Description of Business and Significant Accounting Policies | 1. Description of Business MobileIron, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, collectively, the “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”, provides a purpose-built mobile IT platform that enables enterprises to manage and secure mobile applications, content and devices while providing their employees with device choice, privacy and a native user experience. We were incorporated in Delaware in July 2007 and are headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional sales and support presence in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia and employees in India primarily focused on research and development. Basis of Presentation and Consolidation The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements as of September30, 2019 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, for interim financial statements and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC, and include the accounts of our wholly owned subsidiaries. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Certain information and footnote disclosures in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such rules and regulations. In the opinion of management, the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of our balance sheet as of September 30, 2019, our operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, and our cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018. Our operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2018 has been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements as of that date, but does not include all the footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related financial information should be read in conjunction with our audited financial statements and related notes for the year ended December 31, 2018, included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 previously filed with the SEC. Foreign Currency Translation Our reporting currency is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency of all our international operations is the U.S. dollar. All monetary asset and liability accounts are translated into U.S. dollars at the period-end rate, nonmonetary assets and liabilities are translated at historical exchange rates, and revenue and expenses are translated at the weighted-average exchange rates in effect during the period. Translation adjustments are recorded as foreign currency gains (losses) in the condensed consolidated statements of operations. We recognized a foreign currency loss of $420,000 and $217,000 in the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $612,000 and $571,000 in the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, in other income (expense)—net in our condensed consolidated statements of operations. Use of Estimates The preparation of condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. These estimates include, but are not limited to, revenue recognition, deferred commissions and commissions expense, stock-based compensation, goodwill, and accounting for income taxes. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Concentrations of Credit Risk Financial instruments that potentially subject us to a concentration of credit risk consist of cash, money market funds and fixed income investments. Although we deposit our cash with multiple financial institutions, our deposits, at times, exceed federally insured limits. We invest in fixed income securities that are of high-credit quality. Substantially all of our money market funds, or $43.9 million, are held in five funds that are rated “AAA.” We generally do not require collateral or other security in support of accounts receivable. Allowances are provided for individual accounts receivable when we become aware of a customer’s inability to meet its financial obligations, such as in the case of bankruptcy, deterioration of the customer’s operating results, or change in financial position. If circumstances related to customers change, estimates of the recoverability of receivables would be further adjusted. We also consider broader factors in evaluating the sufficiency of our allowances for doubtful accounts, including the length of time receivables are past due, significant one-time events and historical experience. At September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, we had an allowance for doubtful accounts of $391,000 and $425,000, respectively. One reseller accounted for 10% of total revenue for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019, and for 11% of total revenue for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018, respectively. No other resellers or end-user customers accounted for 10% or more of our total revenue for any period presented. One reseller accounted for 11% of our net accounts receivable at September 30, 2019. No other reseller or end-user customer accounted for 10% or more of net accounts receivable at December 31, 2018. Segments We have one reportable segment, software and services to manage and secure mobile devices, applications and content. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Revenue Recognition Revenue Presentation Cloud services include sales of cloud-based solutions that allow customers to use hosted software over a contract period without taking possession of our software and are typically provided on a subscription or usage basis. License revenue includes sales of perpetual software licenses, software licenses sold as part of on-premise term subscriptions, and appliances. Software support and services revenue includes sales of software support sold as part of on-premise term subscriptions, software support for perpetual licenses, and professional services. Revenue Recognition Revenue is recognized upon transfer of control of promised products or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to receive in exchange for those products or services. We enter into contracts that can include various combinations of products and services, which are generally capable of being distinct and accounted for as separate performance obligations. Revenue is recognized net of allowances for returns and any taxes collected from customers, which are subsequently remitted to governmental authorities. Nature of Products and Services Cloud services, which allow customers to