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My Size, Inc.PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORP FORM 10-K (Annual Report) Filed 08/12/16 for the Period Ending 06/30/16 Address Telephone CIK Symbol SIC Code Industry Sector Fiscal Year 3850 N. WILKE ROAD ARLINGTON HEIGTHS, IL 60004 800-520-2687 0001591698 PCTY 7372 - Prepackaged Software Software & Programming Technology 06/30 http://www.edgar-online.com © Copyright 2016, EDGAR Online, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distribution and use of this document restricted under EDGAR Online, Inc. Terms of Use. Table of Contents UNITED STATESSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549FORM 10-Kx ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016 OR o 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 001- 36348 PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORPORATION(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)Delaware 46-4066644(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) 3850 N. Wilke RoadArlington Heights, Illinois 60004(Address of principal executive offices and zip code) (847) 463-3200(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each class Name of each exchange on which registeredCommon Stock, par value $0.001 per share The NASDAQ Global Select Market LLC Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:NoneIndicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes x No o 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 o 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 wasrequired to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No o 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 ofthis 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 o 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 orinformation statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. x 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 “smallerreporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. Large accelerated filerxAccelerated filero Non-accelerated filero (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)Smaller reporting companyo Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes o No x The aggregate market value of voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of December 31, 2015, the last day of registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, was $988,936,928 (based on the closing price forshares of the registrant’s common stock as reported by the NASDAQ Global Select Market for the last business day prior to that date). As of August 5, 2016, there were 51,157,430 shares of the registrant’s common stock issued and outstanding.DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE:The information required by Part III of this Report, to the extent not set forth herein, is incorporated herein by reference from the Proxy Statement relating to the registrant’s 2017 annual meeting of stockholders, which shall be filed withthe Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year to which this Report relates. Table of Contents PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORPORATIONForm 10-KFor the Year Ended June 30, 2016TABLE OF CONTENTS PagePART I Item 1.Business1 Item 1A.Risk Factors12 Item 1B.Unresolved Staff Comments27 Item 2.Properties27 Item 3.Legal Proceedings27 Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures27 PART II Item 5.Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities28 Item 6.Consolidated Selected Financial Data30 Item 7.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations33 Item 7A.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk49 Item 8.Financial Statements and Supplementary Data49 Item 9.Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure49 Item 9A.Controls and Procedures49 Item 9B.Other Information50 PART III Item 10.Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance51 Item 11.Executive Compensation51 Item 12.Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters51 Item 13.Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence51 Item 14.Principal Accountant Fees and Services51 PART IV Item 15.Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules52 Signatures 53 Table of Contents PART 1 Forward Looking Statements Except for the historical financial information contained herein, the matters discussed in this report on Form 10-K (as well as documents incorporatedherein by reference) may be considered “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, andSection 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are statements that could be deemedforward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding our future financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives ofmanagement for future operations. When used in this Annual Report, the words “believe,” “may,” “could,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “intend,” “expect,”“anticipate,” “plan,” “project” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believemay affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy, short-term and long-term business operations and objectives, and financial needs. Theseforward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this report, and in particular, therisks discussed under Part 1, Item 1A:”Risk Factors” and those discussed in other documents we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except asrequired by law, we do not intend to update these forward-looking statements publicly or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from thoseanticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this report and in the documentsincorporated in this report may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-lookingstatements. Accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Item 1. Business. Overview We are a cloud-based provider of payroll and human capital management, or HCM, software solutions for medium-sized organizations, which we defineas those having between 20 and 1,000 employees. Our comprehensive and easy-to-use solutions enable our clients to manage their workforces more effectively. Asof June 30, 2016, we served approximately 12,500 clients across the U.S., which on average had over 100 employees. Our solutions help drive strategic humancapital decision-making and improve employee engagement by enhancing the human resource, payroll and finance capabilities of our clients. Our multi-tenant software platform is highly configurable and includes a unified suite of payroll and HCM applications, such as time and labor tracking,benefits and talent management. Our solutions have been organically developed from our core payroll solution, which we believe is the most critical system ofrecord for medium-sized organizations and an essential gateway to other HCM functionality. Our payroll and HCM applications use a unified database and providerobust on-demand reporting and analytics. Our platform provides intuitive self-service functionality for employees and managers combined with seamlessintegration across all our solutions. We supplement our comprehensive software platform with an integrated implementation and client service organization, all ofwhich are designed to meet the needs of medium-sized organizations. Effective management of human capital is a core function in all organizations and requires a significant commitment of resources. Organizations arefaced with complex and ever-changing requirements, including diverse federal, state and local regulations across multiple jurisdictions. In addition, the workplaceoperating environment is rapidly changing as employees increasingly become mobile, work remotely and expect an end user experience similar to that ofconsumer-oriented Internet applications. Medium-sized organizations operating without the infrastructure, expertise or personnel of larger enterprises are uniquelypressured in this complex and dynamic environment. Existing solutions offered by third-party payroll service providers can have limited capabilities andconfigurability while enterprise-focused software vendors can be expensive and time-consuming to implement and manage. We believe that medium-sizedorganizations are better served by solutions designed to meet their unique needs. Our solutions provide the following key benefits to our clients: · Comprehensive cloud-based platform optimized to meet the payroll and HCM needs of medium-sized organizations; · Modern, intuitive user experience and self-service capabilities that significantly increase employee engagement; · Flexible and configurable platform that aligns with business processes and centralizes payroll and HCM data; · Software as a service, or SaaS, delivery model that reduces total cost of ownership for our clients; and 1Table of Contents · Seamless data integration with our extensive partner ecosystem that saves time and expense and reduces the risk of errors. We market and sell our products primarily through our direct sales force. We generate sales leads through a variety of focused marketing initiatives andfrom our extensive referral network of 401(k) advisors, benefits administrators, insurance brokers, third-party administrators and HR consultants. We deriverevenue from a client based on the solutions purchased by the client, the number of client employees and the amount, type and timing of services provided inrespect of those client employees. Our annual revenue retention rate was greater than 92% in each of the fiscal years 2014, 2015 and 2016. Our total revenuesincreased from $108.7 million in fiscal 2014 to $152.7 million in fiscal 2015, representing a 40% year-over-year increase and to $230.7 million in fiscal 2016,representing a 51% year-over-year increase. Our recurring revenues increased from $101.9 million in fiscal 2014 to $144.1 million in fiscal 2015, representing a41% year-over-year increase, and to $220.1 million in fiscal 2016, representing a 53% year-over-year increase. Although we do not have long-term contracts withour clients and our agreements with clients are generally terminable on 60 days’ or less notice, our recurring revenue model provides significant visibility into ourfuture operating results. Industry Background Effective management of human capital is a core function for all organizations and requires a significant commitment of resources. Identifying, acquiringand retaining talent is a priority at all levels of an organization. In today’s increasingly complex business and regulatory environment, organizations are beingpressured to manage critical payroll and HCM functions more effectively, automate manual processes and decrease their operating costs. Complex and Dynamic Tax and Regulatory Environment The tax and regulatory environment in the United States is complex and dynamic. Organizations are subject to a myriad of tax, benefit, workerscompensation, healthcare and other rules, regulations and reporting obligations. In addition to U.S. federal taxing and regulatory authorities, there are more than10,000 state and local tax codes in the United States. Further, federal, state and local government agencies continually enact and amend the rules, regulations andreporting requirements with which organizations must comply. Growing Demand for Mobility and Enhanced User Experience Connectivity and mobility are enabling employees to spend less time in traditional office environments and more time working remotely. This trendincreases the demand for advanced and intuitive solutions that improve collaboration and foster employee engagement, such as remote self-service access to payrolland timesheet reporting, HR and benefits portals and other talent management applications. Given the prominence of consumer-oriented Internet applications,employees expect the user experience and accessibility of internal systems to be similar to those of the latest Internet applications, such as LinkedIn, Amazon andFacebook. Medium-Sized Organizations Face Unique Challenges Medium-sized organizations functioning without the infrastructure, expertise or personnel of larger enterprises are uniquely pressured in the currentcomplex and dynamic environment. Employees in these medium-sized organizations often perform multiple job functions, and many medium-sized organizationshave limited financial, technical and other resources needed to effectively manage their critical business requirements and to build and maintain the systemsrequired to do so. Large Market Opportunity for Payroll and HCM Solutions According to market analyses published by International Data Corporation, or IDC, titled Worldwide and U.S. Human Capital Management Applications2015-2019 Forecast (June 2015) and U.S. Payroll Outsourcing Services Forecast, 2015-2019 (November 2015), the U.S. market for HCM applications and payrolloutsourcing services is estimated to be $25 billion in 2016. The market opportunity is driven by the importance of payroll and HCM solutions to the successfulmanagement of organizations. To estimate our addressable market, we focus our analysis on the number of U.S. medium-sized organizations and the number of their employees.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were over 597,000 firms with 20 to 999 employees in the U.S. in 2013, employing over 42 million persons. Weestimate that if clients were to buy our entire suite of existing solutions at list prices, they would spend approximately $270 per employee annually. Based on thisanalysis, we believe our current target addressable market is approximately $11.0 billion. Our existing clients do not typically buy our entire suite of solutions, andas we continue to expand our product offerings, we believe that we have an opportunity to increase the amount clients spend on payroll and HCM solutions peremployee and to expand our addressable market. Organizations Are Increasingly Transitioning to SaaS Solutions SaaS solutions are easier and more affordable to implement and operate than those offered by traditional software providers. SaaS solutions also enablesoftware updates with greater frequency and without new hardware investments, enabling organizations to better react to changes in their environments. Manyorganizations are transitioning to SaaS solutions for front-office business applications such as salesforce management. Similarly, we believe organizations areadopting back-office SaaS applications, such as payroll and HCM, with increasing frequency. According to a market analysis published by IDC, titled WorldwideSaaS and Cloud 2Table of Contents Software 2015-2019 Forecast and 2014 Vendor Shares (August 2015), the U.S. SaaS market is estimated to be $46 billion in 2016 and is projected to grow at a17% compound annual growth rate from 2014 to 2019. Limitations of Existing Solutions We believe that existing payroll and HCM solutions have limitations that cause them to underserve the unique needs of medium-sized organizations.Existing payroll and HCM solutions include: · Traditional Payroll Service Providers . Traditional payroll service providers are primarily focused on delivery of a variety of payroll processing services,insurance products and HR business process outsourcing solutions. Many of these solutions offer limited capabilities and integration beyond traditionalpayroll processing. The lack of a unified and configurable payroll and HCM suite can diminish the effectiveness of a system, detract from user experienceand limit integration with other solutions. In addition, we believe that certain traditional payroll service providers often do not provide a high-quality clientservice experience. · Enterprise-Focused Payroll and HCM Software Vendors . Enterprise-focused software vendors offer solutions and services that are designed for thecomplex needs and structures of large enterprises. As a result, their solutions can be expensive, complex and time-consuming to implement, operate andmaintain. · HCM Point Solution Providers . Many HCM point solutions lack integrated payroll functionality. The implementation and management of multiple pointsolutions and the reliance on multiple service organizations can be challenging and expensive for medium-sized organizations. · Manual Processes for Payroll and HCM Functions . Manual payroll and HCM processes require increased HR, payroll and finance personnelinvolvement, resulting in higher costs, slower processing and greater risks of data entry errors. Given the challenges medium-sized organizations face operating in complex and dynamic environments and the limited ability of traditional offerings toaddress these challenges, we believe there is a significant market opportunity for a comprehensive, unified SaaS solution designed to serve the payroll and HCMneeds of medium-sized organizations. Segment Information Our chief operating decision maker reviews our financial results in total when evaluating financial performance and for purposes of allocating resources.We have thus determined that we operate in a single cloud-based software solution reporting segment. Our Solution We are a cloud-based provider of payroll and HCM software solutions for medium-sized organizations. Our solutions enable medium-sized organizationsto more efficiently manage payroll and human capital in their complex and dynamic operating environments. As of June 30, 2016, we served approximately 12,500clients across the U.S., which on average had over 100 employees. The key benefits of our solution include the following: · Comprehensive Platform Optimized for Medium-Sized Organizations. Our solutions empower finance and HR professionals in medium-sizedorganizations to drive strategic human capital decisions by providing enterprise-grade payroll and HCM applications, including robust reporting andanalytics. Our unified platform fully automates payroll and HCM processes, enabling our clients to focus on core business activities. Our solutionshelp our clients attract, retain and manage their employees within a single, comprehensive system. · Modern, Intuitive User Experience. Our intuitive, easy-to-use interface is based on current technology and automatically adapts to users’ devices,including mobile platforms, thereby significantly increasing accessibility of our solutions and decreasing the need for training. Our platform’s self-service functionality and performance management applications provide employees with an engaging experience. Our performance managementapplications include peer-to-peer employee recognition and social employee profiles that create a reward and recognition environment resulting ingreater employee engagement. · Flexible and Configurable Platform. We design our solutions to be flexible and configurable, allowing our clients to match their use of our softwarewith their specific business processes and workflows. Our platform has been organically developed from a common code base, data structure and userinterface, providing a consistent user experience with powerful features that are easily adaptable to our clients’ needs. Our systems centralize payrolland HCM data, minimizing inconsistent and incomplete information that can be produced when using multiple databases. · Highly-Attractive SaaS Solution for Medium-Sized Organizations . Our solutions are cloud-based and offered on a subscription basis, making themeasier and more affordable to implement, operate and update and enabling our clients to focus less on their IT infrastructure and more on their corebusinesses. Our cloud-based software can be operated by a single administrator without the support of an in-house information technologydepartment. Our multi-tenant and modern 3Table of Contents architecture allows for frequent software enhancements thereby enabling our clients to react to a rapidly changing and complex operatingenvironment. Our cloud-based platform enables our clients to scale their businesses without having to acquire additional hardware or to resolve theintegration challenges that often result from traditional outsourcing solutions. · Seamless Integration with Extensive Ecosystem of Partners . Our platform offers our clients automated data integration with over 200 related third-party partner systems, such as 401(k), benefits and insurance provider systems. This integration reduces the complexity and risk of error of manualdata transfers and saves time for our clients and their employees. We integrate data with these related systems through a secure connection, whichsignificantly decreases the risk of unauthorized third-party access and other security breaches. Our direct and automated data transmission improvesthe accuracy of data and facilitates data collection in our partners’ systems. We believe having automated data integration with a payroll and HCMprovider like us differentiates our partners’ product offerings, strengthening their competitive positioning in their own markets. Our Strategy We intend to strengthen and extend our position as a provider of cloud-based payroll and HCM software solutions to medium-sized organizations. Keyelements of our strategy include: · Grow Our Client Base . We believe that our current client base represents only a small portion of the medium-sized organizations that could benefitfrom our solutions. While we served approximately 12,500 clients across the U.S. as of June 30, 2016, there were over 597,000 firms with 20 to 999employees in the United States, employing more than 42 million persons, according to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2013. In order to acquire newclients, we plan to continue to grow our sales organization aggressively across all U.S. geographies. · Expand Our Product Offerings . We believe that our leadership position is in significant part the result of our investment and innovation in ourproduct offerings designed for medium-sized organizations. Therefore, we plan to increase investment in software development to continue toadvance our platform and expand our product offerings. For example, we released ACA Enhanced in fiscal year 2016, which provides a complianceand reporting solution for the Affordable Care Act. We will be releasing Paylocity Recruiting in fiscal year 2017, which is an applicant tracking toolthat automates critically important steps in the hiring and decision making process. · Increase Average Revenue Per Client . Our average revenue per client has consistently increased in each of the last three years as we have broadenedour product offerings. We plan to further grow average revenue per client by selling a broader selection of products to new and existing clients. · Extend Technological Leadership . We believe that our organically developed cloud-based multi-tenant software platform, combined with our unifieddatabase architecture, enhances the experience and usability of our products, providing what we believe to be a competitive advantage overalternative solutions. Our modern, intuitive user interface utilizes features found on many popular consumer Internet sites, enabling users to use oursolutions with limited training. We plan to continue our technology innovation, as we have done with our mobile applications, social features andanalytics capabilities. · Further Develop Our Referral Network . We have developed a strong network of referral participants, such as 401(k) advisors, benefitsadministrators, insurance brokers, third-party administrators and HR consultants that recommend our solutions and provide referrals. We believe thatour platform’s automated data integration with over 200 related third-party partner systems is valuable to our referral participants, as they are able toaccess payroll and HR data through a single system which decreases complexity and cost and complements their own product offerings. We plan toincrease integration with third-party providers and expand our referral network to grow our client base and lower our client acquisition costs. Our Products Our cloud-based platform features a suite of unified payroll and HCM applications. Our solutions are highly configurable and easy to use, implement,update and maintain. 4Table of Contents Paylocity Web Pay Paylocity Web Pay is designed to provide enterprise-grade payroll processing and administration. Feature FunctionalityCompany-Level Configuration · Real time ability to add, delete and modify client-specific payroll settings, including departments, job codes,earnings, deductions, taxes and garnishments · Ability to create customized payroll earning or deduction code calculations, 401(k) match calculations and laborcost allocations · Ability to configure payroll audits that identify potential errors prior to finishing payroll, such as paying the sameemployee twiceConfigurable Templates · Combination of standard and modifiable templates powered by highly-flexible drag-and-drop technology · Standard templates such as new hire, job change, leave of absence and termination templates · Enables users to configure user interface to efficiently align to organizations’ business processes · Ability to require additional data, add default values and insert new custom fields increases accuracy andconsistency of data across the platformCustom Checklists · Allows users to track critical steps in hiring and other processes · Triggers reports and notification emails to track critical steps and informs users when tasks are completeAdvanced Reporting · Easy-to-use, powerful reporting dashboard enables users to design and create ad-hoc reports or rely on over 100standard reports · Ability to generate a variety of pre-process reports via report library and report writer · Real-time report generation, including the ability to automatically schedule reports to run on a user-definedfrequency · Point-in-time reporting, including comparative analysis over multiple periods, allowing users to view data fromany time in historyHR Insight and Analytics · Provides a dashboard view into critical HR metrics such as headcount and employee turnover · Users can choose between different types of graphical display or export the information to spreadsheets or otherdocuments Paylocity HR Paylocity HR provides a set of core HR capabilities designed to improve HR compliance, enhance reporting capabilities and reduce the amount of timenecessary to manage employee information. Feature FunctionalityEmployee Record Management · Manage payroll deductions for employee benefit plans such as health and 401(k) · Automated employee time-off requests · Track employee skills, events, education and prior employment · Store employee documentation electronically · Record and track company property issued to employees · Ability to add custom fields to track additional employee related informationHR Compliance and Reporting · Interactive employee organizational chart · Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) tracking · Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting · Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) tracking · Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) tracking · VETS 100/100A reporting · Workers’ compensation tracking and reporting · I-9 verification Paylocity Affordable Care Act Enhanced Paylocity Affordable Care Act Enhanced (ACA Enhanced), released and available to our clients in our 2016 fiscal year, provides compliance andreporting for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ACA Enhanced automates form capture, preparation and filing of forms 1094-C and 1095-C and provides acompliance solution via enhanced dashboards, reporting, alerts and notifications. 5Table of Contents Paylocity Impressions Paylocity Impressions is our advanced social media feature designed to integrate peer-to-peer collaboration and recognition into our solution, givingemployees the ability to recognize each other and provide immediate feedback through virtually any device having Internet access. Paylocity Impressions helps toprovide timely, meaningful recognition and promotes repeat positive behaviors among employees. Administrators have the ability to give their employees theoption to post their accomplishments on their employee profiles to share with co-workers and other members of the organization. Employees can also be given theoption to self-manage their profiles as well as update images and link to social sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. We believe that this functionalitydelivers a unique and modern solution to managing employee recognition programs. Performance Management Performance Management is designed to bring ease and convenience to the employee performance appraisal process and to give employees theopportunity to participate in their performance review and be more engaged in their professional development. Employee reviews and appraisals throughout theorganization are stored and analyzed in a single system. Key features of Performance Management include: Feature FunctionalityReviews · Provides the ability for employees and managers to complete online reviews, add comments and sign off oncompleted reviews · Includes automated workflow at each step of the review process with ability for HR administrators to review andprovide feedback prior to final approval360° Feedback · Provides the ability to access feedback from employees across the organization to receive input on employeeperformance and accomplishments · Enables year-round or point-in-time 360° feedbackGoals Management · Manages employee goals and appraisals in a single place to reduce the time required to navigate between screens · Allows specific goals to be displayed on the performance review for increased employee focus and development · Assigns goals specific to employees based on skill level and other factorsSelf-Service Set-Up · Provides the ability to determine and control key success factors · Provides the ability to create review forms and set review notification date reminders Self-Service HR Portals Self-Service HR Portals are designed to extend our solutions’ functionality by giving employees and managers secure and real-time access to criticalpayroll and HR information. Self-Service HR Portals help to improve communication within clients’ organizations with such tasks as reviewing time-off requests,scheduling and benefits enrollment. Self-Service HR Portals also provide the ability to post and manage company news items, add reminders, create custom webpages, view organizational charts and download videos. Feature FunctionalityEmployee Self-Service Portal · Full online and mobile access through virtually any device having Internet access to individual payroll, HR andbenefits information · Provides the ability for administrators to communicate company news, policy changes, such as handbook revisions,and to post documents, create custom web pages to communicate with employees · Administrators can configure portal to link to third-party websites or embed videos · Allows employees to independently take actions such as clock in and out, make direct deposit changes, email checkinformation, access tax forms, request time off, view time-off balances, access the company directory, managecontact informationManager Self-Service Portal · Improves communication among managers and HR and payroll and finance departments · Provides a single view for managers where they can approve employee changes and requests, manage outstandingtasks and easily access employee information · A workflow engine allows managers to initiate pay rate changes and automatically route changes for approval tovarious levels of the organization · Allows managers to assign supervisors to both direct and indirect reports 6Table of Contents Paylocity Web Onboarding Web Onboarding delivers a seamless approach to new hire onboarding and events management. This solution enables payroll and HR departments todeliver a highly intuitive, mobile-responsive onboarding experience to new hires. For administrators, Web Onboarding reduces the manual effort and processesgenerally associated with onboarding a new hire. Paylocity’s Onboarding features include: · Seamless integration with Paylocity payroll and HCM modules reduces manual entry of new hire data· Mobile responsive design and attractive, intuitive interface, engaging new hires in the process· Robust events management capabilities, empowering administrators to proactively manage the onboarding process· High level of customization, allowing administrators to tailor tasks and overall experience for new hire· Withholding forms wizard, simplifying the process of completing important tax-related paperwork· Ability to add customized content including welcome message, documents, videos and other company specific information. Administrators can also build workflows to provide alerts and tasks to other parts of the organization involved in the new hire process. Paylocity Recruiting Recruiting is an applicant tracking tool that automates candidate sourcing at critically important steps in the hiring and decision making process includinggathering candidate resumes, routing candidate information for decision making, and record retention for consideration for future vacancies. Recruiting’s featuresinclude: · Auto-fill of resume information to save time and effort in the candidate’s application process· Tracking of applicants through the workflow in order to reduce time spent on the recruiting and talent acquisition process. Users quickly know thestatus of any prospects at critical stages in the process.· Repository of applicant information and feedback for future reference and sourcing. Paylocity Recruiting alleviates many of the common challenges organizations face in their pursuit of talent, including prolonged time to source and hirecandidates and excessive manual work with too few resources. Paylocity Web Time Paylocity Web Time is a time and attendance solution designed to automate manual processes, improve productivity and help organizations control laborcosts. Paylocity Web Time handles such tasks as managing schedules, tracking time and attendance, including overtime, rounding rules, payroll policies, laborallocation and time-off accruals. Paylocity Web Time also notes exceptions such as tardiness, absenteeism and misuse of break or meal periods. Paylocity WebTime is fully integrated with Paylocity Web Pay giving supervisors and employees a single point of entry into the system and automatic set-up of employee recordsand policies. Paylocity Web Time also provides the ability to select from a wide variety of biometric and bar code hardware options to track employees’ time. Webelieve this integration helps organizations reduce redundant processes, improve data accuracy, reduce leave liability and improve tracking capabilities. Paylocity Web Benefits and Paylocity Enterprise Benefits, Powered by bswift Paylocity Web Benefits and Paylocity Enterprise Benefits, Powered by bswift are benefit management solutions that integrate with insurance carriersystems to provide automated administrative processes and allows users to choose benefit elections and make life event changes online, summarize benefitelections and perform other similar benefit-related tasks. These solutions also enable premium reconciliation, management of voluntary benefits and advancedreporting. Both Web Benefits and Paylocity Enterprise Benefits integrate seamlessly with Paylocity’s Web Pay. Web Benefits features include: · Employee Self-Service Enrollment Portal, designed to perform on mobile devices as well as desktops and laptops· Automated employee deductions updates in Web Pay· Customizable enrollment portal content (text, links, documents, logos)· Reporting on employee enrollment status and enrollment summary· Configurable Medical, Dental and Vision benefit plans, Reimbursement benefit plans (HAS, DCRA, HCRA), Life benefits plans (Basic, Voluntary,AD&D), Long-term and Short-term disability· Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) support for insurance carriers Paylocity Web Benefits features an intuitive design to make benefits enrollment a simple and straightforward activity for the employee and reduce theoverall time and energy payroll and HR administrators spend managing benefits enrollment. 7Table of Contents Implementation and Client Services Delivering our clients a positive experience is an essential element of our ability to sell our solutions and retain our clients. We provide our clients with asingle point-of-contact supplemented by teams with deep technical and subject matter expertise. The single point of contact allows our account managers to betterunderstand our clients’ needs, which we believe strengthens our client relationships. Implementation and Training Services Our clients are medium-sized organizations that are typically migrating to our platform from a competitive solution or are adopting an online payroll andHCM solution for the first time. These organizations often have limited internal resources and generally rely on us to implement our solutions. We typically implement our Paylocity Web Pay product within only three to four weeks, and any additional products thereafter, as requested by the client.Each client is guided through the implementation process by an implementation consultant who serves as a single point-of-contact for all implementation matters.We believe our ability to rapidly implement our solutions is principally due to the combination of our emphasis on engagement with the client, our standardizedmethodology, our cloud-based architecture and our highly-configurable, easy-to-use products. We offer our clients the opportunity to participate in formal training designed to increase their ability to further utilize the functionality of our productswithin their organizations. Our training courses are designed to enable selected employees of our clients to develop expertise in our solutions and act as a first-levelsupport resource for their colleagues. In order to ensure client satisfaction, a team of client service representatives conducts a comprehensive audit of a client’s account after the client hascompleted the implementation process. Thereafter, the client is transitioned to our client service team. Client Service Our client service model is designed to serve the needs of medium-sized organizations and to build loyalty by developing strong relationships with ourclients. We strive to achieve high revenue retention, in part, by delivering high-quality service. Our revenue retention was greater than 92% in each of fiscal 2014,2015 and 2016. Each client is assigned an account manager who serves as the central point-of-contact for any questions or support needs. We believe this approachenhances our client service by providing each client with a single person who understands the client’s business, responds quickly and is accountable for the clientexperience. Our account managers are supplemented by teams with deep technical and subject matter expertise who help to expediently and effectively addressclient needs. We also proactively solicit client feedback through ongoing surveys from which we receive actionable feedback that we use to enhance our clientservice processes. Tax and Regulatory Services Our software contains a rules engine designed to make accurate tax calculations that is continually updated to support all pertinent legislative changesacross all U.S. jurisdictions. Our tax filing service provides a variety of solutions to our clients including processing payroll tax deposits, preparing and filingquarterly and annual tax returns and amendments and resolving client tax notices. Clients As of June 30, 2016, we provided our solutions to approximately 12,500 clients in all U.S states. Although many clients have multiple divisions, segmentsor locations, we only count such clients once for these purposes. Our clients include for-profit and non-profit organizations across industries including business services, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing,restaurants, retail, technology and others. For each of the three years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, no client accounted for more than 1% of our revenues. Sales and Marketing We market and sell our products and services primarily through our direct sales force. Our direct sales force includes sales representatives who havedefined geographic territories throughout the U.S. We seek to hire experienced sales representatives wherever they are located, and believe we have room to growthe number of sales representatives in each of our territories. The sales cycle begins with a sales lead generated by the sales representative through our third-party referral network, a client referral, our telemarketingteam, our external website, e-mail marketing or territory- based activities. Through one or more on-site visits, phone-based sales calls, or web demonstrations, salesrepresentatives perform in-depth analysis of prospective clients’ needs and demonstrate our solutions. We employ sophisticated software to track, classify andmanage our sales representatives’ pipeline of potential clients. We support our sales force with a marketing program that includes seminars and webinars, emailmarketing, social media marketing, broker events and web marketing. 