off.

As a resultposition, results of the Spin-off, the condensed consolidated financial statements reflect the GoTo Business operations assets and liabilities, and cash flows as discontinued operations for all periods presented. Refer toflows. See Note 35 for additional information regarding the Spin-off.

Company’s allowance for credit losses.

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2. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIESFair Value Measurements
In August 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on fair value measurements. The new guidance modifies the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements by removing certain disclosure requirements related to the fair value hierarchy, modifying existing disclosure requirements related to measurement uncertainty, and adding new disclosure requirements. The Company adopted this standard as of January 1, 2020, and it did not have a material impact on the Company's condensed consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
Income Taxes
In December 2019, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on income taxes. The new guidance eliminates certain exceptions related to the approach for intraperiod tax allocation, the methodology for calculating income taxes in an interim period and the recognition of deferred tax liabilities for outside basis differences. It also clarifies and simplifies other aspects of the accounting for income taxes. The new standard will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020 and interim periods within those fiscal years, and early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this standard on its consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting
In March 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update to guidance applicable to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference LIBOR or another reference rate expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. This update provides optional guidance for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting. An entity may elect to apply the amendments for contract modifications by topic or industry subtopic of the codification as of any date from the beginning of an interim period that includes or is subsequent to March 12, 2020, or prospectively from a date within an interim period that includes or is subsequent to March 12, 2020, up to the date that the financial statements are available to be issued. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this standard on its consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the condensed consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Significant estimates made by management include estimation for reserves for legal contingencies, the standalone selling price related to revenue recognition, the provision for doubtfulcredit losses related to accounts receivable, contract assets, and available-for-sale debt securities, the provision to reduce obsolete or excess inventory to market, the provision for estimated returns, as well as sales allowances, the assumptions used in the valuation of stock-based awards, the assumptions used in the discounted cash flows to mark certain of its investments to market, the valuation of the Company’s goodwill, net realizable value of product related and other intangible assets, the fair value of convertible senior notes, the provision for lease losses, the provision for income taxes, valuation allowance for deferred tax assets, uncertain tax positions, and the amortization and depreciation periods for contract acquisition costs, intangible and long-lived assets. While the Company believes that such estimates are fair when considered in conjunction with the condensed consolidated financial position and results of operations taken as a whole, the actual amounts of such items, when known, will vary from these estimates.
Available-for-sale Investments
Short-term and long-term available-for-sale investments in debt securities as of September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and December 31, 20162019 primarily consist of agency securities, corporate securities municipal securities and government securities. Investments classified as available-for-sale debt securities are stated at fair value, with unrealized gains and losses, net of taxes, reported in Accumulated other comprehensive loss. The Company classifies its available-for-sale investments as current and non-current based on their actual remaining time to maturity. The Company does not recognize unrealized changes in the fair value of its available-for-sale investmentsdebt securities in income unless a decline in valuesecurity is considered other-than-temporary in accordance with the authoritative guidance.deemed to be impaired.
The Company’s investment policy is designed to limit exposure to any one issuer depending on credit quality. The Company uses information provided by third parties to adjust the carrying value of certain of its investments to fair value at the end of each period. Fair values are based on a variety of inputs and may include interest rates, known historical trades, yield curve information, benchmark data, prepayment speeds, credit quality and broker/dealer quotes. See Note 6 for additional information regarding the Company’s investments.
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Revenue Recognition

Net revenues include the following categories: Product and licenses, Software as a Service (SaaS), License updates and maintenance and Professional services. Product and licenses revenues primarily represent fees related to the licensing of the Company’s software and hardware appliances. These revenues are reflected net of sales allowances, cooperative advertising agreements, partner incentive programs and provisions for returns. SaaS revenues consist primarily of fees related to online service agreements, which are recognized ratably over the contract term. Should the Company charge set-up fees, they would be recognized ratably over the contract term or the expected customer life, whichever is longer. License updates and maintenance revenues consist of fees related to maintenance and support fees, which include technical support and hardware and software maintenance. Maintenance and support fees are recognized ratably over the term of the contract, which is typically 12 to 24 months. The Company capitalizes certain third-party commissions related to maintenance and support renewals. The capitalized commissions are amortized to Sales, marketing and services expense at the time the related deferred revenue is recognized as revenue. Hardware and software maintenance and support contracts are typically sold separately. Hardware maintenance includes technical support, the latest software upgrades when and if they become available, and replacement of malfunctioning appliances. Dedicated account management is available as an add-on to the program for a higher level of service. Software maintenance, including the new Customer Success Services, includes unlimited technical support, immediate access to software upgrades, enhancements and maintenance releases when and if they become available during the term of the contract and configuration and installation support along with acceleration and automation tools. Professional services revenues are comprised of fees from consulting services related to the implementation of the Company’s products and fees from product training and certification, which are recognized as the services are provided.

The Company recognizes revenue when it is earned and when all of the following criteria are met: (1) persuasive evidence of the arrangement exists; (2) delivery has occurred or the service has been provided and the Company has no remaining obligations; (3) the fee is fixed or determinable; and (4) collectability is probable.
The majority of the Company’s product and license revenue consists of revenue from the sale of software products. Software sales generally include a perpetual license to the Company’s software and is subject to the industry specific software revenue recognition guidance. In accordance with this guidance, the Company allocates revenue to license updates related to its stand-alone software and any other undelivered elements of the arrangement based on vendor specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of fair value of each element and such amounts are deferred until the applicable delivery criteria and other revenue recognition criteria described above have been met. The balance of the revenues, net of any discounts inherent in the


arrangement, is recognized at the outset of the arrangement using the residual method as the product licenses are delivered. If management cannot objectively determine the fair value of each undelivered element based on VSOE of fair value, revenue recognition is deferred until all elements are delivered, all services have been performed, or until fair value can be objectively determined.
For hardware appliance and software transactions, the arrangement consideration is allocated to stand-alone software deliverables as a group and the non-software deliverables based on the relative selling prices using the selling price hierarchy in the revenue recognition guidance. The selling price hierarchy for a deliverable is based on its VSOE if available, third-party evidence of selling price ("TPE") if VSOE is not available, or estimated selling price ("ESP") if neither VSOE nor TPE is available. The Company then recognizes revenue on each deliverable in accordance with its policies for product and service revenue recognition. VSOE of selling price is based on the price charged when the element is sold separately. In determining VSOE, the Company requires that a substantial majority of the selling prices fall within a reasonable range based on historical discounting trends for specific products and services. TPE of selling price is established by evaluating competitor products or services in stand-alone sales to similarly situated customers. However, as the Company’s products contain a significant element of proprietary technology and its solutions offer substantially different features and functionality, the comparable pricing of products with similar functionality typically cannot be obtained. Additionally, as the Company is unable to reliably determine what competitors products’ selling prices are on a stand-alone basis, the Company is not typically able to determine TPE. The estimate of selling price is established considering multiple factors including, but not limited to, pricing practices in different geographies and through different sales channels and competitor pricing strategies.
The Citrix Service Provider ("CSP") program provides subscription-based services in which the CSP partners host software services to their end users. The fees from the CSP program are recognized based on usage and as the CSP services are provided to their end users.
For the Company’s non-software transactions, it allocates the arrangement consideration based on the relative selling price of the deliverables. For the Company’s hardware appliances, it uses ESP as its selling price. For the Company’s support and services, it generally uses VSOE as its selling price. When the Company is unable to establish selling price using VSOE for its support and services, the Company uses ESP in its allocation of arrangement consideration.
The majority of the Company's SaaS offerings are considered hosted service arrangements per the authoritative guidance.
In the normal course of business, the Company is not obligated to accept product returns from its resellers or end customers under any conditions, unless the product item is defective in manufacture. The Company establishes provisions for estimated returns, as well as other sales allowances, concurrently with the recognition of revenue. The provisions are established based upon consideration of a variety of factors, including, among other things, recent and historical return rates for both specific products and distributors and the impact of any new product releases and projected economic conditions. Product returns are provided for in the condensed consolidated financial statements and have historically been within management’s expectations. Allowances for estimated product returns amounted to $0.8 million and $2.0 million at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. The Company also records estimated reductions to revenue for customer programs and incentive offerings, including volume-based incentives. The Company could take actions to increase its customer incentive offerings, which could result in an incremental reduction to revenue at the time the incentive is offered.
Foreign Currency
The functional currency for all of the Company’s wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar. Monetary assets and liabilities of such subsidiaries are remeasured into U.S. dollars at exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date, and revenues and expenses are remeasured at average rates prevailing during the year.Foreign currency transaction gains and losses are the result of exchange rate changes on transactions denominated in currencies other than the functional currency, including U.S. dollars. The remeasurement of those foreign currency transactions is included in determining net income or loss for the period of exchange. Prior to January 1, 2015, the functional currency of the Company’s wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries of its former GoTo Business was the currency of the country in which each subsidiary is located. The Company translated assets and liabilities of these foreign subsidiaries at exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date and included accumulated net translation adjustments in equity as a component of Accumulated other comprehensive loss. As a result of the change in functional currency, the gains and losses that were previously recorded in Accumulated other comprehensive loss prior to January 1, 2015 were kept constant. As a result of the Spin-off, accumulated net translation adjustments associated with the GoTo Business recorded in Accumulated other comprehensive loss of $13.4 million were reclassified to Retained earnings during the period ended September 30, 2017. See Note 3 for additional information regarding discontinued operations.



Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation Plans
The Company has various stock-based compensation plans for its employees and outside directors and accounts for stock-based compensation arrangements in accordance with the authoritative guidance, which requires the Company to measure and record compensation expense in its condensed consolidated financial statements using a fair value method. See Note 8 for further information regarding the Company’s stock-based compensation plans.
Reclassifications3. REVENUE
Certain reclassificationsThe following is a description of the prior years' amounts have beenprincipal activities from which the Company generates revenue.
Subscription
Subscription revenues primarily consist of cloud-hosted offerings, which provide customers a right to access one or more of the Company’s cloud-hosted subscription offerings, with routine customer support, as well as revenues from the Citrix Service Provider ("CSP") program and on-premise subscription software licenses. For the Company’s cloud-hosted performance obligations, revenue is generally recognized on a ratable basis over the contract term beginning on the date that the Company's service is made to conformavailable to the current year's presentation.
3. DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
On January 31, 2017,customer, as the Company completedcontinuously provides online access to the Spin-off ofweb-based software that the GoTo Business. Refercustomer can use at any time. The CSP program provides subscription-based services in which the CSP partners host software services to Note 1 for additional information regarding the Spin-off. The financial results of the GoTo Businesstheir end users.
Product and license
Product and license revenues are presented as Income (loss)primarily derived from discontinued operations, net of income taxes in the condensed consolidated statements of income. The following table presents the financial results of the GoTo Business through the date of the Spin-off for the indicated periods and do not include corporate overhead allocations:
Major classes of line items constituting Income (loss) from discontinued operationsperpetual offerings related to the GoTo BusinessCompany’s Workspace solutions and Networking products. For performance obligations related to perpetual software license agreements, the Company determined that its licenses are functional intellectual property that are distinct as the user can benefit from the software on its own.
Support and services
Support and services revenues include license updates, maintenance and professional services which are primarily related to the Company's perpetual offerings. License updates and maintenance revenues are primarily comprised of software and hardware maintenance, when and if-available updates and technical support. For performance obligations related to license updates and maintenance, revenue is generally recognized on a straight-line basis over the period of service because the Company transfers control evenly by providing a stand-ready service. The Company is continuously working on improving its products and pushing those updates through to the customer, and stands ready to provide software updates on a when and if-available basis. Services revenues are comprised of fees from consulting services primarily related to the implementation of the Company’s products and fees from product training and certification.
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 Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30,
 2016 2017 2016
 (in thousands)
Net revenues$172,515
 $58,215
 $508,413
Cost of net revenues39,804
 15,456
 116,216
Gross margin132,711
 42,759
 392,197
Operating expenses:     
Research and development25,146
 9,108
 70,983
Sales, marketing and services47,353
 20,881
 158,702
General and administrative14,986
 7,636
 46,572
Amortization of other intangible assets3,480
 1,176
 10,618
Restructuring(115) 3,189
 830
Separation16,663
 40,573
 44,444
Total operating expenses107,513
 82,563
 332,149
Income (loss) from discontinued operations before income taxes

25,198
 (39,804) 60,048
Income tax expense5,034
 2,900
 15,066
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income tax$20,164
 $(42,704) $44,982
The Company’s typical performance obligations include the following:
Performance Obligation
When Performance Obligation
is Typically Satisfied
Subscription
Cloud-hosted offeringsOver the contract term, beginning on the date that service is made available to the customer (over time)
CSPAs the usage occurs (over time)
On-premise subscription software licensesWhen software activation keys have been made available for download (point in time)
Product and license
Software licensesWhen software activation keys have been made available for download (point in time)
HardwareWhen control of the product passes to the customer; typically upon shipment (point in time)
Support and services
License updates and maintenanceRatably over the course of the service term (over time)
Professional servicesAs the services are provided (over time)
Significant Judgments
The Company incurred significant costs in connection with the separationgenerates all of its GoTo Business. These costs relate primarilyrevenues from contracts with customers. At contract inception, the Company assesses the solutions or services, or bundles of solutions and services, obligated in the contract with a customer to third-party advisoryidentify each performance obligation within the contract, and consultingthen evaluates whether the performance obligations are capable of being distinct and distinct within the context of the contract. Solutions and services retention payments to certain employees, incremental stock-based compensationthat are not both capable of being distinct and other costs directly relateddistinct within the context of the contract are combined and treated as a single performance obligation in determining the allocation and recognition of revenue.
The standalone selling price is the price at which the Company would sell a promised product or service separately to the separationcustomer. For the majority of the GoTo Business.Company's software licenses and hardware, CSP and on-premise subscription software licenses, the Company uses the observable price in transactions with multiple performance obligations. For the majority of the Company’s support and services, and cloud-hosted subscription offerings, the Company uses the observable price when the Company sells that support and service or cloud-hosted subscription separately to similar customers. If the standalone selling price for a performance obligation is not directly observable, the Company estimates it. The Company estimates a standalone selling price by taking into consideration market conditions, economics of the offering and customers’ behavior. The Company maximizes the use of observable inputs and applies estimation methods consistently in similar circumstances. The Company allocates the transaction price to each distinct performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis.
Revenues are recognized when control of the promised products or services are transferred to customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration that the Company expects to receive in exchange for those products or services.
Sales tax
The Company records revenue net of sales tax.
Timing of revenue recognition
Three Months Ended March 31,
20202019
(In thousands)
Products and services transferred at a point in time$279,411  $162,964  
Products and services transferred over time581,534  556,179  
Total net revenues$860,945  $719,143  
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Contract balances
The Company's short-term and long-term contract assets, net of allowance for credit losses, were $15.1 million and $23.1 million, respectively, as of March 31, 2020. The Company's short-term and long-term contract assets were $12.2 million and $20.5 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2019. The Current portion of deferred revenues and the Long-term portion of deferred revenues were $1.34 billion and $414.3 million, respectively, as of March 31, 2020 and $1.35 billion and $443.5 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2019. The difference in the opening and closing balances of the Company’s contract assets and liabilities primarily results from the timing difference between the Company’s performance and the customer’s payment. During the three months ended September 30, 2016,March 31, 2020, the Company incurred $0.9recognized $453.2 million of separation costs which arerevenue that was included in Generalthe deferred revenue balance as of December 31, 2019.
The Company performs its obligations under a contract with a customer by transferring solutions and administrativeservices in exchange for consideration from the customer. Accounts receivable are recorded when the right to consideration becomes unconditional. The timing of the Company’s performance often differs from the timing of the customer’s payment, which results in the recognition of a contract asset or a contract liability. The Company recognizes a contract asset when the Company transfers products or services to a customer and the right to consideration is conditional on something other than the passage of time. The Company recognizes a contract liability when it has received consideration or an amount of consideration is due from the customer and the Company has a future obligation to transfer products or services. The Company had 0 material asset impairment charges related to contract assets for either the three months ended March 31, 2020 or March 31, 2019. 
For the Company’s software and hardware products, the timing of payment is typically upfront for its perpetual offerings and the Company’s on-premise subscriptions. Therefore, deferred revenue is created when a contract includes performance obligations such as license updates and maintenance or certain professional services that are satisfied over time. For subscription contracts, the timing of payment is typically in advance of services, and deferred revenue is created as these services are provided over time.
A significant portion of the Company’s contracts have an original duration of one year or less; therefore, the Company applies a practical expedient to determine whether a significant financing component exists and does not consider the effects of the time value of money. For multi-year contracts, the Company bills annually.
Transaction price allocated to the remaining performance obligations
The following table includes estimated revenue expected to be recognized in the future related to performance obligations that are unsatisfied or partially unsatisfied at the end of the reporting period (in thousands):
<1-3 years3-5 years5 years or moreTotal
Subscription$908,868  $100,613  $1,308  $1,010,789  
Support and services1,482,290  39,371  1,599  1,523,260  
Total net revenues$2,391,158  $139,984  $2,907  $2,534,049  
Contract acquisition costs
The Company is required to capitalize certain contract acquisition costs consisting primarily of commissions paid and related payroll taxes when contracts are signed. The asset recognized from capitalized incremental and recoverable acquisition costs is amortized on a basis consistent with the pattern of transfer of the products or services to which the asset relates.
The Company’s typical contracts include performance obligations related to product and licenses and support. In these contracts, incremental costs of obtaining a contract are allocated to the performance obligations based on the relative estimated standalone selling prices and then recognized on a basis that is consistent with the transfer of the goods or services to which the asset relates. The commissions paid on annual renewals of support for product and licenses are not commensurate with the initial commission. The costs allocated to product and licenses are expensed at the time of sale, when revenue for the product and functional software licenses is recognized. The costs allocated to customer support for product and licenses are amortized ratably over a period of the greater of the contract term or the average customer life, the expected period of benefit of the asset capitalized. The Company currently estimates an average customer life of three years to five years, which it believes is appropriate based on consideration of the historical average customer life and the estimated useful life of the underlying product and license sold as part of the transaction. Amortization of contract acquisition costs related to support are limited to the contractual period of the arrangement as the Company intends to pay a commensurate commission upon renewal of the related support. For contracts that contain multi-year services or subscriptions, the amortization period of the capitalized costs is the expected period of benefit, which is the greater of the contractual term or the expected customer life.
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The Company elects to apply a practical expedient to expense from continuing operationscontract acquisition costs as incurred where the expected period of benefit is one year or less.
For the three months ended March 31, 2020 and March 31, 2019, the Company recorded amortization of capitalized contract acquisition costs of $13.1 million and $10.7 million, respectively, which is recorded in Sales, marketing and services expense in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income. No separationThe Company's short-term and long-term contract acquisition costs were incurred in continuing operations during the three months ended September 30, 2017. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company incurred $0.5$52.9 million and $1.7$89.3 million, respectively, as of separation costs,March 31, 2020, and $50.4 million and $81.0 million, respectively, whichas of December 31, 2019, and are included in GeneralPrepaid and administrative expense from continuing operationsother current assets and Other assets, respectively, in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income.
The assets and liabilities of the GoTo Business were re-classified as discontinued operations as of December 31, 2016.


Carrying amounts of major classes of assets and liabilities included as part of discontinued operations relatedbalance sheets. There was 0 impairment loss in relation to the GoTo Business

 December 31, 2016
 (in thousands)
Assets 
Current assets: 
Cash$120,861
Accounts receivable, net44,734
Prepaid expenses and other current assets14,094
Total current assets of discontinued operations179,689
Property and equipment, net81,866
Goodwill380,917
Other intangible assets, net54,312
Deferred tax assets, net18,496
Other assets3,340
Long-term assets of discontinued operations$538,931
Total major classes of assets of discontinued operations

$718,620
  
Liabilities 
Current liabilities: 
Accounts payable$11,333
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities46,088
Current portion of deferred revenues115,249
Total current liabilities of discontinued operations172,670
Long-term portion of deferred revenues4,224
Other liabilities3,484
Long-term liabilities of discontinued operations$7,708
Total major classes of liabilities of discontinued operations

$180,378
As a result of the Spin-off, the Company recorded a $478.2 million reduction in retained earnings which included net assets of $464.8 million. Of this amount, $28.5 million represents cash transferred to the GoTo Business, with the remainder considered a non-cash activity in the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows. The Spin-off also resulted in a reduction of Accumulated other comprehensive loss associated with foreign currency translation adjustments of $13.4 million, which was reclassified to Retained earnings.
Citrix and GetGo entered into several agreements in connection with the Spin-off, including a transition services agreement ("TSA"), separation and distribution agreement, tax matters agreement, intellectual property matters agreement, and an employee matters agreement. Pursuant to the TSA, Citrix, GetGo and their respective subsidiaries are providing various services to each other on an interim, transitional basis. Services being provided by Citrix include, among others, finance, information technology and certain other administrative services. The services generally commenced on February 1, 2017 and are generally expected to terminate within 12 months of that date. Billings by Citrix under the TSA were not material forcosts capitalized during either the three or nine months ended September 30, 2017.March 31, 2020 or March 31, 2019.
4. EARNINGS PER SHARE
Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing income available to stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during each period. Diluted earnings per share is computed using the weighted-average number of common and dilutive common share equivalents outstanding during the period. Dilutive common share equivalents consist of shares issuable upon the exercise or settlement of stock awards and shares issuable under the employee stock purchase plan (calculated using the treasury stock method) during the period they were outstanding.


outstanding and potential dilutive common shares from the conversion spread on the Company’s 0.500% Convertible Notes due 2019 (the “Convertible Notes”) during the period they were outstanding and the Company's warrants.
The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net income per share (in thousands, except per share information):
Three Months Ended
 March 31,
 20202019
Numerator:
Net income$181,222  $110,348  
Denominator:
Denominator for basic earnings per share - weighted-average shares outstanding124,737  131,483  
Effect of dilutive employee stock awards2,840  2,834  
Effect of dilutive Convertible Notes—  5,016  
Effect of dilutive warrants—  1,692  
Denominator for diluted earnings per share - weighted-average shares outstanding127,577  141,025  
Basic earnings per share$1.45  $0.84  
Diluted earnings per share$1.42  $0.78  
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
Numerator:       
Income from continuing operations$126,720
 $111,737
 $305,874
 $291,280
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income taxes


 20,164
 (42,704) 44,982
Net income$126,720
 $131,901
 $263,170
 $336,262
Denominator:       
Denominator for basic net earnings per share - weighted-average shares outstanding151,156
 155,525
 151,896
 154,847
Effect of dilutive employee stock awards1,987
 2,007
 2,538
 1,850
Effect of dilutive Convertible Notes1,484
 
 1,950
 
Denominator for diluted net earnings per share - weighted-average shares outstanding154,627
 157,532
 156,384
 156,697
        
Basic earnings (loss) per share:       
Income from continuing operations$0.84
 $0.72
 $2.01
 $1.88
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
 0.13
 (0.28) 0.29
Basic net earnings per share$0.84
 $0.85
 $1.73
 $2.17
Diluted earnings (loss) per share:       
Income from continuing operations$0.82
 $0.71
 $1.96
 $1.86
Income (loss) from discontinued operations
 0.13
 (0.28) 0.29
Diluted net earnings per share:$0.82
 $0.84
 $1.68
 $2.15
Anti-dilutive weighted-average shares from stock awards393
 60
 225
 460
TheFor the three months ended March 31, 2020, there were 0 weighted-average number of shares outstanding used in the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share does not include common stock issuable upon the exercise offor the Company's warrants. The effectswarrants, as they expired on November 18, 2019. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the weighted-average number of these potentially issuable shares were not includedoutstanding used in the calculationcomputation of diluted earnings per share becauseincludes the dilutive effect would have been anti-dilutive.of the Company's warrants, as the average stock price during the quarter was above the weighted-average warrant strike price of $94.62 per share. Anti-dilutive stock-based awards excluded from the calculations of diluted earnings per share were immaterial during the periods presented. The Company used the treasury stock method to consider the dilutive effect of the forward sale contract related to the accelerated share repurchase transactions ("ASR") entered into in January 2020, and determined that the forward sale contract was anti-dilutive in calculating dilutive EPS.
The Company usesused the treasury stock method for calculating any potential dilutive effect of the conversion spread on its Convertible Notes on diluted earnings per share if applicable, because upon conversion the Company will paypaid cash up to the aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes to be converted and pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash,delivered shares of common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, at the Company’s election, in respect of the remainder if any, of the Company’s conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes being converted. The conversion spread will havehad a dilutive impact on diluted earnings per share when the average market price of the Company’s common stock for a given period exceedsexceeded the conversion price. Prior toFor the separation of the GoTo Business on Januarythree months ended March 31, 2017, the conversion price2020, there was $90.00 per share. As a result of the Spin-off, the conversion rate for0 dilution as the Convertible Notes was re-set as of the opening of businessmatured on February 1, 2017 to 13.9061 shares of the Company’s common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes, which corresponds to a conversion price of $71.91 per share of common stock. Similar adjustments were made to the conversion rates for the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions as of the opening of business on February 1, 2017.April 15, 2019. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2019, the average market price of the Company's common stock exceeded the new conversion price; therefore, the dilutive effect of the Convertible Notes was included in the denominator of diluted earnings per share. For the three
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5. CREDIT LOSSES
The Company is exposed to credit losses primarily through its accounts receivable, contract assets and nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Convertible Notes have been excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share as the effect would be anti-dilutive since the prior conversion price of the Convertible Notes exceeded the average market price of the Company’s common stock. In addition, the Company uses the treasury stock methodinvestments in available-for-sale debt securities. See Note 3 for calculating any potential dilutive effectadditional information related to the warrants.Company's contract assets. See Note 116 for detailedadditional information onrelated to the Convertible Notes offering.

Company's available-for-sale debt securities.

5. ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURESAccounts receivable, net
2017 Business Combination
On January 3, 2017, the Company acquired allThe Company's accounts receivable, which are typically due within one year, consist of the issuedfollowing (in thousands):
March 31, 2020
Accounts receivable, gross$718,400 
Less: allowance for returns(5,052)
Less: allowance for credit losses(13,322)
Accounts receivable, net$700,026 
The allowance for credit losses on accounts receivable is determined using a combination of specific reserves for accounts that are deemed to exhibit credit loss indicators and outstanding securitiesgeneral reserves that are judgmentally determined using loss rates based on historical write-offs by geography and customer accounts subject to credit check versus non-credit check status and consideration of Unidesk Corporation (“Unidesk” orrecent forecasted information, including underlying economic expectations. The credit loss reserves are updated quarterly for most recent write-offs and collections information and underlying economic expectations, which for the “2017 Business Combination"). Citrix acquired Unideskfirst quarter of 2020 included consideration of the current and expected future economic and market conditions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The Company will compare its current estimate of expected credit losses with the estimate of credit losses from the prior period and will report in net income the amount necessary to enhance its application management and delivery offerings.adjust the allowance for current expected credit losses. The total cash consideration for this transaction was $60.4 million, net of $2.7Company recorded $6.2 million of cash acquired. Transaction costs associated with the acquisition were $0.4 million. No transaction costs were incurredcredit loss expense during the three months ended September 30, 2017. The Company expensed $0.1 million of transaction costs during the nine months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, which wereis included inwithin General and administrative expenseexpenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income.
Purchase AccountingThe activity in the Company's allowance for credit losses for the 2017 Business Combination
The purchase price for Unidesk was allocated to the acquired net tangible and intangible assets based on estimated fair values as of the date of the acquisition. The allocation of the total purchase pricethree months ended March 31, 2020 is summarized belowas follows (in thousands):
Total
Balance of allowance for credit losses at January 1, 2020$6,161 
Adjustment for ASC 326 adoption1,245 
Current period provision for expected losses6,232 
Write-offs charged against allowance(316)
Balance of allowance for credit losses at March 31, 2020$13,322 
As of March 31, 2020, one distributor, the Arrow Group, accounted for 16% of the Company's total gross accounts receivable.
Available-for-sale Investments
 Unidesk
 Purchase Price Allocation Asset Life
Current assets$5,321
  
Property and equipment131
  
Intangible assets39,470
 4 years
Goodwill31,231
 Indefinite
Other assets90
  
Assets acquired76,243
  
Other current liabilities assumed2,290
  
Current portion of deferred revenues3,042
  
Long term portion of deferred revenues2,412
  
Long-term liabilities assumed4,086
  
Deferred taxes1,266
  
Net assets acquired$63,147
  
The allowance for credit losses on the Company's investment in available-for-sale debt securities is determined using a quantitative discounted cash flow analysis if impairment triggers exist after a qualitative screen is completed. Impairment on available-for-sale debt securities is determined on an individual security basis and the security is subject to impairment when its fair value declines below its amortized cost basis. If the fair value is less than the amortized cost basis, management must then determine whether it intends to sell the security or whether it is more likely than not that it will be required to sell the security before it recovers its value. If management intends to sell the security or will more-likely-than-not be required to sell the impaired security before it recovers its value, a credit loss is recorded to Other income, net in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of income. If management does not intend to sell the security, nor will it more-likely-than-not be required to sell the security before the security recovers its value, management must then determine whether the loss is due to credit loss or other factors. For impairment indicators due to credit loss factors, management establishes an allowance for credit losses with a charge to Other income, net. On the contrary, for impairment indicators due to other factors, management records the loss with a charge to Other comprehensive loss.
Current assets acquired in connection withUpon adoption of the Unidesk acquisition consisted primarily of cash, accounts receivablecredit loss standard, the Company established an allowance for credit losses and other short term assets. Current liabilities assumed in connection withdid 0t have any credit loss expense recorded for the acquisition consisted primarily of accounts payable and other accrued expenses. Long-term liabilities assumed in connection with the acquisition consisted primarily of long-term debt, which was paid in full subsequent to the acquisition date. The Company continues to evaluate certain income tax assets and liabilitiesthree months ended March 31, 2020. See Note 6 for more information on allowances for credit losses related to the Unidesk acquisition.available-for-sale debt securities.
The goodwill related to the Unidesk acquisition is not deductible for tax purposes and is comprised primarily of expected synergies from combining operations and other intangible assets that do not qualify for separate recognition.
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The Company has includedavailable-for-sale debt securities that have fair values below amortized cost; however, the effectCompany does not consider a credit allowance necessary as (i) the Company does not intend to sell the securities, (ii) it is not more-likely-than-not that the Company will be required to sell the investments before recovery of the Unidesk acquisition in its results of operations prospectively fromamortized cost basis, and (iii) the date of acquisition. The effect of the acquisition was not materialunrealized losses are due to the Company's consolidated results for the periods presented; accordingly, pro forma financial disclosures have not been presented.market factors rather than credit loss factors.
Identifiable intangible assets acquired in connection with the Unidesk acquisition (in thousands) and the weighted-average lives are as follows:
 Unidesk Asset Life
Developed technology$35,230
 4 years
Customer contracts4,240
 4 years
Total$39,470
  




2016 Business Combination
On September 7, 2016, the Company acquired all of the issued and outstanding securities of a privately held company. The acquisition provides a software solution that cuts the cost of desktop and application virtualization and delivers workspace performance by accelerating desktop logon and application response times for any Microsoft Windows-based environment. The total cash consideration for this transaction was $11.5 million, net of $0.8 million cash acquired. Transaction costs were $0.4 million, none of which were incurred during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017. The Company expensed $0.3 million of transaction costs during the three months ended September 30, 2016 and $0.4 million of transaction costs during the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The assets related to this acquisition relate primarily to $8.2 million of product technology identifiable intangible assets with a 4 year life and goodwill of $4.7 million.
2016 Asset Acquisition
On January 8, 2016, the Company acquired certain monitoring technology assets from a privately-held company for total cash consideration of $23.6 million. The acquisition provides a monitoring solution for Citrix's products as it relates to Microsoft Windows applications and desktop delivery. The identifiable intangible assets acquired related primarily to product technologies.
2016 Divestiture
On February 29, 2016, the Company sold its CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager products to Persistent Telecom Solutions, Inc. The agreement included contingent consideration in the form of an earnout provision based on revenue for a period of five years following the closing date. Any income associated with the contingent consideration will be recognized if the earnout provisions are met. No earnout provisions were met during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017. Therefore, no income was recognized during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017.
6. INVESTMENTS
Available-for-sale Investments
Investments in available-for-sale securities at fair value were as follows for the periods ended (in thousands):
 March 31, 2020
Description of the SecuritiesAmortized
Cost
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
Allowance
for
Credit Losses
Fair Value
Agency securities$811  $ $—  $—  $814  
Corporate securities37,697  12  (11) (147) 37,551  
Total$38,508  $15  $(11) $(147) $38,365  

September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016December 31, 2019
Description of the
Securities
Amortized
Cost
 
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
 
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
 Fair Value 
Amortized
Cost
 
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
 
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
 Fair ValueDescription of the SecuritiesAmortized
Cost
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
Fair Value
Agency securities$483,398
 $557
 $(1,297) $482,658
 $411,963
 $699
 $(1,169) $411,493
Agency securities$1,681  $ $—  $1,682  
Corporate securities802,969
 576
 (1,065) 802,480
 842,887
 193
 (2,114) 840,966
Corporate securities49,027   (149) 48,884  
Municipal securities3,965
 12
 
 3,977
 9,989
 3
 (4) 9,988
Government securities329,245
 55
 (570) 328,730
 445,083
 135
 (600) 444,618
Government securities9,124   —  9,129  
Total$1,619,577
 $1,200
 $(2,932) $1,617,845
 $1,709,922
 $1,030
 $(3,887) $1,707,065
Total$59,832  $12  $(149) $59,695  
The change in net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities recorded in Other comprehensive (loss) income includes unrealized gains (losses) that arose from changes in market value, excluding credit-related factors, of specifically identified securities that were held during the period, gains (losses) that were previously unrealized, but have been recognized in current period net income due to sales, as well asand prepayments of available-for-sale investments purchased at a premium. This reclassification has no effect on total comprehensive income or equity and was not material for all periods presented. See Note 1413 for more information related to comprehensive income.
The average remaining maturities of the Company’s short-term and long-term available-for-sale investments at September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 were approximately sevenfive months and two years, respectively.
Realized Gains and Losses on Available-for-sale Investments
For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the Company did 0t receive any proceeds from the sales of available-for-sale investments. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company received proceeds from the sales of available-for-sale investments of $116.4 million$773.0 million.
Realized and $678.5 million,respectively,Unrealized Gains and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, it received proceeds from the sales of available-for-sale investments of $709.2 million and $1.16 billion, respectively.Losses on Available-for-sale Investments
For the three months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the Company had nodid 0t have any realized gainsgain on the sales of available-for-sale investments, and during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company had $0.7 million in realized gains on the


sales of available-for-sale investments. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, itMarch 31, 2019, the Company had $1.0 million of realized gains on available-for-sale investments.
Effective January 1, 2020, the salesnew CECL guidance requires the recognition of an allowance for estimated credit losses on investments in available-for-sale investments of $1.0 million and $1.6 million, respectively.
debt securities. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the Company did not have any realized losses on available-for-sale investments. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company had realized losses on available-for-sale investments of $0.2 million and $0.4 million, respectively, and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, it had realizedmillion. Realized losses on available-for-sale investments of $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively, primarily related to sales of these investments during thesethe respective periods.
All realized gains and losses related to the sales of available-for-sale investments are included in Other income, (expense), net, in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income.
Unrealized Losses on Available-for-Sale Investments
TheAs of December 31, 2019, the Company's gross unrealized losses on the Company’s available-for-sale investments that arewere $0.1 million and were not deemed to be other-than-temporarily impaired as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016 were $2.9 million and $3.9 million, respectively. Becauseunder the Company does not intend to sell any of its investments in an unrealized loss position and it is more likely than not that it will not be required to sell the securities before the recovery of its amortized cost basis, which may not occur until maturity, it does not consider the securities to be other-than-temporarily impaired.prior accounting guidance.
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Cost Method Investments


Equity Securities without Readily Determinable Fair Values
The Company held direct investments in privately-held companies of $19.1$12.7 million and $19.2$12.3 million as of September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2016,2019, respectively, which are accounted for based onat cost, less impairment plus or minus adjustments resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions for an identical or a similar investment of the cost method andsame issuer. These investments are included in Other assets in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company periodically reviews these investments for impairment. Ifimpairment and observable price changes on a quarterly basis, and adjusts the Company determines that an other-than-temporary impairment has occurred, it will write-down the investment to its fair value. Forcarrying value accordingly. During the three months ended September 30, 2017, no cost methodMarch 31, 2020, the Company determined there was an upward adjustment of $1.8 million to one of the Company's investments were determinedin a privately-held company without a readily determinable fair value based on an observable input, specifically its ability to be impaired. Forobtain additional financing at a favorable valuation. During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017, certain cost methodMarch 31, 2019, the Company determined that there were no material adjustments resulting from observable price changes to the Company's investments within privately-held companies without a combined carryingreadily determinable fair value. The fair value of $2.6these investments represents a Level 3 valuation as the assumptions used in valuing these investments are not directly or indirectly observable. See Note 7 for detailed information on fair value measurements.
Equity Securities Accounted for at Net Asset Value
The Company held equity interests in certain private equity funds of $10.2 million were determined to be impaired and written down to their estimated fair values$11.2 million as of $1.2 million. Accordingly,March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, which are accounted for under the Company recorded $1.4 million in impairment charges during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, whichnet asset value practical expedient. These investments are included in Other income (expense), netassets in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company determined that certain cost method investments were impaired and recorded a charge of $0.9 million and $1.1 million, respectively, which was included in Other income (expense),balance sheets. The net in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, certain companies in which the Company held direct investments were acquired by third parties and as a resultasset value of these sales transactionsinvestments is determined using quarterly capital statements from the funds, which are based on the Company’s contributions to the funds, allocation of profit and loss and changes in fair value of the underlying fund investments. These private equity funds focus on making venture capital investments, principally by investing in equity securities of early and late stage privately-held corporations. The funds’ general partner shall determine the amount, timing and form (whether cash or in kind) of all distributions made by the funds. The Company recorded gainsmay only transfer its investments in private equity fund interests subject to the general partner’s written consent and cannot trade its fund interests in established securities markets, secondary markets or equivalents thereof. The Company has unfunded commitments of $1.2$0.7 million which were included in Other income (expense), net, in the accompanying condensed consolidated statementsas of income. No gains were recognized during the three months ended September 30, 2017.March 31, 2020.
7. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
The authoritative guidance defines fair value as an exit price, representing the amount that would either be received to sell an asset or be paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, the guidance establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:
Level 1. Observable inputs such as quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
Level 2. Inputs, other than the quoted prices in active markets, that are observable either directly or indirectly; and
Level 3. Unobservable inputs in which there is little or no market data, which require the reporting entity to develop its own assumptions.
Available-for-sale securities included in Level 2 are valued utilizing inputs obtained from an independent pricing service (the “Service”) which uses quoted market prices for identical or comparable instruments rather than direct observations of quoted prices in active markets. The Service applies a four level hierarchical pricing methodology to all of the Company’s fixed income securities based on the circumstances. The hierarchy starts with the highest priority pricing source, then subsequently uses inputs obtained from other third-party sources and large custodial institutions. The Service’s providers utilize a variety of inputs to determine their quoted prices. These inputs may include interest rates, known historical trades, yield curve information, benchmark data, prepayment speeds, credit quality and broker/dealer quotes. Substantially all of the Company’s available-for-sale investments are valued utilizing inputs obtained from the Service and accordingly are categorized as Level 2 in the table below. The Company periodically independently assesses the pricing obtained from the Service and historically has


not adjusted the Service's pricing as a result of this assessment. Available-for-sale securities are included in Level 3 when relevant observable inputs for a security are not available.
The Company’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement requires judgment and may affect the classification of assets and liabilities within the fair value hierarchy. In certain instances, the inputs used to measure fair value may meet the definition of more than one level of the fair value hierarchy. The input with the lowest level priority is used to determine the applicable level in the fair value hierarchy.
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Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
As of March 31, 2020Quoted
Prices in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets (Level 1)
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs (Level 2)
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs (Level 3)
 (In thousands)
Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents:
Cash$390,789  $390,789  $—  $—  
Money market funds132,421  132,421  —  —  
Corporate securities1,671  —  1,671  —  
Available-for-sale securities:
Agency securities814  —  814  —  
Corporate securities37,551  —  36,551  1,000  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets:
Foreign currency derivatives919  —  919  —  
Total assets$564,165  $523,210  $39,955  $1,000  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities:
Foreign currency derivatives3,904  —  3,904  —  
Total liabilities$3,904  $—  $3,904  $—  
 As of September 30, 2017 
Quoted
Prices In
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets (Level 1)
 
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs (Level 2)
 
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs (Level 3)
 (In thousands)
Assets:       
Cash and cash equivalents:       
Cash$869,770
 $869,770
 $
 $
Money market funds66,245
 66,245
 
 
Corporate securities4,854
 
 4,854
 
Available-for-sale securities:       
Agency securities482,658
 
 482,658
 
Corporate securities802,480
 
 802,086
 394
Municipal securities3,977
 
 3,977
 
Government securities328,730
 
 328,730
 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets:       
Foreign currency derivatives4,531
 
 4,531
 
Total assets$2,563,245
 $936,015
 $1,626,836
 $394
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities:       
Foreign currency derivatives622
 
 622
 
Total liabilities$622
 $
 $622
 $

As of December 31, 2016 
Quoted
Prices In
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets (Level 1)
 
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs (Level 2)
 
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs (Level 3)
As of December 31, 2019Quoted
Prices in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets (Level 1)
Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs (Level 2)
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs (Level 3)
(In thousands) (In thousands)
Assets:       Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents:       Cash and cash equivalents:
Cash$528,637
 $528,637
 $
 $
Cash$474,756  $474,756  $—  $—  
Money market funds224,765
 224,765
 
 
Money market funds42,019  42,019  —  —  
Agency securitiesAgency securities19,993  —  19,993  —  
Corporate securities82,693
 
 82,693
 
Corporate securities8,993  —  8,993  —  
Available-for-sale securities:       Available-for-sale securities:
Agency securities411,493
 
 411,493
 
Agency securities1,682  —  1,682  —  
Corporate securities840,966
 
 839,968
 998
Corporate securities48,884  —  47,884  1,000  
Municipal securities9,988
 
 9,988
 
Government securities444,618
 
 444,618
 
Government securities9,129  —  9,129  —  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets:       Prepaid expenses and other current assets:
Foreign currency derivatives2,506
 
 2,506
 
Foreign currency derivatives1,889  —  1,889  —  
Total assets$2,545,666
 $753,402
 $1,791,266
 $998
Total assets$607,345  $516,775  $89,570  $1,000  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities:       Accrued expenses and other current liabilities:
Foreign currency derivatives4,435
 
 4,435
 
Foreign currency derivatives1,390  —  1,390  —  
Total liabilities$4,435
 $
 $4,435
 $
Total liabilities$1,390  $—  $1,390  $—  
The Company’s fixed income available-for-sale security portfolio generally consists of investment grade securities from diverse issuers with a minimum credit rating of A-/A3 and a weighted-average credit rating of AA-/Aa3. The Company values these securities based on pricing from the Service, whose sources may use quoted prices in active markets for identical assets (Level 1 inputs) or inputs other than quoted prices that are observable either directly or indirectly (Level 2 inputs) in determining fair value, and accordingly, the Company classifies allthe majority of its fixed income available-for-sale securities as Level 2.
The Company measures its cash flow hedges, which are classified as Prepaid expenses and other current assets and Accrued expenses and other current liabilities, at fair value based on indicative prices in active markets (Level 2 inputs).
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Assets Measured at Fair Value on a Non-recurring Basis Using Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
ForDuring the three months ended September 30, 2017, no cost methodMarch 31, 2020, certain direct investments were determined to be impaired. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, certain cost method investmentsin privately-held companies with a combined carrying value of $2.6$1.3 million were determined to be impaired and written down to their estimateda fair valuesvalue of $1.20, resulting in an impairment charge of $1.3 million. Accordingly, the Company recorded $1.4 million ofThe impairment charges during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, which arecharge was included in Other income, (expense), net in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income. For
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, the CompanyMarch 31, 2019, 0 direct investments in privately-held companies were determined that certain cost method investments were impaired and recorded a charge of $0.9 million and $1.1 million, respectively, which was included in Other income (expense), net in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income.to be impaired. In determining the fair value of cost methodthe investments, the Company considers many factors including but not limited to operating performance of the investee, the amount of cash that the investee has on-hand, the ability to obtain additional financing and the overall market conditions in which the investee operates. The fair value of the cost method investments represent a Level 3 valuation as the assumptions used in valuing these investments were not directly or indirectly observable.
For certain intangible assets where the unamortized balances exceeded the undiscounted future net cash flows, the Company measures the amount of the impairment by calculating the amount by which the carrying values exceed the estimated fair values, which are based on projected discounted future net cash flows. These non-recurring fair value measurements are categorized as Level 3 significant unobservable inputs. See Note 9 for detailed information related to Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets.
Additional Disclosures Regarding Fair Value Measurements
The carrying value of accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their fair value due to the short maturity of these items.
As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the fair value of the Convertible Notes, which$750.0 million unsecured senior notes due March 1, 2030 (the "2030 Notes") and $750.0 million unsecured senior notes due December 1, 2027 (the “2027 Notes") was determined based on inputs that are observable in the market (Level 2) based. Based on the closing trading price per $100 as of the last day of trading for the quarter ended September 30, 2017, andMarch 31, 2020, the carrying value of debt instruments (carrying value excludes the equity component of the Company’s Convertible Notes classified in equity) was as follows (in thousands):
 Fair ValueCarrying Value
2030 Notes$709,020  $738,221  
2027 Notes$767,333  $743,149  
 Fair Value Carrying Value
Convertible Senior Notes$1,672,095
 $1,376,673
See Note 11 for more information on the 2030 Notes and 2027 Notes.
8. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
Plans
The Company’s stock-based compensation program is a long-term retention program that is intended to attract and reward talented employees and align stockholder and employee interests. As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the Company had one1 stock-based compensation plan under which it was granting equity awards. The Company is currently granting stock-based awards from its Amended and Restated 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the "2014 Plan"), which was approved at the Company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders on June 22, 2017. In connection with certain ofMarch 2019, the Company’s acquisitions, the Company has assumed certain plans from acquired companies. The Company’sCompany's Board of Directors has provided that no new awards will be granted underadopted an amendment to the Company’s acquired stock plans. Awards previously granted under2014 Plan, which was approved at the Company's superseded stock plans that are still outstanding typically expire between five and ten years from the dateAnnual Meeting of grant and will continue to be subject to all the terms and conditions of such plans, as applicable.Stockholders on June 4, 2019. The Company’s superseded stock plans with outstanding awards include the Amended and Restated 2005 Equity Incentive Plan ("2005 Plan").Plan.
Under the terms of the 2014 Plan, the Company is authorized to grant incentive stock options (“ISOs”), non-qualified stock options (“NSOs”), non-vested stock, non-vested stock units, stock appreciation rights (“SARs”), and performance units and to make stock-based awards to full and part-time employees of the Company and its subsidiaries or affiliates, where legally eligible to participate, as well as to consultants and non-employee directors of the Company. SARsISOs, NSOs, and ISOsSARs are not currently being granted. Currently,Pursuant to the 2014 Plan provides forJune 2019 amendment, the issuancemaximum number of46,000,000 shares of common stock. In addition, shares of


common stock underlying any awards granted under the Company’s 2014 Plan or the 2005 Plan that are forfeited, canceled or otherwise terminated (other than by exercise) are added to the shares of common stock available for issuance under the 2014 Plan.Plan was reduced to 43,400,000. In addition, the amendment removed the fungible share adjustment used to determine shares available for issuance. Under the original terms of the 2014 Plan, shares available for issuance were adjusted by a 2.75 fungible share factor. Pursuant to the amendment, beginning on June 4, 2019, each share award granted under the 2014 Plan reduces the share reserve by one share and all share awards granted on June 4, 2019 and thereafter that are later forfeited, canceled or terminated are returned to the share reserve in the same manner. Under the 2014 Plan, NSOs must be granted at exercise prices no less than fair market value on the date of grant. Non-vested stock awards may be granted for such consideration in cash, other property or services, or a combination thereof, as determined by the Company’s Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors. Stock-based awards are generally exercisable or issuable upon vesting. The Company’s policy is to recognize compensation cost for awards with only service conditions and a graded vesting schedule on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award. As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, there were 29,119,13311,183,427 shares of common stock reserved for issuance pursuant to the Company’s stock-based compensation plans, including authorization under its 2014 Plan to grant stock-based awards covering 24,185,5486,580,166 shares of common stock. In connection with the completion of the Spin-off, these awards were modified as described below.

In December 2014, the Company’s Board of Directors approved the 2015 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2015 ESPP”), which was approved by stockholders at the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on May 28, 2015. Under the 2015 ESPP, all full-time and certain part-time employees of the Company are eligible to purchase common stock of the
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Company twice per year at the end of a six-monthsix-month payment period (a “Payment Period”). During each Payment Period, eligible employees who so elect may authorize payroll deductions in an amount no less than 1% nor greater than 10% of his or her base pay for each payroll period in the Payment Period. At the end of each Payment Period, the accumulated deductions are used to purchase shares of common stock from the Company up to a maximum of 12,000 shares for any one employee during a Payment Period. Shares are purchased at a price equal to 85% of the fair market value of the Company's common stock, on either the first business day of the Payment Period or the last business day of the Payment Period, whichever is lower. Employees who, after exercising their rights to purchase shares of common stock in the 2015 ESPP, would own shares representing 5% or more of the voting power of the Company’s common stock, are ineligible to continue to participate under the 2015 ESPP. The 2015 ESPP provides for the issuance of a maximum of 16,000,000 shares of common stock. As of September 30, 2017, 1,260,420March 31, 2020, 2,438,105 shares have been issued under the 2015 ESPP. The Company recorded stock-based compensation costs related to the 2015 ESPPits employee stock purchase plan of $4.4$2.1 million and $2.3$2.9 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and 2016, respectively, and it recorded $7.9 million and $6.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016,2019, respectively.
The Company used the Black-Scholes model to estimate the fair value of the 2015 ESPP awards with the following weighted-average assumptions:
Three Months Ended Nine Months EndedThree Months Ended
September 30, 2017 September 30, 2016 September 30, 2017 September 30, 2016March 31, 2020March 31, 2019
Expected volatility factor0.27 - 0.29
 0.27 - 0.41
 0.27 - 0.29
 0.27 - 0.41
Expected volatility factor0.21 - 0.22  0.26 - 0.29  
Risk free interest rate0.60% - 1.12%
 0.35% - 0.42%
 0.60% - 1.12%
 0.25% - 0.42%
Risk free interest rate1.56% - 2.06%  2.19% - 2.49%  
Expected dividend yield0% 0% 0% 0%Expected dividend yield1.20% - 1.39%  1.27% - 1.31%  
Expected life (in years)0.5
 0.5
 0.5
 0.5
Expected life (in years)0.50.5
The Company determined the expected volatility factor by considering the implied volatility in six-month market-traded options of the Company's common stock based on third partythird-party volatility quotes. The Company's decision to use implied volatility was based upon the availability of actively traded options on the Company's common stock and its assessment that implied volatility is more representative of future stock price trends than historical volatility. The risk-free interest rate was based on a U.S. Treasury instrument whose term is consistent with the expected term of the stock options. The Company'scurrent dividend yield has been updated for expected dividend yield input was zero as it has not historically paid, nor expects in the future to pay, cash dividends on its common stock.payout. The expected term is based on the term of the purchase period for grants made under the ESPP.
Modifications of Share-Based Awards
In connection with the completion of the Spin-off, the terms of the Company's existing stock-based compensation arrangements required adjustments to the number and exercise price of outstanding stock options, non-vested stock units, non-vested stock, performance units, and other share-based awards to preserve the intrinsic value of the awards immediately before and after the Spin-off. The outstanding awards continue to vest over the original vesting periods. Certain outstanding awards at the time of the Spin-off held by employees of the GoTo Business were forfeited at the time of the separation. The stock awards held as of January 31, 2017 were adjusted as follows:
The number of shares of common stock subject to each outstanding stock option was increased and the corresponding exercise price was decreased to maintain the intrinsic value of each outstanding stock option immediately before and after the Spin-off. There was no incremental expense related to this adjustment.


