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Organization and summary of significant accounting policies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
Organization and summary of significant accounting policies [Abstract]  
Organization and summary of significant accounting policies
1. Organization and summary of significant accounting policies
Nature of operations
     PROS Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation and subsidiaries, or the Company, is a provider of pricing and margin optimization software products, an emerging category of enterprise applications designed to allow companies to improve financial performance by implementing pricing excellence best-practices. Customers use the Company’s software products to gain insight into their pricing strategies, identify detrimental pricing activities, optimize their pricing decision making and improve their business processes and financial performance. The Company’s software products incorporate advanced pricing science, which includes operations research, forecasting and statistics. These innovative science based software products analyze, execute and optimize pricing strategies using data elements determined using advanced pricing science, including the pocket price, pocket margin, customer willingness-to-pay, customer cost-to-serve, win-loss ratios, market price, stretch price and other relevant information as well as data from traditional enterprise applications, often augmenting it with real-time and historical data and external market data sources. The Company also provides a range of services that include analyzing a company’s current pricing processes and implementing the Company’s software products to improve pricing performance. The Company provides its software products to enterprises across a range of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, services and travel.
Basis of presentation
     The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, for interim financial reporting and applicable quarterly reporting regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. In management’s opinion, the accompanying interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position of the Company as of June 30, 2011, the results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 and cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2011. Certain information and disclosures normally included in the notes to the annual financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP have been omitted from these interim condensed consolidated financial statements pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC. Accordingly, these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, which are included in the Company’s 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2010 was derived from the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements and does not include all disclosures required by GAAP.
Basis of consolidation
     The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation.
Dollar amounts
     The dollar amounts presented in the tabular data within these footnote disclosures are stated in thousands of dollars, except per unit amounts, or as noted within the context of each footnote disclosure.
Use of estimates
     The Company’s management makes estimates and assumptions in the preparation of its unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP. These estimates and assumptions may affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expense during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The complexity of the estimation process and issues related to the assumptions, risks and uncertainties inherent in the application of the percentage-of-completion method of revenue recognition affects the amount of revenue, expenses, unbilled receivables and deferred revenue. Numerous internal and external factors can affect estimates. Estimates are also used for, but not limited to, receivables, allowance for doubtful accounts, useful lives of assets, depreciation, income taxes and deferred tax asset valuation, valuation of stock options, other current liabilities and accrued liabilities.
Fair value measurements
     At June 30, 2011, the Company’s financial assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis consisted of $63.8 million invested in treasury money market funds. At December 31, 2010, the Company had $40.7 million invested in diversified money market funds and $14.5 million invested in treasury money market funds. The Company had $0.1 million invested in certificates of deposits at December 31, 2010. The fair value of these accounts is determined based on quoted market prices, which represents level 1 in the fair value hierarchy as defined by Accounting Standard Codification, or ASC, 820, “Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure.” The Company’s diversified money market funds, treasury money market funds and short term investments have a fair value that is not materially different from its carrying amount.
Deferred revenue and unbilled receivables
     Software license and implementation services that have been performed, but for which the Company has not invoiced the customer, are recorded as unbilled receivables, and invoices that have been issued before the software license and implementation services have been performed are recorded as deferred revenue in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. The Company generally invoices for maintenance and support services on a monthly, a quarterly or an annual basis through the maintenance and support period.
Foreign currency
     The Company has contracts denominated in foreign currencies and therefore a portion of the Company’s revenue is subject to foreign currency risks. Gains and losses from foreign currency transactions, such as those resulting from the settlement of receivables, are included in license and implementation cost of revenue in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.
     The Company translates assets and liabilities of its foreign subsidiaries, whose functional currency is their local currency, at exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date. The Company translates revenue and expenses at the monthly average exchange rates. The Company includes accumulated net translation adjustments in stockholders’ equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss.
Income taxes
     At the end of each interim reporting period, the Company estimates its effective income tax rate expected to be applicable for the full year. The estimated effective income tax rate includes U.S. federal, state and foreign income taxes and is based on the application of a forecasted annual income tax rate applied to the current quarter’s year-to-date pre-tax income. This estimated effective income tax rate is used in providing income taxes on a year-to-date basis and may change in subsequent interim periods. The effective tax rate for the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 was a provision of 31% and a benefit of 34%, respectively, and the effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 was a provision of 31% and a benefit of 8%, respectively. The difference between the effective tax rate and the federal statutory rate of 34% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 was primarily attributable to the Company’s application of the Research and Experimentation, or R&E, tax credit.
Recent accounting pronouncements
     There have been no new accounting pronouncements during the three or six months ended June 30, 2011, as compared to the recent accounting pronouncements described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, that are of significance, or potential significance, to the Company.