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Revenue Recognition And Sales Commissions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Revenue From Contract With Customer [Abstract]  
Revenue Recognition And Sales Commissions

3. REVENUE RECOGNITION AND SALES COMMISSIONS

 

Revenue Recognition

Revenues are recognized when control of promised goods or services is transferred to the customer in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for transferring those goods or services. ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customer (referred to as Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606 or “ASC 606”) became effective for the Company as of January 1, 2018 and required changes to the Company’s accounting policies for revenue recognition, trade and other receivables, and deferred commissions.

Revenue is recognized based on the following five-step model:

 

Identification of the contract with a customer

 

Identification of the performance obligations in the contract

 

Determination of the transaction price

 

Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract

 

Recognition of revenue when, or as, the Company satisfies a performance obligation

The following table represents our revenues included in continuing operations from contracts with customers disaggregated by revenue source for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 (in thousands). Sales taxes are excluded from revenues.

 

 

 

Three Months Ended September 30, 2019

 

 

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019

 

Business Segments

 

Workforce

Solutions

 

 

Provider

Solutions

 

 

Consolidated

 

 

Workforce

Solutions

 

 

Provider

Solutions

 

 

Consolidated

 

Subscription/SaaS services

 

$

49,339

 

 

$

9,660

 

 

$

58,999

 

 

$

153,035

 

 

$

28,241

 

 

$

181,276

 

Professional services

 

 

1,684

 

 

 

1,767

 

 

 

3,451

 

 

 

4,704

 

 

 

5,437

 

 

 

10,141

 

Total revenues, net

 

$

51,023

 

 

$

11,427

 

 

$

62,450

 

 

$

157,739

 

 

$

33,678

 

 

$

191,417

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months Ended September 30, 2018

 

 

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018

 

Business Segments

 

Workforce

Solutions

 

 

Provider

Solutions

 

 

Consolidated

 

 

Workforce

Solutions

 

 

Provider

Solutions

 

 

Consolidated

 

Subscription/SaaS services

 

$

47,639

 

 

$

8,521

 

 

$

56,160

 

 

$

137,083

 

 

$

26,221

 

 

$

163,304

 

Professional services

 

 

1,489

 

 

 

2,276

 

 

 

3,765

 

 

 

3,960

 

 

 

4,527

 

 

 

8,487

 

Total revenues, net

 

$

49,128

 

 

$

10,797

 

 

$

59,925

 

 

$

141,043

 

 

$

30,748

 

 

$

171,791

 

 

Subscription/SaaS services revenues primarily consist of fees in consideration of providing customers access to one or more of our SaaS-based solutions and/or courseware subscriptions, as well as fees related to licensing agreements, all of which include routine customer support and technology enhancements. Revenue is generally recognized over time during the contract term beginning when the service is made available to the customer. Subscription/SaaS contracts are generally non-cancelable, one to five years in length, and billed annually, semi-annually, quarterly, or monthly in advance.

Professional services revenues primarily consist of fees for implementation services, custom courseware development, and training. The majority of our professional services contracts are billed in advance based on a fixed price basis, and revenue is recognized over time as the services are performed. For both subscription/SaaS services and professional services, the time between billing the customer and when performance obligations are satisfied is generally not significant.

Our contracts with customers often contain multiple performance obligations. For these contracts, the Company accounts for individual performance obligations separately if they are distinct. The contract price, which represents transaction price, is allocated to the separate performance obligations on a relative standalone selling price basis. We generally determine standalone selling prices based on the standard list price for each product, taking into consideration certain factors, including contract length and the number of subscribers within the contract.

We receive payments from customers based on billing schedules established in our contracts. Accounts receivable - unbilled represent contract assets related to our conditional right to consideration for subscription/SaaS and professional services contracts where performance has occurred under the contract. Accounts receivable are primarily comprised of trade receivables that are recorded at the invoice amount, net of an allowance for doubtful accounts, when the right to consideration becomes unconditional.

For the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recognized $51,000 and $300,000 in impairment losses on receivables and contract assets arising from the Company’s contracts with customers. For the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, the Company recognized $99,000 and $690,000 in impairment losses on receivables and contract assets arising from the Company’s contracts with customers.

Deferred revenue represents contract liabilities that are recorded when cash payments are received or are due in advance of our satisfaction of performance obligations. During the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, we recognized $33.8 million and $32.4 million of revenue from amounts included in deferred revenues at the beginning of the respective period, respectively. During the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, we recognized $61.3 million and $59.0 million of revenue from amounts included in deferred revenues at the beginning of the respective periods. As of September 30, 2019, $420 million of revenue is expected to be recognized from remaining performance obligations under contract with customers. We expect to recognize revenue with respect to approximately 48% of these remaining performance obligations over the next 12 months, with the remaining amounts recognized thereafter.


Sales Commissions

Sales commissions earned by our sales force are considered incremental and recoverable costs of obtaining a contract with a customer. The Company’s sales commission plans for 2018 and 2019 typically include multiple payments, including initial payments in the period a customer contract is obtained and subsequent payments either 15 or 27 months after the initial payment. Under ASC 606, costs to acquire contracts with customers, such as the initial sales commission payment, are capitalized in the period a customer contract is obtained and are amortized consistent with the transfer of the goods or services to the customer over the expected period of benefit, whereas subsequent sales commission payments which require a substantive performance condition of the employee are expensed ratably through the payment date. The capitalized contract cost is included in Deferred commissions in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The expected period of benefit is the contract term, except when the capitalized commission is expected to provide economic benefit to the Company for a period longer than the contract term, such as for new customer or incremental sales where renewals are expected and renewal commissions are not commensurate with initial commissions. Non-commensurate commissions are amortized over the greater of the expected period of benefit or technological obsolescence period. The Company recorded amortization of deferred commissions of $2.1 million and $2.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $6.3 million and $5.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, which is included in Sales and marketing expenses in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income.