The number of shares of common stock underlying each outstanding non-vested stock unit and performance unit was increased to preserve the intrinsic value of such award immediately prior to the Spin-off.
The opening prices of the performance units granted in 2015 and 2016 were adjusted to reflect the value of the shares of LogMeIn stock distributed to the Company's shareholders as a result of the Spin-off. These adjustments resulted in $6.5 million in incremental compensation expense to be recognized over the remaining vesting life of the underlying awards.
Stock-Based Compensation
The detail of the total stock-based compensation recognized by income statement classification is as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended
Income Statement ClassificationsMarch 31, 2020March 31, 2019
Cost of subscription, support and services$2,762  $2,202  
Research and development21,596  27,837  
Sales, marketing and services20,386  19,926  
General and administrative13,579  15,269  
Total$58,323  $65,234  
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
Income Statement ClassificationsSeptember 30, 2017 September 30, 2016 September 30, 2017 September 30, 2016
Cost of services and maintenance revenues$1,132
 $590
 $2,539
 $1,626
Research and development14,365
 10,501
 35,691
 27,945
Sales, marketing and services16,063
 13,405
 42,388
 36,909
General and administrative20,172
 16,347
 46,601
 48,791
Total$51,732
 $40,843
 $127,219
 $115,271

Non-vested Stock Units
Market Performance and Service ConditionService-Based Stock Units
In March 2017, the Company granted senior level employees non-vested stock unit awards representing, in the aggregate, 275,148 non-vested stock units that vest based on certain target performance and service conditions. The number of non-vested stock units underlying the award will be determined within sixty days of the three-year performance period ending December 31, 2019. The attainment level under the award will be based on the Company's relative total return to stockholders over the performance period compared to a pre-established custom index group. If the Company’s relative total return to stockholders is between the 41st percentile and the 80th percentile when compared to the index companies, the number of non-vested stock units earned will be based on interpolation. The maximum number of non-vested stock units that may vest pursuant to the awards is capped at 200% of the target number of non-vested stock units set forth in the award agreement and is earned if the Company's relative total return to stockholders when compared to the index companies is at or greater than the 80th percentile. If the Company’s total return to stockholders is negative, the number of non-vested stock units earned will be no more than 100% regardless of the Company’s relative total return to stockholders compared to the index companies. If the awardee is not employed by the Company at the end of the performance period, the extent to which the awardee will vest in the award, if at all, is dependent upon the timing and character of the termination as provided in the award agreement. Each non-vested stock unit, upon vesting, represents the right to receive one share of the Company's common stock.
In January 2016, the Company granted its former Chief Executive Officer 220,235 non-vested stock units that vest based on certain target performance conditions; and in March 2016, the Company granted senior level employees 234,816 non-vested stock units that vest based on certain target performance conditions. These awards were modified as described above as a result of the Spin-off. The attainment level under the awards will be based on the Company's compound annualized total return to stockholders over a three-year performance period, with 100% of such stock units earned if the Company achieves total shareholder return of 10% over the performance period. Further, if the Company achieves annualized total shareholder return of less than 10% during the performance period, the awardees may earn all or a portion of the target award, but not in excess of 100% of such stock units, depending upon the Company’s relative total shareholder return compared to companies listed in the S&P Computer Software Select Index. If the Company's compound annualized total shareholder return is 5% or above, the number of non-vested stock units earned will be based on interpolation, with the maximum number of non-vested stock units earned capped at 200% of the target number of non-vested stock units for a compound annualized total return to stockholders of 30% over a three-year performance period as set forth in the award agreement. Within sixty days following an interim measurement period of 18 months, the Compensation Committee will determine the number of restricted stock units that would be deemed earned based on performance to date, and up to 33% of the target award may be earned based on such performance; however, any stock units that are deemed earned will remain subject to continued service vesting until the end of the three-year performance period, or a change in control, if earlier. Within sixty days following the conclusion of the performance period, the Company’s Compensation Committee will determine the number of restricted stock units that would vest upon the final day of the performance period based on the Company’s performance during the period and in accordance with the terms of the award.


On the vesting date, the greater of the full period restricted stock units, or the interim earned restricted stock units, will vest in one installment. 
The market condition requirements are reflected in the grant date fair value of the award, and the compensation expense for the award will be recognized assuming that the requisite service is rendered regardless of whether the market conditions are achieved. The grant date fair value of the non-vested performance stock unit awards was determined through the use of a Monte Carlo simulation model, which utilized multiple input variables that determined the probability of satisfying the market condition requirements applicable to each award as follows:
 March 2017 GrantMarch 2016 GrantJanuary 2016 Grant
Expected volatility factor0.27-0.32
0.29 - 0.39
0.29 - 0.37
Risk free interest rate1.48%0.91%1.10%
Expected dividend yield0%0%0%
For the March 2017 grant, the range of expected volatilities utilized was based on the historical volatilities of the Company's common stock and the average of its peer group. The Company chose to use historical volatility to value these awards because historical stock prices were used to develop the correlation coefficients between the Company and its peer group in order to model the stock price movements. The volatilities used were calculated over the most recent 2.75 year period, which is commensurate with the awards' performance period at the date of grant. The risk free interest rate was based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with remaining terms equivalent to the performance period. The Company does not intend to pay dividends on its common stock in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the Company used a dividend yield of zero in its model. The estimated fair value of each award as of the date of grant was $104.05.
For the March 2016 and January 2016 grants, the range of expected volatilities utilized was based on the historical volatilities of the Company's common stock and the average of its peer group. The Company chose to use historical volatility to value these awards because historical stock prices were used to develop the correlation coefficients between the Company and its peer group in order to model the stock price movements. The volatilities used were calculated over a three year period, which is commensurate with the awards’ performance period at the date of grant. The risk free interest rate was based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with remaining terms equivalent to the performance period. The Company does not intend to pay dividends on its common stock in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the Company used a dividend yield of zero in its model. The estimated fair value of each award as of the date of grant was $66.18 for the March 2016 grant and $49.68 for the January 2016 grant.
Service Based Stock Units
The Company also awards senior level employees, certain other employees and new non-employee directors, non-vested stock units granted under the 2014 Plan that vest based on service. The majority of these non-vested stock unit awards generally vest 33.33% on each anniversary subsequent to the date of the award. The Company also assumes non-vested stock units in connection with certain of its acquisitions. The assumed awards have the same three year vesting schedule. Each non-vested stock unit, upon vesting, represents the right to receive one1 share of the Company’s common stock. In addition, the Company awards non-vested stock units to all of its continuing non-employee directors. These awards vest monthly in 12 equal installments based on service and, upon vesting, each stock unit representsdirectors, which represent the right to receive one share of the Company's common stock upon vesting. Previously, non-vested stock unit awards granted to the Company's continuing non-employee directors vested monthly in 12 equal installments. Beginning in 2020, new awards granted to non-employee directors will vest in full in one installment on the earlier of: (i) the first anniversary of the award date or (ii) the day immediately prior to the Company’s next annual meeting of the stockholders following the award date.
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Company Performance Stock Units
In April 2019, the Company awarded senior level employees 293,991 non-vested performance stock unit awards granted under the 2014 Plan. The number of non-vested stock units underlying the award will be determined within sixty days following completion of the performance period ending December 31, 2021 and will be based on the achievement of specific corporate financial performance goals related to subscription bookings as a percentage of total subscription and product bookings measured during the period from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021. The number of non-vested stock units issued will be based on a graduated slope, with the maximum number of non-vested stock units issuable pursuant to the award capped at 200% of the target number of non-vested stock units set forth in the award agreement. The Company is required to estimate the attainment expected to be achieved related to the defined performance goals and the number of non-vested stock units that will ultimately be awarded in order to recognize compensation expense over the vesting period. Each non-vested stock unit, upon vesting, represents the right to receive one share of the Company’s common stock. Compensation expense will be recorded through the end of the performance period on December 31, 2021 if it is deemed probable that the performance goals will be met. If the performance goals are not met, no compensation cost will be recognized and any previously recognized compensation cost will be reversed.
In February 2019, the Company had awarded certain senior level employees 93,500 non-vested performance stock units granted under the 2014 Plan. The number of non-vested stock units underlying the award were to be determined within sixty days following the completion of the performance period ending December 31, 2020 and were based on the achievement of specific corporate financial performance goals between the fiscal years ended December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2020. The Company was required to estimate the attainment expected to be achieved related to the defined performance goals and the number of non-vested stock units that would have ultimately been awarded in order to recognize compensation expense over the vesting period. Each non-vested stock unit, upon vesting, represented the right to receive one share of the Company’s common stock. Compensation expense would have been recorded through the end of the performance period on December 31, 2020 if it were deemed probable that the performance goals would have been met. In January 2020, the non-vested performance stock units were cancelled pursuant to a forfeiture agreement executed by each holder in return for nominal cash consideration. The impact of the cancellation was not material to the consolidated financial statements.
Unrecognized Compensation Related to Stock Units
As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the total number of all non-vested stock units outstanding, including marketcompany performance and service condition awards and service-based awards including service-based awards assumed in connection with acquisitions, was 4,876,811.4,554,233. As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, there was $257.8$329.0 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested stock units. The unrecognized cost of the awards legally granted through March 31, 2020 is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.051.68 years.


Subsequent Event
Non-vested Stock
During the nine months ended September 30, 2016,On April 1, 2020, the Company grantedawarded senior level employees and certain other employees 1,749,687 non-vested stock units granted under the 2014 Plan that vest based on service. These non-vested stock unit awards vest 33.33% on each of 118,588 sharesthe first, second and third anniversary subsequent to its former Chief Executive Officer, with a vesting period of approximately three years from the grant date of grant, subject to the holder’s continued employment withaward.
Additionally, on April 1, 2020, the Company and accelerated vestingawarded senior level employees 294,605 non-vested performance stock unit awards granted under certain circumstances. Non-vestedthe 2014 Plan. The number of non-vested stock is issued and outstanding upon grant; however, award holders are restricted from selling the shares until they vest. If the vesting conditions are not met,units underlying the award will be forfeited.Compensation expense is measureddetermined within sixty days following completion of the performance period ending December 31, 2022 and will be based on the closing market priceachievement of specific corporate financial performance goals related to the Company’s annualized recurring revenue (ARR) growth measured during the period from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2022. The number of non-vested stock units issued will be based on a graduated slope, with the maximum number of non-vested stock units issuable pursuant to the award capped at 200% of the target number of non-vested stock units set forth in the award agreement. The Company is required to estimate the attainment expected to be achieved related to the defined performance goals and the number of non-vested stock units that will ultimately be awarded in order to recognize compensation expense over the vesting period. Each non-vested stock unit, upon vesting, represents the right to receive one share of the Company’s common stock. Compensation expense will be recorded through the end of the performance period on December 31, 2022 if it is deemed probable that the performance goals will be met. If the performance goals are not met, no compensation cost will be recognized and any previously recognized compensation cost will be reversed.
Furthermore, on April 6, 2020, the Company awarded certain senior level employees 90,756 non-vested performance stock atunit awards granted under the date2014 Plan that vest based on the Company’s ARR growth during the relevant performance periods, which span January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021. The number of grant and is recognizednon-vested stock units issued upon the vesting of the award will be based on a straight-line basisgraduated slope, with the maximum number of non-vested stock units issuable pursuant to the award capped at 125% of the target number of non-vested stock units set forth in the award agreement. The Company is required to estimate the attainment expected to be achieved related to the defined performance goals and the number of non-
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vested stock units that will ultimately be awarded in order to recognize compensation expense over the vesting period. In connection withEach non-vested stock unit, upon vesting, represents the departureright to receive one share of its former Chief Executive officer,the Company’s common stock. Compensation expense will be recorded through the end of the performance period on December 31, 2021 if it is deemed probable that the performance goals will be met. If the performance goals are not met, no compensation cost will be recognized and any previously recognized compensation cost will be reversed.
The April 1, 2020 and April 6, 2020 awards were accounted for as stock-settled debt as of March 31, 2020, as the dollar value of the awards was approved before the grant date and constitutes a fixed dollar value of awards that will be settled in a variable number of non-vested stock units on their respective grant dates. As of March 31, 2020, the Company recognized $4.0expense totaling $4.8 million of stock-based compensation expense during the three months ended September 30, 2017 related to the acceleration ofthese awards. Total unrecognized cost related to these awards in accordance with his separation agreement. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company recognized $5.3as of March 31, 2020 was $290.3 million, of stock-based compensation expense related to non-vested stock awards. At September 30, 2017, no additional stock-based compensation expensewhich is expected to be recognized related to theseover a weighted-average period of 2.96 years for the April 1, 2020 awards and 1.74 years for the April 6, 2020 awards.
9. GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Goodwill
The Company accounts for goodwill in accordance with the authoritative guidance, which requires that goodwill and certain intangible assets are not amortized, but are subject to an annual impairment test. As part of its continued transformation, effective January 1, 2016, theThe Company reorganizedperformed a part of its business by creating a new Data (formerly Cloud) product grouping. Inqualitative assessment in connection with this change, duringits annual goodwill impairment test in the fourth quarter of 2016,2019. As a result of the Company performed an assessment of its goodwill reporting units and determined that the reorganization resulted in the identification of two goodwill reporting units (excluding the GoTo Business).qualitative analysis, a quantitative impairment test was not deemed necessary. There was no0 impairment of goodwill or indefinite lived intangible assets as a result of the annual impairment test analysis completed during the fourth quarter of 2016.
On January2019. The balance of goodwill at March 31, 2017, the Company completed the Spin-off of the GoTo Business2020 and $380.9 million of the goodwill attributable to the GoTo Business as of December 31, 20162019 was distributed to GetGo. As a result of the Spin-off, the Company performed an assessment of the two remaining goodwill reporting units for the quarter ended March 31, 2017 and determined that these goodwill reporting units remain unchanged. There were no changes in reporting units nor indicators of impairment during the three months ended September 30, 2017. See Note 5 for more information regarding the Company's acquisitions and divestitures.$1.80 billion.
The following table presents the change in goodwill during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 (in thousands):
 Balance at January 1, 2017 Additions  Other  Balance at September 30, 2017
Goodwill$1,585,893
 $31,231
(1) $
  $1,617,124
(1)Amount relates to preliminary purchase price allocation of goodwill associated with the 2017 Business Combination. See Note 5 for more information regarding the Company's acquisitions.
Intangible Assets
The Company has intangible assets which were primarily acquired in conjunction with business combinations and technology purchases. Intangible assets with finite lives are recorded at cost, less accumulated amortization. Amortization is computed over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets, generally three to seven years, except for patents, which are amortized over the lesser of their remaining life or seven to ten years. In-process R&D is initially capitalized at fair value as an intangible asset with an indefinite life and assessed for impairment thereafter. When in-process R&D projects are completed, the corresponding amount is reclassified as an amortizable intangible asset and is amortized over the asset's estimated useful life.
Intangible assets consist of the following (in thousands):
 March 31, 2020December 31, 2019
 Gross Carrying
Amount
Accumulated
Amortization
Gross Carrying
Amount
Accumulated
Amortization
Product related intangible assets$736,610  $641,914  $734,973  $633,633  
Other187,173  180,737  187,173  180,035  
Total$923,783  $822,651  $922,146  $813,668  
 September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016
 
Gross Carrying
Amount
 
Accumulated
Amortization
 
Gross Carrying
Amount
 
Accumulated
Amortization
Product related intangible assets$686,901
 $558,809
 $647,594
 $520,746
Other227,932
 187,931
 223,692
 176,859
Total$914,833
 $746,740
 $871,286
 $697,605


Amortization of product-relatedproduct related intangible assets, which consists primarily of product-relatedproduct related technologies and patents, was $17.6$8.3 million and $14.8$10.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and 2016,2019, respectively, and $43.1 million and $43.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, is classified as a component of Cost of net revenues in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income. Amortization of other intangible assets, which consist primarily of customer relationships, trade names and covenants not to compete was $3.7$0.7 million and $3.9$3.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and 2016,2019, respectively, and $11.1 million and $11.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, is classified as a component of Operating expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income.
The Company monitors its intangible assets for indicators of impairment. If the Company determines that an impairment has occurred, it will write-down the intangible asset to its fair value. For certain intangible assets where the unamortized balances exceeded the undiscounted future net cash flows, the Company measures the amount of the impairment by calculating the amount by which the carrying values exceed the estimated fair values, which are based on projected discounted future net cash flows.
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Estimated future amortization expense of intangible assets with finite lives as of September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 is as follows (in thousands):
Year ending December 31,
2020 (remaining nine months)$26,291  
202123,033  
202220,834  
202316,567  
20245,533  
Thereafter8,874  
     Total$101,132  
Year ending December 31,Amount
2017 (remaining three months)$15,664
201859,816
201939,191
202025,032
20219,070
Thereafter19,320
     Total$168,093

10. SEGMENT INFORMATION
On January 31, 2017, Citrix completed the Spin-off of the GoTo Business. As a result, the Company re-evaluated its operating segments in the first quarter of 2017, and determined that it has one1 reportable segment. The Company's chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis for purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance. The Company's CEO is the CODM. During the first quarter of 2017, the Company classified the results of the GoTo Business, formerly a reportable segment, as discontinued operations in its financial statements for all periods presented. See Note 3 for more information regarding discontinued operations.
On July 7, 2017, the Company's board of directors appointed David J. Henshall, formerly the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of the Company, as the Company's president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. As a result, during the third quarter of 2017, the Company re-evaluated its CODM and determined that the CODM continues to be the CEO and that the Company's operating segment remains unchanged.
Revenues by Product Grouping
Revenues by product grouping were as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended
 March 31,
 20202019
Net revenues:
Workspace (1)
$653,716  $514,607  
Networking (2)
179,934  171,233  
Professional services (3)
27,295  33,303  
Total net revenues$860,945  $719,143  
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
Net revenues:       
Workspace Services revenues(1)
$431,592
 $412,773
 $1,255,728
 $1,222,786
Networking revenues(2)
185,539
 191,243
 575,827
 581,612
Data revenues(3)
41,632
 34,806
 121,566
 99,615
Professional services(4)
32,162
 29,914
 93,708
 97,483
Total net revenues$690,925
 $668,736
 $2,046,829
 $2,001,496

(1)Workspace revenues are primarily comprised of sales from the Company’s application virtualization solutions, which include Citrix Workspace, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, the Company's unified endpoint management solutions, which include Citrix Endpoint Management, related license updates and maintenance and support, Citrix Content Collaboration, and cloud offerings.
(2)Networking revenues primarily include Citrix ADC and Citrix SD-WAN, related license updates and maintenance and support and cloud offerings.

(3)Professional services revenues are primarily comprised of revenues from consulting services and product training and certification services.

(1)Workspace Services revenues are primarily comprised of sales from the Company’s application virtualization products, which include XenDesktop and XenApp, the Company's enterprise mobility management products, which include XenMobile and related license updates and maintenance and support, and related cloud offerings.
(2)Networking revenues primarily include NetScaler ADC and NetScaler SD-WAN, related license updates and maintenance and support, and related cloud offerings.
(3)Data revenues primarily include ShareFile, Podio, and related cloud offerings.
(4)Professional services revenues are primarily comprised of revenues from consulting services and product training and certification services.
Revenues by Geographic Location
The following table presents revenues by geographic location, for the following periods (in thousands):

Three Months Ended
 March 31,
 20202019
Net revenues:
Americas$484,115  $401,147  
EMEA293,647  236,813  
APJ83,183  81,183  
Total net revenues$860,945  $719,143  

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 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
Net revenues:       
Americas$406,322
 $397,349
 $1,200,740
 $1,188,719
EMEA213,954
 199,837
 633,119
 611,832
APJ70,649
 71,550
 212,970
 200,945
Total net revenues$690,925
 $668,736
 $2,046,829
 $2,001,496


Strategic Service Providers
The Company defines Strategic Service Providers (SSP) as its 3 historically largest hyperscale Networking customers. The following table summarizes SSP revenue for the following periods (in thousands):
Three Months Ended
 March 31,
 20202019
Net revenues:
SSP revenue$19,843  $22,101  
Non-SSP revenue841,102  697,042  
Total net revenues$860,945  $719,143  

Subscription Revenue
Subscription revenue relates to fees which are generally recognized ratably over the contractual term. The Company's subscription revenue includes Software as a Service (SaaS), which primarily consists of subscriptions delivered via a cloud hosted service whereby the customer does not take possession of the software and hybrid subscription offerings; and non-SaaS, which consists primarily of on-premise licensing, hybrid subscription offerings, CSP services and the related support. The Company's hybrid subscription offerings are allocated between SaaS and non-SaaS, which are generally recognized at a point in time. The following table presents subscription revenues by SaaS and non-SaaS components, for the following periods (in thousands):
Three Months Ended
 March 31,
 20202019
Subscription:
SaaS$122,570  $85,447  
Non-SaaS145,666  56,159  
Total Subscription revenue$268,236  $141,606  

11. CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTESDEBT
Convertible Notes OfferingTerm Loan Credit Agreement
During 2014,On January 21, 2020, the Company completedentered into a private placementTerm Loan Credit Agreement with Bank of approximately $1.44 billionAmerica, N.A., as administrative agent, and the other lenders party thereto from time to time (collectively, the “Lenders”). The Term Loan Credit Agreement provides the Company with facilities to borrow term loans on an unsecured basis in an aggregate principal amount of 0.500% Convertibleup to $1.00 billion, consisting of (i) a $500.0 million 364-day term loan facility (the “364-day Term Loan”), and (ii) a $500.0 million 3-year term loan (the “3-year Term Loan”), in each case in a single borrowing, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions set forth in the Term Loan Credit Agreement. On January 30, 2020, the Company borrowed $1.00 billion under the term loans and used the proceeds to enter into the ASR with each of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (each, a "Dealer") for an aggregate of $1.00 billion. See Note 15 for detailed information on the accelerated share repurchase.
Borrowings under the Term Loan Credit Agreement bear interest at a rate equal to (a) either (i) LIBOR or, upon a phase-out of LIBOR, an alternative benchmark rate as provided in the Credit Agreement, or (ii) a customary base rate formula, plus (b) the applicable margin with respect thereto, which initially will be determined based on the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio but may, if so elected by the Company, be based on the Company’s non-credit enhanced, senior unsecured long-term debt rating as determined by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s Financial Services, LLC and Fitch Ratings Inc., in each case as set forth in the Term Loan Credit Agreement.
The Term Loan Credit Agreement includes a covenant limiting the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio to not more than 3.5:1.0, subject to, upon the occurrence of a qualified acquisition, if so elected by the Company, a step-up to 4.0:1.0 for the 4 fiscal quarters following such qualified acquisition, and a covenant limiting the Company’s consolidated interest coverage ratio to not less than 3.0:1.0. The Term Loan Credit Agreement includes customary events of default, with corresponding grace periods in certain circumstances, including, without limitation, payment defaults, cross-defaults, the occurrence of a change of
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control of the Company and bankruptcy-related defaults. The Lenders are entitled to accelerate repayment of the loans under the Term Loan Credit Agreement upon the occurrence of any of the events of default. In addition, the Term Loan Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, including covenants that limit or restrict the ability of the Company to grant liens, merge or consolidate, dispose of all or substantially all of its assets, change its business and incur subsidiary indebtedness, in each case subject to customary exceptions. In addition, the Term Loan Credit Agreement requires the Company to make prepayments of any net cash proceeds received in connection with the Company issuing or incurring debt or issuing equity, subject to certain ordinary course exceptions described in the Term Loan Credit Agreement. The Term Loan Credit Agreement also contains representations and warranties customary for an unsecured financing of this type. The Company was in compliance with these covenants as of March 31, 2020.
Senior Notes
On February 25, 2020, the Company issued $750.0 million of unsecured senior notes due 2019.March 1, 2030. The 2030 Notes accrue interest at a rate of 3.300% per annum. Interest on the 2030 Notes is due semi-annually on March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2020. The net proceeds from this offering were approximately $1.42 billion,$738.1 million, after deducting the initial purchasers’ discountsunderwriting discount and commissions and the estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company used approximately $82.6 million of the net proceeds to pay the cost of the Bond Hedges described below (after such cost was partially offset by the proceeds to the Company from the Warrant Transactions described below). The Company used the remainder of the netNet proceeds from this offering were primarily used to repay amounts outstanding under the offering and a portion of its existing cash and investments to purchase an aggregate of approximately $1.5 billion of its common stock, as authorized under its share repurchase program.Company's unsecured Term Loan Credit Agreement. The Company used approximately $101.0 million to purchase shares of common stock from certain purchasers of the Convertible Notes in privately negotiated transactions concurrently with the closing of the offering, and the remaining $1.4 billion to purchase additional shares of common stock through an Accelerated Share Repurchase ("ASR") which the Company entered into with Citibank, N.A. (the “ASR Counterparty”) on April 25, 2014 (the “ASR Agreement”).
The Convertible Notes are governed by the terms of an indenture, dated as of April 30, 2014 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Convertible Notes are the senior unsecured obligations of the Company and bear interest at a rate of 0.500% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year. The Convertible2030 Notes will mature on April 15, 2019,March 1, 2030, unless earlier repurchasedredeemed in accordance with their terms prior to such date. The Company may redeem the 2030 Notes at its option at any time in whole or converted. Upon conversion, the Company will pay cash upfrom time to time in part prior to December 1, 2029 at a redemption price equal to the aggregate principal amountgreater of the Convertible Notes to be converted and pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, at the Company’s election, in respect of the remainder, if any, of the Company’s conversion obligation in excess(i) 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Convertible2030 Notes being converted.
The initial conversion rate forto be redeemed and (ii) the Convertiblesum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of such Notes was 11.1111 sharesunder such 2030 Notes, plus in each case, accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. At any time on or after December 1, 2029, the redemption price shall be equal to 100% of common stock per $1,000the aggregate principal amount of Convertiblethe 2030 Notes which corresponds to a conversion price of $90.00 per share of common stock. The conversion rate is subjectbe redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, adjustment from time to time uponbut excluding the occurrence ofredemption date. Among other terms, under certain events, including, but not limited to, the issuance of certain stock dividends on common stock, the issuance of certain rights or warrants, subdivisions, combinations, distributions of capital stock, indebtedness, or assets, the payment of cash dividends and certain issuer tender or exchange offers. As a result of the Spin-off, the conversion rate for the Convertible Notes was adjusted under the terms of the Indenture. As a result of this adjustment, the conversion rate for the Convertible Notes was re-set as of the opening of business on February 1, 2017 to 13.9061 shares of the Company’s common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes, which corresponds to a conversion price of $71.91 per share of common stock. Similar adjustments were made to the conversion rates for the Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions (as defined below) as of the opening of business on February 1, 2017.


