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AnticipateInnovateAccelerate Anticipating the needs of the
health care industry, we’re
focused on accelerating the
development of innovative
technologies that help create
a healthier tomorrow, today.
Cerner Corporation
2013 Annual Report
Table of Contents: Annual Report 2013
Board of Directors
Leadership
Cerner’s Long-Term Performance 6
Letter to Our Shareholders 7
Appendix: Cerner’s Business Model and Financial Assessment
Form 10-K
Business and Industry Overview
Risk Factors
Properties
Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters and
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Selected Financial Data
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Controls and Procedures
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and
Related Stockholder Matters
Exhibits
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Basis of Presentation, Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Business Acquistions
Investments
Fair Value Measurements
Receivables
Property and Equipment
Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
Software Development
Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations
Hedging Activities
Settlement Charge
Other Income
Income Taxes
Earnings Per Share
Share-Based Compensation and Equity
Foundations Retirement Plan
Related Party Transactions
Commitments
Segment Reporting
Quarterly Results
Stock Price Performance Graph
Corporate Information
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Board of Directors
Neal L. Patterson
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer,
and Co-founder, Cerner Corporation
Clifford W. Illig
Vice Chairman and Co-founder, Cerner Corporation
Gerald E. Bisbee Jr., Ph.D.
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-founder,
The Health Management Academy
Former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President,
ReGen Biologics, Inc., 1998-September 2011
Denis A. Cortese, M.D.
Emeritus President and Chief Executive Officer, Mayo Clinic
Foundation Professor, Arizona State University School
of Health Management and Policy
Director of Arizona State University’s Health Care
Delivery & Policy Program
President of the Healthcare Transformation Institute
The Honorable John C. Danforth
Partner, Bryan Cave LLP
Ambassador to the United Nations, July 2004–January 2005
U.S. Senator - Missouri, 1976-1995
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.
President, Purdue University
Governor of the State of Indiana, 2004 - January 2013
Linda M. Dillman
Chief Information Officer, QVC, Inc.
Senior Vice President of Enterprise Services/Global Functions IT,
Hewlett-Packard Company, August 2009-January 2012
Executive Vice President of Benefits and Risk Management,
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., April 2006-July 2009
Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer,
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., August 2002-April 2006
William B. Neaves, Ph.D.
President Emeritus and Director, The Stowers Institute for
Medical Research
William D. Zollars
Former Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President,
YRC Worldwide, November 1999-July 2011
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Leadership
Cerner Executive Cabinet
Neal L. Patterson • Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Clifford W. Illig • Vice Chairman and Co-founder
Zane M. Burke • President
Marc G. Naughton • Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Michael R. Nill • Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Jeffrey A. Townsend • Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff
Julia M. Wilson • Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer
Joanne M. Burns • Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Kathleen M. Chaffee • Senior Vice President, Worldwide Consulting
Paul N. Gorup • Senior Vice President, Chief of Innovation and Co-founder
Michael C. Neal • Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Units
John T. Peterzalek • Senior Vice President, Client Relationships
Matthew J. Swindells • Senior Vice President, Population Health and Global Strategy
Donald D. Trigg • Senior Vice President, Cerner Corporation and
President, Cerner Health Ventures
Cerner Executive Management Don D. Bisbee • Senior Vice President, DeviceWorks
L. Mitchell Clark • Senior Vice President and General Manager, CommunityWorks
Stephen W. Eckman • Senior Vice President, Application Services and Physician Experience
Ed L. Enyeart • Senior Vice President, Finance
William E. Graff • Senior Vice President, Cerner Technology Services
Ryan R. Hamilton • Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property Development
Richard W. Heise • Senior Vice President, Revenue Cycle
Eva L. Karp • Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Operations Officer and
General Manager, Clinical ABUs
David P. McCallie, Jr., M.D. • Senior Vice President, Medical Informatics
Douglas S. McNair, M.D. & Ph.D. • Senior Vice President, Cerner Corporation and
President, Cerner Math
Rama Nadimpalli • Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cerner India
Max A. Reinig • Senior Vice President, Physician Solutions Development
Farrell L. Sanders • Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cerner ITWorks
Kent C. Scheuler • Senior Vice President, CernerWorks
Randy D. Sims • Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Shellee K. Spring • Senior Vice President, Ambulatory and Client Experience
Michael R. Battaglioli • Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
Joseph Chow • Vice President, RevWorks
Eric W. Geis • Vice President, Clinical Solutions Development
Cheryl A. Hertel • Vice President, Population Health Markets
Kimberly K. Hlobik • Vice President and General Manager, Ambulatory
Gay M. Johannes • Vice President and Chief Quality Officer
Allan O. Kells • Vice President, Investor Relations
Lisa A. McDermott • Vice President, Population Health Advisory Services
J. Randall Nelson • Vice President, Life Sciences
David T. Nill • Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Cerner Healthe
Clay A. Patterson • Vice President and Managing Director, Cerner Capital
Bharat B. Sutariya • Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Population Health
Jay E. Linney • Senior Vice President, US West
Richard J. Flanigan • Senior Vice President, Premier Focus
E. Tim Kostner • Senior Vice President, Client Development
Sam P. Pettijohn • Senior Vice President and General Manager, Investor Owned
Robert J. Shave • Senior Vice President, Cerner Corporation and President, Cerner Canada
Cameron D. Burt • Vice President and General Manager, Australia
Lisa A. Campbell • Vice President, Premier Focus
Marcos Garcia • Vice President and General Manager, Global Markets
G. Ben Hilmes • Vice President, US East
Emil E. Peters • Vice President and General Manager, United Kingdom
Michael A. Pomerance • Vice President and General Manager, Middle East
Holger Cordes • General Manager, Germany
Amanda J. Green • Managing Director, Ireland
David E. Corcos • General Manager, France
Rebecca A. LaNasa • Managing Director, Southeast Asia
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Client Organization
Cerner’s Long-Term Performance
Before we review 2013, we invite you to study Cerner’s remarkable long-term performance.
We have a saying: create real value and good things will happen.
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Dollars are in millions except Diluted Earnings Per Share and stock prices.
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1 Adjusted operating earnings, adjusted operating margin, adjusted net earnings, adjusted diluted earnings per share, and free cash flow reflect
adjustments compared to results reported on a Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) basis. Non-GAAP results should not be
substituted as a measure of our performance but instead should be used along with GAAP results as a supplemental measure of financial
performance. Non-GAAP results are used by management along with GAAP results to analyze our business, make strategic decisions, assess
long-term trends on a comparable basis, and for management compensation purposes. Please see the appendix to this letter for a reconciliation
of these items to GAAP results.
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A Letter to our Shareholders, Clients and Associates
In 2013, Cerner had another solid year financially, operationally and strategically, and our shareholders
had a good year. We also shared some exciting moments with our clients. It wasn’t a perfect year,
but it was a fast-paced year with a lot of satisfying progress. As we enter our 35th year, it would be
tempting to step back, catch our breath, catalog our long-term accomplishments and recreate some of
the stories of how we built the largest health information technology company in the world. But given
the universal importance of health care, its critical role in world economies, and the increasing rate of
technological change, the sentiment at Cerner is quite the opposite. We think our progress needs to
be even faster. In this letter, I will explain why.
But first, let’s take a high-level look at Cerner’s numbers. A detailed description of our financial results
appears in the Appendix that follows this letter. Here are some highlights:
• Record bookings of $3.77 billion reflected 20% growth over 2012.
• Our revenue backlog, representing contracted but not yet recognized revenue, is approaching
$9 billion, which provides a high level of visibility into future revenue.
• Total revenue grew to a record $2.9 billion. Revenue excluding technology resale, which is a better
reflection of the core business, grew 16%.
• Our gross margin dollars grew 16%, reflecting growth of higher margin revenue streams.
• Our adjusted operating earnings1 grew 20%, reflecting an increase in efficiencies as we successfully
scale our company, and our adjusted EPS1 of $1.41 reflects growth of 18%.
• Our adjusted operating margin1 of 25.1% reflects a 220 basis point improvement over 2012, with the
strength driven by good growth in higher margin revenue sources and a lower mix of technology resale.
• We ended the year with a strong cash and investment balance of $1.4 billion, even after investing
over $400 million in R&D and $350 million in capital expenditures to support our growth.
• At one layer deeper in the numbers, we have increased our investment in IP development 44%
since 2011, reflecting the enormous opportunities we see ahead.
I could easily spend the rest of this letter giving detailed status updates on Cerner’s major initiatives,
and sometimes I do. That report gets very broad and deep rather quickly, so I will sum this year up by
saying we have made a lot of progress across the board. Plus, I am certain that many of our competitors
read this letter carefully, and sometimes it is good to leave a little mystery. They will learn soon enough
in the marketplace. We have another tradition of using this letter as a forum to communicate our
vision for the future of health care—putting a stake in the ground about the role we want to play in
that future. That is what I want to do with this letter, even though I know our rivals benefit from this as
well. The future is very persistent; it gets here before you can blink—one of the many lessons we have
learned over 35 years. You see, the future is tomorrow’s present. The business terrain is littered with
the remains of once-powerful companies that were surprised by a bend in the road that they didn’t see
coming. I have had a front row seat as a version of this has played out in health IT. In each major era in
our company history, this being the fourth, the marketplace has evolved into a faceoff between Cerner
and a single competitor. For those who were not around to see it, these were vicious fights for clients
and market share, and Cerner was not always considered to be in first place. But at some point, each
of our prior major competitors failed to see around a corner, and they slipped out of contention. While
their legacy systems are still part of the health IT landscape, they are no longer leaders in the industry.
It’s a great lesson in treating the future with as much respect as the present. Our favored approach for
dealing with the future is simply to create it. The key is to balance the need to execute extremely well
in the present against the desire to create the future. This is not science—I believe it is much closer to
an art. It is a way of thinking we have tried to hardwire into our culture.
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In the present, we are competing daily and
gaining market share, but still have to be better.
We were recently named by KLAS as one of just
two companies well-positioned for a significant
EMR replacement market opportunity over
the next three to five years.2 In our client base,
we have relationships with hundreds of health
care organizations that depend daily on Cerner
technologies to be available to meet their core
mission of delivering quality, efficient care.
For many of these organizations, we become
strategic allies who help them achieve their
plans for building future state organizations,
delivering high quality, efficient care and evolving
new business models to support changes in
their environments.
As for the future, well, we are creating it. We are
defining the next generation of the EMR, how
it must progress from the “glorified typewriter”
that doctors use to produce their orders,
documentation and billing information to the
interactive medium
for practicing medicine
based on the highest standards in the community
and world. We are preparing our clients for the
upcoming era of population health management,
when they will have to manage both health and
care, and their largest incentive will become
keeping us healthy. We are also taking leadership
positions in defining the concepts of “open
EMR” and “interoperability.” These are past-due
needs to the broader health care community that
have been suppressed by companies who use
proprietary systems to their private advantage, at
the expense of society. Pardon my rant, but I think
it is immoral to put up barriers to the liquidity of
any person’s medical information for the benefit
of single for-profit companies. Anyone who has
been put in the position to manage their own
health or that of a loved one, anyone who has had
to manually carry paper copies of records around
so that the next physician can try to understand
the past care that has been given, understands
my outrage.
As Cerner’s co-founder, Chairman of the Board
and CEO, I have a personal sense of urgency
that is driven by several things: entrepreneurial
impatience, a sense of responsibility to improve
the overall system, competitiveness and age. But
my fellow Cerner associates are also impatient,
and in 2014 there are compelling reasons to
keep our foot on the gas. I don’t think it is an
exaggeration to say that this decade—the last
half of this decade in particular—could give rise
to more changes in health care than have already
occurred in the past six decades combined. For
society, those changes can be good, they can be
bad, or they can be mixed. Whether we appreciate
it or not, there will be a great opportunity cost
for even the slightest pause or delay in the
progression of technology. At Cerner, our role
has always been to anticipate the future of health
care and innovate solutions to meet those needs.
Now is the time to use all of our size and skill to
accelerate progress for all of health care.
CuRRenT STATe FunDAMenTALS CReATe A
CLeAR FuTuRe
In the U.S., the health care headlines for the past
four and a half years have been dominated by
Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act (ACA),
and related struggles both with the technical
glitches and enrollments in the health insurance
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venture capital funding
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Capital Corporation
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2KLAS: Epic, Cerner Ride the Buying Wave While Others Struggle to Stay Afloat, HealthSystemCIO.com, February 2014
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exchanges. Read further than the headlines and
you’ll note a divide along red and blue state lines
around implementation at the state level, focused
on parameters of enacting the program. After
a three-year all-out war, what are now largely
gone from the headlines are the constitutional
challenges, the big swings at repealing the law.
It is very clear that the ACA is the law of the land
and the vehicle that will drive significant changes
inside the U.S. health care system. Certainly still
ahead are volumes of political rhetoric and some
minor tuning of the legislation, along with a heavy
dose of regulatory interpretation and rulemaking.
As evidenced by the fairly breathtaking caveats
and decisions to delay major pieces such as the
employer mandate, we are entering into an era
of regulatory adaptation with a lot of fiat by the
Secretary of Health. In other words, it will be
raining measures and mandates on health care
for the next two decades.
At the macro level, both in the U.S. and around
the globe, the fundamental forces and pressures
are not going to change. Populations will grow,
demographic changes will put larger groups into
higher risk categories, science and technology
will continuously redefine what is possible in
managing our human biology, health care costs
will continue to rise faster than our economies
grow,3,4 and our governments will pay for an
increasing portion of the health care for growing
populations, financed by growing federal deficits
that all agree must not continue to grow. Health
care will be forced to change.
Health care organizations (our clients) face a
future that most certainly will contain pressures
to decrease cost, or at least slow the growth of
costs. At the same time, they must deliver higher
quality, which is increasingly being measured.
The term “value” will be used a lot. Value will be
defined fairly broadly. It will not just be a rush to
make each encounter more efficient and higher
quality—the physician office visit, the emergency
room visit, the hospital stay, the home health visit.
The definition of value will become increasingly
specific around providing the necessary care to
produce satisfactory outcomes in the lowest cost
environment required to deliver that care. Have
you noticed that CVS, Walgreens and Walmart have
been putting clinics into their stores so that you
don’t have to go to the doctor’s office? Everyone
is eager to be part of the transformation. The
physician practices, too, are open longer hours so
that you don’t have to go to the emergency room.
It’s less visible to us as consumers, but there are
dozens of regulatory changes that are using both
carrots and sticks designed to keep people out of
the highest cost venues, the hospitals.
One of the biggest structural problems with
health care is the business model. Historically
the policy and practice were for providers to get
paid only for doing something that requires their
time and resources. That sounds logical enough
at first. But in health care, real value is created
only when I stay well enough to avoid seeing the
doctor, or when I don’t go to the emergency room
for something that can be done at Walgreens.
But without a real system design, or at least true
interoperability, we risk lowering the cost of the
one visit by fragmenting health care even more.
It’s reasonable to hear “health care system” and
think that there must be a real system design
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2 for 1 stock split (May 12)
Cerner Vision Center opens
Revenues surpass $100 million
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3 Public Spending on Health and Long-Term Care: A New Set of Projections, OECD, June 2013
4 U.S. health expenditures at 18% of GDP and rising, per National Health Expenditure Projections 2012-2022, Office of the Actuary in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services, November 2013
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behind it. But much of the so-called “system” has
never been designed. Instead, it evolved from
what was there before. Quality, cost, payments
and connectedness—there will be big swings
aimed at addressing all of these before the end
of this decade.
In health care, there are market drivers that will
never evaporate. On one hand there is a basic
human desire to be healthy, vibrant and alive—
to cure and mitigate diseases—and to have both
quantity and quality of years in our lives. On the
other hand is a very pragmatic and essential social
need to control the costs of care, which extends
to every corner of the globe. In the perpetual
tension caused by a clash of wants and needs
is a market for innovative, high quality care at
an affordable cost. This market for health care
will never go away. It is not that it’s too big to
fail; it can’t fail. And it is too important to stay
the same.
DIGITIzInG The ConTenT oF An enTIRe InDuSTRy
It has been more than five years since the HITECH
Act5 of the 2009 Stimulus Package was signed
into law. The embedded concept of Meaningful
Use advanced health IT by three decades by
mandating that physicians order and document
their work using a certified electronic health record
in order to qualify for federal incentive payments.
Without a doubt, this
impacted physicians’
productivity (and in the current volume-based
reimbursement model, their incomes), moving
usability to the front of all agendas. While much
of the attention is oriented to this dynamic, in the
background nearly all of the processes in health
care are being automated, and the content of an
entire industry is being digitized. There is still a
great deal of work ahead, but we have passed the
tipping point. Physician adoption of electronic
records is becoming de rigueur in the rest of
the world as well. Let’s peek around the corner.
With a completely digitized health system, what
will change? We think a lot. And the differences
will be apparent in almost all aspects of how
we engage, partner, trust and use the vast
resources we are blessed to have
in our
communities and countries.
Today, the single greatest lever that exists for
organizations to create systemic change and
deliver more value is information technology.
This was not always the case. Progress always
looks clearer through the sharpening lens of
history—after the dust has settled. There is now
enough elapsed time to know that the invention
of the computer has created an information age
in society. The modern version of the computer
in the mainframe, a
once was manifested
machine housed in specially designed rooms
and seen only by a chosen few. The invention
of the microprocessor launched versions of the
computer that quickly found their way onto
our desktops, then onto our laps. By the end
of 2014, more than two billion people will have
smartphones in their pockets, and the projections
to have five billion are not that far out,6 each
smartphone with more computing power than
the “big iron” mainframes of the past. The
power comes not only from the advancement of
individual components but also from the entire
computing ecosystem that supports it. Even
as CPUs continue to shrink and speed up, the
evolution and convergence of the entire “stack”
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Cerner makes Fortune list of
“Best 100 Companies to Work For”
Cerner and Atos Origin
awarded U.K. National
Health Services Choose
and Book contract
5Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
6Ericsson Mobility Report, November 2013
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of technologies—such as operating systems,
user interfaces, databases, networks and vast,
low-cost storage systems, as well as remarkable
advances
in such software components as
search engines, social networks, online shopping,
contacts, calendars, email, spreadsheets and
word processing—all contribute to our modern-
day experience of limitless computing power.
technology—the
As you know, Cerner lives at the intersection of
health care—a complex social system dedicated
to an even more complex biologic system—and
information
fastest-moving
part of our world. It is at this intersection full
of opportunity that we grow our company. The
lever is being put into place. The history has not
been written yet on the impact of IT on health
care. Some, including me, believe it will be
transformational, redefining how we as individuals
interact with “the system.”
How big of a lever IT will be for health care is
not yet known. Certainly, digitizing the content
of other, less complex industries has advanced
those industries a great deal. Think of the impact
of content digitization on the following:
• Music: Gone are the vinyl records, even
the digital CDs, the retail record stores, the
record labels, and my stack of Neil Diamond
albums near my turntable in my home. My
personalized music collection is now available
at the beach, in a plane, in a car, at the gym,
anytime and anyplace.
More books are now bought
• Books:
online
through historical physical
than
retail distribution channels. And the trend
continues – increasingly more books are in
digital form, available anytime and anyplace.
• Banking: When is the last time you stood in a
line inside your bank to deposit or withdraw
money? Again, anytime, anyplace—I can find
an ATM.
• Retail commerce: This is huge and still being
defined. Many of us have crossed over. The
impulse to jump in the car and look for a
store that might have what we want or need
has been replaced by a trust in a high value,
extraordinarily convenient alternative that is
open anytime, anyplace.
These
impacts have been fairly rapid and
transformational, even disruptive. At the same
time, consider that the very first steps away from
analog formats did not always foreshadow the
huge changes that were in store for users. The
initial shift in music from vinyl records to digital
CDs changed the consumer’s experience only
a little. The CD was still a hard bit of plastic,
perhaps a little more robust, with audio qualities
similar to vinyl records and portability similar
to cassette tapes. The magnitude of change
enabled by a shift to digital format would still take
a few technology development cycles to play out.
When it did, it was truly transformative. Without
any doubt, the digitization of other industries has
created enormous value for the consumer: greater
choice, lower price and an unbelievable ability
to access anytime, anyplace. Will this happen in
health care?
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Cerner celebrates 25th anniversary
Revenues surpass $1 billion
2 for 1 stock split (Jan. 10)
Revenues surpass $1.5 billion
Cerner ranks third among software
companies in The Wall Street Journal’s
Top 50 Returns over a five-year period
Cerner signs contract with Fujitsu for
southern region of NHS Connecting
for Health program in England
5,000 associates
Nearly 7,000 associates
Introduced CareAware® device
architecture and line of devices
Cerner signs contract with BT for
London region of NHS program
First Cerner Millennium® site
in France
Opened Cerner Healthe Clinic
at World Headquarters
Shipped first production units of
RxStation® medication dispensing
devices; 25 clients purchase
CareAware iBus® device connectivity
Delivered new Cerner ProVision®
PACS Workstation
Opened new Data Center at
World Headquarters
Signed first clients in Spain and Egypt;
opened office in Dublin, Ireland
Acquired Etreby Computer Company
(retail pharmacy solutions)
Shareholder Letter /
11
LoTS oF new DATA, The woRLD oF BIG DATA,
new TyPeS oF evIDenCe
For many of us, our first direct touch of “big data”
was Amazon.com recommending books based
on the books we had already purchased. What
was not as visible was that data about us and
our habits—not only what we bought, but also
what we browsed, where we lived, and the birth
dates we disclosed—made it possible to figure
out additional items we would be very inclined to
purchase. They got this by looking at a broader
set of data and finding recognizable patterns
that, when matched up with behaviors from other
people, could predict other books that might be
of interest to me. Without knowing us or ever
having seen us, they seemingly understood us.
Good for me, good for them.
Being able to use information to predict what is
likely to happen to me in the future is a very big
deal. Predicting the future is the most powerful
dimension enabled by information, because in it
is the possibility that something might be done
today that will change tomorrow for the better.
With regard to our health, the IT platform of the
future will have hundreds of behind-the-scenes
algorithms and models that will use available
information to predict our likely health-related
events in time to impact both diagnostic and
therapeutic decisions. Some of the predictions
will be long-term in nature. For example, the
presence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic pathways
will help predict the chances of developing
breast or ovarian cancer in future years. Other
predictions will be aimed at very short-term and
immediate dangers. Sepsis is a good example
and a leading cause of death.7 Once the body has
an infection in the bloodstream, there are about
six hours in which aggressive active treatment
can be effective before the condition takes a
huge impact on one’s health, up to and including
multiple organ failure and death. And yet sepsis
is predictable using information that is readily
available. All health care organizations are aware
of the risk and know that they need to take
action. But the mortality rate of unrecognized
sepsis is close to 30%, and when cases progress
to septic shock, the mortality rate increases
to 60%. Detecting and treating sepsis “as fast
as humanly possible” is, in many cases, simply
too slow.
Cerner is already walking down the path of being
able to predict and prevent. Our current algorithm
we use to predict sepsis relies on more than 20
variables. It has been curated using Cerner Health
Facts, a HIPAA-compliant, de-identified and EMPI-
linked data warehouse we started in 1996 that
today contains millions of actual histories—truly
big and useful data. The sepsis algorithm starts
by looking at three vital elements. If they are not
in expected ranges, it fires off downstream action
and logic accordingly. With remarkable accuracy,
it can alert caregivers to the likelihood of sepsis
as soon as the clues are present in the electronic
medical record. Coupled with an empiric therapy
advisor, which Cerner also provides, this simply
saves lives. When there are only six hours to act,
waiting for busy people to focus on the “right”
information is just too slow. Today this is helping
to save lives in the acute care setting,8 but we
are working to make this available—you guessed
it—anytime and anyplace. Sepsis often begins at
2008
2009
2010
Free Cash Flow surpasses $100 million
Cerner Celebrates 30th Anniversary
Smart Semi, a mobile hospital room of
the future, introduced and made 93 stops,
hosting nearly 9,000 client attendees
Signed first agreement for the
Cerner Smart Room™
Expanded footprint in Middle East with signing
of Ministry of Health in United Arab Emirates
Signed first hosted client in France
Signed first client in Latin America
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act
becomes law and includes $35 billion in
incentives for the adoption of health care IT
First two Cerner ITWorksSM contracts signed
Announced new mission statement, “To contribute to the systemic
improvement of health care delivery and the health of communities”
Introduced Healthe Intent™ cloud-based platform
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act becomes law
in an effort to reform how health care is delivered in the U.S.
University of Missouri and Cerner create
Tiger Institute for Health Innovation
Announced agreement with CareFusion to better integrate medical
devices and electronic health records
Announced acquisition of IMC Health Care
Cerner clients connect with HHS and CDC
to fight spread of influenza
Fisher-Titus Medical Center and Magruder Hospital partner with
Cerner to become first all-digital, smart hospitals in the U.S.
First two Cerner RevWorksSM contracts signed
Introduced uCern® platform and opened
uCern Store
Cerner honored as one of the best employers for healthy lifestyles
by The National Business Group on Health
Cerner added to NASDAQ 100 Index
Neal Patterson recognized by Forbes as one of “America’s Best-
Performing Bosses” for providing shareholders with the “biggest
bang for the buck”
Cerner added to S&P 500 index
8,000 associates
7Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2011. NVSR Volume 61, Number 06. 65 pp. (PHS) 2013-1120
8Life-Saving Partnership to Reduce Sepsis Mortality Recognized with CHIME Collaboration Award, www.cerner.com, October 2013
12 / Shareholder Letter
home, so we are working toward being able to
include home readings of vital signs like blood
pressure and pulse rate in the model.
In the future, we expect the Cerner® platform to be
home to hundreds of such algorithms and models
integrated together to unify the intelligence of
the system. There are dozens already. As health
care’s venues continue to shift away from acute
settings, our homes will become hot zones for
monitoring our health-related measurements and
managing our known conditions. I fully expect to
see more and more “apps” for procedures such
as EKGs that were once the exclusive domain of
clinical labs in the labyrinth of the medical world.
Our physicians, as part of the multidisciplinary
teams that have become our medical homes, will
willingly use secure email and text to manage our
known conditions, keeping us out of the world
of waiting rooms and clipboards. Every time we
touch the health care system, our records will be
up to date. Whereas today we have our doctors,
they have our records, and they direct our care,
tomorrow we will have an entire personalized
health system that knows us, knows our health
challenges, knows our goals in life and will
partner with us to be healthy, productive, active
members of our family and community. And
when circumstances of life or genetics program
us to have medical issues, our health system will
guide us to the right place, at the right time, for
the right reasons.
A RACe AGAInST TIMe
The U.S. health care system is the most expensive in
the world, both in terms of relative measurement,
such as percentage of GDP, and absolute terms,
such as cost per capita. Pressures will continue
to mount to confine the growth rate within the
growth rate of the overall economy. I think the
race is on between transformation via innovation
and budgeting to set limits on care through major
changes in policy. We believe health IT is the
biggest lever for change, and we need to find the
fulcrum and put our full weight on the handle now.
The political pressure will grow if health care fails
to get to a value-based system by the end of the
decade. If that occurs, then the U.S. will join most
of the rest of the world in having a system driven
entirely by our federal and state governments.
If you accept the notion that the pluralistic U.S.
health system drives a large share of the world’s
medical innovations and research, then a lot will
be lost. Our children and their children will get
to live with the results. We have a generational
responsibility to leave behind a health system
that will keep advancing the sciences to discover
cures for major diseases, that will work to
keep people healthy and out of the hospital,
and that will use all available information to
predict, prevent and protect. At Cerner, we
understand what is at stake, and that is why we
want to go faster.
2011
2012
2013
2 for 1 stock split (June 27)
Surpassed $3B in annual bookings, including over $1B in Q4
2 for 1 stock split (July 1)
Acquired Resource Systems
(long-term care solutions)
Acquired Clairvia
(workforce management solutions)
Revenue and Bookings surpass $2 billion
Introduced new logo and tagline: Health
care is too important to stay the same.TM
Launched Cerner SkyboxSM suite of
cloud services
Signed 1st Cerner QualityWorksSM client
Cerner associates shed more than
20,000 pounds during Slimdown
Throwdown weight-loss competition
Cerner clients begin receiving stimulus
funds related to achieving Meaningful Use
Announced $170 million Share Repurchase Program
Annual bookings grew 20% to $3.8B
Acquisition of behavioral health company Anasazi Software
Total assets surpass $4.0 billion
86% of clients attested or in process of attesting for Stage 1
Meaningful Use
Completed $170 million Share Repurchase Program and
announced another $217 million Share Repurchase Program
Nearly double the number of client sites achieved HIMSS
Analytics Electronic Medical Records Adoption ModelSM
Stage 6 or 7 in 2012 than our closest competitor;
most stage 6 or 7 clients outside the U.S. as well
PowerChart+Touch™ went live at 13 early adopter clients
Announced partnership with Intermountain Healthcare for
clinical systems, revenue cycle and population health
Signed first client in Brazil, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Acquisitions of wellness company PureWellness and
laboratory automation company Labotix
Advocate Health Care partnership led to more than
20% improvement in ability to predict readmissions
Associates who manage and support our clients’ IT systems
moved into new Continuous Campus facility
Partnered with NBA to provide HealtheAthlete,® an
organization-wide automated health care management system
Purchased 237 acres adjacent to Innovations Campus in
Kansas City, MO, for long-term plan to add 15,000 associates
Healthy Nevada project is creating a culture of health, digitizing
health care and establishing integrated communication among
all providers in the community
Released Healthe Intent Smart RegistriesSM on Cerner’s
cloud-based population health platform
#4 on Top 100 Healthiest Companies in America
#13 on Forbes list of World’s Most Innovative Companies,
ahead of Google and Apple
14,000 associates
Shareholder Letter /
13
one DeCISIon AwAy
There are a number of positives in the current environment. The amount of innovation going on inside
health care is remarkable. The ACA has a number of different potential business models for providers
embedded in the legislation that can be triggered without future politically toxic debate. The Secretary
of Health has discretion to change how care is reimbursed for all Medicare enrollees. Most of the new
business models at her disposal have the providers taking greater risk for the quality and cost of health
care while rewarding them with outcomes-based reimbursement. In other words, they pay doctors and
hospitals to keep people well enough to remain out of hospitals and even doctors’ offices. Once the
provider organizations are paid for keeping us healthy, the industry will have tipped. The states and
most commercial insurers will follow suit. Innovation will accelerate. And we will have advanced the
system for our children.
