Accounting Changes and Error Corrections | Accumulated Deficit The following table presents the cumulative effect adjustment to the beginning accumulated deficit for the new accounting standard adopted by the Company on January 1, 2018: Accumulated Deficit Balance, December 31, 2017, as previously reported $ (35,338,000 ) Cumulative effect adjustment from the adoption of new accounting standard: Revenue from Contracts with Customers 630,000 Balance, January 1, 2018, as adjusted (34,708,000 ) Net income 310,000 Balance, June 30, 2018 $ (34,398,000 ) Recently Adopted Accounting Standards - Revenue from Contracts with Customers In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a new standard related to revenue recognition. Under the new standard, recognition of revenue occurs when a customer obtains control of promised goods or services in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services. The standard requires disclosure of the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. Additionally, under the new guidance, expenses incurred, will be deferred as an asset and will be amortized over the period that services or goods are transferred to the customer. The Company adopted Revenue from Contracts with Customers on January 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective transition method. Under this method, the Company evaluated contracts that were in effect at January 1, 2018 as if those contracts had been accounted for under the new guidance. The Company did not evaluate individual modifications for those periods prior to the adoption date. The aggregate effect of all modifications as of the adoption date and such effects are provided below. Under the modified retrospective transition approach, periods prior to the adoption date were not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with historical, pre-adoption accounting. A cumulative catch up adjustment was recorded to beginning accumulated deficit to reflect the impact of all existing arrangements under Revenue from Contracts with Customers (new guidance). The most significant impact of the adoption of revenue from the new guidance was that the Company deferred $630,000 of incremental hosting costs at the adoption date directly related to hosting customer contracts and the related hosting implementation costs for customers that had not gone live as of the date of adoption. The Company is amortizing these costs over the remaining life of the contract or expected customer life whichever is longer, once the customer goes live. The contract period is generally 1 to 3 years and the average expected customer life is 2 years. As noted above, upon adoption on January 1, 2018, the Company recognizes revenues in accordance with Revenue from Contracts with Customers. As such, the Company identifies a contract with a customer, identifies the performance obligations in the contract, determines the transaction price, allocates the transaction price to each performance obligation in the contract and recognizes revenues when (or as) the Company satisfies a performance obligation. The Companys implementation team has completed its project plan, which included evaluating customer contracts across the organization, developing policies, processes and tools to report financial results including expanding our disclosures in the financial statements, and implementing and updating the Companys internal controls over financial reporting that are necessary under the new standard. The Company has designed specific controls related to revenue recognition under the new guidance that were implemented beginning in January 2018. The next step was to identify any differences that would result from applying the new requirements and controls of the new standard to its perpetual and subscription sales contracts. The Company completed its analysis of its perpetual contracts under the new standard which supports the recognition of its license fee revenue at the time the license is delivered, consistent with its current revenue policy. The Company is still in the process of implementing changes to its accounting system to allow the Company to track revenue and cost by customer versus maintaining all the required information in excel format. The implementation is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2018. The Company performed an analysis of the impact for revenue recognition under the new guidance. We completed the evaluation on the largest perpetual license sales in 2017 and other license sales in the prior years with potential additional performance obligations. After review of the contracts, it was determined that there would be no impact on revenue recognized or any new performance obligations identified for these customers as it relates to the new guidance. Based on the evaluation of our current contracts and revenue streams, revenue recognition is mostly consistent under both the previous and new standard as noted above, with the exception of subscription costs which are described below. Upon adoption, the Company will continue to recognize subscription revenue once a customer goes-live ratably over the remaining contract period or customer life whichever is longer. The contract period is typically 1 to 3 years. The average expected life of a customer is 2 years. The average customer takes about 8 to 10 months to go live. The Company expects the average life of a customer to increase as more customers begin to renew their subscription contracts. The primary change in how we report revenues and expenses under the new guidance is the way we report expenses related to our subscription business. In the past, we deferred all hosting revenue until the customer went live. This practice has continued. The purpose of this practice is to only recognize subscription revenue over the period in which the customer receives the benefit of using the system (performance obligation is satisfied). The major change resulting from the adoption of the new guidance relates to costs incurred in getting a hosted customer live. Through the end of 2017, the Company charged all implementation costs to expense in the period incurred. Starting January 1, 2018, we defer all implementation related costs on the balance sheet (primarily labor costs and hosting costs) until the customer goes live. Once live, we report the deferred implementation costs related to that customer ratably over the remaining expected life of the customer contract or two years, whichever is longer. At this point, based on the Companys relatively short time-span as a provider of a hosted solution, our analysis shows that the average lifespan of an Astea hosted customer is 2 years. Therefore, we amortize the deferred costs over 2 years or the remaining life of the contract, whichever is longer. This is consistent with the revenue recognition methodology used for the subscription service revenue for that customer. The Company satisfies performance obligations as discussed in further detail below. Revenue is recognized at the time the related performance obligation is satisfied by transferring a promised service to a customer. Software license fee revenues are recognized when the software licenses have been delivered to the customer. The Company recognizes revenues from maintenance ratably over the term of the underlying maintenance contract term. The term of the maintenance contract is usually one year. Renewals of maintenance contracts create new performance obligations that are satisfied over the contract term. Revenues are recognized ratably over the contract term. Revenues from professional services consists mostly of time and material services. The performance obligations are satisfied, and revenues are recognized, when the services are provided or when the service term has expired. In