The Company may not redeem the Convertible Notes prior to the maturity date and no “sinking fund” is provided for the Convertible Notes, which means that the Company is not required to periodically redeem or retire the Convertible Notes. Upon the occurrence of certain fundamental changes involving the Company,circumstances, holders of the Convertible2030 Notes may require the Company to repurchase their 2030 Notes upon the occurrence of a change of control prior to maturity for cash all or part of their Convertible Notes in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof at a repurchase price equal to 100%101% of the principal amount of the Convertible2030 Notes to be repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase date.
In accounting forDuring the issuancethree months ended March 31, 2020, the Company used the net proceeds from the 2030 Notes and cash to repay $500.0 million under the 364-day Term Loan and $250.0 million under the 3-year Term Loan. As of March 31, 2020, $250.0 million in principal amount was outstanding under the 3-year Term Loan.
On November 15, 2017, the Company issued $750.0 million of unsecured senior notes due December 1, 2027. The 2027 Notes accrue interest at a rate of 4.500% per annum. Interest on the 2027 Notes is due semi-annually on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2018. The net proceeds from this offering were approximately $741.0 million, after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. Net proceeds from this offering were used to repurchase shares of the Convertible Notes,Company's common stock through an ASR transaction which the Company separatedentered into with Citibank, N.A. (the "ASR Counterparty") on November 13, 2017. The 2027 Notes will mature on December 1, 2027, unless earlier redeemed in accordance with their terms prior to such date. The Company may redeem the Convertible2027 Notes into liability and equity components. The carryingat its option at any time in whole or from time to time in part prior to September 1, 2027 at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the liability component was calculated by measuring2027 Notes to be redeemed and (ii) the estimated fair valuesum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments under such 2027 Notes, plus in each case, accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. Among other terms, under certain circumstances, holders of the 2027 Notes may require the Company to repurchase their 2027 Notes upon the occurrence of a similar liability that does not have an associated convertible feature. The carrying amountchange of the equity component representing the conversion option was determined by deducting the fair value of the liability component from the face value of the Convertible Notes ascontrol prior to maturity for cash at a whole. The excessrepurchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the liability component over its carrying amount ("debt discount") is amortized2027 Notes to be repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest expense overto, but excluding, the term of the Convertible Notes using the effective interest method with an effective interest rate of 3.0 percent per annum. The equity component is not remeasured as long as it continues to meet the conditions for equity classification.repurchase date.
In accounting for the transaction costs related to the Convertible Note issuance, the Company allocated the total amount incurred to the liability and equity components based on their relative values. Issuance costs attributable to the $1.4 billion liability component are being amortized to expense over the term of the Convertible Notes, and issuance costs attributable to the equity component are included along with the equity component in stockholders' equity. Additionally, a deferred tax liability of $8.2 million related to a portion of the equity component transaction costs which are deductible for tax purposes is included in Other liabilities in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets.Credit Facility
As a result of the structure of the Reverse Morris Trust (RMT) transaction with LogMeIn, Inc., and the notification on October 10, 2016 to noteholders in accordance with the Indenture, the Convertible Notes became convertible until the earlier of (1) the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the ex-dividend date for the distribution of the outstanding shares of GetGo common stock to the Company’s stockholders by way of a pro rata dividend, and (2) the Company’s announcement that such distribution will not take place, even though the Convertible Notes were not otherwise convertible at December 31, 2016. The $1.44 billion Convertible Notes became convertible with the notice to noteholders. Accordingly, as of December 31, 2016, the carrying amount of the Convertible Notes of $1.3 billion was reclassified from Other liabilities to Current liabilities and the difference between the face value and carrying value of $79.5 million was reclassified from stockholders’ equity to temporary equity in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. The conversion period terminated as of the close of business on January 31, 2017 in connection with the Spin-off. As a result, the Convertible Notes were reclassified to Other liabilities from Current liabilities, and the amount previously recorded as Temporary equity was reclassified to Stockholders' equity as of March 31, 2017. See Note 3 for more information on the Company's separation of its GoTo Business.
The Convertible Notes consist of the following (in thousands):


 September 30, 2017December 31, 2016
Liability component  
     Principal$1,437,483
$1,437,500
     Less: note discount and issuance costs(60,810)(89,344)
Net carrying amount$1,376,673
$1,348,156
   
Equity component 

     Temporary equity$
$79,495
     Additional paid-in capital162,869
83,374
Total equity (including temporary equity)$162,869
$162,869
The following table includes total interest expense recognized related to the Convertible Notes (in thousands):
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
Contractual interest expense$1,797
 $1,797
 $5,391
 $5,391
Amortization of debt issuance costs1,045
 1,021
 3,117
 3,045
Amortization of debt discount8,536
 8,284
 25,418
 24,667
 $11,378
 $11,102
 $33,926
 $33,103
See Note 7 to the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements for fair value disclosures related to the Company's Convertible Notes.
Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions
In connection with the pricing of the Convertible Notes,On November 26, 2019, the Company entered into convertible note hedge transactions relating to approximately 16.0 million shares of common stockan amended and restated credit agreement (the "Bond Hedges""Credit Agreement"), with JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, London Branch; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Bank of America, N.A.; and Royal Bank of Canada (the “Option Counterparties”) and also entered into separate warrant transactions (the "Warrant Transactions") with each of the Option Counterparties relating to approximately 16.0 million shares of common stock. As a result of the Spin-off, the number of shares of the Company's common stock covered by the Bond Hedges and Warrant Transactions was adjusted to approximately 20.0 million shares.
The Bond Hedges are generally expected to reduce the potential dilution upon conversion of the Convertible Notes and/or offset any payments in cash, shares of common stock or a combination of cash and shares of common stock, at the Company’s election, that the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount of the Convertible Notes upon conversion of any Convertible Notes, as the case may be, in the event that the market price per share of common stock, as measured under the terms of the Bond Hedges, is greater than the strike price of the Bond Hedges, which initially corresponds to the conversion price of the Convertible Notes and is subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the conversion rate of the Convertible Notes. The Warrant Transactions will separately have a dilutive effect to the extent that the market value per share of common stock, as measured under the terms of the Warrant Transactions, exceeds the applicable strike price of the warrants issued pursuant to the Warrant Transactions (the “Warrants”). The initial strike price of the Warrants is $120.00 per share. Subsequent to the Spin-off, the strike price of the Warrants was adjusted to a weighted-average strike price of $95.25 as of February 1, 2017. The Warrants will expire in ratable portions on a series of expiration dates commencing after the maturity of the Convertible Notes. The Bond Hedges and Warrants are not marked to market. The value of the Bond Hedges and Warrants were initially recorded in stockholders' equity and continue to be classified within stockholders' equity. As of September 30, 2017, no warrants have been exercised.
Aside from the initial payment of a premium to the Option Counterparties under the Bond Hedges, which amount is partially offset by the receipt of a premium under the Warrant Transactions, the Company is not required to make any cash payments to the Option Counterparties under the Bond Hedges and will not receive any proceeds if the Warrants are exercised.


12. CREDIT FACILITY
Effective January 7, 2015, the Company entered into a Credit Facility with a group of financial institutions, (the “Lenders”).which amends and restates the Company’s Credit Agreement, dated January 7, 2015. The Credit FacilityAgreement provides for a five year unsecured revolving line of credit facility in the aggregate amount of $250.0 million, subject to continued covenant compliance. The Company may elect to increase the revolving credit facility by up to $250.0 million if existing or new lenders provide additional revolving commitments in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. A portion of the revolving line of credit (i) in the aggregate amount of $25.0 million may be available for issuances of letters of credit and (ii) in the aggregate amount of $10.0 million may be available for swing line loans, as part of, not in addition to, the aggregate revolving commitments. The Credit Facilitycredit facility bears interest at a rate equal to (a) either (i) LIBOR plus 1.10% and adjustsor, upon a phase-out of LIBOR, an alternative benchmark rate as provided in the range of 1.00% to 1.30% above LIBORCredit Agreement, or (ii) a customary base rate formula, plus (b) the applicable margin with respect thereto, which initially will be determined based on the Company’s consolidated leverage ratio ofbut may, if so elected by the Company, be based on the Company’s totallong-term debt to its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and certain other items (“EBITDA”)rating as definedset forth in the agreement.Credit
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Agreement. In addition, the Company is required to pay a quarterly facility fee ranging from 0.125%0.11% to 0.20% of the aggregate revolving commitments under the Credit Facilitycredit facility and based on the ratio of the Company’s total debt to the Company’s consolidated EBITDA. The weighted average interest rate for the period thatEBITDA or long-term credit rating. As of March 31, 2020, 0 amounts were outstanding under the Credit Facility was 1.57%. As of September 30, 2017, there was $40.0 million outstanding under the Credit Facility.credit facility.
The Credit Agreement contains certain financial covenants that require the Company to maintain a consolidated leverage ratio of not more than 3.5:1.0, subject to, upon the occurrence of a qualified acquisition, if so elected by the Company, a step-up to 4.0:1.0 for the 4 fiscal quarters following such qualified acquisition, and a consolidated interest coverage ratio of not less than 3.0:1.0. In addition, the Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, including covenants that limit or restrict the ability of the Company to grant liens, merge dissolve or consolidate, dispose of all or substantially all of its assets, pay dividends during the existence of a default under the Credit Agreement, change its business and incur subsidiary indebtedness, in each case subject to customary exceptions for a credit facility of this size and type.exceptions. The Company was in compliance with these covenants as of September 30, 2017.March 31, 2020.
Convertible Notes
13.During 2014, the Company completed a private placement of approximately $1.44 billion principal amount of 0.500% Convertible Notes due 2019. All Convertible Notes were converted by their beneficial owners prior to their maturity on April 15, 2019. In accordance with the terms of the indenture governing the Convertible Notes, on April 15, 2019 the Company paid $1.16 billion in the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes and delivered 4.9 million newly issued shares of its common stock in respect of the remainder of the Company's conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes being converted, in full satisfaction of such converted notes. The Company received shares of its common stock under the Bond Hedges that offset the issuance of shares of common stock upon conversion of the Convertible Notes.
In accounting for the settlement of the Convertible Notes, the Company allocated the fair value of the settlement consideration remitted to the noteholders between the liability and equity components. The portion of the settlement consideration allocated to the extinguishment of the liability component was based on the fair value of that component immediately before extinguishment.The Company allocated the remaining settlement consideration to the reacquisition of the equity component and recognized this amount as a reduction of Stockholders' equity.
The following table includes total interest expense recognized related to the Term Loan Credit Facility, the 2030 Notes, the 2027 Notes and the Convertible Notes (in thousands):
Three Months Ended
March 31,
20202019
Contractual interest expense$13,430  $9,893  
Amortization of debt issuance costs995  989  
Amortization of debt discount88  6,987  
$14,513  $17,869  
See Note 7 for fair value disclosures related to the Company's 2030 and 2027 Notes.
Convertible Note Hedge and Warrant Transactions
To minimize the impact of potential dilution upon conversion of the Convertible Notes, the Company entered into convertible note hedge transactions relating to approximately 16.0 million shares of common stock (the "Bond Hedges") and also entered into separate warrant transactions (the "Warrant Transactions") with each of the Option Counterparties relating to approximately 16.0 million shares of common stock to offset any payments in cash or shares of common stock at the Company’s election. As a result of the spin-off of its GoTo Business in January 2017, the number of shares of the Company's common stock covered by the Bond Hedges and Warrant Transactions was adjusted to approximately 20.0 million shares.
As noted above, the Bond Hedges reduced the dilution upon conversion of the Convertible Notes, as the market price per share of common stock, as measured under the terms of the Bond Hedges, was greater than the strike price of the Bond Hedges, which initially corresponded to the conversion price of the Convertible Notes and was subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the conversion rate of the Convertible Notes. The Warrant Transactions would have separately had a dilutive effect to the extent that the market value per share of common stock, as measured under the terms of the Warrant Transactions, exceeded the applicable strike price of the warrants issued pursuant to the Warrant Transactions (the “Warrants”).
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The Warrants expired in ratable portions on a series of expiration dates that commenced on July 15, 2019 and concluded on November 18, 2019, and 0 Warrants remain outstanding. The Warrants were not marked to market as the value of the Warrants were initially recorded in stockholders' equity and remained classified within stockholders' equity through their expiration. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the strike price of the Warrants was adjusted to $94.62 per share and the number of shares of the Company's common stock covered by the Warrant Transactions was adjusted to approximately 20.1 million shares as a result of the cash dividend paid in March 2019. As of March 31, 2019, 0 warrants were exercised.
12. DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Derivatives Designated as Hedging Instruments
As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the Company’s derivative assets and liabilities primarily resulted from cash flow hedges related to its forecasted operating expenses transacted in local currencies. A substantial portion of the Company’s overseas expenses are and will continue to be transacted in local currencies. To protect against fluctuations in operating expenses and the volatility of future cash flows caused by changes in currency exchange rates, the Company has established a program that uses foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge its exposure to these potential changes. The terms of these instruments, and the hedged transactions to which they relate, generally do not exceed 12 months.
Generally, when the dollar is weak, foreign currency denominated expenses will be higher, and these higher expenses will be partially offset by the gains realized from the Company’s hedging contracts. Conversely, if the dollar is strong, foreign currency denominated expenses will be lower. These lower expenses will in turn be partially offset by the losses incurred from the Company’s hedging contracts. Derivative instruments are recognized as either assets or liabilities and are measured at fair value. The changeaccounting for changes in the fair value of a derivative depends on the intended use of the derivative and the resulting designation. Gains and losses on derivatives that are designated as cash flow hedges are initially reported as a component inof Accumulated other comprehensive loss includes unrealized gains orand are subsequently recognized in income when the hedged exposure is recognized in income. Gains and losses that arose from changes in market value of the effective portionfair values of derivatives that were held during the period, and gains or losses that were previously unrealized but have beenare not designated as hedges are recognized in the same line item as the forecasted transaction in current period netOther income, due to termination or maturities of derivative contracts. This reclassification has no effect on total comprehensive income or equity.net.
The total cumulative unrealized gainloss on cash flow derivative instruments was $2.1$2.0 million at September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, and is included in Accumulated other comprehensive loss in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. The total cumulative unrealized lossgain on cash flow derivative instruments was $3.1$0.9 million at December 31, 2016,2019, and is included in Accumulated other comprehensive loss in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. See Note 1413 for more information related to comprehensive income. The net unrealized gainloss as of September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 is expected to be recognized in income over the next 12 months at the same time the hedged items are recognized in income.
Derivatives not Designated as Hedging Instruments
A substantial portion of the Company’s overseas assets and liabilities are and will continue to be denominated in local currencies. To protect against fluctuations in earnings caused by changes in currency exchange rates when remeasuring the Company’s balance sheet, itthe Company utilizes foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge its exposure to this potential volatility.
These contracts are not designated for hedge accounting treatment under the authoritative guidance. Accordingly, changes in the fair value of these contracts are recorded in Other income, (expense), net.

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Fair Values of Derivative Instruments
Asset Derivatives Liability Derivatives Asset DerivativesLiability Derivatives
(In thousands) (In thousands)
September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016 September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016 March 31, 2020December 31, 2019March 31, 2020December 31, 2019
Derivatives Designated as
Hedging Instruments
Balance Sheet
Location
 
Fair
Value
 
Balance Sheet
Location
 
Fair
Value
 
Balance Sheet
Location
 
Fair
Value
 
Balance Sheet
Location
 
Fair
Value
Derivatives Designated as
Hedging Instruments
Balance Sheet
Location
Fair
Value
Balance Sheet
Location
Fair
Value
Balance Sheet
Location
Fair
Value
Balance Sheet
Location
Fair
Value
Foreign currency forward contracts
Prepaid
expenses
and other
current
assets
 $2,569 
Prepaid
expenses
and other
current
assets
 $460 
Accrued
expenses
and other
current
liabilities
 $293 
Accrued
expenses
and other
current
liabilities
 $3,816Foreign currency forward contractsPrepaid
expenses
and other
current
assets
$354Prepaid
expenses
and other
current
assets
$1,335Accrued
expenses
and other
current
liabilities
$2,544Accrued
expenses
and other
current
liabilities
$371
 
Asset Derivatives Liability Derivatives Asset DerivativesLiability Derivatives
(In thousands) (In thousands)
September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016 September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016 March 31, 2020December 31, 2019March 31, 2020December 31, 2019
Derivatives Not Designated as
Hedging Instruments
Balance Sheet
Location
 
Fair
Value
 
Balance Sheet
Location
 
Fair
Value
 
Balance Sheet
Location
 
Fair
Value
 
Balance Sheet
Location
 
Fair
Value
Derivatives Not Designated as
Hedging Instruments
Balance Sheet
Location
Fair
Value
Balance Sheet
Location
Fair
Value
Balance Sheet
Location
Fair
Value
Balance Sheet
Location
Fair
Value
Foreign currency forward contracts
Prepaid
expenses
and other
current
assets
 $1,962 
Prepaid
expenses
and other
current
assets
 $2,046 
Accrued
expenses
and other
current
liabilities
 $329 
Accrued
expenses
and other
current
liabilities
 $619Foreign currency forward contractsPrepaid
expenses
and other
current
assets
$565Prepaid
expenses
and other
current
assets
$554Accrued
expenses
and other
current
liabilities
$1,360Accrued
expenses
and other
current
liabilities
$1,019
The Effect of Derivative Instruments on Financial Performance
 For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
 (In thousands)
Derivatives in Cash Flow
Hedging Relationships
Amount of (Loss) Gain Recognized in Other
Comprehensive Income
(Effective Portion)
 Location of Gain (Loss) Reclassified
from Accumulated Other
Comprehensive Loss into
Income
(Effective Portion)
 
Amount of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from
Accumulated Other 
Comprehensive Loss
(Effective Portion)
 2017 2016   2017 2016
Foreign currency forward contracts$(340) $1,023
 Operating expenses $1,116
 $(641)
          
 For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017
 (In thousands)
Derivatives in Cash Flow
Hedging Relationships
Amount of Gain Recognized in Other
Comprehensive Income
(Effective Portion)

 Location of Loss Reclassified
from Accumulated Other
Comprehensive Loss into
Income
(Effective Portion)
 
Amount of Loss Reclassified from
Accumulated Other 
Comprehensive Loss
(Effective Portion)
 2017 2016   2017 2016
Foreign currency forward contracts$5,214
 $2,049
 Operating expenses $(551) $(1,663)
There was no material ineffectiveness in the Company’s foreign currency hedging program in the periods presented.
 For the Three Months Ended March 31,
 (In thousands)
Derivatives in Cash Flow
Hedging Relationships
Amount of (Loss) Gain Recognized in Other
Comprehensive Income
Location of Gain (Loss) Reclassified
from Accumulated Other
Comprehensive Loss into
Income
Amount of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from Accumulated Other
Comprehensive Loss
 20202019 20202019
Foreign currency forward contracts$(2,833) $1,041  Operating expenses$248  $(894) 
 

 For the Three Months Ended March 31,
 (In thousands)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging InstrumentsLocation of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on
Derivative
Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized
in Income on Derivative
  20202019
Foreign currency forward contractsOther income, net$3,758  $(1,396) 


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 For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
 (In thousands)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments
Location of Loss Recognized in Income on
Derivative
 Amount of Loss Recognized in Income on Derivative
   2017 2016
Foreign currency forward contractsOther income (expense), net $(1,148) $(1,693)
      
 For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017
 (In thousands)
Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments
Location of Loss Recognized in Income on
Derivative
 Amount of Loss Recognized in Income on Derivative
   2017 2016
Foreign currency forward contractsOther income (expense), net $(6,298) $(5,658)

Outstanding Foreign Currency Forward Contracts
As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the Company had the following net notional foreign currency forward contracts outstanding (in thousands):
Foreign CurrencyCurrency
Denomination
Australian DollarAUD 39,600 
Brazilian RealBRL 1,000 
Pounds SterlingGBP 9,000 
Canadian DollarCAD 1,450 
Chinese Yuan RenminbiCNY 26,452 
Czech KorunaCZK 18,600 
Danish KroneDKK 3,400 
EuroEUR 6,802 
Hong Kong DollarHKD 35,000 
Indian RupeeINR 1,203,000 
Japanese YenJPY 400,999 
Korean WonKRW 1,682,000 
Foreign CurrencySingapore Dollar
Currency
Denomination
SGD 17,100 
Australian DollarSwedish KronaAUD 20,770SEK 800 
Brazilian RealBRL 11,870
Pounds SterlingGBP 5,700
Canadian DollarCAD 2,640
Chinese Yuan RenminbiCNY 53,279
Danish KroneDKK 8,596
EuroEUR 11,300
Hong Kong DollarHKD 26,000
Indian RupeeINR 238,745
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13. COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
The changes in Accumulated other comprehensive loss by component, net of tax, are as follows:
 Foreign currency Unrealized loss on available-for-sale securities Unrealized (loss) gain on derivative instruments Other comprehensive loss on pension liability Total
 (In thousands)
Balance at December 31, 2016$(16,346) $(3,108) $(3,130) $(6,120) $(28,704)
Other comprehensive income before reclassifications
 1,500
 4,663
 
 6,163
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss
 (340) 551
 263
 474
Net current period other comprehensive income
 1,160
 5,214
 263
 6,637
Distribution of the GoTo Business$13,400
 $
 $
 $
 $13,400
Balance at September 30, 2017$(2,946) $(1,948) $2,084
 $(5,857) $(8,667)
 Foreign currencyUnrealized (loss) gain on available-for-sale securitiesUnrealized gain (loss) on derivative instrumentsOther comprehensive loss on pension liabilityTotal
 (In thousands)
Balance at December 31, 2019$(2,946) $(139) $868  $(2,910) $(5,127) 
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications—  155  (2,585)  (2,422) 
Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss—  (13) (248) —  (261) 
Net current period other comprehensive income (loss)—  142  (2,833)  (2,683) 
Balance at March 31, 2020$(2,946) $ $(1,965) $(2,902) $(7,810) 
Income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income (loss)loss is not material.


Reclassifications out of Accumulated other comprehensive loss are as follows:
  For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2017
  (In thousands)
Details about accumulated other comprehensive loss components Amount reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax Affected line item in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
Unrealized net losses on available-for-sale securities $120
 Other income (expense), net
Unrealized net gains on cash flow hedges (1,116) Operating expenses *
  $(996)  
     
     
  For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017
  (In thousands)
Details about accumulated other comprehensive loss components Amount reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax Affected line item in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
Unrealized net gains on available-for-sale securities $(340) Other income (expense), net
Unrealized net losses on cash flow hedges 551
 Operating expenses *
  $211
  
For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2020
(In thousands)
Details about accumulated other comprehensive loss componentsAmount reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of taxAffected line item in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
Unrealized net gains on available-for-sale securities$(13)Other income, net 
Unrealized net gains on cash flow hedges(248)Operating expenses * 
$(261)
* Operating expenses amounts allocated to Research and development, Sales, marketing and services, and General and administrative are not individually significant.
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14. INCOME TAXES
The Company is required to estimate its income taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which it operates as part of the process of preparing its condensed consolidated financial statements. The Company maintains certain strategic management and operational activities in overseas subsidiaries and its foreign earnings are taxed at rates that are generally lower than in the United States. The Company does not expect to remit earnings from its foreign subsidiaries.
In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on the accounting of stock-based compensation to provide guidance that changes the accounting for certain aspects of share-based payments to employees. The guidance requires, among other things, the recognition of the income tax effects of awards in the income statement when the awards vest or are settled, thus eliminating additional paid-in capital pools. The Company adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2017. There was no material impact upon adoption of this guidance since the recognition of income tax effects of awards was not materially different from amounts previously recorded in the Company's financial statements.
The Company’s continuingeffective tax rate generally differs from the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to lower tax rates on earnings generated by the Company’s foreign operations that are taxed primarily in Switzerland.
The Company’s effective tax rate was 5.3%4.9% and 8.5%6.6% for the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and 2016,2019, respectively. The decrease in the effective tax rate when comparing the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 to the three months ended September 30, 2016 was generally due to the recognition of a $7.9 million benefit from the release of uncertain tax positions due to the expiration of statute of limitations in certain jurisdictions. The Company’s effective tax rate for continuing operations was 16.9% and 13.2% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively. The increase in the effective tax rate when comparing the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to the nine months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 was primarily due to certain transactions executed duringtax items unique to the nine monthsperiod ended September 30, 2017.March 31, 2020. These amounts include a $46.1 milliontax benefit for the impact of the closure of a California audit during the period ending March 31, 2020, as well as additional discrete tax benefits for share-based payments.
On May 19, 2019, Swiss voters approved the Federal Act on Tax Reform and AHV Financing (“TRAF”), which provides for broad changes to federal and cantonal taxation in Switzerland effective January 1, 2020. The TRAF requires the abolishment of certain favorable tax regimes, provides for certain transitional relief, and directs the cantons to implement certain mandatory measures while other provisions are at the discretion of the canton. During the period ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded a deferred tax asset and a partial valuation allowance for the cantonal and federal impact of the TRAF. The income tax charge to establish a valuation allowance due to a change in expectation of realizability of state R&D credits arising from the separationimpact of the GoTo Business. This charge was partially offset by a $20.9 million benefitTRAF may be subject to change due to the adoptionissuance of the accounting standard update requiring recognition of income tax effects related to stock-based compensation when the awards vest or settle. This charge was also partially offset by a $9.8 million net tax benefit related to an international statutory tax transaction and a $7.9 million benefitfurther legislative guidance from the release of uncertain tax positions due to the expiration of statute of limitations in certain jurisdictions.Swiss taxing authorities.
The Company’s net unrecognized tax benefits totaled $69.2$68.8 million and $69.8$84.5 million as of September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2016,2019, respectively. All amountsAt March 31, 2020, $58.2 million included in the balance at September 30, 2017 for tax positions would affect the annual effective tax rate if recognized. The Company recognizes interest accrued related to uncertain tax positions and penalties in income tax expense. As of March 31, 2020, the Company has $2.4accrued $3.2 million accrued for the payment of interest and penalties as of September 30, 2017.


interest.
The Company and one or more of its subsidiaries are subject to U.S. federal income taxes in the United States, as well as income taxes of multiple state and foreign jurisdictions. The Company is not currently no longer subject to U.S. federal income tax examination.under examination by the United States Internal Revenue Service. With few exceptions, the Company is generally not undersubject to examination for state and local income tax, or in non-U.S. jurisdictions, by tax authorities for years prior to 2013.2016.
In the ordinary course of global business, thereThe Company's U.S. liquidity needs are transactions for which the ultimate tax outcome is uncertain; thus, judgment is required in determining the worldwide provision for income taxes.currently satisfied using cash flows generated from its U.S. operations, borrowings, or both. The Company provides for income taxes on transactions based onalso utilizes a variety of tax planning strategies in an effort to ensure that its estimate of the probable liability.worldwide cash is available in locations in which it is needed. The Company adjustsexpects to repatriate a substantial portion of its provision as appropriate for changes that impact its underlying judgments. Changes that impact provision estimates include such items as jurisdictional interpretations on tax filing positions based on the results of tax audits and general tax authority rulings. Dueforeign earnings over time, to the evolving nature of tax rules combined with the large number of jurisdictions in which the Company operates, it is possibleextent that the Company’s estimates of its tax liability and the realizability of its deferred tax assets could change in the future, which mayforeign earnings are not restricted by local laws or result in additional tax liabilities and adversely affectsignificant incremental costs associated with repatriating the Company’s results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.foreign earnings.
At September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the Company had $194.5$365.1 million in net deferred tax assets from continuing operations.assets. The authoritative guidance requires a valuation allowance to reduce the deferred tax assets reported if, based on the weight of the evidence, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company reviews deferred tax assets periodically for recoverability and makes estimates and judgments regarding the expected geographic sources of taxable income and gains from investments, as well as tax planning strategies in assessing the need for a valuation allowance. If the estimates and assumptions used in the Company's determination change in the future, the Company could be required to revise its estimates of the valuation allowances against its deferred tax assets and adjust its provisions for additional income taxes.
The Company’s effective tax rate generally differs fromOn June 7, 2019, the U.S. federal statutory rateCourt of 35% due primarilyAppeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a previous decision of the U.S. Tax Court in Altera v. Commissioner, and held that the U.S. Treasury Department’s regulations that require participants in a cost-sharing arrangement to lowershare stock-based compensation costs were valid. Since the Company began accruing amounts for this uncertain tax rates on earnings generated byposition in 2018, there were no changes to the Company’s foreign operations that are taxed primarilyCompany's position or treatment of its cost-sharing arrangements in Switzerland.the current period. The Company has not providedwill continue to monitor any ongoing developments, including the outcome of Altera Corporation’s February 10, 2020 petition for U.S. taxes for those earnings because it plans to reinvest allWrit of those earnings indefinitely outside the United States. From time to time, there may be other items that impact the Company's effective tax rate, such as the items specificCertiorari to the current period discussed above.U.S. Supreme Court, to determine if future changes are required. The case's final disposition may result in a benefit for the Company in the future if the case is reversed.
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15. TREASURY STOCK
Stock Repurchase Program
The Company’s Board of Directors authorized an ongoing stock repurchase program, with a total repurchase authority granted to the Company of $6.8 billion, of which $500.0 million$1.00 billion was approved in January 2017.2020. The Company may use the approved dollar authority to repurchase stock at any time until the approved amount is exhausted. The objective of the Company’s stock repurchase program is to improve stockholders’ returns. At September 30, 2017, $329.0March 31, 2020, $914.1 million ($714.1 million after taking into consideration the contracted but undelivered shares under the ASR of $200.0 million) was available to repurchase common stock pursuant to the stock repurchase program. All shares repurchased are recorded as treasury stock. A portion of the funds used to repurchase stock over the course of the program was provided by net proceeds from the Convertible Notes, offering,the 2027 Notes and the Term Loan Credit Agreement, as well as proceeds from employee stock option exercisesawards and the related tax benefit. The Company is authorized to make open market purchases of its common stock using general corporate funds through open market purchases, pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan or in privately negotiated transactions.
On January 30, 2020, the Company used the proceeds from its Term Loan Credit Agreement and entered into ASR transactions with a group of Dealers for an aggregate of $1.00 billion. Under the ASR transactions, the Company received an initial share delivery of 6.5 million shares of its common stock, with the remainder, if any, delivered upon completion of the ASR transactions. The total number of shares of common stock that the Company will repurchase under each ASR agreement will be based on the average of the daily volume-weighted average prices of its common stock during the term of the applicable ASR agreement, less a discount. At settlement, each Dealer may be required to deliver additional shares of common stock to the Company or, under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to deliver shares of common stock, at its election, or make a cash payment to the applicable Dealer. Final settlement of the ASR agreement is expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2020. See Note 11 for detailed information on the Term Loan Credit Agreement.
During the three months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, the Company had expended $75.0approximately $199.9 million on open market purchases under the stock repurchase program, repurchasing 984,8691,731,500 shares of commonscommon stock at an average price of $76.11. $115.45.
During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2019, the Company expended $575.0approximately $93.8 million on open market purchases under the stock repurchase program, repurchasing 7,384,368911,060 shares of outstanding common stock at an average price of $77.86.
During the three months ended September 30, 2016, the Company had no open market purchases. During the nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company expended $28.7 million on open market purchases under the stock repurchase program, repurchasing 426,300 shares of outstanding common stock at an average price of $67.30.