The headlines in the mainstream media will continue to focus on the politics of health care. But for the
observant, there is much to do.
Thanks for your ongoing support for Cerner. As I told my fellow associates earlier this year, what we do
makes a big difference, and it is a gift and a privilege to be a part of this together.
At the intersection of health care and information technology, the work is hard, complex and ambiguous
at best … but it is also filled with opportunity. We believe in investing both in the present and the future,
managing both to the best of our abilities. The present has enormous pressures and responsibilities.
The future is persistent and will arrive. Balancing both, we are going to keep our foot on the gas.
Sincerely,
NEAL L. PATTERSON
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
& Co-founder
CLIFFORD W. ILLIG
Vice Chairman & Co-founder
PAUL N. GORUP
Senior Vice President, Chief
of Innovation & Co-founder
JEFFREY A. TOWNSEND
Executive Vice President
& Chief of Staff
MICHAEL R. NILL
Executive Vice President
& Chief Operating Officer
ZANE M. BURKE
President
MARC G. NAUGHTON
Executive Vice President
& Chief Financial Officer
JULIA M. WILSON
Executive Vice President
& Chief People Officer
14 / Shareholder Letter
Appendix: Cerner’s Business Model and Financial Assessment
InTRoDuCTIon
This appendix contains our annual discussion of
our business model and financial performance.
Some of the results in this discussion reflect
adjustments compared to results reported on
a Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
(GAAP) basis in our annual report on Form 10-K.
Non-GAAP results should not be substituted as a
measure of our performance but instead may be
used along with GAAP results as a supplemental
measure of financial performance. Non-GAAP
results are used by management along with
GAAP results to analyze our business, make
strategic decisions, assess
long-term trends
on a comparable basis, and for management
compensation purposes. Please see the end of
this appendix for a reconciliation of non-GAAP
financial measures to GAAP results.
CeRneR’S BuSIneSS MoDeL
The core of our business model is the creation of
intellectual property (IP) in the form of software
and other types of digital content. Our software
is bundled with other technologies and services
to create complete clinical and business solutions
for health care providers. In short, we build, sell,
deliver, run and support solutions for health care
provider organizations around the world. Below is
a graphical representation of our business model
showing a top-to-bottom flow of how we convert
new business opportunities and our backlog into
revenue and earnings.
At the top of our model is our Sales Pipeline of
potential future business opportunities we have
identified in the marketplace. Our pipeline has
increased substantially over the past several
years, reflecting a strong market for our solutions
as providers invest in health care information
technology
regulatory
requirements, qualify for incentives, and position
themselves for a transition from fee-for-service
reimbursement to value-based reimbursement.
to meet
(HCIT)
During each quarter, we sign new contracts to
deliver our solutions to clients. These contract
signings are reported as Bookings and become
part of our contract backlog. A typical new
contract will impact our revenues in the current
quarter and for the next several quarters, or even
years, depending on how the licenses, technology,
subscriptions/transactions, managed services,
and professional services are delivered. For longer
term contracts, such as for our Remote Hosting,
Sales Pipeline
Bookings: $3,772
Contract Backlog: $8,128
Support Contracts
Backlog: $786
(Dollars in Millions)
Revenue Streams
Licensed Software
Technology Resale
Subscription/Transaction
Professional Services
Managed Services
Support & Maintenance
Revenue
$388
$263
$197
$851
$480
$662
Contribution
Margin %
89%
18%
60%
Contribution
Margin $
$347
$47
$119
System
Sales
31%
34%
75%
$267
$162
$497
Support,
Maintenance &
Services
Reimbursed Travel
$70
0%
$0
Totals
$2,911
49%
$1,439
Indirect Expenses
Research and Development
Selling, General and Administrative
Adjusted Operating Margin*
Net Other Income
Taxes
Net Other Income
Adjusted Net Earnings*
Diluted Shares Outstanding (millions)
Adjusted Diluted EPS*
-11%
-13%
25%
-8%
0.4%
17%
($328)
($380)
$731
($246)
$12
$497
352.3
$1.41
* Adjusted operating margin, adjusted net earnings and
adjusted diluted earnings per share reflect adjustments
compared to results reported on a Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles (GAAP) basis in our 2013 Form
10-K. Non-GAAP results should not be substituted as a
measure of our performance but instead should be used
along with GAAP results as a supplemental measure of
financial performance. Non-GAAP results are used by
management along with GAAP results to analyze our
business, make strategic decisions, assess long-term
trends on a comparable basis, and for management
compensation purposes. Please see page 20 for a
reconciliation of these items to GAAP results.
Appendix /
15
ITWorks, and RevWorks offerings, contract
lengths are typically more than five years. Our
bookings have grown at strong compounded
annual rates of 24%, 20%, and 17% over the past
3, 5, and 10 years.
Almost all of our client contracts also contain
provisions for Support Contracts
in which
Cerner agrees to provide a broad set of services
that support our clients’ use of our solutions in
demanding clinical settings. This support includes
addressing technical
issues related to our
software and providing access to future releases
of licensed software. We also provide support and
maintenance agreements for third party software
and hardware that we resell to our clients.
Continuing with our top-down business model
flow, the value of the new contract bookings
and support contracts rolls into our Contract
Backlog and Support Backlog, respectively. Even
though almost all of our systems are in service
for decades, our reported Support Backlog
only includes the expected value for one year
of support and maintenance revenue for all of
our client support contracts. Our total backlog
(signed contracts with unrecognized revenues
and one year of support for all support contracts)
ended 2013 at $8.9 billion and has grown at
healthy compounded annual rates of 22%, 21%,
and 22% over the past 3, 5, and 10 years.
At the core of our business model are our various
revenue streams and the contribution each stream
makes toward the profitability of Cerner. The
contribution is stated as the recognized revenue
less the direct cost to produce that revenue. On
our business model graphic, we have depicted six
revenue categories that roll into the two revenue
line items on our income statement. Licensed
2013 Revenue Mix
Professional
Services
29%
Managed
Services
17%
Technology
Resale
9%
Licensed
Software
13%
Support &
Maintenance
23%
Travel 2%
Subscriptions/
Transactions 7%
16 / Appendix
Software, Technology, and Subscriptions/
Transactions make up the System Sales line of
our income statement, and Professional Services,
Managed Services, and Support & Maintenance
make up the Support, Maintenance and Services
line. Here is a description of each revenue stream:
• Licensed Software. We develop and license
IP (our architectures, application software,
executable and referential knowledge, data
and algorithms) to our clients. Our standard
license is perpetual—providing our clients
permanent rights to use the software they
purchase. This approach contrasts with
the approach of many of our competitors
who are always trying to sell “upgrades”
to their clients. We believe our approach is
part of the reason we have so many long-
term client relationships—some lasting over
three decades. We recognize revenues from
licensed software as we achieve pre-defined
client engagement milestones, such as
delivery and installation of our software. In
2013, this type of revenue represented 13% of
our total revenues with a profit contribution
of 89%. Revenues from licensed software
grew 12% in 2013.
• Technology Resale. We bundle
licensed
software with other companies’ IP (e.g., that
of HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle) in the form of
sublicenses to create complete technology
solutions for our clients. We also resell
bundled computer equipment (hardware)
from technology companies to create a
completely functional system. Additionally,
we resell medical devices for a growing list of
medical device companies. After increasing
59% in 2012, technology revenue decreased
33% in 2013, driven by a decline in the resale
of medical devices that had driven the strong
growth in 2012. We generally recognize
revenues from technology resale as the
equipment is delivered to our clients. In 2013,
these revenues represented 9% of our total
revenue with a profit contribution of 18%.
Even at lower margins than the rest of our
businesses, technology resale is valuable to
Cerner as it is a driver of other high margin,
high visibility revenue, such as technical
services, sublicensed software support, and
equipment maintenance.
• Subscriptions/Transactions. Another method
by which we provide IP is based on a
subscription model that has a periodic usage
charge. This is the primary way we package
and provide medical knowledge, which
changes frequently based on research and can
be updated independently from the software
in which it is embedded. Also included in this
category of revenue is our Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) transaction revenue. EDI is
the electronic transfer of data between health
care providers and payers. Subscription and
transaction revenue streams are generally
recognized monthly. In 2013, they grew 19%
and represented 7% of our total revenues
with a profit contribution of 60%.
• Professional Services. We provide a wide
range of professional services to assist
our clients in the implementation of our
information systems in their organizations.
These services are in the form of project
management,
technical and application
expertise, clinical process optimization,
regulatory consulting and education and
training of our clients’ workforce to assist
in the design and implementation of our
systems. We recognize revenues associated
with these consulting activities as they
are provided to our clients. In 2013, these
revenues increased 24% due to increased
implementation activity and growth in new
services, such as Cerner ITWorksSM and Cerner
RevWorks.SM Professional services represented
29% of our total 2013 revenue, and the profit
contribution for this business model was 31%.
• Managed Services. Under our CernerWorksSM
suite of solutions, we offer a set of
technical services that
include Remote
Hosting, Application Management Services,
Operational Management Services, and
Disaster Recovery. Remote Hosting is the
largest of these offerings, and it involves
Cerner buying the necessary equipment,
installing it in one of our data centers, and
operating the entire system on the client’s
behalf. The revenues for this service and our
charge for the equipment are recognized
monthly as we provide the services. Most
of our clients still choose to own their own
software license, so that portion of the
revenue is unchanged. We own the equipment
rather than selling it upfront to the client,
which impacts the technology resale portion
of revenue. Managed Services revenue grew
15% in 2013 and represented 17% of our total
revenue with the profit contribution of 34%.
• Support & Maintenance. The final business
model is comprised of the ongoing support
and maintenance services we provide our
client organizations. Almost all of our clients
contract for these services. Clients with
support contracts get 24x7 access to our
Immediate Response Center, which serves
as our “emergency room,” as well as access
to a very knowledgeable base of associates
in our SolutionWorks organization for less
urgent issues. In addition, our clients’ support
payments give them ongoing access to the
latest releases of our IP. We also provide
support
for sublicensed software and
maintenance for third party hardware. In 2013,
support and maintenance revenues grew 10%.
This revenue stream represented 23% of total
revenue with a profit contribution of 75% (note
that this profit contribution does not include a
charge for research and development, which
is treated as an indirect expense).
The revenue categories discussed above add
up to 98% of total revenue. The remaining 2% is
revenue from reimbursed travel expenses related
to our associates traveling to client locations. This
revenue contributes no margin as it is simply a
pass-through of our client-related travel expenses
that are billed to our clients and required to be
reported as revenue.
The two large indirect expenses in our business
model are the costs of our Research and
Development (R&D), which was equal to 11% of
revenue in 2013, and the indirect portion of Selling,
General and Administrative (SG&A) activities,
which represented 13% of revenue in 2013. Our R&D
investments increased significantly in 2013 and we
expect an increase in 2014 as we continue to invest
in key areas, such as physician experience, revenue
cycle, and population health. We have a long
history of investing heavily in R&D and using that
investment to create organic growth. Our SG&A
spending grew less than revenue, reflecting our
scalable business infrastructure.
Appendix /
17
In 2013, our adjusted operating margin of $731
million was 25.1% of revenue, an increase of 220
basis points compared to 2012. The remaining
items in our business model are taxes and net
other income, which totaled $234 million in 2013,
leaving $497 million of adjusted net earnings, or
$1.41 of adjusted diluted earnings per share.
ASSeSSMenT oF 2013 FInAnCIAL ReSuLTS
Our financial objectives each year include growing
the top line, expanding operating margins, and
generating free cash flow.
Growing the Top Line
Cerner has delivered strong revenue growth over
the long term. Both our new business bookings
and revenue have grown at more than 13%
compound annual rates over the past 10 years.
In 2013, we grew our new business bookings
20%, to a record $3.77 billion. Revenue grew 9%
in 2013 to a record $2.91 billion. This revenue
growth was slightly below our targeted levels
due to the previously discussed decline in device
resale, but we still delivered expected levels of
adjusted net earnings due to strength in higher-
margin software and services components of
our business. Looking at revenue by geographic
segment, domestic revenue increased 9% and
global revenue increased 11% in 2013.
in solutions and services to meet regulatory
requirements, qualify for incentives, and position
themselves for a transition from fee-for-service
reimbursement to value-based reimbursement.
We also expect continued increases in contribution
from solutions and services we have introduced
in the last few years. Additionally, we expect our
global business to continue to grow as the global
economy strengthens and governments invest in
HCIT in an effort to improve quality and control
the cost of care. For more information on our
growth strategy, refer to the Cerner Vision and
Growth Strategy section in Part I, Item 1 of our
annual report on Form 10-K.
Expanding Operating Margins
In February of 2004, we mapped out a path from
the 2003 level of 9% adjusted operating margins
to a target of 20%. We surpassed this target in
2010 and have continued to drive solid margin
expansion since, with an adjusted operating
margin of 25.1% in 2013, reflecting almost 440
basis points of improvement since 2010. The
following table details our margin expansion since
2004, showing how a combination of growth in
margins across the previously discussed business
models and leverage of indirect expenses have
contributed to margin expansion.
Highlights of the margin expansion drivers include:
In 2014, we expect double-digit top-line growth.
In the U.S., we expect continued strong demand
for our solutions both inside and outside our
current client base as health care providers invest
• Expanding margins
in Subscriptions /
Transactions. This business model has
had good recent growth in revenue and
profitability has also increased as the fixed
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Contribution Margin
Licensed Software
Technology Resale
Subscriptions/Transactions
Professional Services
Managed Services
Support & Maintenance
Total Contribution Margin
Indirect Expense % of Revenue
R&D
SG&A
Total
88%
20%
12%
23%
20%
57%
45%
19%
14%
33%
85%
13%
37%
27%
25%
62%
46%
18%
15%
33%
84%
11%
43%
27%
25%
65%
46%
18%
15%
32%
89%
12%
49%
29%
25%
69%
47%
17%
15%
32%
88%
12%
50%
29%
26%
72%
48%
16%
15%
31%
88%
11%
52%
28%
28%
74%
50%
16%
16%
32%
87%
11%
52%
30%
29%
76%
50%
14%
15%
29%
87%
13%
56%
30%
31%
76%
49%
13%
14%
27%
88%
13%
58%
30%
33%
75%
47%
89%
18%
60%
31%
34%
75%
49%
11%
13%
11%
13%
24%
24%
Adjusted Operating Margin
12.4%
12.6%
13.4%
15.1%
16.6%
18.5%
20.8% 22.2% 22.9%
25.1%
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costs associated with supporting it are spread
over a higher revenue base.
• Improving Professional Services margins. We
have leveraged tools and methodologies to
make our implementation processes more
efficient, predictable, and profitable. This has
led to continued strong margins even though
this business model has absorbed some of the
lower margin components of Cerner ITWorks
and Cerner RevWorks. These newer business
models have lower initial margins, but we
expect them to increase as the businesses
gain scale.
• Improving Managed Services margins. As
we have grown our remote hosting business,
we have increased profitability through scale
and by transitioning to newer, less expensive
technologies.
leading
• Increased profitability of Support &
Maintenance. As we have hardened the
Cerner Millennium platform, our incremental
cost to support each additional client has
declined,
increased margins
to
on Support and Maintenance. The margin
percent can fluctuate some depending on
third-party costs, but this business model is
still very accretive to overall margins. Note
that the contribution margin for support and
maintenance does not include the cost of
R&D, which is included as an indirect expense.
• Leverage R&D
investments. We have
leveraged our significant R&D investments by
growing R&D slower than our top-line growth
rate, while still maintaining industry-leading
levels of R&D investment and innovation.
Efficiencies from our operations in India have
also contributed to our ability to control the
rate of R&D growth. The recent increase
and expected continued increases in R&D
investments will likely reduce the amount of
leverage from R&D in the near-term, but we
expect to resume gaining leverage from our
R&D investments in the next few years.
• Leverage Sales, General, and Administrative
expenses. We have built a scalable business
infrastructure that has allowed us to keep our
SG&A spending growth rate lower than our
top-line growth rate in recent years.
We expect to continue to drive margin expansion
going forward through ongoing efficiencies across
our business models and additional leverage of
R&D investments and SG&A expenses.
A key point regarding our margin expansion is
that we have accomplished it while our business
model has transitioned to more visible and
recurring revenue components. For example, in
2003, approximately 61% of our revenue (before
reimbursed travel) came from what we consider
visible or recurring sources such as Professional
Services, Managed Services, Subscriptions/
Transactions, and Support & Maintenance. In 2013,
77% of our revenue came from these sources.
Similarly, Contribution Margin from recurring or
visible sources increased from 45% to 73%. This is
a result of the strong growth and margin expansion
in our services and support business models.
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2013. Our 3-, 5-, and 10-year compound annual
earnings growth rates of 25%, 22%, and 28%,
respectively, reflect our ability to drive long-term
earnings growth. Going forward, we believe our
top-line growth strategies coupled with continued
focus on productivity enhancements and margin
expansion position us well for continued strong
earnings growth.
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Generating Cash Flow
Our 2013 operating cash flow of $696 million
was slightly below 2012 due to a settlement
charge in the fourth quarter of 2013. Our
$168 million of free cash flow (opertaing cash
flow less capital expenditures and capitalized
software development costs), was down from
2012 due to higher capital investments tied to
our cloud infrastructure, higher spending on
land and facilities to support our growth, higher
capitalized software related to investments in our
growth initiatives and the settlement charge. For
2014, we expect stronger free cash flow, driven
by growth in operating cash flow, a decline in
capital expenditures, and flat to slightly higher
capitalized software.
Operating Cash Flow
Free Cash Flow*
Stock Price
At Cerner, we manage the company, not the stock
price. In the short-term, the stock price can be
influenced by many factors beyond our control,
but we believe that in the long-term it will closely
reflect the quality of our decisions. We believe it
is important for our shareholders that we focus
on delivering strong long-term results, but we
also understand the importance of delivering
consistently against short-term targets.
2013 was a very strong year for the stock market
overall and for Cerner stock. The NASDAQ
Composite Index ended the year up 38% and
the S&P 500 ended the year up 30%. Cerner’s
stock price increased 44% in 2013, reflecting our
delivery of strong results. When measuring our
stock performance over the 5-, 10- and 20-year
periods using compound annual growth rates, the
returns are 42%, 28%, and 16%, respectively. These
returns are significantly greater than the returns
over the same time frames for the NASDAQ
Composite Index (22%, 8%, and 9%) and S&P 500
(15%, 5%, 7%).
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*FCF = Operating CF less Capital Expenditures and Capitalized Software Development Costs
Reconciliation of 2013 non-GAAP Results to GAAP Results*
($ in millions except earnings Per Share)
GAAP operating earnings
Share-based compensation expense
Settlement charge
Adjusted operating earnings (non-GAAP)
GAAP net earnings
Share-based compensation expense, net of tax
Settlement charge, net of tax
Adjusted net earnings (non-GAAP)
GAAP operating Cash Flow
Capital purchases
Capitalized software development costs
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$ 696
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$ 168
* More detail on these adjustments and management’s use of Non-GAAP results is in our 2013 annual report on Form 10-K and our current reports
on Form 8-K.
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Cerner Corporation
2013 Annual Report
Form 10-K
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
(X)
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the fiscal year ended: December 28, 2013
OR
( )
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT
OF 1934
For the transition period from ___________ to ___________
Commission File Number: 0-15386
CERNER CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
2800 Rockcreek Parkway
North Kansas City, MO
(Address of principal executive offices)
43-1196944
(I.R.S. Employer Identification
Number)
64117
(Zip Code)
(816) 201-1024
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share
Name of each exchange on which registered
The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.
Yes [ ] No [X]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was
required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes [X] No [ ]
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any,
every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of
this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and
post such files).
Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§229.405 of this chapter)
is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information
statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or
a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting
company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer [X] Accelerated filer [ ] Non-accelerated filer [ ] Smaller reporting company [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
Yes [ ] No [X]
As of June 29, 2013, the aggregate market value of the registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant
was $14.6 billion based on the closing sale price as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
Class
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share
Outstanding at January 31, 2014
343,946,094 shares
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Document
Proxy Statement for the Annual Shareholders'
Meeting to be held May 23, 2014
Parts into Which Incorporated
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PART I.
Item 1. Business
Overview
Cerner Corporation started doing business in 1980, and it was organized as a Delaware corporation in 1986. Unless the
context otherwise requires, references in this report to “Cerner,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our” mean Cerner Corporation
and its subsidiaries.
Our corporate world headquarters is located in a Company-owned office park in North Kansas City, Missouri, with our principal
place of business located at 2800 Rockcreek Parkway, North Kansas City, Missouri 64117. Our telephone number is
816.201.1024. Our Web site address, which we use to communicate important business information, can be accessed at:
www.cerner.com. We make our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K
and all amendments to those reports available free of charge on or through this Web site as soon as reasonably practicable
after such material is electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Cerner’s mission is to contribute to the systemic improvement of health care delivery and the health of communities. We are
a leading supplier of health care information technology (HCIT), and offer a comprehensive range of software, professional
services, medical device integration, remote hosting and employer health and wellness services. Cerner systems are used
by everyone from individual consumers, to single-doctor practices, hospitals, employers and entire countries. Taking what
we’ve learned over more than three decades, Cerner is building on the knowledge that is in the system to support evidence-
based clinical decisions, prevent medical errors and empower patients in their care.
Cerner® solutions are licensed by approximately 14,000 facilities around the world, including more than 3,000 hospitals;
4,900 physician practices; 60,000 physicians; 590 ambulatory facilities, such as laboratories, ambulatory centers, behavioral
health centers, cardiac facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers; 3,500 extended care facilities; 150 employer sites
and 1,790 retail pharmacies.
Cerner solutions are offered on the unified Cerner Millennium® architecture, a person-centric computing framework, which
combines clinical, financial and management information systems. This architecture allows providers to securely access an
individual’s electronic health record (EHR) at the point of care, and it organizes and proactively delivers information to meet
the specific needs of physicians, nurses, laboratory technicians, pharmacists, front- and back-office professionals and
consumers. In recent years, we have extended this platform to include the next evolution of Cerner Millennium, Millennium
+™, which leverages the cloud and enables greater mobility. We have also created the Healthe IntentTM platform, a cloud-
based platform that enables a new generation of solutions to leverage the increasing amount of data being captured as the
health care industry is digitized. On the Healthe Intent platform, we are building EHR-agnostic solutions based on
sophisticated, statistical algorithms that are intended to help providers predict and improve outcomes, control costs, and
improve quality.
We offer a broad range of services, including implementation and training, remote hosting, operational management services,
revenue cycle services, support and maintenance, health care data analysis, clinical process optimization, transaction
processing, employer health centers, employee wellness programs and third party administrator (TPA) services for employer-
based health plans.
In addition to software and services, we offer a wide range of complementary hardware and devices, both directly from Cerner
and as a reseller for third parties.
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The following table presents our consolidated revenues by major solutions and services and by segment, as a percentage
of total revenues:
Revenues by Solutions & Services
System sales
Support and maintenance
Services
Reimbursed travel
Revenues by Segment
Domestic
Global
For the Years Ended
2013
2012
2011
29%
23%
46%
2%
100%
88%
12%
100%
34%
23%
41%
2%
100%
32%
25%
41%
2%
100%
88%
12%
86%
14%
100%
100%
Health Care and Health Care IT Industry
We believe there are several ongoing trends in health care that create a favorable environment for Cerner. One is the
unsustainable rate of growth in health care spending. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates
United States health care spending in 2013 at $2.9 trillion, or 18.0 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and projects
it to be 19.9 percent of GDP by 2022. We believe health care IT is one of few remaining levers that can change this trajectory.
Further, most United States health care providers recognize that they must invest in HCIT to meet regulatory requirements,
adapt to shifting reimbursement structures, and qualify for incentives. The importance of HCIT in facilitating this compliance
along with the benefits of improving safety, efficiency and reducing costs, leads to investments in HCIT being viewed as more
strategic than many other capital purchases and supports our belief that we are positioned for continued growth.
An ongoing contributor to our growth is the inclusion of HCIT incentives in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA). The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) provisions within ARRA include
more than $35 billion in incentives for health care organizations to modernize operations through “Meaningful Use” of HCIT.
Hospitals and physicians that met the first of three stages of Meaningful Use criteria of the ARRA began receiving incentive
funds in 2011, and the ongoing incentive program is contributing to continued demand for HCIT solutions and services in the
United States. In addition to the demand created by existing clients seeking solutions and services to ensure they are
positioned to qualify for incentives, we are seeing significant demand outside of our installed base from hospitals that previously
chose a system from another supplier. We believe these hospitals are looking to change to a platform that better positions
them for success as later stages of Meaningful Use and other regulatory requirements require more sophisticated IT systems.
Another trend in the United States marketplace that we believe will contribute to demand is the shift away from fee-for-service
or volume-based reimbursement towards value-based or outcomes-based reimbursement. Payers, including health insurance
companies and federal and state governments, are implementing programs to link reimbursement to quality measurements
and outcomes, and we believe this alignment creates significant financial motivation for HCIT adoption. Ultimately, we believe
all of these shifts are leading to an environment in which health care providers will become accountable for proactively
managing the health of the populations they serve, and this will require ongoing investment in sophisticated information
technology solutions that will enable them to predict when intervention is needed so they can improve outcomes and lower
the cost of providing care.
As providers position themselves for these shifts, there has been an increase in industry consolidation, with health systems
acquiring hospitals, physician practices, and other venues to control more of the care continuum and achieve economies of
scale. We believe this is a positive trend for Cerner as we have relationships with the majority of the largest health systems
responsible for most of the acquisition activity, creating an opportunity to offer our solutions and services to the acquired
facilities.
The increasingly complex and more clinical outcomes-based reimbursement environment is also contributing to a heightened
demand for revenue cycle solutions and a desire for these solutions to be closely aligned with clinical solutions. We believe
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this trend is positive for Cerner because our revenue cycle solutions are integrated with our clinical solutions, creating a
clinically driven revenue cycle solution that has had significant adoption in recent years.
We have also seen a shift in the United States marketplace towards a preference for a single platform across inpatient and
ambulatory settings. The number of physicians employed by hospitals has increased significantly as hospitals have acquired
physician groups in order to ensure a consistent stream of referrals, and health systems are recognizing the benefit of having
a single patient record at the hospital and the physician office. We are benefiting from this trend due to our unified Cerner
Millennium platform that spans multiple venues and due to significant enhancements we have made to our physician solutions
in recent years.
Another industry observation is that operational and financial pressures on health care providers continue to increase. It is
a challenge for them to keep up with Meaningful Use, health care reform, Value-Based Purchasing, and other requirements
- all while facing ongoing pressure on reimbursement. As discussed, we believe our solutions and services are well aligned
with helping our clients navigate these challenges, which is why we continue to have a positive outlook.
Outside the United States, the economic downturn of the last several years has impacted and could continue to impact our
results of operations. However, we have observed improving conditions in many global markets and believe long-term revenue
growth opportunities outside the United States remain significant because other countries are also focused on controlling
health care spending while improving the efficiency and quality of care that is delivered, and many of these countries recognize
HCIT as an important piece of the solution to these issues.
Cerner Vision and Growth Strategy
For more than 30 years, Cerner has been executing its vision to make health care safer and more efficient. We started with
the foundation of digitizing paper processes and now offer what we believe to be the most comprehensive array of solutions,
services, hardware, and devices to the health care industry. Since our company began, we have been committed to
transformational change in the vital task of keeping people healthy. We focus on developing innovations that will help improve
the entire health care system, as we believe health care is personal and nothing matters more than our health and the health
of our families.
Our vision has always guided our large investments in research and development, which have created strong levels of organic
growth throughout our history. Our proven ability to innovate has led to what we believe to be industry-leading solution and
device architectures and an unmatched breadth and depth of solutions and services. We believe these strengths position
us well to gain market share in the United States during a period of expected strong demand driven by the HITECH provisions
of ARRA, the nation’s focus on improving the efficiency and quality of health care and the need for continued investments
in solutions and services to adapt to ongoing changes in reimbursement structures that will require the ability to proactively
manage the health of populations, not just reactively provide care. We also have a strong global brand and a presence in
more than 25 countries and believe we have a strong opportunity to gain market share outside of the United States.
In addition to growth by gaining market share, we have a significant opportunity to grow revenues by expanding our solution
footprint with existing clients. There is opportunity to expand penetration of our core solutions, such as EHRs and computerized
physician order entry, and increase penetration of our broad range of complementary solutions that can be offered into our
existing client base. Examples include women’s health, anesthesiology, imaging, clinical process optimization, critical care,
medical devices, device connectivity, emergency department, revenue cycle and surgery.
