UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

     Litigation Release No. 15417 / July 23, 1997

     Accounting and Auditing Enforcement
     Release No. 939 / July 23, 1997           

     Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Policy Management Systems
     Corporation, George Larry Wilson, Robert L. Gresham, James P. Brown, David
     T. Bailey and Bernard C. Mazon, Civil Action No. 3:97-2193-10 (D.S.C. July
     22, 1997)

     The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it had sued
     Policy Management Systems Corporation of Columbia, South Carolina ("PMSC")
     and five of its current and former officers.  PMSC is engaged in the
     business of developing and licensing software used by insurance companies
     and its securities are listed and trade on the New York Stock Exchange. 
     The SEC alleged in its complaint that from January 1991 through March 1993
     PMSC and various of its employees engaged in a number of improper
     accounting practices which materially misstated PMSC s results of
     operations.  These practices included the use of side letters to modify the
     terms of contracts, an undisclosed billing arrangement with one customer,
     undisclosed prebilling arrangements with other customers, and various
     practices which had the effect of holding the books open beyond the end of
     several reporting periods.  The SEC also alleged that at the end of several
     reporting periods PMSC and certain of its employees recorded revenue from
     contracts which had not yet been finalized with customers.  According to
     the SEC complaint, these practices, which did not comply with generally
     accepted accounting principles or PMSC's own publicly stated accounting
     policies, caused the revenues in PMSC's quarterly and annual financial
     statements for 1991, 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 to be misstated by
     amounts ranging up to $3.9 million. 

     The individual defendants sued by the SEC are George Larry Wilson, the
     chief executive officer of PMSC, Robert L. Gresham, PMSC's former chief
     financial officer, James P. Brown, the company's former general counsel,
     David T. Bailey, an executive vice president of PMSC, and Bernard C. Mazon,
     formerly an executive vice president of the company.

     The complaint alleged that the chief executive officer and the chief
     financial officer signed the annual and quarterly reports PMSC filed with
     the Commission for the periods from January 1, 1991 through March 31, 1993
     and provided the annual management representation letter to PMSC s auditors
     for 1992.  According to the complaint, the CEO, CFO and general counsel
     controlled PMSC s revenue recognition policies and knew or should have
     known that in certain instances revenue was recognized from contracts which
     had not been finalized and were not executed until after the end of the
     period.  In one specific instance, the complaint alleged that in 1993 a
     customer had notified the general counsel of its intent to cancel a
     $980,000 contract which had been included as revenue in 

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     the period ended September 30, 1992,  pursuant to a cancellation right
     contained in a side letter given to conclude negotiations for the contract
     after the close of that period.  The complaint further alleged that the
     chief financial officer learned of this side letter by February, 1993, but
     PMSC continued to recognize the revenue from the contract in its 1992
     financial statements.  The complaint also alleged that another side letter
     was given to conclude a $1.8 million contract in January, 1993.  According
     to the complaint, in February, 1993, the general counsel stated to PMSC s
     auditors that two contracts PMSC had included as revenue in the period
     ended December 31, 1992, had been completed in December, 1992, despite the
     fact that the contracts had not been finally negotiated and signed until
     January, 1993. The complaint further alleged that the defendant executive
     vice presidents each negotiated contracts with customers where material
     terms were not agreed until after the close of the period, and each gave
     customers undisclosed side letters to conclude contracts, although each was
     aware of PMSC's revenue recognition policies.

     The SEC s complaint charged that each of the individual defendants violated
     Section 13(b)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ( Exchange Act )
     and Rules 13b2-1 and 13b2-2 thereunder.  The complaint also alleged that
     PMSC, and as controlling persons, the chief executive officer, chief
     financial officer and general counsel violated Sections 13(a) and
     13(b)(2)(A) and (B) of the Exchange Act and Rules 12b-20, 13a-1 and 13a-13
     thereunder.  

     Simultaneously with the filing of the complaint, PMSC and the five
     individual defendants consented, without admitting or denying the
     allegations in the complaint, to the entry of final judgments ordering PMSC
     to pay a $1 million civil penalty and each individual defendant to pay a
     $20,000 civil penalty.  The judgments also enjoin PMSC, Wilson, Gresham and
     Brown from future violations of the periodic reporting, books and records,
     and internal controls provisions of the Exchange Act and enjoin Bailey and
     Mazon from future violations of the internal control provisions.            
                                      
           


















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