$102.96.
Shares for Tax Withholding
During the three months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company withheld 135,003483,224 and 593,988 shares, respectively, from equity awards that vested, totaling $10.6$65.3 million and $60.1 million, respectively, to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of such equity awards. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company withheld 870,656 shares from stock units that vested, totaling $71.2 million, to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of stock units. During the three months ended September 30, 2016, the Company withheld 134,782 shares from equity awards that vested, totaling $12.0 million, to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of such equity awards. During the nine months ended September 30, 2016, the Company withheld 698,391 shares from stock units that vested, totaling $55.0 million, to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of stock units. These shares are reflected as treasury stock in the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets and the related cash outlays do not reduce the Company’s total stock repurchase authority.
17.16. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Leases
The Company leases certain office space and equipment under various operating leases. In addition to rent, the leases require the Company to pay for taxes, insurance, maintenance and other operating expenses. Certain of these leases contain stated escalation clauses while others contain renewal options. The Company recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease, excluding renewal periods, unless renewal of the lease is reasonably assured.
Legal Matters
The Company accrues a liability for legal contingencies when it believes that it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and that it can reasonably estimate the amount of the loss. The Company reviews these accruals and adjusts them to reflect ongoing negotiations, settlements, rulings, advice of legal counsel and other relevant information. To the extent new information is obtained and the Company's views on the probable outcomes of any pending claims, suits, assessments, regulatory investigations, or other legal proceedings change, changes in the Company's accrued liabilities would be recorded in the period in which such determination is made. For the matters referenced below, the amount of liability is not probable or the amount cannot be reasonably estimated; and, therefore, accruals have not been made. In addition, in accordance with the relevant authoritative guidance, for matters in which the likelihood of material loss is at least reasonably possible, the Company provides disclosure of the possible loss or range of loss. If a reasonable estimate cannot be made, however, the Company will provide disclosure to that effect.
Due to the nature of the Company's business, the Company is subject to patent infringement claims, including current litigation alleging infringement by various Company productssolutions and services. The Company believes that it has meritorious defenses to the allegations made in its pending caseslitigation and intends to vigorously defend these lawsuits;itself; however, it is unable currently to determine the ultimate outcome of these or similar matters or the potential exposure to loss, if any. In addition, the Company is a defendant insubject to various litigation mattersother legal proceedings, including suits, assessments, regulatory actions and investigations generally arising out of the normal course of business. Although it is difficult to predict the ultimate outcomes of these cases,matters, the Company believes that it is not reasonably possibleoutcomes that the ultimate outcomes will materially and adversely affect its business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows.flows are reasonably possible but not estimable at this time.

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In 2019, three putative class action lawsuits have been filed against the Company in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida following a previously disclosed cyberattack during which international cyber criminals gained intermittent access to Citrix’s internal network and stole certain business files, including human resources and employee records, some of which contained sensitive and personal identification information of the Company's current and former employees and, in some cases, their beneficiaries, dependents and others. These matters, Howard v. Citrix, Jackson and Sargent v. Citrix, and Ramus, Young and Charles v. Citrix, were filed on May 24, 2019, May 30, 2019, and June 23, 2019, respectively, and have been consolidated. The plaintiffs, who purport to represent various classes of current and former employees (and their dependents) of the Company, generally claim to have been harmed by the Company’s alleged actions and/or omissions in connection with this incident and their personal data. They assert a variety of common law and statutory claims seeking monetary damages or other related relief. On March 30, 2020, the parties filed a Notice of Settlement informing the Court that the parties reached agreement to resolve the material terms required to settle all claims in this action. This agreement is subject to Court approval.
On July 25, 2019, a class action lawsuit was filed against Citrix, LogMeIn, Inc. (“LogMeIn”) and certain of their directors and officers in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County, Florida. The complaint alleges that the defendants violated federal securities laws by making alleged misstatements and omissions in LogMeIn’s Registration Statement and Prospectus filed in connection with the 2017 spin-off of Citrix’s GoTo family of service offerings and subsequent merger of that business with LogMeIn. The complaint seeks among other things the recovery of monetary damages. On April 28, 2020, the defendants filed motions to dismiss the complaint. The Company believes that Citrix and its directors have meritorious defenses to these allegations; however, the Company is unable to currently determine the ultimate outcome of this matter or the potential exposure or loss, if any.
Guarantees
The authoritative guidance requires certain guarantees to be recorded at fair value and requires a guarantor to make disclosures, even when the likelihood of making any payments under the guarantee is remote. For those guarantees and indemnifications that do not fall within the initial recognition and measurement requirements of the authoritative guidance, the Company must continue to monitor the conditions that are subject to the guarantees and indemnifications, as required under existing generally accepted accounting principles, to identify if a loss has been incurred. If the Company determines that it is probable that a loss has been incurred, any such estimable loss would be recognized. The initial recognition and measurement requirements do not apply to the provisions contained in the majority of the Company’s software license agreements that indemnify licensees of the Company’s software from damages and costs resulting from claims alleging that the Company’s software infringes the intellectual property rights of a third party. The Company has not made material payments pursuant to these provisions. The Company has not identified any losses that are probable under these provisions and, accordingly, the Company has not recorded a liability related to these indemnification provisions.
18.17. RESTRUCTURING
The Company has implemented multiple restructuring plans to reduce its cost structure, align resources with its product strategy and improve efficiency, which has resulted in workforce reductions and the consolidation of certain leased facilities.

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, restructuring charges were comprised of the following (in thousands):
 Three Months Ended September 30, Nine Months Ended September 30,
 2017 2016 2017 2016
Employee severance and related costs$1,895
 $3,933
 $10,448
 $42,342
Consolidation of leased facilities6,657
 8,243
 8,408
 19,147
Reversal of previous charges
 
 (178) (177)
Total Restructuring charges$8,552
 $12,176
 $18,678
 $61,312
During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company incurred costs of $1.7$2.5 million and $9.2$2.8 million, respectively, related to operational initiatives designed to improve infrastructure scalability and cost saving efficiencies. The charges primarily related to employee severance. The majority of the activities related to this program were substantially completed as of the end of the third quarter of 2017. As of September 30, 2017, total charges incurred since inception were $9.2 million.
All remaining costs for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 relate to other restructuring plans, wherein the majority of the activities related to these previous programs are substantially complete.
Restructuring accruals
The activity in the Company’s restructuring accruals for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 is summarized as follows (in thousands):
 Total
Balance at January 1, 2017$38,059
Restructuring charges18,678
Payments(15,770)
Balance at September 30, 2017$40,967
As of September 30, 2017, the $41.0 million in outstanding restructuring accruals primarily relate to future payments for leased facilities.
Subsequent Event
On October 4, 2017, the Company announced a restructuring program to support its initiatives intended to accelerate the transformation to a cloud-based subscription business, increase strategic focus, and improve operational efficiency.
Restructuring accruals
The programactivity in the Company’s restructuring accruals for the three months ended March 31, 2020 is summarized as follows (in thousands):
Total
Balance at January 1, 2020$6,957 
Employee severance and related costs2,453 
Payments(5,255)
Balance at March 31, 2020$4,155 

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18. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
The following tables presents the changes in total stockholders' (deficit) equity during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and March 31, 2019 (in thousands):

 Common StockAdditional
Paid In Capital
Retained
Earnings
Accumulated Other
Comprehensive
Loss
Common Stock
in Treasury
Total Equity (Deficit)
 SharesAmountSharesAmount
Balance at December 31, 2019318,760  $319  $6,249,065  $4,660,145  $(5,127) (188,693) $(10,066,746) $837,656  
Shares issued under stock-based compensation plans1,432   (1) —  —  —  —  —  
Stock-based compensation expense—  —  53,568  —  —  —  —  53,568  
Common stock issued under employee stock purchase plan245  —  21,034  —  —  —  —  21,034  
Stock repurchases, net—  —  —  —  —  (1,732) (199,903) (199,903) 
Restricted shares turned in for tax withholding—  —  —  —  —  (483) (65,343) (65,343) 
Cash dividends declared—  —  —  (42,839) —  —  —  (42,839) 
Accelerated stock repurchase program—  —  (200,000) —  —  (6,528) (800,000) (1,000,000) 
Cumulative-effect adjustment from adoption of accounting standard—  —  —  (1,641) —  —  —  (1,641) 
Other—  —  1,923  (1,923) —  —  —  —  
Other comprehensive loss, net of tax—  —  —  —  (2,683) —  —  (2,683) 
Net income—  —  —  181,222  —  —  —  181,222  
Balance at March 31, 2020320,437  $320  $6,125,589  $4,794,964  $(7,810) (197,436) $(11,131,992) $(218,929) 

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 Common StockAdditional
Paid In Capital
Retained
Earnings
Accumulated Other
Comprehensive
Loss
Common Stock
in Treasury
Total
Equity
 SharesAmountSharesAmount
Balance at December 31, 2018309,761  $310  $5,404,500  $4,169,019  $(8,154) (178,327) $(9,014,156) $551,519  
Shares issued under stock-based compensation plans1,755   (2) —  —  —  —  —  
Stock-based compensation expense—  —  63,475  —  —  —  —  63,475  
Temporary equity reclassification—  —  6,947  —  —  —  —  6,947  
Common stock issued under employee stock purchase plan216  —  19,015  —  —  —  —  19,015  
Stock repurchases, net—  —  —  —  —  (911) (93,805) (93,805) 
Restricted shares turned in for tax withholding—  —  —  —  —  (594) (60,106) (60,106) 
Cash dividends declared—  —  —  (46,024) —  —  —  (46,024) 
Cumulative-effect adjustment from adoption of accounting standard—  —  —  838  —  —  —  838  
Other—  —  2,000  (2,000) —  —  —  —  
Other comprehensive income, net of tax—  —  —  —  2,671  —  —  2,671  
Net income—  —  —  110,348  —  —  —  110,348  
Balance at March 31, 2019311,732  $312  $5,495,935  $4,232,181  $(5,483) (179,832) $(9,168,067) $554,878  






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Cash Dividend
The following table provides information with respect to quarterly dividends on common stock during the three months ended March 31, 2020.
Declaration DateDividends per ShareRecord DatePayable Date
January 22, 2020$0.35 March 6, 2020March 20, 2020
Subsequent Event
On April 23, 2020, the Company announced that its Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.35 per share which will include, among other things,be paid on June 19, 2020 to all shareholders of record as of the eliminationclose of full-time positions and facilities consolidation. business on June 5, 2020.
19. LEASES
The Company currently expectsleases certain office space and equipment under various leases. In addition to recordrent, the leases require the Company to pay for taxes, insurance, maintenance and other operating expenses. The Company determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use assets, accrued expenses and other current liabilities, and operating lease liabilities in the aggregate approximately $60.0 million to $100.0 millionCompany’s condensed consolidated balance sheets. Finance leases are included in pre-tax restructuring charges associated with this program. Included in these pre-tax charges are approximately $55.0 million to $70.0 million related to employee severance arrangementsproperty and approximately $5.0 million to $30.0 million related to the consolidation of leased facilitiesequipment, net, accrued expenses and other charges associated with the program. Substantially all of these charges will result in future cash expenditures. The Company currently anticipates completing the majority of the activities related to this program during the fourth quarter of 2017current liabilities and during fiscal year 2018.
19. RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
In January 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on the accounting for business combinations by clarifying the definition of a business with the objective of adding guidance to assist entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions or disposals of assets or businesses. The new guidance is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017. The Company is currently evaluating the potential impact of this standard on its financial position and results of operations.


In October 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on the accounting for income taxes, which requires entities to recognize the income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset other than inventory when the transaction occurs as opposed to deferring tax consequences and amortizing them into future periods. This update is effective for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted. A modified retrospective approach with a cumulative-effect adjustment directly to retained earnings at the beginning of the period of adoption is required. The Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial position or results of operations.
In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on the accounting for stock-based compensation. The guidance requires the recognition of the income tax effects of awardslong-term liabilities in the income statement when the awards vest or are settled, thus eliminating additional paid in capital pools. The guidance also allows for the employerCompany’s condensed consolidated balance sheets. Finance leases were not material to repurchase more of an employee’s shares for tax withholding purposes without triggering liability accounting. In addition, the guidance allows for a policy election to account for forfeitures as they occur rather than on an estimated basis. The Company adopted this standard effective January 1, 2017. The impact of the adoption on the condensed consolidated financial statements was as follows:of March 31, 2020.
Income tax accounting -Right-of-use ("ROU") assets represent the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent its obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at the commencement date. The lease liability is based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. The Company adopteduses the guidance related to the recognition of excess tax benefits and deficiencies as income tax expense or benefit in the Company's condensed consolidated statements of income on a prospective basis. The Company adopted on a modified retrospective basis the recognition of previously unrecognized excess tax benefits and recorded the cumulative effectimplicit rate when readily determinable. As most of the change as a $0.4 million increase to Retained earnings with a corresponding adjustment to Deferred tax assets, net as of January 1, 2017.
Forfeitures - TheCompany’s leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company elected to account for forfeitures as they occur on a modified retrospective basis, rather than estimate expected forfeitures and recorded the cumulative effect of the change as a $5.7 million decrease to Retained earnings as of January 1, 2017 with a corresponding adjustment to Additional paid-in capital.
Cash flow presentation - The Company elected to adopt the guidance related to the presentation of excess tax benefits in the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows on a prospective basis. The presentation requirements for cash flows related to employee taxes paid for withheld shares had no impact to any of the periods presenteduses its incremental borrowing rate based on the Company's condensed consolidated statements of cash flows since such cash flows have historically been presented as a financing activity.
In February 2016,information available at the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on the accounting of leases. The new guidance requires that lesseescommencement date in a leasing arrangement recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for most leases (other than leases that meet the definition of a short-term lease). The liability will be equal todetermining the present value of lease payments. The operating lease ROU asset will beis based on the lease liability, subject to adjustment, such as for initial direct costs.costs, and excludes lease incentives. The new guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption is permitted. The new standard must be adopted using a modified retrospective transition, and provides for certain practical expedients. Transition will require application ofCompany’s lease terms include options to extend or terminate the new guidance at the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented. The Company is currently evaluating the potential impact of this standard on its financial position and results of operations; however,lease when it is expected to have a material impact due to the recognition of the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities forreasonably certain that it will exercise that option. For most operating leases, whichexpense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are currently not reflectedrecorded on the balance sheet.sheet; instead, the Company recognizes lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
In July 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update modifying the accounting for inventory. Under the new guidance, the measurement principle for inventory will change from lower of cost or market value to lower of cost and net realizable value. The standard defines net realizable value as the estimated selling price in the ordinary course of business, less reasonably predictable costs of completion, disposal, and transportation. The standard is applicable to inventory that is accounted for under the first-in, first-out method and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. The Company adopted this standard effective January 1, 2017. The adoption of this guidance did not have a significant impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.
In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on revenue recognition. The new guidance creates a single, principle-based model for revenue recognition and expands and improves disclosures about revenue. In July 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update that defers the effective date of the new revenue recognition standard by one year. The new guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after December 15, 2017, and must be adopted using either a full retrospective approach for all periods presented in the period of adoption or a modified retrospective approach. The Company has completed its assessmentlease agreements with lease components (e.g., fixed payments including rent, real estate taxes and insurance costs) and non-lease components (e.g., common-area maintenance costs), which are generally accounted for as a single lease component, such as for real estate leases. For certain equipment leases, such as colocation facilities, the Company accounts for the lease and non-lease components separately.
The components of itslease expense were as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended March 31,
20202019
Classification
Operating lease costOperating expenses$12,816  $12,400  
Variable lease costOperating expenses3,129  2,569  
Sublease incomeOther income, net(323) (198) 
Net lease cost$15,622  $14,771  

Supplemental cash flow information technology systems, data and processes related to the implementationleases was as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended March 31,
20202019
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases$13,866  $13,511  
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:
Operating leases$8,623  $2,975  
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Maturities of this accounting standard. Additionally, the Company has substantially completed itslease liabilities as of March 31, 2020 were as follows (in thousands):
Year ending December 31,Operating Leases
2020 (remaining nine months)$45,094  
202155,543  
202245,257  
202340,694  
202440,731  
After 202461,819  
Total lease payments$289,138  
Less: imputed interest(38,209) 
Present value of lease liabilities$250,929  
Supplemental balance sheet information technology system design and solution development, and commenced implementation of the solution in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017. The Company is currently evaluating and developing


internal controls during implementation to ensure its portfolio of contracts are adequately evaluated, and it expects that the adoption of the standard will have a significant impact to its internal control environment. The Company's internal controls will be modified and augmented, as necessary, upon adoption of the Company’s new revenue recognition policy effective January 1, 2018. The Company expects to adopt the accounting standard update on a modified retrospective basis in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, and is currently evaluating the potential impact of this standard on its financial position and results of operations. Under the new standard the Company expects to capitalize and amortize certain commissions over the expected customer life rather than expensing them as incurred. Additionally, under the new standard, the Company would be required to recognize term license revenues upfront at time of delivery rather than ratably over the related contract period. The Company expects revenue recognition related to perpetual software, hardware, cloud offerings and professional services to remain substantially unchanged.

leases was as follows (in thousands):

Operating LeasesMarch 31, 2020December 31, 2019
Operating lease right-of-use assets$204,974  $206,154  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities$49,593  $47,025  
Operating lease liabilities201,336  209,382  
     Total operating lease liabilities$250,929  $256,407  
Weighted-average remaining lease term (years)5.76.1
Weighted-average discount rate4.88 %5.04 %

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ITEM 2.MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Our operating results and financial condition have varied in the past and could in the future vary significantly depending on a number of factors. ITEM 2.MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
From time to time, information provided by us or statements made by our employees contain “forward-looking” information that involves risks and uncertainties. In particular, statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in the documents incorporated by reference into this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, that are not historical facts, including, but not limited to, statements concerning new products, researchour strategy and development,operational and growth initiatives, our transition to a subscription-based business model, our expansion of cloud-delivered services, changes in our product and service offerings of products and services, market positioning and opportunities, customer demand, distribution and sales channels,features, financial information and results of operations for future periods, strategy, operationalrevenue trends, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and growth initiatives, related market and economic conditions on our business, results of operations and financial condition, our short-term license program and our intentions regarding such program, business continuity, risk mitigation and expectations regarding remote work, the resiliency of our solutions and business model, expectations regarding our customers’ spending during a weak economic environment, seasonal factors restructuring activities, headcount,or ordering patterns, stock-based compensation, international operations, investment transactions and valuations of investments and derivative instruments, restructuring charges, reinvestment or repatriation of foreign earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, tax estimates and other tax matters, liquidity, stock repurchases and rates, the expected benefits of acquisitions,dividends, our debt, changes in domestic and foreign economic conditions and credit markets, liquidity and debt obligations, share repurchase activity,accounting rules or guidance, acquisitions, litigation and intellectual property matters, and the evolutionsecurity of our business towards a subscription-based model,network, products and services, constitute forward-looking statements and are made under the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees. Our actual results of operationsReaders are directed to the risks and financial condition have varied and could in the future vary materially from those stated in any forward-looking statements. The factors describeduncertainties identified in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors,”Factors”, in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016,2019, as may be updated inby Part II, Item 1A in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for additional detail regarding factors that may cause actual results to be different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. Such factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements made in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, in the documents incorporated by reference into this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or presented elsewhere by our management from time to time. Such factors, among others, could have a material adverse effect upon our business, results of operations and financial condition. We caution readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which only speak as of the date made. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.
Overview
Management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is intended to help the reader understand our financial condition and results of operations. This section is provided as a supplement to, and should be read in conjunction with, our financial statements and the accompanying notes to our condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017.March 31, 2020. The results of operations for the periods presented in this report are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the full year or for any future period, due in part to the seasonality of our business. Historically, our revenue for the fourth quarter of any year is typically higher than our revenue for the first quarter of the subsequent year. During the first quarter of 2020, this historical trend was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as described below.
Citrix aims to poweris an enterprise software company focused on helping customers improve the productivity and user experience of their most valuable assets, their employees. We do this by creating a world where people, organizations and things are securely connected and accessible to make the extraordinary possible. We help customers reimagine the future of work by providing the most comprehensive secure digital workspace that unifies the apps, dataprovides unified, secure, and services peoplereliable access to all applications and content employees need to be productive - anytime, anywhere, on any device. Our Networking solutions which can be consumed via hardware or software, complement our Workspace solutions by delivering applications and simplifies IT’s ability to adoptdata employees need across any network with security, reliability and manage complex cloud environments.speed. 
We market and license our products directly to customers,solutions through multiple channels worldwide, including selling through resellers and direct over the Web, and throughWeb. Our partner community comprises thousands of value-added resellers, or VARs, known as Citrix Solution Advisors, value-added distributors, or VADs, systems integrators, or SIs, in addition to indirectly through value-added resellers,independent software vendors, or VARs, value-added distributors, or VADs,ISVs, original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, and service providers,Citrix Service Providers, or CSPs.
We are a Delaware corporation incorporated on April 17, 1989.
Executive Summary
Our productsDuring the three months ended March 31, 2020, we saw increased demand for our solutions to address business continuity needs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The effect of this increased demand was seen primarily in our perpetual and services mobilize desktops, apps, data, and peopleon-premises subscription business related to help our Workspace offerings. We believe that our first quarter performance reflects the critical role Citrix’s solutions have in helping customers drive value. We continue driving innovation in the datacenter with our products and services across both physical and software defined networking platforms while powering some of the world’s largest clouds and giving enterprises the capabilities to combine best-in-class application networking services on a single, consolidated footprint.
On July 7, 2017, the Citrix Board of Directors appointed David J. Henshall as President and Chief Executive Officer of Citrix, effective as of July 10, 2017. Mr. Henshall succeeds Kirill Tatarinov who stepped down from his roles as President and Chief Executive Officer and director of Citrix on July 7, 2017. Mr. Henshall also was electedrespond to the Citrix Board of Directors, effective as of July 10, 2017.