We have also introduced services in recent years that are targeted at capturing a larger percentage of our clients’ existing
IT spending. These services leverage our proven operational capabilities and the success of our CernerWorksSM managed
services business, where we have demonstrated the ability to improve our clients’ service levels at a cost that is at or below
amounts they were previously spending. One of these services is Cerner ITWorksSM, a suite of solutions and services that
improve the ability of hospital IT departments to meet their organization’s needs while also creating a closer alignment
between Cerner and our clients. A second example is Cerner RevWorksSM, which includes solutions and services to help
health care organizations improve their revenue cycle functions.
We have made progress over the past several years at reducing the total cost of ownership of our solutions, which expands
our end market opportunities by allowing us to offer lower-cost, higher-value solutions and services to smaller community
hospitals, critical access hospitals and physician practices. For example, our CommunityWorksTM offering leverages a shared
instance of the Cerner Millennium platform across multiple clients, which decreases the total cost of ownership for these
clients.
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We also expect to drive growth over the course of the next decade through initiatives outside the core HCIT market. For
example, we offer clinic, pharmacy, wellness and third-party administrator services directly to employers. These offerings
have been shaped by what we have learned from changes we have implemented at Cerner over the past six years. We have
removed our third-party administrator and become self-administered, launched an on-site clinic and pharmacy, incorporated
biometric measurements for our population, realigned the economic incentives for associates in our health plan, and
implemented a data-driven wellness management program. These changes have had a significant impact on the health of
our associates and have allowed us to do what all employers want to do - reduce health care costs.
As discussed below, another opportunity for future growth, and a significant area of investment for Cerner, is leveraging the
vast amounts of data being created as the health care industry is digitized and using this data to help providers manage the
health of populations.
Population Health
Today's system of episodic, fee-for-service care is characterized by episodic visits to providers for an acute illness, rather
than an ongoing focus on maintaining health. We believe information technology will play a key role in providing real time
and predictive information to providers which will facilitate the promotion and management of health and result in lower costs
and higher quality interventions.
For health care providers, population health management means serving patients with more precision. It means preventing
potentially avoidable complications by developing prescriptive personalized health plans and applying preventive care to
keep more people in a state of health, delaying and possibly preventing or reversing the effects of chronic disease.
While this approach is logical and desirable, our system of care is still mostly structured so that physicians and hospitals are
paid when people experience illness, not when they remain healthy. This is beginning to change through the formation of
organizations, often called Accountable Care Organizations, which reward health systems for keeping healthy people healthy
and for delivering higher quality and lower cost care to a defined population. As the industry continues down this path of
creating incentives for managing the health of populations, we believe there will be significant new opportunities for Cerner.
We are already providing solutions and services to many of our clients that are foundational elements for population health.
Examples of these include data liquidity through our Cerner Network interoperability and health information exchange
offerings, Lighthouse Enterprise Data Warehousing and Quality solutions, our patient portal platform and personal health
record solutions that offer a range of device and provider connectivity options and wellness offerings.
Supporting these solutions is Healthe Intent, which is our cloud-based platform for population health that is agnostic to the
source EHR and is also able to capture research, evidence, and financial and operational data. Healthe Intent also supports
Chart Search, which leverages knowledge of the clinical meanings of words located within the EHR as well as the context
in which those words occur to create algorithms that identify and rank the most important information contextually. This
capability allows the physician to efficiently search through a patient's health record and identify relevant information in a
matter of seconds.
The Healthe Intent platform also provides the ability to apply sophisticated, statistical algorithms against contextual clinical
activity to recommend clinical action. We have illustrated this with our sepsis agent, which can assist in detecting the conditions
that indicate a patient may be developing sepsis, a potentially fatal condition in which the bloodstream is overwhelmed by
bacteria. Clients that have implemented this agent as part of a comprehensive sepsis prevention process have experienced
significant reductions in sepsis mortality rates, and the adoption in our client base continues to steadily increase.
We are investing heavily in expanding the Healthe Intent platform and our overall capabilities to support population health.
One of the ways we are expanding our capabilities is working closely with clients that are early movers at taking accountability
for keeping the populations they serve healthy. A key partner with whom we are working is Advocate Health Care. One of
the first outcomes of this partnership was the joint development in 2012 of a predictive agent for readmissions that has
demonstrated significant improvement in predictive power as compared to the majority of existing models. Our relationship
expanded in early 2013 to further advance clinical integration and population health management capabilities across the
continuum of care for the 500,000 lives for which they have gone at risk. We are enabling them to identify who in their
population meets criteria across 16 specific registries and 60 performance improvement scorecards with parameters Advocate
has created. As members needing care are identified, we will facilitate personalized interventions, enrollment in care
management programs, and ongoing monitoring to allow Advocate to keep people healthy.
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This work with Advocate is going at a fast pace and is very complex. An example of the complexity is that we are aggregating
and normalizing data from more than 50 different data sources, including multiple EHRs, private and public payers, third
party billing and registration systems, and physician specialty scorecards. This requires the ability to take both structured
and unstructured data and run it through our big data engine using medical language processing, not just the more commonly
used natural language processing, or NLP. This allows us to enhance the data and map it to a normalized standard, resulting
in a highly structured, longitudinal record that enables real-time analytics.
In September 2013, Cerner and Advocate took a major step forward in delivering our shared vision for population health
when we released our Heathe Intent Smart Registries™ solution to Advocate after just seven months of development. Healthe
Intent Smart Registries provide the capability to stratify patient populations based on risk, conditions, and attributed physicians.
In addition, the registries enable care managers to quickly determine what key quality measures specific to the designated
condition of the patient have been met. It is also noteworthy that Healthe Intent Smart Registries and our other population
health solutions are EHR agnostic, which substantially broadens our addressable market. We have already sold these
solutions outside of our installed client base, and there is a good pipeline both inside and outside of our client base.
In summary, we believe our comprehensive architectural approach to population health is differentiated in the marketplace.
We expect this platform to create significant opportunities for Cerner as health care continues to evolve towards a model
that incents keeping people healthy.
Software Development
We commit significant resources to developing new health information system solutions and services. As of the end of 2013,
approximately 3,800 associates were engaged in research and development activities. Total expenditures for the development
and enhancement of our software solutions were approximately $418.7 million, $319.8 million and $290.6 million during the
2013, 2012 and 2011 fiscal years, respectively. These figures include both capitalized and non-capitalized portions and
exclude amounts amortized for financial reporting purposes.
As discussed above, continued investment in research and development remains a core element of our strategy. This will
include ongoing enhancement of our core solutions and development of new solutions and services.
Sales and Marketing
The markets for Cerner HCIT solutions, health care devices and services include integrated delivery networks, physician
groups and networks, managed care organizations, hospitals, medical centers, free-standing reference laboratories, home
health agencies, blood banks, imaging centers, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, employers, governments and
public health organizations. The majority of our sales are sales of clinical and revenue cycle solutions and services to hospitals
and health systems, but our solutions and services are highly scalable and sold to organizations ranging from physician
practices, to community hospitals, to complex integrated delivery networks, to local, regional and national government
agencies.
Sales to large health systems typically take approximately nine to 18 months, while the sales cycle is often shorter when
selling to smaller hospitals and physician practices. In some instances, the HITECH provisions of ARRA have shortened the
sales process due to the timeline required for hospitals to qualify for stimulus incentives.
Our executive marketing management is located at our Innovation Campus in Kansas City, Missouri, while our client
representatives are deployed across the United States and globally. In addition to the United States, through our subsidiaries,
we have sales associates and/or offices giving us a presence in more than 25 countries.
We support our sales force with technical personnel who perform demonstrations of Cerner solutions and services and assist
clients in determining the proper hardware and software configurations. Our primary direct marketing strategy is to generate
sales contacts from our existing client base and through presentations at industry seminars and tradeshows. We market the
PowerWorks® solutions, offered on a subscription basis, directly to the physician practice market using telemarketing, channel
partners and through existing acute care clients that are looking to extend Cerner solutions to affiliated physicians. We attend
a number of major tradeshows each year and sponsor executive user conferences, which feature industry experts who
address the HCIT needs of large health care organizations.
Client Services
Substantially all of Cerner’s clients that buy software solutions also enter into software support agreements with us for
maintenance and support of their Cerner systems. In addition to immediate software support in the event of problems, these
agreements allow clients to access new releases of the Cerner solutions covered by support agreements. Each client has
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24-hour access to the client support team located at our world headquarters in North Kansas City, Missouri, our Continuous
Campus in Kansas City, Kansas and our global support organizations in England and Ireland.
Most clients who buy hardware through Cerner also enter into hardware maintenance agreements with us. These
arrangements normally provide for a fixed monthly fee for specified services. In the majority of cases, we utilize subcontractors
to meet our hardware maintenance obligations. We also offer a set of managed services that include remote hosting,
operational management services and disaster recovery.
Backlog
At the end of 2013, we had a contract backlog of $8.1 billion as compared to $6.5 billion at the end of 2012. Such backlog
represents system sales and services from signed contracts that have not yet been recognized as revenue. At the end of
2013, we had a software support and maintenance backlog of $786.0 million as compared to $738.2 million at the end of
2012. Such backlog represents contracted software support and hardware maintenance services for a period of 12 months.
We estimate that approximately 28 percent of the aggregate backlog at the end of 2013 of $8.9 billion will be recognized as
revenue during 2014.
Competition
The market for HCIT solutions, devices and services is intensely competitive, rapidly evolving and subject to rapid technological
change. Our principal competitors in the health care solutions and services market include, but are not limited to: Allscripts
Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (Allscripts), Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (CPSI), Epic Systems Corporation (Epic), GE
Healthcare Technologies (GE), Healthcare Management Systems, Inc. (HMS), Healthland, Inc., Computer Sciences
Corporation (iSoft), McKesson Corporation (McKesson), Medical Information Technology, Inc. (Meditech), Siemens Medical
Solutions Health Services Corporation (Siemens), and Quadramed Corporation (Quadramed), each of which offers a suite
of software solutions that compete with many of our software solutions and services.
Other competitors focus on only a portion of the market that we address. For example, competitors, without limitation, such
as Accenture plc, Clinovations, Inc., Dell, Inc. (Dell), Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte), Encore Health Resources, LLC, IBM
Corporation, Leidos Holding, Inc. and Xerox Corporation Ltd. offer HCIT services that compete directly with some of our
service offerings. Allscripts, AmazingCharts.com, Inc., Athenahealth, Inc., eClinicalWorks LLC, e-MDs, Inc., MED3000, Inc.,
Practice Fusion, Inc., Quality Systems, Inc., SRSsoft and Vitera Healthcare Solutions offer solutions to the physician practice
market but do not currently have a significant presence in the health systems and independent hospital market.
Cerner partners with third parties as a reseller of devices and markets its own competing proprietary health care devices.
We view our principal competitors in the health care device market to include, without limitation: API Healthcare, CapsuleTech,
Inc., CareFusion Corporation, GE, iSirona, LLC, McKesson and Omnicell, Inc. We view our principal competitors in the health
care revenue cycle transactions market to include, without limitation: Accretive Health, Inc., Allscripts, Confier Health Solutions,
Dell, Deloitte, Emdeon Corporation, Epic, GE, McKesson, MedAssets, Inc., Meditech, Optum, Inc., Quadramed, Siemens,
SSI Group, Inc. and 3M Company with almost all of these competitors being substantially larger or having more experience
and market share than us in their respective markets.
In addition, we expect that major software information systems companies, large information technology consulting service
providers and system integrators, start-up companies, managed care companies and others specializing in the health care
industry may offer competitive software solutions, devices or services. The pace of change in the HCIT market is rapid and
there are frequent new software solutions, devices or services introductions, enhancements and evolving industry standards
and requirements. We believe that the principal competitive factors in this market include the breadth and quality of solution
and service offerings, the stability of the solution provider, the features and capabilities of the information systems and devices,
the ongoing support for the systems and devices and the potential for enhancements and future compatible software solutions
and devices.
Number of Employees (Associates)
At the end of 2013, we employed approximately 14,200 associates worldwide.
Operating Segments
Information about our operating segments, which are geographically based, may be found in Item 7 “Management’s Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” below and in Note (19) to the consolidated financial statements.
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Executive Officers of the Registrant
The following table sets forth the names, ages, positions and certain other information regarding the Company’s executive
officers as of January 31, 2014. Officers are elected annually and serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
Name
Neal L. Patterson
Age
64
Positions
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Clifford W. Illig
Zane M. Burke
Marc G. Naughton
Michael R. Nill
Randy D. Sims
Jeffrey A. Townsend
Julia M. Wilson
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Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
President
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer
Neal L. Patterson, co-founder of the Company, has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of
the Company for more than five years. Mr. Patterson served as President of the Company from July 2010 to September
2013, which position he also held from March of 1999 until August of 1999.
Clifford W. Illig, co-founder of the Company, has been a Director of the Company for more than five years. He previously
served as Chief Operating Officer of the Company until October 1998 and as President of the Company until March of 1999.
Mr. Illig was appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in March of 1999.
Zane M. Burke joined the Company in September 1996. Since that time, he has held a variety of client-facing sales,
implementation and support roles, including Corporate Controller and Vice President of Finance. He was promoted to
President of the Company’s West region in 2002 and Senior Vice President of National Alignment in 2006. He was further
promoted to Executive Vice President - Client Organization in July 2011 and to President of the Company in September
2013.
Marc G. Naughton joined the Company in November 1992 as Manager of Taxes. In November 1995 he was named Chief
Financial Officer and in February 1996 he was promoted to Vice President. He was promoted to Senior Vice President in
March 2002 and promoted to Executive Vice President in March 2010.
Michael R. Nill joined the Company in November 1996. Since that time he has held several positions in the Technology,
Intellectual Property and CernerWorks Client Hosting Organizations. He was promoted to Vice President in January 2000,
promoted to Senior Vice President in April 2006 and promoted to Executive Vice President and named Chief Engineering
Officer in February 2009. Mr. Nill was appointed Chief Operating Officer in May 2011.
Randy D. Sims joined the Company in March 1997 as Vice President and Chief Legal Officer and was promoted to Senior
Vice President in March 2011. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sims worked at Farmland Industries, Inc. for three years
where he last served as Associate General Counsel. Prior to Farmland, Mr. Sims was in-house legal counsel at The Marley
Company for seven years, holding the position of Assistant General Counsel when he left to join Farmland.
Jeffrey A. Townsend joined the Company in June 1985. Since that time he has held several positions in the Intellectual
Property Organization and was promoted to Vice President in February 1997. He was appointed Chief Engineering Officer
in March 1998, promoted to Senior Vice President in March 2001, named Chief of Staff in July 2003 and promoted to Executive
Vice President in March 2005.
Julia M. Wilson first joined the Company in July 1990. Since that time, she has held several positions in the Functional Group
Organization. She was promoted to Vice President and Chief People Officer in August 2003, to Senior Vice President in
March 2007 and to Executive Vice President in March 2013.
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Item 1A. Risk Factors
Risks Related to our Business
We may incur substantial costs related to product-related liabilities. Many of our software solutions, health care devices
or services (including life sciences/research services) are intended for use in collecting, storing and displaying clinical and
health care-related information used in the diagnosis and treatment of patients and in related health care settings such as
admissions, billing, etc. We attempt to limit by contract our liability; however, the limitations of liability set forth in the contracts
may not be enforceable or may not otherwise protect us from liability for damages. We may also be subject to claims that
are not covered by contract, such as a claim directly by a patient. Although we maintain liability insurance coverage, there
can be no assurance that such coverage will cover any particular claim that has been brought or that may be brought in the
future, that such coverage will prove to be adequate or that such coverage will continue to remain available on acceptable
terms, if at all. A successful material claim or series of claims brought against us, if uninsured or under-insured, could materially
harm our business, results of operations and financial condition. Product-related claims, even if not successful, could damage
our reputation, cause us to lose existing clients, limit our ability to obtain new clients, divert management’s attention from
operations, result in significant revenue loss, create potential liabilities for our clients and us and increase insurance and
other operational costs.
We may be subject to claims for system errors and warranties. Our software solutions and health care devices are very
complex and may contain design, coding or other errors, especially when first introduced. It is not uncommon for HCIT
providers to discover errors in software solutions and/or health care devices after their introduction to the market. Similarly,
the installation of our software solutions and health care devices is very complex and errors in the implementation and
configuration of our systems can occur. Our software solutions and health care devices are intended for use in collecting,
storing, and displaying clinical and health care-related information used in the diagnosis and treatment of patients and in
related health care settings such as admissions, billing, etc. Therefore, users of our software solutions and health care devices
have a greater sensitivity to errors than the market for software products and devices generally. Our client agreements
typically provide warranties concerning material errors and other matters. Should a client’s Cerner software solution or health
care device fail to meet these warranties or lead to faulty clinical decisions or injury to patients, it could 1) constitute a material
breach under the client agreement, allowing the client to terminate the agreement and possibly obtain a refund or damages
or both, or require us to incur additional expense in order to make the software solution or health care device meet these
criteria or 2) subject us to claims or litigation by our clients or clinicians or directly by the patient. Additionally, such failures
could damage our reputation and could negatively affect future sales. Our client agreements generally limit our liability arising
from such claims but such limits may not be enforceable in certain jurisdictions or circumstances. Although we maintain
liability insurance coverage, there can be no assurance that such coverage will cover any particular claim that has been
brought or that may be brought in the future, that such coverage will prove to be adequate or that such coverage will continue
to remain available on acceptable terms, if at all. A successful material claim or series of claims brought against us, if uninsured
or under-insured, could materially harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We may experience interruption at our data centers or client support facilities. Our business relies on the secure
electronic transmission, data center storage and hosting of sensitive information, including protected health information,
financial information and other sensitive information relating to our clients, company and workforce. We perform data center
and/or hosting services for certain clients, including the storage of critical patient and administrative data and support services
through various client support facilities. If any of these systems are interrupted, damaged or breached by an unforeseen
event or actions of a third party, including a cyber-attack, or fail for any extended period of time, it could have a material
adverse impact on our results of operations. Complete failure of all local public power and backup generators, impairment
of all telecommunications lines, a concerted denial of service cyber-attack, a significant data breach, damage, injury or
impairment (environmental, accidental, intentional or pandemic) to the buildings, the equipment inside the buildings housing
our data centers, the personnel operating such facilities or the client data contained therein, or errors by the personnel trained
to operate such facilities could cause a disruption in operations and negatively impact clients who depend on us for data
center and system support services. We offer our clients disaster recovery services for additional fees to protect clients from
isolated data center failures, leveraging our multiple data center facilities, however only a small percentage of our hosted
clients choose to contract for these services. Any interruption in operations at our data centers and/or client support facilities
could damage our reputation, cause us to lose existing clients, hurt our ability to obtain new clients, result in significant
revenue loss, create potential liabilities for our clients and us and increase insurance and other operating costs.
Our proprietary technology may be subject to claims for infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property
rights of others, or may be infringed or misappropriated by others. We rely upon a combination of license agreements,
confidentiality policies and procedures, confidentiality provisions in employment agreements, confidentiality agreements with
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third parties and technical security measures to maintain the confidentiality, exclusivity and trade secrecy of our proprietary
information. We also rely on trademark and copyright laws to protect our intellectual property rights in the United States and
abroad. We continue to develop our patent portfolio of United States and global patents, but these patents do not provide
comprehensive protection for the wide range of solutions, devices and services we offer. Despite our protective measures
and intellectual property rights, we may not be able to adequately protect against theft, copying, reverse-engineering,
misappropriation, infringement or unauthorized use or disclosure of our intellectual property, which could have an adverse
effect on our competitive position.
In addition, we are routinely involved in intellectual property infringement or misappropriation claims and we expect this
activity to continue or even increase as the number of competitors, patents and patent enforcement organizations in the
HCIT market increases, the functionality of our software solutions and services expands, the use of open-source software
increases and we enter new geographies and new markets such as health care device innovation, health care transactions,
revenue cycle, population health management and life sciences. These claims, even if not meritorious, are expensive to
defend and are often incapable of prompt resolution. If we become liable to third parties for infringing or misappropriating
their intellectual property rights, we could be required to pay a substantial damage award, develop alternative technology,
obtain a license or cease using, selling, offering for sale, licensing, importing, implementing or supporting the solutions,
devices and services that violate the intellectual property rights.
We may become subject to legal proceedings that could have a material adverse impact on our financial position
and results of operations. From time to time and in the ordinary course of our business, we and certain of our subsidiaries
may become involved in various legal proceedings. All such legal proceedings are inherently unpredictable and, regardless
of the merits of the claims, litigation may be expensive, time-consuming, disruptive to our operations and distracting to
management. If resolved against us, such legal proceedings could result in excessive verdicts, injunctive or other equitable
relief that may affect how we operate our business, or settlements of claims for monetary damages. Future court decisions,or
alternative dispute resolution awards, business expansion or legislative activity may increase our exposure to litigation and
regulatory investigations. In some cases, substantial non-economic remedies or punitive damages may be sought. Although
we maintain liability insurance coverage, there can be no assurance that such coverage will cover any particular verdict,
judgment or settlement that may be entered against us, that such coverage will prove to be adequate or that such coverage
will continue to remain available on acceptable terms, if at all. If we incur liability that exceeds our insurance coverage or
that is not within the scope of the coverage in legal proceedings brought against us, it could have an adverse effect on our
business, financial condition and results of operations. For additional information regarding certain legal proceedings in which
we are involved, see Part I, Item 3 "Legal Proceedings".
We are subject to risks associated with our non-U.S. operations. We market, sell and service our solutions, devices and
services globally. We have established offices around the world, including in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and the
Asia Pacific region. We plan to continue to expand our non-U.S. operations and enter new global markets. This expansion
will require significant management attention and financial resources to develop successful direct and indirect non-U.S. sales
and support channels. Our business is generally transacted in the local functional currency. In some countries, our success
will depend in part on our ability to form relationships with local partners. There is a risk that we may sometimes choose the
wrong partner. For these and other reasons, we may not be able to maintain or increase non-U.S. market demand for our
solutions, devices and services.
Non-U.S. operations are subject to inherent risks, and our future results could be adversely affected by a variety of
uncontrollable and changing factors. These include, but are not limited to:
• Greater difficulty in collecting accounts receivable and longer collection periods
• Difficulties and costs of staffing and managing non-U.S. operations
• The impact of global economic conditions
• Effects of sovereign debt conditions, including budgetary constraints
• Unfavorable or volatile foreign currency exchange rates
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Legal compliance costs or business risks associated with our global operations where: i) local laws and customs
differ from those in the United States, or ii) risk is heightened with respect to laws prohibiting improper payments
and bribery, including without limitation the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.K. Anti-Bribery Act and similar
laws and regulations in foreign jurisdictions
• Certification, licensing or regulatory requirements
• Unexpected changes in regulatory requirements
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• Changes to or reduced protection of intellectual property rights in some countries
• Potentially adverse tax consequences and difficulties associated with repatriating cash generated or held abroad in
a tax-efficient manner
• Different or additional functionality requirements or preferences
• Trade protection measures
• Export control regulations
• Health service provider or government spending patterns
• Natural disasters, war or terrorist acts
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Labor disruptions that may occur in a country
• Poor selection of a partner in a country
• Political conditions which may impact sales or threaten the safety of associates or our continued presence in these
countries
Our failure to effectively hedge exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates could unfavorably affect
our performance. We currently utilize a non-derivative instrument to hedge our exposure to fluctuations in certain foreign
currency exchange rates. This instrument may involve elements of market risk in excess of the amounts recognized in the
Consolidated Financial Statements. For additional information about market risk on financial instruments, see Item 7A
“Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk”. Further, our financial results from non-U.S. operations may be
negatively affected if we fail to execute or if we improperly hedge our exposure to currency fluctuations.
We are subject to tax legislation in numerous countries; tax legislation initiatives or challenges to our tax positions
could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. We are a global corporation with a presence
in more than 25 countries. As such, we are subject to tax laws, regulations and policies of the United States federal, state
and local governments and of other country jurisdictions. From time to time, various legislative initiatives may be proposed
that could adversely affect our tax positions and/or our tax liabilities. There can be no assurance that our effective tax rate
or tax payments will not be adversely affected by these initiatives. In addition, United States federal, state and local, as well
as other countries’ tax laws and regulations are extremely complex and subject to varying interpretations. There can be no
assurance that our tax positions will not be challenged by relevant tax authorities or that we would be successful in any such
challenge, which could result in double taxation, penalties and interest payments.
Our success depends upon the recruitment and retention of key personnel. To remain competitive in our industries,
we must attract, motivate and retain highly skilled managerial, sales, marketing, consulting and technical personnel, including
executives, consultants, programmers and systems architects skilled in the HCIT, health care devices, health care
transactions, population health management, revenue cycle and life sciences industries and the technical environments in
which our solutions, devices and services are needed. Competition for such personnel in our industries is intense in both
the United States and abroad. Our failure to attract additional qualified personnel to meet our needs could have a material
adverse effect on our prospects for long-term growth. In addition, we invest significant time and expense in training our
associates, which increases their value to clients and competitors who may seek to recruit them and increases the cost of
replacing them. Our success is dependent to a significant degree on the continued contributions of key management, sales,
marketing, consulting and technical personnel. The unexpected loss of key personnel could have a material adverse impact
on our business and results of operations, and could potentially inhibit development and delivery of our solutions, devices
and services and market share advances.
We depend on third party suppliers and our revenue and operating earnings could suffer if we fail to manage suppliers
properly. We license or purchase intellectual property and technology (such as software, hardware and content) from third
parties, including some competitors, and incorporate such third party software, hardware or content into or sell or license it
in conjunction with our solutions, devices and services. We depend on some of the third party software, hardware or content
in the operation and delivery of our solutions, devices and services. For instance, we currently depend on Microsoft and IBM
technologies for portions of the operational capabilities of our Millennium solutions. Our remote hosting and cloud services
businesses also rely on a limited number of suppliers for certain functions of these businesses, such as Oracle database
technologies, CITRIX technologies and Cisco networking technologies. Additionally, we rely on EMC, Hewlett Packard and
IBM for our hardware technology platforms.
Most of the third party software licenses we have expire within one to five years, can be renewed only by mutual consent
and may be terminated if we breach the terms of the license and fail to cure the breach within a specified period of time.
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Most of these third party software licenses are non-exclusive; therefore, our competitors may obtain the right to use any of
the technology covered by these licenses and use the technology to compete directly with us.
If any of the third party suppliers were to change product offerings, cease actively supporting the technologies, fail to update
and enhance the technologies to keep pace with changing industry standards, encounter technical difficulties in the continuing
development of these technologies, significantly increase prices, terminate our licenses or supply contracts, suffer significant
capacity constraints or suffer significant disruptions, we would need to seek alternative suppliers and incur additional internal
or external development costs to ensure continued performance of our solutions, devices and services. Such alternatives
may not be available on attractive terms, or may not be as widely accepted or as effective as the intellectual property or
technology provided by our existing suppliers. If the cost of licensing, purchasing or maintaining the third party intellectual
property or technology significantly increases, our operating earnings could significantly decrease. In addition, interruption
in functionality of our solutions, devices or services as a result of changes in third party suppliers could adversely affect our
commitments to customers, future sales of solutions, devices and services, and negatively affect our revenue and operating
earnings.
We intend to continue strategic business acquisitions and other combinations, which are subject to inherent risks.
In order to expand our solutions, device offerings and services and grow our market and client base, we may continue to
seek and complete strategic business acquisitions and other combinations that we believe are complementary to our business.
Acquisitions have inherent risks which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, operating
results or prospects, including, but not limited to: 1) failure to successfully integrate the business and financial operations,
services, intellectual property, solutions or personnel of an acquired business and to maintain uniform standard controls,
policies and procedures; 2) diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns; 3) entry into markets in which
we have little or no direct prior experience; 4) failure to achieve projected synergies and performance targets; 5) loss of
clients or key personnel; 6) incurrence of debt or assumption of known and unknown liabilities; 7) write-off of software
development costs, goodwill, client lists and amortization of expenses related to intangible assets; 8) dilutive issuances of
equity securities; and, 9) accounting deficiencies that could arise in connection with, or as a result of, the acquisition of an
acquired company, including issues related to internal control over financial reporting and the time and cost associated with
remedying such deficiencies. If we fail to successfully integrate acquired businesses or fail to implement our business
strategies with respect to these acquisitions, we may not be able to achieve projected results or support the amount of
consideration paid for such acquired businesses.
We could suffer losses due to asset impairment charges. We assess our goodwill for impairment during the second
quarter every year and on an interim date should events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value of goodwill
may not be recoverable in accordance with provisions of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 350, Intangibles – Goodwill
and Other. Declines in business performance or other factors could cause the fair value of a reporting unit to be revised
downward and could result in a non-cash impairment charge. This could negatively affect our reported net earnings.
Volatility and disruption resulting from global economic conditions could negatively affect our business, results of
operations and financial condition. Although certain indices and economic data have shown signs of stabilization in the
United States and certain global markets, there can be no assurance that these improvements will be broad-based or
sustainable, nor is it clear how, if at all, they will affect the markets relevant to us. As a result, our operating results may be
impacted by the health of the global economy. Volatility and disruption in global capital and credit markets may lead to
slowdowns or declines in client spending which could adversely affect our business and financial performance. Our business
and financial performance, including new business bookings and collection of our accounts receivable, may be adversely
affected by current and future economic conditions (including a reduction in the availability of credit, higher energy costs,
rising interest rates, financial market volatility and lower than expected economic growth) that cause a slowdown or decline
in client spending. Reduced purchases by our clients or changes in payment terms could adversely affect our revenue growth
and cause a decrease in our cash flow from operations. Bankruptcies or similar events affecting clients may cause us to
incur bad debt expense at levels higher than historically experienced. Further, volatility and disruption in global financial
markets may also limit our ability to access the capital markets at a time when we would like, or need, to raise capital, which
could have an impact on our ability to react to changing economic and business conditions. Accordingly, if global financial
and economic volatility continues or worsens, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially
and adversely affected.
