Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies (Policy)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates, and such differences may be material to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Principles Of Consolidation

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements of the Company include the accounts of Kenexa Corporation and its subsidiaries and variable interest entity as described in Footnote 5 – Variable Interest Entity in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Interest Rate Swap Agreements

Interest Rate Swap Agreements

The Company’s variable-rate debt obligations expose it to variability in interest payments due to changes in interest rates. To limit the variability of a portion of its interest payments, the Company has entered into interest rate swap agreements to manage fluctuations in cash flows resulting from interest rate risk. This swap changed the variable-rate cash flow exposure on the debt obligations to fixed cash flows. Under the terms of the interest rate swap, the Company receives variable interest rate payments and makes fixed interest rate payments, thereby creating the equivalent of fixed-rate debt. See Footnote 11 – Line of Credit in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further details.

Fair Value Of Financial Instruments

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The carrying amounts of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities, including cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable, short and long-term investments, if presented, accounts payable and accrued expenses at June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011 approximate fair value of these instruments due to their short-term nature.

In accordance with ASC 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosure”, the Company uses three levels of inputs to measure fair value:

	•	Level 1 - Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

	•	Level 2 - Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets with insufficient volume or infrequent transactions (less active markets), or valuations in which all significant inputs are observable or can be obtained from observable market data.

	•	Level 3 - Unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of assets or liabilities.

Financial assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. As of June 30, 2012, the Company’s financial assets valued based on Level 1 inputs consisted of cash and cash equivalents in a U.S. Treasury money market fund and its financial assets valued based on Level 2 inputs consisted of municipal bonds. The Company's interest rate swap derivative value was based upon Level 2 inputs, as described below.

The Company values its interest rate swap using widely accepted valuation techniques including discounted cash flow analysis on the expected cash flows of each interest rate swap. This analysis reflects the contractual terms of the interest rate swap, including the period to maturity, and uses observable market-based inputs, including interest rate curves. The fair value of the interest rate swap is determined using the market standard methodology of netting the discounted future fixed cash payments and the discounted expected variable cash receipts. The variable cash receipts are based on an expectation of future interest rates (forward curves) derived from observable market interest rate curves.

Foreign Currency Translation

Foreign Currency Translation

The financial position and operating results of the Company’s foreign operations are consolidated using the local currency as the functional currency. Local currency assets and liabilities are translated at the rate of exchange to the U.S. dollar on the balance sheet date, and the local currency revenues and expenses are translated at average rates of exchange to the U.S. dollar during the reporting period. The related translation adjustments are reported in the shareholders’ equity section of the balance sheet and resulted in a net reduction in shareholders’ equity of $995 and $1,984 for the period ended June 30, 2012 and for the year ended December 31, 2011, respectively. The foreign currency translation adjustment is not adjusted for income taxes as it relates to an indefinite investment in a non-U.S. subsidiary. Transaction net gains and losses resulting from the Company’s foreign operations resulted in net gains of $128 and $285 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, respectively, and net losses of $42 and $33 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, respectively.

Concentration Of Credit Risk

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments which potentially expose the Company to concentration of credit risk consist primarily of accounts receivable. Credit risk arising from receivables is mitigated by the large number of customers comprising the Company's customer base and their dispersion across various industries. The Company does not require collateral. The customers are concentrated primarily in the Company’s U.S. market area. At June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, there were no customers that represented more than 10% of the net accounts receivable balance. The Company’s top 3 customers represented, collectively, approximately 10.3% and 9.0% at June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively, of the Company’s net accounts receivable balance. In addition, no one customer individually exceeded 10% of the Company’s revenues. The Company’s top 3 customers represented, collectively, approximately, 9.3% and 10.4% of the Company’s total revenues for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, respectively, and 12.0% and 11.1% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, respectively.

Cash And Cash Equivalents

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with remaining maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase. Cash balances are maintained at several banks. Cash held in fixed term deposits with original maturities of three months or less at the time of purchase totaled $500 at December 31, 2011. There were no fixed term deposits held at June 30, 2012. Accounts located in the United States are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") up to $100 (which has been temporarily increased to $250 through December 31, 2013). Certain operating cash accounts may periodically exceed the FDIC limits.