8Table of Contents Referral Network As a core element of our business strategy, we have developed a referral network of third-party service providers, including 401(k) advisors, benefitsadministrators, insurance brokers, third-party administrators and HR consultants, that recommend our solutions and provide referrals. Our referral network hasbecome an increasingly important component of our sales process, and in fiscal 2016, greater than 30% of our new client revenue originated by referrals fromparticipants in our referral network. We believe participants in our referral network refer potential clients to us because we do not provide services that compete with their own and becausewe offer third parties the ability to integrate their systems with our platform. Unlike other payroll and HCM solution providers who also provide retirement plans,health insurance and other products and services competitive with the offerings of the participants in our referral network, we focus only on our core business ofproviding cloud-based payroll and HCM solutions. In some cases we have formalized relationships in which we are a recommended vendor of these participants. Inother cases, our relationships are informal. We typically do not compensate these participants for referrals. Partner Ecosystem We have developed a partner ecosystem of third-party systems, such as 401(k), benefits and insurance provider systems, with whom we provideautomated data integration for our clients. These third-party providers require certain financial information from their clients in order to efficiently provide theirrespective services. After securing authorization from the client, we exchange payroll data with these providers. In turn, these third-party providers supply data tous, which allows us to deliver comprehensive benefit management services to our clients. We believe our ability to integrate our systems with those of thesepartners adds value to our mutual clients and to our partners. We have also developed our solutions to integrate with a variety of other systems used by our clients, such as accounting, point of sale, banking, expensemanagement, recruiting, background screening and skills assessment solutions. We believe our clients benefit from an integrated and seamless solution. Technology We offer our solutions on a cloud-based platform that leverages a unified database architecture and a common code base that we organically developed.Clients do not need to install our software in their data centers and can access our solutions through any mobile device or web browser with Internet access. · Multi-Tenant Architecture. Our software solutions were designed with a multi-tenant architecture. This architecture gives us an advantage overmany disparate traditional systems which are less flexible and require longer and more costly development and upgrade cycles. · Mobile Focused. We employ mobile-centric principles in our solution design and development. We believe that the increasing mobility ofemployees heightens the importance of access to our solutions through mobile devices, including smart phones and tablets. Our mobile experienceprovides our clients and their employees with access to our solutions through virtually any device having Internet access. We bring the flexibility of asecure, cloud-based solution to users without the need to access a traditional desktop or laptop computer. · Security. We maintain comprehensive security programs designed to ensure the security and integrity of client and employee data, protect againstsecurity threats or data breaches and prevent unauthorized access. We regulate and limit all access to servers and networks at our data centers. Oursystems are monitored for irregular or suspicious activity, and we have dedicated internal staff perform security assessments for each release. Oursystems undergo regular penetration testing and source code reviews by an independent third-party security firm. We host our solutions at our primary data center at our corporate headquarters in Arlington Heights, Illinois. We also utilize data centers at third-partyfacilities in Franklin Park, Illinois and Kenosha, Wisconsin for backup and disaster recovery. We supply the hardware infrastructure and are responsible for theongoing maintenance of our equipment at all data center locations. 9Table of Contents Competition The market for payroll and HCM solutions is fragmented, highly competitive and rapidly changing. Our competitors vary for each of our solutions andinclude enterprise-focused software providers, such as Ultimate Software Group, Inc., Workday, Inc., SAP AG, Oracle Corporation and Ceridian Corporation;payroll service providers, such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Paychex, Inc., Paycom Software, Inc., Paycor, Inc. and other regional providers; and HCMpoint solutions providers, such as Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. We believe the principal competitive factors on which we compete in our market include the following: · Focus on medium-sized organizations; · Breadth and depth of product functionality; · Configurability and ease of use of our solutions; · Modern, intuitive user experience; · Benefits of a cloud-based technology platform; · Ability to innovate and respond to client needs rapidly; · Domain expertise in payroll and HCM; · Quality of implementation and client service; · Ease of implementation; · Real-time web-based payroll processing; and · Integration with a wide variety of third-party applications and systems. We believe that we compete favorably on these factors within the medium-sized organization market. We believe our ability to remain competitive willlargely depend on the success of our continued investment in sales and marketing, research and development and implementation and client services. Research and Development We invest heavily in research and development to continuously introduce new applications, technologies, features and functionality. We are organized insmall product-centric teams that utilize an agile development methodology. We focus our efforts on developing new applications and core technologies and onfurther enhancing the usability, functionality, reliability, performance and flexibility of existing applications. Research and development costs, including research and development costs that were capitalized, were $15.0 million, $24.7 million and $36.3 million forthe years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Our research and development personnel are principally located at our headquarters, although we seekto hire highly experienced personnel wherever they are located. Intellectual Property Our success is dependent, in part, on our ability to protect our proprietary technology and other intellectual property rights. We rely on a combination oftrade secrets, copyrights and trademarks, as well as contractual protections to establish and protect our intellectual property rights. We require our employees,consultants and other third parties to enter into confidentiality and proprietary rights agreements and control access to software, documentation and otherproprietary information. Although we rely on laws respecting intellectual property rights, including trade secret, copyright and trademark laws, as well ascontractual protections to establish and protect our intellectual property rights, we believe that factors such as the technological and creative skills of our personnel,creation of new modules, features and functionality and frequent enhancements to our applications are more essential to establishing and maintaining ourtechnology leadership position. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary technology and our intellectual property rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to misappropriate our rightsor to copy or obtain and use our proprietary technology to develop applications with the same functionality as our applications. Policing unauthorized use of ourtechnology and intellectual property rights is very difficult. We expect that providers of payroll and HCM solutions such as ours may be subject to third-party infringement claims as the market and the number ofcompetitors grows and the functionality of applications in different industry segments overlaps. Any of these or other third parties might make a claim ofinfringement against us at any time. Employees As of June 30, 2016, we had approximately 1,800 full-time employees, of which 620 were in client services and operations, 420 were in clientimplementation, 365 were in sales and marketing, 250 were in research and development and 145 were in general 10Table of Contents and administrative. None of our employees is represented by a union or is party to a collective bargaining agreement, and we have not experienced any workstoppages. We believe we have good relations with our employees and that our culture benefits our clients and supports our growth. Our management team iscommitted to maintaining and improving our culture even as we grow rapidly. Available Information Our Internet address is www.paylocity.com and our investor relations website is located at http://investors.paylocity.com. We make available free ofcharge on our investor relations website under the heading “Financials” our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports onForm 8-K and amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with (or furnished to) the SEC.Information contained on our websites is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition, the public may read and copy materialswe file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of thePublic Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. In addition, the SEC maintains an Internet site, www.sec.gov, that includes filings of andinformation about issuers that file electronically with the SEC. 11Table of Contents Item 1A. Risk Factors. Our business, prospects, financial condition or operating results could be materially adversely affected by any of these risks, as well as other risks notcurrently known to us or that are currently considered immaterial. The trading price of our common stock could decline due to any of the risks and uncertaintiesdescribed below, and you may lose all or part of your investment. In assessing these risks, you should also refer to the other information contained in this AnnualReport on Form 10-K, including our consolidated financial statements and related notes. We have incurred losses in the past, and we may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability for the foreseeable future. We have incurred net losses from time to time. We incurred net losses of $7,110,000, $13,972,000 and $3,851,000 in fiscal 2014, fiscal 2015 and fiscal2016, respectively. We have been growing our number of clients rapidly, and as we do so, we incur significant sales and marketing, services and other relatedexpenses. Our profitability will be significantly influenced by our ability to attain sufficient scale and productivity to achieve recurring revenues that are sufficientto support the incremental costs to obtain and support new clients. We intend for the foreseeable future to continue to focus predominately on adding new clients,and we cannot predict when we will achieve sustained profitability, if at all. We also expect to make other significant expenditures and investments in research anddevelopment to expand and improve our product offerings and technical infrastructure. In addition, as a public company, we have incurred significant legal,accounting and other expenses that we had not incurred as a private company. These increased expenditures have made it harder for us to achieve and maintainprofitability. We also may incur losses in the future for a number of other unforeseen reasons. Accordingly, we may incur losses for the foreseeable future. Our quarterly operating results have fluctuated in the past and may continue to fluctuate, causing the value of our common stock to decline substantially. Our quarterly operating results may fluctuate due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control. As a result, comparing our operatingresults on a period-to-period basis may not be meaningful. Moreover, our stock price might be based on expectations of future performance that are unrealistic orthat we might not meet and, if our revenue or operating results fall below such expectations, the price of our common stock could decline substantially. Our number of new clients typically increases more during our third fiscal quarter ending March 31 than during the rest of our fiscal year, primarilybecause many new clients prefer to start using our payroll and human capital management, or HCM, solutions at the beginning of a calendar year. In addition,client funds and year-end activities are traditionally higher during our third fiscal quarter. As a result of these factors, our total revenue and expenses havehistorically grown disproportionately during our third fiscal quarter as compared to other quarters. In addition to other risk factors listed in this section, some of the important factors that may cause fluctuations in our quarterly operating results include: · The extent to which our products achieve or maintain market acceptance; · Our ability to introduce new products and enhancements and updates to our existing products on a timely basis; · Competitive pressures and the introduction of enhanced products and services from competitors; · Changes in client budgets and procurement policies; · The amount and timing of our investment in research and development activities and whether such investments are capitalized or expensed asincurred; · The number of our clients’ employees; · Timing of recognition of revenues and expenses; · Client renewal rates; · Seasonality in our business; · Technical difficulties with our products or interruptions in our services; · Our ability to hire and retain qualified personnel; · Changes in the regulatory requirements and environment related to the products and services which we offer; 12Table of Contents · Changes in accounting principles; and · Unforeseen legal expenses, including litigation and settlement costs. We do not have long-term agreements with clients, and our standard agreements with clients are generally terminable by our clients upon 60 or fewerdays’ notice. If a significant number of clients elected to terminate their agreements with us, our operating results and our business would be adversely affected. In addition, a significant portion of our operating expenses are related to compensation and other items which are relatively fixed in the short-term, and weplan expenditures based in part on our expectations regarding future needs and opportunities. Accordingly, changes in our business or revenue shortfalls coulddecrease our gross and operating margins and could cause significant changes in our operating results from period to period. If this occurs, the trading price of ourcommon stock could fall substantially, either suddenly or over time. Our operating results for previous fiscal quarters are not necessarily indicative of our operating results for the full fiscal years or for any future periods.We believe that, due to the underlying factors for quarterly fluctuations, quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our operations are not necessarily meaningful and thatsuch comparisons should not be relied upon as indications of future performance. Failure to manage our growth effectively could increase our expenses, decrease our revenue, and prevent us from implementing our business strategy. We have been rapidly growing our revenue and number of clients, and we will seek to do the same for the foreseeable future. However, the growth in ournumber of clients puts significant strain on our business, requires significant capital expenditures and increases our operating expenses. To manage this growtheffectively, we must attract, train, and retain a significant number of qualified sales, implementation, client service, software development, information technologyand management personnel. We also must maintain and enhance our technology infrastructure and our financial and accounting systems and controls. If we fail toeffectively manage our growth or we over-invest or under-invest in our business, our business and results of operations could suffer from the resultant weaknessesin our infrastructure, systems or controls. We could also suffer operational mistakes, a loss of business opportunities and employee losses. If our management isunable to effectively manage our growth, our expenses might increase more than expected, our revenue could decline or might grow more slowly than expected,and we might be unable to implement our business strategy. The markets in which we participate are highly competitive, and if we do not compete effectively, our operating results could be adversely affected. The market for payroll and HCM solutions is fragmented, highly competitive and rapidly changing. Our competitors vary for each of our solutions, andinclude enterprise-focused software providers, such as Ultimate Software Group, Inc., Workday, Inc., SAP AG, Oracle Corporation and Ceridian Corporation,payroll service providers, such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Paychex, Inc., Paycom Software, Inc., Paycor, Inc. and other regional providers, and HCMpoint solutions, such as Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. Several of our competitors are larger, have greater name recognition, longer operating histories and significantly greater resources than we do. Many ofthese competitors are able to devote greater resources to the development, promotion and sale of their products and services. Furthermore, our current or potentialcompetitors may be acquired by third parties with greater available resources and the ability to initiate or withstand substantial price competition. As a result, ourcompetitors may be able to develop products and services better received by our markets or may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can tonew or changing opportunities, technologies, regulations or client requirements. In addition, current and potential competitors have established, and might in the future establish, partner or form other cooperative relationships withvendors of complementary products, technologies or services to enable them to offer new products and services, to compete more effectively or to increase theavailability of their products in the marketplace. New competitors or relationships might emerge that have greater market share, a larger client base, more widelyadopted proprietary technologies, greater marketing expertise, greater financial resources, and larger sales forces than we have, which could put us at a competitivedisadvantage. In light of these advantages, current or potential clients might accept competitive offerings in lieu of purchasing our offerings. We expect intensecompetition to continue for these reasons, and such competition could negatively impact our sales, profitability or market share. 13Table of Contents If we do not continue to innovate and deliver high-quality, technologically advanced products and services, we will not remain competitive and our revenue andoperating results could suffer. The market for our solutions is characterized by rapid technological advancements, changes in client requirements, frequent new product introductionsand enhancements and changing industry standards. The life cycles of our products are difficult to estimate. Rapid technological changes and the introduction ofnew products and enhancements by new or existing competitors could undermine our current market position. Our success depends in substantial part on our continuing ability to provide products and services that medium-sized organizations will find superior toour competitors’ offerings and will continue to use. We intend to continue to invest significant resources in research and development in order to enhance ourexisting products and services and introduce new high-quality products that clients will want. If we are unable to predict user preferences or industry changes, or ifwe are unable to modify our products and services on a timely basis or to effectively bring new products to market, our sales may suffer. In addition, we may experience difficulties with software development, industry standards, design, or marketing that could delay or prevent ourdevelopment, introduction or implementation of new solutions and enhancements. The introduction of new solutions by competitors, the emergence of newindustry standards or the development of entirely new technologies to replace existing offerings could render our existing or future solutions obsolete. We may not have sufficient resources to make the necessary investments in software development and we may experience difficulties that could delay orprevent the successful development, introduction or marketing of new products or enhancements. In addition, our products or enhancements may not meet theincreasingly complex client requirements of the marketplace or achieve market acceptance at the rate we expect, or at all. Any failure by us to anticipate or respondadequately to technological advancements, client requirements and changing industry standards, or any significant delays in the development, introduction oravailability of new products or enhancements, could undermine our current market position. If we are unable to release periodic updates on a timely basis to reflect changes in tax, benefit and other laws and regulations that our products help our clientsaddress, the market acceptance of our products may be adversely affected and our revenues could decline. Our solutions are affected by changes in tax, benefit and other laws and regulations and generally must be updated regularly to maintain their accuracy andcompetitiveness. Although we believe our SaaS platform provides us with flexibility to release updates in response to these changes, we cannot be certain that wewill be able to make the necessary changes to our solutions and release updates on a timely basis, or at all. Failure to do so could have an adverse effect on thefunctionality and market acceptance of our solutions. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) remains subject to continuing legislativescrutiny, including efforts by Congress to amend or repeal, or delay implementation of, a number of its provisions. In addition, numerous lawsuits have challengedand continue to challenge the constitutionality and other aspects of the PPACA, and regulations and regulatory guidance continue to be issued on various aspects ofPPACA that may affect our business. Changes in tax, benefit and other laws and regulations, including the PPACA, could require us to make significantmodifications to our products or delay or cease sales of certain products, which could result in reduced revenues or revenue growth and our incurring substantialexpenses and write-offs. Because of the way we recognize our revenue and our expenses over varying periods, changes in our business may not be immediately reflected in our financialstatements. We recognize our revenue as services are performed. The amount of revenue we recognize in any particular period is derived in significant part based onthe number of employees of our clients served by our solutions. As a result, our revenue is dependent in part on the success of our clients. The effect on our revenueof significant changes in sales of our solutions or in our clients’ businesses may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. We recognize our expenses over varying periods based on the nature of the expense. In particular, we recognize implementation costs and salescommissions as they are incurred even though we recognize revenue as we perform services over extended periods. When a client terminates its relationship withus, we may not have derived enough revenue from that client to cover associated implementation costs. As a result, we may report poor operating results due tohigher implementation costs and sales commissions in a period in which we experience strong sales of our solutions. Alternatively, we may report better operatingresults due to lower implementation costs and sales commissions in a period in which we experience a slowdown in sales. As a result, our expenses fluctuate as apercentage of revenue, and changes in our business generally may not be immediately reflected in our results of operations. If our security measures are breached or unauthorized access to client data or funds is otherwise obtained, our solutions may be perceived as not being secure,clients may reduce the use of or stop using our solutions and we may incur significant liabilities. Our solutions involve the storage and transmission of our clients’ and their employees’ proprietary and confidential information. This information includesbank account numbers, tax return information, social security numbers, benefit information, 14Table of Contents retirement account information, payroll information and system passwords. In addition, we collect and maintain personal information on our own employees in theordinary course of our business. Finally, our business involves the storage and transmission of funds from the accounts of our clients to their employees, taxing andregulatory authorities and others. As a result, unauthorized access or security breaches of our systems or the systems of our clients could result in the unauthorizeddisclosure of confidential information, theft, litigation, indemnity obligations and other significant liabilities. Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorizedaccess or sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not identified until they are employed, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or toimplement adequate preventative measures in advance. While we have security measures and controls in place to protect confidential information, prevent dataloss, theft and other security breaches, including penetration tests of our systems by independent third parties, if our security measures are breached, our businesscould be substantially harmed and we could incur significant liabilities. Any such breach or unauthorized access could negatively affect our ability to attract newclients, cause existing clients to terminate their agreements with us, result in reputational damage and subject us to lawsuits, regulatory fines or other actions orliabilities which could materially and adversely affect our business and operating results. There can be no assurance that the limitations of liability in our contracts would be enforceable or adequate or would otherwise protect us from any suchliabilities or damages with respect to any particular claim related to a breach or unauthorized access. We also cannot be sure that our existing general liabilityinsurance coverage and coverage for errors or omissions will continue to be available on acceptable terms or will be available in sufficient amounts to cover one ormore large claims, or that the insurer will not deny coverage as to any future claim. The successful assertion of one or more large claims against us that exceedavailable insurance coverage, or the occurrence of changes in our insurance policies, including premium increases or the imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. If we fail to adequately expand our direct sales force with qualified and productive persons, we may not be able to grow our business effectively. We primarily sell our products and implementation services through our direct sales force. To grow our business, we intend to focus on growing our clientbase for the foreseeable future. Our ability to add clients and to achieve revenue growth in the future will depend upon our ability to grow and develop our directsales force and on their ability to productively sell our solutions. Identifying and recruiting qualified personnel and training them in the use of our software requiresignificant time, expense and attention. The amount of time it takes for our sales representatives to be fully-trained and to become productive varies widely. Inaddition, if we hire sales representatives from competitors or other companies, their former employers may attempt to assert that these employees have breachedtheir legal obligations, resulting in a diversion of our time and resources. If our sales organization does not perform as expected, our revenues and revenue growth could suffer. In addition, if we are unable to hire, develop andretain talented sales personnel, if our sales force becomes less efficient as it grows or if new sales representatives are unable to achieve desired productivity levelsin a reasonable period of time, we may not be able to grow our client base and revenues and our sales and marketing expenses may increase. If our referral network participants reduce their referrals to us, we may not be able to grow our client base or revenues in the future. Referrals from third-party service providers, including 401(k) advisors, benefits administrators, insurance brokers, third-party administrators and HRconsultants, represent a significant source of potential clients for our products and implementation services. For example, we estimate that greater than 30% of ournew sales in fiscal 2016 were referred to us from our referral network participants, and our referral network may become an even more significant source of clientreferrals in the future. In most cases, our relationships with referral network participants are informal, although in some cases, we have formalized relationshipswhere we are a recommended vendor for their client. Participants in our referral network are generally under no contractual obligation to continue to refer business to us, and we do not intend to seekcontractual relationships with these participants. In addition, these participants are generally not compensated for referring potential clients to us, and may chooseto instead refer potential clients to our competitors. Our ability to achieve revenue growth in the future will depend, in part, upon continued referrals from ournetwork. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in maintaining, expanding or developing our referral network. If our relationships with participants inour referral network were to deteriorate or if any of our competitors enter into strategic relationships with our referral network participants, sales leads from theseparticipants could be reduced or cease entirely. If we are not successful, we may lose sales opportunities and our revenues and profitability could suffer. 15Table of Contents If the market for cloud-based payroll and HCM solutions among medium-sized organizations develops more slowly than we expect or declines, our businesscould be adversely affected. We believe that the market for cloud-based payroll and HCM solutions is not as mature among medium-sized organizations as the market for outsourcedservices or on-premise software and services. It is not certain that cloud-based solutions will achieve and sustain high levels of client demand and marketacceptance. Our success will depend to a substantial extent on the widespread adoption by medium-sized organizations of cloud-based computing in general, and ofpayroll and other HCM applications in particular. It is difficult to predict client adoption rates and demand for our solutions, the future growth rate and size of thecloud-based market or the entry of competitive solutions. The expansion of the cloud-based market depends on a number of factors, including the cost,performance, and perceived value associated with cloud-based computing, as well as the ability of cloud-based solutions to address security and privacy concerns.If other cloud-based providers experience security incidents, loss of client data, disruptions in delivery or other problems, the market for cloud-based applicationsas a whole, including our solutions, may be negatively affected. If cloud-based payroll and HCM solutions do not achieve widespread adoption among medium-sized organizations, or there is a reduction in demand for cloud-based computing caused by a lack of client acceptance, technological challenges, weakeningeconomic conditions, security or privacy concerns, competing technologies and products, decreases in corporate spending or otherwise, it could result in a loss ofclients, decreased revenues and an adverse impact on our business. We typically pay employees and may pay taxing authorities amounts due for a payroll period before a client’s electronic funds transfers are finally settled toour account. If client payments are rejected by banking institutions or otherwise fail to clear into our accounts, we may require additional sources of short-termliquidity and our operating results could be adversely affected. Our payroll processing business involves the movement of significant funds from the account of a client to employees and relevant taxing authorities. Forexample, in fiscal 2016 we processed over $74 billion in payroll transactions. Though we debit a client’s account prior to any disbursement on its behalf, due toAutomated Clearing House, or ACH, banking regulations, funds previously credited could be reversed under certain circumstances and timeframes after ourpayment of amounts due to employees and taxing and other regulatory authorities. There is therefore a risk that the employer’s funds will be insufficient to coverthe amounts we have already paid on its behalf. While such shortage and accompanying financial exposure has only occurred in very limited instances in the past,should clients default on their payment obligations in the future, we might be required to advance substantial amounts of funds to cover such obligations. In such anevent, we may be required to seek additional sources of short-term liquidity, which may not be available on reasonable terms, if at all, and our operating results andour liquidity could be adversely affected and our banking relationships could be harmed. Adverse changes in economic or political conditions could adversely affect our operating results and our business. Our recurring revenues are based in part on the number of our clients’ employees. As a result, we are subject to risks arising from adverse changes ineconomic and political conditions. The state of the economy and the rate of employment, which deteriorated in the recent broad recession, may deteriorate furtherin the future. If weakness in the economy continues or worsens, many clients may reduce their number of employees and delay or reduce technology purchases.This could also result in reductions in our revenues and sales of our products, longer sales cycles, increased price competition and clients’ purchasing fewersolutions than they have in the past. Any of these events would likely harm our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows from operations. Trade, monetary and fiscal policies, and political and economic conditions may substantially change, and credit markets may experience periods ofconstriction and volatility. For example, there is substantial uncertainty surrounding the United Kingdom’s June 23, 2016 vote to leave the European Union, whichcould result in a global economic downturn, which, in turn, could depress the demand for our services. When there is a slowdown in the economy, employmentlevels and interest rates may decrease with a corresponding impact on our businesses. Clients may react to worsening conditions by reducing their spending onpayroll and other HCM solutions or renegotiating their contracts with us. We have agreements with various large banks to execute ACH and wire transfers as partof our client payroll and tax services. While we have contingency plans in place for bank failures, a failure of one of our banking partners or a systemic shutdownof the banking industry could result in the loss of client funds or impede us from accessing and processing funds on our clients’ behalf, and could have an adverseimpact on our business and liquidity. If the banks that currently provide ACH and wire transfers fail to properly transmit ACH or terminate their relationship with us or limit our ability to processfunds or we are not able to increase our ACH capacity with our existing and new banks, our ability to process funds on behalf of our clients and our financialresults and liquidity could be adversely affected. We currently have agreements with nine banks to execute ACH and wire transfers to support our client payroll and tax services. If one or more of thebanks fails to process ACH transfers on a timely basis, or at all, then our relationship with our clients could be harmed and we could be subject to claims by a clientwith respect to the failed transfers. In addition, these banks have no obligation to renew their agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. Ifthese banks terminate their relationships with us or restrict the dollar amounts of funds that they will process on behalf of our clients, their doing so may impede ourability to process funds and could have an adverse impact on our financial results and liquidity. 16Table of Contents We depend on our senior management team and other key employees, and the loss of these persons or an inability to attract and retain highly skilled employeescould adversely affect our business. Our success depends largely upon the continued services of our key executive officers, including Steven R. Beauchamp, our President and ChiefExecutive Officer. We also rely on our leadership team in the areas of research and development, sales, services and general and administrative functions. Fromtime to time, there may be changes in our executive management team resulting from the hiring or departure of executives, which could disrupt our business. Whilewe have employment agreements with certain of our executive officers, including Mr. Beauchamp, these employment agreements do not require them to continueto work for us for any specified period and, therefore, they could terminate their employment with us at any time. The loss of one or more of our executive officersor key employees could have an adverse effect on our business. If we are unable to recruit and retain highly-skilled product development and other technical persons, our ability to develop and support widely-acceptedproducts could be impaired and our business could be harmed. We believe that to grow our business and be successful, we must continue to develop products that are technologically-advanced, are highly integrablewith third-party services, provide significant mobility capabilities and have pleasing and intuitive user experiences. To do so, we must attract and retain highlyqualified personnel, particularly employees with high levels of experience in designing and developing software and Internet-related products and services.Competition for these personnel in the greater Chicago area and elsewhere is intense. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our currentpersonnel, our business and future growth prospects could be severely harmed. We follow a practice of hiring the best available candidates wherever located, but aswe grow our business, the productivity of our product development and other research and development may be adversely affected. In addition, if we hireemployees from competitors or other companies, their former employers may attempt to assert that these employees have breached their legal obligations, resultingin a diversion of our time and resources. The sale and support of products and the performance of related services by us entail the risk of product or service liability claims, which could significantlyaffect our financial results. Clients use our products in connection with the preparation and filing of tax returns and other regulatory reports. If any of our products contain errors thatproduce inaccurate results upon which users rely, or cause users to misfile or fail to file required information, we could be subject to liability claims from users.Our agreements with our clients typically contain provisions intended to limit our exposure to such claims, but such provisions may not be effective in limiting ourexposure. Contractual limitations we use may not be enforceable and may not provide us with adequate protection against product liability claims in certainjurisdictions. A successful claim for product or service liability brought against us could result in substantial cost to us and divert management’s attention from ouroperations. Privacy concerns and laws or other domestic regulations may reduce the effectiveness of our applications and adversely affect our business. Our clients collect, use and store personal or identifying information regarding their employees and their family members in our solutions. Federal andstate government bodies and agencies have adopted, are considering adopting, or may adopt laws and regulations regarding the collection, use, storage anddisclosure of such personal information. The costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed by, such laws and regulations that are applicable to our clients’businesses may limit the use and adoption of our applications and reduce overall demand, or lead to significant fines, penalties or liabilities for any noncompliancewith such privacy laws. Even the perception of privacy concerns, whether or not valid, may inhibit market adoption of our solutions. All of these legislative and regulatory initiatives may adversely affect our clients’ ability to process, handle, store, use and transmit demographic andpersonal information regarding their employees and family members, which could reduce demand for our solutions. In addition to government activity, privacy advocacy groups and the technology and other industries are considering various new, additional or differentself-regulatory standards that may place additional burdens on us. If the processing of personal information were to be curtailed in this manner, our products wouldbe less effective, which may reduce demand for our applications and adversely affect our business. Our business could be adversely affected if we do not effectively implement our solutions or our clients are not satisfied with our implementation services. Our ability to deliver our payroll and HCM solutions depends on our ability to effectively implement and to transition to, and train our clients on, oursolutions. We do not recognize revenue from new clients until they process their first payroll. Further, our agreements with our clients are generally terminable bythe clients on 60 days’ or less notice. If a client is not satisfied with our 17Table of Contents implementation services, the client could terminate its agreement with us before we have recovered our costs of implementation services, which would adverselyaffect our results of operations and cash flows. In addition, negative publicity related to our client relationships, regardless of its accuracy, may further damage ourbusiness by affecting our ability to compete for new business with current and prospective clients. Our business could be affected if we are unable to accommodate increased demand for our implementation services resulting from growth in our business. We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate increased client demand for implementation services driven by our growth. Theimplementation process is the first substantive interaction with a new client. As a predicate to providing knowledgeable implementation services, we must have asufficient number of personnel dedicated to that process. In order to ensure that we have sufficient employees to implement our solutions, we must closelycoordinate hiring of personnel with our projected sales for a particular period. Because our sales cycle is typically only three to six weeks long, we may not besuccessful in coordinating hiring of implementation personnel to meet increased demand for our implementation services. Increased demand for implementationservices without a corresponding staffing increase of qualified personnel could adversely affect the quality of services provided to new clients, and our business andour reputation could be harmed. Any failure to offer high-quality client services may adversely affect our relationships with our clients and our financial results. Once our applications are deployed, our clients depend on our client service organization to resolve issues relating to our solutions. Our clients aremedium-sized organizations with limited personnel and resources to address payroll and other HCM related issues. These clients rely on us more so than largercompanies with greater internal resources and expertise. High-quality client services are important for the successful marketing and sale of our products and for theretention of existing clients. If we do not help our clients quickly resolve issues and provide effective ongoing support, our ability to sell additional products toexisting clients would suffer and our reputation with existing or potential clients would be harmed. In addition, our sales process is highly dependent on our applications and business reputation and on positive recommendations from our existing clients.Any failure to maintain high-quality client services, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality client services, could adversely affect ourreputation, our ability to sell our solutions to existing and prospective clients, and our business, operating results and financial position. If we fail to manage our technical operations infrastructure, our existing clients may experience service outages and our new clients may experience delays inthe deployment of our applications. We have experienced significant growth in the number of users, transactions and data that our operations infrastructure supports. We seek to maintainsufficient excess capacity in our data center and other operations infrastructure to meet the needs of all of our clients. We also seek to maintain excess capacity tofacilitate the rapid provision of new client deployments and the expansion of existing client deployments. In addition, we need to properly manage ourtechnological operations infrastructure in order to support version control, changes in hardware and software parameters and the evolution of our applications.However, the provision of new hosting infrastructure requires significant lead time. We have experienced, and may in the future experience, website disruptions,outages and other performance problems. These problems may be caused by a variety of factors, including infrastructure changes, human or software errors,viruses, security attacks, fraud, spikes in client usage and denial of service issues. In some instances, we may not be able to identify the cause or causes of theseperformance problems within an acceptable period of time. If we do not accurately predict our infrastructure requirements, our existing clients may experienceservice outages that may subject us to financial penalties, financial liabilities and client losses. If our operations infrastructure fails to keep pace with increasedsales, clients may experience delays as we seek to obtain additional capacity, which could adversely affect our reputation and our revenues. In addition, our ability to deliver our cloud-based applications depends on the development and maintenance of Internet infrastructure by third parties.This includes maintenance of a reliable network backbone with the necessary speed, data capacity, bandwidth capacity, and security. Our services are designed tooperate without interruption. However, we have experienced and expect that we will experience future interruptions and delays in services and availability fromtime to time. In the event of a catastrophic event with respect to one or more of our systems, we may experience an extended period of system unavailability, whichcould negatively impact our relationship with clients. To operate without interruption, both we and our clients must guard against: · Damage from fire, power loss, natural disasters and other force majeure events outside our control; · Communications failures; · Software and hardware errors, failures and crashes; · Security breaches, computer viruses, hacking, denial-of-service attacks and similar disruptive problems; and · Other potential interruptions. 