If we are unable to manage our growth in the new markets in which we offer solutions, health care devices or services,
our business and financial results could suffer. Our future financial results will depend in part on our ability to profitably
manage our business in the new markets that we enter. Over the past several years, we have engaged in the identification
of, and competition for, growth and expansion opportunities in the areas of analytics, revenue cycle and population health.
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In order to achieve those initiatives, we will need to, among other things, recruit, train, retain and effectively manage associates,
manage changing business conditions and implement and improve our technical, administrative, financial control and reporting
systems for offerings in those areas. Difficulties in managing future growth in new markets could have a significant negative
impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Risks Related to the Health Care Information Technology, Health Care Device, Health Care Transaction and Population
Health Management Industry
The health care industry is subject to changing political, economic and regulatory influences. For example, the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (as modified by The Health Information Technology for Economic and
Clinical Health Act (HITECH) provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) (collectively, HIPAA)
continues to have a direct impact on the health care industry by requiring national provider identifiers and standardized
transactions/code sets, operating rules and necessary security and privacy measures in order to ensure the appropriate level
of privacy of protected health information. These regulatory factors affect the purchasing practices and operation of health
care organizations.
Many health care providers are consolidating to create integrated health care delivery systems with greater market power.
These providers may try to use their market power to negotiate price reductions for our solutions, health care devices and
services. As the health care industry consolidates, our client base could be eroded, competition for clients could become
more intense and the importance of landing new client relationships becomes greater.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act
of 2010, became law in 2010. This comprehensive health care reform legislation included provisions to control health care
costs, improve health care quality, and expand access to affordable health insurance. Together with ongoing statutory and
budgetary policy developments at a federal level, this health care reform legislation could include changes in Medicare and
Medicaid payment policies and other health care delivery administrative reforms that could potentially negatively impact our
business and the business of our clients. Because not all the administrative rules implementing health care reform under the
legislation have been finalized, and because of ongoing federal fiscal budgetary pressures yet to be resolved for federal
health programs, the full impact of the health care reform legislation and of further statutory actions to reform healthcare
payment on our business is unknown, but there can be no assurances that health care reform legislation will not adversely
impact either our operational results or the manner in which we operate our business. Health care industry participants may
respond by reducing their investments or postponing investment decisions, including investments in our solutions and
services.
The health care industry is highly regulated at the local, state and federal level. The impact of these regulations on us
is direct, to the extent that we are ourselves subject to these laws and regulations, and is also indirect because, in a number
of situations, even though we may not be directly regulated by specific health care laws and regulations, our solutions, devices
and services must be capable of being used by our clients in a way that complies with those laws and regulations. There is
a significant and wide-ranging number of regulations both within the United States and abroad, such as regulations in the
areas of health care fraud, e-prescribing, claims processing and transmission, medical devices, the security and privacy of
patient data and interoperability standards, that may be directly or indirectly applicable to our operations and relationships
or the business practices of our clients. Specific risks include, but are not limited to, the following:
Health Care Fraud. Federal and state governments continue to enhance regulation of and increase their scrutiny over practices
involving health care fraud, waste and abuse affecting health care providers whose services are reimbursed by Medicare,
Medicaid and other government health care programs. Our health care provider clients, as well as our provision of products
and services to government entities subject our business to laws and regulations on fraud and abuse which, among other
things, prohibit the direct or indirect payment or receipt of any remuneration for patient referrals, or arranging for or
recommending referrals or other business paid for in whole or in part by these federal or state health care programs. Federal
enforcement personnel have substantial funding, powers and remedies to pursue suspected or perceived fraud and abuse.
The effect of this government regulation on our clients is difficult to predict. Many of the regulations applicable to our clients
and that may be applicable to us, including those relating to marketing incentives offered in connection with medical device
sales, are vague or indefinite and have not been interpreted by the courts. They may be interpreted or applied by a prosecutorial,
regulatory or judicial authority in a manner that could broaden their applicability to us or require our clients to make changes
in their operations or the way in which they deal with us. If such laws and regulations are determined to be applicable to us
and if we fail to comply with any applicable laws and regulations, we could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, sanctions
or other liability, including exclusion from government health programs, which could have a material adverse effect on our
business, results of operations and financial condition. Even an unsuccessful challenge by a regulatory or prosecutorial
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authority of our activities could result in adverse publicity, could require a costly response from us and could adversely affect
our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Preparation, Transmission and Submission of Medical Claims for Reimbursement. Our solutions are capable of electronically
transmitting claims for services and items rendered by a physician to many patients' payers for approval and reimbursement.
We also provide services to our clients that include the coding, preparation and submission of claims for medical service to
payers for reimbursement. Such claims are governed by federal and state laws. Federal law provides civil liability to any
person that knowingly submits a claim to a payer, including Medicare, Medicaid and private health plans, seeking payment
for any services or items that have not been provided to the patient. Federal law may also impose criminal penalties for
intentionally submitting such false claims. We have policies and procedures in place that we believe result in the accurate
and complete preparation, transmission, submission and collection of claims, provided that the information given to us by
our clients is also accurate and complete. The HIPAA security, privacy and transaction standards, as discussed below, also
have a potentially significant effect on our claims preparation, transmission and submission services, since those services
must be structured and provided in a way that supports our clients' HIPAA compliance obligations. In connection with these
laws, we may be subjected to federal or state government investigations and possible penalties may be imposed upon us;
false claims actions may have to be defended; private payers may file claims against us; and we may be excluded from
Medicare, Medicaid or other government-funded health care programs. Any investigation or proceeding related to these
laws, even if unwarranted or without merit, may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and
financial condition.
Implementation of ICD-10 Coding for Medical Coding. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has mandated
that all providers, payers, clearinghouses and billing services implement the use of new patient codes for medical coding,
referred to as ICD-10 codes on or before October 1, 2014. This mandate substantially increases the number of medical
billing codes by which providers will seek reimbursement, increasing the complexity of submitting claims for reimbursement.
Claims submitted after October 1, 2014 must use ICD-10 codes or they will not be paid. Our efforts to provide services and
solutions that enable our clients to comply with the ICD-10 mandate could be time consuming and expensive. In addition,
due to the effort and expense of complying with the ICD-10 mandate, our clients may postpone or cancel decisions to purchase
our solutions and services. Either of the foregoing could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition
and results of operations.
Regulation of Medical Devices. The United States Food and Drug Administration (the FDA) has determined that certain of
our solutions are medical devices that are actively regulated under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (Act) and
amendments to the Act. Other countries have similar regulations in place related to medical devices, that now or may in the
future apply to certain of our solutions. If other of our solutions are deemed to be actively regulated medical devices by the
FDA or similar regulatory agencies in countries where we do business, we could be subject to extensive requirements
governing pre- and post-marketing activities including pre-market notification clearance. Complying with these medical device
regulations on a global perspective is time consuming and expensive and could be subject to unanticipated and significant
delays. Further, it is possible that these regulatory agencies may become more active in regulating software and medical
devices that are used in health care. If we are unable to obtain the required regulatory approvals for any such solutions or
medical devices, our short and long term business plans for these solutions or medical devices could be delayed or canceled.
There have been six FDA inspections at various Cerner sites since 2003. Inspections conducted at our world headquarters
and Innovations Campus in 2010 resulted in the issuance of an FDA Form 483 observation to which we responded promptly.
The FDA has taken no further action with respect to the Form 483 observation that was issued in 2010. The remaining FDA
inspections, including inspections at our world headquarters in 2006 and 2007, resulted in no issuance of a Form 483. We
remain subject to periodic FDA inspections and we could be required to undertake additional actions to comply with the Act
and any other applicable regulatory requirements. Our failure to comply with the Act and any other applicable regulatory
requirements could have a material adverse effect on our ability to continue to manufacture, distribute and deliver our solutions,
services and devices. The FDA has many enforcement tools including recalls, product corrections, seizures, injunctions,
refusal to grant pre-market clearance of products, civil fines and criminal prosecutions. Any of the foregoing could have a
material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Security and Privacy of Patient Information. Federal, state, local and foreign laws regulate the confidentiality of patient records
and the circumstances under which those records may be used and released. These regulations govern both the disclosure
and use of confidential patient medical record information and require the users of such information to implement specified
security and privacy measures. United States regulations currently in place governing electronic health data transmissions
continue to evolve and are often unclear and difficult to apply. Laws in non-U.S. jurisdictions may have similar or even stricter
requirements related to the treatment of patient information.
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In the United States, HIPAA regulations require national standards for some types of electronic health information transactions
and the data elements used in those transactions, security standards to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of health
information and standards to protect the privacy of individually identifiable health information. Covered entities under HIPAA,
which include health care organizations such as our clients, our employer clinic business model and our claims processing,
transmission and submission services, are required to comply with the privacy standards, the transaction regulations and
the security regulations. Moreover, the HITECH provisions of ARRA, and associated regulatory requirements, extend many
of the HIPAA obligations, formerly imposed only upon covered entities, to business associates as well. As a business associate
of our clients who are covered entities, we were in most instances already contractually required to ensure compliance with
the HIPAA regulations as they pertain to handling of covered client data. However, the extension of these HIPAA obligations
to business associates by law has created additional liability risks related to the privacy and security of individually identifiable
health information.
Evolving HIPAA and HITECH-related laws or regulations in the U.S. and data privacy and security laws or regulations in non-
U.S. jurisdictions could restrict the ability of our clients to obtain, use or disseminate patient information. This could adversely
affect demand for our solutions if they are not re-designed in a timely manner in order to meet the requirements of any new
interpretations or regulations that seek to protect the privacy and security of patient data or enable our clients to execute
new or modified health care transactions. We may need to expend additional capital, software development and other
resources to modify our solutions and devices to address these evolving data security and privacy issues. Furthermore, our
failure to maintain confidentiality of sensitive personal information in accordance with the applicable regulatory requirements
could damage our reputation and expose us to claims, fines and penalties.
Federal and state statutes and regulations have granted broad enforcement powers to regulatory agencies to investigate
and enforce our compliance with these privacy and security laws and regulations. Federal and state enforcement personnel
have substantial funding, powers and remedies to pursue suspected or perceived violations. If we fail to comply with any
applicable laws or regulations, we could be subject to civil penalties, sanctions or other liability. Enforcement investigations,
even if meritless, could have a negative impact on our reputation, cause us to lose existing clients or limit our ability to attract
new clients.
Interoperability Standards. Our clients are concerned with and often require that our software solutions and health care
devices be interoperable with other third party HCIT suppliers. Market forces or governmental/regulatory authorities could
create software interoperability standards that would apply to our solutions, health care devices or solutions, and if our
software solutions, health care devices or services are not consistent with those standards, we could be forced to incur
substantial additional development costs to conform. The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
(CCHIT) has developed a comprehensive set of criteria for the functionality, interoperability and security of various software
modules in the HCIT industry. CCHIT, however, continues to modify and refine those standards. Achieving CCHIT certification
is becoming a competitive requirement, resulting in increased software development and administrative expense to conform
to these requirements.
ARRA Meaningful Use Program. Various federal, state and non-U.S. government agencies are also developing standards
that could become mandatory for systems purchased by these agencies. For example, ARRA requires “meaningful use of
certified electronic health record technology” by health care providers in order to receive stimulus funds from the U.S. federal
government. Regulations have been issued that identify standards and implementation specifications and establish the
certification standards for qualifying electronic health record technology. Nevertheless, these standards and specifications
are subject to interpretation by the entities designated to certify such technology. While a combination of our solutions have
been certified as meeting the initial standards for certified health record technology, the regulatory standards to achieve
certification will continue to evolve over time. We may incur increased development costs and delays in delivering solutions
if we need to upgrade our software, devices or health care devices to be in compliance with these varying and evolving
standards. In addition, delays in interpreting these standards may result in postponement or cancellation of our clients’
decisions to purchase our solutions or health care devices. If our software solutions, devices or health care devices are not
compliant with these evolving standards, our market position and sales could be impaired and we may have to invest
significantly in changes to our software solutions, devices or health care devices.
We operate in intensely competitive and dynamic industries, and our ability to successfully compete and continue
to grow our business depends on our ability to respond quickly to market changes and changing technologies and
to bring competitive new solutions, devices, features and services to market in a timely fashion. The market for health
care information systems, health care devices and services to the health care industry is intensely competitive, dynamically
evolving and subject to rapid technological and innovative changes. Development of new proprietary technology or services
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is complex, entails significant time and expense and may not be successful. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to
introduce new solutions, devices or services on schedule, or at all, nor can we guarantee that such solutions, devices or
services will achieve market acceptance. Moreover, we cannot guarantee that errors will not be found in our new solution
releases, devices or services before or after commercial release, which could result in solution, device or service delivery
redevelopment costs, harm to our reputation, lost sales, license terminations or renegotiations, product liability claims,
diversion of resources to remedy errors and loss of, or delay in, market acceptance.
Certain of our competitors have greater financial, technical, product development, marketing or other resources than us and
some of our competitors offer software solutions, devices or services that we do not offer. Our principal existing competitors
are set forth above under Part I, Item 1 "Competition".
In addition, we expect that major software information systems companies, large information technology consulting service
providers and system integrators, start-up companies and others specializing in the health care industry may offer competitive
software solutions, devices or services. As we continue to develop new health care devices and services to address areas
such as analytics, transaction services, HCIT and device integration, revenue cycle and population health management, we
expect to face new competitors, and these competitors may have more experience in these markets and/or more established
relationships with prospective clients. We face strong competition and often face downward price pressure, which could
adversely affect our results of operations or liquidity. Additionally, the pace of change in the health care information systems
market is rapid and there are frequent new software solution introductions, software solution enhancements, device
introductions, device enhancements and evolving industry standards and requirements. There are a limited number of
hospitals and other health care providers in the United States market and in recent years, the health care industry has been
subject to increasing consolidation. As the industry consolidates, costs fall, technology improves, and market factors continue
to compel investment by health care organizations in solutions and services like ours, market saturation in the United States
may change the competitive landscape in favor of larger, more diversified competitors with greater scale. If we are unable
to recognize these changes in a timely manner, or we are too inflexible to rapidly adjust our business models, our growth
ambitions and financial results could be negatively affected materially.
Risks Related to Our Common Stock
Our quarterly operating results may vary, which could adversely affect our stock price. Our quarterly operating results
have varied in the past and may continue to vary in future periods, including variations from guidance, expectations or
historical results or trends. Quarterly operating results may vary for a number of reasons including demand for our solutions,
devices and services, the financial condition of our current and potential clients, our long sales cycle, potentially long installation
and implementation cycles for larger, more complex systems, accounting policy changes and other factors described in this
section and elsewhere in this report. As a result of health care industry trends and the market for our solutions, a large
percentage of our revenues are generated by the sale and installation of larger, more complex and higher-priced systems.
The sales process for these systems is lengthy and involves a significant technical evaluation and commitment of capital
and other resources by the client. Sales may be subject to delays due to changes in clients’ internal budgets, procedures for
approving large capital expenditures, competing needs for other capital expenditures, additions or amendments to federal,
state or local regulations, availability of personnel resources or by actions taken by competitors. Delays in the expected sale,
installation or implementation of these large systems may have a significant negative impact on our anticipated quarterly
revenues and consequently our earnings, since a significant percentage of our expenses are relatively fixed.
Revenue recognized in any quarter may depend upon our or our clients’ abilities to meet project milestones. Delays in meeting
these milestone conditions or modification of the project plan could result in a shift of revenue recognition from one quarter
to another and could have a material adverse effect on results of operations for a particular quarter.
Our revenues from system sales historically have been lower in the first quarter of the year and greater in the fourth quarter
of the year, primarily as a result of clients’ year-end efforts to make final capital expenditures for the then-current year.
Our sales forecasts may vary from actual sales in a particular quarter. We use a “pipeline” system, a common industry
practice, to forecast sales and trends in our business. Our sales associates monitor the status of all sales opportunities, such
as the date when they estimate that a client will make a purchase decision and the potential dollar amount of the sale. These
estimates are aggregated periodically to generate a sales pipeline. We compare this pipeline at various points in time to
evaluate trends in our business. This analysis provides guidance in business planning and forecasting, but these pipeline
estimates are by their nature speculative. Our pipeline estimates are not necessarily reliable predictors of revenues in a
particular quarter or over a longer period of time, partially because of changes in the pipeline and in conversion rates of the
pipeline into contracts that can be very difficult to estimate. A negative variation in the expected conversion rate or timing of
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the pipeline into contracts, or in the pipeline itself, could cause our plan or forecast to be inaccurate and thereby adversely
affect business results. For example, a slowdown in information technology spending, adverse economic conditions, new
federal, state or local regulations related to our industry or a variety of other factors can cause purchasing decisions to be
delayed, reduced in amount or cancelled, which would reduce the overall pipeline conversion rate in a particular period of
time. Because a substantial portion of our contracts are completed in the latter part of a quarter, we may not be able to adjust
our cost structure quickly enough in response to a revenue shortfall resulting from a decrease in our pipeline conversion rate
in any given fiscal quarter.
The trading price of our common stock may be volatile. The market for our common stock may experience significant
price and volume fluctuations in response to a number of factors including actual or anticipated variations in operating results,
articles or rumors about our performance or solutions, devices or services, announcements of technological innovations or
new services or products by our competitors or us, changes in expectations of future financial performance or estimates of
securities analysts, governmental regulatory action, health care reform measures, client relationship developments, economic
conditions and changes occurring in the securities markets in general and other factors, many of which are beyond our
control. For instance, our quarterly operating results have varied in the past and may continue to vary in future periods, due
to a number of reasons including, but not limited to, demand for our solutions, devices and services, the financial condition
of our current and potential clients, our long sales cycle, potentially long installation and implementation cycles for larger,
more complex and higher-priced systems, accounting policy changes and other factors described herein. As a matter of
policy, we do not generally comment on our stock price or rumors.
Furthermore, the stock market in general, and the markets for software, health care devices, other health care solutions and
services and information technology companies in particular, have experienced extreme volatility that often has been unrelated
to the operating performance of particular companies. These broad market and industry fluctuations may adversely affect
the trading price of our common stock, regardless of actual operating performance.
Our Directors have authority to issue preferred stock and our corporate governance documents contain anti-takeover
provisions. Our Board of Directors has the authority to issue up to 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock and to determine
the preferences, rights and privileges of those shares without any further vote or action by the shareholders. The rights of
the holders of common stock may be harmed by rights granted to the holders of any preferred stock that may be issued in
the future.
In addition, some provisions of our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws could make it more difficult for a potential acquirer
to acquire a majority of our outstanding voting stock. These include provisions that provide for a classified board of directors,
prohibit shareholders from taking action by written consent and restrict the ability of shareholders to call special meetings.
We are also subject to provisions of Delaware law that prohibit us from engaging in any business combination with any
interested shareholder for a period of three years from the date the person became an interested shareholder, unless certain
conditions are met, which could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control.
Factors that May Affect Future Results of Operations, Financial Condition or Business
Statements made in this report, the Annual Report to Shareholders of which this report is made a part, other reports and
proxy statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), communications to shareholders, press releases
and oral statements made by representatives of the Company that are not historical in nature, or that state the Company’s
or management’s intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectations, plans, goals or predictions of future events or performance, may
constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act). Forward-looking statements can often
be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, such as “could,” “should,” “will,” “intended,” “continue,” “believe,”
“may,” “expect,” “hope,” “anticipate,” “goal,” “forecast,” “plan,” “guidance” or “estimate” or the negative of these words,
variations thereof or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or results.
They involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. It is important to note that any such performance and actual results,
financial condition or business, could differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that
could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this Item 1A. Risk Factors
and elsewhere herein or in other reports filed with the SEC. Other unforeseen factors not identified herein could also have
such an effect. We undertake no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions,
the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in future operating results, financial condition or business over time.
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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None
Item 2. Properties
Our properties consist mainly of owned and leased office and data center facilities.
Our United States corporate world headquarters is located in a Company-owned office park (the Headquarters Campus) in
North Kansas City, Missouri. The Headquarters Campus and three other nearby locations, collectively contain approximately
2.22 million gross square feet of useable space situated on 278 acres of land. The Headquarters Campus and the nearby
properties primarily house office space, but also include space for other business needs, such as our Healthe Clinic and our
Headquarters Campus data centers.
Company-owned office space, known as the Innovation Campus, houses associates from our intellectual property
organization and consists of 790,000 gross square feet of useable space located in Kansas City, Missouri.
Owned office space currently under construction, known as the Continuous Campus, houses associates who manage and
support our clients' IT systems and, when completed, will consist of 611,000 gross square feet of useable space located in
Kansas City, Kansas. In June 2013, associates began occupying the first of two towers. We expect the second tower to be
completed in early 2014.
Our Cerner-operated data center facilities, which are used to provide remote hosting, disaster recovery and other services
to our clients, are located at the Headquarters Campus and a leased facility in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
In December 2013, we purchased approximately 237 acres of land located in Kansas City, Missouri. This property was
acquired as a site for future office space development to further accommodate our anticipated growth.
As of the end of 2013, we leased additional office space in Tempe, Arizona; Carlsbad, Culver City and Garden Grove,
California; Denver, Colorado; Lenexa, Kansas; Waltham, Massachusetts; Minneapolis and Rochester, Minnesota; Columbia,
Nevada, Lee’s Summit and Kansas City, Missouri; Durham, North Carolina; New Concord, Ohio; Burlington, Vermont; and
Vienna, Virginia. Globally, we also leased office space in: Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; Sao Paulo, Brazil;
Ontario and Toronto, Canada; Cairo, Egypt; London, England; Paris, France; Idstein, Germany; Bangalore, India; Dublin,
Ireland; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Madrid, Spain; Doha, Qatar; and Abu Dhabi and Dubai,
United Arab Emirates.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
We are not a party to and none of our property is subject to any material pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary
routine litigation incidental to our business.
On April 19, 2012, Trinity Medical Center in Minot, North Dakota (Trinity) advised that it was transitioning away from Cerner’s
patient accounting software solution and certain IT services provided by Cerner, alleging that the patient accounting solution
purchased in 2008 was defective and did not deliver the promised benefits. Cerner disputed the allegations. Following
discussions, the parties agreed to arbitrate the dispute, including Cerner's counterclaim, and a hearing commenced October
9, 2013. On December 10, 2013, Cerner received an interim ruling on the arbitration awarding Trinity damages and awarding
Cerner part of its counterclaim to collect accounts receivable. As of December 28, 2013, this matter has been resolved and
paid. We recognized a gross pre-tax charge of $106.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, which is included in general and
administrative expense in our consolidated statements of operations. Trinity is continuing as a client of Cerner for its clinical
solutions.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable
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Part II
Item 5. Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Securities
Our common stock trades on The NASDAQ Global Select MarketSM under the symbol CERN. The following table sets forth
the high, low and last sales prices for the fiscal quarters of 2013 and 2012 as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market®.
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
2013(a)
Low
High
Last
High
2012(a)
Low
$
$
47.37
49.68
52.61
58.24
$
38.76
45.60
46.06
52.55
47.37
48.05
52.61
55.58
$
$
39.06
43.46
41.78
40.56
$
29.89
36.13
35.50
34.00
Last
38.08
41.33
38.69
38.04
(a) Sales prices have been retroactively adjusted to give effect to the stock split, as further described in Note 1 of the notes to consolidated financial statements.
At January 31, 2014, there were approximately 960 owners of record. To date, we have paid no cash dividends and we do
not intend to pay cash dividends in the foreseeable future. We believe it is in the shareholders’ best interest for us to reinvest
funds in the operation of the business.
The following table provides information with respect to Common Stock purchases by the Company during the fourth fiscal
quarter of 2013:
Period
September 29, 2013 - October 26, 2013
October 27, 2013 - November 23, 2013
November 24, 2013 - December 28, 2013
Total
Total Number of
Shares
Purchased (a)
Average Price
Paid per Share
— $
679
—
679
—
56.03
—
56.03
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans
or Programs (b)
Approximate Dollar
Value of Shares
That May Yet Be
Purchased Under
the Plans or
Programs (b)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
(a) All of the shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, presented on the table above were originally granted to employees as restricted
stock pursuant to our 2011 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the Omnibus Plan). The Omnibus Plan allows for the withholding of shares to satisfy
minimum tax obligations due upon the vesting of restricted stock. Pursuant to the Omnibus Plan, the shares reflected above were relinquished
by employees in exchange for our agreement to pay federal and state withholding obligations resulting from the vesting of the Company’s restricted
stock.
(b)
In December 2013, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program for an aggregate purchase of up to $217.0 million of our Common
Stock. As of December 28, 2013, $217.0 million remains available under the authorized program. There were no shares repurchased by us under
the program during the quarter ended December 28, 2013.
The previous stock repurchase program approved by the Company's Board of Directors in 2012 was completed in the third quarter of 2013. During
the year ended December 28, 2013, the Company repurchased 3.6 million shares for total consideration of $170.0 million pursuant to a plan
adopted in accordance with Rule 10b5-1. Refer to Note (15) of the notes to consolidated financial statements for further information regarding our
stock repurchase program.
See Part III, Item 12 for information relating to securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans.
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Item 6. Selected Financial Data
(In thousands, except per share data)
Statement of Operations Data:
Revenues
Operating earnings
Earnings before income taxes
Net earnings
Earnings per share:
Basic
Diluted
Weighted average shares outstanding:
Basic
Diluted
Balance Sheet Data:
2013
(1)(2)
2012
(1)(3)
2011
(1)(3)
2010
(1)(3)
2009
(1)(3)
$ 2,910,748
576,012
588,054
398,354
$ 2,665,436
571,662
587,708
397,232
$ 2,203,153
459,798
469,694
306,627
$ 1,850,222
359,333
362,212
237,272
$ 1,671,864
292,006
292,681
193,465
1.16
1.13
1.16
1.13
0.91
0.88
0.72
0.69
0.60
0.58
343,636
352,281
341,861
351,394
337,267
347,734
329,833
341,695
323,925
335,527
Working capital
Total assets
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations, excl. current
installments
Cerner Corporation shareholders' equity
$ 1,121,276
4,098,364
$ 1,210,394
3,704,468
$ 1,063,593
3,000,358
$
840,129
2,422,790
$
788,232
2,148,567
111,717
3,167,664
136,557
2,833,650
86,821
2,310,681
67,923
1,905,297
95,506
1,580,678
(1)
Includes share-based compensation expense. The impact of this expense is as follows:
(In thousands, except share data)
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
Total share-based compensation expense
Amount of related income tax benefit
Net impact on earnings
Decrease to diluted earnings per share (3)
$
$
$
48,954
(18,607)
30,347
0.09
$
$
$
38,112
(14,578)
23,534
0.07
$
$
$
29,479
(11,256)
18,223
0.05
$
$
$
24,903
(9,329)
15,574
0.05
$
$
$
16,842
(6,274)
10,568
0.03
(2)
Includes a pre-tax settlement charge of $106.2 million, as further described in Note 11 of the notes to consolidated financial statements.
(3) All share and per share data have been retroactively adjusted to give effect to the stock split, as further described in Note 1 of the notes to
consolidated financial statements.
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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) is intended to help the reader understand our results of
operations and financial condition. This MD&A is provided as a supplement to, and should be read in conjunction with, our
financial statements and the accompanying notes to the financial statements (Notes).
Our fiscal year ends on the Saturday closest to December 31. Fiscal years 2013, 2012 and 2011 each consisted of 52 weeks
and ended on December 28, 2013, December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. All references to years in this
MD&A represent fiscal years unless otherwise noted.
On May 24, 2013, the Board of Directors of the Company approved a two-for-one split of our common stock in the form of
a one hundred percent (100%) stock dividend, which was distributed on or about June 28, 2013 to shareholders of record
as of June 17, 2013. In connection with the stock split, 3.0 million treasury shares, which represents the amount held in
treasury on June 28, 2013, were utilized to settle a portion of the distribution. All share and per share data have been
retroactively adjusted for all periods presented to reflect the stock split including the use of treasury shares, as if the stock
split had occurred at the beginning of the earliest period presented.
Management Overview
Our revenues are primarily derived by selling, implementing and supporting software solutions, clinical content, hardware,
devices and services that give health care providers secure access to clinical, administrative and financial data in real time,
allowing them to improve quality, safety and efficiency in the delivery of health care.
Our fundamental strategy centers on creating organic growth by investing in research and development (R&D) to create
solutions and services for the health care industry. This strategy has driven strong growth over the long-term, as reflected
in five- and ten-year compound annual revenue growth rates of 12% or more. This growth has also created an important
strategic footprint in health care, with Cerner® solutions licensed by approximately 14,000 facilities around the world, including
more than 3,000 hospitals; 4,900 physician practices; 60,000 physicians; 590 ambulatory facilities, such as laboratories,
ambulatory centers, behavioral health centers, cardiac facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers; 3,500 extended care
facilities; 150 employer sites and 1,790 retail pharmacies. Selling additional solutions back into this client base is an important
element of our future revenue growth. We are also focused on driving growth through market share expansion by strategically
aligning with health care providers that have not yet selected a supplier and by displacing competitors in health care settings
that are looking to replace their current supplier.