Cash and cash equivalents in foreign denominated currencies which are held in foreign banks totaled $15,356 and $13,536 and represented 18.6% and 20.1% of our total cash and cash equivalents balance at June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.

Self-Insurance

Self-Insurance

The Company is self-insured for the majority of its health insurance costs, including claims filed and claims incurred but not reported subject to certain stop loss provisions. The Company estimates the liability based upon management’s judgment and historical experience and records the amount on a gross basis. At June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, self-insurance accruals totaled $1,312 and $1,083. There were no stop loss recoveries at June 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011. Management continuously reviews the adequacy of the Company’s stop loss insurance coverage. Material differences may result in the amount and timing of health insurance claims if actual experience differs significantly from management’s estimates.

Long-Lived Assets

Long-Lived Assets

The Company evaluates its long-lived assets, including certain identifiable assets, for impairment whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value of such assets may not be recoverable. The Company noted no triggering event during the period ended June 30, 2012, which would give rise to an impairment analysis. Given the uncertainty around the global economic recovery, it is possible that the estimated future cash flows of the asset groupings will be reduced, which may result in an impairment in future periods. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the fair value of the assets.

Guarantees

Guarantees

The Company’s software license agreements typically provide for indemnifications of customers for intellectual property infringement claims. The Company also warrants to customers, when requested, that the Company’s software products operate substantially in accordance with standard specifications for a limited period of time. The Company has not incurred significant obligations under customer indemnification or warranty provisions historically, and does not expect to incur significant obligations in the future. Accordingly, the Company does not maintain accruals for potential customer indemnification or warranty-related obligations.

Revenue Recognition

Revenue Recognition

The Company derives its revenue from two sources: (1) subscription revenue for solutions, which is comprised of subscription fees from customers accessing the Company’s on-demand software (application services), proprietary content, outsourcing services and consulting services and from customers purchasing additional support beyond the standard support that is included in the basic subscription fee; and (2) other fees for discrete consulting services. Because the Company provides its solutions as a service, the Company follows the provisions of ASC 605-10, “Revenue Recognition” and ASC 605-25 “Multiple Elements Arrangements.” We recognize revenue when all of the following conditions are met:


	•	There is persuasive evidence of an arrangement;

	•	The service has been provided to the customer;

	•	The collection of the fees is probable; and

	•	The amount of fees to be paid by the customer is fixed or determinable.

Subscription fees and support revenues are recognized on a monthly basis over the lives of the contracts. Amounts that have been invoiced are recorded in accounts receivable and in deferred revenue or revenue, depending on whether the revenue recognition criteria have been met.

Deferred revenue represents payments received or accounts receivable from the Company's customers for amounts billed in advance of subscription services being provided.

The Company records expenses billed to customers in accordance with ASC 605-45, “Revenue Recognition-Principal Agent Considerations,” which requires that reimbursements received for out-of-pocket expenses be classified as revenues and not as cost reductions. These items primarily include travel, meals and agency fees. Reimbursed expenses totaled $1,635 and $3,254 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, respectively, and $1,597 and $2,588 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, respectively.

The Company’s arrangements with customers may include provision of consulting services, grant of software licenses and delivery of data. For arrangements that contain multiple deliverables, the selling price hierarchy established in ASU 2009-13 is used to determine the selling price of each deliverable. The selling price hierarchy allows for the use of an estimated selling price (“ESP”) to determine the allocation of arrangement consideration to each deliverable in a multiple-element arrangement in the absence of vendor specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) or third-party evidence (“TPE”).

To qualify as a separate unit of accounting, deliverable items must have value to the customer on a standalone basis and, if the arrangement includes a general right of return relative to the delivered item(s), delivery or performance of the undelivered item(s) is considered probable and substantially in our control. If the arrangement does not meet all criteria above, the entire amount of the transaction is deferred until all elements are delivered.

The Company determines the selling price in multiple-element arrangements using VSOE or TPE if available. VSOE is determined based on the price charged for the same deliverable when sold separately and TPE is established based on the price charged by our competitors or third parties for the same deliverable. If the Company is unable to determine the selling price because VSOE or TPE does not exist, the ESP is used. The Company determines its ESP for its application services and license fees based on the following:

	•	The Company utilizes a pricing model for its products which considers market factors such as customer demand for our products and the geographic regions where the products are sold. In addition, the model considers entity-specific factors such as volume based pricing, discounts for bundled products and total contract commitment. Management approval of the model ensures that all of the Company’s selling prices are consistent and within an acceptable range for use with the relative selling price method.