18Table of Contents We also rely on computer hardware purchased or leased and software licensed from third parties in order to offer our services. These licenses andhardware are generally commercially available on varying terms. However, it is possible that this hardware and software might not continue to be available oncommercially reasonable terms, or at all. Any loss of the right to use any of this hardware or software could result in delays in the provisioning of our services untilequivalent technology is either developed by us, or, if available, is identified, obtained and integrated. Furthermore, our payroll application is essential to our clients’ timely payment of wages to their employees. Any interruption in our service may affect theavailability, accuracy or timeliness of these programs and could damage our reputation, cause our clients to terminate their use of our application, require us toindemnify our clients against certain losses due to our own errors and prevent us from gaining additional business from current or future clients. Any disruption in the operation of our data centers could adversely affect our business. We host our applications and serve all of our clients from data centers located at our company headquarters in Arlington Heights, Illinois with backup datacenters at third-party facilities in Franklin Park, Illinois and Kenosha, Wisconsin. We also may decide to employ additional offsite data centers in the future toaccommodate growth. Problems faced by our data center locations, with the telecommunications network providers with whom we or they contract, or with the systems by whichour telecommunications providers allocate capacity among their clients, including us, could adversely affect the availability and processing of our solutions andrelated services and the experience of our clients. If our data centers are unable to keep up with our growing needs for capacity, this could have an adverse effect onour business and cause us to incur additional expense. In addition, any financial difficulties faced by our third-party data center’s operator or any of the serviceproviders with whom we or they contract may have negative effects on our business, the nature and extent of which are difficult to predict. Any changes in servicelevels at our third-party data center or any errors, defects, disruptions or other performance problems with our applications could adversely affect our reputation andmay damage our clients’ stored files or result in lengthy interruptions in our services. Interruptions in our services might reduce our revenues, subject us to potentialliability or other expenses or adversely affect our renewal rates. In addition, while we own, control and have access to our servers and all of the components of our network that are located in our backup data centers, wedo not control the operation of these facilities. The operators of our third party data center facilities have no obligations to renew their agreements with us oncommercially reasonable terms, or at all. If we are unable to renew these agreements on commercially reasonable terms, or if the data center operators are acquired,we may be required to transfer our servers and other infrastructure to new data center facilities, and we may incur costs and experience service interruption in doingso. Our software might not operate properly, which could damage our reputation, give rise to claims against us, or divert application of our resources from otherpurposes, any of which could harm our business and operating results. Our payroll and HCM software is complex and may contain or develop undetected defects or errors, particularly when first introduced or as new versionsare released. Despite extensive testing, from time to time we have discovered defects or errors in our products. In addition, because changes in employer and legalrequirements and practices relating to benefits are frequent, we discover defects and errors in our software and service processes in the normal course of businesscompared against these requirements and practices. Material performance problems or defects in our products and services might arise in the future, which couldhave an adverse impact on our business and client relationship and subject us to claims. Moreover, software development is time-consuming, expensive and complex. Unforeseen difficulties can arise. We might encounter technical obstacles,and it is possible that we discover problems that prevent our products from operating properly. If they do not function reliably or fail to achieve client expectationsin terms of performance, clients could cancel their agreements with us and/or assert liability claims against us. This could damage our reputation, impair our abilityto attract or maintain clients and harm our results of operations. Defects and errors and any failure by us to identify and address them could result in delays in product introductions and updates, loss of revenue or marketshare, liability to clients or others, failure to achieve market acceptance or expansion, diversion of development and other resources, injury to our reputation, andincreased service and maintenance costs. Defects or errors in our product or service processes might discourage existing or potential clients from purchasing fromus. Correction of defects or errors could prove to be impossible or impracticable. The costs incurred in correcting any defects or errors or in responding to resultingclaims or liability might be substantial and could adversely affect our operating results. 19Table of Contents Because of the large amount of data that we collect and manage, it is possible that hardware failures or errors in our systems could result in data loss orcorruption, or cause the information that we collect to be incomplete or contain inaccuracies that our clients, their employees and taxing and other regulatoryauthorities regard as significant. The costs incurred in correcting any errors or in responding to regulatory authorities or to resulting claims or liability might besubstantial and could adversely affect our operating results. We maintain insurance, but our insurance may be inadequate or may not be available in the future on acceptable terms, or at all. In addition, our policymay not cover all claims made against us and defending a suit, regardless of its merit, could be costly and divert management’s attention. Our clients might assert claims against us in the future alleging that they suffered damages due to a defect, error, or other failure of our product or serviceprocesses. A product liability claim and errors or omissions claim could subject us to significant legal defense costs and adverse publicity regardless of the meritsor eventual outcome of such a claim. Client funds that we hold are subject to market, interest rate, credit and liquidity risks. The loss of these funds could have an adverse impact on our business. We invest funds held for our clients in liquid, investment-grade marketable securities, money market securities, and other cash equivalents. Nevertheless,our client fund assets are subject to general market, interest rate, credit, and liquidity risks. These risks may be exacerbated, individually or in unison, duringperiods of unusual financial market volatility. Any loss of or inability to access client funds could have an adverse impact on our cash position and results ofoperations and could require us to obtain additional sources of liquidity. In addition, these funds are held in consolidated trust accounts, and as a result the aggregate amounts in the accounts exceed the applicable federal depositinsurance limits. We believe that since such funds are deposited in trust on behalf of our clients, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or the FDIC, wouldtreat those funds as if they had been deposited by each of the clients themselves and insure each client’s funds up to the applicable deposit insurance limits. If theFDIC were to take the position that it is not obligated to provide deposit insurance for our clients’ funds or if the reimbursement of these funds were delayed, ourbusiness and our clients could be materially harmed. If we are required to collect sales and use taxes in additional jurisdictions, we might be subject to liability for past sales and our future sales may decrease.Adverse tax laws or regulations could be enacted or existing laws could be applied to us or our clients, which could increase the costs of our services andadversely impact our business. The application of federal, state, and local tax laws to services provided electronically is evolving. New income, sales, use or other tax laws, statutes,rules, regulations or ordinances could be enacted at any time (possibly with retroactive effect), and could be applied solely or disproportionately to servicesprovided over the Internet. These enactments could adversely affect our sales activity due to the inherent cost increase the taxes would represent and ultimatelyresult in a negative impact on our operating results and cash flows. In addition, existing tax laws, statutes, rules, regulations or ordinances could be interpreted, changed, modified or applied adversely to us (possibly withretroactive effect), which could require us or our clients to pay additional tax amounts, as well as require us or our clients to pay fines or penalties and interest forpast amounts. For example, we might lose sales or incur significant expenses if states successfully impose broader guidelines on state sales and use taxes. A successfulassertion by one or more states requiring us to collect sales or other taxes on the licensing of our software or provision of our services could result in substantial taxliabilities for past transactions and otherwise harm our business. Each state has different rules and regulations governing sales and use taxes, and these rules andregulations are subject to varying interpretations that change over time. We review these rules and regulations periodically and, when we believe we are subject tosales and use taxes in a particular state, we may voluntarily engage state tax authorities in order to determine how to comply with that state’s rules and regulations.We cannot assure you that we will not be subject to sales and use taxes or related penalties for past sales in states where we currently believe no such taxes arerequired. Vendors of services, like us, are typically held responsible by taxing authorities for the collection and payment of any applicable sales and similar taxes. Ifone or more taxing authorities determines that taxes should have, but have not, been paid with respect to our services, we might be liable for past taxes in additionto taxes going forward. Liability for past taxes might also include substantial interest and penalty charges. Our clients typically pay us for applicable sales andsimilar taxes. Nevertheless, our clients might be reluctant to pay back taxes and might refuse responsibility for interest or penalties associated with those taxes. Ifwe are required to collect and pay back taxes and the associated interest and penalties, and if our clients fail or refuse to reimburse us for all 20Table of Contents or a portion of these amounts, we will incur unplanned expenses that may be substantial. Moreover, imposition of such taxes on us going forward will effectivelyincrease the cost of our software and services to our clients and might adversely affect our ability to retain existing clients or to gain new clients in the areas inwhich such taxes are imposed. Any future litigation against us could be costly and time-consuming to defend. We may become subject, from time to time, to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business such as claims brought by ourclients in connection with commercial disputes or employment claims made by our current or former employees. Litigation might result in substantial costs andmay divert management’s attention and resources, which might seriously harm our business, overall financial condition, and operating results. Insurance might notcover such claims, might not provide sufficient payments to cover all the costs to resolve one or more such claims and might not continue to be available on termsacceptable to us. A claim brought against us that is uninsured or underinsured could result in unanticipated costs, thereby harming our operating results and leadinganalysts or potential investors to lower their expectations of our performance, which could reduce the trading price of our stock. Any failure to protect our intellectual property rights could impair our ability to protect our proprietary technology and our brand. Our success is dependent, in part, upon protecting our proprietary technology. We rely on a combination of copyrights, trademarks, service marks, tradesecret laws and contractual restrictions to establish and protect our proprietary rights in our products and services. Our proprietary technologies are not covered byany patent or patent application. However, the steps we take to protect our intellectual property may be inadequate. We will not be able to protect our intellectualproperty if we are unable to enforce our rights or if we do not detect unauthorized use of our intellectual property. Despite our precautions, it may be possible forunauthorized third parties to copy our products and use information that we regard as proprietary to create products and services that compete with ours. Somelicense provisions protecting against unauthorized use, copying, transfer and disclosure of our products may be unenforceable under the laws of certain jurisdictionsand foreign countries. We enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and consultants and enter into confidentiality agreements with theparties with whom we have strategic relationships and business alliances. No assurance can be given that these agreements will be effective in controlling access toand distribution of our products and proprietary information. The confidentiality agreements on which we rely to protect certain technologies may be breached andmay not be adequate to protect our proprietary technologies. Further, these agreements do not prevent our competitors from independently developing technologiesthat are substantially equivalent or superior to our solutions. In addition, we depend, in part, on technology of third parties licensed to us for our solutions, and theloss or inability to maintain these licenses or errors in the software we license could result in increased costs, reduced service levels or delayed sales of oursolutions. In order to protect our intellectual property rights, we may be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect these rights. Litigation may benecessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights and to protect our trade secrets. Litigation brought to protect and enforce our intellectual propertyrights could be costly, time consuming and distracting to management and could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property.Furthermore, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims and countersuits attacking the validity andenforceability of our intellectual property rights. Our inability to protect our proprietary technology against unauthorized copying or use, as well as any costlylitigation or diversion of our management’s attention and resources, could delay further sales or the implementation of our solutions, impair the functionality of oursolutions, delay introductions of new solutions, result in our substituting inferior or more costly technologies into our solutions, or injure our reputation. In addition,we may be required to license additional technology from third parties to develop and market new solutions, and we cannot assure you that we could license thattechnology on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. Although we do not expect that our inability to license this technology in the future would have a materialadverse effect on our business or operating results, our inability to license this technology could adversely affect our ability to compete. We may be sued by third parties for alleged infringement of their proprietary rights. There is considerable patent and other intellectual property development activity in our industry. Our success depends, in part, upon our not infringingupon the intellectual property rights of others. Our competitors, as well as a number of other entities and individuals, may own or claim to own intellectual propertyrelating to our industry. From time to time, third parties may claim that we are infringing upon their intellectual property rights, and we may be found to beinfringing upon such rights. In the future, others may claim that our applications and underlying technology infringe or violate their intellectual property rights.However, we may be unaware of the intellectual property rights that others may claim cover some or all of our technology or services. Any claims or litigationcould cause us to incur significant expenses and, if successfully asserted against us, could require that we pay substantial damages or ongoing royalty payments,prevent us from offering our services, or require that we comply with other unfavorable terms. We may also be obligated to indemnify our clients or businesspartners or pay substantial settlement costs, including royalty 21Table of Contents payments, in connection with any such claim or litigation and to obtain licenses, modify applications, or refund fees, which could be costly. Even if we were toprevail in such a dispute, any litigation regarding our intellectual property could be costly and time-consuming and divert the attention of our management and keypersonnel from our business operations. The use of open source software in our products and solutions may expose us to additional risks and harm our intellectual property rights. Some of our products and solutions use or incorporate software that is subject to one or more open source licenses. Open source software is typicallyfreely accessible, usable and modifiable. Certain open source software licenses require a user who intends to distribute the open source software as a component ofthe user’s software to disclose publicly part or all of the source code to the user’s software. In addition, certain open source software licenses require the user ofsuch software to make any derivative works of the open source code available to others on potentially unfavorable terms or at no cost. The terms of many open source licenses to which we are subject have not been interpreted by U.S. or foreign courts. Accordingly, there is a risk that thoselicenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our solutions. In that event, we couldbe required to seek licenses from third parties in order to continue offering our products or solutions, to re-develop our products or solutions, to discontinue sales ofour products or solutions, or to release our proprietary software code under the terms of an open source license, any of which could harm our business. Further,given the nature of open source software, it may be more likely that third parties might assert copyright and other intellectual property infringement claims againstus based on our use of these open source software programs. While we monitor the use of all open source software in our products, solutions, processes and technology and try to ensure that no open source softwareis used in such a way as to require us to disclose the source code to the related product or solution when we do not wish to do so, it is possible that such use mayhave inadvertently occurred in deploying our proprietary solutions. In addition, if a third-party software provider has incorporated certain types of open sourcesoftware into software we license from such third party for our products and solutions without our knowledge, we could, under certain circumstances, be requiredto disclose the source code to our products and solutions. This could harm our intellectual property position and our business, results of operations and financialcondition. If third-party software used in our products is not adequately maintained or updated, our business could be materially adversely affected. Our products utilize certain software of third-party software developers. For example, we license technology from bswift as part of our Paylocity WebBenefits solution. Although we believe that there are alternatives for these products, any significant interruption in the availability of such third-party softwarecould have an adverse impact on our business unless and until we can replace the functionality provided by these products at a similar cost. Additionally, we rely,to a certain extent, upon such third parties’ abilities to enhance their current products, to develop new products on a timely and cost-effective basis and to respondto emerging industry standards and other technological changes. We may be unable to replace the functionality provided by the third-party software currentlyoffered in conjunction with our products in the event that such software becomes obsolete or incompatible with future versions of our products or is otherwise notadequately maintained or updated. Changes in laws and regulations related to the Internet or changes in the Internet infrastructure itself may diminish the demand for our applications, andcould have a negative impact on our business. The future success of our business depends upon the continued use of the Internet as a primary medium for commerce, communication and businessapplications. Federal, state or foreign government bodies or agencies have in the past adopted, and may in the future adopt, laws or regulations affecting the use ofthe Internet as a commercial medium. Changes in these laws or regulations could require us to modify our applications in order to comply with these changes. Inaddition, government agencies or private organizations may begin to impose taxes, fees or other charges for accessing the Internet or commerce conducted via theInternet. These laws or charges could limit the growth of Internet-related commerce or communications generally, resulting in reductions in the demand forInternet-based applications such as ours. In addition, the use of the Internet as a business tool could be adversely affected due to delays in the development or adoption of new standards andprotocols to handle increased demands of Internet activity, security, reliability, cost, ease of use, accessibility, and quality of service. The performance of theInternet and its acceptance as a business tool has been adversely affected by “viruses,” “worms” and similar malicious programs, and the Internet has experienced avariety of outages and other delays as a result of damage to portions of its infrastructure. If the use of the Internet is adversely affected by these issues, demand forour applications could suffer. 22Table of Contents Furthermore, the availability or performance of our applications could be adversely affected by a number of factors, including clients’ inability to accessthe Internet, the failure of our network or software systems, security breaches or variability in user traffic for our services. For example, our clients access oursolutions through their Internet service providers. If a service provider fails to provide sufficient capacity to support our applications or otherwise experiencesservice outages, such failure could interrupt our clients’ access to our solutions, adversely affect their perception of our applications’ reliability and reduce ourrevenues. In addition to potential liability, if we experience interruptions in the availability of our applications, our reputation could be adversely affected and wecould lose clients. Regulatory requirements placed on our software and services could impose increased costs on us, delay or prevent our introduction of new products andservices, and impair the function or value of our existing products and services. Our products and services may become subject to increasing regulatory requirements, and as these requirements proliferate, we may be required to changeor adapt our products and services to comply. Changing regulatory requirements might render our products and services obsolete or might block us fromdeveloping new products and services. This might in turn impose additional costs upon us to comply or to further develop our products and services. It might alsomake introduction of new products and services more costly or more time-consuming than we currently anticipate. It might even prevent introduction by us of newproducts or services or cause the continuation of our existing products or services to become more costly. We might require additional capital to support business growth, and this capital might not be available. We intend to continue to make investments to support our business growth and might require additional funds to respond to business challenges oropportunities, including the need to develop new products and services or enhance our existing services, enhance our operating infrastructure, and acquirecomplementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we might need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure additional funds. In addition, we willneed to expand our ACH capacity as we grow our business. If we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution,and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences and privileges superior to those of holders of our common stock. Any debt financing or ACHfacility secured by us in the future could involve restrictive covenants relating to our capital-raising activities and other financial and operational matters, whichmight make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities and to grow our business. In addition, we might not be able toobtain additional financing on terms favorable to us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we requireit, our ability to continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly limited. Our services present the potential for embezzlement, identity theft, or other similar illegal behavior by our associates with respect to third parties. Certain services offered by us involve collecting payroll information from individuals, and this frequently includes information about their checkingaccounts. Our services also involve the use and disclosure of personal and business information that could be used to impersonate third parties, commit identitytheft, or otherwise gain access to their data or funds. If any of our associates take, convert, or misuse such funds, documents or data, we could be liable fordamages, and our business reputation could be damaged or destroyed. Moreover, if we fail to adequately prevent third parties from accessing personal and/orbusiness information and using that information to commit identity theft, we might face legal liabilities and other losses than can have a negative impact on ourbusiness. We rely on a third-party shipping provider to deliver printed checks to our clients, and therefore our business could be negatively impacted by disruptions in theoperations of this third-party provider. We rely on third-party couriers such as the United Parcel Service, or UPS, to ship printed checks to our clients. Relying on UPS and other third-partycouriers puts us at risk from disruptions in their operations, such as employee strikes, inclement weather and their ability to perform tasks on our behalf. If UPS orother third-party couriers fail to perform their tasks, we could incur liability or suffer damages to our reputation, or both. If we are forced to use other third-partycouriers, our costs could increase and we may not be able to meet shipment deadlines. Moreover, we may not be able to obtain terms as favorable as those wecurrently use, which could further increase our costs. These circumstances may negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations. Our reported financial results may be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Generally accepted accounting principles in the United States are subject to interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, theSecurities and Exchange Commission, and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. A change in these principles orinterpretations could have a significant effect on our reported financial results including increased volatility, and could affect the reporting of transactionscompleted before the announcement of a change. In particular, changes to regulations concerning revenue recognition could require us to alter our current revenueaccounting practices and cause us to either defer revenue into a future period, or to recognize lower revenue in a current period, and the implementation of suchchanges could increase compliance costs. 23Table of Contents We may acquire other companies or technologies, which could divert our management’s attention, result in additional dilution to our stockholders andotherwise disrupt our operations and adversely affect our operating results. We may in the future seek to acquire or invest in other businesses or technologies. The pursuit of potential acquisitions or investments may divert theattention of management and cause us to incur various expenses in identifying, investigating and pursuing suitable acquisitions, whether or not they areconsummated. In addition, we have limited experience in acquiring other businesses. If we acquire additional businesses, we may not be able to integrate the acquiredpersonnel, operations and technologies successfully, or effectively manage the combined business following the acquisition. We also may not achieve theanticipated benefits from the acquired business due to a number of factors, including: · Inability to integrate or benefit from acquired technologies or services in a profitable manner; · Unanticipated costs or liabilities associated with the acquisition; · Incurrence of acquisition-related costs; · Difficulty integrating the accounting systems, operations and personnel of the acquired business; · Difficulties and additional expenses associated with supporting legacy products and hosting infrastructure of the acquired business; · Difficulty converting the clients of the acquired business onto our applications and contract terms, including disparities in the revenues,licensing, support or professional services model of the acquired company; · Diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns; · Adverse effects to our existing business relationships with business partners and clients as a result of the acquisition; · The potential loss of key employees; · Use of resources that are needed in other parts of our business; and · Use of substantial portions of our available cash to consummate the acquisition. In addition, a significant portion of the purchase price of companies we acquire may be allocated to acquired goodwill and other intangible assets, whichmust be assessed for impairment at least annually. In the future, if our acquisitions do not yield expected returns, we may be required to take charges to ouroperating results based on this impairment assessment process, which could adversely affect our results of operations. Acquisitions could also result in dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt, which could adversely affect our operating results. Inaddition, if an acquired business fails to meet our expectations, our operating results, business and financial position may suffer. Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock Insiders have substantial control over us, which may limit our stockholders’ ability to influence corporate matters and delay or prevent a third party fromacquiring control over us. As of August 5, 2016, our directors, executive officers and holders of more than 5% of our common stock, together with their respective affiliates,beneficially owned, in the aggregate, approximately 51.5% of our outstanding common stock. This significant concentration of ownership may adversely affect thetrading price for our common stock because investors often perceive disadvantages in owning stock in companies with controlling stockholders. In addition, thesestockholders will be able to exercise influence over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of corporatetransactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets. This concentration of ownership could limit the ability of our other stockholders toinfluence corporate matters and may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control, including a merger, consolidation, or other business combinationinvolving us, or discouraging a potential acquirer from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control, even if that change in control would benefitour other stockholders. 24Table of Contents Our stock price may be subject to wide fluctuations. The trading price of our common stock could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors, some of which are beyond our control. Thesefactors include those discussed in this “Risk Factors” section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and others such as: · Our operating performance and the operating performance of similar companies; · Announcements by us or our competitors of acquisitions, business plans or commercial relationships; · Any major change in our board of directors or senior management; · Publication of research reports or news stories about us, our competitors, or our industry, or positive or negative recommendations or withdrawalof research coverage by securities analysts; · The public’s reaction to our press releases, our other public announcements and our filings with the SEC; · Sales of our common stock by our directors, executive officers and affiliates; · Adverse market reaction to any indebtedness we may incur or securities we may issue in the future; · Short sales, hedging and other derivative transactions in our common stock; · Threatened or actual litigation; and · Other events or factors, including changes in general conditions in the United States and global economies or financial markets (including thoseresulting from the United Kingdom’s decision to exit from the European Union, acts of God, war, incidents of terrorism, or other destabilizingevents and the resulting responses to them). In addition, the stock market in general and the market for Internet-related companies in particular, have experienced extreme price and volumefluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. Securities class action litigation has often beeninstituted against companies following periods of volatility in the overall market and in the market price of a company’s securities. This litigation, if institutedagainst us, could result in substantial costs, divert our management’s attention and resources, and harm our business, operating results, and financial condition. We do not currently intend to pay dividends on our common stock and, consequently, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend onappreciation in the price of our common stock. We have not declared or paid dividends on our common stock in the past two fiscal years and do not currently intend to do so for the foreseeable future.We currently intend to invest our future earnings, if any, to fund our growth. Therefore, you are not likely to receive any dividends on your common stock for theforeseeable future, and the success of an investment in shares of our common stock will depend upon future appreciation in its value, if any. There is no guaranteethat shares of our common stock will appreciate in value or even maintain the price at which our stockholders purchased their shares. Future sales of shares of our common stock by existing stockholders could depress the market price of our common stock. As of August 5, 2016, we had an aggregate of 51,157,430 outstanding shares of common stock. The 17,362,750 shares sold in our initial public offeringand follow-on offering can be freely sold in the public market without restriction. The remaining shares can be freely sold in the public market, subject in somecases to volume and other restrictions under Rule 144 and 701 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and various agreements. In addition, we have registered 12,778,598 shares of common stock that we have issued and may issue under our equity plans. These shares can be freelysold in the public market upon issuance, subject in some cases to volume and other restrictions under Rules 144 and 701 under the Securities Act, and variousvesting agreements. In addition, some of our employees, including some of our executive officers, have entered into 10b5-1 trading plans regarding sales of sharesof our common stock. These plans provide for sales to occur from time to time. If any of these additional shares are sold, or if it is perceived that they will be sold,in the public market, the trading price of our common stock could decline. Also, in the future, we may issue additional securities in connection with investments and acquisitions. The amount of our common stock issued inconnection with an investment or acquisition could constitute a material portion of our then outstanding stock. Due to these factors, sales of a substantial number ofshares of our common stock in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of sharesintend to sell shares, could reduce the market price of our common stock. 25Table of Contents If we are unable to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of ourfinancial reports and the market price of our common stock may be negatively affected. As a public company, we are required to maintain internal controls over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internalcontrols. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requires that we evaluate and determine the effectiveness of our internalcontrols over financial reporting and provide a management report on the internal controls over financial reporting. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requiresthat our management report on the internal controls over financial reporting be attested to by our independent registered public accounting firm. If we have amaterial weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting, we may not detect errors on a timely basis and our financial statements may be materiallymisstated. Compliance with these public company requirements has made some activities more time-consuming, costly and complicated. If we identify materialweaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting, if we are unable to assert that our internal controls over financial reporting are effective, or if ourindependent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion as to the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting, investors maylose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and the market price of our common stock could be negatively affected, and we couldbecome subject to investigations by the stock exchange on which our securities are listed, the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which could require additionalfinancial and management resources. We have incurred and will continue to incur significantly increased costs and devote substantial management time as a result of operating as a publiccompany. As a public company, we have incurred and will continue to incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a privatecompany. For example, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, and are required tocomply with the applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as well as rules andregulations subsequently implemented by the SEC and the NASDAQ Global Select Market including the establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure andfinancial controls and changes in corporate governance practices. Compliance with these requirements has increased our legal and financial compliance costs andhas made some activities more time consuming and costly. In addition, our management and other personnel have been required to divert attention from operationaland other business matters to devote substantial time to these public company requirements. In particular, we have incurred significant expenses and devotedsubstantial management effort toward ensuring compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Although we have hired additionalemployees to comply with these requirements, we will need to hire additional accounting and financial staff with appropriate public company experience andtechnical accounting knowledge. We cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs. If securities or industry analysts do not continue to publish research or publish unfavorable or misleading research about our business, our stock price andtrading volume could decline. The trading market for our common stock depends in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business.If one or more of the analysts who covers us downgrades our stock or publishes unfavorable or misleading research about our business, our stock price would likelydecline. If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of our company or fails to publish reports on us regularly, we could lose visibility in the market for ourstock and demand for our stock could decrease, which could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline. Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and Delaware law could discourage, delay, or prevent a change in control of our company and may affectthe trading price of our common stock. We are a Delaware corporation and the anti-takeover provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which apply to us, may discourage, delay orprevent a change in control by prohibiting us from engaging in a business combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years after thestockholder becomes an interested stockholder, even if a change in control would be beneficial to our existing stockholders. In addition, our amended and restatedcertificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws may discourage, delay or prevent a change in our management or control over us that stockholdersmay consider favorable. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws: · Authorize the issuance of “blank check” convertible preferred stock that could be issued by our board of directors to thwart a takeover attempt; · Establish a classified board of directors, as a result of which the successors to the directors whose terms have expired will be elected to servefrom the time of election and qualification until the third annual meeting following their election; · Require that directors only be removed from office for cause and only upon a supermajority stockholder vote; 26Table of Contents · Provide that vacancies on the board of directors, including newly-created directorships, may be filled only by a majority vote of directors then inoffice rather than by stockholders; · Prevent stockholders from calling special meetings; and · Prohibit stockholder action by written consent, requiring all actions to be taken at a meeting of the stockholders. Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments. None. Item 2. Properties. As of June 30, 2016, our corporate headquarters occupied approximately 135,000 square feet in Arlington Heights, Illinois under leases with finalexpiration in July 2022. As of June 30, 2016, we also leased facilities in New York, New York, Lake Mary, Florida, Nashua, New Hampshire, Springfield, NewJersey, Boise, Idaho and Oakland, California. In June 2016, we entered into a lease for approximately 309,559 rentable square feet of office space located in Schaumburg, Illinois. We intend to use theleased premises as our headquarters upon the expiration of the lease of our current headquarters. The lease provides for phased delivery and commencement dates,with commencement expected to occur on the following approximate dates: Phase I (June 1, 2017), Phase II (Nov 1, 2017), Phase III (July 1, 2018), and Phase IV(July 1, 2019). The actual commencement dates are subject to timely delivery of the premises by the landlord. The lease provides for a term beginning on the PhaseI commencement date and ending 180 full calendar months after the landlord delivers the Phase II premises, which is expected to be on or about November 1, 2017,with two subsequent five year renewal options. For additional information regarding obligations under operating leases, see Note 10 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II,Item 8: “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Item 3. Legal Proceedings. From time to time, we may become involved in litigation related to claims arising from the ordinary course of our business. We believe that there are noclaims or actions pending or threatened against us, the ultimate disposition of which would have a material adverse effect on us. Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures. Not applicable. 27Table of Contents PART II Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities Market Information Our common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “PCTY”. The following table sets forth for the periods indicated thehigh and low intra-day sale prices per share of our common stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market: High Low Year ended June 30, 2015 First Quarter $26.00 $18.50 Second Quarter $30.41 $19.20 Third Quarter $33.22 $22.21 Fourth Quarter $37.96 $26.16 Year ended June 30, 2016 First Quarter $37.49 $29.02 Second Quarter $46.23 $29.66 Third Quarter $38.56 $25.17 Fourth Quarter $43.20 $32.88 On August 5, 2016, the last reported sale price of our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market was $47.25 per share, and there were 17 holdersof record of our common stock. The actual number of holders of common stock is greater than these numbers of record holders and includes stockholders who arebeneficial owners, but whose shares are held in street name by brokers and nominees. The number of holders of record also does not include stockholders whoseshares may be held in trust by other entities. Use of Proceeds from Initial Public Offering of Common Stock On March 24, 2014, we completed our initial public offering, or IPO, of 8,101,750 shares of common stock, at a price of $17.00 per share, beforeunderwriting discounts and commissions. We sold 5,366,667 of such shares and existing shareholders sold an aggregate of 2,735,083 of such shares. The offer andsale of all of the shares in the IPO were registered under the Securities Act pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-193661), which wasdeclared effective by the SEC on March 18, 2014. With the proceeds of the IPO, we repaid amounts outstanding under a note issued by us to Commerce Bank & Trust Company on March 9, 2011, whichtotaled $1.1 million, paid $9.4 million for the purchase of substantially all of the assets of BFKMS Inc., and paid $9.5 million for the purchase of substantially all ofthe assets of Synergy Payroll LLC. Use of Proceeds from Follow-On Offering of Common Stock On December 17, 2014, we completed a follow-on offering of 4,960,000 shares of common stock at a price of $26.25 per share, before underwritingdiscounts and commissions. We sold 750,000 of such shares and existing shareholders sold an aggregate of 4,210,000 of such shares. The offer and sale of all ofthe shares in the follow-on offering were registered under the Securities Act pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-200448) which wasdeclared effective by the SEC on December 11, 2014. There have been no material changes in the planned use of proceeds from the follow-on offering as describedin the final prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) on December 12, 2014. Use of Proceeds from Secondary Offering of Common Stock On September 30, 2015, we completed a secondary offering of 4,301,000 shares of common stock at a price of $29.75 per share, before underwritingdiscounts and commissions. The offer and sale of all of the shares in the secondary offering were registered under the Securities Act pursuant to a registrationstatement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-206941) which was declared effective by the SEC on September 25, 2015. The Company did not receive any proceeds fromthe sale of common stock, as all the shares were sold by shareholders of the Company. Dividend Policy We have not declared or paid dividends on our common stock in the past two fiscal years. Neither Delaware law nor our amended and restated certificate ofincorporation requires our board of directors to declare dividends on our common stock. Any future determination to declare cash dividends on our common stockwill be made at the discretion of our board of directors and will 28Table of Contents depend on our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, general business conditions and other factors that our board of directors may deemrelevant. We do not anticipate paying cash dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future. Equity Compensation Plan Information Information regarding the securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans will be included in our Proxy Statement relating to our2017 annual meeting of stockholders to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, and is incorporated herein byreference. Performance Graph Notwithstanding any statement to the contrary in any of our filings with the SEC, the following information shall not be deemed “filed” with the SEC or“soliciting material” under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and shall not be incorporated by reference into any such filings irrespective of any generalincorporation language contained in such filing. The following graph compares the total cumulative stockholder return on our common stock with the total cumulative return of the S&P 500 Index and theS&P 1500 Application Software Index during the period commencing on March 19, 2014, the initial trading day of our common stock, and ending on June 30,2016. The graph assumes that $100 was invested at the beginning of the period in our common stock and in each of the comparative indices, and the reinvestmentof any dividends. Historical stock price performance should not be relied upon as an indication of future stock price performance. 29Table of Contents Item 6. Selected Financial Data. Consolidated Selected Financial Data You should read the following selected consolidated financial data together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes includedelsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and the information under the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition andResults of Operations.” Our fiscal year ends on June 30. The statements of operations data presented below have been derived from our audited consolidatedfinancial statements. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of future results. Year Ended June 30, 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 (in thousands, except per share data) Consolidated Statements of Operations Data: Revenues: Recurring fees $51,211 $71,309 $100,362 $142,168 $217,416 Interest income on funds held for clients 1,263 1,459 1,582 1,901 2,688 Total recurring revenues 52,474 72,768 101,944 144,069 220,104 Implementation services and other 2,622 4,526 6,743 8,629 10,597 Total revenues 55,096 77,294 108,687 152,698 230,701 Cost of revenues: Recurring revenues 22,054 28,863 37,319 46,366 66,131 Implementation services and other 7,040 10,803 17,775 24,530 31,954 Total cost of revenues 29,094 39,666 55,094 70,896 98,085 Gross profit 26,002 37,628 53,593 81,802 132,616 Operating expenses: Sales and marketing 12,828 18,693 28,276 43,035 61,832 Research and development 1,788 6,825 10,355 19,864 26,736 General and administrative 8,618 12,079 21,980 32,824 47,598 Total operating expenses 23,234 37,597 60,611 95,723 136,166 Operating income (loss) 2,768 31 (7,018) (13,921) (3,550) Other income (expense) (196) (16) 163 54 (124) Income (loss) before income taxes 2,572 15 (6,855) (13,867) (3,674) Income tax (benefit) expense 884 (602) 255 105 177 Net income (loss) $1,688 $617 $(7,110) $(13,972) $(3,851) Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders $998 $(2,291) $(9,392) $(13,972) $(3,851) Net income (loss) per share attributable to common stockholders: Basic $0.02 $(0.07) $(0.26) $(0.28) $(0.08) Diluted $0.02 $(0.07) $(0.26) $(0.28) $(0.08) Weighted average shares used in computing net income (loss) per shareattributable to common stockholders: Basic 43,873 31,988 36,707 50,127 50,913 Diluted 44,317 31,988 36,707 50,127 50,913 Other Financial Data: Adjusted Gross Profit(1) $28,729 $40,695 $57,029 $87,226 $141,029 Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit(1) $33,147 $46,972 $67,458 $101,876 $161,184 Adjusted EBITDA(1) $7,660 $6,301 $5,448 $8,238 $28,398 30Table of Contents As of June 30, 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 (in thousands) Consolidated Balance Sheet Data: Cash and cash equivalents $9,031 $7,594 $78,848 $81,258 $86,496 Working capital(2) 2,786 2,305 67,137 69,296 68,986 Funds held for clients 263,255 355,905 417,261 591,219 1,239,622 Total assets 284,943 377,916 528,151 720,548 1,390,689 Debt, current portion 1,625 625 — — — Client fund obligations 263,255 355,905 417,261 591,219 1,239,622 Long-term debt, net of current portion 1,563 938 — — — Redeemable convertible preferred stock 36,573 36,573 — — — Stockholders’ equity (deficit) (27,646) (26,592) 91,134 107,580 119,572 (1) We use Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit, and Adjusted EBITDA to evaluate our operating results. We prepare Adjusted GrossProfit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA to eliminate the impact of items we do not consider indicative of our ongoing operatingperformance. However, Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA are not measurements of financial performanceunder generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or GAAP, and these metrics may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures ofother companies. We define Adjusted Gross Profit as gross profit before amortization of capitalized internal-use software costs, stock-based compensation expense andemployer payroll taxes related to stock releases and option exercises and one-time founder funded bonus pay-outs, if any. We define Adjusted RecurringGross Profit as total recurring revenues after cost of recurring revenues and before amortization of capitalized internal-use software costs, stock-basedcompensation expense and employer payroll taxes related to stock releases and option exercises and one-time founder funded bonus pay-outs, if any. Wedefine Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest expense, income tax (benefit) expense, depreciation and amortization, stock-basedcompensation expense and employer payroll taxes related to stock releases and option exercises and one-time founder funded bonus pay-outs, if any. We disclose Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA, which are non-GAAP measures, because we believe thesemetrics assist investors and analysts in comparing our performance across reporting periods on a consistent basis by excluding items that we do notbelieve are indicative of our core operating performance. We believe these metrics are commonly used in the financial community to aid in comparisonsof similar companies, and we present them to enhance investors’ understanding of our operating performance and cash flows. Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA have limitations as analytical tools. Some of these limitations are: · Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect our ongoing or future requirements for capital expenditures; · Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs; · Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect our income tax expense or the cash requirement to pay our taxes; · Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized may have to be replaced in the future, andAdjusted EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements; and · Other companies in our industry may calculate Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA differently than wedo, limiting their usefulness as a comparative measure. Additionally, stock-based compensation will continue to be an element of our overall compensation strategy, although we exclude it from Adjusted GrossProfit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA as an expense when evaluating our ongoing operating performance for a particular period. Because of these limitations, you should not consider Adjusted Gross Profit as an alternative to gross profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit as analternative to total recurring revenues, or Adjusted EBITDA as an alternative to net income (loss) or cash provided by (used in) operating activities, ineach case as determined in accordance with GAAP. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results, and we use AdjustedGross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA only as supplemental information. 31Table of Contents Directly comparable GAAP measures to Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA are gross profit, total recurringrevenues and net income (loss), respectively. We reconcile Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA as follows: Year Ended June 30, 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 (in thousands) Reconciliation from Gross Profit to Adjusted Gross Profit Gross profit $26,002 $37,628 $53,593 $81,802 $132,616 Amortization of capitalized internal-use software costs 2,727 3,067 2,195 2,606 5,446 Stock-based compensation expense and employer payroll taxesrelated to stock releases and option exercises — — 920 2,818 2,967 One-time founder funded bonus pay-outs — — 321 — — Adjusted Gross Profit $28,729 $40,695 $57,029 $87,226 $141,029 Year Ended June 30, 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 (in thousands) Reconciliation from Total Recurring Revenues to AdjustedRecurring Gross Profit Total recurring revenues $52,474 $72,768 $101,944 $144,069 $220,104 Cost of recurring revenues (22,054) (28,863) (37,319) (46,366) (66,131) Recurring gross profit 30,420 43,905 64,625 97,703 153,973 Amortization of capitalized internal-use software costs 2,727 3,067 2,195 2,606 5,446 Stock-based compensation expense and employer payroll taxesrelated to stock releases and option exercises — — 496 1,567 1,765 One-time founder funded bonus pay-outs — — 142 — — Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit $33,147 $46,972 $67,458 $101,876 $161,184 Year Ended June 30, 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 (in thousands) Reconciliation from Net Income (Loss) to Adjusted EBITDA Net income (loss) $1,688 $617 $(7,110) $(13,972) $(3,851) Interest expense 261 192 67 — — Income tax (benefit) expense 884 (602) 255 105 177 Depreciation and amortization 4,624 5,571 6,336 8,609 13,873 EBITDA 7,457 5,778 (452) (5,258) 10,199 Stock-based compensation expense and employer payroll taxesrelated to stock releases and option exercises 203 523 4,929 13,496 18,199 One-time founder funded bonus pay-outs — — 971 — — Adjusted EBITDA $7,660 $6,301 $5,448 $8,238 $28,398 (2) Working capital is defined as current assets minus current liabilities. 32Table of Contents Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. The statements included herein that are not based solely on historical facts are “forward looking statements.” Such forward-looking statements are based oncurrent expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated by us in theseforward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those discussed below and under Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors.” Overview We are a cloud-based provider of payroll and human capital management or HCM software solutions for medium-sized organizations, which we define asthose having between 20 and 1,000 employees. Our comprehensive and easy-to-use solutions enable our clients to manage their workforces more effectively. Oursolutions help drive strategic human capital decision-making and improve employee engagement by enhancing the HR, payroll and finance capabilities of ourclients. Effective management of human capital is a core function in all organizations and requires a significant commitment of resources. Medium-sizedorganizations operating without the infrastructure, expertise or personnel of larger enterprises are uniquely pressured to manage their human capital effectively. Our solutions were specifically designed to meet the payroll and HCM needs of medium-sized organizations. We designed our cloud-based platform toprovide a unified suite of applications using a multi-tenant architecture. Our solutions are highly flexible and configurable and feature a modern, intuitive userexperience. Our platform offers automated data integration with over 200 related third-party systems, such as 401(k), benefits and insurance provider systems. Our Paylocity Web Pay product is our core payroll solution and was the first of our current offerings introduced into the market. We believe payroll is themost critical system of record for medium-sized organizations and an essential gateway to other HCM functionality. We have invested in, and we intend tocontinue to invest in, research and development to expand our product offerings and advance our platform. We believe there is a significant opportunity to grow our business by increasing our number of clients and we intend to invest in our business to achievethis purpose. We market and sell our solutions primarily through our direct sales force. We have increased our sales and marketing expenses as we have added salesrepresentatives and related sales and marketing personnel. We intend to continue to grow our sales and marketing organization across new and existing geographicterritories. In addition to growing our number of clients, we intend to grow our revenue over the long term by increasing the number and quality of products thatclients purchase from us. To do so, we must continue to enhance and grow the number of solutions we offer to advance our platform. We believe that delivering a positive service experience is an essential element of our ability to sell our solutions and retain our clients. We seek todevelop deep relationships with our clients through our unified service model, which has been designed to meet the service needs of medium-sized organizations.We expect to continue to invest in and grow our implementation and client service organization as our client base grows. We believe we have the opportunity to continue to grow our business over the long term, and to do so we have invested, and intend to continue to invest,across our entire organization. These investments include increasing the number of personnel across all functional areas, along with improving our solutions andinfrastructure to support our growth. The timing and amount of these investments vary based on the rate at which we add new clients, add new personnel and scaleour application development and other activities. Many of these investments will occur in advance of experiencing any direct benefit from them which will make itdifficult to determine if we are effectively allocating our resources. We expect these investments to increase our costs on an absolute basis, but as we grow ournumber of clients and our related revenues, we anticipate that we will gain economies of scale and increased operating leverage. As a result, we expect our grossand operating margins will improve over the long term. As our business has grown, we have become increasingly subject to the risks arising from adverse changes in domestic and global economic conditions. Ifgeneral economic conditions were to deteriorate further, including declines in private sector employment growth and business productivity, increases in theunemployment rate and changes in interest rates, we may experience delays in our sales cycles, increased pressure from prospective customers to offer discountsand increased pressure from existing customers to renew expiring recurring revenue agreements for lower amounts. Our interest income on funds held for clientscontinues to be adversely impacted by historically low interest rates. 33Table of Contents Our operating subsidiary Paylocity Corporation was incorporated in July 1997 as an Illinois corporation. In November 2013, we formed Paylocity HoldingCorporation, a Delaware corporation, of which Paylocity Corporation is now a wholly-owned subsidiary. Paylocity Holding Corporation had no operations prior tothe restructuring. All of our business operations have historically been, and are currently, conducted by Paylocity Corporation, and the financial results presentedherein are attributable to the results of its operations. Key Metrics We regularly review a number of metrics, including the following key metrics, to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trendsaffecting our business, formulate financial projections and make strategic decisions. Recurring Revenue Growth Our recurring revenue model and high annual revenue retention rates provide significant visibility into our future operating results and cash flow fromoperations. This visibility enables us to better manage and invest in our business. Recurring revenue, which is comprised of recurring fees and interest income onfunds held for clients, increased from $101.9 million in fiscal 2014 to $144.1 million in fiscal 2015, representing a 41% year-over-year increase. Recurring revenueincreased from $144.1 million in fiscal 2015 to $220.1 million in fiscal 2016, representing a 53% year-over-year increase. The increase in our recurring revenuegrowth was positively impacted by the launch in fiscal year 2016 of our Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) compliance solution, which had significant penetrationbeginning in the second quarter of fiscal year 2016. We expect the impact on year-over-year quarterly revenue growth of our ACA compliance solution to behighest in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 given the timing of significant penetration, beginning in the second quarter of fiscal year 2016. Recurring revenuerepresented 94% of total revenue in both fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2015 and 95% of total revenue in fiscal year 2016. Client Count Growth We believe there is a significant opportunity to grow our business by increasing our number of clients. We have increased our number of clients fromapproximately 8,500 as of June 30, 2014 to approximately 12,500 as of June 30, 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of approximately 21%. Thetable below sets forth our client count for the periods indicated, rounded to the nearest fifty. Year Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Client Count 8,500 10,350 12,500 The rate at which we add clients is highly variable period-to-period and highly seasonal as many clients switch solutions during the first calendar quarterof each year. Although many clients have multiple divisions, segments or locations, we only count such clients once for these purposes. Annual Revenue Retention Rate Our annual revenue retention rate has been in excess of 92% during each of the past three fiscal years. We calculate our annual revenue retention rate asour total revenue for the preceding 12 months, less the annualized value of revenue lost during the preceding 12 months, divided by our total revenue for thepreceding 12 months. We calculate the annualized value of revenue lost by summing the recurring fees paid by lost clients over the previous twelve months prior totheir termination if they have been a client for a minimum of twelve months. For those lost clients who became clients within the last twelve months, we sum therecurring fees for the period that they have been a client and then annualize the amount. We exclude interest income on funds held for clients from the revenueretention calculation. We believe that our annual revenue retention rate is an important metric to measure overall client satisfaction and the general quality of ourproduct and service offerings. Recurring Fees From New Clients We calculate recurring fees from new clients as the percentage of year-to-date recurring fees from all clients on our solutions which had not been on orused any of our solutions for a full year as of the start of the current fiscal year. We believe recurring fees from new clients is an important metric to measure theexpansion of our existing client base as well as the growth in our client base. Our recurring fees from new clients was 44% for fiscal 2014 and 45% for both fiscal2015 and fiscal 2016. Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA We disclose Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA because we use them to evaluate our performance, and webelieve Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA assist in the comparison of our performance across reporting periods byexcluding certain items that we do not believe are indicative of our core operating performance. We believe these metrics are used in the financial community, andwe present it to enhance investors’ understanding of our operating performance and cash flows. 34Table of Contents Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA are not measurements of financial performance under generally acceptedaccounting principles in the United States, or GAAP, and you should not consider Adjusted Gross Profit as an alternative to gross profit, Adjusted Recurring GrossProfit as an alternative to total recurring revenues, or Adjusted EBITDA as an alternative to net income (loss) or cash provided by (used in) operating activities, ineach case as determined in accordance with GAAP. In addition, our definition of Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDAmay be different than the definition utilized for similarly-titled measures used by other companies. We define Adjusted Gross Profit as gross profit before amortization of capitalized internal-use software costs, stock-based compensation expense andemployer payroll taxes related to stock releases and option exercises and one-time founder funded bonus pay-outs, if any. We define Adjusted Recurring GrossProfit as total recurring revenues after cost of recurring revenues and before amortization of capitalized internal-use software costs, stock-based compensationexpense and employer payroll taxes related to stock releases and option exercises and one-time founder funded bonus pay-outs, if any. We define AdjustedEBITDA as net income (loss) before interest expense, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation expense andemployer payroll taxes related to stock releases and option exercises and one-time founder funded bonus pay-outs, if any. The table below sets forth our AdjustedGross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA for the periods presented. Year Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 (in thousands) Adjusted Gross Profit $57,029 $87,226 $141,029 Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit $67,458 $101,876 $161,184 Adjusted EBITDA $5,448 $8,238 $28,398 For a further discussion of Adjusted Gross Profit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA, including a reconciliation of Adjusted GrossProfit, Adjusted Recurring Gross Profit and Adjusted EBITDA to GAAP, see Part II, Item 6: “Consolidated Selected Financial Data.” Basis of Presentation Revenues Recurring Fees We derive the majority of our revenues from recurring fees attributable to our cloud-based payroll and HCM software solutions. Recurring fees for eachclient generally include a base fee in addition to a fee based on the number of client employees and the number of products a client uses. We also charge feesattributable to our preparation of W-2 documents and annual required filings on behalf of our clients. Over the past three years, our client size has been on averageover 100 employees. We derive revenue from a client based on the solutions purchased by the client, the number of client employees as well as the amount, typeand timing of services provided in respect of those client employees. As such, the number of client employees on our system is not a good indicator of ourfinancial results in any period. Recurring fees attributable to our cloud-based payroll and HCM solutions accounted for approximately 92%, 93% and 94% of ourtotal revenues during the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Our agreements with clients do not have a specified term and are generally cancellable by the client on 60 days’ or less notice. Our agreements do notinclude general rights of return and do not provide clients with the right to take possession of the software supporting the services being provided. We recognizerecurring fees in the period in which services are provided and when collection of fees is reasonably assured and the amount of fees is fixed or determinable. Interest Income on Funds Held for Clients We earn interest income on funds held for clients. We collect funds for employee payroll payments and related taxes in advance of remittance toemployees and taxing authorities. Prior to remittance to employees and taxing authorities, we earn interest on these funds through financial institutions with whichwe have automated clearing house, or ACH, arrangements. Implementation Services and Other Implementation services and other revenues primarily consist of implementation fees charged to new clients for professional services provided toimplement and configure our payroll and HCM solutions. Implementations of our payroll solutions typically require only three to four weeks at which point thenew client’s payroll is first run using our solution, our implementation services are deemed completed, and we recognize the related revenue. We implementadditional HCM products as requested by clients and leverage the data within our payroll solution to accelerate our implementation processes. Implementationservices and other revenues may fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter based on the number of new clients, pricing and the product utilization. 35Table of Contents Cost of Revenues Cost of Recurring Revenues Costs of recurring revenues are generally expensed as incurred, and include costs to provide our payroll and other HCM solutions primarily consisting ofemployee-related expenses, including wages, stock-based compensation, bonuses and benefits, relating to the provision of ongoing client support, payroll tax filingand distribution of printed checks and other materials. These costs also include third-party reseller costs, delivery costs, computing costs and amortization ofcapitalized internal-use software costs, as well as bank fees associated with client fund transfers. We expect to realize cost efficiencies over the long term as ourbusiness scales, resulting in improved operating leverage and increased margins. We capitalize a portion of our internal-use software costs, which are then all amortized as a cost of recurring revenues. We amortized $2.2 million,$2.6 million and $5.4 million of capitalized internal-use software costs in fiscal 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Cost of Implementation Services and Other Cost of implementation services and other consists primarily of employee-related expenses, including wages, stock-based compensation, bonuses andbenefits involved in the implementation of our payroll and other HCM solutions for new clients. Implementation costs are generally fixed in the short-term andexceed associated implementation revenue charged to each client. We intend to grow our business through acquisition of new clients, and doing so will requireincreased personnel to implement our solutions. Therefore our cost of implementation services and other is expected to increase in absolute dollars for theforeseeable future. Operating Expenses Sales and Marketing Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of employee-related expenses for our direct sales and marketing staff, including wages, commissions,stock-based compensation, bonuses and benefits, marketing expenses and other related costs. Commissions are primarily earned and recognized in the month whenimplementation is complete and the client first utilizes a service, typically by running its first payroll. Bonuses paid to sales staff for attainment of certainperformance criteria are accrued in the fiscal year in which they are earned and are subsequently paid annually in the first fiscal quarter of the following year. We will seek to grow our number of clients for the foreseeable future and therefore our sales and marketing expense is expected to continue to increase inabsolute dollars as we grow our sales organization and expand our marketing activities. Research and Development Research and development expenses consist primarily of employee-related expenses for our research and development and product management staff,including wages, stock-based compensation, bonuses and benefits. Additional expenses include costs related to the development, maintenance, quality assuranceand testing of new technologies and ongoing refinement of our existing solutions. Research and development expenses, other than internal-use software costsqualifying for capitalization, are expensed as incurred. We capitalize a portion of our development costs related to internal-use software. The timing of our capitalized development projects may affect theamount of development costs expensed in any given period. The table below sets forth the amounts of capitalized and expensed research and development expensesfor each of fiscal 2014, 2015 and 2016. Year Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 (in thousands) Capitalized portion of research and development $4,674 $4,870 $9,516 Expensed portion of research and development 10,355 19,864 26,736 Total research and development $15,029 $24,734 $36,252 We expect to grow our research and development efforts as we continue to broaden our product offerings and extend our technological leadership byinvesting in the development of new technologies and introducing them to new and existing clients. We expect research and development expenses to continue toincrease in absolute dollars but to vary as a percentage of total revenue on a period-to-period basis. 