We expect to drive growth through new initiatives and services that reflect our ongoing ability to innovate and expand our
reach into health care. Examples of these include our CareAware® health care device architecture and devices, Cerner
ITWorks services, revenue cycle solutions and services, and population health solutions and services. Finally, we believe
there is significant opportunity for growth outside of the United States, with many non-U.S. markets focused on health care
information technology as part of their strategy to improve the quality and lower the cost of health care.
Beyond our strategy for driving revenue growth, we are also focused on earnings growth. Similar to our history of growing
revenue, our net earnings have increased at compound annual rates of more than 16% over the most recent five- and ten-
year periods. We expect to drive continued earnings growth through ongoing revenue growth coupled with margin expansion,
which we expect to achieve through efficiencies in our implementation and operational processes and by leveraging R&D
investments and controlling general and administrative expenses.
We are also focused on continuing to deliver good levels of cash flow, which we expect to do by continuing to grow earnings
and prudently managing capital expenditures.
Results Overview
The Company delivered strong levels of bookings, revenues, earnings and cash flows in 2013.
New business bookings revenue in 2013, which reflects the value of executed contracts for software, hardware, professional
services and managed services, was $3.8 billion, which is an increase of 20% compared to $3.1 billion in 2012. Our 2013
revenues increased 9% to $2.9 billion compared to $2.7 billion in 2012. The year-over-year increase in revenue reflects
ongoing demand for Cerner's core solutions and services driven by the HITECH Act and other regulatory requirements, and
increased contributions from newer areas, such as Cerner ITWorks and Cerner revenue cycle solutions and services.
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Our 2013 net earnings were $398.4 million compared to $397.2 million in 2012. Diluted earnings per share were $1.13 in
both 2013 and 2012. The 2013 and 2012 net earnings and diluted earnings per share reflect the impact of stock-based
compensation expense. The effect of these expenses reduced the 2013 net earnings and diluted earnings per share by $30.3
million and $0.09, respectively, and the 2012 earnings and diluted earnings per share by $23.5 million and $0.07, respectively.
The 2013 net earnings and diluted earnings per share also reflect the impact of a settlement charge, as further described in
Note (11) of our notes to consolidated financial statements. The effect of this charge reduced 2013 net earnings and diluted
earnings per share by $68.1 million and $0.19, respectively. Absent this charge, there was growth in net earnings and diluted
earnings per share driven by strong growth in services and higher margin components of system sales that more than offset
a decline in technology resale. Additionally, our margin expansion initiatives, which include creating efficiencies in our
implementation and operational processes, have contributed to earnings growth.
We had cash collections of receivables of $3.1 billion in 2013 compared to $2.7 billion in 2012. Days sales outstanding was
67 days for the 2013 fourth quarter compared to 66 days for the 2013 third quarter and 74 days for the 2012 fourth quarter.
Operating cash flows for 2013 were strong at $695.9 million compared to $708.3 million in 2012, with the primary reason for
the decline being the aforementioned settlement charge.
Health Care Information Technology Market Outlook
We have provided an assessment of the health care information technology market under “Health Care and Health Care IT
Industry” in Part I, Item 1 "Business."
Results of Operations
Fiscal Year 2013 Compared to Fiscal Year 2012
(In thousands)
Revenues
System sales
Support and maintenance
Services
Reimbursed travel
Total revenues
Costs of revenue
Costs of revenue
Total margin
Operating expenses
Sales and client service
Software development
General and administrative
Total operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Operating earnings
Other income, net
Income taxes
Net earnings
2013
% of
Revenue
2012
% of
Revenue
%
Change
$ 847,809
661,979
1,330,851
70,109
29% $ 902,799
604,247
23%
1,103,082
46%
55,308
2%
34%
23%
41%
2%
2,910,748
100%
2,665,436
100%
514,722
2,396,026
1,173,051
338,786
308,177
1,820,014
2,334,736
576,012
12,042
(189,700)
18%
82%
40%
12%
11%
63%
80%
20%
608,197
2,057,239
1,020,640
301,370
163,567
1,485,577
2,093,774
571,662
16,046
(190,476)
23%
77%
38%
11%
6%
56%
79%
21%
(6)%
10 %
21 %
27 %
9 %
(15)%
16 %
15 %
12 %
88 %
23 %
12 %
1 %
$ 398,354
$ 397,232
— %
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Revenues & Backlog
Revenues increased 9% to $2.9 billion in 2013, as compared to $2.7 billion in 2012.
• System sales, which include revenues from the sale of licensed software, software as a service, technology resale
(hardware, devices, and sublicensed software), deployment period licensed software upgrade rights, installation
fees, transaction processing and subscriptions, decreased 6% to $847.8 million in 2013 from $902.8 million in 2012.
The decrease in system sales was driven by lower levels of technology resale, which more than offset growth in
licensed software, subscriptions, and software as a service.
• Support and maintenance revenues increased 10% to $662.0 million in 2013 compared to $604.2 million in 2012.
This increase was attributable to continued success at selling Cerner Millennium systems and implementing them
at client sites. We expect that support and maintenance revenues will continue to grow as the base of installed Cerner
Millennium systems grows.
• Services revenue, which includes professional services, excluding installation, and managed services, increased
21% to $1.3 billion in 2013 from $1.1 billion in 2012. This increase was driven by growth in CernerWorks managed
services as a result of continued demand for our hosting services and an increase in professional services due to
increased implementation and consulting activities and growth in Cerner ITWorks and Cerner RevWorks services.
Contract backlog, which reflects new business bookings that have not yet been recognized as revenue, increased 24% in
2013 when compared to 2012. This increase was driven by growth in new business bookings during the past four quarters,
including continued strong levels of managed services and Cerner ITWorks and Cerner RevWorks services bookings that
typically have longer contract terms.
A summary of total backlog at the end of 2013 and 2012 follows:
(In thousands)
Contract backlog
Support and maintenance backlog
Total backlog
Costs of Revenue
2013
2012
$ 8,127,936
$ 6,534,564
786,041
738,154
$ 8,913,977
$ 7,272,718
Cost of revenues as a percentage of total revenues was 18% in 2013, compared to 23% in the same period of 2012. The
lower cost of revenues as a percent of revenue was driven by a lower mix of technology resale, which carries a higher cost
of revenue.
Cost of revenues includes the cost of reimbursed travel expense, sales commissions, third party consulting services and
subscription content and computer hardware, devices and sublicensed software purchased from manufacturers for delivery
to clients. It also includes the cost of hardware maintenance and sublicensed software support subcontracted to the
manufacturers. Such costs, as a percent of revenues, typically have varied as the mix of revenue (software, hardware,
devices, maintenance, support, services and reimbursed travel) carrying different margin rates changes from period to period.
Cost of revenues does not include the costs of our client service personnel who are responsible for delivering our service
offerings. Such costs are included in sales and client service expense.
Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses increased 23% to $1.8 billion in 2013, compared with $1.5 billion in 2012.
• Sales and client service expenses as a percent of total revenues were 40% in 2013, compared to 38% in 2012.
These expenses increased 15% to $1.2 billion in 2013, from $1.0 billion in 2012. Sales and client service expenses
include salaries of sales and client service personnel, depreciation and other expenses associated with our
CernerWorks managed service business, communications expenses, unreimbursed travel expenses, expense for
share-based payments, sales and marketing salaries and trade show and advertising costs. The increase as a
percent of revenue reflects a higher mix of services during 2013 that was driven by strong services revenue growth
and the decline in technology resale revenue.
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• Software development expenses as a percent of revenue were 12% in 2013, compared to 11% in 2012. The increase
in both expensed and capitalized software development expenditures reflects a focus on development and
enhancement of solutions that support key initiatives to enhance physician experience, revenue cycle, and population
health. A summary of our total software development expense in 2013 and 2012 is as follows:
(In thousands)
Software development costs
Capitalized software costs
Capitalized costs related to share-based payments
Amortization of capitalized software costs
Total software development expense
For the Years Ended
2013
2012
$ 418,747
(172,211)
(2,438)
94,688
$ 319,828
(98,067)
(2,122)
81,731
$ 338,786
$ 301,370
• General and administrative expenses as a percent of total revenues were 11% in 2013, compared to 6% in 2012.
These expenses increased 88% to $308.2 million in 2013, from $163.6 million in 2012. General and administrative
expenses include salaries for corporate, financial and administrative staffs, utilities, communications expenses,
professional fees, depreciation and amortization, transaction gains or losses on foreign currency and expense for
share-based payments. The 2013 amount includes a $106.2 million settlement charge, as further described in Note
(11) of our notes to consolidated financial statements. Absent this charge, the increase in general and administrative
expenses was primarily driven by an increase in corporate personnel costs, as we have continued to increase such
personnel to support our overall revenue growth, and an increase in amortization expense due to acquired intangibles.
Non-Operating Items
•
Interest income decreased to $15.3 million in 2013 from $16.5 million in 2012 due primarily to a slight decrease in
investment returns. Interest expense decreased to $4.2 million in 2013 compared to $5.1 million in 2012 due primarily
to payments on our long-term debt, offset by increased capital lease obligations. Other income in 2012 also includes
a $4.5 million gain recognized on the disposition of one of our cost-method investments.
• Our effective tax rate was 32% in both 2013 and 2012. The rate includes net favorable permanent differences
recognized in both periods. Refer to Note (13) of the notes to consolidated financial statements for further information
regarding our effective tax rate.
In January 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (Act) became law. The Act reinstates the research and
development tax credit retroactively from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013. In the first quarter of 2013, we
recognized the research and development tax credit related to 2012 as a favorable discrete item. Research and
development tax credits generated in 2013 were recognized pro-rata over that year as a component of the overall
2013 effective tax rate. We estimate the expiration of the research and development tax credit on December 31,
2013 will negatively impact our effective tax rate for 2014 by approximately one percentage point, unless such credit
is reinstated.
Operations by Segment
We have two operating segments: Domestic and Global. The Domestic segment includes revenue contributions and
expenditures associated with business activity in the United States. The Global segment includes revenue contributions and
expenditures linked to business activity in Aruba, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Egypt, England,
France, Germany, Guam, India, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and
the United Arab Emirates.
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The following table presents a summary of the operating information for the years ended 2013 and 2012:
(In thousands)
Domestic Segment
Revenues
Costs of revenue
Operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Domestic operating earnings
Global Segment
Revenues
Costs of revenue
Operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Global operating earnings
Other, net
Consolidated operating earnings
Domestic Segment
2013
% of
Revenue
2012
% of
Revenue
%
Change
$2,550,115
458,540
600,341
1,058,881
100%
18%
24%
42%
$2,341,304
548,813
506,249
1,055,062
100%
23%
22%
45%
1,491,234
58%
1,286,242
55%
360,633
56,182
115,281
171,463
100%
16%
32%
48%
324,132
59,384
131,580
190,964
100%
18%
41%
59%
189,170
52%
133,168
41%
(1,104,392)
$ 576,012
(847,748)
$ 571,662
9%
(16)%
19%
—%
16%
11%
(5)%
(12)%
(10)%
42%
30%
1%
• Revenues increased 9% to $2.6 billion in 2013 from $2.3 billion in 2012. This increase was primarily driven by strong
growth across most of our business, partially offset by lower levels of technology resale.
• Cost of revenues was 18% of revenues in 2013, compared to 23% of revenues in 2012. The lower cost of revenues
as a percent of revenue was primarily driven by a lower mix of technology resale, which carries a higher cost of
revenue.
• Operating expenses increased 19% to $600.3 million in 2013 from $506.2 million in 2012, due primarily to growth
in managed services and professional services expenses.
Global Segment
• Revenues increased 11% to $360.6 million in 2013 from $324.1 million in 2012. This increase was primarily driven
by growth across most of our business, partially offset by lower levels of technology resale.
• Cost of revenues was 16% of revenues in 2013, compared to 18% of revenues in 2012. The lower cost of revenues
as a percent of revenue was primarily driven by a lower mix of technology resale, which carries a higher cost of
revenue.
• Operating expenses decreased 12% to $115.3 million in 2013 from $131.6 million in 2012, due primarily to a decrease
in non-personnel and bad debt expense.
Other, net
Operating results not attributed to an operating segment include expenses, such as centralized professional services costs,
software development, marketing, general and administrative, stock-based compensation, depreciation and amortization.
These expenses increased 30% to $1.1 billion in 2013 from $847.7 million in 2012. The 2013 amount includes a $106.2
million settlement charge, as further described in Note (11) of our notes to consolidated financial statements. Absent this
charge, the increase was primarily due to growth in corporate and development personnel costs, along with increased
depreciation and amortization related to acquired intangibles. This was partially offset by increased software capitalization.
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Fiscal Year 2012 Compared to Fiscal Year 2011
(In thousands)
Revenues
System sales
Support and maintenance
Services
Reimbursed travel
Total revenues
Costs of revenue
Costs of revenue
Total margin
Operating expenses
Sales and client service
Software development
General and administrative
Total operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Operating earnings
Other income, net
Income taxes
Net earnings
Revenues & Backlog
2012
% of
Revenue
2011
% of
Revenue
%
Change
$ 902,799
604,247
1,103,082
55,308
34% $ 706,714
550,554
23%
901,193
41%
44,692
2%
32%
25%
41%
2%
2,665,436
100%
2,203,153
100%
608,197
2,057,239
1,020,640
301,370
163,567
1,485,577
2,093,774
571,662
16,046
(190,476)
23%
77%
38%
11%
6%
56%
79%
21%
441,672
1,761,481
869,962
286,801
144,920
1,301,683
1,743,355
459,798
9,896
(163,067)
$ 397,232
$ 306,627
20%
80%
39%
13%
7%
59%
79%
21%
28%
10%
22%
24%
21%
38%
17%
17%
5%
13%
14%
20%
24%
30%
Revenues increased 21% to $2.7 billion in 2012, as compared to $2.2 billion in 2011.
• System sales increased 28% to $902.8 million in 2012 from $706.7 million in 2011. The increase in system sales
was driven by record levels of technology resale and solid growth in subscriptions and software.
• Support and maintenance revenues increased 10% to $604.2 million in 2012 compared to $550.6 million in 2011.
This increase was attributable to continued success at selling Cerner Millennium systems and implementing them
at client sites.
• Services revenue increased 22% to $1.1 billion in 2012 compared to $0.9 billion in 2011. This increase was driven
by growth in CernerWorks managed services as a result of continued demand for our hosting services and an increase
in professional services due to increased implementation activities and growth in Cerner ITWorks services.
Contract backlog increased 21% in 2012 compared to 2011. This increase was driven by growth in new business bookings
during 2012, including continued strong levels of managed services and Cerner ITWorks bookings that typically have longer
contract terms.
A summary of total backlog at the end of 2012 and 2011 follows:
(In thousands)
Contract backlog
Support and maintenance backlog
Total backlog
2012
2011
$ 6,534,564
$ 5,401,427
738,154
705,744
$ 7,272,718
$ 6,107,171
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Costs of Revenue
Cost of revenues as a percentage of total revenues was 23% of total revenues in 2012, as compared to 20% of total revenues
in 2011. The higher cost of revenues as a percent of revenue was primarily driven by a higher mix of technology resale, which
carries a higher cost of revenue.
Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses increased 14% in 2012 to $1.5 billion as compared to $1.3 billion in 2011.
• Sales and client service expenses as a percent of total revenues were 38% in 2012, as compared to 39% in 2011.
These expenses increased 17% to $1.0 billion in 2012, from $870.0 million in 2011. The decrease as a percent of
revenue reflects ongoing efficiencies in our implementation and operational processes.
• Software development expenses as a percent of revenue were 11% in 2012, as compared to 13% in 2011. These
expenses increased 5% in 2012 to $301.4 million, from $286.8 million in 2011. Expenditures for software development
reflect ongoing development and enhancement of the Cerner Millennium platform, including investments in the next
evolution of Cerner Millennium, Millennium+, which leverages the cloud and enables greater mobility. The reduction
as a percentage of revenue reflects our efforts to control spending relative to revenue growth. Because of the strong
platform we have built, we are able to continue advancing our solutions and investing in new solutions without large
increases in spending. Expense was also limited by a higher percentage of our software development investments
being capitalized, as a higher percent of our development initiatives are focused on new functionality versus
maintenance. A summary of our total software development expense in 2012 and 2011 is as follows:
(In thousands)
Software development costs
Capitalized software costs
Capitalized costs related to share-based payments
Amortization of capitalized software costs
Total software development expense
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
$ 319,828
(98,067)
(2,122)
81,731
$ 290,645
(81,417)
(1,525)
79,098
$ 301,370
$ 286,801
• General and administrative expenses as a percent of total revenues were 6% in 2012, compared to 7% in 2011.
These expenses increased 13% to $163.6 million in 2012 from $144.9 million in 2011. The increase in general and
administrative expenses was primarily driven by an increase in corporate personnel costs, as we have continued to
increase such personnel to support our overall revenue growth.
Non-Operating Items
•
Interest income increased to $16.5 million in 2012 from $15.2 million in 2011 due primarily to growth in investments.
Interest expense decreased to $5.1 million in 2012 from $5.3 million in 2011 due primarily to payments on our long-
term debt, offset by increased capital lease obligations. Other income in 2012 also includes a $4.5 million gain
recognized on the disposition of one of our cost-method investments.
• Our effective tax rate was 32% in 2012, as compared to 35% in 2011. This decrease was primarily due to an increase
in net favorable permanent differences, along with a favorable adjustment to our unrecognized tax benefits, partially
offset by the expiration of the research and development tax credit on December 31, 2011.
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Operations by Segment
The following table presents a summary of our operating segment information for the years ended 2012 and 2011:
(In thousands)
Domestic Segment
Revenues
Costs of revenue
Operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Domestic operating earnings
Global Segment
Revenues
Costs of revenue
Operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Global operating earnings
Other, net
Consolidated operating earnings
Domestic Segment
2012
% of
Revenue
2011
% of
Revenue
%
Change
$2,341,304
548,813
506,249
1,055,062
100%
23%
22%
45%
$1,894,454
387,466
439,465
826,931
100%
20%
23%
44%
1,286,242
55%
1,067,523
56%
324,132
59,384
131,580
190,964
100%
18%
41%
59%
308,699
54,206
126,997
181,203
100%
18%
41%
59%
133,168
41%
127,496
41%
(847,748)
(735,221)
$ 571,662
$ 459,798
24%
42%
15%
28%
20%
5%
10%
4%
5%
4%
15%
24%
• Revenues increased 24% to $2.3 billion in 2012 from $1.9 billion in the same period in 2011. This increase was
primarily driven by strong growth in technology resale and professional services.
• Cost of revenues increased to 23% of revenues in 2012, compared to 20% in 2011. The higher cost of revenues as
a percent of revenue was primarily driven by a higher mix of technology resale, which carries a higher cost of revenue.
• Operating expenses increased 15% to $506.2 million in 2012, from $439.5 million in 2011, due primarily to growth
in managed services and professional services expenses.
Global Segment
• Revenues increased 5% to $324.1 million in 2012 from $308.7 million in 2011. This increase was primarily driven
by growth in technology resale and managed services, along with a higher level of support services. Growth in our
Global Segment revenues has lagged our faster rate of revenue growth in our Domestic Segment due to the more
significant impact of the economic downturn of the last several years on the non-U.S. countries in which we conduct
operations.
• Cost of revenues was 18% in 2012 and 2011, due to a similar mix of sales.
• Operating expenses increased 4% to $131.6 million in 2012 from $127.0 million in 2011, primarily due to overall
growth in our Global segment.
Other, net
These expenses increased 15% to $847.7 million in 2012 from $735.2 million in 2011. This increase was primarily due to
growth in corporate and development personnel costs.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our liquidity is influenced by many factors, including the amount and timing of our revenues, our cash collections from our
clients and the amount we invest in software development, acquisitions and capital expenditures.
Our principal sources of liquidity are our cash, cash equivalents, which primarily consist of money market funds and time
deposits with original maturities of less than 90 days, and short-term investments. At the end of 2013, we had cash and cash
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equivalents of $202.4 million and short-term investments of $677.0 million, as compared to cash and cash equivalents of
$317.1 million and short-term investments of $719.7 million at the end of 2012.
Approximately 15% of our aggregate cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments at December 28, 2013 were held
outside of the United States. As part of our business strategy, we plan to indefinitely reinvest the earnings of our foreign
operations; however, should the earnings of our foreign operations be repatriated, we would accrue and pay tax on such
earnings, which may be material.
Additionally, we maintain a $100.0 million multi-year revolving credit facility, which expires in February 2017. The facility
provides an unsecured revolving line of credit for working capital purposes, along with a letter of credit facility. Interest is
payable at a rate based on prime, LIBOR, or the U.S. federal funds rate, plus a spread that varies depending on the leverage
ratios maintained. The agreement provides certain restrictions on our ability to borrow, incur liens, sell assets and pay
dividends and contains certain cash flow and liquidity covenants. As of the end of 2013, we were in compliance with all debt
covenants. As of the end of 2013, we had no outstanding borrowings under this agreement; however, we had $17.1 million
of outstanding letters of credit, which reduced our available borrowing capacity to $82.9 million.
We believe that our present cash position, together with cash generated from operations, short-term investments and, if
necessary, our available line of credit, will be sufficient to meet anticipated cash requirements during 2014.
The following table summarizes our cash flows in 2013, 2012 and 2011:
(In thousands)
Cash flows from operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Cash flows from financing activities
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash
Total change in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
Free cash flow (non-GAAP)
Cash from Operating Activities
(In thousands)
Cash collections from clients
Cash paid to employees and suppliers and other
Cash paid for interest
Cash paid for taxes, net of refund
Total cash from operations
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$ 695,865
(688,429)
(119,389)
(2,790)
(114,743)
$ 708,314
(701,631)
66,034
1,257
73,974
$ 546,294
(565,091)
48,853
(1,421)
28,635
317,120
243,146
214,511
$ 202,377
$ 317,120
$ 243,146
$ 168,339
$ 424,696
$ 358,557
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$ 3,050,633
(2,172,418)
(6,973)
(175,377)
$ 2,714,315
(1,840,682)
(6,448)
(158,871)
$ 2,211,361
(1,543,414)
(5,786)
(115,867)
$ 695,865
$ 708,314
$ 546,294
Cash flow from operations decreased $12.4 million in 2013 compared to 2012, due primarily to the previously mentioned
payment related to a settlement charge, further described in Note (11) of our notes to consolidated financial statements.
Cash flow from operations increased $162.0 million in 2012 compared to 2011, due primarily to the increase in cash impacting
earnings, along with cash provided by working capital changes. During 2013, 2012 and 2011, we received total client cash
collections of $3.1 billion, $2.7 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively, of which 2%, 3% and 3%, respectively, were received
from third party client financing arrangements and non-recourse payment assignments. Days sales outstanding was 67 days
in the fourth quarter of 2013, 66 days in the third quarter of 2013 and 74 days in the fourth quarter of 2012. Revenues provided
under support and maintenance agreements represent recurring cash flows. Support and maintenance revenues increased
10% in 2013 and 10% in 2012. We expect these revenues to continue to grow as the base of installed Cerner Millennium
systems grows.
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Cash from Investing Activities
(In thousands)
Capital purchases
Capitalized software development costs
Purchases of investments, net of sales and maturities
Other, net
Total cash flows from investing activities
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$ (352,877) $ (183,429) $ (104,795)
(82,942)
(291,393)
(85,961)
(174,649)
(36,221)
(124,682)
(100,189)
(354,603)
(63,410)
$ (688,429) $ (701,631) $ (565,091)
Cash flows from investing activities consist primarily of capital spending and our short-term investment activities. The increased
level of capital spending has been driven by capitalized equipment purchases primarily to support growth in our CernerWorks
managed services business, investments in a cloud infrastructure to support cloud-based solutions, building and improvement
purchases to support our facilities requirements and capitalized spending to support our ongoing software development
initiatives. Capital spending is expected to remain elevated in 2014, but is expected to moderate by the third or fourth quarter
of the year, at which point free cash flow is expected to strengthen.
Short-term investment activity consists of the investment of cash generated by our business in excess of what is necessary
to fund operations. The decline in net investment activity from 2012 to 2013 is primarily due to the increased capital spending
discussed above, along with cash used for the stock repurchase program described below. We expect to continue short-
term investment activity in 2014, as we expect strong levels of cash flow.
During 2013, we acquired the net assets of PureWellness and 100% of the outstanding stock of Labotix for $67.5 million,
net of cash acquired. During 2012, we completed our acquisition of Anasazi for $40.5 million, net of cash acquired. During
2011, we completed our acquisitions of Resource Systems and Clairvia for approximately $28.1 million and $37.2 million,
net of cash acquired, respectively. We expect to continue seeking and completing strategic business acquisitions that are
complementary to our business.
Cash from Financing Activities
(In thousands)
Repayment of long-term debt and capital lease obligations
Cash from option exercises (including excess tax benefits)
Treasury stock purchases
Other, net
Total cash flows from financing activities
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$
(24,700) $
71,330
(170,042)
4,023
(17,083) $
86,517
—
(3,400)
(25,701)
75,333
—
(779)
$ (119,389) $
66,034
$
48,853
Cash inflows from stock option exercises are dependent on a number of factors, including the price of our common stock,
grant activity under our stock option and equity plans, and overall market volatility. We expect cash inflows from stock option
exercises to continue in 2014 based on the number of exercisable options at the end of 2013 and our current stock price.
In December 2012, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $170.0 million of our common
stock. During 2013, we repurchased 3.6 million shares for total consideration of $170.0 million. All of the repurchased shares
at the time of the stock split were utilized to settle a portion of the stock split distribution, as further described in Note (1) of
our notes to consolidated financial statements. This program is now complete.
In December 2013, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $217.0 million of our common
stock. We may purchase shares under this program in 2014, which will be dependent on a number of factors, including the
price of our common stock.
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Free Cash Flow
(In thousands)
Cash flows from operating activities (GAAP)
Capital purchases
Capitalized software development costs
Free cash flow (non-GAAP)
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$ 695,865
(352,877)
(174,649)
$ 708,314
(183,429)
(100,189)
$ 546,294
(104,795)
(82,942)
$ 168,339
$ 424,696
$ 358,557
Free cash flow decreased $256.4 million from 2012 to 2013. This decrease is primarily due to increased capital spending
in 2013 to support our growth initiatives and facilities requirements and capitalized spending to support our ongoing software
development initiatives. Free cash flow for 2013 also includes a payment related to the settlement charge, described in Note
(11) of our notes to consolidated financial statements. Free cash flow increased $66.1 million from 2011 to 2012. This
increase was primarily due to the increase in cash impacting earning. We believe our free cash flow levels reflect continued
strength in our earnings. Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure used by management along with GAAP results
to analyze our earnings quality and overall cash generation of the business. The presentation of free cash flow is not meant
to be considered in isolation, nor as a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP results and investors should be aware that non-
GAAP measures have inherent limitations and should be read only in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements
prepared in accordance with GAAP. Free cash flow may also be different from similar non-GAAP financial measures used
by other companies and may not be comparable to similarly titled captions of other companies due to potential inconsistencies
in the method of calculation. We believe free cash flow is important to enable investors to better understand and evaluate
our ongoing operating results and allows for greater transparency in the review of our overall financial, operational and
economic performance, because free cash flow takes into account the capital expenditures necessary to operate our business.
Contractual Obligations, Commitments and Off Balance Sheet Arrangements
The following table represents a summary of our contractual obligations and commercial commitments at the end of 2013,
except short-term purchase order commitments arising in the ordinary course of business.
(In thousands)
Balance sheet obligations(a):
Long-term debt obligations
Interest on long-term debt obligations
Capital lease obligations
Interest on capital lease obligations
Other obligations(b):
Operating lease obligations
Purchase obligations
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019 and
thereafter
Total
Payments Due by Period
$
15,304
$
15,304
$
1,696
38,803
3,550
20,488
46,680
848
39,086
2,311
19,485
23,375
— $
—
— $
—
36,372
1,089
17,819
9,506
18,066
265
17,234
2,151
— $
— $
30,608
—
2,889
23
—
—
—
2,544
135,216
7,238
14,691
2,000
48,381
2,000
138,098
85,712
Total
$ 126,521
$ 100,409
$
64,786
$
37,716
$
19,603
$
50,381
$ 399,416
(a) At the end of 2013, liabilities for unrecognized tax benefits were $2.1 million.
(b) At the end of 2013, we had certain obligations related to the construction of office space in Kansas City, Kansas. Refer to Note (17) of the
notes to consolidated financial statements for information regarding the construction.
We have no off balance sheet arrangements as defined in Regulation S-K. The effects of inflation on our business during
2013, 2012 and 2011 were not significant.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note (1) of the notes to consolidated financial statements for information regarding recently adopted accounting
pronouncements.
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Critical Accounting Policies
We believe that there are several accounting policies that are critical to understanding our historical and future performance,
as these policies affect the reported amount of revenue and other significant areas involving our judgments and estimates.
These significant accounting policies relate to revenue recognition, software development, potential impairments of goodwill,
and income taxes. These policies and our procedures related to these policies are described in detail below and under specific
areas within this MD&A. In addition, Note (1) to the consolidated financial statements expands upon discussion of our
accounting policies.
Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenue within our multiple element arrangements, including software and software-related services, using
the residual method. Key factors in our revenue recognition model are our assessments that installation services are essential
to the functionality of our software, whereas implementation services are not, and the length of time it takes for us to achieve
the delivery and installation milestones for our licensed software. If our business model were to change such that
implementation services are deemed to be essential to the functionality of our software, the period of time over which our
licensed software revenue would be recognized would lengthen.
We generally recognize revenue from the sale of our licensed software over two key milestones, delivery and installation,
based on percentages that reflect the underlying effort from planning to installation. Generally, both milestones are achieved
in the quarter the contracts are executed. If the period of time to achieve our delivery and installation milestones for our
licensed software were to lengthen, our milestones would be adjusted and the timing of revenue recognition for our licensed
software could materially change.
We also recognize revenue for certain projects in which services are deemed essential to the functionality of the software
using the percentage of completion method. Our revenue recognition is dependent upon our ability to reliably estimate the
direct labor hours to complete a project which generally can span several years. We utilize our historical project experience
and detailed planning process as a basis for our future estimates to complete current projects. Significant delays in completion
of the projects, unforeseen cost increases or penalties could result in significant reductions to revenue and margins on these
contracts. The actual project results can be significantly different from the estimated results. When adjustments are identified
near or at the end of a project, the full impact of the change in estimate is recognized in that period. This can result in a
material impact on our results for a single reporting period.
Software Development Costs
Costs incurred internally in creating computer software solutions and enhancements to those solutions are expensed until
completion of a detailed program design, which is when we determine that technological feasibility has been established.
Thereafter, all software development costs are capitalized until such time as the software solutions and enhancements are
available for general release, and the capitalized costs subsequently are reported at the lower of amortized cost or net
realizable value.
Net realizable value is computed as the estimated gross future revenues from each software solution less the amount of
estimated future costs of completing and disposing of that product. Because the development of projected net future revenues
related to our software solutions used in our net realizable value computation is based on estimates, a significant reduction
in our future revenues could impact the recovery of our capitalized software development costs. We historically have not
experienced significant inaccuracies in computing the net realizable value of our software solutions and the difference between
the net realizable value and the unamortized cost has grown over the past three years. We expect this trend to continue in
the future. If we missed our estimates of net future revenues by 10%, the amount of our capitalized software development
costs would not be impaired.
Capitalized costs are amortized based on current and expected net future revenue for each software solution with minimum
annual amortization equal to the straight-line amortization over the estimated economic life of the software solution. We are
amortizing capitalized costs over five years. The five-year period over which capitalized software development costs are
amortized is an estimate based upon our forecast of a reasonable useful life for the capitalized costs. Historically, use of our
software programs by our clients has exceeded five years and is capable of being used a decade or more.
We expect that major software information systems companies, large information technology consulting service providers
and systems integrators and others specializing in the health care industry may offer competitive products or services. The
pace of change in the HCIT market is rapid and there are frequent new product introductions, product enhancements and
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evolving industry standards and requirements. As a result, the capitalized software solutions may become less valuable or
obsolete and could be subject to impairment.
Goodwill
Goodwill is not amortized but is evaluated for impairment annually or whenever there is an impairment indicator. All goodwill
is assigned to a reporting unit, where it is subject to an annual impairment assessment. We assess goodwill for impairment
in the second quarter of each fiscal year and evaluate impairment indicators at each quarter end. We assessed our goodwill
for impairment in the second quarters of 2013 and 2012 and concluded that goodwill was not impaired. The assessments
consisted of a qualitative analysis in accordance with new guidance effective in 2012. A key consideration in conducting
those analyses was the growth in both the revenues and operating earnings of our reporting units since our last quantitative
assessment. Our last quantitative assessment was performed in 2011, in which the fair values of each of our reporting units
exceeded their carrying amounts by a significant margin. We used a discounted cash flow analysis utilizing Level 3 inputs,
to determine the fair value of the reporting units in 2011. Goodwill amounted to $307.4 million and $247.6 million at the end
of 2013 and 2012, respectively. If future anticipated cash flows from our reporting units that recognized goodwill do not
materialize as expected, our goodwill could be impaired, which could result in significant charges to earnings.
Income Taxes
We make a number of assumptions and estimates in determining the appropriate amount of expense to record for income
taxes. These assumptions and estimates consider the taxing jurisdictions in which we operate as well as current tax
regulations. Accruals are established for estimates of tax effects for certain transactions, business structures and future
projected profitability of our businesses based on our interpretation of existing facts and circumstances. If these assumptions
and estimates were to change as a result of new evidence or changes in circumstances, the change in estimate could result
in a material adjustment to the consolidated financial statements.
We have discussed the development and selection of these critical accounting estimates with the Audit Committee of our
Board of Directors and the Audit Committee has reviewed our disclosure contained herein.
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
We use a foreign-currency denominated debt instrument to reduce our foreign currency exchange rate exposure in the U.K.
As of the end of 2013, we designated all of our Great Britain Pound (GBP) denominated long-term debt (18.6 million GBP)
as a net investment hedge of our U.K. operations. Because the borrowing is denominated in pounds, we are exposed to
movements in the foreign currency exchange rate between the U.S. dollar (USD) and the GPB. We estimate that a hypothetical
10% adverse change in the foreign currency exchange rate between the USD and GBP would have impacted the unrealized
loss, net of related income tax effects, of the net investment hedge recognized in other comprehensive income in 2013 by
approximately $1.9 million, as compared to $2.8 million in 2012. The 2013 model assumes an exchange rate of 1.648 at
December 28, 2013 and a tax rate of 38.8%. The hypothetical decrease in other comprehensive income in 2013 from 2012
is a result of a lower amount of GBP denominated debt outstanding. Actual results may differ. Please refer to Notes (9) and
(10) to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a more detailed discussion of the foreign-currency denominated debt
instrument.
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
The Financial Statements and Notes required by this Item are submitted as a separate part of this report. See Note (20) to
the Consolidated Financial Statements for supplementary financial information.
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
N/A
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
a) The Company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) have evaluated the effectiveness
of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in the Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15
(e)) as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report (the Evaluation Date). They have concluded that, as
of the Evaluation Date and based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by paragraph (b) of
Exchange Act Rule 13a-15 or 15d-15, these disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that material
information relating to the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries would be made known to them by others within
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those entities and would be disclosed on a timely basis. The CEO and CFO have concluded that the Company’s
disclosure controls and procedures are designed, and are effective, to give reasonable assurance that the information
required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed,
summarized and reported within the time period specified in the rules and forms of the SEC. They have also concluded
that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed
in the reports that are filed or submitted under the Exchange Act are accumulated and communicated to the Company’s
management to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
b) There were no changes in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting during the three months ended
December 28, 2013, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, its internal controls
over financial reporting.
c) The Company’s management, including its CEO and CFO, have concluded that our disclosure controls and
procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving
their objectives and are effective at that reasonable assurance level. However, the Company’s management can
provide no assurance that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting can
prevent all errors and all fraud under all circumstances. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated,
can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the
design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must
be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of
controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company
have been or will be detected. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions
about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its
stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes
in conditions, or the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent
limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting
(as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended). The Company’s management
assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 28, 2013. In making
this assessment, the Company’s management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of
the Treadway Commission (COSO) in its Internal Control-Integrated Framework (1992). The Company’s management has
concluded that, as of December 28, 2013, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting is effective based on these
criteria. The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm that audited the consolidated financial statements
included in this annual report has issued an audit report on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting, which is included herein under “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm”.
Item 9B. Other Information
N/A
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PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
The information required by this Item 10 regarding our Directors and any nominees to become Directors will be set forth
under the caption “Information Concerning Directors” in our Proxy Statement in connection with the 2014 Annual Shareholders’
Meeting scheduled to be held May 23, 2014 (the Proxy Statement), and is incorporated in this Item 10 by reference. The
information required by this Item 10 regarding family relationships between any Director, Executive Officer or other person
nominated to become a Director or Executive Officer will be set forth under the caption “Certain Transactions” in our Proxy
Statement and is incorporated in this Item 10 by reference. The information required by this Item 10 concerning compliance
with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 will be set forth under the caption “Section 16(a) Beneficial
Ownership Reporting Compliance” in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 10 by reference.
The information required by this Item 10 concerning our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics will be set forth under the
caption “Corporate Governance: Code of Business Conduct and Ethics” in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this
Item 10 by reference. The information required by this Item 10 concerning our Audit Committee and our Audit Committee
financial expert will be set forth under the caption “Committees of the Board: Audit Committee” in our Proxy Statement and
is incorporated in this Item 10 by reference.
There have been no material changes to the procedures by which security holders may recommend nominees to our Board
of Directors since our last disclosure thereof. The information required by this Item 10 regarding our Executive Officers is set
forth under the caption “Executive Officers of the Registrant” in Part I above.
Item 11. Executive Compensation
The information required by this Item 11 concerning our executive compensation will be set forth under the caption
“Compensation Discussion and Analysis” in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 11 by reference. The
information required by this Item 11 concerning Director compensation will be set forth under the caption "Director
Compensation" in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 11 by reference. The information required by this
Item 11 concerning Compensation Committee interlocks and insider participation will be set forth under the caption
“Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation” in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 11
by reference. The information required by this Item 11 concerning Compensation Committee report will be set forth under
the caption “Compensation Committee Report” in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 11 by reference.
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Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
The information required by this Item 12 will be set forth under the caption “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial
Owners and Management” in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 12 by reference.
The following table provides information about our common stock that may be issued under our equity compensation
plans as of December 28, 2013:
(In thousands, except per share data)
Plan category
Equity compensation plans approved by
security holders (4)
Equity compensation plans not approved by
security holders
Total
Securities to
be issued
upon
exercise of
outstanding
options and
rights (1)
Weighted
average
exercise
price per
share (2)
Securities
available for
future
issuance(3)
24,959
$
22.24
11,425
—
24,959
—
—
11,425
(1) Includes grants of stock options, time-based and performance-based restricted stock.
(2) Includes weighted-average exercise price of outstanding stock options only.
(3) Excludes securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options and rights.
(4) Includes the Stock Option Plan D, Stock Option Plan E, 2001 Long-Term Incentive Plan F, 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan G and 2011 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan. All new grants are
made under the 2011 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan, as the previous plans are no longer active.
All other information required by this Item is incorporated by reference from the Proxy Statement under the section entitled
“Principal Security Ownership and Certain Beneficial Owners.”
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
The information required by this Item 13 concerning our transactions with related parties will be set forth under the caption
“Certain Transactions” in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 13 by reference. The information required by
this Item 13 concerning director independence will be set forth under the caption “Meetings of the Board and Committees”
in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 13 by reference.
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
The information required by this Item 14 will be set forth under the caption “Relationship with Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm” in our Proxy Statement and is incorporated in this Item 14 by reference.
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PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
a) Financial Statements and Exhibits
(1) Consolidated Financial Statements:
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consolidated Balance Sheets - As of December 28, 2013 and December 29, 2012
Consolidated Statements of Operations -Years Ended December 28, 2013, December 29, 2012
and December 31, 2011
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income - Years Ended December 28, 2013,
December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows - Years Ended December 28, 2013, December 29, 2012
and December 31, 2011
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity - Years Ended December 28, 2013,
December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
(2) The following financial statement schedule and Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
of the Registrant for the three-year period ended December 28, 2013 are included herein:
Schedule II—Valuation and Qualifying Accounts, Report of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
All other schedules are omitted, as the required information is inapplicable or the information is
presented in the consolidated financial statements or related notes.
(3) See the Index to Exhibits immediately following the signature page of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused
this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: February 5, 2014
CERNER CORPORATION
By:
/s/ Neal L. Patterson
Neal L. Patterson
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following
persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Signature and Title
Date
/s/ Neal L. Patterson
February 5, 2014
Neal L. Patterson, Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Clifford W. Illig
February 5, 2014
Clifford W. Illig, Vice Chairman and Director
/s/ Marc G. Naughton
February 5, 2014
Marc G. Naughton, Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Michael R. Battaglioli
February 5, 2014
Michael R. Battaglioli, Vice President and
Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Gerald E. Bisbee, Jr.
Gerald E. Bisbee, Jr., Ph.D., Director
/s/ Denis A. Cortese, M.D.
Denis A. Cortese, M.D., Director
/s/ John C. Danforth
John C. Danforth, Director
/s/ Linda M. Dillman
Linda M. Dillman, Director
/s/ William B. Neaves
William B. Neaves, Ph.D., Director
/s/ William D. Zollars
William D. Zollars, Director
/s/ Mitchell E. Daniels
Mitchell E. Daniels, Director
February 5, 2014
February 5, 2014
February 5, 2014
February 5, 2014
February 5, 2014
February 5, 2014
February 5, 2014
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Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Incorporated by Reference
Second Restated Certificate of
amended
Incorporation, as
Amended & Restated Bylaws as of September 16, 2008
(as amended March 31, 2010, March 9, 2011 and
December 23, 2013)
Specimen stock certificate
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
February 10, 2012, among Cerner Corporation and U.S.
Bank National Association, Bank of America, N.A.,
Commerce Bank, N.A., UMB Bank, N.A. and RBS
Citizens, N.A.
First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement, dated December 28, 2012, among Cerner
Corporation and U.S. Bank National Association, Bank
of America, N.A., Commerce Bank, N.A., UMB Bank,
N.A. and RBS Citizens, N.A.
Note Purchase Agreement, dated November 1, 2005,
among Cerner Corporation, as issuer, and AIG Annuity
Insurance Company, American General Life Insurance
Company and Principal Life Insurance Company, as
purchasers
Form
10-Q
8-K
Exhibit(s)
Filing Date
SEC File No./Film No.
Filed
Herewith
3.1
3.2
7/26/2013
12/23/2013
10-K
4(a)
8-K
99.1
2/28/2007
0-15386/08646565
2/13/2012
0-15386/12599122
10-K
4(c)
2/8/2013
8-K
99.1
11/7/2005
0-15386/051183275
2006 Form of Indemnification Agreement for use
between the Registrant and its Directors
10-K
10(a)
2/28/2007
0-15386/07658265
2010 Form of Indemnification Agreement for use
between the Registrant and its Directors and Section 16
Officers
8-K
99.1
6/3/2010
Amended & Restated Executive Employment
Agreement of Neal L. Patterson dated January 1, 2008
10-K
10(c)
10(d)*
Cerner Corporation 2001 Long-Term Incentive Plan F
DEF 14A
Annex I
2/27/2008
0-15386/08646565
4/16/2001
0-15386/1603080
2/27/2008
0-15386/08646565
Cerner Corporation 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan G
(as amended on December 3, 2007)
10-K
10(g)
Cerner Corporation 2011 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
Cerner Corporation 2001 Associate Stock Purchase
Plan as Amended and Restated March 1, 2010 and May
27, 2011
Cerner Corporation Qualified Performance-Based
Compensation Plan (as Amended and Restated) dated
May 28, 2010
Form of 2013 Executive Performance Agreement
Cerner Corporation Executive Deferred Compensation
Plan as Amended & Restated dated January 1, 2008
S-8
S-8
4.5
4.6
5/27/2011
5/27/2011
DEF 14A
Annex I
4/16/2010
10-Q
10-K
10.1
10(k)
4/26/2013
2/27/2008
0-15386/08646565
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3(b)
4(a)
4(b)
4(c)
4(d)
10(a)*
10(b)*
10(c)*
10(e)*
10(f)*
10(g)*
10(h)*
10(i)*
10(j)*
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10(m)*
10(n)*
10(o)*
10(p)*
10(q)*
10(r)*
10(s)*
10(t)*
10(u)
10(v)*
10(w)
10(x)
10(y)
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31.1
31.2
32.1
32.2
Cerner Corporation 2005 Enhanced Severance Pay
Plan as Amended & Restated (for I.R.C. § 409A)
Effective December 31, 2012
Exhibit A Severance Matrix, effective April 1, 2011 to the
Cerner Corporation 2005 Enhanced Severance Pay
Plan as Amended & Restated dated August 15, 2010
Cerner Corporation 2001 Long-Term Incentive Plan F
Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement
Cerner Corporation 2001 Long-Term Incentive Plan F
Nonqualified Stock Option Grant Certificate
Cerner Corporation 2001 Long-Term Incentive Plan F
Director Restricted Stock Agreement
Cerner Corporation 2001 Long-Term Incentive Plan F
Nonqualified Stock Option Director Agreement
Cerner Corporation 2001 Long-Term Incentive Plan F
Performance-Based Restricted Stock Agreement for
Section 16 Officers
10-K
10(l)
2/8/2013
10-Q
10(a)
4/29/2011
10-K
10(v)
10-Q
10(a)
10-K
10(x)
10-K
10(w)
3/17/2005
0-15386/05688830
11/10/2005
0-15386/051193974
3/17/2005
0-15386/05688830
3/17/2005
0-15386/05688830
8-K
99.1
6/4/2010
Cerner Corporation 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan G
Nonqualified Stock Option Grant Certificate
10-K
10(q)
2/27/2008
0-15386/08646565
Cerner Corporation 2011 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
- Director Restricted Stock Agreement
10-Q
10.1
7/27/2012
Cerner Corporation 2011 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
- Performance Based Restricted Stock Agreement
10-K
10(u)
2/8/2013
Cerner Corporation 2011 Omnibus Equity Incentive
Plan-Non-Qualified Stock Option Grant Certificate
10-K
10(v)
2/8/2013
10-Q
10.1
7/26/2013
8-K
99.1
1/22/2010
8-K
10.1
8/1/2013
Second Amended and Restated Aircraft Time Sharing
Agreement between Cerner Corporation and Neal L.
Patterson dated July 24, 2013
Interparty Agreement, dated January 19, 2010, among
Kansas Unified Development, LLC, OnGoal, LLC and
Cerner Corporation
Real Estate Purchase Agreement between Cerner
Property Development, Inc. and Trails Property II, Inc.
dated July 30, 2013
Subsidiaries of Registrant
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm
Certification of Neal L. Patterson pursuant to Section 302
of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification of Marc G. Naughton pursuant to Section
302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification of Neal L. Patterson pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Certification of Marc G. Naughton pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
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101.LAB
101.PRE
101.DEF
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase
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XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
Cerner Corporation:
We have audited Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries’ internal control over financial reporting as of December 28, 2013,
based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (1992) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries’ management is responsible for
maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control
over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting,
appearing in Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries’ internal control
over financial reporting based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal
control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of
internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the
design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such
other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis
for our opinion.
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures
that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and
dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary
to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts
and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of
the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition,
use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also,
projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate
because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial
reporting as of December 28, 2013, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (1992) issued
by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States),
the consolidated balance sheets of Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 28, 2013 and December 29, 2012,
and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, cash flows and changes in shareholders’
equity for each of the years in the
period ended December 28, 2013, and our report dated February 5, 2014
expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.
/s/KPMG LLP
Kansas City, Missouri
February 5, 2014
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
Cerner Corporation:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 28,
2013 and December 29, 2012, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, cash flows
period ended December 28, 2013. These
and changes in shareholders’ equity for each of the years in the
consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an
opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United
States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the
financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used
and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe
that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 28, 2013 and December 29, 2012, and the results of their
operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the
period ended December 28, 2013, in conformity with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States),
Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries’ internal control over financial reporting as of December 28, 2013, based on criteria
established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (1992) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the
Treadway Commission (COSO), and our report dated February 5, 2014 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness
of Cerner Corporation and subsidiaries’ internal control over financial reporting.
/s/KPMG LLP
Kansas City, Missouri
February 5, 2014
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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
As of December 28, 2013 and December 29, 2012
(In thousands, except share data)
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Receivables, net
Inventory
Prepaid expenses and other
Deferred income taxes, net
Total current assets
Property and equipment, net
Software development costs, net
Goodwill
Intangible assets, net
Long-term investments
Other assets
Total assets
Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable
Current installments of long-term debt and capital lease obligations
Deferred revenue
Accrued payroll and tax withholdings
Other accrued expenses
Total current liabilities
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations
Deferred income taxes and other liabilities
Deferred revenue
Total liabilities
Shareholders’ Equity:
Cerner Corporation shareholders’ equity:
Common stock, $.01 par value, 500,000,000 shares authorized, 344,338,030 shares issued at December
28, 2013 and 344,178,702 shares issued at December 29, 2012
Additional paid-in capital
Retained earnings
Treasury stock, 570,616 shares at December 28, 2013
Accumulated other comprehensive loss, net
Total shareholders’ equity
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
2013
2012
$ 202,377
677,004
582,926
32,299
175,488
91,614
1,761,708
$ 317,120
719,665
577,848
23,681
113,572
38,620
1,790,506
792,781
347,077
307,422
144,132
554,873
190,371
569,708
267,307
247,616
132,045
509,467
187,819
$ 4,098,364
$ 3,704,468
$ 145,019
54,107
209,746
147,986
83,574
640,432
$ 141,212
59,582
189,652
125,253
64,413
580,112
111,717
170,392
8,159
930,700
136,557
143,212
10,937
870,818
3,443
812,853
2,393,048
(28,251)
(13,429)
3,167,664
3,442
840,769
1,994,694
—
(5,255)
2,833,650
$ 4,098,364
$ 3,704,468
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
For the years ended December 28, 2013, December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011
(In thousands, except per share data)
Revenues:
System sales
Support, maintenance and services
Reimbursed travel
Total revenues
Costs and expenses:
Cost of system sales
Cost of support, maintenance and services
Cost of reimbursed travel
Sales and client service
Software development (Includes amortization of $94,688, $81,731 and $79,098, respectively)
General and administrative
Total costs and expenses
Operating earnings
Other income, net
Earnings before income taxes
Income taxes
Net earnings
Basic earnings per share
Diluted earnings per share
Basic weighted average shares outstanding
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$ 847,809
$ 902,799
$ 706,714
1,992,830
1,707,329
1,451,747
70,109
55,308
44,692
2,910,748
2,665,436
2,203,153
302,374
142,239
70,109
427,456
125,433
55,308
1,173,051
1,020,640
338,786
308,177
301,370
163,567
296,561
100,419
44,692
869,962
286,801
144,920
2,334,736
2,093,774
1,743,355
576,012
571,662
459,798
12,042
16,046
9,896
588,054
587,708
469,694
(189,700)
(190,476)
(163,067)
$ 398,354
$ 397,232
$ 306,627
$
$
1.16
1.13
$
$
1.16
1.13
$
$
0.91
0.88
343,636
341,861
337,267
352,281
351,394
347,734
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
For the years ended December 28, 2013, December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011
(In thousands)
Net earnings
Foreign currency translation adjustment and other (net of tax benefits of $3,604, $1,396 and $2,162,
respectively)
Change in net unrealized holding gain (loss) on available-for-sale investments (net of taxes of $10, $125
and $0, respectively)
Comprehensive income
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$ 398,354
$ 397,232
$ 306,627
(8,185)
6,511
(7,776)
11
201
—
$ 390,180
$ 403,944
$ 298,851
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
For the years ended December 28, 2013, December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011
(In thousands)
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net earnings
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
Share-based compensation expense
Provision for deferred income taxes
Changes in assets and liabilities (net of businesses acquired):
Receivables, net
Inventory
Prepaid expenses and other
Accounts payable
Accrued income taxes
Deferred revenue
Other accrued liabilities
Net cash provided by operating activities
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Capital purchases
Capitalized software development costs
Purchases of investments
Sales and maturities of investments
Purchase of other intangibles
Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired
Net cash used in investing activities
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Repayment of long-term debt and capital lease obligations
Proceeds from excess tax benefits from share-based compensation
Proceeds from exercise of options
Treasury stock purchases
Contingent consideration payments for acquisition of businesses
Other
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information
Cash paid during the year for:
Interest
Income taxes, net of refunds
Summary of acquisition transactions:
Fair value of net tangible assets (liabilities) acquired (assumed)
Fair value of intangible assets acquired
Fair value of goodwill
Less: Fair value of contingent liability payable
Less: Fair value of working capital settlement payable
Cash paid for acquisitions
Cash acquired
Net cash used
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$ 398,354
$ 397,232
$ 306,627
263,538
46,295
(22,647)
(9,599)
(8,111)
(36,038)
4,130
14,694
18,053
27,196
222,580
36,113
8,342
(83,705)
(279)
(2,224)
35,265
(22,784)
33,277
84,497
212,556
27,919
(22,113)
(128,979)
(12,329)
9,974
17,504
26,053
33,792
75,290
695,865
708,314
546,294
(352,877)
(174,649)
(1,106,819)
1,070,598
(56,805)
(67,877)
(183,429)
(100,189)
(1,286,997)
932,394
(22,870)
(40,540)
(104,795)
(82,942)
(1,083,274)
791,881
(20,620)
(65,341)
(688,429)
(701,631)
(565,091)
(24,700)
39,927
31,403
(170,042)
(800)
4,823
(119,389)
(2,790)
(114,743)
317,120
(17,083)
48,370
38,147
—
(3,400)
—
66,034
1,257
73,974
243,146
(25,701)
36,433
38,900
—
(779)
—
48,853
(1,421)
28,635
214,511
$ 202,377
$ 317,120
$ 243,146
$
$
$
$
6,973
175,377
2,550
25,489
59,570
(18,982)
—
68,627
(750)
6,448
158,871
$
5,786
115,867
(6,375) $
18,559
35,281
(1,916)
—
45,549
(5,009)
(8,464)
32,264
50,751
(5,235)
(939)
68,377
(3,036)
$
67,877
$
40,540
$
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
For the years ended December 28, 2013, December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011
(In thousands)
Common Stock
Additional
Retained
Treasury
Shares
Amount
Paid-in Capital
Earnings
Stock
Accumulated
Other
Noncont
rolling
Comprehensiv
e Income
(Loss)
Interest
Balance at January 1, 2011
332,958
$ 3,330
$
615,323
$
1,290,835
$
— $
(4,191) $
120
Exercise of stock options (including net-settled option exercises)
6,174
Employee share-based compensation expense
Employee share-based compensation net excess tax benefit
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Net earnings
—
—
—
—
62
—
—
—
—
38,838
27,919
39,714
—
—
—
—
—
—
306,627
Balance at December 31, 2011
339,132
3,392
721,794
1,597,462
Exercise of stock options (including net-settled option exercises)
5,047
Employee share-based compensation expense
Employee share-based compensation net excess tax benefit
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Dissolution of underlying entity
Net earnings
—
—
—
—
—
50
—
—
—
—
—
32,536
36,113
50,326
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
397,232
Balance at December 29, 2012
344,179
3,442
840,769
1,994,694
Exercise of stock options (including net-settled option exercises)
3,204
Employee share-based compensation expense
Employee share-based compensation net excess tax benefit
Other comprehensive income (loss)
Treasury stock purchases
Distribution of treasury stock in stock split
Net earnings
—
—
—
—
(3,045)
—
32
—
—
—
—
(31)
—
27,056
46,295
40,493
—
—
(141,760)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
(170,042)
141,791
—
398,354
—
—
—
—
(7,776)
—
—
—
—
—
—
(11,967)
120
—
—
—
6,712
—
—
(5,255)
—
—
—
(8,174)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
(120)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Balance at December 28, 2013
344,338
$ 3,443
$
812,853
$
2,393,048
$
(28,251) $
(13,429) $
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(1) Basis of Presentation, Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Basis of Presentation
The consolidated financial statements include all the accounts of Cerner Corporation (Cerner, the Company, we, us or our)
and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The consolidated financial statements were prepared using accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
These principles require us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities,
the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses. Actual results could
differ from those estimates.
Our fiscal year ends on the Saturday closest to December 31. Fiscal years 2013, 2012 and 2011 consisted of 52 weeks and
ended on December 28, 2013, December 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. All references to years in these
notes to consolidated financial statements represent fiscal years unless otherwise noted.
On May 24, 2013, the Board of Directors of the Company approved a two-for-one split of our common stock in the form of
a one hundred percent (100%) stock dividend, which was distributed on or about June 28, 2013 to shareholders of record
as of June 17, 2013. In connection with the stock split, 3.0 million treasury shares, which represents the amount held in
treasury on June 28, 2013, were utilized to settle a portion of the distribution. All share and per share data have been
retroactively adjusted for all periods presented to reflect the stock split including the use of treasury shares, as if the stock
split had occurred at the beginning of the earliest period presented.
Under the terms of our outstanding equity awards, the stock split increased the number of shares of our common stock
issuable upon exercise or vesting of such awards in proportion to the stock split ratio and caused a proportionate decrease
in the exercise price of such awards to the extent they were stock options.
Nature of Operations
We design, develop, market, install, host and support health care information technology, health care devices, hardware and
content solutions for health care organizations and consumers. We also provide a wide range of value-added services,
including implementation and training, remote hosting, operational management services, revenue cycle services, support
and maintenance, health care data analysis, clinical process optimization, transaction processing, employer health centers,
employee wellness programs and third party administrator services for employer-based health plans.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
(a) Revenue Recognition - We recognize software related revenue in accordance with the provisions of Accounting Standards
Codification (ASC) 985-605, Software – Revenue Recognition and non-software related revenue in accordance with ASC
605, Revenue Recognition. In general, revenue is recognized when all of the following criteria have been met:
• Persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists;
• Delivery has occurred or services have been rendered;
• Our fee is fixed or determinable; and
• Collection of the revenue is reasonably assured.
The following are our major components of revenue:
• System sales – includes the licensing of computer software, software as a service, deployment period upgrades,
installation, content subscriptions, transaction processing and the sale of computer hardware and sublicensed
software;
• Support, maintenance and service – includes software support and hardware maintenance, remote hosting and
managed services, training, consulting and implementation services; and
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• Reimbursed travel – includes reimbursable out-of-pocket expenses (primarily travel) incurred in connection with
our client service activities.