In connection with Mr. Henshall’s appointment, Mark M. Coyle, Senior Vice President, Finance, was appointed interim Chief Financial Officer. The Board also formed an Operations and Capital Committee that will work with Citrix’s management team and advise the Citrix Board of Directors on a comprehensive review of opportunitiesCOVID-19 pandemic. Contributing to drive margin expansion and return capital to shareholders.
On October 4, 2017, we announced a restructuring program to support our initiatives intended to accelerate the transformation to a cloud-based subscription business, increase strategic focus, and improve operational efficiency. The program will include, among other things, the elimination of full-time positions and facilities consolidation. We currently expect to record in the aggregate approximately $60.0 million to $100.0 million in pre-tax restructuring charges associated with this program. Included in these pre-tax charges are approximately $55.0 million to $70.0 million related to employee severance arrangements and approximately $5.0 million to $30.0 million related to the consolidation of leased facilities and other charges associated with the program. Substantially all of these charges will result in future cash expenditures. We currently anticipate completing the majority of the activities related to this program during the fourth quarter of 2017 and during fiscal year 2018.
Through the first three quarters of 2017, we accelerated innovation in the cloud, with the introduction of new services, features and capabilities in Citrix Cloud to build out a comprehensive secure digital workspace. We are seeing an increasing shift in the way customers are purchasing our products, evolving towards a more subscription-based business model.
We expect our transition to a subscription-based business model to provide financial and operational benefits to Citrix, including by increasing customer life-time-value, expanding our customer use-cases and innovation opportunities, and extending the use of Citrix services to securely deliver a broader array of applications, including SaaS and Web apps, and services.
For the balance of fiscal year 2017, we will continue to report our revenues in four groupings: (1) product and license; (2) license updates and maintenance; (3) professional services; and (4) software as a service. Beginningdemand in the first quarter was our decision to make limited use licenses of fiscal year 2018,Citrix Workspace available in the form of shorter-duration, discounted on-premises term offerings to quickly help our customers with their immediate business needs. For additional information, see the section titled Impact from COVID-19 below.
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Longer term, our subscription transition is expected to result in more sustainable, recurring revenue growth over time as less revenue comes from one-time product and licensing streams and more revenue comes from predictable, recurring streams that will be recognized in future periods. We believe that this dynamic is best captured in our Subscription and SaaS Annualized Recurring Revenue, or ARR. This operating metric represents the contracted recurring value of all termed subscriptions normalized to a one-year period. It is calculated at the end of a reporting period by taking each contract’s recurring total contract value and dividing by the length of the contract. ARR includes only active contractually committed, fixed subscription fees. Our definition of ARR includes contracts expected to recur and therefore excludes contracts with durations of 12 months or less where licenses were issued to address extraordinary business continuity events for our customers. All contracts are annualized, including 30 day offerings where we plantake monthly recurring revenue multiplied by 12 to improve transparencyannualize. ARR may be influenced by seasonality within the year. ARR should be viewed independently of U.S. GAAP revenue, deferred revenue and unbilled revenue and is not intended to be combined with or to replace those items. ARR is not a forecast of future revenue. As we continue through this business model transition, we believe ARR is a key indicator of the overall health and trajectory of our business. Management uses ARR to monitor the growth of our subscription business model transition by reporting revenue as follows: (1) product and license revenue from perpetual product offerings; (2) support and services revenue for perpetual product and license offerings; and (3) subscription revenue, which will include revenue from our ratable cloud services offerings and on-premise subscriptions as well as revenue from our CSP offerings.business.
On January 31, 2017,April 23, 2020, we completed the spin-offannounced that our Board of our GoTo Business and subsequent merger of that business with LogMeIn, Inc. pursuantDirectors declared a $0.35 per share dividend payable June 19, 2020 to the terms of (1) an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 26, 2016, by and among Citrix, GetGo, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Citrix, LogMeIn, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of LogMeIn (“Merger Sub”), and (2) a Separation and Distribution Agreement, dated as of July 26, 2016, by and among Citrix, LogMeIn and GetGo. As a result of the Spin-off, we distributed approximately 26.9 million shares of GetGo common stock to our stockholdersall shareholders of record as of the close of business on June 5, 2020.
On January 20, 2017. We delivered21, 2020, we entered into a Term Loan Credit Agreement that provided us with facilities to borrow term loans on an unsecured basis in an aggregate principal amount of up to $1.00 billion, consisting of (1) a $500.0 million 364-day term loan facility (the “364-day Term Loan”), and (2) a $500.0 million 3-year term loan facility (the “3-year Term Loan”), in each case in a single borrowing, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions set forth in the sharesTerm Loan Credit Agreement.
On January 21, 2020, our Board of GetGo common stockDirectors approved an increase of an additional $1.00 billion in authorized repurchase authority to our transfer agent, who held such sharesexisting share repurchase program.
On January 30, 2020, we borrowed $1.00 billion under the term loans and used the proceeds from our Term Loan Credit Agreement to enter into accelerated share repurchase transactions ("ASR") with each of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (each, a "Dealer") for an aggregate of $1.00 billion. Under the benefitASR transactions, we received an initial share delivery of our stockholders. Immediately thereafter, Merger Sub was merged with and into GetGo, with GetGo continuing as a wholly owned subsidiary of LogMeIn. As a result of the Merger, each share of GetGo common stock was converted into the right to receive one share of LogMeIn common stock. As a result of these transactions, our stockholders received approximately 26.96.5 million shares of LogMeInour common stock, with the remainder, if any, delivered upon completion of the ASR transactions. The price per share under the ASR is subject to adjustment and is expected to equal the average of the daily volume-weighted average prices of our common stock during the term of the applicable ASR agreement, less a discount. The ASR is expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2020. The ASR was entered into pursuant to our existing share repurchase program.
On February 25, 2020, we issued $750.0 million of unsecured senior notes due March 1, 2030 (the "2030 Notes"). The net proceeds from this offering were approximately $738.1 million, after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Net proceeds from this offering were primarily used to repay amounts outstanding under our unsecured Term Loan Credit Agreement. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, we used the net proceeds from the 2030 Notes and cash to repay $750.0 million under the Term Loan Credit Agreement. As of March 31, 2020, $250.0 million was outstanding under the Term Loan Credit Agreement.
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic, which continues to spread throughout the U.S. and the world. The impact from the rapidly changing market and economic conditions due to the COVID-19 outbreak is uncertain. It has disrupted the business of our customers and partners, will impact our business and consolidated results of operations and could impact our financial condition in the aggregate, or 0.171844291 of a share of LogMeIn common stock for each share of Citrix common stock held of record by our stockholders asfuture. While we have not incurred significant disruptions thus far from the COVID-19 outbreak, we are unable to accurately predict the full impact that COVID-19 will have due to numerous uncertainties, including the severity of the closedisease, the duration of the outbreak, actions that may be taken by governmental authorities, the impact to the business of our customers and partners and other factors identified in Part II, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in this Form 10-Q. We also believe that our financial resources will allow us to manage the anticipated impact of COVID-19 on January 20, 2017. No fractional sharesour business operations for the foreseeable future, which could include reductions in revenue and delays in payments from customers and partners. We are continuing to monitor the situation and are reviewing our preparedness plans should we begin to experience material impacts.
Impact of LogMeIn were issued,COVID-19 on our First Quarter Results
To provide a flexible solution to help our customers manage through this period, we created a short-term on-premises term subscription license at discounted prices. This limited-use license program was intended to help our customers manage through the shock to the system created by the pandemic. We began to phase out this short-term license program at the end of April 2020.
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Business continuity as a primary-use case contributed $110.9 million of revenue during the three months ended March 31, 2020, primarily in the form of perpetual and on-premise term license demand from our Workspace offerings. Within subscription revenue, limited use on-premise term licenses as well as on-going business continuity associated with our customers’ COVID-19 response positively impacted our results. During the three months ended March 31, 2020, limited use on-premise term subscription licenses accounted for $46.7 million of subscription revenue that is not renewable.
Impact of COVID-19 on our Outlook and Liquidity
With respect to the latter part of 2020 and into 2021, the broader toll COVID-19 may take on the global economy and the slope of the economic recovery is unknown. We believe that our solutions and our stockholders instead received cashbusiness model are resilient. However, given the unknown magnitude, in lieuterms of any fractional shares. The distributiondepth and duration of this crisis, we view the increased demand we experienced in the first quarter, and that we expect for the first half of the sharesyear, as a potential offset against what could prove to be a more challenging macroeconomic environment in the second half of GetGo common stockthe year. Longer term, we believe this global health crisis will cause companies and their employees to our stockholderschange the way they think about remote work. We expect business continuity and risk mitigation to rise as areas of importance in boardroom discussions and on IT priority lists. We believe a greater number of employees will expect to continue to be able to work remotely, at least some of the time, even as social distancing restrictions abate.
Cash from operations, accounts receivable and revenues could also resulted in an adjustmentbe affected by various risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the conversion rate for our 0.500% Convertible Notes due 2019 under the termseffects of the related indenture. As a resultCOVID-19 pandemic and other risks detailed in Part II, Item 1A titled “Risk Factors” of this adjustment,Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. However, based on our current revenue outlook, we believe that existing cash balances, together with funds generated from operations and amounts available under our revolving credit facility of $500.0 million, will be sufficient to finance our operations and meet our foreseeable cash requirements through at least the conversion ratenext twelve months.
Other Impacts of COVID-19
In March 2020, we directed our global workforce to work from home and severely limited all international and domestic travel. We have extended our paid time-off and sick leave benefits for employees directly impacted by COVID-19 or caring for children or a member of their household impacted by COVID-19. We are providing $1,000 per employee below the Vice President level to cover expenses related to transitioning to a work from home environment, helping support local restaurants and small businesses or charities, or lessening any other potential hardship. We also offer local employee assistance program resources if needed.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we expect to hold our largest customer and partner event, Synergy, as a virtual event, or a series of events, and we may deem it advisable to similarly alter, postpone or cancel additional customer, employee or industry events in the future.
We have also increased funding for corporate citizenship directed donations and created a relief recovery fund for the Convertible Notes in effect asCOVID-19 outbreak, doubled our charitable match for employee donations, continued to pay vendors no longer providing on-site services, and set up virtual volunteering opportunities. Additionally, we have committed to continue to pay all of our contingent workforce through the openingend of business on February 1, 2017 was 13.9061 shares of Citrix common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes, which corresponds to a conversion price of $71.91 per share of common stock.
As a result of the Spin-off, the GoTo Business is accounted for as a discontinued operation for all periods presented.May 2020.
Summary of Results
For the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016,March 31, 2019, a summary of our results from continuing operations included:
Total net revenue increased 19.7% to $860.9 million;
Subscription revenue increased 89.4% to $268.2 million;
SaaS revenue increased 43.4% to $122.6 million;
Product and licenseslicense revenue increased 28.0% to $172.9 million;
Support and services revenue decreased 6.8%5.1% to $192.1$419.9 million;
Software as a service revenue increased 32.1% to $45.8 million;
License updates and maintenance revenue increased 5.7% to $421.0 million;
Professional services revenue increased 7.4% to $32.1 million;
Gross margin as a percentage of revenue remained consistent at 84.7%increased 1.5% to 86.6%;


Operating income from continuing operations increased 6.3%64.1% to $136.7$201.5 million; and
Diluted net income per share from continuing operations increased 15.5%82.1% to $0.82.$1.42;
Unbilled revenue increased $398.8 million to $779.2 million;
Subscription ARR increased $279.3 million to $836.6 million; and
SaaS ARR increased $180.2 million to $555.2 million.
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Our Product and licenses revenue decreased primarily due to lower sales of our Networking products, partially offset by an increase in sales of our Workspace Services products. Our Software as a serviceSubscription revenue increased primarily due to customer demand for our solutions to address business continuity needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This impact was seen in the form of existing customers expanding their ability to use our technology through on-premise term subscriptions as well as increased adoption of our cloud-based solutions. In addition, to help customers address the immediate need of employees to work remotely, we offered limited use, shorter duration on-premise licenses, which also increased subscription revenue. Our Product and license revenue increased primarily due to higher sales of our Dataperpetual Workspace offerings and Workspace Services offerings delivered viarelated to ongoing business continuity sales in response to the cloud. The increase in License updates and maintenance revenue was primarily due to increased sales of maintenance services across our Workspace Services and Networking products,COVID-19 pandemic, partially offset by alower sales of our perpetual Networking products. The decrease in our Subscription Advantage productSupport and technical support. The increase in Professional services revenue was primarily due to increased product trainingdecreased sales of maintenance services and certification and implementationprofessional services relatedacross our perpetual Workspace offerings, as more of the revenue is reported in the Subscription revenue line commensurate with our subscription model transition. The increase in gross margin as a percentage of revenue was primarily due to higher revenue as a result of the increase in demand of our Workspace Services solutions. We currently expect total revenue to increase when comparing the fourth quarter of 2017offerings from limited use on-premise license demand and ongoing business continuity sales in response to the fourth quarterCOVID-19 pandemic which exceeded the increase in cost of 2016 and when comparing the 2017 fiscal year to the 2016 fiscal year.sales. The increase in operating income from continuing operations was primarily due to a higher gross margin driven by an increase in sales.gross margin offset by higher operating expenses from variable compensation, resulting from the increase in demand for our solutions to address business continuity needs. The increase in diluted net income per share from continuing operations was primarily due to a net tax benefit from the release of tax reserves related to the expiration of statute of limitations for the 2013 tax year, as well asan increase in operating income and a decrease in the number of weighted average shares outstanding due to share repurchases. Both Subscription and SaaS ARR increased due to the acceleration of subscription bookings as well as from business continuity sales in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2017 Business Combination
On January 3, 2017, we acquired all of the issued and outstanding securities of Unidesk Corporation (“Unidesk”). We acquired Unidesk to enhance our application management and delivery offerings. The total cash consideration for this transaction was $60.4 million, net of $2.7 million cash acquired. Transaction costs associated with the acquisition were $0.4 million. No transaction costs were incurred during the three months ended September 30, 2017. We expensed $0.1 million of transaction costs during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, which were included in General and administrative expense in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income.
2016 Business Combination
On September 7, 2016, we acquired all of the issued and outstanding securities of a privately held company. The acquisition provides a software solution that cuts the cost of desktop and application virtualization and delivers workspace performance by accelerating desktop logon and application response times for any Microsoft Windows-based environment. The total cash consideration for this transaction was $11.5 million, net of $0.8 million cash acquired. Transaction costs were $0.4 million, none of which were incurred during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017. We expensed $0.3 million and $0.4 million of transaction costs during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016, respectively. The assets related to this acquisition relate primarily to $8.2 million of product technology identifiable intangible assets with a 4 year life and goodwill of $4.7 million.
2016 Asset Acquisition
On January 8, 2016, we acquired certain monitoring technology assets from a privately-held company for total cash consideration of $23.6 million. The acquisition provides a monitoring solution for our products as it relates to Microsoft Windows applications and desktop delivery. The identifiable intangible assets acquired related primarily to product technologies.
2016 Divestiture
On February 29, 2016, we sold our CloudPlatform and CloudPortal Business Manager products to Persistent Telecom Solutions, Inc. The agreement included contingent consideration in the form of an earnout provision based on revenue for a period of five years following the closing date. Any income associated with the contingent consideration will be recognized if the earnout provisions are met. No earnout provisions were met during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017. Therefore, no income was recognized during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017.


Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations are based upon our condensed consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent liabilities. We base these estimates on our historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, and these estimates form the basis for our judgments concerning the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. We periodically evaluate these estimates and judgments based on available information and experience. Actual results could differ from our estimates under different assumptions and conditions. If actual results significantly differ from our estimates, our financial condition and results of operations could be materially impacted.
For more information regarding our critical accounting policies and estimates, please refer to “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Operations - Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016,2019, or the Annual Report, and Note 2 to our condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. There have been no material changes to the critical accounting policies disclosed in the Annual Report.

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Results of Operations
The following table sets forth our unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income data and presentation of that data as a percentage of change from period-to-period (in thousands):
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
Revenues:
Subscription$268,236  $141,606  89.4 %
Product and license172,858  135,022  28.0  
Support and services419,851  442,515  (5.1) 
Total net revenues860,945  719,143  19.7  
Cost of net revenues:
Cost of subscription, support and services86,040  71,428  20.5  
Cost of product and license revenues21,256  25,744  (17.4) 
Amortization of product related intangible assets8,281  10,301  (19.6) 
Total cost of net revenues115,577  107,473  7.5  
Gross margin745,368  611,670  21.9  
Operating expenses:
Research and development134,458  130,263  3.2  
Sales, marketing and services326,109  274,655  18.7  
General and administrative80,099  77,547  3.3  
Amortization of other intangible assets702  3,529  (80.1) 
Restructuring2,453  2,832  (13.4) 
Total operating expenses543,821  488,826  11.3  
Income from operations201,547  122,844  64.1  
Interest income1,605  9,674  (83.4) 
Interest expense(14,611) (18,033) (19.0) 
Other income, net2,098  3,699  (43.3) 
Income before income taxes190,639  118,184  61.3  
Income tax expense9,417  7,836  20.2  
Net income$181,222  $110,348  64.2 %

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 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
Revenues:           
Product and licenses$192,102
 $206,041
 $594,708
 $627,581
 (6.8)% (5.2)%
Software as a service45,810
 34,673
 126,053
 98,552
 32.1
 27.9
License updates and maintenance420,951
 398,171
 1,232,734
 1,178,053
 5.7
 4.6
Professional services32,062
 29,851
 93,334
 97,310
 7.4
 (4.1)
Total net revenues690,925
 668,736
 2,046,829
 2,001,496
 3.3
 2.3
Cost of net revenues:           
Cost of product and license revenues27,277
 28,059
 89,723
 93,077
 (2.8) (3.6)
Cost of services and maintenance revenues61,096
 55,337
 184,922
 168,874
 10.4
 9.5
Amortization of product related intangible assets17,564
 14,775
 43,062
 43,222
 18.9
 (0.4)
Total cost of net revenues105,937
 98,171
 317,707
 305,173
 7.9
 4.1
Gross margin584,988
 570,565
 1,729,122
 1,696,323
 2.5
 1.9
Operating expenses:
 
 
 
    
Research and development107,113
 101,741
 316,478
 304,624
 5.3
 3.9
Sales, marketing and services249,499
 244,495
 764,564
 724,343
 2.0
 5.6
General and administrative79,378
 79,617
 237,033
 236,775
 (0.3) 0.1
Amortization of other intangible assets3,733
 3,907
 11,071
 11,449
 (4.5) (3.3)
Restructuring8,552
 12,176
 18,678
 61,312
 (29.8) (69.5)
Total operating expenses448,275
 441,936
 1,347,824
 1,338,503
 1.4
 0.7
Income from operations136,713
 128,629
 381,298
 357,820
 6.3
 6.6
Interest income7,873
 4,193
 19,045
 12,108
 87.8
 57.3
Interest expense(11,726) (11,254) (35,286) (33,605) 4.2
 5.0
Other income (expense), net981
 494
 3,166
 (781) 98.6
 (505.4)
Income from continuing operations before income taxes

133,841
 122,062
 368,223
 335,542
 9.7
 9.7
Income tax expense7,121
 10,325
 62,349
 44,262
 (31.0) 40.9
Income from continuing operations126,720
 111,737
 305,874
 291,280
 13.4
 5.0
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of income taxes
 20,164
 (42,704) 44,982
 (100.0) (194.9)
Net income$126,720
 $131,901
 $263,170
 $336,262
 (3.9) (21.7)







Revenues
Net revenues include Product and licenses, License updates and maintenance, Professional services and SaaS revenues related to our Data offerings. Product and licenses primarily represent fees related to the licensing of the following major products:
Workspace Services is primarily comprised of our Application Virtualization products which include XenDesktop and XenApp, our Enterprise Mobility Management products which include XenMobile products and Workspace Suite; and
Networking primarily includes NetScaler ADC and NetScaler SD-WAN.
We offer incentive programs to our VADs and VARs to stimulate demand for our products.Subscription, Product and license revenues associated with these programsand Support and services revenues.
Subscription revenue relates to fees which are partially offset by these incentives to our VADsgenerally recognized ratably over the contractual term. Our subscription revenue includes SaaS, which primarily consists of subscriptions delivered via a cloud hosted service whereby the customer does not take possession of the software and VARs.hybrid subscription offerings and the related support; and non-SaaS, which consists primarily of on-premise licensing, hybrid subscription offerings, CSP services and the related support. Our hybrid subscription offerings are allocated between SaaS and non-SaaS, which are generally recognized at a point in time. In addition, our CSP program provides subscription-based services in which the CSP partners host software services to their end users. The fees from the CSP program are recognized based on usage and as the CSP services are provided to their end users.
License updatesProduct and maintenancelicense revenue primarily represents fees related to the perpetual licensing of the following major solutions:
Workspace is primarily comprised of our Application Virtualization solutions, which include Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, our unified endpoint management solutions, which include Citrix Endpoint Management, Citrix Content Collaboration, and Citrix Workspace; and
Networking products, which primarily include Citrix ADC and Citrix SD-WAN.
We offer incentive programs to our VADs and VARs to stimulate demand for our solutions. Product and license and Subscription revenues associated with these programs are partially offset by these incentives to our VADs and VARs.
Support and services revenue consists of maintenance and support fees primarily related to our perpetual offerings and include the following offerings:following:
Customer Success Services, which gives customers a choice of tiered support offerings that combine the elements of product version upgrades, guidance, enablement, support and proactive monitoring to help our customers and our partners fully realize their business goals. Fees associated with this offering are recognized ratably over the term of the contract; and
MaintenanceHardware maintenance fees for our perpetual Networking products, which include technical support and hardware and software maintenance, and which are recognized ratably over the contract term; and
Subscription Advantage program, which has been retired and reached end of sale and end of renewal for existing customers. Fees associated with these offerings are being recognized ratably over the remaining term of existing contracts, which was typically 12 to 24 months.
Professional services are comprised of:
Fees from consulting services related to the implementation of our products,solutions, which are recognized as the services are provided; and
Fees from product training and certification, which are recognized as the services are provided.
Our SaaS revenues, which are recognized ratably over
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
 (in thousands)
Subscription$268,236  $141,606  $126,630  
Product and license172,858  135,022  37,836  
Support and services419,851  442,515  (22,664) 
Total net revenues$860,945  $719,143  $141,802  

Subscription
Subscription revenue increased for the contractual term,three months ended March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2019 primarily consistdue to an increase in on-premise license demand of fees related to our Data offerings, primarily ShareFile, as well as fees related to$89.5 million, mostly from our Workspace Servicesofferings of $61.0 million driven by ongoing business continuity sales in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our Networking offerings of $28.5 million, primarily from pooled capacity. Also contributing to the increase is continued customer adoption of our solutions delivered via the cloud.cloud of $37.1 million, primarily from our Workspace offerings.
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
 (in thousands)
Product and licenses$192,102
 $206,041
 $594,708
 $627,581
 $(13,939) $(32,873)
Software as a service45,810
 34,673
 126,053
 98,552
 11,137
 27,501
License updates and maintenance420,951
 398,171
 1,232,734
 1,178,053
 22,780
 54,681
Professional services32,062
 29,851
 93,334
 97,310
 2,211
 (3,976)
Total net revenues$690,925
 $668,736
 $2,046,829
 $2,001,496
 $22,189
 $45,333
Product and Licenseslicense
Product and licenseslicense revenue increased when comparing the three months ended March 31, 2020 to the three months ended March 31, 2019 primarily due to higher sales of our perpetual Workspace offerings from ongoing business continuity sales in
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response to the COVID-19 pandemic of $52.5 million, partially offset by lower sales of our perpetual Networking products of $14.6 million.
Support and services
Support and services revenue decreased for the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to lower sales of our Networking products of $17.2 million, partially offset by an increase in sales of our Workspace Services products of $3.0 million. Product and licenses revenue decreased for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to lower sales of our Networking products. We currently expect Product and licenses revenue to increase when comparing the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2016.


Software as a Service
Software as a service revenue increased for the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to increased sales of our Data offerings of $5.6 million and Workspace Services offerings delivered via the cloud of $5.2 million. Software as a service revenue increased for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to increased sales of our Data offerings of $17.8 million and our Workspace Services offerings delivered via the cloud of $9.1 million. We currently expect Software as a service revenue to increase when comparing the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2016.
License Updates and Maintenance
In October 2016, we announced the launch of Customer Success Services, which replaced Software Maintenance and provides a higher standard of service that empowers customer success whether in the cloud, on-premises or in a hybrid environment through additional services providing expert guidance, proactive monitoring and enablement. In connection with this launch, beginning in 2017, our customers began migrating from the Subscription Advantage and Software Maintenance programs to this new offering.
License updates and maintenance revenue increased for the three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to an increase in software and hardware maintenance revenues of $101.0 million, primarily driven by increased sales of maintenance revenues across our Workspace Services products, partially offset by a decrease in our Subscription Advantage product of $71.7 million and technical support of $7.8 million. License updates and maintenance revenue increased for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to an increase in software and hardware maintenance revenues of $245.3 million, primarily driven by increased sales of maintenance revenues across our Workspace Services products, partially offset by a decrease in our Subscription Advantage product of $168.8 million and our technical support of $22.1 million. These results are due to our new Customer Success Services offering discussed above. We currently expect License updates and maintenance revenue to increase when comparing the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2016.
Professional Services
The increase in Professional services revenue when comparing the three months ended September 30, 2017 to the three months ended September 30, 2016 were primarily due to increased product training and certification and implementation services related to our Workspace Services solutions. The decrease in Professional services revenue when comparing the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 wasMarch 31, 2019 primarily due to decreased product training and certification and implementationsales of maintenance services related toacross our Workspace Services solutions. We currently expect Professionalperpetual offerings of $12.1 million and a decrease from professional services of $5.9 million, as more of the revenue to remain relatively consistent when comparingis reported in the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2016.Subscription revenue line commensurate with our subscription model transition.
Deferred Revenue, Unbilled Revenue and Backlog
Deferred revenues arerevenue is primarily comprised of License updatesSupport and maintenanceservices revenue from maintenance fees, which include software and hardware maintenance, technical support related to our Subscription Advantage product and technical support. Deferred revenues also include SaaS revenue primarily from our Dataperpetual offerings and Professional services revenue primarily related to our consulting contracts. Deferred revenue also includes Subscription revenue from our Content Collaboration and cloud-based subscription offerings.
Deferred revenuesrevenue primarily consists of billings or payments received in advance of revenue recognition and is recognized in our condensed consolidated balance sheets and statements of income as the revenue recognition criteria are met. Unbilled revenue primarily represents future billings under our subscription agreements that have not been invoiced and, accordingly, are not recorded in accounts receivable or deferred revenue within our condensed consolidated financial statements. Deferred revenue and unbilled revenue are influenced by several factors, including new business seasonality within the year, the specific timing, size and duration of customer subscription agreements, annual billing cycles of subscription agreements, and invoice timing. Fluctuations in deferred and unbilled revenue may not be a reliable indicator of future performance and the related revenue associated with these contractual commitments.
The following table presents the amounts of deferred revenue and unbilled revenue (in thousands):
March 31, 2020December 31, 20192020 compared to 2019
Deferred revenue$1,754,803  $1,795,791  $(40,988) 
Unbilled revenue779,246  704,829  74,417  
Deferred revenue decreased $5.3$41.0 million as of September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to December 31, 20162019 primarily due to a decrease in salesmaintenance and support of our Subscription Advantage product$55.5 million, mostly from Workspace perpetual software maintenance of $244.3$35.8 million and Networking perpetual hardware maintenance of $14.0 million, partially offset by an increase from subscription of $17.1 million. Unbilled revenue as of March 31, 2020 increased $74.4 million from December 31, 2019 primarily due to an increase in salesmulti-year subscription agreements as a result of an increase in customer adoption of our cloud-based subscription offerings.
While it is generally our practice to promptly ship our products upon receipt of properly finalized orders, at any given time, we have confirmed product license orders that have not shipped and are unfulfilled. Backlog includes the aggregate amounts we expect to recognize as point in time revenue in the following quarter associated with contractually committed amounts for on-premise subscription software maintenance offeringslicenses, as well as confirmed product license orders that have not shipped and are wholly unfulfilled. As of $239.6 million.March 31, 2020, we had backlog of $48.3 million, which is expected to be recognized as revenue primarily during the second quarter of 2020. As of March 31, 2019, the amount of backlog was not material. We currently expect deferred revenue to increase throughout the remainderdo not believe that backlog, as of 2017.any particular date, is a reliable indicator of future performance.
International Revenues
International revenues (sales outside the United States) accounted for 45.9%48.9% and 45.7%49.1% of our net revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, respectively,March 31, 2020, and 43.8% and 45.4% of our net revenues for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016. March 31, 2019, respectively. The increasechange in our international revenues as a percentage of our net revenues for three months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 was mostly due to an increase in revenue in the EMEA region, primarily due to higher sales of our Workspace Services solutions of $9.8 million and Networking products of $2.2 million. The increase in our international revenues as a percentage of our net revenues for nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 is not significant. See Note 10 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for detailed information on net revenues by geography.