36Table of Contents General and Administrative General and administrative expenses consist primarily of other employee-related costs, including wages, stock-based compensation, bonuses and benefitsfor our administrative, finance, accounting, and human resources departments. Additional expenses include consulting and professional fees, occupancy costs,insurance and other corporate expenses. We expect our general and administrative expenses to continue to increase in absolute dollars as a result of our operation as a public company. Theseexpenses include costs associated with regulations governing public companies, costs of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and professional servicesexpenses. Other Income (Expense) Other income (expense) generally consists of interest income related to interest received on our cash and cash equivalents and disposals of property andequipment. Results of Operations The following table sets forth our statements of operations data for each of the periods indicated. Year Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 (in thousands) Consolidated Statements of Operations Data: Revenues: Recurring fees $100,362 $142,168 $217,416 Interest income on funds held for clients 1,582 1,901 2,688 Total recurring revenues 101,944 144,069 220,104 Implementation services and other 6,743 8,629 10,597 Total revenues 108,687 152,698 230,701 Cost of revenues: Recurring revenues 37,319 46,366 66,131 Implementation services and other 17,775 24,530 31,954 Total cost of revenues 55,094 70,896 98,085 Gross profit 53,593 81,802 132,616 Operating expenses: Sales and marketing 28,276 43,035 61,832 Research and development 10,355 19,864 26,736 General and administrative 21,980 32,824 47,598 Total operating expenses 60,611 95,723 136,166 Operating loss (7,018) (13,921) (3,550) Other income (expense) 163 54 (124) Loss before income taxes (6,855) (13,867) (3,674) Income tax expense 255 105 177 Net loss $(7,110) $(13,972) $(3,851) 37Table of Contents The following table sets forth our statements of operations data as a percentage of total revenue for each of the periods indicated. Year Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Consolidated Statements of Operations Data: Revenues: Recurring fees 92% 93% 94% Interest income on funds held for clients 2% 1% 1% Total recurring revenues 94% 94% 95% Implementation services and other 6% 6% 5% Total revenues 100% 100% 100% Cost of revenues: Recurring revenues 34% 30% 29% Implementation services and other 17% 16% 14% Total costs of revenues 51% 46% 43% Gross profit 49% 54% 57% Operating expenses: Sales and marketing 26% 28% 27% Research and development 10% 13% 11% General and administrative 20% 22% 21% Total operating expenses 56% 63% 59% Operating loss (7)% (9)% (2)% Other income (expense) 0% 0% 0% Loss before income taxes (7)% (9)% (2)% Income tax expense 0% 0% 0% Net loss (7)% (9)% (2)% Comparison of Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016 Revenues($ in thousands) Year Ended June 30, Change from 2014 to 2015 Change from 2015 to 2016 2014 2015 2016 $ % $ % Recurring fees $100,362 $142,168 $217,416 $41,806 42% $75,248 53% Percentage of total revenues 92% 93% 94% Interest income on funds held for clients $1,582 $1,901 $2,688 $319 20% $787 41% Percentage of total revenues 2% 1% 1% Implementation services and other $6,743 $8,629 $10,597 $1,886 28% $1,968 23% Percentage of total revenues 6% 6% 5% Recurring Fees Recurring fees for the year ended June 30, 2016 increased by $75.2 million, or 53%, to $217.4 million from $142.2 million for the year ended June 30,2015. Recurring fees increased primarily as a result of incremental revenues from new and existing clients, including revenue related to our Affordable Care Act(“ACA”) compliance solution offered to new and existing clients, which we launched in fiscal year 2016. Our client count at June 30, 2016 increased by 21% toapproximately 12,500 from approximately 10,350 at June 30, 2015. Recurring fees for the year ended June 30, 2015 increased by $41.8 million, or 42%, to $142.2 million from $100.4 million for the year ended June 30,2014. Recurring fees increased primarily as a result of the continued growth of our client base in fiscal 2015, as well as increased revenue per client. Our clientcount at June 30, 2015 increased by 22% to approximately 10,350 from approximately 8,500 at June 30, 2014. 38Table of Contents Interest Income on Funds Held for Clients Interest income on funds held for clients for the year ended June 30, 2016 increased by $0.8 million, or 41%, to $2.7 million from $1.9 million for the yearended June 30, 2015. Interest income increased primarily as a result of an increased average daily balance of funds held due to the addition of new clients to ourclient base. Interest income on funds held for clients for the year ended June 30, 2015 increased by $0.3 million, or 20%, to $1.9 million from $1.6 million for the yearended June 30, 2014. Interest income increased primarily as a result of an increased average daily balance of funds held due to the addition of new clients to ourclient base. Implementation Services and Other Implementation services and other revenue for the year ended June 30, 2016 increased by $2.0 million, or 23%, to $10.6 million from $8.6 million for theyear ended June 30, 2015. Implementation services and other revenue increased primarily as a result of an increase in the number of new clients during fiscal 2016as compared to fiscal 2015. Implementation services and other revenue for the year ended June 30, 2015 increased by $1.9 million, or 28%, to $8.6 million from $6.7 million for theyear ended June 30, 2014. Implementation services and other revenue increased primarily as a result of the continued growth of our new client base during fiscal2015. Cost of Revenues($ in thousands) Year Ended June 30, Change from 2014 to 2015 Change from 2015 to 2016 2014 2015 2016 $ % $ % Cost of recurring revenues $37,319 $46,366 $66,131 $9,047 24% $19,765 43% Percentage of recurring revenues 37% 32% 30% Recurring gross margin 63% 68% 70% Cost of implementation services and other $17,775 $24,530 $31,954 $6,755 38% $7,424 30% Percentage of implementation services and other 264% 284% 302% Implementation gross margin (164)% (184)% (202)% Cost of Recurring Revenues Cost of recurring revenues for the year ended June 30, 2016 increased by $19.8 million, or 43%, to $66.1 million from $46.4 million for the year endedJune 30, 2015. Cost of recurring revenues increased primarily as a result of the continued growth of our business, in particular $10.8 million in additionalemployee-related costs resulting from additional personnel to provide services to new and existing clients, $8.3 million in delivery and other processing-related feesand $2.8 million in increased internal-use software amortization, partially offset by a $2.3 million decrease in reseller expenses primarily due to our acquisition ofour remaining reseller during fiscal 2015. Recurring gross margin increased by 2% from 68% in fiscal 2015 to 70% in fiscal 2016 primarily due to a 2% reductionin reseller expenses as a percentage of total recurring revenue. Cost of recurring revenues for the year ended June 30, 2015 increased by $9.0 million, or 24%, to $46.4 million from $37.3 million for the year endedJune 30, 2014. Cost of recurring revenues increased primarily as a result of the continued growth of our business, in particular $5.3 million in additional employee-related costs resulting from additional personnel to provide services to new and existing clients, $1.0 million stock-based compensation associated with our equityincentive plan, and $4.5 million other processing-related fees, partially offset by a $2.2 million decline in costs attributable to resellers. Recurring gross marginincreased by 5% from 63% in fiscal 2014 to 68% in fiscal 2015 primarily due to a 3% reduction in costs attributable to resellers as a percentage of total recurringrevenue and 1% decreases in both employee-related and processing-related costs. Cost of Implementation Services and Other Cost of implementation services and other for the year ended June 30, 2016 increased by $7.4 million, or 30%, to $32.0 million from $24.5 million for theyear ended June 30, 2015. Cost of implementation services and other increased primarily due to an increase in new clients during fiscal 2016, and a correspondingincrease of $7.5 million in employee-related costs to implement our solutions for new and existing clients. Cost of implementation services and other for the year ended June 30, 2015 increased by $6.8 million, or 38%, to $24.5 million from $17.8 million for theyear ended June 30, 2014. Cost of implementation services and other increased primarily due to an increase in new clients during fiscal 2015, and a correspondingincrease of $5.2 million in employee-related costs to implement our solutions for new clients and $0.8 million stock-based compensation associated with our equityincentive plan. 39Table of Contents Operating Expenses($ in thousands) Sales and Marketing Year Ended June 30, Change from 2014 to 2015 Change from 2015 to 2016 2014 2015 2016 $ % $ % Sales and marketing $28,276 $43,035 $61,832 $14,759 52% $18,797 44% Percentage of total revenues 26% 28% 27% Sales and marketing expenses for the year ended June 30, 2016 increased by $18.8 million, or 44%, to $61.8 million from $43.0 million for the year endedJune 30, 2015. The increase in sales and marketing expenses in fiscal 2016 was primarily the result of $15.6 million of additional employee-related costs from theexpansion of our sales force by 75 personnel (including management, sales engineers, direct sales and sales administration), our sales lead generation group by 14personnel and our marketing team by 3 personnel. The increase was also attributable to $1.2 million of stock-based compensation associated with our equityincentive plan. Sales and marketing expenses for the year ended June 30, 2015 increased by $14.8 million, or 52%, to $43.0 million from $28.3 million for the year endedJune 30, 2014. The increase in sales and marketing expenses in fiscal 2015 was primarily the result of $12.0 million of additional employee-related costs from theexpansion of our sales team including management, direct sales and sales administration personnel by 34 personnel, the addition of 26 sales lead generationpersonnel and other miscellaneous sales and marketing related expenses. The increase was also attributable to $2.5 million of stock-based compensation associatedwith our equity incentive plan. Research and Development Year Ended June 30, Change from 2014 to 2015 Change from 2015 to 2016 2014 2015 2016 $ % $ % Research and development $10,355 $19,864 $26,736 $9,509 92% $6,872 35% Percentage of total revenues 10% 13% 11% Research and development for the year ended June 30, 2016 increased by $6.9 million, or 35%, to $26.7 million from $19.9 million for the year endedJune 30, 2015. Research and development costs increased in fiscal 2016 primarily due to $9.9 million of additional employee-related expenses related to 54additional development personnel, partially offset by higher year-over-year capitalized internal-use software costs of $4.2 million. Research and development for the year ended June 30, 2015 increased by $9.5 million, or 92%, to $19.9 million from $10.4 million for the year endedJune 30, 2014. Research and development costs increased in fiscal 2015 primarily due to $7.5 million of additional employee-related expenses related to 64additional development personnel and $2.2 million of stock-based compensation associated with our equity incentive plan. This was offset by an increase of $0.2million in our capitalized internal-use software costs. General and Administrative Year Ended June 30, Change from 2014 to 2015 Change from 2015 to 2016 2014 2015 2016 $ % $ % General and administrative $21,980 $32,824 $47,598 $10,844 49% $14,774 45% Percentage of total revenues 20% 22% 21% General and administrative expenses for the year ended June 30, 2016 increased by $14.8 million, or 45%, to $47.6 million from $32.8 million for the yearended June 30, 2015. General and administrative expenses increased primarily as a result of $6.7 million of additional employee-related expenses relating to 36additional personnel, $2.9 million of additional stock-based compensation costs, $1.5 million of increased occupancy costs incurred as a result of our requirementfor additional office space and $1.3 million of increased professional services fees. General and administrative expenses for the year ended June 30, 2015 increased by $10.8 million, or 49%, to $32.8 million from $22.0 million for the yearended June 30, 2014. General and administrative expenses increased primarily as a result of $5.0 million of additional employee-related expenses relating to 30additional personnel, $2.0 million of additional stock-based compensation costs, $1.5 million of increased occupancy costs incurred as a result of our requirementfor additional office space, $0.8 million of amortization expense of the customer relationship and non-compete intangibles associated with acquisitions of both ofour 40Table of Contents resellers, $0.7 million of increased insurance costs associated with being a public company, and $0.3 million in additional professional fees. Other Income (Expense) Year Ended June 30, Change from 2014 to 2015 Change from 2015 to 2016 2014 2015 2016 $ % $ % Other income (expense) $163 $54 $(124) $(109) * $(178) * Percentage of total revenues 0% 0% 0% * Not Meaningful Other income (expense) for the year ended June 30, 2016 decreased by $0.2 million as compared to the year ended June 30, 2015. Other income (expense)for the year ended June 30, 2016 primarily consists of loss on the disposal of property and equipment, partially offset by interest income earned on our cash andcash equivalents. Other income (expense) for the year ended June 30, 2015 decreased by $0.1 million as compared to the year ended June 30, 2014. Other income for theyear ended June 30, 2015 primarily consists of interest income earned on our cash and cash equivalents partially offset by loss on the disposal of property andequipment. Income Tax Expense Year Ended June 30, Change from 2014 to 2015 Change from 2015 to 2016 2014 2015 2016 $ % $ % Effective tax rate * * * Income tax expense $255 $105 $177 $(150) * $72 69% Percentage of total revenues 0% 0% 0% * Not Meaningful Income tax expense for the year ended June 30, 2016 was not materially different as compared to the year ended June 30, 2015. Income tax expense for the year ended June 30, 2015 decreased by $0.2 million, as compared to the year ended June 30, 2014 primarily due to therecognition of a deferred tax asset valuation allowance during the year ended June 30, 2014 related to net deferred tax balances generated in prior years. See Note 11 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part II, Item 8: “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this AnnualReport on Form 10-K for further details on the valuation allowance and a reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory rate to the effective tax rate. Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates In preparing our financial statements and accounting for the underlying transactions and balances in accordance with GAAP, we apply various accountingpolicies that require our management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our financial statements. We consider thepolicies discussed below as critical to understanding our financial statements, as their application places the most significant demands on management’s judgment.Management bases its estimates, judgments and assumptions on historical experience, current economic and industry conditions and on various other factorsdeemed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities thatare not readily apparent from other sources. Because the use of estimates is an integral part of the financial reporting process, actual results could differ and suchdifferences could be material. Revenue Recognition We derive revenues predominantly from recurring revenues associated with our cloud-based payroll and HCM software applications and one-time servicefees for implementation of our solutions. Our agreements with clients do not include general rights of return and do not provide clients with the right to takepossession of the software supporting the services being provided. As such, revenue is recognized as services are performed. We recognize revenue when all of the following criteria are achieved: · There is persuasive evidence of an agreement;· The service has been provided to the client; 41Table of Contents · The amount of fees to be paid by the client is fixed or determinable; and· Collection of the fees is reasonably assured. For arrangements with multiple-elements, we recognize revenues in accordance with Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2009-13, Multiple-DeliverableRevenue Arrangements . For each agreement, we evaluate whether the individual deliverables qualify as separate units of accounting. If one or more of thedeliverables does not have standalone value upon delivery, the deliverables that do not have standalone value are generally combined and treated as a single unit ofaccounting. Revenue for arrangements treated as a single unit of accounting is generally recognized within the same month that the services are rendered given thatthe agreements are cancellable with 60 days’ or less notice. In determining whether revenues from implementation services can be accounted for separately from recurring revenues, we consider the nature of theimplementation services and the availability of the implementation services from other vendors. We established standalone value for implementation primarily dueto the number of partners that perform these services and account for such implementation services separate from the recurring revenues. If we determine that the services have standalone value upon delivery, we account for each separately and revenues are recognized as the services aredelivered with allocation of consideration based on the relative selling price method. That method requires the selling price of each element in a multipledeliverable arrangement to be based on, in descending order: (i) vendor- specific objective evidence of fair value, or VSOE, (ii) third-party evidence of fair value,or TPE, or (iii) management’s best estimate of the selling price, or BESP. We are not able to demonstrate VSOE of selling price with respect to our recurring fees paid for our solutions because the deliverables are sold across aninsufficiently narrow range of prices on a stand-alone basis. We are also not able to demonstrate TPE for subscription fees because no third-party offerings arereasonably comparable to our product offerings. We thus establish BESP by service offering, requiring the use of significant estimates and judgment. To determineBESP, we consider numerous factors, including the nature of the deliverables themselves, the geography for the sale, internal costs, and pricing and discountingpractices utilized by our direct sales force. Arrangement consideration is allocated to each deliverable based on the established BESP and subject to the limitationthat because the arrangements are cancellable with 60 days’ or less notice, recurring revenue is not allocated to any deliverable until the consideration has beenearned, typically with each payroll cycle or monthly, depending on the service. Property and Equipment and Long-Lived Assets We state property and equipment at cost. We calculate depreciation on property and equipment using a straight-line method over the estimated useful livesof the assets, generally three to seven years for most classes of assets, or over the term of the related lease for leasehold improvements. We recognized depreciationexpense of $4.1 million, $5.1 million and $6.9 million during the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively. We review long-lived assets, such as property and equipment, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carryingamount of an asset may not be recoverable. If circumstances require a long-lived asset or asset group be tested for possible impairment, we first compare theundiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by that asset or asset group to its carrying amount. If the carrying amount of the long-lived asset or asset group isnot recoverable on an undiscounted cash flow basis, we recognize impairment to the extent that the carrying amount exceeds its fair value. We determine fair valuethrough various valuation techniques including discounted cash flow models, quoted market values and third-party independent appraisals, as considered necessary. Capitalized Internal-Use Software Costs We apply ASC 350-40, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software , to the accounting for costs of internal-use software. Softwaredevelopment costs are capitalized when application development begins, it is probable that the project will be completed, and the software will be used as intended.Costs associated with preliminary project stage activities, training, maintenance and all other post implementation stage activities are expensed as incurred. We alsocapitalize certain costs related to specific upgrades and enhancements when it is probable the expenditures will result in significant additional functionality. Thecapitalization policy provides for the capitalization of certain payroll costs for employees who are directly associated with developing internal-use software as wellas certain external direct costs. Capitalized employee costs are limited to the time directly spent on such projects. Internal-use software is amortized on a straight-line basis over 18 to 24 months. We evaluate the useful lives of these assets on an annual basis and test forimpairments whenever events or changes in circumstances occur that could impact the recoverability of these assets. There were no impairments to capitalizedinternal-use software during the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 or 2016. We capitalized $4.7 million, $4.9 million, and $9.5 million of internal-use software costsfor the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively, including stock-based compensation costs of $0.3 million, $0.7 million and $1.1 million in theyears ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. We amortized $2.2 million, $2.6 million, and $5.4 million of capitalized internal-use software costs forthe years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. In fiscal 2014, fiscal 2015 and fiscal 2016, we developed significant additional functionality in severalof our applications. This development resulted in an increase in capitalized internal-use software costs in fiscal 2016 as compared to fiscal 2015 and in fiscal 2015as compared to fiscal 2014. 42Table of Contents Goodwill and Intangible Assets Goodwill is an asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individuallyidentified and separately recognized. We have recorded goodwill in connection with the acquisitions of BFKMS, Inc. and Synergy Payroll LLC. Goodwill is notamortized, but instead is tested for impairment at least annually. ASU 2011-08, Testing Goodwill for Impairment provides an entity the option to perform aqualitative assessment to determine whether it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount prior to performing thetwo-step impairment test. If the estimated fair value of a reporting unit, including goodwill, is less than its carrying amount, the two-step goodwill impairment testis required. Otherwise no further analysis is required. If the two-step goodwill impairment test is required, the fair value of the reporting unit is compared with its carrying amount, including goodwill. If thefair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, an indication of goodwill impairment exists for the reporting unit. In the second step, an impairmentloss is recognized for any excess of the carrying amount of the reporting unit’s goodwill over the implied fair value of the goodwill. The implied fair value ofgoodwill is determined by allocating the fair value of the reporting unit in a manner similar to a purchase price allocation and the residual fair value after thisallocation is the implied fair value of the reporting unit goodwill. Fair value of the reporting unit is determined using a discounted cash flow analysis. In the eventthe fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, step two is not performed. We perform our annual impairment review of goodwill in our fiscal fourth quarter or when a triggering event occurs between annual impairment tests. We did not recognize any impairment for fiscal year 2015 or 2016 as a result of our impairment tests. Given that we did not have recorded goodwill until our fiscalfourth quarter of 2014, no impairment tests were required to be completed in fiscal 2014. Intangible assets are comprised primarily of client list acquisitions and are reported net of accumulated amortization on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.Client relationships use the straight-line method of amortization over an accelerated nine year time frame, while the non-solicitation agreements uses the straight-line method of amortization over two to three year life of the agreements. Amortization expense associated with our intangible assets was $0.1 million, $0.9 millionand $1.5 million during the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. We test intangible assets for potential impairment when events or changes incircumstances indicate that the carrying value of such assets may not be recoverable. There were no such events or changes in circumstances during the yearsended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Income Taxes We account for federal income taxes under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequencesattributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss andtax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which thosetemporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in theperiod that includes the enactment date. Deferred tax assets may be reduced by a valuation allowance to the extent we determine it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferredtax assets will not be realized. The valuation of deferred tax assets requires judgment in assessing the likely future tax consequences of events that have beenrecognized in our financial statements or tax returns and future profitability. Our accounting for deferred tax consequences represents the best estimate of thosefuture events. Changes in current estimates, due to unanticipated events or otherwise, could have an adverse impact on our financial condition and results ofoperations. In assessing the need for a valuation allowance, we consider both positive and negative evidence related to the likelihood of realization of the deferred taxassets. The weight given to positive and negative evidence is commensurate with the extent to which the evidence may be objectively verified. As such, it isgenerally difficult for positive evidence regarding projected future taxable income exclusive of reversing taxable temporary differences to outweigh objectivenegative evidence of recent financial reporting losses. Cumulative losses in recent years are significant negative evidence that is difficult to overcome indetermining that a valuation allowance is not needed against deferred tax assets. We recognize the effect of income tax positions only if those positions are more likely than not of being sustained. Recognized income tax positions aremeasured at the largest amount that is greater than 50% likely of being realized. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which thechange in judgment occurs. In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes (Topic 740) (“ASU 2015-17”), which requires alldeferred income tax assets and liabilities to be classified as non-current in a classified balance sheet. As allowed by ASU 2015-17, we adopted the newrequirements as of June 30, 2016, on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard resulted in a reclassification of deferred tax assets and liabilities to the non-current deferred tax liability in our consolidated balance 43Table of Contents sheet as of June 30, 2016. ASU 2015-17 did not have a material impact on our consolidated balance sheet and had no impact on our consolidated results ofoperations or cash flows. No prior periods were retrospectively adjusted. Stock-Based Compensation We maintain a 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2008 Plan”) and a 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2014 Plan”) pursuant to which we have issuedoptions to purchase shares of our common stock and grants of restricted stock awards to employees, officers, directors and consultants. The 2014 Plan serves as thesuccessor to the 2008 Plan and permits the granting of options to purchase common stock and other equity incentives at the discretion of the compensationcommittee of our board of directors. We will not grant any additional awards under our 2008 Plan, though our 2008 Plan will continue to govern the terms andconditions of all outstanding equity awards granted under the 2008 Plan. As of June 30, 2016, options to purchase 3.5 million shares of our common stock were outstanding, 1.0 million restricted stock units were outstanding and6.2 million shares of our common stock were reserved for future grant. The following table presents data related to stock options granted on the dates indicated: July 8, 2013 Aug. 26, 2013 Mar. 18, 2014 Aug. 18, 2014 Aug. 17, 2015 Options granted 466,663 50,000 2,065,541 321,700 149,000 Fair value of stock $7.04 $7.04 $17.00 $24.80 $35.28 Exercise price $7.04 $7.04 $17.00 $24.80 $35.28 Fair value of option $1.71 $1.71 $7.62 $11.14 $12.92 Equity-classified awards are measured at the grant date fair value of the award and expense is recognized, net of assumed forfeitures, on a straight-linebasis over the requisite service period for each separately vesting portion of the award. We estimate grant date fair value using the Black-Scholes Option-PricingModel, or Black-Scholes, which requires the use of certain subjective assumptions. Below is a table of the key weighted-average assumptions used in the optionvaluation calculation for options issued on the dates indicated. July 8, 2013 Aug. 26, 2013 Mar. 18, 2014 Aug. 18, 2014 Aug. 17, 2015 Valuation assumptions: Weighted average expected dividend yield — — — — — Weighted average expected volatility 29.5% 29.5% 44.5% 43.9% 34.0% Weighted average expected term (years) 4.0 4.0 6.0 6.25 6.25 Weighted average risk-free interest rate 0.52% 0.52% 1.94% 1.91% 1.83% We use a dividend yield assumption of zero as we have not paid regular cash dividends on our common stock and presently have no intention of payingany such cash dividends. Since our shares were not publicly traded prior to March 2014, expected volatility is estimated based on the average historical volatility ofsimilar entities with publicly traded shares. We calculate the expected term using company specific historical data, such as employee option exercise and employeepost-vesting departure behavior. The risk-free rate for the expected term of the option is based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve at the date of grant. Stock-based compensation expense was $4.9 million, $13.2 million and $17.6 million for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Iffactors change and we employ different assumptions, stock-based compensation expense may differ from what we have recorded in the past. If there is a differencebetween the assumptions used in determining stock-based compensation expense and the actual factors which become known over time, we may change the inputfactors used in determining stock-based compensation costs for future grants. These changes, if any, may adversely impact our results of operations in the periodsuch changes are made. We expect to continue to grant stock options in the future, and to the extent that we do, our actual stock-based compensation expenserecognized in future periods will likely increase. One significant factor in determining the fair value of our options granted through August 2013, when using Black-Scholes, is the fair value of thecommon stock underlying those stock options. Prior to March 2014, we were a private company with no active public market for our common stock. Therefore, thefair value of the common stock underlying our stock options was determined by our board of directors, which considered in making its determination of fair value avariety of factors including contemporaneous periodic valuation studies from an independent and unrelated third-party valuation firm. Now that we have a publicmarket for our stock, we observe the fair value of our common stock on the date of grant in accordance with the terms of the award. Based on the closing stock price on June 30, 2016 of $43.20, the aggregate intrinsic value of outstanding options to purchase shares of our common stockas of June 30, 2016 was $108.9 million, of which $73.5 million related to vested options and $35.4 million to unvested options. The aggregate intrinsic value ofoutstanding restricted stock units as of June 30, 2016 was $43.3 million, of which all were unvested. 44Table of Contents Third-Party Valuation Methodology In performing its analysis of equity awards issued prior to the initial public offering, the valuation firm engaged in discussions with management, analyzedhistorical and forecasted financial statements, and reviewed our corporate documents. The valuation consultant utilized the guidelines outlined in the AmericanInstitute of Certified Public Accountants Practice Aid, Valuation of Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation . The valuation study wasprepared using a combination of four generally accepted approaches to determining the fair market value of a business: the discounted cash flows, or DCF, method,the guideline public company method, the prior transaction method and the market transactions method. The discounted cash flows method forecasted future cashflows utilizing a terminal value based on our expectation of long-term growth to arrive at a valuation. The guideline public company method utilizes a marketapproach which estimates the fair value of a company by applying to that company the market multiples of publicly-traded companies to arrive at a valuation. Theprior transaction method looks to recent arms-length transactions in a company’s capital stock to arrive at a valuation. The market transactions method utilizes amarket approach which estimates the fair value of a company by applying to that company the market multiples of publicly-traded and private companies to arriveat a valuation. Fiscal 2014 The independent third-party valuation as of May 31, 2013 was performed using the DCF method, the guideline public company method and the markettransactions method. The valuation firm considered our nature and history, the condition and outlook of the industry in which we operate, the book value of ourstock and our financial condition, the earning capacity of our business, the dividend-paying capacity of our business, prior transactions involving our stock, themarket price of public traded stock of companies engage in the same or a similar line of business and our goodwill and intangible value. The valuation firm tookinto account our financial statements for fiscal 2009 through 2012, as well as interim financial statements for the eleven months ended May 31, 2013 and May 31,2012. In applying the guideline public company method, the valuation firm analyzed the prices that investors are willing to pay for the publicly-traded commonstock of companies that are comparable to us. The valuation firm then calculated total market value of invested capital multiples based on TTM earnings beforeinterest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and TTM revenues. The valuation firm considered our smaller size, limited access to capital, historical and futuregrowth expectations, and differences in liquidity, profitability and leverage among the guideline companies before selecting a TTM multiple that was slightly abovethe average of the TTM revenues multiples for the companies determined to be most comparable to us. In applying the DCF method, the valuation firm analyzed financial projections prepared by our management for a five year period. The valuation firmcalculated our net cash flows to invested capital by taking our debt-free net income, as estimated by management, adding depreciation expenses and subtractingboth capital expenditures, as estimated by management, and incremental working capital needs, which were estimated based on a review of an industry average.For the terminal year, the valuation firm applied a revenue multiple, calculated using the guideline public company method. A discount rate of 35% was thenapplied. To determine the discount rate, the valuation firm reviewed published investment hurdle rates typically required by institutional investors for companies ofcomparable size and risk. The 35% discount rate was equal to the discount rate applied in the DCF analysis conducted as of June 30, 2012. In applying the market transactions method, the valuation firm reviewed publicly available data regarding transactions that have occurred in the industry,as well as prior arms-length transactions in our capital stock. The valuation firm applied a revenue multiple that was slightly above the median revenue multiple ofall transactions and in-line with the sale of our Series B preferred stock in June 2012. Our value was then allocated among our shares of Series A preferred stock, our shares of Series B preferred stock and our shares of common stock usingthe option pricing equity allocation method, using Black-Scholes. In utilizing the Black-Scholes method, our volatility was estimated at 31% which was based onthe average volatility of the guideline public companies over a five-year period. The assumed time to expiration was four years, which was based on the estimatedtiming of a potential liquidity event. Finally, the valuation firm applied a marketability discount to reflect the lack of an active market in shares of our commonstock, which resulted in a fair market value of $6.90 per share. Our board of directors considered this third-party valuation and the other factors discussed above in determining that the fair market value of our commonstock was $7.04 on July 8, 2013 and August 26, 2013. Reverse Stock Split On March 5, 2014, we effected a three-for-two reverse stock split on our Common Stock. 45Table of Contents Initial Public Offering In March 2014, we completed our initial public offering or IPO in which we issued and sold 5.4 million shares of common stock and existing shareholderssold 2.7 million shares of common stock at a public offering price of $17.00 per share. We did not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock by theexisting shareholders. We received net proceeds of $81.9 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $6.4 million and other offeringexpenses of $2.9 million. Follow-On Offering In December 2014, the Company completed a follow-on offering in which it issued and sold 0.8 million shares of common stock and existing shareholderssold 3.9 million shares of common stock at a public offering price of $26.25 per share. The Company did not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stockby the existing shareholders. The Company received net proceeds of $18.4 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $0.9 million andother offering expenses of $0.4 million. In January 2015, the underwriters for the Company’s follow-on offering exercised their option to purchase 0.4 million additional shares from certainshareholders of the Company of the 0.7 million available as described in the final prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) inDecember 2014. The Company did not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock by the existing shareholders. Secondary Offering In September 2015, the Company completed a secondary offering in which its existing shareholders sold 3.7 million shares of common stock at a publicoffering price of $29.75 per share. The Company did not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock by the existing shareholders. In October 2015, the underwriters for the Company’s secondary offering exercised their option to purchase 0.6 million additional shares from certainshareholders of the Company as described in the final prospectus filed with the SEC on September 25, 2015. The Company did not receive any proceeds from thesale of common stock by the existing shareholders. Liquidity and Capital Resources Our primary liquidity needs are related to the funding of general business requirements, including working capital requirements, research anddevelopment, and capital expenditures. As of June 30, 2016, our principal source of liquidity was $86.5 million of cash and cash equivalents. In order to grow our business, we intend to increase our personnel and related expenses and to make significant investments in our platform, data centersand infrastructure generally. The timing and amount of these investments will vary based on the rate at which we can add new clients and new personnel and thescale of our application development, data center and other activities. Many of these investments will occur in advance of our experiencing any direct benefit fromthem which could negatively impact our liquidity and cash flows during any particular period and may make it difficult to determine if we are effectively allocatingour resources. However, we expect to fund our operations, capital expenditures and other investments principally with cash flows from operations, and to the extentthat our liquidity needs exceed our cash from operations, we would look to our cash on hand and borrowing capacity to satisfy those needs. Our cash flows from our investing and financing activities are influenced by the amount of funds held for clients which varies significantly from quarter toquarter. The balance of the funds we hold depends on our clients’ payroll calendar, and therefore such balance changes from period to period in accordance with thetiming with each payroll cycle. Funds held for clients are restricted solely for the repayment of client fund obligations. We believe our current cash and cash equivalents and cash flow from operations will be sufficient to meet our working capital, capital expenditure andother investment requirements for at least the next 12 months. 