We provide for several models of procurement of our information systems and related services. The predominant model
involves multiple deliverables and includes a perpetual software license agreement, project-related installation services,
implementation and consulting services, software support and either hosting services or computer hardware and sublicensed
software, which requires that we allocate revenue to each of these elements.
Allocation of Revenue to Multiple Element Arrangements
For multiple element arrangements that contain software and non-software elements, we allocate revenue to software and
software-related elements as a group and any non-software element separately. After the arrangement consideration has
been allocated to the non-software elements, revenue is recognized when the basic revenue recognition criteria are met for
each element. For the group of software and software-related elements, revenue is recognized under the guidance applicable
to software transactions.
Since we do not have vendor specific objective evidence (VSOE) of fair value on software licenses within our multiple element
arrangements, we recognize revenue on our software and software-related elements using the residual method. Under the
residual method, license revenue is recognized in a multiple-element arrangement when vendor-specific objective evidence
of fair value exists for all of the undelivered elements in the arrangement, when software is delivered, installed and all other
conditions to revenue recognition are met. We allocate revenue to each undelivered element in a multiple-element
arrangement based on the element’s respective fair value, with the fair value determined by the price charged when that
element is sold separately. Specifically, we determine the fair value of the software support, hardware maintenance,
sublicensed software support, remote hosting, subscriptions and software as a service portions of the arrangement based
on the substantive renewal price for these services charged to clients; professional services (including training and consulting)
portion of the arrangement, other than installation services, based on hourly rates which we charge for these services when
sold apart from a software license; and sublicensed software based on its price when sold separately from the software. The
residual amount of the fee after allocating revenue to the fair value of the undelivered elements is attributed to the licenses
for software solutions, including project-related installation services. If evidence of the fair value cannot be established for
the undelivered elements of a license agreement using VSOE, the entire amount of revenue under the arrangement is
deferred until these elements have been delivered or VSOE of fair value can be established.
We also enter into arrangements that include multiple non-software deliverables. For each element in a multiple element
arrangement that does not contain software-related elements to be accounted for as a separate unit of accounting, the
following must be met: the delivered products or services have value to the client on a stand-alone basis; and for an
arrangement that includes a general right of return relative to the delivered products or services, delivery or performance of
the undelivered product or service is considered probable and is substantially controlled by the Company. We allocate the
arrangement consideration to each element based on the selling price hierarchy of VSOE of fair value, if it exists, or third-
party evidence (TPE) of selling price. If neither VSOE nor TPE are available, we use estimated selling price. After the
arrangement consideration has been allocated to the elements, we account for each respective element in the arrangement
as described below.
For certain arrangements, revenue for software, implementation services and, in certain cases, support services for which
VSOE of fair value cannot be established are accounted for as a single unit of accounting. The revenue recognized from
single units of accounting are typically allocated and classified as system sales and support, maintenance and services. If
available, the VSOE of fair value of the services provides the basis for support, maintenance and services allocation, and
the remaining residual consideration provides the basis for system sales revenue allocations. In cases where VSOE cannot
be established, revenue is classified based on the nature of related costs incurred.
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Revenue Recognition Policies for Each Element
We provide project-related installation services when licensing our software solutions, which include project-scoping services,
conducting pre-installation audits and creating initial environments. We have deemed installation services to be essential to
the functionality of the software and, therefore, recognize the software license over the software installation period using the
percentage-of-completion method. We measure the percentage-of-completion based on output measures that reflect direct
labor hours incurred, beginning at software delivery and culminating at completion of installation. Installation generally occurs
in the same period the contracts are executed but in the past has been extended over a longer period of time depending on
client specific factors.
We provide implementation and consulting services. These services vary depending on the scope and complexity of the
engagement. Examples of such services may include database consulting, system configuration, project management, testing
assistance, network consulting, post conversion review and application management services. Except for limited
arrangements where our software requires significant modifications or customization, implementation and consulting services
generally are not deemed to be essential to the functionality of the software and, thus, do not impact the timing of the software
license recognition. However, if software license fees are tied to implementation milestones, then the portion of the software
license fee tied to implementation milestones is deferred until the related milestone is accomplished and related fees become
due and payable and non-forfeitable. Implementation fees are recognized over the service period, which may extend from
nine months to several years for multi-phased projects.
Remote hosting and managed services are marketed under long-term arrangements generally over periods of five to 10
years. These services are typically provided to clients that have acquired a perpetual license for licensed software and have
contracted with us to host the software in our data center. Under these arrangements, the client generally has the contractual
right to take possession of the licensed software at any time during the hosting period without significant penalty and it is
feasible for the client to either run the software on its own equipment or contract with another party unrelated to us to host
the software. Additionally, these services are not deemed to be essential to the functionality of the licensed software or other
elements of the arrangement and as such, we allocate a portion of the services fee to the software and recognize it once
the client has the ability to take possession of the software. The remaining services fee in these arrangements, as well as
the services fee for arrangements where the client does not have the contractual right or the ability to take possession of the
software at any time, is generally recognized ratably over the hosting service period.
We also offer our solutions on a software as a service model, providing time-based licenses for our software solutions available
within an environment that we manage from our data centers. The data centers provide system and administrative support
as well as processing services. Revenue on these services is combined and recognized on a monthly basis over the term
of the contract. We capitalize related pre-contract direct set-up costs consisting of third party costs and direct software
installation and implementation costs associated with the initial set up of a software as a service client. These costs are
amortized over the term of the arrangement.
Software support fees are marketed under annual and multi-year arrangements and are recognized as revenue ratably over
the contractual support term. Hardware and sublicensed software maintenance revenues are recognized ratably over the
contractual maintenance term.
Subscription and content fees are generally marketed under annual and multi-year agreements and are recognized ratably
over the contractual terms.
Hardware and sublicensed software sales are generally recognized when title and risk of loss have transferred to the client.
The sale of equipment under sales-type leases is recorded as system sales revenue at the inception of the lease. Sales-
type leases also produce financing income, which is included in system sales revenue and is recognized at consistent rates
of return over the lease term.
Where we have contractually agreed to develop new or customized software code for a client, we utilize percentage-of-
completion accounting, labor-hours method.
Revenue generally is recognized net of any taxes collected from clients and subsequently remitted to governmental authorities.
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Payment Arrangements
Our payment arrangements with clients typically include an initial payment due upon contract signing and date-based licensed
software payment terms and payments based upon delivery for services, hardware and sublicensed software. Revenue
recognition on support payments received in advance of the services being performed are deferred and classified as either
current or long term deferred revenue depending on whether the revenue will be earned within one year.
We have periodically provided long-term financing options to creditworthy clients through third party financing institutions
and have directly provided extended payment terms to clients from contract date. These extended payment term arrangements
typically provide for date based payments over periods ranging from 12 months up to seven years. As a significant portion
of the fee is due beyond one year, we have analyzed our history with these types of arrangements and have concluded that
we have a standard business practice of using extended payment term arrangements and a long history of successfully
collecting under the original payment terms for arrangements with similar clients, product offerings, and economics without
granting concessions. Accordingly, we consider the fee to be fixed and determinable in these extended payment term
arrangements and, thus, the timing of revenue is not impacted by the existence of extended payments.
Some of these payment streams have been assigned on a non-recourse basis to third party financing institutions. We account
for the assignment of these receivables as sales of financial assets. Provided all revenue recognition criteria have been met,
we recognize revenue for these arrangements under our normal revenue recognition criteria, and if appropriate, net of any
payment discounts from financing transactions.
(b) Cash Equivalents - Cash equivalents consist of short-term marketable securities with original maturities less than 90
days.
(c) Investments – Our short-term investments are primarily invested in time deposits, commercial paper, government and
corporate bonds. Our long-term investments are primarily invested in government and corporate bonds with maturities of
less than two years. All of our investments, other than a small portion accounted for under the cost and equity methods, are
classified as available-for-sale.
Available-for-sale securities are recorded at fair value with the unrealized gains and losses reflected in accumulated other
comprehensive income until realized. Realized gains and losses from the sale of available-for-sale securities, if any, are
determined on a specific identification basis.
We regularly review investment securities for impairment based on both quantitative and qualitative criteria that include the
extent to which cost exceeds fair value, the duration of any market decline, and the financial health of and specific prospects
for the issuer. Unrealized losses that are other than temporary are recognized in earnings.
Premiums are amortized and discounts are accreted over the life of the security as adjustments to interest income for our
investments. Interest income is recognized when earned.
Refer to Note (3) and Note (4) for further description of these assets and their fair value.
(d) Concentrations - Substantially all of our cash and cash equivalents are held at five major financial institutions. The
majority of our cash equivalents consist of money market funds. Deposits held with banks may exceed the amount of insurance
provided on such deposits. Generally these deposits may be redeemed upon demand.
As of the end of 2013, we had a significant concentration of receivables owed to us by Fujitsu Services Limited, which are
currently in dispute. Refer to Note (5) for additional information.
(e) Inventory - Inventory consists primarily of computer hardware and sublicensed software, held for resale. Inventory is
recorded at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out) or market.
(f) Property and Equipment - We account for property and equipment in accordance with ASC 360, Property, Plant, and
Equipment. Property, equipment and leasehold improvements are stated at cost. Depreciation of property and equipment is
computed using the straight-line method over periods of one to 50 years. Amortization of leasehold improvements is computed
using a straight-line method over the shorter of the lease terms or the useful lives, which range from periods of one to 15
years.
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(g) Software Development Costs - Software development costs are accounted for in accordance with ASC 985-20, Costs
of Software to be Sold, Leased or Marketed. Software development costs incurred internally in creating computer software
products are expensed until technological feasibility has been established upon completion of a detailed program design.
Thereafter, all software development costs incurred through the software’s general release date are capitalized and
subsequently reported at the lower of amortized cost or net realizable value. Capitalized costs are amortized based on current
and expected future revenue for each software solution with minimum annual amortization equal to the straight-line
amortization over the estimated economic life of the solution. We amortize capitalized software development costs over five
years.
(h) Goodwill - We account for goodwill under the provisions of ASC 350, Intangibles – Goodwill and Other. Goodwill is not
amortized but is evaluated for impairment annually or whenever there is an impairment indicator. All goodwill is assigned to
a reporting unit, where it is subject to an annual impairment assessment. Based on these evaluations, there was no impairment
of goodwill in 2013, 2012 or 2011. Refer to Note (7) for more information of Goodwill and other intangible assets.
(i) Contingencies - We accrue estimates for resolution of any legal and other contingencies when losses are probable and
estimable, in accordance with ASC 450, Contingencies. We currently have no material pending litigation.
The terms of our software license agreements with our clients generally provide for a limited indemnification of such clients
against losses, expenses and liabilities arising from third party claims based on alleged infringement by our solutions of an
intellectual property right of such third party. The terms of such indemnification often limit the scope of and remedies for such
indemnification obligations and generally include a right to replace or modify an infringing solution. To date, we have not had
to reimburse any of our clients for any losses related to these indemnification provisions pertaining to third party intellectual
property infringement claims. For several reasons, including the lack of prior indemnification claims and the lack of a monetary
liability limit for certain infringement cases under the terms of the corresponding agreements with our clients, we cannot
determine the maximum amount of potential future payments, if any, related to such indemnification provisions.
From time to time we are involved in routine litigation incidental to the conduct of our business, including for example,
employment disputes and litigation alleging solution defects, personal injury, intellectual property infringement, violations of
law and breaches of contract and warranties. We believe that no such routine litigation currently pending against us, if
adversely determined, would have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position, results of operations or
cash flows.
(j) Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities - We account for our hedging activities in accordance with ASC 815,
Derivatives and Hedging. Historically, our use of hedging instruments has primarily been to hedge foreign currency
denominated assets and liabilities. We record all hedging instruments on our consolidated balance sheets at fair value. For
hedging instruments that are designated and qualify as a net investment hedge, the effective portion of the gain or loss on
the hedging instrument is reported in the foreign currency translation component of other comprehensive income (loss). Any
ineffective portion of the gain or loss on the hedging instrument is recorded in the results of operations immediately. Refer
to Note (10) for more information on our hedging activities.
(k) Income Taxes - Income taxes are accounted for in accordance with ASC 740, Income Taxes. Deferred tax assets and
liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying
amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured
using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected
to be recovered or settled. Refer to Note (13) for additional information regarding income taxes.
(l) Earnings per Common Share - Basic earnings per share (EPS) excludes dilution and is computed, in accordance with
ASC 260, Earnings Per Share, by dividing income available to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of
common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other
contracts to issue stock were exercised or converted into common stock or resulted in the issuance of common stock that
then shared in our earnings. Refer to Note (14) for additional details of our earnings per share computations.
(m) Accounting for Share-based Payments - We recognize all share-based payments to associates, directors and
consultants, including grants of stock options, restricted stock and performance shares, in the financial statements as
compensation cost based on their fair value on the date of grant, in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation-Stock
Compensation. This compensation cost is recognized over the vesting period on a straight-line basis for the fair value of
awards that actually vest. Refer to Note (15) for a detailed discussion of share-based payments.
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(n) Foreign Currency - In accordance with ASC 830, Foreign Currency Matters, assets and liabilities of non-U.S. subsidiaries
whose functional currency is the local currency are translated into U.S. dollars at exchange rates prevailing at the balance
sheet date. Revenues and expenses are translated at average exchange rates during the year. The net exchange differences
resulting from these translations are reported in accumulated other comprehensive income. Gains and losses resulting from
foreign currency transactions are included in the consolidated statements of operations.
(o) Collaborative Arrangements - In accordance with ASC 808, Collaborative Arrangements, third party costs incurred and
revenues generated by arrangements involving joint operating activities of two or more parties that are each actively involved
and exposed to risks and rewards of the activities are classified in the consolidated statements of operations on a gross
basis only if we are determined to be the principal participant in the arrangement. Otherwise, third party revenues and costs
generated by collaborative arrangements are presented on a net basis. Payments between participants are recorded and
classified based on the nature of the payments.
(p) Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
Comprehensive Income. In the first quarter of 2013, we adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting
Standards Update (ASU) No. 2013-02, Reporting of Amounts Reclassified Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
(AOCI). ASU 2013-02 requires an entity to disclose, either in a single note or parenthetically on the face of the financial
statements, the effect of significant amounts reclassified from each component of AOCI into net income and the income
statement line items affected by the reclassification. If a component is not required to be reclassified to net income in its
entirety, an entity would instead cross reference to the related footnote for additional information. The adoption of this standard
did not impact disclosures in these consolidated financial statements, as AOCI reclassification amounts are not material to
the Company.
(2) Business Acquisitions
PureWellness
On March 4, 2013, we purchased the net assets of Kaufman & Keen, LLC (doing business as PureWellness). PureWellness
is a health and wellness company that develops solutions for the administration and management of wellness programs,
and to enable plan member engagement strategies. Our acquisition of PureWellness will further expand what we believe to
be a robust offering of solutions to manage and improve the health of populations.
Consideration for the acquisition of PureWellness is expected to total $69.2 million consisting of up-front cash plus contingent
consideration, which is payable if we achieve certain revenue milestones from PureWellness solutions and services during
the period commencing on August 1, 2013 and ending April 30, 2015. We valued the contingent consideration at $19.0
million based on a probability-weighted assessment of potential contingent consideration payment scenarios.
The acquisition of PureWellness is being treated as a purchase in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations, which
requires allocation of the purchase price to the estimated fair values of assets and liabilities acquired in the transaction.
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The final allocation of purchase price is summarized below:
(In thousands)
Tangible assets and liabilities
Current assets
Property and equipment
Current liabilities
Total net tangible assets
Intangible assets
Customer relationships
Existing technologies
Total intangible assets
Goodwill
Total purchase price
Allocation
Amount
$
1,443
240
(1,315)
368
10,464
9,805
20,269
48,555
$
69,192
The fair values of the acquired intangible assets were estimated by applying the income approach. Such estimations required
the use of inputs that were unobservable in the market place (Level 3), including a discount rate that we estimated would be
used by a market participant in valuing these assets, projections of revenues and cash flows, and client attrition rates, among
others. See Note (4) for further information about the fair value level hierarchy.
The goodwill of $48.6 million arising from the acquisition consists largely of the synergies and economies of scale, including
the value of the assembled workforce, expected from combining the operations of Cerner and PureWellness. All of the
goodwill was allocated to our Domestic operating segment and is expected to be deductible for tax purposes. Identifiable
intangible assets are being amortized over a weighted-average period of seven years. The operating results of PureWellness
were combined with our operating results subsequent to the purchase date of March 4, 2013. Pro-forma results of operations,
assuming this acquisition was made at the beginning of the earliest period presented, have not been presented because the
effect of this acquisition was not material to our results.
Labotix
On March 18, 2013, we purchased 100% of the outstanding stock of Labotix Corporation (together with its wholly owned
subsidiary Labotix Automation, Inc., Labotix). Labotix is a developer of laboratory automation solutions for clinical laboratories.
We believe the combination of Cerner Millennium, Cerner Copath, and Labotix will allow us to offer a comprehensive set of
capabilities to support high volume laboratory testing.
Consideration for the acquisition of Labotix was $18.0 million, which was paid in cash. The preliminary allocation of purchase
price to the estimated fair value of the identified tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed resulted in
goodwill of $11.7 million and $5.2 million in intangible assets related to the value of existing technologies. The allocation of
purchase price is subject to changes as a working capital adjustment is finalized and additional information becomes available;
however, we do not expect material changes. The goodwill was allocated to our Domestic operating segment and is not
expected to be deductible for tax purposes. Identifiable intangible assets are being amortized over a period of five years.
The operating results of Labotix were combined with our operating results subsequent to the purchase date of March 18,
2013. Pro-forma results of operations have not been presented because the effect of this acquisition was not material to
our results.
Anasazi Software, Inc.
On November 26, 2012, we completed the purchase of 100% of the outstanding stock of Anasazi Software, Inc. (Anasazi).
Anasazi is a provider of behavioral health technology solutions. We believe the combination of Cerner Millennium, including
in-patient behavioral health, and Anasazi's community behavioral health solutions create a more comprehensive offering in
the market.
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Consideration for the acquisition of Anasazi was $47.7 million consisting of up-front cash plus contingent consideration, which
was payable upon the achievement of certain revenue milestones during 2013 from Anasazi solutions and services. During
2013, we paid $0.8 million to satisfy all contingent consideration obligations.
The acquisition of Anasazi was treated as a purchase in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations. The final
allocation of purchase price is summarized below:
(In thousands)
Tangible assets and liabilities
Current assets
Property and equipment
Current liabilities
Deferred income taxes, net
Total net tangible liabilities
Intangible assets
Customer relationships
Existing technologies
Trade names
Total intangible assets
Goodwill
Total purchase price
Allocation
Amount
$
5,962
798
(6,365)
(5,851)
(5,456)
12,829
5,218
512
18,559
34,595
$
47,698
The fair values of the acquired intangible assets were estimated by applying the income approach. Such estimations required
the use of inputs that were unobservable in the market place (Level 3), including a discount rate that we estimated would be
used by a market participant in valuing these assets, projections of revenues and cash flows, and client attrition rates, among
others. See Note (4) for further information about the fair value level hierarchy.
The goodwill of $34.6 million arising from the acquisition consists largely of the synergies and economies of scale, including
the value of the assembled workforce, expected from combining the operations of Cerner and Anasazi. All of the goodwill
was allocated to our Domestic operating segment and is not expected to be deductible for tax purposes. Identifiable intangible
assets are being amortized over a weighted-average period of 12 years. The operating results of Anasazi were combined
with our operating results subsequent to the purchase date of November 26, 2012. Pro-forma results of operations, assuming
this acquisition was made at the beginning of the earliest period presented, have not been presented because the effect of
this acquisition was not material to our results.
Clairvia, Inc.
On October 17, 2011, we purchased the net assets of Clairvia, Inc. Clairvia is a developer of health care workforce management
solutions, including Care Value Management™ and Physician Scheduler™. The Care Value Management suite was integrated
into our broader cloud-based and interoperability platforms, Cerner Healthe Intent and CareAware, which allows us to offer
a comprehensive suite of resource management solutions.
Consideration for the acquisition of Clairvia was $38.3 million, which was paid in cash. The allocation of the purchase price
to the estimated fair value of the identified tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed resulted in goodwill
of $24.6 million and $14.1 million in intangible assets, of which $6.8 million and $6.1 million was related to the value of
established customer relationships and existing technologies, respectively. The goodwill was allocated to our Domestic
operating segment and is expected to be deductible for tax purposes. Identifiable intangible assets are being amortized over
a weighted-average period of seven years.
The operating results of Clairvia were combined with our operating results subsequent to the purchase date of October 17,
2011.
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Resource Systems, Inc.
On May 23, 2011, we completed the purchase of 100% of the outstanding common shares of Resource Systems, Inc.,
developer of the CareTracker® point-of-care electronic documentation system primarily used within skilled nursing and
assisted living facilities. Cerner believes that there is significant market opportunity for information technology solutions in
the long-term care market as the U.S. population ages and life expectancy continues to increase.
Consideration for the acquisition of Resource Systems was $36.3 million consisting of up-front cash plus additional contingent
consideration, which was payable upon the achievement of certain revenue and bookings milestones. During 2012, we paid
$3.4 million to satisfy all contingent consideration obligations.
The allocation of the purchase price to the estimated fair value of the identified tangible and intangible assets acquired and
liabilities assumed resulted in goodwill of $26.1 million and $18.2 million in intangible assets, of which $11.2 million and $6.4
million was related to the value of established customer relationships and existing technologies, respectively. The goodwill
was allocated to our Domestic operating segment and is not expected to be deductible for tax purposes. Identifiable intangible
assets are being amortized over five years.
The operating results of Resource Systems were combined with our operating results subsequent to the purchase date of
May 23, 2011.
(3) Investments
Available-for-sale investments at the end of 2013 were as follows:
(In thousands)
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds
Time deposits
Commercial Paper
Government and corporate bonds
Total cash equivalents
Short-term investments:
Time deposits
Commercial paper
Government and corporate bonds
Total short-term investments
Long-term investments:
Government and corporate bonds
Total available-for-sale investments
Adjusted
Cost
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
Fair Value
$
57,254
$
— $
— $
57,254
7,771
3,000
410
68,435
70,303
33,750
572,670
676,723
542,644
—
—
—
—
12
1
356
369
346
—
—
—
—
—
(9)
(79)
(88)
7,771
3,000
410
68,435
70,315
33,742
572,947
677,004
(279)
542,711
$ 1,287,802
$
715
$
(367) $ 1,288,150
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Available-for-sale investments at the end of 2012 were as follows:
(In thousands)
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds
Time deposits
Total cash equivalents
Short-term investments:
Time deposits
Commercial paper
Government and corporate bonds
Total short-term investments
Long-term investments:
Time deposits
Government and corporate bonds
Total long-term investments
Total available-for-sale investments
Adjusted
Cost
Gross
Unrealized
Gains
Gross
Unrealized
Losses
Fair Value
$
68,267
$
— $
— $
24,068
92,335
90,535
86,500
542,236
719,271
6,190
496,845
503,035
—
—
17
15
497
529
10
324
334
—
—
(2)
(57)
(76)
(135)
(3)
(399)
(402)
68,267
24,068
92,335
90,550
86,458
542,657
719,665
6,197
496,770
502,967
$ 1,314,641
$
863
$
(537) $ 1,314,967
Investments reported under the cost method of accounting as of December 28, 2013 and December 29, 2012 were $7.2
million and $6.5 million, respectively. Investments reported under the equity method of accounting as of December 28, 2013
were $5.0 million.
We sold available-for-sale investments for proceeds of $125.3 million and $28.6 million in 2013 and 2012, respectively,
resulting in insignificant gains.
(4) Fair Value Measurements
We determine fair value measurements used in our consolidated financial statements based upon the price that would be
received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement
date. The fair value hierarchy distinguishes between (1) market participant assumptions developed based on market data
obtained from independent sources (observable inputs) and (2) an entity’s own assumptions about market participant
assumptions developed based on the best information available in the circumstances (unobservable inputs). The fair value
hierarchy consists of three broad levels, which gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for
identical assets or liabilities (Level 1) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3). The three levels of the fair
value hierarchy are described below:
•
•
•
Level 1 – Valuations based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the entity has the
ability to access.
Level 2 – Valuations based on quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not
active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable data for substantially the full term
of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3 – Valuations based on inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the
fair value of the assets or liabilities.
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The following table details our financial assets measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis at the end of 2013:
(In thousands)
Description
Money market funds
Time deposits
Commercial paper
Government and corporate bonds
Time deposits
Commercial paper
Balance Sheet Classification
Cash equivalents
Cash equivalents
Cash equivalents
Cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Short-term investments
Government and corporate bonds
Short-term investments
Government and corporate bonds
Long-term investments
Fair Value Measurements Using
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
$
57,254
$
— $
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
7,771
3,000
410
70,315
33,742
572,947
542,711
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
The following table details our financial assets measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis at the end of 2012:
(In thousands)
Description
Money market funds
Time deposits
Time deposits
Commercial paper
Balance Sheet Classification
Cash equivalents
Cash equivalents
Short-term investments
Short-term investments
Government and corporate bonds
Short-term investments
Time deposits
Long-term investments
Government and corporate bonds
Long-term investments
Fair Value Measurements Using
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
$
68,267
$
— $
—
—
—
—
—
—
24,068
90,550
86,458
542,657
6,197
496,770
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
We estimate the fair value of our long-term, fixed rate debt using a Level 3 discounted cash flow analysis based on current
borrowing rates for debt with similar maturities. The fair value of our long-term debt, including current maturities, at the end
of 2013 and 2012 was approximately $32.6 million and $59.0 million, respectively. The carrying amount of such fixed-rate
debt at the end of 2013 and 2012 was $30.6 million and $54.8 million, respectively.
(5) Receivables
Receivables consist of accounts receivable and the current portion of amounts due under sales-type leases. Accounts
receivable represent recorded revenues that have been billed. Billings and other consideration received on contracts in
excess of related revenues recognized are recorded as deferred revenue. Substantially all receivables are derived from sales
and related support and maintenance and professional services of our clinical, administrative and financial information systems
and solutions to health care providers located throughout the United States and in certain non-U.S. countries.
We perform ongoing credit evaluations of our clients and generally do not require collateral from our clients. We provide an
allowance for estimated uncollectible accounts based on specific identification, historical experience and our judgment.
Provisions for losses on uncollectible accounts for 2013, 2012, and 2011 totaled $7.0 million, $13.5 million and $11.4 million,
respectively.
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A summary of net receivables is as follows:
(In thousands)
Gross accounts receivable
Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts
Accounts receivable, net of allowance
Current portion of lease receivables
Total receivables, net
2013
2012
$ 583,312
$ 581,386
36,286
33,230
547,026
548,156
35,900
29,692
$ 582,926
$ 577,848
Lease receivables represent our net investment in sales-type leases resulting from the sale of certain medical devices to our
clients. The components of our net investment in sales-type leases are as follows:
(In thousands)
Minimum lease payments receivable
Less: Unearned income
Total lease receivables
Less: Long-term receivables included in other assets
Current portion of lease receivables
2013
2012
$ 146,566
$ 152,112
7,602
8,206
138,964
143,906
103,064
114,214
$
35,900
$
29,692
Future minimum lease payments to be received under existing sales-type leases for the next five years are as follows:
(In thousands)
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
$
43,089
43,015
38,536
18,910
3,016
During the second quarter of 2008, Fujitsu Services Limited’s (Fujitsu) contract as the prime contractor in the National Health
Service (NHS) initiative to automate clinical processes and digitize medical records in the Southern region of England was
terminated by the NHS. This had the effect of automatically terminating our subcontract for the project. We are in dispute
with Fujitsu regarding Fujitsu’s obligation to pay the amounts comprised of accounts receivable and contracts receivable
related to that subcontract, and we are working with Fujitsu to resolve these issues based on processes provided for in the
contract. Part of that process requires resolution of disputes between Fujitsu and the NHS regarding the contract termination.
As of December 28, 2013, it remains unlikely that our matter with Fujitsu will be resolved in the next 12 months. Therefore,
these receivables have been classified as long-term and represent less than the majority of other long-term assets at the
end of 2013 and 2012. While the ultimate collectability of the receivables pursuant to this process is uncertain, we believe
that we have valid and equitable grounds for recovery of such amounts and that collection of recorded amounts is probable.
During 2013 and 2012, we received total client cash collections of $3.1 billion and $2.7 billion, respectively, of which $60.8
million and $69.1 million were received from third party arrangements with non-recourse payment assignments.
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(6) Property and Equipment
A summary of property, equipment and leasehold improvements stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation and
amortization, is as follows:
(In thousands)
Computer and communications equipment
Land, buildings and improvements
Leasehold improvements
Furniture and fixtures
Capital lease equipment
Other equipment
Less accumulated depreciation and leasehold amortization
Total property and equipment, net
Depreciable
Lives (Yrs)
1 — 5
12 — 50
1 — 15
5 — 12
3 — 5
3 — 20
2013
2012
$ 963,301
411,382
160,030
$ 817,186
281,798
146,004
72,601
3,207
710
63,848
3,194
575
1,611,231
1,312,605
818,450
742,897
$ 792,781
$ 569,708
Depreciation and leasehold amortization expense for 2013, 2012 and 2011 was $135.7 million, $120.1 million and $117.9
million, respectively.