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Cost of Net Revenues
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
 (In thousands)
Cost of subscription, support and services revenues$86,040  $71,428  $14,612  
Cost of product and license revenues21,256  25,744  (4,488) 
Amortization of product related intangible assets8,281  10,301  (2,020) 
Total cost of net revenues$115,577  $107,473  $8,104  
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
 (In thousands)
Cost of product and license revenues$27,277
 $28,059
 $89,723
 $93,077
 $(782) $(3,354)
Cost of services and maintenance revenues61,096
 55,337
 184,922
 168,874
 5,759
 16,048
Amortization of product related intangible assets17,564
 14,775
 43,062
 43,222
 2,789
 (160)
Total cost of net revenues$105,937
 $98,171
 $317,707
 $305,173
 $7,766
 $12,534
Cost of subscription, support and services revenues consists primarily of compensation and other personnel-related costs of providing technical support, consulting and cloud capacity costs, as well as the costs related to providing our offerings delivered via the cloud. Cost of product and license revenues consists primarily of hardware, shipping expense, royalties, product media and duplication, manuals and packaging materials. Cost of services and maintenance revenues consists primarily of compensation and other personnel-related costs of providing technical support, consulting, cloud capacity costs, as well as the costs related to providing our SaaS offerings. Also included in Costcost of net revenues is amortization of product related intangible assets.
Cost of subscription, support and services revenues increased for the three months ended March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2019 primarily due to an increase in costs related to providing our subscription offerings.
Cost of product and license revenues decreased for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 primarily due to lower overall sales of our perpetual Networking products, which containscontain hardware components that have a higher cost than our software products. We currently expect an increase in Cost
Amortization of product and license revenues when comparing the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2016, consistent with the expected increase in Product and licenses revenue.
Cost of services and maintenance revenues increasedrelated intangible assets decreased for the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 primarily due to an increase in saleslower amortization of our software maintenance from our new Customer Success Services offering. Cost of services and maintenance revenues increased for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to an increase in sales of our software maintenance of $10.5 million from our new Customer Success Services offering, an increase in sales of our Data offerings of $3.6 million and an increase in sales of our Workspace Services offerings delivered via the cloud of $3.4 million. These increases are partially offset by a decrease of $2.5 million driven by lower sales of our professional services. We currently expect Cost of services and maintenance revenues to increase when comparing the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2016, consistent with the expected increases in SaaS revenue and License updates and maintenance revenue as discussed above.certain intangible assets becoming fully amortized.
Gross Margin
Gross margin as a percentage of revenue was 84.7% and 84.5%86.6% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, respectively,March 31, 2020, and 85.3% and 84.8%85.1% for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016,March 31, 2019, respectively. The changeincrease in gross margin when comparing the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 to September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 was not significant.primarily due to an increase in sales which exceeded the increase in cost of sales.
Operating Expenses
Foreign Currency Impact on Operating Expenses
The functional currency for all of our wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar. A substantial majority of our overseas operating expenses and capital purchasing activities are transacted in local currencies and are therefore subject to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. In order to minimize the impact on our operating results, we generally initiate our hedging of currency exchange risks up to 12 months in advance of anticipated foreign currency expenses. WhenGenerally, when the dollar is weak, the resulting increase to foreign currency denominated expenses will be higher, and these higher expenses will be partially offset by the gain ingains realized from our hedging contracts. WhenConversely, if the dollar is strong, the resulting decrease to foreign currency denominated expenses will be lower. These lower expenses will in turn be partially offset by the loss inlosses incurred from our hedging contracts. There is a risk that there will be fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates beyond the timeframetime frame for which we hedge our risk.


Research and Development Expenses
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
 (In thousands)
Research and development$134,458  $130,263  $4,195  
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
 (In thousands)
Research and development$107,113
 $101,741
 $316,478
 $304,624
 $5,372
 $11,854
Research and development expenses consistedconsist primarily of personnel related costs and facility and equipment costs and cloud capacity costs directly related to our research and developmentdevelopment activities. We expensed substantially all development costs included in the research and development of our products.
Research and development expenses increased during the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 primarily due to an increase in stock-based compensation of $3.9 million and an increase in compensation and other employee-related costs of $3.7$7.1 million primarily related to a net increase in headcount. These increases are partially offset by a decrease in facility and equipment costs of $1.1 million and a decrease in cloud capacity costs of $0.5 million.
Research and development expenses increased during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to an increase in compensation and other employee-related costs of $11.9 million primarily related to a net
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increase in headcount and an increase in stock-based compensationcloud capacity costs of $7.8 million. These increases are$2.6 million, partially offset by a decrease in facility and equipment costsstock-based compensation of $6.5 million and consulting fees of $2.2$6.2 million.
Sales, Marketing and Services Expenses
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
 (In thousands)
Sales, marketing and services$249,499
 $244,495
 $764,564
 $724,343
 $5,004
 $40,221
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
 (In thousands)
Sales, marketing and services$326,109  $274,655  $51,454  
Sales, marketing and services expenses consistedconsist primarily of personnel related costs, including sales commissions, pre-sales support, the costs of marketing programs aimed at increasing revenue, such as brand development, advertising, trade shows, public relations and other market development programs and costs related to our facilities, equipment, information systems and pre-sale demonstration related cloud capacity costs that are directly related to our sales, marketing and services activities.
Sales, marketing and services expenses increased during the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 primarily due to the impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, which included an increase in variable compensation of $35.8 million driven by an increase in demand of limited use licenses and ongoing business continuity sales and an increase in compensation and other employee-related costs including variable compensation of $7.1 million, partially offset by a decrease in certain facility and depreciation costs of $2.9$11.2 million.
Sales, marketing and services expenses increased during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016 primarily due to an increase in compensation and other employee-related costs, including variable compensation of $37.4 million resulting from a net increase in headcount related to go-to market investments to drive growth, an increase in marketing programs of $7.5 million and an increase in cloud capacity costs of $7.4 million. These increases are partially offset by a decrease in certain facility and depreciation costs of $15.2 million.


General and Administrative Expenses
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
 (In thousands)
General and administrative$79,378
 $79,617
 $237,033
 $236,775
 $(239) $258
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
 (In thousands)
General and administrative$80,099  $77,547  $2,552  
General and administrative expenses consistedconsist primarily of personnel related costs and expenses related to outside consultants assisting with information systems, as well as accounting and legal fees.
General and administrative expenses remained consistent forincreased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016.
Restructuring Expenses
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
 (In thousands)
Restructuring$8,552
 $12,176
 $18,678
 $61,312
 $(3,624) $(42,634)

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, we incurred costs of $1.7 million and $9.2 million, respectively, related to operational initiatives designed to improve infrastructure scalability and cost saving efficiencies. The chargesMarch 31, 2019 primarily related to employee severance. As of September 30, 2017, total charges incurred since inception were $9.2 million.
All remaining costs for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 relate to other restructuring plans, wherein the majority of the activities related to these previous programs are substantially complete.
Additionally, as mentioned in the Overview section above, on October 4, 2017, we announced a restructuring program to support our initiatives intended to accelerate the transformation to a cloud-based subscription business, increase strategic focus, and improve operational efficiency. We currently expect to record in the aggregate approximately $60.0 million to $100.0 million in pre-tax restructuring charges associated with this program. We currently anticipate completing the majority of the activities related to this program during the fourth quarter of 2017 and during fiscal year 2018.
2017 Operating Expense Outlook
When comparing the fourth quarter of 2017due to the fourth quarter of 2016, we currently expect an overall decrease in Operating expenses. Additionally, we expectimpact from the COVID-19 pandemic, which included an increase in restructuringcredit loss expense of $6.4 million, an increase in compensation and other employee-related costs when comparing the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter$4.9 million and an increase in charitable contributions of 2016.$4.0 million. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in professional fees of $10.3 million and a decrease in facilities costs of $3.2 million.
Interest Income
 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
 (In thousands)
Interest income$7,873
 $4,193
 $19,045

$12,108
 $3,680
 $6,937
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
 (In thousands)
Interest income$1,605  $9,674  $(8,069) 
Interest income primarily consists of interest earned on our cash, cash equivalents and investment balances. Interest income increaseddecreased for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 primarily due to overalllower cash, cash equivalents and investment balances and higher yieldsas a result of the repayment of the outstanding principal balance of our Convertible Notes on investments.April 15, 2019. See Note 6 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional details regarding the Company’sour investments.


Other Income (Expense), Net
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 Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended
 September 30, September 30, September 30, 2017 September 30, 2017
 2017 2016 2017 2016 vs. September 30, 2016 vs. September 30, 2016
 (In thousands)
Other income (expense), net$981
 $494
 $3,166
 $(781) $487
 $3,947


Interest Expense
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
 (In thousands)
Interest expense$(14,611) $(18,033) $3,422  
Interest expense primarily consists of interest paid on our 2027 and 2030 Notes and our credit facilities. Interest expense decreased for the three months ended March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2019 primarily due to the repayment of the outstanding principal balance of our Convertible Notes on April 15, 2019, resulting in a decrease of $7.0 million, partially offset by an increase of $3.5 million from our outstanding 2030 Notes and Term Loan Credit Agreement. See Note 11 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional details regarding our debt.
Other income, (expense),net
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
 March 31,March 31, 2020
 20202019vs. March 31, 2019
 (In thousands)
Other income, net$2,098  $3,699  $(1,601) 
Other income, net is primarily comprised of gains (losses) from remeasurement of foreign currency transaction,transactions, sublease income, realized losses related to changes in the fair value of our investments that have a decline in fair value considered other-than-temporary and recognized gains (losses) related to our investments, which was not material for all periods presented.
The change in Other income, (expense), net during the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2016 was not significant.
The change in Other income (expense), net during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 is primarily driven by an increase in net gains ona decrease related to our strategic investments of $0.9 million and a decrease from the remeasurement and settlementssettlement of foreign currency transactions.transactions of $0.7 million.
Income Taxes
We are required to estimate our income taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate as part of the process of preparing our condensed consolidated financial statements. We maintain certain strategic management and operational activities in overseas subsidiaries and our foreign earnings are taxed at rates that are generally lower than in the United States. We do not expect
Our effective tax rate generally differs from the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to remitlower tax rates on earnings fromgenerated by our foreign subsidiaries.
In March 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standard update on the accounting of stock-based compensation to provide guidanceoperations that changes the accounting for certain aspects of share-based payments to employees. The guidance requires, among other things, the recognition of the income tax effects of awardsare taxed primarily in the income statement when the awards vest or are settled, thus eliminating additional paid-in capital pools. We adopted this standard in the first quarter of 2017. There was no material impact upon adoption of this guidance since the recognition of income tax effects of awards was not materially different from amounts previously recorded in our financial statements.Switzerland.
Our continuing operations effective tax rate was 5.3%4.9% and 8.5%6.6% for the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and 2016,2019, respectively. The decrease in the effective tax rate when comparing the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 to the three months ended September 30, 2016 was generally due to the recognition of a $7.9 million benefit from the release of uncertain tax positions due to expiration of statute of limitations in certain jurisdictions during the three months ended September 30, 2017. Our continuing operations effective tax rate was 16.9% and 13.2% for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively. The increase in the effective tax rate when comparing the nine months ended September 30, 2017 to the nine months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2019 was primarily due to certain transactions executed duringtax items unique to the nine monthsperiod ended September 30, 2017.March 31, 2020. These amounts include a $46.1 milliontax benefit for the impact of the closure of a California audit during the three-month period ended March 31, 2020, as well as additional discrete tax benefits for share-based payments.
On May 19, 2019, Swiss voters approved the Federal Act on Tax Reform and AHV Financing (“TRAF”), which provides for broad changes to federal and cantonal taxation in Switzerland effective January 1, 2020. The TRAF requires the abolishment of certain favorable tax regimes, provides for certain transitional relief, and directs the cantons to implement certain mandatory measures while other provisions are at the discretion of the canton. During the period ended December 31, 2019, we recorded a deferred tax asset and a partial valuation allowance for the cantonal and federal impact of the TRAF. The income tax charge to establish a valuation allowance due to a change in expectation of realizability of state R&D credits arising from the separationimpact of the GoTo Business. This charge was partially offset by a $20.9 million benefitTRAF may be subject to change due to the adoptionissuance of the accounting standard update requiring recognition of income tax effects related to stock-based compensation when the awards vest or settle. This charge was also partially offset by a $9.8 million net tax benefit primarily related to an international statutory tax transaction and a $7.9 million benefitfurther legislative guidance from the release of uncertain tax positions due to the expiration of statute of limitations in certain jurisdictions.Swiss taxing authorities.
Our net unrecognized tax benefits totaled $69.2$68.8 million and $69.8$84.5 million as of September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 and December 31, 20162019, respectively. All amountsAt March 31, 2020, $58.2 million included in the balance at September 30, 2017 for tax positions would affect the annual effective tax rate if recognized. We have $2.4had $3.2 million accrued for the payment of interest and penalties as of September 30, 2017.March 31, 2020.
On June 7, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a previous decision of the U.S. Tax Court in Altera v. Commissioner, and held that the U.S. Treasury Department’s regulations that require participants in a cost-sharing arrangement to share stock-based compensation costs were valid. Since we began accruing amounts for this uncertain tax
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position in 2018, there were no changes to our position or treatment of our cost-sharing arrangements in the current period. We will continue to monitor any ongoing developments, including the outcome of Altera Corporation’s February 10, 2020 petition for Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, to determine if future changes are required. The case's final disposition may result in a benefit for us in the future if the case is reversed.
We and one or more of our subsidiaries are subject to U.S. federal income taxes in the United States, as well as income taxes of multiple state and foreign jurisdictions. We are not currently not subject to a U.S. federal income tax examination.under examination by the United States Internal Revenue Service. With few exceptions, we are generally not undersubject to examination for state and local income tax, or in non-U.S. jurisdictions, by tax authorities for years prior to 2013.2016.


In the ordinary course of global business, thereOur U.S. liquidity needs are transactions for which the ultimate tax outcome is uncertain; thus, judgment is required in determining the worldwide provision for income taxes.currently satisfied using cash flows generated from our U.S. operations, borrowings, or both. We provide for income taxes on transactions based on our estimate of the probable liability. We adjust our provision as appropriate for changes that impact our underlying judgments. Changes that impact provision estimates include such items as jurisdictional interpretations on tax filing positions based on the resultsalso utilize a variety of tax audits and general tax authority rulings. Dueplanning strategies in an effort to ensure that our worldwide cash is available in locations in which it is needed. We expect to repatriate a substantial portion of our foreign earnings over time, to the evolving nature of tax rules combined withextent that the large number of jurisdictions in which we operate, it is possible that our estimates of our tax liability and the realizability of our deferred tax assets could change in the future, which mayforeign earnings are not restricted by local laws or result in additional tax liabilities and adversely affect our results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.significant incremental costs associated with repatriating the foreign earnings.
At September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, we had $194.5$365.1 million in net deferred tax assets from continuing operations.assets. The authoritative guidance requires a valuation allowance to reduce the deferred tax assets reported if, based on the weight of the evidence, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. We review deferred tax assets periodically for recoverability and make estimates and judgments regarding the expected geographic sources of taxable income and gains from investments, as well as tax planning strategies in assessing the need for a valuation allowance. If the estimates and assumptions used in our determination change in the future, we could be required to revise our estimates of the valuation allowances against our deferred tax assets and adjust our provisions for additional income taxes.
Our effective tax rate generally differs from the U.S. federal statutory rate of 35% due primarily to lower tax rates on earnings generated by our foreign operations that are taxed primarily in Switzerland. We have not provided for U.S. taxes for those earnings because we plan to reinvest all of those earnings indefinitely outside the United States. From time to time, there may be other items that impact our effective tax rate, such as the items specific to the current period discussed above.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, we generated continuing operating cash flows of $710.6$284.2 million. These continuing operating cash flows related primarily to net income from continuing operations of $305.9$181.2 million, adjusted for, among other things, non-cash charges, stock-based compensation expense of $127.2$58.3 million and depreciation and amortization expenses of $52.6 million. Partially offsetting these cash inflows was a change in operating assets and liabilities of $14.1 million. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily a result of an outflow in deferred revenue of $41.0 million and an outflow in other assets of $23.3 million, primarily due to an increase in capitalized commissions from higher subscription sales. These outflows are partially offset by an inflow from accounts payable of $20.5 million due to cloud hosting fees, an inflow from accrued expenses and current liabilities of $17.1 million due to an increase in commissions and an inflow from accounts receivable of $11.3 million. The inflow from accounts receivable is primarily due to an increase in collections from prior period sales, partially offset by increases in new accounts receivable balances during the first quarter of 2020 primarily from business continuity sales in response to COVID-19. For additional information, see Impact from COVID-19 within our Executive Summary. Our investing activities provided $10.0 million of cash consisting primarily of net proceeds from investments of $22.2 million, partially offset by cash paid for the purchase of property and equipment of $10.5 million. Our financing activities used cash of $310.0 million primarily for stock repurchases of $1.00 billion, amounts paid for but not settled under our accelerated stock repurchase program of $200.0 million, cash paid for tax withholding on vested stock awards of $54.2 million and cash dividends on our common stock of $42.8 million. These outflows are partially offset by net proceeds from the issuance of our 2030 Notes of $738.1 million and net borrowings from our Term Loan Credit Agreement of $248.8 million.
During the three months ended March 31, 2019, we generated operating cash flows of $267.6 million. These operating cash flows related primarily to net income of $110.3 million, adjusted for, among other things, non-cash charges, stock-based compensation expense of $65.2 million, depreciation and amortization expenses of $121.3$54.4 million, and deferred income tax expense of $32.4$24.0 million. Also contributing to these cash inflows was a change in operating assets and liabilities of $93.8$6.6 million, net of effect of our acquisitions. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily a result of an inflow in accounts receivable of $216.1$204.4 million driven by an increase in collections from higher prior period bookings. This inflow is partially offset by changes in income taxes, net of $58.3 million mostly due to a decrease in income taxes payablebookings and an increase in prepaid taxes, changes in accrued expenses and other liabilities of $17.4 million primarily due to a decrease in employee-related accruals, changes in accounts payable of $17.0 million due to the timing of payments, changes ininflow from prepaid expenses and other current assets of $15.8$17.5 million, mostlyprimarily due to decreases from prepaid cloud commitment agreements. These inflows are partially offset by an increaseoutflow in prepaid licensing agreementsaccrued expenses and other current liabilities of $82.0 million, primarily due to decreases in employee-related accruals, changes in deferred revenue of $10.7 million.$77.9 million, primarily maintenance and support, as well as an outflow in income taxes, net of $49.4 million due to decreases in income taxes payable. Our continuing investing activities used $37.3provided $882.9 million of cash consisting primarily of cash paid for the purchase of property and equipment of $61.7 million and cash paid for acquisitions of $60.4 million, partially offset byreceived from the net proceeds from the sale of investments of $90.7 million. Our financing activities used cash of $636.6 million primarily due to cash paid for stock repurchases of $575.0 million, repayments on our credit facility of $125.0 million, cash paid for tax withholding on vested stock awards of $71.2 million, and the transfer of cash to the GoTo Business resulting from the separation of $28.5 million, partially offset by proceeds from the credit facility of $165.0 million.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2016, we generated continuing operating cash flows of $739.6 million. These continuing operating cash flows related primarily to net income from continuing operations of $291.3 million, adjusted for, among other things, non-cash charges, depreciation and amortization expenses of $138.7 million and stock-based compensation expense of $115.3 million. Also contributing to these cash inflows was a change in operating assets and liabilities of $200.1 million, net of effect of our acquisitions. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily a result of changes in accounts receivable of $190.7 million driven by an increase in collections from higher bookings and changes in income taxes, net of $70.8 million mostly due to decreases in prepaid taxes and increase in income taxes payable. These inflows are partially offset by decreases in deferred revenue of $51.1 million and outflows in accounts payable of $19.3 million due to timing of payments. Our continuing investing activities provided $153.1 million of cash consisting primarily of net proceeds from the sale of investments of $256.3$900.8 million, partially offset by cash paid for the purchase of property and equipment of $66.3 million, cash paid for licensing agreements and technology of $25.8 million, and cash paid for acquisitions of $11.5$17.3 million. Our financing activities used cash of $32.3$157.5 million primarily due to cash paid for stock repurchases of $93.8 million, cash dividends on our common stock of $46.0 million and cash paid for tax withholding on vested stock awards of $55.4 million and cash paid for stock repurchases of $28.7 million, partially offset by proceeds from the issuance of common stock under our employee stock-based compensation plans of $39.4$17.7 million.

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Term Loan Credit Agreement
Credit Facility
On January 7, 2015,21, 2020, we entered into a credit agreement, orthe Term Loan Credit Agreement with Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent,administrative agent, and the other lenders party thereto from time to time collectively,(collectively, the Lenders.“Lenders”).The Term Loan Credit Agreement provides us with facilities to borrow term loans on an unsecured basis in an aggregate principal amount of up to $1.00 billion, consisting of (1) a $500.0 million 364-day Term Loan, and (2) a $500.0 million 3-year Term Loan, in each case in a single borrowing, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions set forth in the Term Loan Credit Agreement. On January 30, 2020, we borrowed $1.00 billion under the term loans and used the proceeds to enter into ASR transactions with each of the Dealers for an aggregate of $1.00 billion. See Notes 11 and 15 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional details on the Term Loan Credit Agreement and ASR.
Senior Notes
On February 25, 2020, we issued $750.0 million of unsecured senior notes due March 1, 2030. The 2030 Notes accrue interest at a rate of 3.300% per annum. Interest on the 2030 Notes is due semi-annually on March 1 and September 1 of each year, beginning on September 1, 2020. The net proceeds from this offering were approximately $738.1 million, after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Net proceeds from this offering were primarily used to repay amounts outstanding under our Term Loan Credit Agreement. The 2030 Notes will mature on March 1, 2030, unless earlier redeemed in accordance with their terms prior to such date.
During the three months ended March 31, 2020, we used the net proceeds from the 2030 Notes and cash to repay $500.0 million under the 364-day Term Loan and $250.0 million under the 3-year Term Loan. As of March 31, 2020, $250.0 million was outstanding under the 3-year Term Loan.
On November 15, 2017, we issued $750.0 million of the 2027 Notes. The 2027 Notes accrue interest at a rate of 4.5% per annum. Interest on the 2027 Notes is due semi-annually on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2018. The net proceeds from this offering were approximately $741.0 million, after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Net proceeds from this offering were used to repurchase shares of our common stock through an ASR transaction which we entered into with the ASR counterparty on November 13, 2017. The 2027 Notes will mature on December 1, 2027, unless earlier redeemed or repurchased in accordance with their terms prior to such date. See Note 11 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional details on the 2030 Notes and the 2027 Notes.
Credit Facility
On November 26, 2019, we entered into an amended and restated credit agreement (the "Credit Agreement") with a group of financial institutions, which amended and restated our existing credit agreement, dated January 7, 2015. The Credit Agreement provides for a $250.0 millionfive year unsecured revolving credit facility for a termin the aggregate amount of five years. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, we drew $165.0$250.0 million, of which we repaid $125.0 million as of as of September 30, 2017.subject to continued covenant compliance. We may elect to increase the revolving credit facility by up to $250.0 million if existing or new lenders provide additional revolving commitments in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement. The proceeds of borrowings under the Credit Agreement may be used for working capital and general corporate purposes, including acquisitions. Borrowings under the Credit Agreement will bear interest at a rate equal to either (a) a customary London interbank offered rate formula or (b) a customary base rate formula, plus the applicable margin with respect thereto, in each case as set forth in the Credit Agreement. The weighted average interest rate for the period thatAs of March 31, 2020, no amounts were outstanding under the Credit Facility was 1.57%. As of September 30, 2017, there was $40.0 million outstanding under the credit facility.
The Credit Agreement requires us to maintain a consolidated leverage ratio of not more than 3.5:1.0 and a consolidated interest coverage ratio of not less than 3.0:1.0. The Credit Agreement includes customary events of default, with corresponding grace periods in certain circumstances, including, without limitation, payment defaults, cross-defaults, the occurrence of a change of control and bankruptcy-related defaults. The Lenders are entitled to accelerate repayment of the loans under the Credit Agreement upon the occurrence of any of the events of default. In addition, the Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, including covenants that limit or restrict our ability to grant liens, merge or consolidate, dispose of all or substantially all of our assets, change our business and incur subsidiary indebtedness, in each case subject to customary exceptions for a credit facility of this size and type. We were in compliance with these covenants as of September 30, 2017. In addition, the Credit Agreement contains customary representations and warranties. Please see See Note 1211 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional details on ourthe Credit Agreement.Agreement.
Convertible Senior Notes
In AprilDuring 2014, we completed a private placement of approximately $1.44 billion principal amount of 0.500% Convertible Senior Notes due 2019. All Convertible Notes were converted by their beneficial owners prior to their maturity on April 15, 2019. In accordance with the terms of the indenture governing the Convertible Notes, on April 15, 2019 orwe paid $1.16 billion in the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes and delivered 4.9 million newly issued shares of our common stock in respect of the remainder of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Convertible Notes being converted, in full satisfaction of such converted notes. We received shares of our common stock under the Bond Hedges that offset the issuance of shares of common stock upon conversion of the Convertible Notes. The net proceeds from this offering were approximately $1.42 billion (including the proceeds from the Over-Allotment Option), after deducting the initial purchasers’ discounts and commissions and the offering expenses payable by us. We used approximately $82.6 million of the net proceeds to pay the cost of certain bond hedges entered into in connection with the offering (after such cost was partially offset by the proceeds to us from certain warrant transactions). Please see Note 11 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for additional details on theour Convertible Notes offering and the related bond hedges and warrant transactions.Bond Hedges.
We used the remainder of the net proceeds from the offering and a portion of our existing cash and investments to purchase an aggregate of approximately $1.5 billion of our common stock under our share repurchase program. We used approximately $101.0 million to purchase shares of our common stock from certain purchasers of the Convertible Notes in privately negotiated transactions concurrently with the closing of the offering, and the remaining $1.4 billion to purchase additional shares of our common stock through an accelerated share repurchase transaction, or the ASR, which we entered into with Citibank, N.A., or Citibank, on April 25, 2014.
As a result of the structure of the Reverse Morris Trust (RMT) transaction with LogMeIn, Inc., and the notification on October 10, 2016 to noteholders in accordance with the Indenture, the Convertible Notes became convertible until the earlier of (1) the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the ex-dividend date for the distribution of the outstanding shares of GetGo common stock to our stockholders by way of a pro rata dividend, and (2) our announcement that such distribution will not take place, even though the Convertible Notes were not otherwise convertible at December 31, 2016.
The conversion period for the Convertible Notes that commenced on October 10, 2016 in connection with the distribution terminated as of the close of business on January 31, 2017. As a result, the Convertible Notes were reclassified to Other liabilities from Current liabilities and the amount previously recorded as Temporary equity was reclassified to Stockholders' equity as of September 30, 2017. The distribution also resulted in an adjustment to the conversion rate for the Convertible Notes under the terms of the Indenture. As a result of this adjustment, the conversion rate for the Convertible Notes was re-set as of the opening of business on February 1, 2017 to 13.9061 shares of our common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes, which corresponds to a conversion price of $71.91 per share of common stock. Similar adjustments were made to the conversion rates for the convertible note hedge and warrant transactions as of the opening of business on February 1, 2017.
Historically, significant portions of our cash inflows were generated by our operations. We currently expect this trend to continue throughout 2017.2020. We believe that our existing cash and investments together with cash flows expected from continuing operations will be sufficient to meet expected operating and capital expenditure requirements and service our debt obligations for the next 12


