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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000779152-13-000022
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20130524

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			HENRY JACK & ASSOCIATES INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000779152
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-COMPUTER INTEGRATED SYSTEMS DESIGN [7373]
		IRS NUMBER:				431128385
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

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		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		PO BOX 807
		STREET 2:		663 HWY 60
		CITY:			MONETT
		STATE:			MO
		ZIP:			65708-0807
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4172356652

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		PO BOX 807
		STREET 2:		663 HWY 60
		CITY:			MONETT
		STATE:			MO
		ZIP:			65708-0807
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<a name="sd4634a37033e42aca99a6b5a269abb07"></a><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><br><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">May 24, 2013</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Stephen Krikorian</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Accounting Branch Chief</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Division of Corporation Finance</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">100 F Street, N.E.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:48px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;padding-left:24px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">RE:</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Jack Henry &amp; Associates, Inc.</font></div></td></tr></table><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:48px;text-indent:48px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:48px;text-indent:48px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Filed August 27, 2012</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:48px;text-indent:48px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">File No. 000-14112</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:48px;text-indent:-24px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Dear Mr. Krikorian:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">This letter provides Jack Henry &amp; Associate, Inc.'s (Jack Henry) response to your letter to John F. Prim dated May 15, 2013, setting forth the Staff's comments on the above referenced Form 10-K.  The numbered paragraphs below correspond to the numbered paragraphs in your letter.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Form 10-K:  For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Consolidated Financial Statements</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Note 1. Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Computer Software Development, page 40</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:24px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;padding-left:0px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">1.</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Staff's Comment:</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#32;&#32;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">We note your response to prior comment 2.  Please address the portion of our comment asking you to explain how the commercial software product amortization expense is classified in your consolidated statements of operations.  In this regard, tell us the amount of amortization expense allocated to cost of licenses, cost of support and service and cost of hardware for each period presented.  Your response should explain your basis for the classification within cost of sales since the majority of the amortization expense appears to be classified as cost of support and service.</font></div></td></tr></table><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:24px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">Our Response:  </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">For the years ended June 30, 2012, 2011 and 2010 total amortization expense on our commercial software products was $24.8 million, $23.1 million and $17.8 million, respectively.  The amortization expense is all classified within costs of sales in the caption cost of support and service in our consolidated statements of operations for each the years ended June 30, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.  </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:24px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:24px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">When determining our basis for allocating commercial software product amortization expense to cost of licenses and cost of support and service we considered the revenue that is generated by our commercial software products; commercial software products do not generate revenue associated with hardware sales.  Our commercial software products generate both license revenue as well as support and service revenue. License revenue represents the fee a customer pays for licensing our software followed by an annual maintenance during the period they use our software.  Within support and service revenue, these products contribute revenue through annual maintenance contracts and through outsourcing contracts, which represent the large majority of our revenues.   We considered that support and services revenue comprised 89%, 88% and 86% of total revenues in each of the </font></div><br><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><a name="sd4634a37033e42aca99a6b5a269abb07"></a><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div><br><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:24px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">annual periods ended June 30, 2012, 2011, and 2010, respectively and also considered the recurring nature of the revenue in concluding that classification of the amortization of the commercial software to the cost of support and services line item is appropriate.  In drawing that conclusion we also contemplated whether the amortization should be allocated between the cost of license caption and the cost of support and service caption; revenues being the most likely basis for such an allocation.  In contemplation of an allocation we observed that both the maintenance revenue and outsourcing revenue are recurring in nature and not subject to significant fluctuations in revenue from year to year.  On the other hand, license revenue, especially on a product-by-product basis, may fluctuate significantly year-to-year since significant license revenue occurs only in the period of new customer acquisition.  The fluctuation in license revenues would potentially result in unpredictable and variable rates of allocation of the amortization between cost of license and cost of support and service that we believe would be confusing to the reader when interpreting the results of operations; making such an allocation less meaningful to a user of the financial statements.   We also considered that such an allocation would have resulted in $1.5 million, $1.4 million, and $1.3 million of amortization being allocated to costs of license for the periods ended June 30, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively.  Based on the considerations described herein, we believe the allocation of all the amortization expense to cost of support and service represents a systematic and rational allocation of the amortization expense.  </font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:48px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:24px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">In future filings, we will enhance our disclosures to further clarify that our cost of license includes only direct costs of third-party software and that cost of support and service revenue includes all of the amortization expense related to the capitalized development of our commercial software products.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;padding-left:24px;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">We acknowledge that:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:48px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;padding-left:24px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8226;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;</font></div></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:48px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;padding-left:24px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8226;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and</font></div></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;"><tr><td style="width:48px;"></td><td></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;padding-left:24px;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">&#8226;</font></div></td><td style="vertical-align:top;"><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">the company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.</font></div></td></tr></table><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">If you have any questions or would like to discuss any aspect of this letter, please call the undersigned at (417) 235-6652.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Sincerely,</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Kevin D. Williams</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:left;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;">Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:11pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;"><br></font></div><br><div><div style="line-height:120%;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;"><br></font></div></div>	</body>
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