(7) Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets
The changes in the carrying amounts of goodwill were as follows:
(In thousands)
Beginning Balance
Goodwill recorded in connection with business acquisitions
Foreign currency translation adjustment and other
Ending Balance
2013
2012
$ 247,616
$ 211,826
59,570
236
35,281
509
$ 307,422
$ 247,616
Our intangible assets subject to amortization are amortized on a straight-line basis, and are summarized as follows:
(In thousands)
Purchased software
Customer lists
Other
Total
Intangible assets, net
2013
2012
Gross
Carrying
Amount
Accumulat
ed
Amortizati
on
Gross
Carrying
Amount
Accumulat
ed
Amortizati
on
$ 168,798
$
100,909
45,915
89,691
68,094
13,705
$ 153,330
$
90,376
27,296
67,178
62,403
9,376
$ 315,622
$ 171,490
$ 271,002
$ 138,957
$ 144,132
$ 132,045
Amortization expense for 2013, 2012 and 2011 was $32.9 million, $20.3 million and $14.7 million, respectively.
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Estimated aggregate amortization expense for each of the next five years is as follows:
(In thousands)
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
$
33,371
30,930
26,364
19,625
5,387
(8) Software Development
Information regarding our software development costs is included in the following table:
(In thousands)
Software development costs
Capitalized software development costs
Amortization of capitalized software development costs
Total software development expense
For the Years Ended
2013
2012
2011
$ 418,747 $ 319,828 $ 290,645
(174,649)
(100,189)
(82,942)
94,688
81,731
79,098
$ 338,786 $ 301,370 $ 286,801
Accumulated amortization as of the end of 2013 and 2012 was $798.0 million and $703.1 million, respectively.
(9) Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations
The following is a summary of indebtedness outstanding:
(In thousands)
Note agreement, 5.54%
Senior Notes, Series B, 6.42%
Capital lease obligations
Total debt and capital lease obligations
Less: current portion
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations
$
2013
2012
$
30,608
—
135,216
165,824
(54,107)
45,045
9,750
141,344
196,139
(59,582)
$ 111,717
$ 136,557
In November 2005, we completed a £65.0 million unsecured private placement of debt at 5.54% pursuant to a Note Agreement.
The Note Agreement is payable in seven equal annual installments, which commenced November 2009. The proceeds were
used to repay the outstanding amount under our credit facility and for general corporate purposes. The Note Agreement
contains certain net worth and fixed charge coverage covenants and provides certain restrictions on our ability to borrow,
incur liens, sell assets and pay dividends. We were in compliance with all covenants at the end of 2013.
In December 2002, we completed a $60.0 million unsecured private placement of debt pursuant to a Note Agreement. The
Series A Senior Notes, with a $21.0 million principal amount at 5.57% were paid in full in 2008. The Series B Senior Notes,
with a $39.0 million principal amount at 6.42%, were paid in full in 2013.
Our capital lease obligations are primarily related to the procurement of hardware and medical devices, and generally have
a term of five years.
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Minimum annual payments under existing capital lease obligations and maturities of indebtedness at the end of 2013 are as
follows:
(In thousands)
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Total
Capital Lease Obligations
Minimum
Lease
Payments
Less:
Interest
Principal
Principal
Amount of
Indebtedn
ess
$
42,353
$
3,550
$
38,803
$
15,304
$
41,397
37,461
18,331
2,912
2,311
1,089
265
23
39,086
36,372
18,066
2,889
15,304
—
—
—
Total
54,107
54,390
36,372
18,066
2,889
$ 142,454
$
7,238
$ 135,216
$
30,608
$ 165,824
We maintain a $100.0 million multi-year revolving credit facility, which expires in February 2017. The facility provides an
unsecured revolving line of credit for working capital purposes, along with a letter of credit facility. Interest is payable at a
rate based on prime, LIBOR, or the U.S. federal funds rate, plus a spread that varies depending on the leverage ratios
maintained. The agreement provides certain restrictions on our ability to borrow, incur liens, sell assets and pay dividends
and contains certain cash flow and liquidity covenants. As of the end of 2013, we were in compliance with all debt covenants.
As of the end of 2013, we had no outstanding borrowings under this agreement; however, we had $17.1 million of outstanding
letters of credit, which reduced our available borrowing capacity to $82.9 million.
(10) Hedging Activities
We designated all of our Great Britain Pound (GBP) denominated long-term debt as a net investment hedge of our U.K.
operations. The objective of the hedge is to reduce our foreign currency exposure in our U.K. subsidiary investment. Changes
in the exchange rate between the United States Dollar (USD) and GBP, related to the notional amount of the hedge, are
recognized as a component of other comprehensive income (loss), to the extent the hedge is effective. The following tables
represent the fair value of our net investment hedge included within the consolidated balance sheets and the related unrealized
gain or loss, net of related income tax effects, on the net investment hedge recognized in comprehensive income:
(In thousands)
Derivatives Designated
Balance Sheet Classification
Net investment hedge
Short-term liabilities
Net investment hedge
Long-term liabilities
Total net investment hedge
(In thousands)
Derivatives Designated
Balance Sheet Classification
Net investment hedge
Short-term liabilities
Net investment hedge
Long-term liabilities
Total net investment hedge
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Fair Value
Net
Unrealized
Loss
$
$
15,304
$
15,304
30,608
$
178
178
356
2012
Fair Value
Net
Unrealized
Loss
$
$
15,015
$
30,030
451
981
45,045
$
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(11) Settlement Charge
On December 10, 2013, the Company received an interim ruling on a pending arbitration matter between Cerner and a client,
awarding the client damages and awarding us part of our counterclaim to collect accounts receivable. This client dispute
arose from allegations that a certain patient accounting software solution sold to the client in 2008 was defective and did not
deliver the promised benefits. As of December 28, 2013, this matter has been resolved and paid. We recognized a gross
pre-tax charge of $106.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, which is included in general and administrative expense in our
consolidated statements of operations.
(12) Other Income
A summary of other income is as follows:
(In thousands)
Interest income
Interest expense
Other
Other income, net
For the Years Ended
2012
2011
2013
$
15,314
$
16,543
$
15,191
(4,226)
954
(5,068)
4,571
(5,341)
46
$
12,042
$
16,046
$
9,896
Other income in 2012 includes a $4.5 million gain recognized on the disposition of one of our cost-method investments.
(13) Income Taxes
Income tax expense (benefit) for 2013, 2012 and 2011 consists of the following:
(In thousands)
Current:
Federal
State
Foreign
Total current expense
Deferred:
Federal
State
Foreign
Total deferred expense (benefit)
Total income tax expense
For the Years Ended
2013
2012
2011
$ 178,424
$ 164,690
$ 162,288
25,148
8,775
13,302
4,142
19,061
3,831
212,347
182,134
185,180
(9,792)
(7,116)
(5,739)
9,035
4,453
(5,146)
(15,927)
(5,410)
(776)
(22,647)
8,342
(22,113)
$ 189,700
$ 190,476
$ 163,067
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Temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and tax basis of assets and liabilities that give rise
to significant portions of deferred income taxes at the end of 2013 and 2012 relate to the following:
(In thousands)
Deferred tax assets:
Accrued expenses
Tax credits and separate return net operating losses
Share based compensation
Contract and service revenues and costs
Other
Gross deferred tax assets
Less: Valuation allowance
Total deferred tax assets
Deferred tax liabilities:
Software development costs
Depreciation and amortization
Other
Total deferred tax liabilities
Net deferred tax liability
2013
2012
$
22,948
$
25,612
44,856
65,407
12,529
20,346
21,412
35,323
17,339
6,890
171,352
101,310
(896)
—
170,456
101,310
(130,583)
(113,492)
(2,859)
(101,393)
(96,695)
(5,537)
(246,934)
(203,625)
$
(76,478) $ (102,315)
At the end of 2013, we had net operating loss carry-forwards subject to Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code for Federal
income tax purposes of $6.5 million that are available to offset future Federal taxable income, if any, through 2020. We had
net operating loss carry-forwards from foreign jurisdictions of $0.4 million that are available to offset future taxable income,
if any, through 2024 and $52.4 million that are available to offset future taxable income, if any, with no expiration. We had
a deferred tax asset for state net operating loss carry-forwards of $0.6 million which are available to offset future taxable
income, if any, through 2033. In addition, we have a state income tax credit carry-forward of $8.5 million available to offset
income tax liabilities through 2029.
During 2013, we recorded a valuation allowance of $0.9 million against our deferred tax asset for certain foreign net operating
losses, generated in prior years, because we concluded that it is not more likely than not that we will generate income of the
appropriate character to utilize these losses. We expect to fully utilize all the remaining net operating loss and tax credit
carry-forwards in future periods.
At the end of 2013, we had not provided tax on the cumulative undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries of
approximately $107 million, because it is our intention to reinvest these earnings indefinitely. If these earnings were distributed,
we would be subject to U.S. taxes and foreign withholding taxes, net of U.S. foreign tax credits which may be available. The
calculation of this unrecognized deferred tax liability is complex and not practicable.
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The effective income tax rates for 2013, 2012, and 2011 were 32%, 32%, and 35%, respectively. These effective rates differ
from the Federal statutory rate of 35% as follows:
(In thousands)
Tax expense at statutory rates
State income tax, net of federal benefit
Tax credits
Unrecognized tax benefit (including interest)
Permanent differences
Other, net
Total income tax expense
For the Years Ended
2013
2012
2011
$ 205,819
$ 205,698
$ 164,393
17,502
(18,683)
(20)
(14,760)
(158)
13,856
(1,510)
(12,832)
(19,900)
5,164
11,439
(5,520)
102
(2,472)
(4,875)
$ 189,700
$ 190,476
$ 163,067
A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefit is presented below:
(In thousands)
Unrecognized tax benefit - beginning balance
Gross increases (decreases) - tax positions in prior periods
Unrecognized tax benefit - ending balance
2013
2012
2011
$
$
2,176
$
14,640
$
14,100
(76)
(12,464)
540
2,100
$
2,176
$
14,640
All of the unrecognized tax benefit will favorably impact our effective tax rate if recognized. We anticipate that it is reasonably
possible that our unrecognized tax benefits will decrease by up to $2 million within the next twelve months due to the potential
settlement of examinations and lapse of the statutes of limitations in various taxing jurisdictions. Our federal returns have
been examined by the Internal Revenue Service through 2009. We have various state and foreign returns under examination.
The 2013 beginning and ending amounts of accrued interest related to unrecognized tax benefits were $0.1 million and $0.2
million, respectively. We classify interest and penalties as income tax expense in our consolidated statement of operations.
No accrual for tax penalties was recorded at the end of the year.
(14) Earnings Per Share
A reconciliation of the numerators and the denominators of the basic and diluted per share computations are as follows:
(In thousands, except per share data)
Basic earnings per share:
2013
Shares
(Denomi
nator)
Earning
s
(Numera
tor)
Per-
Share
Amount
Earning
s
(Numera
tor)
2012
Shares
(Denomi
nator)
Per-
Share
Amount
Earning
s
(Numera
tor)
2011
Shares
(Denomi
nator)
Per-
Share
Amount
Income available to common shareholders
$398,354
343,636
$
1.16
$397,232
341,861
$
1.16
$306,627
337,267
$
0.91
Effect of dilutive securities:
Stock options and non-vested shares
Diluted earnings per share:
—
8,645
—
9,533
—
10,467
Income available to common shareholders including assumed
conversions
$398,354
352,281
$
1.13
$397,232
351,394
$
1.13
$306,627
347,734
$
0.88
Options to purchase 6.1 million, 4.6 million and 4.2 million shares of common stock at per share prices ranging from $36.92
to $56.39, $27.62 to $42.98 and $19.68 to $34.23, were outstanding at the end of 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively, but
were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share because they were anti-dilutive.
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(15) Share-Based Compensation and Equity
Stock Option and Equity Plans
As of the end of 2013, we had five fixed stock option and equity plans in effect for associates and directors. This includes
one plan from which we could issue grants, the Cerner Corporation 2011 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan (the Omnibus Plan);
and four plans from which no new grants are permitted, but some awards remain outstanding (Plans D, E, F, and G).
Awards under the Omnibus Plan may consist of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock
units, performance shares, performance units, performance grants and bonus shares. At the end of 2013, 11.4 million shares
remain available for awards. Stock options granted under the Omnibus Plan are exercisable at a price not less than fair
market value on the date of grant. Stock options under the Omnibus Plan typically vest over a period of five years and are
exercisable for periods of up to 10 years.
Stock Options
The fair market value of each stock option award is estimated on the date of grant using a lattice option-pricing model. The
pricing model requires the use of the following estimates and assumptions:
• Expected volatilities under the lattice model are based on an equal weighting of implied volatilities from traded options
on our shares and historical volatility. We use historical data to estimate the stock option exercise and associate
departure behavior used in the lattice model; groups of associates (executives and non-executives) that have similar
historical behavior are considered separately for valuation purposes.
• The expected term of stock options granted is derived from the output of the lattice model and represents the period
of time that stock options granted are expected to be outstanding.
• The risk-free rate is based on the zero-coupon U.S. Treasury bond with a term equal to the contractual term of the
awards.
The weighted-average assumptions used to estimate the fair market value of stock options are as follows:
Expected volatility (%)
Expected term (yrs)
Risk-free rate (%)
Stock option activity for 2013 was as follows:
(In thousands, except per share data)
Outstanding at beginning of year
Granted
Exercised
Forfeited and expired
Outstanding at end of year
Exercisable at end of year
2013
2012
2011
30.5%
9.1
1.9%
34.8%
9.1
2.1%
36.5%
8.6
2.2%
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Number of
Shares
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term (Yrs)
$
24,072
3,684
(3,084)
(265)
24,407
16.99
47.86
10.51
37.66
22.24
$ 813,779
14,149
$
10.68
$ 635,337
6.22
4.77
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(In thousands, except for grant date fair values)
Weighted-average grant date fair values
Total intrinsic value of options exercised
Cash received from exercise of stock options
Tax benefit realized upon exercise of stock options
For the Years Ended
2013
2012
2011
$
19.57
$
18.52
$
14.45
$ 118,051
$ 152,117
$ 117,601
31,403
43,523
38,147
55,952
38,900
44,908
As of the end of 2013, there was $121.6 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to stock options granted
under all plans. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 3.22 years.
Non-vested Shares
Non-vested shares are valued at fair market value on the date of grant and will vest provided the recipient has continuously
served on the Board of Directors through such vesting date or, in the case of an associate, provided that performance
measures are attained. The expense associated with these grants is recognized over the period from the date of grant to
the vesting date, when achievement of the performance condition is deemed probable.
Non-vested share activity for 2013 was as follows:
(In thousands, except per share data)
Outstanding at beginning of year
Granted
Vested
Forfeited
Outstanding at end of year
(In thousands, except for grant date fair values)
Weighted average grant date fair values for shares granted during the year
Total fair value of shares vested during the year
Weighted-
Average
Grant Date
Fair Value
Number of
Shares
$
602
238
(278)
(10)
552
$
28.41
46.66
24.10
22.73
38.54
For the Years Ended
2013
2012
2011
$
$
46.66
13,649
$
$
38.28
2,612
$
$
27.04
2,527
As of the end of 2013, there was $11.4 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested share awards
granted under all plans. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 1.49 years.
Associate Stock Purchase Plan
We established an Associate Stock Purchase Plan (ASPP) in 2001, which qualifies under Section 423 of the Internal Revenue
Code. Each individual employed by us and associates of our United States based subsidiaries, except as provided below,
are eligible to participate in the Plan (Participants). The following individuals are excluded from participation: (a) persons
who, as of the beginning of a purchase period under the Plan, have been continuously employed by us or our domestic
subsidiaries for less than two weeks; (b) persons who, as of the beginning of a purchase period, own directly or indirectly,
or hold options or rights to acquire under any agreement or Company plan, an aggregate of 5% or more of the total combined
voting power or value of all outstanding shares of all classes of Company Common Stock; and, (c) persons who are customarily
employed by us for less than 20 hours per week or for less than five months in any calendar year. Participants may elect to
make contributions from 1% to 20% of compensation to the ASPP, subject to annual limitations determined by the Internal
Revenue Service. Participants may purchase Company Common Stock at a 15% discount on the last business day of the
option period. The purchase of our Common Stock is made through the ASPP on the open market and subsequently reissued
to the associates. The difference of the open market purchase and the participant’s purchase price is being recognized as
compensation expense.
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Share Based Compensation Cost
Our stock option and non-vested share awards qualify for equity classification. The costs of our ASPP, along with participant
contributions, are recorded as a liability until open market purchases are completed. The amounts recognized in the
consolidated statements of operations with respect to stock options, non-vested shares and ASPP are as follows:
(In thousands)
Stock option and non-vested share compensation expense
Associate stock purchase plan expense
Amounts capitalized in software development costs, net of amortization
Amounts charged against earnings, before income tax benefit
Amount of related income tax benefit recognized in earnings
Preferred Stock
For the Years Ended
2013
2012
2011
$
46,295
$
36,113
$
27,919
3,704
(1,045)
2,859
(860)
2,180
(620)
$
$
48,954
18,607
$
$
38,112
14,578
$
$
29,479
11,256
As of the end of 2013 and 2012, we had 1.0 million shares of authorized but unissued preferred stock, $0.01 par value.
Treasury Stock
In December 2012, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $170.0 million, excluding transaction
costs, of our common stock. During 2013, we repurchased 3.6 million shares for total consideration of $170.0 million. All of
the repurchased shares at the time of the stock split were utilized to settle a portion of the stock split distribution, as further
described in Note (1) of our notes to consolidated financial statements. This program is now complete.
In December 2013, our Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase program for an aggregate purchase of up to $217.0
million of our common stock. We have yet to repurchase any shares under this program.
Authorized Shares
Effective May 24, 2013, we amended our Second Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Cerner Corporation to increase
the number of authorized shares of our common stock from 250,000,000 to 500,000,000 shares.
(16) Foundations Retirement Plan
The Cerner Corporation Foundations Retirement Plan (the Plan) was established under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue
Code. All associates age 18 and older and who are not a member of an excluded class are eligible to participate. Participants
may elect to make pretax contributions from 1% to 80% of eligible compensation to the Plan, subject to annual limitations
determined by the Internal Revenue Service. Participants may direct contributions into mutual funds, a stable value fund, a
Company stock fund, or a self-directed brokerage account. We have a first tier discretionary match that is made on behalf
of participants in an amount equal to 33% of the first 6% of the participant’s salary contribution. Our first tier discretionary
match expenses for the Plan amounted to $14.9 million, $12.3 million and $10.5 million for 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.
We added a second tier discretionary match to the Plan in 2000. Contributions are based on attainment of established
earnings per share goals for the year or the established financial metric for the Plan. Only participants who defer 2% of their
paid base salary, are actively employed as of the last day of the Plan year and are employed before October 1st of the Plan
year are eligible to receive the discretionary match contribution. For the years ended 2013, 2012 and 2011 we expensed
$13.5 million, $11.9 million and $10.5 million for the second tier discretionary distributions, respectively.
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(17) Related Party Transactions
Continuous Campus
During 2009, as part of our long-term space planning analysis, we determined that we would require additional office space
for associates to accommodate our anticipated growth. We evaluated various sites in the Kansas City metropolitan area and
negotiated with several different governmental entities regarding available incentives. Upon completion of this review, we
decided to proceed with an office development (known as our “Continuous Campus”) in Wyandotte County, Kansas. In order
to maximize available incentives, we agreed to pursue the office development in conjunction with the development of an
18,000 seat, multi-sport stadium complex and related recreational athletic complex.
The stadium complex was developed by Kansas Unified Development, LLC (the “Developer”), an entity controlled by Neal
Patterson, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and Clifford Illig, Vice Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the Company. Sporting Kansas City (“Sporting KC”) is the principal tenant of the stadium complex.
OnGoal LLC (“OnGoal”), the owner of the Sporting KC professional soccer club, is also controlled by Messrs. Patterson and
Illig.
The Company currently estimates it will receive incentives in the aggregate of $82.0 million from the Developer, the Unified
Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas (the “Unified Government”) and the Kansas Department of
Commerce. Components of the $82.0 million of incentives are described below:
Cash Grants - In January 2014 we received $48.0 million of cash grants from the Kansas Department of Commerce for
project costs. The State of Kansas has issued bonds in order to fund these incentives and has incurred costs of issuance
and debt service obligations. As consideration for the grant, we made certain new job and state payroll tax withholding
commitments. Should aggregate state payroll tax withholdings (related to associates at our Continuous Campus) over a 10-
year period commencing in January 2014 be less than $51.9 million (the $48.0 million of cash we received plus amounts
representing debt service costs incurred by the State of Kansas), we would be required to repay the shortfall. The $51.9
million maximum repayment amount will be adjusted up or down during the 10-year period, based on any future change to
Kansas payroll tax withholding rates.
Under a separate agreement, the Developer and OnGoal have agreed to be responsible for certain shortfall payments that
may become due. If no payment from Developer or OnGoal becomes due at the end of the 10-year period, the Developer
or OnGoal will pay us a success fee of $4.0 million.
We recorded the cash grants as an obligation/liability at $48.0 million, upon receipt in January 2014. Over time this liability
will accrete, utilizing the effective interest method, up to the maximum repayment amount, offset by reductions based on
actual state payroll tax withholdings generated by our Continuous Campus associates. This activity will be recognized as a
component of operating expense as it occurs over a period not to exceed 10 years.
Sales Tax Exemptions - We have received a sales tax exemption on materials and other fixed assets purchased in connection
with the construction. As such, we will not be required to remit an aggregate of $13.0 million of sales tax on these capital
purchases.
State Income Tax Credits - We expect state income tax credits to aggregate $17.0 million. Such credits are available to
offset our Kansas state income tax in the future, and will be recognized as a reduction of income tax expense as we are
eligible to claim them.
Land - We acquired the land for our Continuous Campus from the Unified Government with certain contingencies upon which
the office complex was being constructed. The purchase price of the land, equal to the site’s fair market value, is being paid
by the Developer. In the second quarter of 2012, we commenced vertical construction on the office development, which
resolved contingencies and the land contributed to the Company from the Unified Government was recorded at its $4.0
million appraisal value.
In 2012, we contracted with GRAND Construction, LLC (“Coordinator”), a limited liability company owned in part by an entity
controlled by Messrs. Patterson and Illig, to coordinate, supervise, schedule and assist with managing the development,
design and construction of our Continuous Campus. Under the agreement, we paid Coordinator $1.4 million in both 2013
and 2012. Amounts due in future periods under this arrangement are not expected to be material.
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We also paid Coordinator $0.3 million in both 2013 and 2012 for separate projects to make improvements to parking facilities
utilized by one of our other office campuses.
Future Office Development
In December 2013, we purchased approximately 237 acres of land located in Kansas City, Missouri, from Trails Properties
II, Inc. (“Trails”), for $42.5 million. Trails is an entity controlled by Messrs. Patterson and Illig. The property was acquired as
a site for future office space development to further accommodate our anticipated growth.
(18) Commitments
Leases
We are committed under operating leases primarily for office and data center space and computer equipment through October
2027. Rent expense for office and warehouse space for our regional and global offices for 2013, 2012 and 2011 was $20.0
million, $18.1 million and $17.6 million, respectively. Aggregate minimum future payments under these non-cancelable
operating leases are as follows:
(In thousands)
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019 and thereafter
Operating
Lease
Obligations
$
20,488
19,485
17,819
17,234
14,691
48,381
$
138,098
Purchase Obligations
We have purchase commitments with various vendors through 2019. These commitments represent non-cancellable
commitments primarily to provide ongoing support, maintenance and service to our clients. Aggregate future payments under
these commitments are as follows:
(In thousands)
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019 and thereafter
(19) Segment Reporting
Purchase
Obligations
$
46,680
23,375
9,506
2,151
2,000
2,000
$
85,712
We have two operating segments, Domestic and Global. Revenues are derived primarily from the sale of clinical, financial
and administrative information systems and solutions. The cost of revenues includes the cost of third party consulting services,
computer hardware, devices and sublicensed software purchased from manufacturers for delivery to clients. It also includes
the cost of hardware maintenance and sublicensed software support subcontracted to the manufacturers. Operating expenses
incurred by the geographic business segments consist of sales and client service expenses including salaries of sales and
client service personnel, communications expenses and unreimbursed travel expenses. “Other” includes expenses that have
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not been allocated to the operating segments, such as software development, marketing, general and administrative (including
the settlement charge discussed in Note (11)), share-based compensation expense and depreciation. Performance of the
segments is assessed at the operating earnings level and, therefore, the segment operations have been presented as such.
Items such as interest, income taxes, capital expenditures and total assets are managed at the consolidated level and thus
are not included in our operating segment disclosures.
Accounting policies for each of the reportable segments are the same as those used on a consolidated basis. The following
table presents a summary of our operating segments and other expense for 2013, 2012 and 2011:
(In thousands)
2013
Revenues
Cost of revenues
Operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Operating earnings (loss)
(In thousands)
2012
Revenues
Cost of revenues
Operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Operating earnings (loss)
(In thousands)
2011
Revenues
Cost of revenues
Operating expenses
Total costs and expenses
Operating earnings (loss)
Domestic
Global
Other
Total
$ 2,550,115
$ 360,633
$
— $ 2,910,748
458,540
600,341
1,058,881
56,182
115,281
171,463
—
1,104,392
1,104,392
514,722
1,820,014
2,334,736
$ 1,491,234
$ 189,170
$(1,104,392) $ 576,012
Domestic
Global
Other
Total
$ 2,341,304
$ 324,132
$
— $ 2,665,436
548,813
506,249
1,055,062
59,384
131,580
190,964
—
608,197
847,748
847,748
1,485,577
2,093,774
$ 1,286,242
$ 133,168
$ (847,748) $ 571,662
Domestic
Global
Other
Total
$ 1,894,454
$ 308,699
$
— $ 2,203,153
387,466
439,465
826,931
54,206
126,997
181,203
—
441,672
735,221
735,221
1,301,683
1,743,355
$ 1,067,523
$ 127,496
$ (735,221) $ 459,798
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(20) Quarterly Results (unaudited)
Selected quarterly financial data for 2013 and 2012 is set forth below:
(In thousands, except per share data)
2013 quarterly results:
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter(a)
Total
Earnings
Before
Income
Taxes
Revenues
Net
Earnings
Basic
Earnings
Per Share
Diluted
Earnings
Per Share
$ 680,029
$ 159,613
$ 110,040
$
0.32
$
707,561
169,189
112,907
727,830
172,747
115,344
795,328
86,505
60,063
0.33
0.34
0.17
$ 2,910,748
$ 588,054
$ 398,354
0.31
0.32
0.33
0.17
(a) Fourth quarter results include a pre-tax settlement charge of $106.2 million, as further described in Note (11).
(In thousands, except per share data)
2012 quarterly results:
First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Total
Earnings
Before
Income
Taxes
Revenues
Net
Earnings
Basic
Earnings
Per Share
Diluted
Earnings
Per Share
$ 641,212
$ 130,063
$
88,708
$
0.26
$
637,358
138,897
676,482
151,047
97,829
98,887
710,384
167,701
111,808
0.29
0.29
0.33
$ 2,665,436
$ 587,708
$ 397,232
0.25
0.28
0.28
0.32
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SToCk PRICe PeRFoRMAnCe GRAPh
The following graph presents a comparison for the five-year period ended December 31, 2013
of the performance of the Common Stock of the Company with the NASDAQ Composite Index
(US Companies) (as calculated by The Center for Research in Security Prices)and the NASDAQ
Computer/Data Processing Group (as calculated by The Center for Research in Security Prices):
Comparison of 5 Year Cumulative Total Return
$600
$500
$400
$300
$200
$100
$0
12/08
12/09
12/10
12/11
12/12
12/13
Cerner Corporation
Nasdaq Computer and Data Processing Index
Nasdaq Stock Market (US Companies)
The above comparison assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2008 in Common Stock of the
Company and in each of the foregoing indices and assumes reinvestment of dividends. The results
of each component issuer of each group are weighted according to such issuer’s stock market
capitalization at the beginning of each year.
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AnnuAL ShARehoLDeRS’ MeeTInG
The Annual Shareholders’ Meeting will be held at 10:00 a.m. local time on May 23, 2014, in The Cerner
Round Auditorium in the Cerner Vision Center, located on the Cerner campus at 2850 Rockcreek
Parkway, North Kansas City, Missouri, 64117. A formal notice of the Meeting, with a Proxy Statement
and Proxy Card, will be available, to each shareholder of record, in April 2014.
AnnuAL RePoRT/FoRM 10-k
Publications of interest to current and potential Cerner investors are available upon written request or
via Cerner’s Web site at www.cerner.com. These include annual and quarterly reports and the Form
10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Written requests should be made to:
Cerner Corporation
Investor Relations
2800 Rockcreek Parkway
North Kansas City, MO 64117-2551
Inquiries of an administrative nature relating to shareholder accounting records, stock transfer, change
of address and miscellaneous shareholder requests should be directed to the transfer agent and
registrar, Computershare Trust Company, at 1-800-884-4225.
TRAnSFeR AGenT AnD ReGISTRAR
Computershare Trust Company, N.A.
P.O. Box 43078
Providence, RI 02940-3078
1-800-884-4225
SToCk LISTInGS
Cerner Corporation’s common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC under the symbol CERN.
InDePenDenT ACCounTAnTS
KPMG LLP
Kansas City, MO
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