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Goodwill
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]  
Goodwill
Goodwill

A reconciliation of the changes in the carrying amount of goodwill, by operating segment, for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 is as follows:

(in thousands)
Data and
Analytics
 
Mortgage Origination Services
 
Asset Management and Processing Solutions
 
Consolidated
Balance at January 1, 2011
 
 
 
 
 
 

Goodwill
$
484,907

 
$
663,097

 
$
149,409

 
$
1,297,413

Accumulated impairment losses
(600
)
 
(6,925
)
 

 
(7,525
)
Goodwill, net
484,307

 
656,172

 
149,409

 
1,289,888

Acquisitions
172,419

 
19,664

 

 
192,083

Translation adjustments
(7,678
)
 

 

 
(7,678
)
Other
 
 
(2,087
)
 

 
(2,087
)
Balance at December 31, 2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Goodwill, net
649,048

 
673,749

 
149,409

 
1,472,206

Acquisitions
33,875

 

 

 
33,875

Translation adjustments
3,805

 

 

 
3,805

Spatial reclassification
28,401

 
(28,401
)
 

 

Post acquisition adjustments
(7,152
)
 
(114
)
 

 
(7,266
)
Other

 
1,612

 

 
1,612

Balance at December 31, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Goodwill, net
$
707,977

 
$
646,846

 
$
149,409

 
$
1,504,232



For the year ended December 31, 2012, we recorded $33.9 million of goodwill in connection with our acquisition of CDS Business Mapping (“CDS”). For the year ended December 31, 2011, we recorded $19.7 million of goodwill in connection with our acquisition of the remaining interest in Dorado in March 2011, $154.5 million of goodwill in connection with our acquisition of the remaining interest in RP Data in May 2011 and $17.9 million in connection with our acquisition of Tarasoft Corporation (“Tarasoft”) in September 2011. See Note 17 – Acquisitions for additional disclosures. We have reclassified $17.3 million of goodwill, net, to assets of discontinued operations as of December 31, 2011. Further, we identified an adjustment of $7.3 million to correct deferred taxes acquired with Dorado and RP Data. The adjustment reduced our goodwill by $7.2 million and $0.1 million within data and analytics and mortgage origination services, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2012. See Note 2 - Significant Accounting Policies for additional disclosures.

In connection with our acquisition of CDS, we separated our spatial solutions business line from our mortgage origination services segment and consolidated it with CDS, effectively creating the geospatial solutions business unit within the data and analytics segment. As a result, we revised our reporting for segment disclosure purposes, see Note 20 - Segment Financial Information, and reassessed our reporting units for purposes of evaluating the carrying value of our goodwill. This assessment required us to perform a fourth quarter reassignment of our goodwill to each reporting unit impacted using the relative fair value approach, based on the fair values of the reporting units as of December 31, 2012. As of December 31, 2012, our reporting units for goodwill purposes are data and analytics, mortgage origination services and asset management and processing solutions.

Determining the fair value of a reporting unit is judgmental in nature and requires the use of significant estimates and assumptions, including revenue growth rates, operating margins, discount rates and future market conditions, among others. Key assumptions used to determine the fair value of our mortgage origination services reporting unit and geospatial solutions business unit in our testing were: (a) expected cash flow for the period from 2013 to 2018; and (b) a discount rate ranging from 11.0% to 15.0%, which was based on management's best estimate of the after-tax weighted average cost of capital.

Our policy is to perform an annual goodwill impairment test for each reporting unit in the fourth quarter. We performed a qualitative analysis on our reporting units and examined relevant events and circumstances such as: cost factors, financial performance, legal and regulatory factors, entity specific events, industry and market factors, macroeconomic conditions and other considerations. We also considered the reassignment analysis of geospatial solutions' goodwill to each reporting unit impacted using the relative fair value approach. Based on the qualitative analysis performed, we determined that it is more likely than not that goodwill attributable to our reporting units is not impaired as of December 31, 2012. It is reasonably possible that changes in the facts, judgments, assumptions and estimates used in assessing the fair value of the goodwill could cause a reporting unit to become impaired.