months. For additional information, see section titled Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic above. We continue to search for suitable acquisition candidates and could acquire or make investments in companies we believe are related to our strategic objectives. We could from time to time continue to seek to raise additional funds through the issuance of debt or equity securities for larger acquisitions potential redemption of our Convertible Notes and for general corporate purposes.
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Cash, Cash Equivalents and Investments
 September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016 2017 Compared to 2016
 (In thousands)
Cash, cash equivalents and investments$2,558,714
 $2,543,160
 $15,554
March 31, 2020December 31, 20192020 Compared to 2019
 (In thousands)
Cash, cash equivalents and investments$563,246  $605,456  $(42,210) 
The increasedecrease in Cash, cash equivalents and investments when comparing September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 to December 31, 2016,2019, is primarily due to cash provided by our continuing operating activities of $710.6 million and proceeds from our credit facility of $165.0 million, partially offset bythe cash paid for stockshare repurchases of $575.0 million, repayments on$1.00 billion, amounts paid for but not settled under our credit facilityaccelerated stock repurchase program of $125.0$200.0 million, cash paid for tax withholding on vested stock awards of $71.2$54.2 million, cash dividends on our common stock of $42.8 million and cash paid for property and equipment of $61.7$10.5 million, partially offset by cash received from debt offerings of $987.0 million and cash provided by operating activities of $284.2 million.
As of September 30, 2017, $2.47 billionMarch 31, 2020, $367.9 million of the $2.56 billion$563.2 million of Cash, cash equivalents and investments was held by our foreign subsidiaries. IfThe cash, cash equivalents and investments held by our foreign subsidiaries can be repatriated without incurring any additional U.S. federal tax. Upon repatriation of these funds, we could be subject to foreign and U.S. state income taxes. The amount of taxes due is dependent on the amount and manner of the repatriation, as well as the locations from which the funds are needed for our operations in the United States, we would be required to accruerepatriated and pay U.S. taxes to repatriate these funds. Our current plans are not expected to require repatriation of cash and investments to fund our U.S. operations and, as a result, we intend to permanently reinvest our foreign earnings.received. We generally invest our cash and cash equivalents in investment grade, highly liquid securities to allow for flexibility in the event of immediate cash needs. Our short-term and long-term investments primarily consist of interest-bearing securities.
Accounts Receivable, Net
 September 30, 2017 December 31, 2016 2017 Compared to 2016
 (In thousands)
Accounts receivable$468,309
 $687,089
 $(218,780)
Allowance for returns(778) (1,994) 1,216
Allowance for doubtful accounts(2,730) (3,889) 1,159
Accounts receivable, net$464,801
 $681,206
 $(216,405)
The decrease in Accounts receivable, net, when comparing September 30, 2017 to December 31, 2016 was primarily due to an increase in collections from prior period bookings. The activity in our Allowance for returns was comprised primarily of $2.9 million in credits issued for returns during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, partially offset by $1.7 million of provisions for returns recorded during the nine months ended September 30, 2017. The activity in our Allowance for doubtful accounts was comprised primarily of $5.4 million of uncollectible accounts written off, net of recoveries during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, partially offset by $4.2 million in provisions for doubtful accounts. From time to time, we could maintain individually significant accounts receivable balances from our distributors or customers, which are comprised of large business enterprises, governments and small and medium-sized businesses. If the financial condition of our distributors or customers deteriorates, our operating results could be adversely affected.
Stock Repurchase Programs
Our Board of Directors authorized an ongoing stock repurchase program, with a total repurchase authority granted to us of $6.8 billion, of which $500.0 million$1.00 billion was approved in January 2017.2020. We may use the approved dollar authority to repurchase stock at any time until the approved amount is exhausted. The objective of ourthe stock repurchase program is to improve stockholders’ returns. At September 30, 2017, $329.0March 31, 2020, $914.1 million ($714.1 million after taking into consideration the contracted but undelivered shares under the ASR of $200.0 million) was available to repurchase common stock pursuant to the stock repurchase program. We may repurchase shares under this program in future periods depending on a variety of factors, including among other things, macroeconomic factors, market conditions and business priorities.All shares repurchased are recorded as treasury stock. A portion of the funds used to repurchase stock over the course of the program was provided by net proceeds from the Convertible Notes, the 2027 Notes and the Term Loan Credit Agreement as well as proceeds from employee stock option exercisesawards and the related tax benefit.
We are authorized to make open market purchases of our common stock using general corporate funds through open market purchases, or pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan or in privately negotiated transactions.
On January 30, 2020, we used the proceeds from our Term Loan Credit Agreement to enter into an ASR with a group of Dealers for an aggregate of $1.00 billion. Under the ASR transactions, we received an initial share delivery of approximately 6.5 million shares of our common stock, with the remainder, if any, delivered upon completion of the ASR transactions. The total number of shares of common stock that we will repurchase under each ASR agreement will be based on the average of the daily volume-weighted average prices of our common stock during the term of the applicable ASR agreement, less a discount. At settlement, each Dealer may be required to deliver additional shares of common stock to us, under certain circumstances, we may be required to deliver shares of common stock, at our election, or make a cash payment to the applicable Dealer. Final settlement of the ASR agreement is expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2020. See Note 15 to our condensed consolidated financial statements for detailed information on the ASR.
During the three months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, we expended $75.0 million on open market purchases under the stock purchase program, repurchasing 984,869 shares of outstanding common stock at an average price of $76.11. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, we expended $575.0approximately $199.9 million on open market purchases under the stock repurchase program, repurchasing 7,384,3681,731,500 shares of outstanding common stock at an average price of $77.86.


$115.45.
During the three months ended September 30, 2016, we had no open market purchases. During the nine months ended September 30, 2016,March 31, 2019, we expended $28.7approximately $93.8 million on open market purchases under the stock repurchase program, repurchasing 426,300911,060 shares of outstanding common stock at an average price of $67.30.$102.96.
Shares for Tax Withholding
During the three months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, we withheld 135,003483,224 shares from equity awards that vested, totaling $10.6$65.3 million, to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of such equity awards. During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2019, we withheld 870,656593,988 shares from stock unitsequity awards that vested, totaling $71.2 million, to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of stock units. During the three months ended September 30, 2016, we withheld 134,782 shares from stock units that vested, totaling $12.0$60.1 million, to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of such equity awards. During the nine months ended September 30, 2016, we withheld 698,391 shares from stock units that vested, totaling $55.0 million, to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of stock units. These shares are reflected as treasury stock in our condensed consolidated balance sheets and the related cash outlays do not reduce our total stock repurchase authority.
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Contractual Obligations
With the exception of the new Term Loan Credit Agreement entered into on January 21, 2020, consisting of a $500.0 million 364-day Term Loan, and a $500.0 million 3-year Term Loan, and the $750.0 million 2030 Senior Notes issued on February 25, 2020, as discussed above under the subheading “Liquidity and Capital Resources”, there have been no material changes, outside the ordinary course of business to our contractual obligations since December 31, 2019. As of March 31, 2020, $250.0 million in principal amount was outstanding under the 3-year Term Loan. For further information, see “Contractual Obligations and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement” in Item 7 of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any special purpose entities or off-balance sheet financing arrangements.

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ITEM 3.QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
ITEM 3.QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
There were no material changes during the quarter ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2020 with respect to the information appearing in Part II, Item 7A, “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk,” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016.2019.
ITEM 4.CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
ITEM 4.CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, our management, with the participation of our principal executive and principal financial officers, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Based upon that evaluation, our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer concluded that, as of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in ensuring that material information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms, including ensuring that such material information is accumulated by and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
During the quarterthree months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2020, there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rules 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.



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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1.LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
DueITEM 1.LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
We are subject to various legal proceedings, including suits, assessments, regulatory actions and investigations. We believe that we have meritorious defenses in these matters; however, we are unable currently to determine the ultimate outcome of these or similar matters or the potential exposure to loss, if any. In addition, due to the nature of our business, we are subject to various litigation matters, including patent infringement claims alleging infringement by various Citrix products and services. We believe that we have meritorious defenses to the allegations made in our pending cases and intend to vigorously defend these lawsuits; however, we are unable currently to determine the ultimate outcome of these or similar matters or the potential exposure to loss, if any.
In addition,2019, three putative class action lawsuits have been filed against the Company in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida following a previously disclosed cyberattack during which international cyber criminals gained intermittent access to Citrix’s internal network and stole certain business files, including human resources and employee records, some of which contained sensitive and personal identification information of the Company's current and former employees and, in some cases, their beneficiaries, dependents and others. These matters, Howard v. Citrix, Jackson and Sargent v. Citrix, and Ramus, Young and Charles v. Citrix, were filed on May 24, 2019, May 30, 2019, and June 23, 2019, respectively, and have been consolidated. The plaintiffs, who purport to represent various classes of current and former employees (and their dependents) of the Company, generally claim to have been harmed by the Company’s alleged actions and/or omissions in connection with this incident and their personal data. They assert a variety of common law and statutory claims seeking monetary damages or other related relief. On March 30, 2020, the parties filed a Notice of Settlement informing the Court that the parties reached agreement to resolve the material terms required to settle all claims in this action. This agreement is subject to Court approval.
On July 25, 2019, a class action lawsuit was filed against Citrix, LogMeIn and certain of their directors and officers in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County, Florida. The complaint alleges that the defendants violated federal securities laws by making alleged misstatements and omissions in LogMeIn’s Registration Statement and Prospectus filed in connection with the 2017 spin-off of Citrix’s GoTo family of service offerings and subsequent merger of that business with LogMeIn. The complaint seeks among other things the recovery of monetary damages. On April 28, 2020, the defendants filed motions to dismiss the complaint. We believe that Citrix and our directors have meritorious defenses to these allegations; however, we are a defendant in various litigation matters generally arising out of the normal course of business. Although it is difficultunable to predictcurrently determine the ultimate outcomesoutcome of these cases, we believe that it is not reasonably possible thatthis matter or the ultimate outcomes will materially and adversely affect our business, financial position, results of operationspotential exposure or cash flows.loss, if any.


ITEM 1A.
RISK FACTORS
ITEM 1A.RISK FACTORS
The following information updates, and should be read in conjunction with, the information disclosed in Part 1, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016,2019, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 16, 2017.14, 2020.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows, and such effects will depend on future developments.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures instituted to slow the spread of COVID-19, including travel bans and restrictions, quarantines, shelter in place or total lock-down orders and business limitations and restrictions, have been weighing on the macroeconomic environment, and the pandemic has significantly increased economic uncertainty and reduced economic activity. The COVID-19 pandemic could cause a global recession, depression, or other adverse economic conditions across the world. In the event of a recession, depression, or other downturn in the worldwide economy, our business could be adversely affected.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business are uncertain and difficult to predict, but may include, the following, each of which could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows:
The rate of IT spending and the ability of our customers to purchase our offerings could be adversely impacted. Further, the impact of COVID-19 could delay prospective customers’ purchasing decisions, impact customers’ pricing expectations for our offerings, lengthen payment terms, reduce the value or duration of their subscription contracts, or adversely impact renewal rates. For example, even though we experienced an increase in demand for shorter duration limited use on–premises term subscriptions during the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 to meet the immediate needs of our customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, which increased our reported revenue, we also experienced customers electing to postpone discretionary projects and becoming less inclined to trade-up from existing solutions as the economic environment continues to weaken.
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We could experience disruptions in our operations as a result of continued office closures, risks associated with our employees working remotely, a significant portion of our workforce suffering illness and travel restrictions. We have temporarily closed Citrix offices and have instituted a global remote work mandate and instituted significant travel restrictions, which may limit the effectiveness and productivity of our employees.
We may be unable to collect amounts due on billed and unbilled revenue if our customers or partners delay payment or fail to pay us under the terms of our agreements as a result of the impact of COVID-19 on their businesses, including their seeking bankruptcy protection or other similar relief. As a result, our cash flows could be adversely impacted, which could affect our ability to repay or refinance our outstanding indebtedness, fund future product development and acquisitions or return capital to shareholders. Further, our ability to obtain outside financing or raise additional capital may be limited as a result of volatility in the financial markets during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.
We may be unable to service our debt arrangements, including the 2027 Notes, the 2030 Notes, the Credit Agreement and Term Loan Credit Agreement if we do not generate sufficient cash flow as a result of the impact of COVID-19. Further, we are required to comply with the covenants set forth in the indenture governing the 2027 Notes and the 2030 Notes, the Credit Agreement and the Term Loan Credit Agreement and an adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition or cash flows as a result of COVID-19 could adversely affect our ability to comply with these covenants.
Our transitionforecasted revenue, operating results and cash flows could vary materially from those we provide as guidance or from those anticipated by investors and analysts if the assumptions on which we base our financial projections are inaccurate as a perpetualresult of the unpredictability of the impact that COVID-19 will have on our businesses, our customers’ and partners’ businesses and the global markets and economy.
We may experience disruptions or delays to our supply chain as a subscription-basedresult of COVID-19. For example, we rely on a concentrated number of third-party suppliers for our Networking products, and may experience disruptions from the temporary closure of third-party supplier and manufacturer facilities, interruptions in product supply or restrictions on export or shipment.
Our marketing effectiveness and demand generation efforts may be impacted due to the cancelling of customer events or shifting events to virtual-only experiences. For example, we expect to hold our largest annual customer and partner event, Synergy, as a virtual event, or a series of events, which may prove less successful. We may need to postpone or cancel other customer, employee or industry events or other marketing initiatives in the future.
Our business modelis dependent on attracting and retaining highly skilled employees, and our ability to attract and retain such employees may be adversely impacted by intensified restrictions on travel, immigration, or the availability of work visas during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Increased cyber incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic and our increased reliance on a remote workforce could increase our exposure to potential cybersecurity breaches and attacks.
Our results of operations are subject to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, which risks may be heightened due to increased volatility of foreign currency exchange rates as a result of COVID-19.
The effect of COVID-19 may become more severe and remain prevalent for a significant period of time, and as a result could adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash-flows even after the COVID-19 outbreak has subsided.
To the extent the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows, it may also heighten many of the other risks described in the “Risk Factors” section in Part I, Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. The ultimate impact of COVID-19 on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows is dependent on future developments, including the duration of the pandemic, the severity of the disease and outbreak, future and ongoing actions that may be taken by governmental authorities, the impact on the businesses of our customers and partners, and the length of its impact on the global economy, which are uncertain and are difficult to predict at this time.
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Servicing our debt will require a significant amount of cash, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. We may not have sufficient cash flow from our business to make payments on our debt or repurchase our 2027 Notes or 2030 Notes upon certain events.
As of March 31, 2020, we had aggregate indebtedness of $1.73 billion that we have incurred in connection with the issuance of our unsecured senior notes due December 1, 2027, or the 2027 Notes, the issuance of our unsecured senior notes due March 1, 2030, or the 2030 Notes, under the Credit Agreement and under the Term Loan Credit Agreement. Our ability to make scheduled payments of the principal of, to pay interest on or to refinance our indebtedness, depends on our future performance, which is subject to numerous risksgeneral economic, financial, competitive and uncertainties.
The focus ofother factors beyond our control. Our business model is shifting awaymay not generate cash flow from sales of perpetual software licenses foroperations in the future sufficient to service our debt and to make necessary capital expenditures. If we are unable to generate such cash flow, we may be required to adopt one or more alternatives, such as selling assets, reducing capital expenditures, restructuring debt or obtaining additional equity or debt financing on premises deploymentterms that may be onerous or highly dilutive. Our ability to sales of subscriptions torefinance our cloud-delivered solutions. Perpetual software licenses forindebtedness, as applicable, will depend on premises deployment ofthe capital markets and our solutions will continue to be available to our customers, including through “hybrid” licenses permitting customers to transition from an on premises to a cloud-based deployment during the term of the license. This cloud-subscription strategy may give rise to a number of risks, including the following:
our cloud-subscription strategy may raise concerns among our customer base, including concerns regarding changes to pricing over time, service availability, and security of a cloud-delivered solution;
wefinancial condition at such time. We may not be able to implement effective go-to-market strategiessell assets, restructure our indebtedness or obtain additional equity or debt financing on terms that are acceptable to us or at all, which could result in a default on our debt obligations. See “Management's Discussion and trainAnalysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Liquidity and Capital Resources” and Note 11 to our sales teamcondensed consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2020 for information regarding our 2030 Notes, 2027 Notes, our Credit Agreement and channel partnersour Term Loan Credit Agreement.
In addition, if a change in ordercontrol repurchase event occurs with respect to effectively market our subscription offerings;
the 2027 Notes or the 2030 Notes, we will be required, subject to certain exceptions, to offer to repurchase the 2027 Notes or 2030 Notes, as applicable at a repurchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the 2027 Notes or 2030 Notes, as applicable, repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any. In such event, we may not have enough available cash or be unsuccessfulable to obtain financing to fund the required repurchase of the 2027 Notes or 2030 Notes, as applicable, or making such payments could adversely affect our liquidity. Our ability to repurchase the 2027 Notes or 2030 Notes may be limited by law, by regulatory authority or by agreements governing our other indebtedness.
Further, we are required to comply with the covenants set forth in maintainingthe indentures governing the 2027 Notes and 2030 Notes, the Credit Agreement and the Term Loan Credit Agreement. In particular, each of the Credit Agreement and Term Loan Credit Agreement requires us to maintain certain leverage and interest ratios and contains various affirmative and negative covenants, including covenants that limit or restrict our target pricing, adoptionability to grant liens, merge or consolidate, dispose of all or substantially all of our assets, change our business or incur subsidiary indebtedness. The indenture governing our 2027 Notes and projected renewal rates;
2030 Notes contains covenants limiting our ability and the ability of our subsidiaries to create certain liens, enter into certain sale and leaseback transactions, and consolidate or merge with, or sell, assign, convey, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets, taken as a whole, to, another person. If we fail to comply with these covenants or any other provision of the agreements governing our indebtedness and do not obtain a waiver from the lenders or noteholders, then, subject to applicable cure periods, our outstanding indebtedness may be declared immediately due and payable. Additionally, a default under an indenture, the Credit Agreement or Term Loan Credit Agreement could lead to a default under the other agreements governing our current and any future indebtedness. If the repayment of the related indebtedness were to be accelerated, we may select solution prices that are not optimalhave enough available cash or be able to obtain financing to repay the indebtedness.
Our indebtedness, combined with our other financial obligations and contractual commitments, could negatively affect our sales or earnings;have other important consequences. For example, it could:
we may incur costs at a higher than forecasted rate as we expand our cloud-delivered solutions;
our cloud-delivered solutions are primarily operated through third party data centers, which we do not control and which may bemake us more vulnerable to damage, interruptionadverse changes in general U.S. and cyber-related risks;worldwide economic, industry and competitive conditions and adverse changes in government regulation;
limit our cloud-subscription strategy creates certain risks relatedflexibility in planning for, or reacting to, the timing of revenue recognition and potential reductionschanges in cash flows in the near term.
Our cloud-subscription strategy may also require a considerable investment of technical, financial, legal and sales resources, and a scalable organization. Market acceptance of such offerings is affected by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: security, reliability, scalability, customization, performance, current license terms, customer preference, customer concerns with entrusting a third party to store and manage their data, public concerns regarding privacy and the enactment of restrictive laws or regulations. Whether our business model transition will prove successful and will accomplish our business and financial objectives, including our fiscal year 2020 targets for revenue growth rate, operating margin, revenue from subscriptions asindustry;
place us at a percentage of total revenue, Citrix Cloud bookings as a percentage of new bookingsdisadvantage compared to our competitors who have less debt; and capital return, is subject to numerous uncertainties, including but not limited to: customer demand, the pace of our business model transition, renewal rates, channel acceptance,
limit our ability to further developborrow additional amounts to fund acquisitions, for working capital and scale infrastructure, our ability to include functionalityfor other general corporate purposes.
Any of these factors could materially and usability in such solutions that address customer requirements, tax and accounting implications, pricing and our costs. In addition, the metrics we use to gauge the status ofadversely affect our business, may evolve over the course of the transition as significant trends emerge.
If we are unable to successfully establish our cloud-subscription strategy and navigate our business model transition in light of the foregoing risks and uncertainties, our results of operations could be negatively impacted.
In order to be successful, we must attract, engage, retain and integrate key employees and have adequate succession plans in place, and failure to do so could have an adverse effect on our ability to manage our business.
Our success depends, in large part, on our ability to attract, engage, retain, and integrate qualified executives and other key employees throughout all areas of our business. Identifying, developing internally or hiring externally, training and retaining highly-skilled managerial, technical, sales and services, finance and marketing personnel are critical to our future, and


competition for experienced employees can be intense. In order to attract and retain executives and other key employees in a competitive marketplace, we must provide a competitive compensation package, including cash- and equity-based compensation. If we do not obtain the stockholder approval needed to continue granting equity compensation in a competitive manner, our ability to attract, retain, and motivate executives and key employees could be weakened. Failure to successfully hire executives and key employees or the loss of any executives and key employees could have a significant impact on our operations. Competition for qualified personnel in our industry is intense because of the limited number of people available with the necessary technical skills and understanding of products in our industry. The loss of services of any key personnel, the inability to retain and attract qualified personnel in the future or delays in hiring may harm our businessfinancial condition and results of operations.
Effective succession planning is also important to our long-term success. We recently experienced significant changes in our senior management team, including In addition, if we incur additional indebtedness, the appointment of David J. Henshall as our President and Chief Executive Officer in July 2017 and Mark Ferrer as our Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer in October 2017. Further, as previously announced in connection with Mr. Henshall’s appointment, we are conducting a search process to identify a permanent Chief Financial Officer. Failure to ensure effective transfer of knowledge and smooth transitions involving key employees could hinder our strategic planning and execution. Further, changes in our management team may be disruptiverisks related to our business and any failure to successfully integrate key new hires or promoted employees could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We recently implemented a restructuring program, which we cannot guarantee will achieve its intended result.
In October 2017, we announced the implementation of a restructuring program designed to increase our strategic focus and operational efficiency. It is anticipated that the aggregate total pre-tax restructuring charges for this program, which primarily relate to employee severance arrangements and consolidation of leased facilities, will be in the range of $60.0 million to $100.0 million. We cannot guarantee that we will achieve or sustain the targeted benefits under this restructuring program, or that the benefits, even if achieved, will be adequate to meet our long-term profitability expectations. Risks associated with this restructuring program also include additional unexpected costs, adverse effects on employee morale and the failure to meet operational and growth targets due to the loss of employees, any of which may impair our ability to achieve anticipatedservice or repay our indebtedness would increase. Also, changes by any rating agency to our credit rating may negatively impact the value and liquidity of both our debt and equity securities, as well as the potential costs associated with any potential refinancing of our indebtedness. Downgrades in our credit rating could also restrict our ability to obtain additional financing in the future and could affect the terms of any such financing.
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To the extent the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects our business, results fromof operations, or otherwise harmfinancial condition and cash flows, it may also heighten these risks related to servicing our business.debt.




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ITEM 2.UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
ITEM 2.UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer
OurThe Company's Board of Directors has authorized an ongoing stock repurchase program, with a total repurchase authority granted to us of $6.8 billion, of which $500.0 million$1.00 billion was approved in January 2017.2020. The objective of the stock repurchase program is to improve stockholders’ returns. AsAt March 31, 2020, $914.1 million ($714.1 million after taking into consideration the contracted but undelivered shares under the ASR of September 30, 2017, $329.0 million$200.0 million) was available to repurchase common stock pursuant to the stock repurchase program.program. All shares repurchased are recorded as treasury stock. The following table shows the monthly activity related to our stock repurchase programrepurchases for the quarter ended September 30, 2017:March 31, 2020:
Total Number
of Shares
(or Units)
Purchased
(1)
Average Price
Paid per Share
(or Unit)
Total Number of Shares
(or Units) Purchased as
Part of Publicly
Announced Plans or
Programs
Maximum Number (or Approximate Dollar 
Value) of Shares (or Units) that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
(In thousands)
(2)
January 1, 2020 through January 31, 20208,423,821  $121.15  8,259,980  $914,140  
February 1, 2020 through February 29, 202019,713  $105.22  —  $914,140  
March 1, 2020 through March 31, 2020299,670  $142.31  —  $914,140  
Total8,743,204  $121.84  8,259,980  $914,140  
(1)Includes approximately 483,224 shares withheld from restricted stock units that vested in the first quarter of 2020 to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of restricted stock units.
(2)Shares withheld from restricted stock units that vested to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of awards do not deplete the dollar amount available for purchases under the repurchase program.
ITEM 3.DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None.
ITEM 4.MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.

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Total Number
of Shares
(or Units)
Purchased
(1)
 
Average Price
Paid per Share
(or Unit)
 
Total Number of Shares
(or Units) Purchased as
Part of Publicly
Announced Plans or
Programs
 
Maximum Number (or Approximate Dollar Value)
of Shares (or Units) that
May Yet Be Purchased
Under the Plans or
Programs (In thousands) (2)
July 1, 2017 through July 31, 201752,355
 $80.68
 
 $404,006
August 1, 2017 through August 31, 2017836,785
 76.06
 789,269
 344,031
September 1, 2017 through September 30, 2017230,732
 76.79
 195,600
 329,049
Total1,119,872
   984,869
 329,049


(1)
Includes 135,003 shares withheld from restricted stock units and stock awards that vested in the third quarter of 2017 to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of such restricted stock units and stock awards. We expended approximately $75.0 million during the quarter ended September 30, 2017 for repurchases of our common stock. For more information see Note 16 to our condensed consolidated financial statements.
(2)Shares withheld from equity awards that vested to satisfy minimum tax withholding obligations that arose on the vesting of awards do not deplete the dollar amount available for purchases under the repurchase program.


ITEM 5.OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 5.OTHER INFORMATION
On November 1, 2017,
Our policy governing transactions in Citrix securities by our directors, officers and employees permits our directors, officers and certain other persons to enter into trading plans complying with Rule 10b5-1 under the CompanyExchange Act. We have been advised that PJ Hough, our Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, and Jessica Soisson, our Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller, each entered into a letter agreement with Carlos Sartorius, former Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services, in connection with his retirement from the Company and in order to effect an orderly transition of leadership of the Worldwide Sales and Services function. Subject to Mr. Sartorius remaining with the Company through March 31, 2018, the letter agreement provides for Mr. Sartorius to receive the payments and benefits that he would have received under his existing Executive Agreement with the Company if his employment had been terminated without cause or terminated following a change in control of the Company. A summary of Mr. Sartorius’s Executive Agreement and the amounts payable thereunder is set forthnew trading plan in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filedfirst quarter of 2020 in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 and our policy governing transactions in our securities. We undertake no obligation to update or revise the SEC on January 20, 2017 under the caption “Senior Executive Agreements,” which summary is incorporatedinformation provided herein, by reference. The formincluding for revision or termination of Executive Agreement was included as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 20, 2017. The payments and benefits described above are subject to the execution of a separation and release agreement containing, among other provisions, a general release of claims in favor of the Company.an established trading plan.





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ITEM 6.EXHIBITS
(a)List of exhibits
ITEM 6.Exhibit No.EXHIBITS
(a)List of exhibits
Description
Exhibit No.4.1Description
2.1†
10.1*
10.2*4.2
10.1
10.3†*
10.4*
10.5†*10.2
10.6†*10.3
10.7†*10.4*†
10.8†*31.1†
10.9†*
10.10†*
31.1†
31.2†
32.1††
101.INS101.SCH†XBRL Instance Document
101.SCHInline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL101.CAL†Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF101.DEF†Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB101.LAB†Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE101.PRE†Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
*104†Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline XBRL with applicable taxonomy extension information contained in Exhibits 101.)

*Indicates a management contract or a compensatory plan, contract, or arrangement.
Filed herewith.
††Furnished herewith.



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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized on this 2nd5th day of November, 2017.May, 2020.
 
CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC.
By:/s/ MARK M. COYLE
Mark M. Coyle
Interim Chief Financial Officer
(Authorized Officer and Principal Financial Officer)




EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.By:Description/s/ ARLEN R. SHENKMAN
Arlen R. Shenkman
2.1†Chief Financial Officer
10.1*
10.2*
10.3†*
10.4*
10.5†*
10.6†*
10.7†*
10.8†*
10.9†*
10.10†*
31.1†
31.2†
32.1††
101.INSXBRL Instance Document
101.SCHXBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CALXBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
Officer)

*Indicates a management contract or a compensatory plan, contract or arrangement.
Filed herewith.
††Furnished herewith.




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