use hosted software over a contract period without taking possession of our software, are provided on a subscription or usage basis. Revenue related to cloud services provided on a subscription basis is recognized ratably over the contract period and revenue related to cloud services based on usage is generally recognized as the usage occurs. Licenses for on-premise software provide the customer with a right to use the software as it exists when made available to the customer. Customers may purchase on-premise software licenses as perpetual licenses or as part of subscriptions. On-premise licenses are considered distinct performance obligations and revenue from the licenses is recognized upfront when the software is made available to the customer. In the case of our on-premise subscriptions, the license portion of revenue is recognized up-front, and the software support and services portion is recognized ratably. Software support and services convey rights to the upgrades released over the contract period and provide support and tools to help customers deploy and use our products more efficiently. Revenue allocated to software support and services is generally recognized ratably over the contract period as customers simultaneously consume and receive benefits, given that the software support and services comprises a distinct performance obligation that is satisfied over time. On-premise subscriptions and software support and services occasionally contain termination rights. We recognize revenue from those arrangements, including the distinct licenses contained therein, as the termination rights for the performance obligation expire. See also Unearned Revenue and Customer Arrangements with Termination Rights below. Professional services include consulting, deployment and training services. Our professional services represent distinct performance obligations as our customers benefit from the services separately or together with other readily available resources. Professional services revenue is recognized as services are delivered. Appliance revenue was less than 5% of total revenue for all periods presented and is included as a component of license revenue within the consolidated statements of operations. Refer to Note 14 – Segment and Disaggregation of Revenue Information for further information. Significant Judgments Our contracts with customers often include promises to transfer multiple products and services to a customer. Determining whether products and services are considered distinct performance obligations that should be accounted for separately versus together may require significant judgment. Judgment is required to determine whether a software license is considered distinct and accounted for separately, or not distinct and accounted for together with the software support and services and recognized over time. Judgment is required to determine the standalone selling price (“SSP”) for each distinct performance obligation. We use a range of amounts to estimate the SSP for items that are not sold separately, including on-premises licenses sold with software support and services. In instances where SSP is not directly observable, such as when we do not sell the product or service separately, we determine the SSP using information that may include other observable inputs. We typically have more than one SSP for individual products and services due to the stratification of those products and services by customer classes and circumstances. In these instances, we may use information such as the size and type of customer in determining the SSP. Contract Balances Timing of revenue recognition may differ from the timing of invoicing customers. We record a receivable when revenue is recognized prior to invoicing, or unearned revenue when revenue will be recognized after invoicing. For multi-year agreements, we either invoice our customer in full at the inception of the contract or annually at the beginning of each annual period. We record an unbilled receivable related to revenue recognized for multi-year on-premise licenses invoiced annually when we have an unconditional right to invoice and receive payment in the future for those licenses or when we have the right to invoice future monthly periods under committed monthly recurring charge (“MRC”) agreements. The majority of our MRC agreements are for a month to month term (“non-committed”) or usage-based. Payment terms and conditions vary by contract type, although terms generally include a requirement to pay within 30 to 60 days. In instances where the timing of revenue recognition differs from the timing of invoicing, we have determined our contracts generally do not include a significant financing component. The primary purpose of our invoicing terms is to provide customers with simplified and predictable ways of purchasing our products and services, not to receive financing from our customers or to provide customers with financing. This includes invoicing at the beginning of a subscription term with revenue recognized ratably over the contract period or multi-year on-premise licenses that are invoiced annually with a portion of the revenue recognized upfront. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the balance of accounts receivable, net of the allowance for doubtful accounts, included $2.2 million and $1.4 million, respectively, of unbilled receivables from upfront recognition of revenue for certain multi-period on-premises software subscriptions that include both distinct software licenses and software support and services. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, unbilled receivables included in other long-term assets on our consolidated balance sheets were $858,000 and $592,000, respectively. Unearned Revenue and Customer Arrangements with Termination Rights We generally invoice our customers upfront for subscriptions and software support and services associated with perpetual licenses. Unearned revenue from those upfront billings is comprised of unearned revenue from cloud-based subscriptions, software support and services for on-premise subscriptions, software support and services associated with perpetual licenses and professional services to be performed in the future. Because some of our arrangements with customers contain termination rights, the arrangements do not meet the definition of a contract under Accounting Standard Codification, or ASC, Topic 606, Revenue Recognition from Contracts with Customers, or ASC 606, and are not recorded as unearned revenue and instead are recorded as “customer arrangements with termination rights” on our consolidated balance sheets. Refer to Note 13 – Unearned Revenue for further information on unearned revenue, changes in unearned revenue during the period, and customer arrangements with termination rights. Deferred Commissions We recognize an asset for the incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer. We have determined that certain sales incentive programs meet the requirements to be capitalized and we include those costs in current and non-current deferred commissions on our consolidated balance sheets. Deferred commissions are amortized over the period commensurate with revenue recognition. Changes in deferred commissions were as follows (in thousands): Three Months Ended Nine Months Ended September 30, September 30, 2019 2018 2019 2018 Balance, beginning of the period $ 17,727 $ 16,928 $ 17,331 $ 18,408 Deferral of commissions earned 4,271 4,158 12,862 10,953 Recognition of commission expense (4,867) (4,095) (12,844) (12,370) Impairment of deferred commissions (21) — (239) — Balance, end of the period $ 17,110 $ 16,991 $ 17,110 $ 16,991 Cash Equivalents We consider all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents. As of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, cash and cash equivalents consist of cash deposited with banks, money market funds and investments that mature within three months of their purchase. Held-To-Maturity Investments We determine the appropriate classification of our fixed income investments at the time of purchase and reevaluate their classifications each reporting period. Investments are classified as held-to-maturity since the Company has positive intent and the ability to hold the securities to maturity. Held-to-maturity securities are stated at amortized cost. Comprehensive Loss Comprehensive loss includes all changes in equity (net assets) during a period from non-owner sources. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, there were no differences between net loss and comprehensive loss. Therefore, the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss have been omitted. Net Loss per Share of Common Stock Basic net loss per common share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period after repurchases but without consideration for potentially dilutive securities. Diluted net loss per share is computed by dividing the net loss by the weighted-average number of common shares and potentially dilutive securities outstanding for the period determined using the treasury-stock and if-converted methods. For purposes of the diluted net loss per share calculation, unvested restricted stock and stock options are considered to be potentially dilutive securities. Because we have reported a net loss for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the number of shares used to calculate diluted net loss per common share is the same as the number of shares used to calculate basic net loss per common share for those periods presented because the potentially dilutive shares would have been anti-dilutive if included in the calculation. Software Development Costs Incurred in Connection with Software to be Sold or Marketed The costs to develop new software products and enhancements to existing software products are expensed as incurred until technological feasibility has been established. We consider technological feasibility to have occurred when all planning, designing, coding and testing have been completed according to design specifications. Once technological feasibility is established, any additional costs would be capitalized. We believe our current process for developing software is essentially completed concurrent with the establishment of technological feasibility, and accordingly, no costs have been capitalized. Internal Use Software We capitalize costs incurred during the application development stage related to our internally used software. Such costs are primarily incurred by third-party vendors and consultants. Costs related to preliminary project activities and post-implementation activities are expensed as incurred. Amounts capitalized in all periods presented were not significant. All software development costs incurred in connection with our cloud offering, or SaaS, are also sold or marketed to partners or end customers, therefore we start capitalizing costs when technological feasibility is achieved. No costs were capitalized in any periods presented as we believe that our current process for developing software is essentially completed concurrent with the establishment of technological feasibility. Property and Equipment Property and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of the property and equipment, determined to be three years for computers and equipment and software, five years for furniture and fixtures, and the lesser of the remaining lease term or estimated useful life for leasehold improvements. Expenditures for repairs and software support are charged to expense as incurred. Upon disposition, the cost and related accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and the resulting gain or loss is reflected as operating expenses in the consolidated statements of operations. Leases T he new leasing standard, Accounting Standards Codification 842, “Leases”, or ASC 842, requires us to record current and noncurrent lease liabilities and a right-of-use (“ROU”) asset on our condensed consolidated balance sheet for contractual arrangements that convey the right to control the use of identified property, plant, or equipment for a period of time in exchange for consideration . We adopted ASC 842 as of January 1, 2019 and, as permitted, we recorded lease liabilities and a ROU asset beginning March 31, 2019 and did not restate our prior periods. We determine if an arrangement is a lease conveying the right to control identified property, plant, or equipment and whether the lease is operating or financing at the lease’s inception. We have determined that all of our leases are operating leases. ROU assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments under the lease arrangements. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. As our leases do not provide an implicit interest rate, we use our incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease commencement date to determine the present value of lease payments. The operating lease ROU asset also includes any advance lease payments made and excludes lease incentives. Our lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise that option. Lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. We have adopted the practical expedient as permitted by the new leasing standard to not recognize lease assets and lease liabilities for leases with a term of 12 months or less. Our leases generally separate lease components from nonlease components. However, where lease and nonlease components are combined in our lease arrangements, we have adopted the practical expedient to not separate the lease from the nonlease components. Refer to Note 12 - Leases for further information about our leases. Goodwill We record the excess of the acquisition purchase price over the fair value of the tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired as goodwill. We perform an impairment test of our goodwill in the third quarter of our fiscal year, or more frequently if indicators of potential impairment arise. We have a single reporting unit and consequently evaluate goodwill for impairment based on an evaluation of the fair value of the Company as a whole. Long-Lived Assets with Finite Lives Long-lived assets are reviewed for possible impairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of these assets may not be recoverable. We evaluate the recoverability of each of our long-lived assets, including property and equipment, by comparison of its carrying amount to the future discounted cash flows we expect the asset to generate. If we consider the asset to be impaired, we measure the amount of any impairment as the difference between the carrying amount and the fair value of the impaired asset. Stock-Based Compensation We use the estimated grant-date fair value method of accounting in accordance with ASC Topic 718 Compensation—Stock Compensation . Fair value is determined using the Black-Scholes Model using various inputs, including our estimates of expected volatility, term and future dividends. We estimated the forfeiture rate based on our historical experience for annual grant years where the majority of the vesting terms have been satisfied. We recognize compensation costs for awards with service and performance vesting conditions and for our Employee Stock Purchase Plan, or ESPP, on an accelerated method over the requisite service period of the award. For stock options or restricted stock unit grants with no performance condition, we recognize compensation costs on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period of the award, which is generally the vesting term of four years. Research and Development Because we estimate that our software is essentially completed concurrent with the establishment of technological feasibility, we have charged all research and development to expense as incurred. Advertising Advertising costs are expensed and included in sales and marketing expense when incurred. Advertising expense for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 was not significant. Income Taxes We account for income taxes in accordance with ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes , under which deferred tax liabilities and assets are recognized for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between financial statement carrying amounts and the tax basis of assets and liabilities and net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized. We use a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. A tax position is recognized when it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes. A tax position that meets the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold is measured at the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement with a taxing authority. The standard also provides guidance on derecognition of tax benefits, classification on the balance sheet, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. Recent Accounting Pronouncements From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, or other standard setting bodies and adopted by us as of the specified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective will not have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations upon adoption. Financial Instruments – Credit Losses In June 2016, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses – Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which introduces a model based on expected losses to estimate credit losses for most financial assets and certain other instruments. In addition, for available-for-sale debt securities with unrealized losses, the losses will be recognized as allowances rather than reductions in the amortized cost of the securities. The standard is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018. Entities will apply the standard’s provisions by recording a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings. We are evaluating the impact of the adoption on our consolidated balance sheet, results of operations, cash flows and disclosures . We intend to adopt ASU No. 2016-13 effective January 1, 2020. Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, “Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment.” This ASU simplifies the subsequent measurement of goodwill by eliminating Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. The annual, or interim, goodwill impairment test is performed by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An impairment charge should be recognized for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value; however, the loss recognized should not exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. In addition, income tax effects from any tax-deductible goodwill on the carrying amount of the reporting unit should be considered when measuring the goodwill impairment loss, if applicable. This ASU should be applied on a prospective basis. The ASU is effective for annual and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2021. Early adoption is permitted. We do not expect the adoption of this ASU to have a material impact on our consolidated financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. |