46Table of Contents Cash Flows The following table sets forth data regarding cash flows for the periods indicated: Year Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Net cash provided by operating activities $7,199 $11,105 $32,993 Cash flows from investing activities: Capitalized internal-use software costs (4,349) (4,215) (8,391) Purchases of property and equipment (6,667) (9,020) (16,083) Payments for acquisitions (6,450) (11,979) (483) Net change in funds held for clients (61,356) (173,958) (648,403) Net cash used in investing activities (78,822) (199,172) (673,360) Cash flows from financing activities: Net change in client funds obligation 61,356 173,958 648,403 Principal payments on long-term debt (1,563) — — Proceeds from initial public offering, net of issuance costs 82,032 — — Proceeds from follow-on offering, net of issuance costs — 18,367 — Payments on initial public offering costs — (75) — Capital contribution 1,052 — — Proceeds from exercise of stock options — 247 137 Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan — 1,773 2,991 Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards — (3,793) (5,926) Net cash provided by financing activities 142,877 190,477 645,605 Net change in cash and cash equivalents $71,254 $2,410 $5,238 Operating Activities Net cash provided by operating activities was $7.2 million, $11.1 million and $33.0 million for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016,respectively. The increase in net cash provided by operating activities from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2016 as well as from fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2015 was primarily due toimproved operating results after adjusting for non-cash items including stock-based compensation and depreciation and amortization. Investing Activities Net cash used in investing activities was $78.8 million, $199.2 million and $673.4 million, for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Changes in net cash provided by (used in) investing activities are significantly influenced by the amount of funds held for clients at the end of a reportingperiod. Changes in the amount of funds held for client from period to period will vary substantially. Our payroll processing activities involves the movement ofsignificant funds from the account of an employer to employees and relevant taxing authorities. During the year ended June 30, 2016 we processed over $74 billionin payroll transactions. Though we debit a client’s account prior to any disbursement on its behalf, there is a delay between our payment of amounts due toemployees and taxing and other regulatory authorities and when the incoming funds from the client to cover these amounts payable actually clear into our operatingaccounts. We currently have agreements with nine banks to execute ACH and wire transfers to support our client payroll and tax services. We believe we havesufficient capacity under these ACH arrangements to handle our transactions for the foreseeable future. Excluding the net change in funds held for clients, our net cash used in investing activities was $17.5 million, $25.2 million and $25.0 million, for theyears ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. The increase in net cash used in investing activities of $474.2 million from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2016 was primarily due to the timing of receipts anddisbursements of cash and cash equivalents held to satisfy client funds obligations of $474.4 million, increased purchases of property and equipment by $7.1million and increased capitalized internal-use software costs of $4.2 million, partially offset by a $11.5 million reduction in payments for acquisitions. The increasein net cash used in investing activities of $120.4 million from fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2015 was primarily due to the timing of receipts and disbursements of cash andcash equivalents held to 47Table of Contents satisfy client funds obligations of $112.6 million, increased payments of $5.5 million to acquire certain assets of two of our resellers and increased purchases ofproperty and equipment by $2.3 million. Financing Activities Net cash provided by financing activities was $142.9 million, $190.5 million and $645.6 million for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016,respectively. The increase in net cash provided by financing activities of $455.1 million from fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2016 was primarily the result of a $474.4 millionincrease in funds held for clients, a $1.2 million increase in proceeds received as a result of employees’ purchase of shares under the employee stock purchase plan,partially offset by $18.4 million of proceeds related to the follow-on offering, net of issuance costs during fiscal 2015 and a $2.1 million increase in taxes paidrelated to employees’ net share settlement of equity awards. The increase in net cash provided by financing activities from fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2015 was primarilythe result of a $112.6 million increase in funds held for clients, $1.8 million in proceeds received as a result of employees’ purchase of shares under the employeestock purchase plan, partially offset by $3.8 million in taxes paid related to employees’ net share settlement of equity awards and $63.7 million year-over-yeardecrease in proceeds received as a result of public offerings, net of offering costs. Contractual Obligations and Commitments Our principal commitments consist of operating lease obligations. The following table summarizes our contractual obligations at June 30, 2016: Payment Due By Fiscal Period Total 2017 2018-2019 2020-2021 2022 and Thereafter Operating lease obligations $111,361 $5,650 $14,035 $15,949 $75,727 Unconditional purchase obligations 2,848 2,002 846 — — $114,209 $7,652 $14,881 $15,949 $75,727 Capital Expenditures We expect to increase capital spending as we continue to grow our business and expand and enhance our data centers and technical infrastructure. Futurecapital requirements will depend on many factors, including our rate of sales growth. In the event that our sales growth or other factors do not meet ourexpectations, we may eliminate or curtail capital projects in order to mitigate the impact on our use of cash. Capital expenditures were $6.7 million, $9.0 millionand $16.1 million for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively, exclusive of capitalized internal-use software costs of $4.3 million, $4.2 million,and $8.4 million for the same periods, respectively. Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changesin financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources that may be material to investors. New Accounting Pronouncements In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) (“ASU 2014-09”). ASU 2014-09 supersedes a majority of existing revenue recognition guidance under US GAAP, and requires a company to recognize revenue when ittransfers goods or services to a customer in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled. Companies may need to applymore judgment and estimation techniques or methods while recognizing revenue, which could result in additional disclosures to the financial statements. Inaddition, i n March 2016, April 2016 and May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus AgentConsiderations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net) (“ASU 2016-08”), ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): IdentifyingPerformance Obligations and Licensing (“ASU 2016-10”) and ASU 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Narrow-Scope Improvementsand Practical Expedients (“ASU 2016-12”), respectively, to amend certain guidance in ASU 2014-09. Topic 606 allows for either a retrospective or cumulativeeffect transition method. ASU 2014-09 was originally effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016. In July 2015, the FASB approved a one-yeardeferral of ASU 2014-09 and all amendments to it, with a new effective date for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017 with early adoption permitted as ofthe original effective date. The Company is currently assessing the potential effects of these changes to its consolidated financial statements and is evaluating theadoption method and timing. 48Table of Contents In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes (Topic 740) (“ASU 2015-17”), which requires alldeferred income tax assets and liabilities to be classified as non-current in a classified balance sheet. As allowed by ASU 2015-17, we adopted the newrequirements as of June 30, 2016, on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard resulted in a reclassification of deferred tax assets and liabilities to the non-current deferred tax liability in our consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2016. ASU 2015-17 did not have a material impact on our consolidated balance sheetand had no impact on our consolidated results of operations or cash flows. No prior periods were retrospectively adjusted. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) (“ASU 2016-02”) which amends various aspects of existing guidance for leases.ASU 2016-02 requires an entity to recognize assets and liabilities arising from a lease with terms greater than twelve months, along with additional qualitative andquantitative disclosures. ASU 2016-02 also requires the use of the modified retrospective method, which will require adjustment to all comparative periodspresented. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently assessing thepotential effects of these changes to its consolidated financial statements and is evaluating the timing of adoption. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718) (“ASU 2016-09”) which modifies accounting forexcess tax benefits and tax deficiencies, forfeitures, and employer tax withholding requirements. ASU 2016-09 also clarifies certain classifications on thestatement of cash flows. ASU 2016-09 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currentlyassessing the potential effects of these changes to its consolidated financial statements and is evaluating the timing of adoption. In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments(ASU 2016-13), which requires measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held. ASU 2016-13 is effective for fiscal yearsbeginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted as of fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently assessing thepotential effects of these changes to its consolidated financial statements and is evaluating the timing of adoption. Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk. We have operations solely in the United States and are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. These risks primarily includeinterest rate and certain exposure as well as risks relating to changes in the general economic conditions in the United States. We have not used, nor do we intend touse, derivatives to mitigate the impact of interest rate or other exposure or for trading or speculative purposes. Interest Rate Risk Funds held for clients are held in interest-bearing accounts at financial institutions. As a result of our investing activities, we are exposed to changes ininterest rates that may materially affect our results of operations. In a falling rate environment, a decline in interest rates would decrease our interest income. Inflation Risk We do not believe that inflation has had a material effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Nonetheless, if our costs were tobecome subject to significant inflationary pressures, we may not be able to fully offset such higher costs through price increases. Our inability or failure to do socould harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes set forth on pages F-1through F-23 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. None. Item 9A. Controls and Procedures. Disclosure Controls and Procedures The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act refers to controls and procedures thatare designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed,summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s 49Table of Contents rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulatedand communicated to a company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisionsregarding required disclosure. Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosurecontrols and procedures as of June 30, 2016, the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Based upon such evaluation, our Chief ExecutiveOfficer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of such date. Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Attestation Report of the Registered Public Accounting Firm Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internalcontrol over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Internal control over financial reporting is a processdesigned to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes inaccordance with U.S. GAAP. Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that: (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that,in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded asnecessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordancewith authorizations of our management and directors; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition,use, or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements. Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, we conductedan evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2016, based on the framework in Internal Control—IntegratedFramework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) (2013 framework). Based on this evaluation under theInternal Control—Integrated Framework our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our internal control over financialreporting was effective as of June 30, 2016. Our independent registered public accounting firm, which has audited our financial statements, has also audited the effectiveness of our internal controlover financial reporting as of June 30, 2016, as stated in their report, which is included in Item 15(a)(1) of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2016, that have materially affected, or arereasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. Limitations on Controls Our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving theirobjectives as specified above. Management does not expect, however, that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reportingwill prevent or detect all error and fraud. Any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, is based upon certain assumptions and can provide onlyreasonable, not absolute, assurance that its objectives will be met. Further, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to erroror fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. Item 9B. Other Information. None. 50Table of Contents PART III Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance Information required by Part III, Item 10, will be included in our Proxy Statement relating to our 2017 annual meeting of stockholders to be filed with theSEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, and is incorporated herein by reference. Item 11. Executive Compensation Information required by Part III, Item 11, will be included in our Proxy Statement relating to our 2017 annual meeting of stockholders to be filed with theSEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, and is incorporated herein by reference. Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters. Information required by Part III, Item 12, will be included in our Proxy Statement relating to our 2017 annual meeting of stockholders to be filed with theSEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, and is incorporated herein by reference. Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence. Information required by Part III, Item 13, will be included in our Proxy Statement relating to our 2017 annual meeting of stockholders to be filed with theSEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, and is incorporated herein by reference. Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services. Information required by Part III, Item 14, will be included in our Proxy Statement relating to our 2017 annual meeting of stockholders to be filed with theSEC within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended June 30, 2016, and is incorporated herein by reference. 51Table of Contents PART IV Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules(a) Documents Filed with Report (1) Financial Statements. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting FirmF-2 Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2015 and 2016F-3 Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016F-4 Consolidated Statements of Changes in Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) for the years endedJune 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016F-5 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016F-6 Notes to Consolidated Financial StatementsF-7 (2) Exhibits. The information required by this Item is set forth on the exhibit index that follows the signature page of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. 52Table of Contents 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 itsbehalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized. Date: August 12, 2016 PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORPORATION By:/s/ Steven R. Beauchamp Steven R. Beauchamp President and Chief Executive Officer 53Table of Contents SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY Each person whose individual signature appears below hereby authorizes and appoints Steven R. Beauchamp and Peter J. McGrail, and each of them, with fullpower of substitution and resubstitution and full power to act without the other, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to act in his or her name,place and stead and to execute in the name and on behalf of each person, individually and in each capacity stated below, and to file any and all amendments to thisAnnual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and ExchangeCommission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing, ratifyingand confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or their or his substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtuethereof. 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 inthe capacities indicated. Signature Title Date /s/ Steven R. Beauchamp President, Chief Executive Officer (Principal ExecutiveOfficer) and Director August 12, 2016Steven R. Beauchamp /s/ Peter J. McGrail Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer &Principal Accounting Officer) August 12, 2016Peter J. McGrail /s/ Steven I. Sarowitz Chairman of the Board of Directors August 12, 2016Steven I. Sarowitz /s/ Jeffrey T. Diehl Director August 12, 2016Jeffrey T. Diehl /s/ Mark H. Mishler Director August 12, 2016Mark H. Mishler /s/ Andres D. Reiner Director August 12, 2016Andres D. Reiner /s/ Ronald V. Waters, III Director August 12, 2016Ronald V. Waters, III 54Table of Contents INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PageConsolidated Financial Statements: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting FirmF-2Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2015 and 2016F-3Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016F-4Consolidated Statements of Changes in Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) for the years ended June 30, 2014,2015 and 2016F-5Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016F-6Notes to Consolidated Financial StatementsF-7 F- 1Table of Contents REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM The Board of Directors and StockholdersPaylocity Holding Corporation: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Paylocity Holding Corporation (the Company) and subsidiary as ofJune 30, 2015 and 2016, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in redeemable convertible preferred stock andstockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 30, 2016. We also have audited theCompany’s internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2016, based on criteria established in Internal Control – IntegratedFramework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The Company’smanagement is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, andfor its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report onInternal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and anopinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Thosestandards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free ofmaterial misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audits of theconsolidated financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financialstatements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financialstatement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control overfinancial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness ofinternal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in thecircumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions. A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability offinancial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accountingprinciples. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance ofrecords that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) providereasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generallyaccepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations ofmanagement and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorizedacquisition, 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 anyevaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, orthat the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position ofPaylocity Holding Corporation and subsidiary as of June 30, 2015 and 2016, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of theyears in the three-year period ended June 30, 2016, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also in our opinion, theCompany maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2016, based on criteriaestablished in Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the TreadwayCommission (COSO). /s/ KPMG LLP Chicago, Illinois August 12, 2016 F- 2Table of Contents PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORPORATIONConsolidated Balance Sheets(in thousands, except per share data) As of June 30, Assets 2015 2016 Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $81,258 $86,496 Accounts receivable, net 1,115 1,681 Prepaid expenses and other 4,416 7,409 Deferred income tax assets, net 775 — Total current assets before funds held for clients 87,564 95,586 Funds held for clients 591,219 1,239,622 Total current assets 678,783 1,335,208 Long-term prepaid expenses 403 845 Capitalized internal-use software, net 7,357 11,427 Property and equipment, net 16,061 26,787 Intangible assets, net 11,941 10,419 Goodwill 6,003 6,003 Total assets $720,548 $1,390,689 Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity Current liabilities: Accounts payable $1,327 $1,621 Consideration related to acquisitions 511 — Accrued expenses 16,430 24,979 Total current liabilities before client fund obligations 18,268 26,600 Client fund obligations 591,219 1,239,622 Total current liabilities 609,487 1,266,222 Deferred rent 2,607 4,646 Deferred income tax liabilities, net 874 249 Total liabilities $612,968 $1,271,117 Stockholders’ equity Preferred stock, $0.001 par value, 5,000 authorized, no shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2015 and 2016 $— $— Common stock, $0.001 par value, 155,000 shares authorized at June 30, 2015 and 2016, 50,703 and 51,132 shares issued and outstanding atJune 30, 2015 and 2016, respectively 51 51 Additional paid-in capital 155,672 171,515 Accumulated deficit (48,143) (51,994) Total stockholders’ equity $107,580 $119,572 Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $720,548 $1,390,689 See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. F- 3Table of Contents PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORPORATIONConsolidated Statements of Operations(in thousands, except per share data) For the Years Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Revenues Recurring fees $100,362 $142,168 $217,416 Interest income on funds held for clients 1,582 1,901 2,688 Total recurring revenues 101,944 144,069 220,104 Implementation services and other 6,743 8,629 10,597 Total revenues 108,687 152,698 230,701 Cost of revenues Recurring revenues 37,319 46,366 66,131 Implementation services and other 17,775 24,530 31,954 Total cost of revenues 55,094 70,896 98,085 Gross profit 53,593 81,802 132,616 Operating expenses Sales and marketing 28,276 43,035 61,832 Research and development 10,355 19,864 26,736 General and administrative 21,980 32,824 47,598 Total operating expenses 60,611 95,723 136,166 Operating loss (7,018) (13,921) (3,550) Other income (expense) 163 54 (124) Loss before income taxes (6,855) (13,867) (3,674) Income tax expense 255 105 177 Net loss $(7,110) $(13,972) $(3,851) Net loss attributable to common stockholders $(9,392) $(13,972) $(3,851) Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders: Basic $(0.26) $(0.28) $(0.08) Diluted $(0.26) $(0.28) $(0.08) Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders: Basic 36,707 50,127 50,913 Diluted 36,707 50,127 50,913 See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. F- 4Table of Contents PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORPORATIONConsolidated Statements of Changes in Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)(in thousands) Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit) Preferred— Series A Preferred— Series B Common Stock Additional Paid-in Accumulated Total Stockholders’ Equity Shares Amount Shares Amount Shares Amount Capital Deficit (Deficit) Balances at June 30, 2013 9,500 $9,339 8,400 $27,234 31,988 $32 $437 $(27,061) $(26,592) Initial public offering, net of issuance costs — — — — 5,367 6 81,921 — 81,927 Conversion of redeemable convertiblepreferred stock (9,500) (9,339) (8,400) (27,234) 11,933 12 36,561 — 36,573 Capital contribution — — — — — — 1,052 — 1,052 Vesting of restricted shares — — — — 276 — — — — Stock-based compensation expense — — — — — — 5,284 — 5,284 Net loss — — — — — — — (7,110) (7,110) Balances at June 30, 2014 — $— — $— 49,564 $50 $125,255 $(34, 171) $91,134 Follow-on offering, net of issuance costs — — — — 750 1 18,366 — 18,367 Stock-based compensation expense — — — — — — 13,824 — 13,824 Stock options exercised — — — — 452 — 4,335 — 4,335 Issuance of common stock upon vesting ofrestricted stock units — — — — 120 — — — — Issuance of common stock under employeestock purchase plan — — — — 83 — 1,773 — 1,773 Net settlement for taxes and/or exerciseprice related to equity awards — — — — (266) — (7,881) — (7,881) Net loss — — — — — — — (13,972) (13,972) Balances at June 30, 2015 — $— — $— 50,703 $51 $155,672 $(48,143) $107,580 Stock-based compensation expense — — — — — — 18,641 — 18,641 Stock options exercised — — — — 536 — 6,197 — 6,197 Issuance of common stock upon vesting ofrestricted stock units — — — — 120 — — — — Issuance of common stock under employeestock purchase plan — — — — 102 — 2,991 — 2,991 Net settlement for taxes and/or exerciseprice related to equity awards — — — — (329) — (11,986) — (11,986) Net loss — — — — — — — (3,851) (3,851) Balances at June 30, 2016 — $— — $— 51,132 $51 $171,515 $(51,994) $119,572 See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. F- 5Table of Contents PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORPORATIONConsolidated Statements of Cash Flows(in thousands) For the Years Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Cash flows from operating activities: Net loss $(7,110) $(13,972) $(3,851) Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: Stock-based compensation 4,929 13,169 17,563 Depreciation and amortization 6,336 8,609 13,873 Deferred income tax expense 341 91 150 Provision for doubtful accounts 62 90 159 Loss on disposal of equipment 98 256 712 Changes in operating assets and liabilities: Accounts receivable (78) (449) (725) Prepaid expenses (1,132) (1,754) (3,270) Trade accounts payable 465 (186) 72 Accrued expenses 3,288 5,251 8,310 Net cash provided by operating activities 7,199 11,105 32,993 Cash flows from investing activities: Capitalized internal-use software costs (4,349) (4,215) (8,391) Purchases of property and equipment (6,667) (9,020) (16,083) Payments for acquisitions (6,450) (11,979) (483) Net change in funds held for clients (61,356) (173,958) (648,403) Net cash used in investing activities (78,822) (199,172) (673,360) Cash flows from financing activities: Net change in client funds obligation 61,356 173,958 648,403 Principal payments on long-term debt (1,563) — — Proceeds from initial public offering, net of issuance costs 82,032 — — Proceeds from follow-on offering, net of issuance costs — 18,367 — Payments on initial public offering costs — (75) — Capital contribution 1,052 — — Proceeds from exercise of stock options — 247 137 Proceeds from employee stock purchase plan — 1,773 2,991 Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity awards — (3,793) (5,926) Net cash provided by financing activities 142,877 190,477 645,605 Net Change in Cash and Cash Equivalents 71,254 2,410 5,238 Cash and Cash Equivalents—Beginning of Year 7,594 78,848 81,258 Cash and Cash Equivalents—End of Year $78,848 $81,258 $86,496 Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activities Build-out allowances received from landlords $1,162 — $1,888 Purchase of property and equipment and internal-use software, accrued but not paid $896 $210 $607 Unpaid initial offering costs $75 — — Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds $106 $162 $3 Cash paid for interest $70 — — See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements. F- 6Table of Contents PAYLOCITY HOLDING CORPORATIONNotes to the Consolidated Financial Statements(all amounts in thousands, except per share data) (1) Organization and Description of Business Paylocity Holding Corporation (the “Company”), through its wholly owned subsidiary, Paylocity Corporation, is a cloud-based provider of payroll andhuman capital management software solutions for medium-sized organizations. Services are provided in a Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) delivery model utilizingthe Company’s cloud-based platform. Payroll services include collection, remittance and reporting of payroll liabilities to the appropriate federal, state and localauthorities. Secondary Offering In September 2015, the Company completed a secondary offering in which its existing shareholders sold 3,740 shares of common stock at a publicoffering price of $29.75 per share. The Company did not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock by the existing shareholders. In October 2015, the underwriters for the Company’s secondary offering exercised their option to purchase 561 additional shares from certainshareholders of the Company as described in the final prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on September 25, 2015. TheCompany did not receive any proceeds from the sale of common stock by the existing shareholders. (2) Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (a) Basis of Presentation, Consolidation, and Use of Estimates The accompanying consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the United StatesSecurities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) requires management tomake estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of theconsolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include the allowance for doubtful accounts, internal-use software, valuation and useful lives of long-lived assets, definite-lived intangibles, goodwill, stock-based compensation, valuation of net deferred income tax assets and the best estimate of selling price forrevenue recognition purposes. Future events and their effects cannot be predicted with certainty; accordingly, accounting estimates require the exercise ofjudgment. Accounting estimates used in the preparation of these consolidated financial statements change as new events occur, as more experience is acquired, asadditional information is obtained and as the operating environment changes. The consolidated financial statements reflect the financial position and operating results of Paylocity Holding Corporation and include its wholly-ownedsubsidiary Paylocity Corporation. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. (b) Concentrations of Risk The Company regularly maintains cash balances that exceed Federal Depository Insurance Corporation limits. No individual client represents 10% ormore of total revenues. For all periods presented, 100% of total revenues were generated by clients in the United States. (c) Cash and Cash Equivalents The Company considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. (d) Accounts Receivable Accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and do not bear interest. Amounts collected on trade accounts receivable are included in net cashprovided by operating activities in the statements of cash flows. The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts reflecting estimated potential losses inits accounts receivable portfolio. In establishing the required allowance, management considers historical losses adjusted to take into account current marketconditions and our clients’ financial conditions, the amount of receivables in dispute, the current receivables aging and current payment patterns. The Companyreviews its allowance for doubtful accounts quarterly. Past due balances over 60 days and over a specified amount are reviewed individually for collectability. Allother balances are reviewed on a pooled basis. Account balances are charged off against the allowance after all F- 7Table of Contents commercially reasonable means of collection have been exhausted and the potential for recovery is considered remote. The Company does not have any off-balance-sheet credit exposure related to its clients. Activity in the allowance for doubtful accounts was as follows: For the Years Ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Balance at the beginning of the year $118 $126 $149 Charged to expense 62 90 159 Write-offs (54) (67) (115) Balance at the end of the year $126 $149 $193 (e) Prepaid Expenses and Other Assets Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist primarily of prepaid licensing fees, prepaid insurance premiums, deposits with vendors and time clocksavailable for sale or lease. (f) Capitalized Internal-Use Software The Company applies Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 350-40, Intangibles—Goodwill andOther—Internal-Use Software , to the accounting for costs of internal-use software. Internal-use software costs are capitalized when application developmentbegins, it is probable that the project will be completed, and the software will be used as intended. Costs associated with preliminary project stage activities,training, maintenance and all other post implementation stage activities are expensed as incurred. The Company also capitalizes certain costs related to specificupgrades and enhancements when it is probable the expenditures will result in significant additional functionality. The capitalization policy provides for thecapitalization of certain payroll costs for employees who are directly associated with developing internal-use software as well as certain external direct costs, suchas consulting fees. Capitalized employee costs are limited to the time directly spent on such projects. Capitalized internal-use software costs are amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives, generally 18 to 24 months. Managementevaluates the useful lives of these assets on an annual basis and tests for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances occur that could impact therecoverability of these assets. (g) Property and Equipment and Long-Lived Assets Property and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation on property and equipment is calculated on the straight-line method over the estimated useful livesof the assets, generally three to seven years for most classes of assets, or over the term of the related lease for leasehold improvements. Long-lived assets, such as property and equipment, are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carryingamount of an asset may not be recoverable. If circumstances require a long-lived asset or asset group be tested for possible impairment, the Company firstcompares the undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by that asset or asset group to its carrying amount. If the carrying amount of the long-lived asset orasset group is not recoverable on an undiscounted cash flow basis, an impairment is recognized to the extent that the carrying amount exceeds its fair value. Fairvalue is determined through various valuation techniques including discounted cash flow models, quoted market values and third-party independent appraisals, asconsidered necessary. (h) Intangible Assets, Net of Accumulated Amortization Intangible assets are comprised primarily of client list acquisitions and are reported net of accumulated amortization on the consolidated balance sheets.Client relationships use the straight-line method of amortization over a nine-year time frame from the date of acquisition, while non-solicitation agreements use thestraight-line method of amortization over the lives of the related agreements. The Company tests intangible assets for potential impairment when events or changesin circumstances indicate that the carrying value of such assets may not be recoverable. (i) Goodwill Goodwill is an asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individuallyidentified and separately recognized. As described in Note 5, the Company has recorded goodwill in connection with the acquisitions of certain assets ofBFKMS, Inc. and Synergy Payroll, LLC. Goodwill is not amortized, but instead is tested for impairment at least annually in the fourth quarter. ASU 2011-08,Testing Goodwill for Impairment provides an entity the option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more-likely-than-not that the fair valueof a reporting unit is less F- 8Table of Contents than its carrying amount prior to performing the two-step impairment test. If the estimated fair value of a reporting unit, including goodwill, is less than its carryingamount, the two-step goodwill impairment test is required. Otherwise no further analysis is required. If the two-step goodwill impairment test is required, the fair value of the reporting unit is compared with its carrying amount, including goodwill. If thefair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, an indication of goodwill impairment exists for the reporting unit. In the second step, an impairmentloss is recognized for any excess of the carrying amount of the reporting unit’s goodwill over the implied fair value of the goodwill. The implied fair value ofgoodwill is determined by allocating the fair value of the reporting unit in a manner similar to a purchase price allocation and the residual fair value after thisallocation is the implied fair value of the reporting unit goodwill. Fair value of the reporting unit is determined using a discounted cash flow analysis. In the eventthe fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, step two is not performed. The Company performs its annual impairment review of goodwill in its fiscal fourth quarter or when a triggering event occurs between annual impairmenttests. No impairment was recorded in fiscal 2015 or fiscal 2016 as a result of the Company’s impairment tests. Given that the Company did not have recordedgoodwill until its fiscal fourth quarter of 2014, no impairment tests were required to be completed for fiscal 2014. (j) Deferred Rent The Company has operating lease agreements for its office space, which contain provisions for future rent increases, periods of rent abatement and build-out allowances. The Company records monthly rent expense for each lease equal to the total payments due over the lease term, divided by the number of months ofthe lease term. Build-out allowances are recorded as part of leasehold improvements and the incentive is amortized over the lease term against depreciation. Thedifference between recorded rent expense and the amount paid is included in “Accrued expenses” and as “Deferred rent” in the accompanying consolidated balancesheets. (k) Income Taxes Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequencesattributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss andtax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which thosetemporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes (Topic 740) (“ASU 2015-17”), which requires alldeferred income tax assets and liabilities to be classified as non-current in a classified balance sheet. As allowed by ASU 2015-17, the Company adopted the newrequirements as of June 30, 2016, on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard resulted in a reclassification of deferred tax assets and liabilities to the non-current deferred tax liability in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2016. ASU 2015-17 did not have a material impact on the Company’sconsolidated balance sheet and had no impact on the Company’s consolidated results of operations or cash flows. No prior periods were retrospectively adjusted. Valuation allowances are provided when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount more likely than not to be realized. Significant managementjudgment is required in determining the period in which the reversal of a valuation allowance should occur. The Company is required to consider all availableevidence, both positive and negative, such as historical levels of income and future forecasts of taxable income among other items, in determining whether a full orpartial release of its valuation allowance is required. The Company is also required to schedule future taxable income in accordance with accounting standards thataddress income taxes to assess the appropriateness of a valuation allowance, which further requires the exercise of significant management judgment. The Company recognizes the effect of income tax positions only if those positions are more likely than not of being sustained. Recognized income taxpositions are measured at the largest amount that is greater than 50% likely of being realized. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period inwhich the change in judgment occurs. The Company records interest and penalties as an element of income tax expense. Refer to Note 11 for additional information on income taxes. (l) Revenue Recognition The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with ASC 605-25, Revenue Recognition—Multiple Element Arrangements , Accounting StandardsUpdate No. 2009-13, Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements (“ ASU 2009-13 ”), and Staff Accounting Bulletin 104, Revenue Recognition . Revenue isrecognized when there is persuasive evidence that an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the fee is fixed or determinable and collection of the revenue isprobable. F- 9Table of Contents The Company derives its revenue predominantly from recurring fees and non-recurring service fees. Recurring fees are collected under agreements forpayroll, timekeeping, HR-related cloud-based computing services and monthly time clock rentals, all of which are generally cancellable by the client on 60 days’notice or less. Non-recurring service fees consist mainly of implementation and custom reporting services. Such fees are billed to clients and revenue is recordedupon completion of the service. The Company’s agreements do not include general rights of return and do not provide clients with the right to take possession ofthe software supporting the services being provided. As such, the agreements are accounted for as service contracts. Interest income collected on funds held for clients is recognized in recurring revenues when earned as the collection, holding and remittance of these fundsare critical components of providing these services. Most multiple-element arrangements include a short implementation services phase which involves establishing the client within and loading data into theCompany’s cloud-based applications. Such activities are performed by either the Company or a third party vendor. Major recurring fees included in multiple-element arrangements include: · Payroll processing and related services, including payroll reporting and tax filing services delivered on a weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, ormonthly basis depending upon the payroll frequency of the client and on an annual basis if a client selects W-2 preparation and processing services, · Time and attendance reporting services, including time clock rentals, delivered on a monthly basis, and · Cloud-based HR software solutions, including employee administration and benefits enrollment and administration, delivered on a monthly basis. For each agreement, the Company evaluates whether the individual deliverables qualify as separate units of accounting. If one or more of the deliverablesdoes not have standalone value upon delivery, which is typical of the payroll and human capital management (“HCM”) services our customers contract for, thedeliverables that do not have standalone value are generally combined and treated as a single unit of accounting by frequency of occurrence for the productcategory involved such as biweekly payroll or monthly timekeeping services. Revenues for arrangements treated as a single unit of accounting are generallyrecognized within the same month that the services are rendered given that the agreements are cancellable with 60 days’ or less notice. In determining whether implementation services can be accounted for separately from recurring revenues, the Company considers the nature of theimplementation services and the availability of the implementation services from other vendors. The Company was able to establish standalone value forimplementation activities based on the activity of third-party vendors that perform these services and accounts for such implementation services separate from therecurring revenues. If the recurring services have standalone value upon delivery, the Company accounts for each separately and revenues are recognized as services aredelivered with allocation of consideration based on the relative selling price method as established in ASU 2009-13. That method requires the selling price of eachelement in a multiple-deliverable arrangement to be based on, in descending order: (i) vendor specific objective evidence of fair value (“VSOE”), (ii) third-partyevidence of fair value (“TPE”) or (iii) management’s best estimate of the selling price (“BESP”). The Company is not able to establish VSOE because the deliverables are sold across an insufficiently narrow range of prices on a stand-alone basis and isalso not able to establish TPE because no third-party offerings are reasonably comparable to the Company’s offerings. The Company thus established its BESP byservice offering, requiring the use of significant estimates and judgment. The Company considers numerous factors, including the nature of the deliverablesthemselves; the geography of the sale; and pricing and discounting practices utilized by the Company’s sales force. Arrangement consideration is allocated to eachdeliverable based on the established BESP and subject to the limitation that because the arrangements are cancellable with 60 days’ or less notice, recurringrevenue is not allocated to any deliverable until the consideration has been earned, typically with each payroll cycle or monthly, depending on the service. Revenues generated from sales through partners or utilizing partner services are recognized in accordance with the appropriate accounting guidance ofASC 605-45, Principal Agent Considerations . The Company reports revenue generated through partners or utilizing partner services at the gross amount billed toclients when (i) the Company is the primary obligor, (ii) the Company has latitude to establish the price charged and (iii) the Company bears the credit risk in thetransaction. Sales taxes collected from clients and remitted to governmental authorities where applicable are accounted for on a net basis and therefore are excludedfrom revenues in the statements of operations. F- 10Table of Contents (m) Cost of Revenues Cost of revenues consists primarily of the cost of recurring revenues and implementation services which are expensed when incurred. Cost of revenues forrecurring revenues consists primarily of costs to provide recurring services and support to our clients, and includes amortization of capitalized internal-usesoftware. Cost of revenues for implementation services and other consists primarily of costs to provide implementation and other services. (n) Advertising Advertising costs are expensed as incurred. Advertising costs amounted to $24, $187 and $219 for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016,respectively. (o) Stock-Based Compensation The Company recognizes all employee stock-based compensation as a cost in the financial statements. Equity-classified awards, including those under the2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”), are measured at the grant date fair value of the award and expense is recognized, net of assumed forfeitures, on astraight-line basis over the requisite service period for each separately vesting portion of the award. The Company estimates grant date fair value using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and periodically updates the assumed forfeiture rates for actual experience over their vesting term or the term of the ESPP purchaseperiod. (p) Commitments and Contingencies Liabilities for loss contingencies arising from claims, assessments, litigation, fines, and penalties and other sources are recorded when it is probable that aliability has been incurred and the amount can be reasonably estimated. Legal costs incurred in connection with loss contingencies are expensed as incurred. (q) Segment Information The Company’s chief operating decision maker reviews the financial results of the Company in total when evaluating financial performance and forpurposes of allocating resources. The Company has thus determined that it operates in a single cloud-based software solution reporting segment. (r) Recently Issued Accounting Standards In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) (“ASU 2014-09”). ASU 2014-09 supersedes a majority of existing revenue recognition guidance under US GAAP, and requires companies to recognize revenue when ittransfers goods or services to a customer in an amount that reflects the consideration to which a company expects to be entitled. Companies may need to applymore judgment and estimation techniques or methods while recognizing revenue, which could result in additional disclosures to the financial statements. Inaddition, i n March 2016, April 2016 and May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus AgentConsiderations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net) (“ASU 2016-08”), ASU 2016-10, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): IdentifyingPerformance Obligations and Licensing (“ASU 2016-10”) and ASU 2016-12, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Narrow-Scope Improvementsand Practical Expedients (“ASU 2016-12”), respectively, to amend certain guidance in ASU 2014-09. Topic 606 allows for either a retrospective or cumulativeeffect transition method. ASU 2014-09 was originally effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016. In July 2015, the FASB approved a one-yeardeferral of ASU 2014-09 and all amendments to it, with a new effective date for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017 with early adoption permitted as ofthe original effective date. The Company is currently assessing the potential effects of these changes to its consolidated financial statements and is evaluating theadoption method and timing. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) (“ASU 2016-02”) which amends various aspects of existing guidance for leases.ASU 2016-02 requires an entity to recognize assets and liabilities arising from a lease with terms greater than twelve months, along with additional qualitative andquantitative disclosures. ASU 2016-02 also requires the use of the modified retrospective method, which will require adjustment to all comparative periodspresented. ASU 2016-02 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently assessing thepotential effects of these changes to its consolidated financial statements and is evaluating the timing of adoption. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09, Compensation – Stock Compensation (Topic 718) (“ASU 2016-09”) which modifies accounting forexcess tax benefits and tax deficiencies, forfeitures, and employer tax withholding requirements. ASU 2016-09 also clarifies certain classifications on thestatement of cash flows. ASU 2016-09 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currentlyassessing the potential effects of these changes to its consolidated financial statements and is evaluating the timing of adoption. F- 11Table of Contents In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments(ASU 2016-13), which requires measurement and recognition of expected credit losses for financial assets held. ASU 2016-13 is effective for fiscal yearsbeginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted as of fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company is currently assessing thepotential effects of these changes to its consolidated financial statements and is evaluating the timing of adoption. From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the FASB or other standard setting bodies that are adopted by the Company as of thespecified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, the Company believes that the impact of recently issued standards that are not yet effective will not have amaterial impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements upon adoption. (3) Funds Held for Clients and Client Fund Obligations The Company obtains funds from clients in advance of performing payroll and payroll tax filing services on behalf of those clients. Funds held for clientsrepresent assets that are used solely for the purposes of satisfying the obligations to remit funds relating to payroll and payroll tax filing services. Funds held forclients are held in demand deposit and money market accounts at major financial institutions. The Company has classified funds held for clients as a current assetsince these funds are held solely for the purposes of satisfying the client fund obligations. Client fund obligations represent the Company’s contractual obligations to remit funds to satisfy clients’ payroll and tax payment obligations and arerecorded in the accompanying balance sheets at the time that the Company obtains funds from clients. The client fund obligations represent liabilities that will berepaid within one year of the balance sheet date. (4) Fair Value Measurements The Company applies the fair value measurement and disclosure provisions of ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures , and ASU 2011-04,Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Amendments to Achieve Common Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Requirements in U.S. GAAP and IFRS . Fairvalue is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at themeasurement date. A three-level fair value hierarchy prioritizes the inputs used to measure fair value. The hierarchy requires entities to maximize the use ofobservable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. The three levels of inputs used to measure fair value are as follows: · Level 1—Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities. · Level 2—Quoted prices in active markets for similar assets and liabilities, or other inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directlyor indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument. · Level 3—Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets and liabilities.This includes certain pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies and similar techniques that use significant unobservable inputs. Substantially all of the Company’s assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis are measured using Level 1 inputs. The Company considersthe recorded value of its financial assets and liabilities, which consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, funds held for clients, accountspayable and client fund obligations to approximate the fair value of the respective assets and liabilities at June 30, 2015 and 2016 based upon the short-term natureof the assets and liabilities. F- 12Table of Contents (5) Business Combinations The Company had agreements with two resellers. The Company, under the revenue sharing provisions of the terminated reseller agreements, paid $2,495to BFKMS Inc. during fiscal year 2014, and $2,081 and $2,361 to Synergy Payroll, LLC during fiscal years 2014 and 2015, respectively. The reseller agreementsprovided that the Company was required to acquire the assets of the resellers upon termination of the agreements. T he following acquisitions were accounted for asa business combination in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations . The Company recorded the acquisitions using the acquisition method of accountingand recognized assets at their fair value as of the date of acquisition. In May 2014, the Company acquired certain assets sufficient to sell the Company’s products in the Southern California marketplace upon the terminationof its reseller agreement with BFKMS Inc. The total consideration paid for the acquisition was $9,435, of which $6,450 and $2,985 was paid during the years endedJune 30, 2014 and 2015, respectively. The following table summarizes the fair value of the assets acquired at the date of acquisition: At May 23, 2014 Intangible assets $6,400 Goodwill 3,035 Total purchase price $9,435 The $6,400 of amortizable intangible assets consists of $6,180 in client relationships and $220 in a non-solicitation agreement. Goodwill will be amortizedover a period of 15 years for income tax purposes. In April 2015, the Company acquired certain assets sufficient to sell the Company’s products in the State of New Jersey marketplace upon the terminationof its reseller agreement with Synergy Payroll, LLC, as part of the Company’s strategy of simplifying its sales channels. The total consideration for the acquisitionwas $9,508, of which $8,994 was paid at closing. The Company paid $483 during fiscal year 2016, which was net of adjustments in accordance with the assetpurchase agreement. The following table summarizes the fair value of the assets acquired at the date of acquisition: At April 16, 2015 Intangible assets $6,540 Goodwill 2,968 Total purchase price $9,508 The $6,540 of amortizable intangible assets consists of $6,400 in client relationships and $140 in non-solicitation agreements. Goodwill will be amortizedover a period of 15 years for income tax purposes. The balance of the acquired intangibles, net of amortization, is stated separately on the consolidated balance sheet. Direct costs related to the acquisitionwere recorded as general and administrative expense as incurred. (6) Capitalized Internal-Use Software Capitalized internal-use software and accumulated amortization were as follows: Year ended June 30, 2015 2016 Capitalized internal-use software $24,733 $34,249 Accumulated amortization (17,376) (22,822) Capitalized internal-use software, net $7,357 $11,427 Amortization of capitalized internal-use software amounted to $2,195, $2,606 and $5,446 for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectivelyand is included in Cost of Revenues—Recurring Revenues. F- 13Table of Contents (7) Property and Equipment The major classes of property and equipment are as follows as of June 30: Year ended June 30, 2015 2016 Office equipment $1,875 $2,528 Computer equipment 11,783 18,139 Furniture and fixtures 2,423 4,308 Software 5,218 5,059 Leasehold improvements 6,639 11,164 Time clocks rented by clients 3,217 4,046 31,155 45,244 Accumulated depreciation and amortization (15,094) (18,457) Property and equipment, net $16,061 $26,787 Depreciation expense amounted to $4,061, $5,084 and $6,905 for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. (8) Goodwill and Intangible Assets Goodwill represents the excess of cost over the net tangible and identifiable intangible assets of acquired businesses. Goodwill amounts are notamortized, but rather tested for impairment at least annually in the fourth quarter. Identifiable intangible assets acquired in business combinations are recordedbased on fair value at the date of acquisition and amortized over their estimated useful lives. See Note 5 for further information regarding the acquisitionscompleted in 2014 and 2015. The Company’s amortizable intangible assets, before amortization expense, have estimated useful lives as follows: As of June 30, 2015 As of June 30, 2016 Weighted Average Useful Life Client relationships $12,580 $12,580 9 years Non-solicitation agreements 360 360 2-3 years Total 12,940 12,940 Accumulated amortization (999) (2,521) Intangible assets, net $11,941 $10,419 Amortization expense for acquired intangible assets was $80, $919 and $1,522 for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Futureamortization expense for acquired intangible is as follows, as of June 30, 2016: Year ending June 30: 2017 $1,512 2018 1,427 2019 1,398 2020 1,398 2021 1,398 Thereafter 3,286 Total $10,419 F- 14Table of Contents (9) Accrued Expenses The components of accrued expenses are as follows: Year ended June 30, 2015 2016 Accrued payroll and personnel costs $14,275 $21,658 Current portion of deferred rent 727 504 Other 1,428 2,817 Total Accrued Expenses $16,430 $24,979 (10) Leases The Company primarily leases office space in Illinois, California, Florida, Idaho, New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York under non-cancellableoperating leases expiring on various dates from August 2016 through March 2026. The leases provide for increasing annual base rents and oblige the Company tofund proportionate share of operating expenses and, in certain cases, real estate taxes. The Company also leases various types of office and production relatedequipment under non-cancellable operating leases expiring on various dates from December 2016 through July 2024. In June 2016, the Company entered into a lease for approximately 310 rentable square feet of office space located in Schaumburg, Illinois. The Companyintends to use the leased premises as its headquarters upon the expiration of the lease of its current headquarters. The lease provides for phased delivery andcommencement dates, with commencement expected to occur on the following approximate dates: Phase I (June 1, 2017), Phase II (Nov 1, 2017), Phase III(July 1, 2018), and Phase IV (July 1, 2019). The actual commencement dates are subject to timely delivery of the premises by the landlord. The lease provides for aterm beginning on the Phase I commencement date and ending 180 full calendar months after the landlord delivers the Phase II premisesto the Company, which is expected to be on or about November 1, 2017, with two subsequent five year renewal options. Minimum rent payments under operating leases are recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease including any periods of free rent andfuture rent increases. Rental expense for operating leases, including amortization of leasehold improvements, was $3,035, $4,238 and $5,596 for the years endedJune 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases (with initial or remaining lease terms in excess of one year), including paymentsfor the lease of the new headquarters, as of June 30, 2016 are: Year ending June 30: 2017 $5,650 2018 6,590 2019 7,445 2020 7,584 2021 8,365 Later years, through 2033 75,727 Total minimum lease payments $111,361 (11) Income Taxes (a) Income Taxes Income tax expense for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016 consists of the following: Year ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Current taxes U.S. federal $(125) $— $— State and local 39 14 27 Deferred taxes: U.S. federal 160 83 136 State and local 181 8 14 Total income tax expense $255 $105 $177 F- 15Table of Contents (b) Tax Rate Reconciliation Income tax expense differed from the amounts computed by applying the U.S. federal income tax rate of 34% to pretax loss from continuing operations asa result of the following: Year ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Income tax provision at statutory federal rate $(2,331) $(4,716) $(1,249) Increase (reduction) in income taxes resulting from: Research and development credit, net of federal income tax benefit (189) (276) (504) Non-deductible expenses 145 418 557 Change in valuation allowance 2,878 4,570 2,590 State and local income taxes, net of federal income tax benefit (387) (562) (432) Other 139 671 (785) $255 $105 $177 (c) Components of Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities The tax effects of temporary differences that give rise to significant portions of the deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities at June 30, 2015 and2016 are presented below. Year ended June 30, 2015 2016 Deferred tax assets: Deferred rent $558 $694 Allowance for doubtful accounts 56 73 Accrued expenses 1,313 1,812 Stock-based compensation 4,671 7,367 Net operating loss carryforwards 4,332 4,498 Research and development credit 1,357 3,236 AMT Credits 11 11 Intangible assets 163 413 Total deferred tax assets 12,461 18,104 Valuation allowance (7,448) (10,038) Net deferred tax assets 5,013 8,066 Deferred tax liabilities: Research and development costs (2,837) (3,681) Prepaid expenses (208) (91) Depreciation (2,067) (4,543) Total deferred liabilities (5,112) (8,315) Net deferred tax liability $(99) (249) In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred taxassets will not be realized through the generation of future taxable income. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of futuretaxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities(including the impact of available carryback and carryforward periods), projected future taxable income and tax-planning strategies in making this assessment.Taxable loss for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016 was approximately $(3,817) and $(12,424), and $(8,330) respectively, prior to utilization orestablishment of net operating loss carryforwards. Based upon the same three year period pre-tax book income, the Company is in a three-year cumulative lossposition. As a result of this and other assessments in the year ended June 30, 2016, management concluded that a full valuation allowance is required for alldeferred tax assets and liabilities except for deferred tax liabilities associated with indefinite-lived intangible assets. In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes (Topic 740) (“ASU 2015-17”), which requires alldeferred income tax assets and liabilities to be classified as non-current in a classified balance sheet. As allowed by ASU 2015-17, the Company adopted the newrequirements as of June 30, 2016, on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard resulted in a reclassification of deferred tax assets and liabilities to the non-current deferred tax liability in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2016. ASU 2015-17 did not have a material impact on the Company’s F- 16Table of Contents consolidated balance sheet and had no impact on the Company’s consolidated results of operations or cash flows. No prior periods were retrospectively adjusted. At June 30, 2016, the Company has gross excess tax benefits from stock option exercises of approximately $14,969 for federal and state income taxpurposes. At June 30, 2016, the Company has net operating loss carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of approximately $12,453 and state income taxpurposes of approximately $4,703, both excluding the excess tax benefits from stock option exercises noted above. The net tax impact of $5,089 and $535 forfederal and state income tax purposes, respectively, related to the excess tax benefits from stock option exercises will be credited to additional paid-in capital whenrealized. The federal NOL carryforwards expire from 2029 to 2036. The state NOL carryforwards expire from 2019 to 2036. The Company also has gross federaland state research and development tax credit and other state credit carryforwards of approximately $3,236 which expire between 2017 and 2036. In addition, theCompany has alternative minimum tax credit carryforwards of approximately $11, which are available to reduce future federal regular income taxes, if any, over anindefinite period. The Company had no unrecognized tax benefits as of June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. The Company files income tax returns with the United States federal government and various state jurisdictions. Certain tax years remain open for federaland state tax reporting jurisdictions in which the Company does business due to net operating loss carryforwards and tax credits unutilized from such years orutilized in a period remaining open for audit under normal statute of limitations relating to income tax liabilities. The Company, including its domestic subsidiary,files a consolidated federal income tax return. For years before 2012 (fiscal year ended June 30, 2013), the Company is no longer subject to U.S. federalexamination; however, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has the ability to review years prior to 2012 to the extent the Company utilized tax attributes carriedforward from those prior years. The statute of limitations on state filings is generally three to four years. (12) Stockholders’ Equity Common Stock Holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share and to receive dividends, when declared. The holders have no preemptive or other subscriptionrights and there are no redemption or sinking fund provisions with respect to such shares. Common stock was subordinate to the redeemable convertible preferredstock with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, winding up and dissolution of the Company. (13) Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock Prior to its IPO, the Company had two series of Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock: Series A and Series B. Upon the closing of the IPO, the Series A and Series B Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock automatically converted into 11,933 shares of commonstock. (14) Benefit Plans (a) Equity Incentive Plans The Company maintains a 2008 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2008 Plan”) and a 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2014 Plan”) pursuant to which theCompany has reserved shares of its common stock for issuance to its employees, directors and non-employee third parties. The 2014 Plan serves as the successor tothe 2008 Plan and permits the granting of options to purchase common stock and other equity incentives at the discretion of the compensation committee of theCompany’s board of directors. No new awards have been or will be issued under the 2008 Plan since the effective date of the 2014 Plan. Outstanding awards underthe 2008 Plan continue to be subject to the terms and conditions of the 2008 Plan. The number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the 2014Plan will increase automatically each calendar year, continuing through and including January 1, 2024 (“Evergreen provision”). The number of shares added eachyear will be equal to the lesser of (a) four and five tenths percent (4.5%) of the number of shares of common stock of the Company issued and outstanding on theimmediately preceding December 31, or (b) an amount determined by the Company’s board of directors. The Company’s board of directors determined that,effective January 1, 2016, it would increase the number of common shares in reserve for issuance under the 2014 Plan by 2,293 shares. As of June 30, 2016, the Company had 10,711 shares allocated to the plans, of which 4,467 shares were subject to outstanding options or awards.Generally, the Company issues previously unissued shares for the exercise of stock options or vesting of awards; however, shares previously subject to 2014 Plangrants or awards that are forfeited or net settled at exercise or release may be reissued to satisfy future issuances. F- 17Table of Contents The following table summarizes changes during the year ended June 30, 2016 in the number of shares available for grant under our equity incentive plans: Number of Shares Available for grant at July 1, 2015 4,490 January 1, 2016 Evergreen provision increase 2,293 RSU’s granted (774) Options granted (149) Shares withheld in settlement of taxes and/or exercise price 329 Forfeitures 142 Shares removed (87) Available for grant at June 30, 2016 6,244 Shares removed represents forfeitures of shares and shares withheld in settlement of taxes and/or payment of exercise price related to grants made underthe 2008 Plan. As noted above, no new awards will be issued under the 2008 Plan. Stock-based compensation expense related to stock options and the vesting of restricted stock awards (“RSAs”), restricted stock units (“RSUs”), and theEmployee Stock Purchase Plan (as described below) is included in the following line items in the accompanying audited consolidated statements of operations: Year ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Cost of revenue – recurring $496 $1,532 $1,648 Cost of revenue – non-recurring 424 1,222 1,127 Sales and marketing 765 3,247 4,441 Research and development 615 2,533 2,789 General and administrative 2,629 4,635 7,558 Total stock-based compensation $4,929 $13,169 $17,563 In addition, the Company capitalized $325, $655 and $1,078 of stock-based compensation costs in its internal-use software in the years ended June 30,2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Under the 2008 and 2014 Plans, the exercise price of each option cannot be less than the fair value of a share of common stock on the grant date. Theoptions typically vest ratably over a three or four year period and expire 10 years from the grant date. Stock-based compensation expense for the fair value of theoptions at their grant date is recognized ratably over the vesting schedule for each separately vesting portion of the award. The Company values stock options using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, which requires the input of subjective assumptions, including the risk-free rate, expected life, expected stock price volatility and dividend yield. The risk-free interest rate assumption is based upon observed interest rates for U.S.Treasury securities consistent with the expected term of the Company’s employee stock options. The expected life represents the period of time the stock optionsare expected to be outstanding and is based on the simplified method. Under the simplified method, the expected life of an option is presumed to be the mid-pointbetween the vesting date and the end of the contractual term. As the Company has a limited history of trading as a public company, the Company utilizes thesimplified method due to the lack of sufficient historical exercise data to provide a reasonable basis upon which to otherwise estimate the expected life of the stockoptions. Therefore, the expected volatility is based on historical volatilities for publicly traded stock of comparable companies over the estimated expected life ofthe stock options. The Company assumed no dividend yield because it does not expect to pay dividends in the near future, which is consistent with the Company’shistory of not paying dividends. F- 18Table of Contents The following table summarizes the assumptions used for estimating the fair value of stock options granted for the years ended June 30: Year ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Valuation assumptions: Expected dividend yield 0% 0% 0% Expected volatility 29.5% - 44.5% 43.9% 34.0% Expected term (years) 4.0 - 6.0 6.25 6.25 Risk-free interest rate 0.52% - 1.94% 1.91% 1.83% Stock option activity during the periods indicated is as follows: Outstanding Options Number of shares Weighted average exercise price Weighted average remaining contractual term Aggregate intrinsic value Balance at July 1, 2015 3,956 $10.96 7.63 $98,434 Options granted 149 35.28 Options forfeited (105) 16.47 Options exercised (536) 11.57 Balance at June 30, 2016 3,464 $11.75 6.70 $108,944 Options exercisable at June 30, 2016 2,115 $8.44 6.14 $73,530 Options vested and expected to vest at June 30, 2016 3,409 $11.59 6.68 $107,764 The weighted average grant date fair value of options granted during the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016 was $6.39, $11.14 and $12.92,respectively. The total intrinsic value of options exercised during the years ended June 30, 2015 and 2016 was $8,802 and $13,362, respectively. There were nooptions exercised during the year ended June 30, 2014. At June 30, 2016, there was $ 2,802 of total unrecognized compensation cost, net of estimated forfeitures,related to unvested stock options granted. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.48 years. The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding and stock options exercisable at June 30, 2016: Options Outstanding Options Exercisable Price Range Number of shares Weighted average remaining contractual term Weighted average exercise price Number of shares Weighted average exercise price $1.31 to $3.58 662 4.21 $1.55 662 $1.55 $3.59 to $5.96 862 6.14 4.88 641 4.88 $5.97 to $12.02 254 7.04 7.04 62 7.04 $12.03 to $20.90 1,240 7.72 17.00 683 17.00 $20.91 to $35.28 446 8.46 28.24 67 24.80 Total 3,464 6.70 $11.75 2,115 $8.44 F- 19Table of Contents The Company may also grant RSUs under the 2014 Plan with terms determined at the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the Company’s boardof directors. RSUs generally vest over three or four years following the grant date. Certain RSU awards have time-based vesting conditions while other RSUawards are based on attainment of certain performance benchmarks. The following table represents restricted stock unit activity during the year ended June 30,2016: Units Weighted average grant date fair value RSU balance at July 1, 2015 386 $24.98 RSUs granted 774 35.41 RSUs vested (120) 26.07 RSUs cancelled/forfeited (37) 30.37 RSU balance at June 30, 2016 1,003 $32.74 RSUs expected to vest at June 30, 2016 899 $32.59 At June 30, 2016, there was $ 15,818 of total unrecognized compensation cost, net of estimated forfeitures, related to unvested restricted stock unitsgranted. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.14 years. The total excess income tax benefits for stock-based compensation arrangements was $703, $5,562 and $8,228 for the years ended June 30, 2014, 2015and 2016, respectively. The tax impact of these amounts will be recognized as a credit to additional paid-in capital when realized. (b) Employee Stock Purchase Plan The Company’s 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”) was adopted by the Company’s board of directors and approved by the stockholders onFebruary 6, 2014 and was effective upon completion of the Company’s initial public offering. Under the Company’s ESPP, the Company can grant stock purchase rights to all eligible employees during specific offering periods not to exceed twenty-seven months. Each offering period will begin on the trading day closest to May 16 and November 16 of each year. Shares are purchased through employees’payroll deductions, up to a maximum of 10% of employees’ compensation for each purchase period, at a purchase price equal to 85% of the lesser of the fairmarket value of the Company’s common stock at the first trading day of the applicable offering period or the purchase date. Participants may purchase up to $25worth of common stock or 2 shares of common stock in any one year. The ESPP is considered compensatory and results in compensation expense. As of June 30, 2016, a total of 951 shares of common stock were reserved for future issuances under the ESPP. The number of shares of common stockreserved for issuance under the ESPP will increase automatically each calendar year, continuing through and including January 1, 2024. The number of sharesadded each year will be equal to the lesser of (a) 400, (b) seventy-five one hundredths percent (0.75%) of the number of shares of common stock of the Companyissued and outstanding on the immediately preceding December 31, or (c) an amount determined by the Company’s board of directors. For fiscal year 2016, theCompany’s board of directors determined that it would not increase the number of common shares reserved for issuance under the ESPP. The Company issued 50 and 52 shares upon the completion of its six-month offering periods ending November 15, 2015 and May 16, 2016, respectively.The Company recorded compensation expense attributable to the ESPP of $656 and $1,069 for the years ended June 30, 2015 and 2016, respectively, which isincluded in the summary of stock-based compensation expense above. No such compensation expense was recorded during the year ended June 30, 2014. The grantdate fair value of the ESPP offering periods was estimated using the following weighted average assumptions: Year ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016Valuation assumptions: Expected dividend yield N/A 0% 0%Expected volatility N/A 35.5 – 48.4% 44.1 – 53.4%Expected term (years) N/A 0.3 – 0.5 0.5Risk-free interest rate N/A 0.04 – 0.11% 0.11 – 0.31% (c) 401(k) Plan The Company maintains a 401(k) plan with a safe harbor matching provision that covers all eligible employees. Up to December 31, 2015, the Companymatched 50% of the employees’ contributions up to 6% of their gross pay. Effective January 1, F- 20Table of Contents 2016, the Company increased its match to 50% of employees’ contributions up to 8% of their gross pay. Contributions were $1,122, $1,656 and $2,717 for theyears ended June 30, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. (15) Commitments and Contingencies (a) Employment Agreements The Company has employment agreements with certain of its key officers. The agreements allow for minimum annual compensation increases,participation in equity incentive plans and bonuses for annual performance as well as certain change of control events as defined in the agreements. (b) Litigation From time to time, the Company is subject to litigation arising in the ordinary course of business. Many of these proceedings are covered in whole or inpart by insurance. In the opinion of the Company’s management, the ultimate disposition of any matters currently outstanding or threatened will not have a materialadverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or liquidity. (16) Earnings Per Share For the periods presented prior to the Company’s initial public offering (“IPO”), basic and diluted net income (loss) per common share is presented inconformity with the two-class method required for participating securities. Concurrently with the closing of the Company’s IPO on March 24, 2014, all shares ofoutstanding Preferred Stock automatically converted into 11,933 shares of the Company’s common stock. Following the date of the IPO, the two-class method wasno longer required as the Company has one class of securities issued and outstanding. Prior to the conversion of the Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, holders of Series A and Series B Preferred Stock each were entitled to liquidationpreferences payable prior and in preference to any dividends on any shares of the Company’s common stock. In the event a dividend was paid on common stock,the holders of Preferred Stock were entitled to a proportionate share of any such dividend as if they were holders of common stock (on an as-if converted basis).The holders of the Company’s Preferred Stock did not have a contractual obligation to share in the losses of the Company. The Company considered its PreferredStock to be participating securities and, in accordance with the two-class method, earnings allocated to Preferred Stock and the related number of outstandingshares of Preferred Stock have been excluded from the computation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per common share. Under the two-class method, net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders is determined by allocating undistributed earnings, calculated as netincome less current period Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock cumulative dividends, between common stock and Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock. Incomputing diluted net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders, undistributed earnings are re-allocated to reflect the potential impact of dilutivesecurities. Basic net loss per common share is computed using the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Since the Series A andSeries B Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock were entitled to participate should any common stock dividends have been declared but were not obligated toparticipate in any losses generated by the Company, basic net income per share is computed using the weighted-average number of common shares outstandingduring the period plus the Series A and Series B Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock on a weighted-average basis. Diluted net loss per share is computed using the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period and, if dilutive, potentialcommon shares outstanding during the period. Since the Series A and Series B Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock were entitled to participate should anycommon stock dividends be declared but were not obligated to participate in any losses generated by the Company, diluted net income per share is computed usingthe weighted-average number of common shares plus the Series A and Series B Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock on a weighted-average basis and, ifdilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the period. The Company’s potential common shares consist of the incremental common shares issuable uponthe exercise of stock options. The dilutive effect of outstanding stock options is reflected in diluted earnings per share by application of the treasury stock method. F- 21Table of Contents The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share: Year ended June 30, 2014 2015 2016 Basic net loss per share: Numerator: Net loss $(7,110) $(13,972) $(3,851) Less: Preferred dividend rights attributable to participating securities (2,282) — — Net loss attributable to common stockholders $(9,392) $(13,972) $(3,851) Denominator: Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share attributable to common stockholders: Basic (in thousands) 36,707 50,127 50,913 Diluted (in thousands) 36,707 50,127 50,913 Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders: Basic $(0.26) $(0.28) $(0.08) Diluted $(0.26) $(0.28) $(0.08) The following table summarizes the outstanding employee stock options, restricted stock units and employee stock purchase plan shares that wereexcluded from the diluted per share calculation for the periods presented because to include them would have been anti-dilutive: Year ended June 30 2014 2015 2016 Employee stock options 4,388 3,956 3,464 Restricted stock units 102 386 1,003 Employee stock purchase plan shares — 13 15 Total 4,490 4,355 4,482 (17) Related Party Transactions Elite Sales The Company purchased sales leads from an entity owned by one of its stockholders in the amount of approximately $231 for the years ended June 30,2014. The Company provided no management guidance to the entity and had no equity interest in the entity, had no obligation or intention to fund any of theentity’s operational shortfalls, and had no right to any operational surpluses generated by the entity. There were no amounts payable to this entity as of June 30,2015 and 2016, as on October 14, 2013, the Company hired substantially all of the employees of the sales lead generation entity described above. Principal Stockholder Contribution for Cash Bonuses In May 2014, the Company’s Chairman paid approximately $1,052 to the Company for the express purpose of paying a cash bonus to long-termemployees in recognition of their past service. The Company recorded a capital contribution to additional paid-in capital for the amount received from theChairman and compensation expense for the amount paid to employees, accordingly. The Company paid the employer portion of employment taxes and willreceive any income tax related benefits from the payments to employees and resulting taxes. F- 22Table of Contents (18) Selected Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited) The following tables set forth selected unaudited quarterly statements of operations data for each of the eight quarters in the years ended June 30, 2015 and2016. Quarter Ended September 30, 2014 December 31, 2014 March 31, 2015 June 30, 2015 Consolidated Statements of Operations Data Revenues $31,109 $34,313 $47,272 $40,004 Gross profit $15,657 $16,267 $27,990 $21,888 Operating income (loss) $(4,896) $(6,466) $1,705 $(4,264) Net income (loss) $(4,875) $(6,420) $1,752 $(4,429) Net income (loss) per share attributable to common stockholders: Basic $(0.10) $(0.13) $0.03 $(0.09) Diluted $(0.10) $(0.13) $0.03 $(0.09) Weighted-average shares used in computing net income (loss) pershare attributable to common stockholders: Basic 49,566 49,775 50,533 50,650 Diluted 49,566 49,775 52,203 50,650 Quarter Ended September 30, 2015 December 31, 2015 March 31, 2016 June 30, 2016 Consolidated Statements of Operations Data Revenues $45,108 $55,184 $70,570 $59,839 Gross profit $24,913 $31,084 $43,361 $33,258 Operating income (loss) $(3,417) $(1,294) $6,201 $(5,040) Net income (loss) $(3,435) $(1,165) $6,161 $(5,412) Net income (loss) per share attributable to common stockholders: Basic $(0.07) $(0.02) $0.12 $(0.11) Diluted $(0.07) $(0.02) $0.12 $(0.11) Weighted-average shares used in computing net income (loss) pershare attributable to common stockholders: Basic 50,744 50,890 50,962 51,058 Diluted 50,744 50,890 53,424 51,058 F- 23Table of Contents EXHIBIT INDEX Exhibit Incorporated by ReferenceNumber Exhibit Description Form File No. Exhibit Filing Date 2.1 Share Exchange Agreement, dated November 7, 2013. S-1 333-193661 2.1 January 30, 2014 3.1 First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of theRegistrant. S-1/A 333-193661 3.2 February 14, 2014 3.2 Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Registrant. 