	•	While the pricing model currently in use captures all critical variables, unforeseen changes due to external market forces may result in the Company revising some of its inputs. These modifications may result in the consideration allocation in future periods differing from the one presently in use. Absent a significant change in the pricing inputs or the way in which the industry structures its deals, future changes in the pricing model are not expected to materially affect the Company’s allocation of arrangement consideration.

	•	The Company determined the ESP for consulting services based on sales of those services sold separately or on consulting rates estimated based on the value of the services being provided.

The revenue guidance contained in ASU 2009-13 modifies the way the Company accounts for certain arrangements, by allowing the Company to separate consulting services and corresponding license fees into two separate units of accounting. These two deliverables represent the primary elements in those arrangements and are recognized upon performance or delivery of each service or product, respectively to the end customer. Revenue related to consulting services is recognized as obligations are fulfilled on a proportional performance basis and typically earned over a three to six month period, while the license fees may be recognized over a one to five year period. After the adoption of ASU 2009-13, costs associated with the delivery of our consulting services are expensed as incurred.

Multiple element arrangements consisting of multiple products are impacted by the new revenue guidance. Under ASU 2009-13, total consideration for an arrangement is allocated to each product or service using the hierarchy of VSOE, third party evidence or the relative selling price method and is recognized as each product or service is delivered to the customer. Consistent with current practice, revenue may be deferred if the arrangement includes any unusual terms including extended payment terms, specified acceptance terms, or hold backs payable upon final acceptance of the product or service.

Income Taxes

Income Taxes

The Company files a consolidated income tax return with its subsidiaries for federal tax purposes and on various bases depending on applicable taxing statutes for state and local as well as foreign tax purposes. Deferred income taxes are provided using the asset and liability method for temporary differences between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce net deferred tax assets to the amounts which are more likely than not expected to be realized.

Other Taxes

Other Taxes

Non-income taxes such as sales and value-added taxes are presented on a net basis within general and administrative expense, on the statement of operations.

Loss Per Share

Loss Per Share

The Company follows ASC 260, “Earnings Per Share,” which requires companies that are publicly held or have complex capital structures to present basic and diluted earnings per share on the face of the statement of operations. Earnings (loss) per share is based on the weighted average number of shares and common stock equivalents outstanding during the period. In the calculation of diluted earnings per share, shares outstanding are adjusted to assume conversion of the exercise of options if they are dilutive. In the calculation of basic earnings per share, weighted average numbers of shares outstanding are used as the denominator.

As a result of the variable interest entity commencing in 2009 and its corresponding put option, the Company uses the two-class method of calculating earnings per share as the put feature was issued by the Company and requires adjustments to the carrying value of the noncontrolling interest and the income allocable to common shareholders. There were no common stock equivalents of stock options and restricted stock issued and outstanding included in the computation of diluted earnings per share for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 since their effect was antidilutive. A summary of the computation for basic and diluted net loss per share is presented in the table below.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-05, “Comprehensive Income (Topic 220) – Presentation of Comprehensive Income”, which requires disclosure of comprehensive income, the components of net income, and the components of other comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements. ASU 2011-05 eliminates the option to present the components of other comprehensive income as part of the statement of changes in shareholders’ equity. ASU 2011-05 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011. In December 2011, the FASB has issued ASU 2011-12, Comprehensive Income (Topic 220), that deferred the requirement to separately present within net income reclassification adjustments of items out of accumulated other comprehensive income. The adoption of this standard is presented in the current financial statements and only impacted the presentation format of the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In September 2011, the FASB issued ASU 2011-08, “Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350)—Testing Goodwill for Impairment (revised topic)”. The revised standard is intended to reduce the cost and complexity of the annual goodwill impairment test by providing entities an option to perform a “qualitative” assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. The revised standard is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011. The adoption of this standard did not materially impact the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The Company noted no triggering event during the six months ended June 30, 2012, which would give rise to an impairment analysis.