contracts with multiple performance obligations, the Company accounts for individual performance obligations separately, if they are distinct. The Company allocates the transaction price to each performance obligation based on its relative standalone selling price out of total consideration of the contract. For maintenance and support, the Company determines the standalone selling price based on the price at which the Company separately sells a renewal contract. The Company determines the standalone selling price for sales of licenses using the residual approach. For professional services, the Company determines the standalone selling prices based on the price at which the Company separately sells those services. The Company does not grant a right of return to its customers. Although the new guidance prefers that revenue in a contract with multiple performance obligations use the adjusted market approach which includes standalone selling price (SSP) or third part evidence (TPE) or expected cost plus margin approach as the methodology for allocating revenues to software, the Company is using the Residual Method for allocating the revenues from a contract to the license component of the sale. A Company should not presume that contractually stated prices or a list price for perpetual licenses represents the SSP for that performance obligation. Due to competition, highly variable pricing, customer demographics, varying size of our customers, and other such factors, the Companys selling prices are considered uncertain for each perpetual license sale. Therefore, SSP is not an appropriate methodology as it relates to our license revenue. In terms of TPE as a basis to price our software, our product is unique and expansive in terms of the systems inherent functionality. There are no directly comparable products in the marketplace today, which we could use as the basis to set our standard license pricing based on a comparison with other vendors. In addition, most of the Companys we compete with in our market are privately owned, which prevents us from obtaining reliable TPE. Accordingly, the new guidance permits the Company to use the Residual Method for allocating selling price if the first two preferable choices cannot be used. The residual between the total transaction price and the observable standalone selling prices of those performance obligations with observable standalone selling prices is considered to be the estimated standalone selling price of the goods or services underlying the performance obligation. Astea commonly sells our software products bundled with other products (maintenance) and professional services. As noted above, the new standard requires an entity to allocate the transaction price to the distinct performance obligations in a contract on a relative SSP basis. Under the new guidance,
an entity shall determine the standalone selling price at contract inception of the distinct good or service underlying each performance obligation in the contract and allocate the transaction price in proportion to those standalone selling prices. SSP is defined as the price at which an entity would sell a promised good or service separately to a customer. For example, the Company has a history of selling maintenance renewals and professional services on a standalone basis. Therefore, Astea will utilize SSP for its performance obligations as it relates to service and maintenance revenue. In addition, due to the Company having different maintenance and service rates in other parts of the world in which it operates, the Company has developed a reasonable range for its SSP for maintenance and services rather than a single point. The incremental costs of obtaining a customer contract (i.e., those costs related to obtaining the customer contract that would not have been incurred if the customer contract was not obtained), such as a sales commission, should be capitalized if the Company expects to recover those costs (based on net future cash flows from the contract and expected contract renewals). The Company may expense the incremental costs of obtaining a contract if the amortization period would otherwise be one year or less. Since sales commissions are costs that are incremental and the amortization of sales commissions would be one year or less, the Company will continue to expense these items as incurred. Costs of obtaining a customer contract that are not incremental (i.e., costs related to obtaining the customer contract that would have been incurred regardless of whether the customer contract had been obtained), such as travel costs incurred to present the customer proposal, should only be capitalized if those costs are explicitly chargeable to the customer regardless of whether the entity enters into a contract with the customer. Otherwise, such costs are expensed as incurred. The Company will continue to expense these costs as they are incurred. We present taxes assessed by a governmental authority including sales, use, value added and excise taxes on a net basis and therefore the presentation of these taxes is excluded from our revenues and is included in accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets until such amounts are remitted to the taxing authority. The cumulative effect of the changes made to our consolidated January 1, 2018 balance sheet for the new revenue standard requirements were as follows: As of December 31, As of January 1, 2017 Adjustments 2018 Assets Deferred hosting costs $ - $ 630,000 $ 630,000 Stockholders deficit Accumulated deficit $ (35,338,000 ) $ 630,000 $ (34,708,000 ) In accordance with requirements of the new revenue standard, the impact of adoption on our condensed consolidated balance sheet and statement of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2018 was as follows: As of June 30, 2018 As Reported Without Adoption Effect of Change Assets Deferred hosting costs $ 1,244,000 $ - $ 1,244,000 Equity Accumulated deficit $ (34,398,000 ) $ (35,642,000 ) $ 1,244,000 For the six months ended June 30, 2018 As Reported Without adoption Effect of Change Cost of Revenue: Cost of Subscriptions $ 425,000 $ 488,000 $ 63,000 Cost of services and maintenance 7,009,000 7,587,000 578,000 Total Cost of Revenue $ 7,434,000 $ 8,075,000 $ 641,000 Gross Profit $ 4,668,000 $ 4,027,000 $ 641,000 Net income (loss) $ 310,000 $ (331,000 ) $ 641,000 Preferred dividend 250,000 250,000 - Net income (loss) allocable to common stockholders $ 60,000 $ (581,000 ) $ 641,000 Basic and diluted $ 0.02 $ (0.16 ) $ ( 0.18 ) The following table summarizes the effects of adopting the new standard requirements on the financial statement line items of the Companys condensed consolidated statement of cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2018: As of June 30, 2018 As Reported Without Adoption Effect of Change Cash flows from operating activities: Net income $ 310,000 $ (331,000 ) $ ( 641,000 ) Amortization of hosting costs 27,000 - 27,000 Deferred hosting costs 614,000 - 614,000 Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash The following table provides a reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash reported within the condensed consolidated balance sheet that sum to the total of the same such amounts presented on the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows: June 30, 2018 December 31, 2017 Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,365,000 $ 1,924,000 Restricted cash 76,000 77,000 Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash reported on the consolidated statement of cash flows $ 1,441,000 $ 2,001,000 Amounts included in restricted cash represent funds required to be set aside by a contractual agreement with the building leasing companies in Europe. The restrictions will lapse when the building leases expires. |