10-Q 001-36348 3.2 February 5, 2016 4.1 Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement, datedJune 29, 2012. S-1 333-193661 4.1 January 30, 2014 4.2.1 Revolving Line of Credit Note, dated March 9, 2011, payable toCommerce Bank & Trust Company. S-1 333-193661 4.5.1 January 30, 2014 4.2.2 Allonge to Revolving Line of Credit Note, dated November 27,2013. S-1 333-193661 4.5.2 January 30, 2014 10.1 Loan and Security Agreement by and among Commerce Bank &Trust Company and Paylocity Corporation, dated May 5, 2009. S-1 333-193661 10.1 January 30, 2014 10.1.1 First Amendment to Loan and Security Agreement, datedMarch 9, 2011. S-1 333-193661 10.1.1 January 30, 2014 10.2 Form of Indemnification Agreement for directors and officers. S-1 333-193661 10.2 January 30, 2014 10.3 2008 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of agreement thereunder. S-1 333-193661 10.3 January 30, 2014 10.3.1 First Amendment to the 2008 Equity Incentive Plan, datedAugust 5, 2010. S-1 333-193661 10.3.1 January 30, 2014 10.3.2 Second Amendment to the 2008 Equity Incentive Plan, datedJune 29, 2012. S-1 333-193661 10.3.2 January 30, 2014 10.4 2014 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of agreement thereunder. S-1/A 333-193661 10.4 February 14, 2014 10.5 Third Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreementbetween Paylocity Corporation and Steven R. Beauchamp, datedFebruary 7, 2014. S-1/A 333-193661 10.5 February 14, 2014 10.6 Second Amended and Restated Executive EmploymentAgreement between Paylocity Corporation and Michael R.Haske, dated February 7, 2014. S-1/A 333-193661 10.7 February 14, 2014 10.7 Office Lease between 3850 Wilke LLC and PaylocityCorporation, dated January 12, 2007. S-1 333-193661 10.8 January 30, 2014 10.8.1 Amendment to Office Lease, dated January 5, 2011. S-1 333-193661 10.8.1 January 30, 2014 10.8.2 Amendment to Office Lease, dated May 6, 2013. S-1 333-193661 10.8.2 January 30, 2014 ††††††Table of Contents Exhibit Incorporated by ReferenceNumber Exhibit Description Form File No. Exhibit Filing Date 10.8.3 Multi-Tenant Office Lease Agreement, dated June 1, 2016, byand between Paylocity Corporation and RPAI SchaumburgAmerican Lane, L.L.C. 8-K 001-36348 10.1 June 2, 2016 10.9 2014 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. S-1/A 333-193661 10.9 February 14, 2014 10.10 First Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreementbetween Paylocity Corporation and Peter J. McGrail, datedFebruary 7, 2014. 10-K 001-36348 10.10 August 14, 2015 10.11†* Executive Employment Agreement between PaylocityCorporation and Mark S. Kinsey, dated May 1, 2015. 10.12† Executive Employment Agreement between PaylocityCorporation and Edward W. Gaty, dated August 8, 2016. 8-K 001-36348 10.1 August 9, 2016 14.1 Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. 10-K 001-36348 14.1 August 22, 2014 21.1 List of Subsidiaries of the Registrant. S-1 333-193661 21.1 January 30, 2014 23.1* Consent of KPMG LLP, Independent Registered PublicAccounting Firm. 24.1* Power of Attorney (see page 54 to this Annual Report onForm 10-K). 31.1* Certification of Principal Executive Officer Required UnderRule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of1934, as amended. 31.2* Certification of Principal Financial Officer Required UnderRule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of1934, as amended. 32.1** Certification of Chief Executive Officer Required UnderRule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of1934, as amended, and 18 U.S.C. §1350 as adopted pursuant toSection 906 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 32.2** Certification of Chief Financial Officer Required UnderRule 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of1934, as amended, and 18 U.S.C. §1350 as adopted pursuant toSection 906 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 101.INS* XBRL Instance Document. 101.SCH* XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema. 101.CAL* XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase. 101.LAB* XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase. 101.PRE* XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase. 101.DEF* XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase. † Management contract, compensatory plan or arrangement.* Filed herewith.** Furnished herewith. ††Exhibit 10.11 EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This Executive Employment Agreement (this “ Agreement ”) is made and entered into by Paylocity Corporation, an Illinoiscorporation (“ Company ”), and Mark Kinsey (“ Executive ”) effective as of May 1, 2015 (the “ Effective Date ”). The parties agree as follows: 1. Employment . Company hereby employs Executive, and Executive hereby accepts such employment, upon the termsand conditions set forth herein. 2. Duties . 2.1 Position . Executive is employed as Senior Vice President of Operations and shall have the duties andresponsibilities assigned by Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer (“ CEO ”). Executive shall perform faithfully anddiligently all duties assigned to Executive. Company reserves the right to modify Executive’s position and duties at any time in itssole and absolute discretion. 2.2 Best Efforts/Full-time . Executive will expend Executive’s best efforts on behalf of Company, and will abideby all policies and decisions made by Company, as well as all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations or ordinances. Executive will act in the best interest of Company at all times. Executive shall devote Executive’s full business time and efforts tothe performance of Executive’s assigned duties for Company, unless Executive notifies the CEO in advance of Executive’s intent toengage in other paid work and receives the CEO’s express written consent to do so. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive willbe permitted to serve as an outside director on the board of directors for nonprofit or charitable entities or managing Executive’spersonal financial and legal affairs, so long as the foregoing activities, provided such entities are not competitive with Company andsubject to the provisions of section 10 below. 2.3 Work Location . Executive’s principal place of work shall be located in Arlington Heights, Illinois, or suchother location as Company may direct from time to time in connection with the performance of Executive’s duties. 3. At-Will Employment . Executive’s employment with Company is at-will and not for any specified period and maybe terminated at any time, with or without cause (as defined below) or advance notice, by either Executive or Company. Norepresentative of Company, other than the CEO, has the authority to alter the at-will employment relationship. Any change to the at-will employment relationship must be by specific, written agreement signed by Executive and the CEO. Nothing in this Agreementis intended to or should be construed to contradict, modify or alter this at-will relationship. 4. Compensation . 1 4.1 Base Salary . As compensation for Executive’s performance of Executive’s duties hereunder, for fiscal year2015, Company shall pay to Executive an annualized base salary of $250,000, less required deductions for state and federalwithholding tax, social security and all other employment taxes and payroll deductions, payable in accordance with the normalpayroll practices of Company. Beginning in fiscal year 2016, the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors(the “ Board ”) shall conduct an annual review of Executive’s base salary based on third party comparison data and internalmanagement recommendations. The salary increase will be evaluated after each fiscal year and implemented in September of eachyear. In the event Executive’s employment under this Agreement is terminated by either party, for any reason, Executive will earnthe base salary prorated to the date of termination. 4.2 Incentive Compensation . Executive will be eligible to earn an annual incentive bonus, the target amount ofwhich is 50% of Executive’s base salary for fiscal 2015 and thereafter a percentage as determined by the Company’s CompensationCommittee (“ Annual Bonus ”). The Annual Bonus will be based on Executive’s achievement of certain goals, which shall beestablished by Company’s Compensation Committee and the Board and communicated to Executive within 30 days of the beginningof each fiscal year. The Annual Bonus shall be less all required taxes and withholdings and will be paid out within 60 daysfollowing the end of the fiscal year in which it is earned. Executive’s Annual Bonus for fiscal 2015 shall be prorated to Executive’sstart date. 4.3 Equity Incentive Grants . Subject to approval of the Board, Paylocity Holding Corporation, Company’sparent (“ Parent ”), shall grant to Executive restricted stock units (“ RSUs ”) representing the right to receive upon settlement anumber of shares of the common stock of Parent equal to 25,000 shares. The RSUs shall vest annually in four equal installmentsbeginning on the one year anniversary of Executive’s start date . Beginning in fiscal 2016, Executive shall be eligible to receiveadditional long-term equity incentives, as determined during the annual review conducted by the Compensation Committee and theBoard. Immediately prior to the consummation of a Change in Control, the vesting of all unvested shares subject to outstandingequity awards with time-based vesting issued to Executive by Company and/or Parent shall be accelerated in full and, if applicable,such equity awards shall become exercisable or shall be settled in full immediately prior to such Change in Control provided thatExecutive’s employment with Company or Parent has not terminated prior to such Change in Control. For the purposes of thisAgreement, “ Change in Control ” shall mean (i) the acquisition by any person, entity or “group” (within the meaning ofSection 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under theExchange Act) of 50% or more of either the then outstanding equity interests in Parent or the combined voting power of Parent’sthen outstanding voting securities; or (ii) the consummation of a reorganization, merger or consolidation of Parent or the sale of all orsubstantially all of the assets of Parent, in each case with respect to which persons who held equity interests in Parent immediatelyprior to such reorganization, merger, consolidation or sale do not immediately thereafter own, directly or indirectly, 50% or more ofthe combined voting power of the then outstanding securities of the surviving or resulting corporation or other entity; provided,however, that any such transaction consummated in connection with, or for the purpose of facilitating, an initial public offering shallnot constitute a Change in Control hereunder; provided further, however, that a Change in Control shall not include a transactionundertaken for the principal purpose of restructuring the 2 capital of Parent, including, but not limited to, reincorporating Parent in a different jurisdiction, converting Parent to a limitedliability company or creating a holding company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Change in Control shall not occur for purposesof this Agreement unless such Change in Control constitutes a “change in control event” under Section 409A of the Code and theregulations thereunder. 5. Customary Fringe Benefits . Executive will be eligible for all customary and usual fringe benefits generally availableto Executives of Company subject to the terms and conditions of Company’s benefit plan documents. Company reserves the right tochange or eliminate the fringe benefits on a prospective basis, at any time, effective upon notice to Executive. 6. Business Expenses . Executive will be reimbursed for all reasonable, out-of-pocket business expenses incurred in theperformance of Executive’s duties on behalf of Company. To obtain reimbursement, expenses must be submitted promptly withappropriate supporting documentation and will be reimbursed in accordance with Company’s policies. Any reimbursementExecutive is entitled to receive shall (a) be paid no later than the last day of Executive’s tax year following the tax year in which theexpense was incurred, (b) not be affected by any other expenses that are eligible for reimbursement in any tax year and (c) not besubject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit. 7. Termination of Executive’s Employment . 7.1 Termination for Cause by Company . Company may terminate Executive’s employment immediately at anytime for Cause. For purposes of this Agreement, “ Cause ” is defined as: (i) material dishonest or fraudulent behavior, orconvictions of a felony; (ii) the material breach of any covenant contained or referred to in this Agreement; (iii) the failure ofExecutive to meet fair and reasonable performance standards established by Company from time to time; (iv) Executive’s failure orrefusal to perform specific directives of Company’s Board or CEO, which directives are consistent with the scope and nature ofExecutive’s duties and responsibilities, and which are not remedied by Employee within thirty (30) days after written notice; (v) anyviolation of the covenant not to disclose confidential information regarding the business of Company and its products as set forth inSection 7 of this Agreement; or (vi) any act of material dishonesty by Executive which adversely affects the business of Company. In the event Executive’s employment is terminated in accordance with this subsection 7.1, Executive shall be entitled to receive onlyExecutive’s base salary then in effect, prorated to the date of termination and all benefits accrued through the date of termination (“Accrued Benefits ”). All other Company obligations to Executive pursuant to this Agreement will become automatically terminatedand completely extinguished. Executive will not be entitled to receive the Severance Payment described in subsection 7.2 below. 7.2 Termination Without Cause by Company/Severance . Company may terminate Executive’s employmentunder this Agreement without Cause at any time on thirty (30) days’ advance written notice to Executive. In the event of suchtermination, Executive will receive Executive’s base salary then in effect, prorated to the date of termination, and Accrued Benefits. In addition, Executive will receive a “ Severance Payment ” equivalent to twelve (12) months of Executive’s base salary then ineffect on the date of termination, payable as salary continuation in equal installments in accordance with Company’s regular payrollcycle 3 over a twelve (12) month period, beginning on the first regular payday occurring 60 days following the termination date. Executivewill only receive the Severance Payment if Executive executes a full general release in a form acceptable to Company, releasing allclaims, known or unknown, that Executive may have against Company arising out of or any way related to Executive’s employmentor termination of employment with Company, and such release has become effective in accordance with its terms prior to the 60thday following the termination date. All other Company obligations to Executive will be automatically terminated and completelyextinguished. If Executive’s employment with Company terminates due to Executive’s death or Executive’s inability to perform theessential functions of Executive’s position with or without reasonable accommodation, Executive shall not be entitled to theSeverance Payment described above. 7.3 Voluntary Resignation by Executive . Executive may voluntarily resign Executive’s position with Companyat any time on thirty (30) days’ advance written notice. In the event of Executive’s voluntary resignation, Executive will be entitledto receive only Accrued Benefits for the thirty-day notice period and no other amount. All other Company obligations to Executivepursuant to this Agreement will become automatically terminated and completely extinguished. In addition, Executive will not beentitled to receive the Severance Payment described in subsection 7.2 above. 8. Resignation of Board or Other Positions . Upon the termination of Executive’s employment for any reason,Executive agrees to immediately resign all other positions (including Board membership) Executive may hold on behalf ofCompany. 9. Application of Section 409A . (a) Notwithstanding anything set forth in this Agreement to the contrary, no amount payable pursuant tothis Agreement which constitutes a “deferral of compensation” within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations issued pursuant toSection 409A of the Code (the “ Section 409A Regulations ”) shall be paid unless and until Executive has incurred a “separationfrom service” within the meaning of the Section 409A Regulations. Furthermore, to the extent that Executive is a “specifiedemployee” within the meaning of the Section 409A Regulations as of the date of Executive’s separation from service, no amount thatconstitutes a deferral of compensation which is payable on account of Executive’s separation from service shall be paid to Executivebefore the date (the “ Delayed Payment Date ”) which is first day of the seventh month after the date of Executive’s separation fromservice or, if earlier, the date of Executive’s death following such separation from service. All such amounts that would, but for thisSection, become payable prior to the Delayed Payment Date will be accumulated and paid on the Delayed Payment Date. (b) Company intends that income provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement will not be subject totaxation under Section 409A of the Code. The provisions of this Agreement shall be interpreted and construed in favor of satisfyingany applicable requirements of Section 409A of the Code. However, Company does not guarantee any particular tax effect forincome provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement. In any event, except for Company’s responsibility to withholdapplicable income and employment taxes from compensation paid or provided to Executive, Company shall not be responsible forthe 4 payment of any applicable taxes on compensation paid or provided to Executive pursuant to this Agreement. (c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the reimbursement of expenses or in-kind benefitsprovided pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to the following conditions: (1) the expenses eligible for reimbursement or in-kind benefits in one taxable year shall not affect the expenses eligible for reimbursement or in-kind benefits in any other taxableyear; (2) the reimbursement of eligible expenses or in-kind benefits shall be made promptly, subject to Company’s applicablepolicies, but in no event later than the end of the year after the year in which such expense was incurred; and (3) the right toreimbursement or in-kind benefits shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for another benefit . (d) For purposes of Section 409A of the Code, the right to a series of installment payments under thisAgreement shall be treated as a right to a series of separate payments. 10. No Conflict of Interest . During the term of Executive’s employment with Company, Executive must not engage inany work, paid or unpaid, or other activities that create a conflict of interest. Such work and/or activities shall include, but is notlimited to, directly or indirectly competing with Company in any way, or acting as an officer, director, employee, consultant,stockholder, volunteer, lender, or agent of any business enterprise of the same nature as, or which is in direct competition with, thebusiness in which Company is now engaged or in which Company becomes engaged during the term of Executive’s employmentwith Company, as may be determined by Company in its sole discretion. If Company believes such a conflict exists during the termof this Agreement, Company may ask Executive to choose to discontinue the other work and/or activities or resign employment withCompany. 11. Non-Competition . Executive agrees that during Executive’s employment with Company and for a period oftwelve (12) months immediately following termination of such employment for any reason (the “ Non-competition Period ”),Executive shall not in any manner, directly or indirectly, through any person, firm or corporation, alone or as a member of apartnership or as an officer, director, stockholder, investor or employee of or consultant to any other corporation or enterprise orotherwise, engage or be engaged, or assist any other person, firm, corporation or enterprise in engaging or being engaged, in anybusiness, in which Executive was involved or had knowledge, being conducted by, or contemplated by, Company or any of itssubsidiaries as of the termination of Executive’s employment in any geographic area in which Company or any of its subsidiaries isthen conducting such business. 12. Non-Solicitation . Executive acknowledges that Company’s relationship with its clients, employees, vendors,suppliers and other persons with whom Company has a business relationship (hereinafter referred to as “ Prohibited Persons ”), arespecial and unique, and that Company’s relationship with the Prohibited Persons may not be able to be replaced by Company. Executive further acknowledges that the protection of Company’s Prohibited Persons is essential. Therefore, Executive expresslycovenants and agrees that during Executive’s employment with Company and for a period of twelve (12) months immediatelyfollowing termination of Executive’s employment for any reason (the “ Non-solicitation Period ”), Executive will not at 5 any time for himself or on behalf of any other person, firm, partnership or corporation: (1) induce, or attempt to induce, anyProhibited Persons either to refrain, or to cease doing business with Company; or (2) directly or indirectly solicit, hire, induce orotherwise engage a Prohibited Person in any competitive business. 13. Nondisclosure of Confidential Information . 13.1 Executive recognizes that the knowledge and information about, and relationships with business associates,customers, clients and agents of Company and its affiliated companies, and the business methods, systems, plans, and policies ofCompany and of its affiliated companies, which Executive may receive, obtain, or establish as an employee of Company are valuableand unique assets of Company or its affiliates. Executive agrees that, during any Employment Period and thereafter, Executive shallnot disclose or remove, without the written consent of Company, (i) any material or substantial, confidential, or proprietary know-how, data, or information, including, but not limited to software, data, information relating to customers, pricing, safety manuals,training manuals, Quality Assurance/Quality Control manuals, mandatory processes and means or techniques pertaining to Companyor its affiliates, and (ii) any business plans, strategies, targets, or directives, to any person, firm, corporation, or any other entity, forany reason or purpose whatsoever. Executive acknowledges and agrees that all memoranda, notes, records, clients lists, clientinformation and other documents, computer software, data or material in any form made or compiled by Executive or made availableto Executive concerning Company’s business is and shall be Company’s exclusive property and shall be delivered by Executive toCompany upon termination of Executive’s employment or at any other time upon the request of Company. 13.2 The restrictions in the above paragraph shall not apply to: (1) information that at the time of disclosure is inthe public domain through no fault of Executive’s; (2) information received from a third party outside of Company that wasdisclosed without a breach of any confidentiality obligation; (3) information approved for release by written authorization ofCompany; or (4) information that may be required by law or an order of any court, agency or proceeding to be disclosed. Executiveshall provide Company notice of any such required disclosure once Executive has knowledge of it and will help Company to theextent reasonable to obtain an appropriate protective order. 13.3 Company acknowledges that Executive has had significant prior work experience in the industry in whichCompany is engaged, and that Executive enters into this Agreement with significant prior knowledge, information and relationshipsin such industry. 14. Enforcement: Remedies, Construction . 14.1 Executive covenants, agrees, and recognizes the breach or threatened breach of the covenants, or any of them,contained in Sections 11, 12 and 13 will result in immediate and irreparable injury to Company and that Company shall be entitled toan injunction restraining Executive or any of his affiliates from any violation of Sections 11, 12 and 13 to the fullest extent allowedby law. Executive further covenants and agrees that in the event of a violation of any of his respective covenants and agreementscontained in Sections 11, 12 and 13 hereof, Company shall be entitled to an accounting of all profits, compensation, commissions, 6 remunerations or benefits which Executive directly or indirectly has realized and/or may realize as a result of, growing out of or inconnection with any such violation and shall be entitled to receive all such amounts to which Company would be entitled as damagesunder law or at equity. Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting Company from pursuing any other legal or equitableremedies that may be available to it for any such breach or threatened breach. 14.2 Executive agrees that in the event he breaches the covenants, or any of them, contained in Sections 11 and 12,then the Non-competition Period or Non-solicitation Period, as applicable, shall be automatically extended by the length of time anysuch breach remains continuing. 14.3 Executive hereby expressly acknowledges and agrees as follows: (a) that he has read the covenants set forth above in Sections 11, 12 and 13, has had an opportunity todiscuss them with an attorney and that such covenants are reasonable in all respects and are necessary to protect the legitimatebusiness and competitive interests of Company; and (b) that each of the covenants set forth in Sections 11, 12 and 13 and the subdivisions thereof areseparately and independently given, and each such covenant is intended to be enforceable separately and independently of the othersuch covenants, including, without limitation, enforcement by injunction without the necessity of proving actual damages or postingany bond or other security; provided, however, that the invalidity or unenforceability of this Agreement in any respect shall not affectthe validity or enforceability of this Agreement in any other respect. In the event that any provision of this Agreement shall be heldinvalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction by reason of the geographic or business scope or the duration thereof orfor any other reason, such invalidity or unenforceability shall attach only to the particular aspect of such provision found invalid orunenforceable as applied and shall not affect or render invalid or unenforceable any other provision of this Agreement or theenforcement of such provision in other circumstances, and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, this Agreement shall be construedas if the geographic or business scope or the duration of such provision or other basis on which such provision has been challengedhad been more narrowly drafted so as not to be invalid or unenforceable. 14.4 Nothing in Sections 10 and 11 shall prohibit Executive from being (i) a stockholder in a mutual fund or adiversified investment company or (ii) an owner of not more than two percent of the outstanding stock of any class of a corporation,any securities of which are publicly traded, so long as Executive has no active participation in the business of such corporation. 15. General Provisions . 15.1 Successors and Assigns . The rights and obligations of Company under this Agreement shall inure to thebenefit of and shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of Company. Executive shall not be entitled to assign any ofExecutive’s rights or obligations under this Agreement. 7 15.2 Waiver . Either party’s failure to enforce any provision of this Agreement shall not in any way be construedas a waiver of any such provision, or prevent that party thereafter from enforcing each and every other provision of this Agreement. 15.3 Attorneys’ Fees . Each side will bear its own attorneys’ fees in any dispute unless a statutory section at issue,if any, authorizes the award of attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party. 15.4 Severability . In the event any provision of this Agreement is found to be unenforceable by a court ofcompetent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to allow enforceability of the provision as solimited, it being intended that the parties shall receive the benefit contemplated herein to the fullest extent permitted by law. If adeemed modification is not satisfactory in the judgment of such court, the unenforceable provision shall be deemed deleted, and thevalidity and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby. 15.5 Interpretation; Construction . The headings set forth in this Agreement are for convenience only and shall notbe used in interpreting this Agreement. This Agreement has been drafted by legal counsel representing Company, but Executive hasparticipated in the negotiation of its terms. Furthermore, Executive acknowledges that Executive has had an opportunity to reviewand revise the Agreement and have it reviewed by legal counsel, if desired, and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to theeffect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of this Agreement. 15.6 Governing Law . This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of theUnited States and the State of Illinois. Each party consents to the jurisdiction and venue of the state or federal courts inChicago, Illinois, if applicable, in any action, suit, or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement. 15.7 Notices . Any notice required or permitted by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be delivered asfollows with notice deemed given as indicated: (a) by personal delivery when delivered personally; (b) by overnight courier uponwritten verification of receipt; (c) by telecopy or facsimile transmission upon acknowledgment of receipt of electronic transmission;or (d) by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, upon verification of receipt. All notices shall be addressed as follows: EXECUTIVE: Mark Kinsey [****][****] COMPANY: Paylocity Corporation 3850 N. Wilke Rd. Arlington Heights, IL 60004 Attention: Steven R. Beauchamp, President and Chief Executive Officer 8 with a copy to: DLA Piper LLP401 Congress Avenue, Suite 2500Austin, TX 78701Facsimile: (512) 721- 2290Attention: John J. Gilluly III, P.C. or at such changed addresses as the parties may designate in writing. 15.8 Survival . Sections 10 (“No Conflict of Interest”), 11 (“Non-Competition”), 12 (“Non-Solicitation”), 13(“Nondisclosure of Confidential Information”) 14 (“Enforcement, Remedies and Construction”), 15 (“General Provisions”) and 16(“Entire Agreement”) of this Agreement shall survive Executive’s employment by Company. 16. Entire Agreement . This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties relating to this subjectmatter and supersedes all prior or simultaneous representations, discussions, negotiations, and agreements, whether written or oral. This Agreement may be amended or modified only with the written consent of Executive and the Board of Directors of Company. No oral waiver, amendment or modification will be effective under any circumstances whatsoever. [ Signatures appear on following page ] 9 THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HAVE READ THE FOREGOING AGREEMENT AND FULLY UNDERSTAND EACHAND EVERY PROVISION CONTAINED HEREIN. WHEREFORE, THE PARTIES HAVE EXECUTED THIS AGREEMENTON THE DATES SHOWN BELOW. Mark Kinsey Dated:3/18/2015 /s/ Mark Kinsey Paylocity Corporation Dated:3/19/2015 By:/s/ Steven R. Beauchamp Name: Steven R. Beauchamp Title: President and Chief Executive Officer 10Exhibit 23.1 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Board of Directors Paylocity Holding Corporation: We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements (Nos. 333-194840, 333-201983, 333-209520) on Form S-8 ofPaylocity Holding Corporation (the Company) and subsidiary of our report dated August 12, 2016, with respect to the consolidated balancesheets of the Company as of June 30, 2015 and 2016, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in the redeemableconvertible preferred stock and stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended June 30,2016, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of June 30, 2016, which report appears in the June 30, 2016 annualreport on Form 10-K of Paylocity Holding Corporation and subsidiary. (signed) KPMG LLP Chicago, IllinoisAugust 12, 2016 Exhibit 31.1 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PURSUANT TOSECTION 302(a) OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 I, Steven R. Beauchamp, certify that: 1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Paylocity Holding Corporation (the “Company”) for the year ended June 30, 2016; 2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make thestatements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report; 3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report; 4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in ExchangeAct Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant andhave: a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensurethat material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared; b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordancewith generally accepted accounting principles; c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectivenessof the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and d. Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s fiscal year endedJune 30, 2016 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and 5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to theregistrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions): a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likelyto adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control overfinancial reporting. Date: August 12, 2016 /s/ Steven R. BeauchampName: Steven R. BeauchampTitle President and Chief Executive Officer Exhibit 31.2 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER PURSUANT TOSECTION 302(a) OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 I, Peter J. McGrail, certify that: 1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Paylocity Holding Corporation (the “Company”) for the year ended June 30, 2016; 2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make thestatements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report; 3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report; 4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in ExchangeAct Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant andhave: a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensurethat material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared; b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordancewith generally accepted accounting principles; c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectivenessof the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and d. Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s fiscal year endedJune 30, 2016 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and 5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to theregistrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions): a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likelyto adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control overfinancial reporting. Date: August 12, 2016 /s/ Peter J. McGrailName: Peter J. McGrailTitle Chief Financial Officer Exhibit 32.1 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERPURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TOSECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 The undersigned, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Paylocity Holding Corporation (the “Company”), does hereby certify under the standards setforth and solely for the purposes of 18 U.S.C. 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Annual Report on Form 10-Kof the Company for the year ended June 30, 2016 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 andinformation contained in that Form 10-K fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. Date: August 12, 2016 /s/ Steven R. BeauchampName: Steven R. BeauchampTitle President and Chief Executive Officer A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished tothe Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request. Exhibit 32.2 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERPURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TOSECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 The undersigned, the Chief Financial Officer of Paylocity Holding Corporation (the “Company”), does hereby certify under the standards set forth and solelyfor the purposes of 18 U.S.C. 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Companyfor the year ended June 30, 2016 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and information containedin that Form 10-K fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. Date: August 12, 2016 /s/ Peter J. McGrailName: Peter J. McGrailTitle Chief Financial Officer A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished tothe Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.
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