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WANdisco plc / Annual Report and Accounts 2013

Overview / About us

No downtime. 
No data loss. No latency.

We are a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop 
software solutions that enable globally distributed 
organisations to meet today’s data challenges 
of secure storage, scalability and availability.

Our patented technology enables 100% real-time data access 

across widely distributed deployment of our products, Hadoop, 

Subversion and GIT, creating seamless global networks.

Create a personalised report and 
find additional content by visiting 
www.wandisco.com

CONTENTS

Overview
2013 performance highlights .....................................................................1

Financial statements
 Independent auditor’s report ..................................................................24

WANdisco at a glance ...................................................................................2

 Consolidated statement of comprehensive income ......................25

Strategic review
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer’s report .................................. 4

Case study ........................................................................................................ 8

Financial review ............................................................................................ 10

Governance
Board of Directors ....................................................................................... 12

Directors’ report ........................................................................................... 14

Remuneration Committee report ..........................................................17

Corporate governance .............................................................................. 19

Statement of Directors’ responsibilities ...............................................23

 Consolidated statement of financial position ...................................26

 Consolidated statement of changes in equity ..................................27

 Consolidated statement of cash flows ................................................28

Notes to the consolidated financial statements ...............................29

Five year record ............................................................................................49

Notice of Annual General Meeting ........................................................50

Secretary and advisers .............................................................................IBC

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Financial highlights

$14.76m
+86%

$8.01m
+33%i

2011

2012

2013

2011

2012

2013

14.76

8.01

7.92

4.62

6.03

3.89

Bookings ($m)

Revenue ($m)

$13.12m
+106%

$25.67m
+76%

2011

2012

2013

2011

2012

2013

13.12

25.67

6.37

4.47

14.55

0.10

Deferred revenue ($m)

Net cash ($m)

i. 

 Revenue growth 57% before 
sale of perpetual licenses in the 

year ended 31 December 2012

ii. 

 Adjusted EBITDA is earnings 
before interest, tax, 
depreciation, amortisation, 
exceptional items and 
share-based payments

$(7.83m)
-161%

2011

2012

2013

(7.83)

(3.0)

0.15

Adjusted EBITDAii ($m)

Financial review
page 10

  Chairman and Chief 
Executive Officer’s 
report page 4

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Operational highlights

Established momentum in Big Data market

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 Early Big Data wins with Tier 1 British 
telecommunications company, NSN and 
Miaozhen in China validating our Big Data 
technology and offering 

 WANdisco established as the de facto continuous 
availability layer in Cloudera and Hortonworks 
Hadoop distributions – essential for Big Data 
transaction environments

 Established pipeline of enterprises evaluating 
commercial Non-Stop Hadoop deployments

Post period end

• 

• 

• 

 Early customer wins working with channel partners, 
British Gas and UCI Health 

 DConE technology extended beyond Name Node 
to HBase in the Hadoop technology stack

 Distribution agreement with Carahsoft Technology 
Corp. to market and sell WANdisco’s Non-Stop 
Hadoop for Cloudera to US federal agencies

 In Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), 
significant new customer wins extended market 
leadership and brought further strong growth

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Customers added across multiple industry verticals 
including: ADP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Canon, 
Cisco, Goldman Sachs, H3C Technologies, Manulife 
Financial Corporation, San Disk, Société Générale 
and T. Rowe Price

 Significant growth from existing customers with 
many returning to make multi-year commitments, 
including John Deere, Juniper Networks and NCR

 Subversion MultiSite Plus and GIT MultiSite launched, 
extending the reach of WANdisco’s offering into 
existing and new software development communities

 Purchase of TortoiseSVN.net in June expands 
the online market for WANdisco ALM products

Patents secured for Distributed 
Computing Systems

Board changes

• 

 Non-executive Director Paul Walker to become 
Chairman with immediate effect

• 

 Paul Harrison appointed as CFO on 1 September 2013

Management team significantly strengthened

• 

 Significant appointments in Sales and Engineering 
functions with former BT and SAP executives joining 
WANdisco during and following the year end

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Overview / WANdisco at a glance

What we do

WANdisco stands for Wide Area Network 
distributed computing. We are a leading 
provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop 
software solutions that enable globally 
distributed organisations to meet today’s 
data challenges of secure storage, 
scalability and availability. 

Our customers

Innovating, improving and 
continually helping our customers

For hundreds of Fortune Global 1000 
companies, WANdisco is more than 
a product – we’re a business necessity 
that enables success. 

100% TRUSTED BY OUR CUSTOMERS

Our products

Our products offer unique benefits

WANdisco’s products are differentiated by 
our patented, active-active data replication 
technology, serving crucial continuous 
availability (CA) requirements, including 
Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle 
Management (ALM).

Delivering complex and innovative 
solutions across a broad customer base

WANdisco is the first and only provider 
of enterprise-ready, non-stop software 
solutions that meet today’s data challenges 
of secure storage, scalability and availability.

  Case study on 

UC Irvine Health  
page 8

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Our markets

Well positioned 
in a fast-growing 
market
$50bn

The Big Data market is expected 
to exceed $50bn by 2017

Leading position in high-growth 
markets through innovation and 
customer-focused products

Our product removes the single point 
of failure that exists in other Hadoop 
implementations, and our partnerships with 
other platform leaders mean we’re ideally 
positioned to provide the de facto continuous 
availability solution for enterprise 
Hadoop deployments. 

  Chairman and Chief 
Executive Officer’s 
report page 4

Product focus

Hadoop – Big Data
Non-Stop Hadoop applies 
WANdisco’s patented active-active 
replication technology to enable 
100% uptime for global multi-data 
centre deployments of Hadoop.

Subversion and Git – 
Application Lifecycle 
Management
Ours are the only products that 
allow widely distributed software 
development teams using 
Subversion and Git to truly work 
as if they are all in the same location 
without downtime or data loss.

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Strategic review / Chairman and Chief Executive Officer’s report

A year of rapid market 
development and strong progress

Dear Shareholder

2013 marked our first full year as a listed business 
and I am pleased to report very strong progress against 
the objectives set out at the time of our flotation. Our 
patented technology has been applied to two distinct 
markets which both exhibit high growth potential. 
In my report, I have sought to outline WANdisco’s 
strategy, to consider our execution against that 
strategy and to look to the future. 

In line with best practice in corporate governance, 
on 20 March 2014, after the year end, the roles 
of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer were split. 
As I report below, I am delighted that Paul Walker 
has assumed the role of Chairman of WANdisco plc. 
Given this report covers a year in which I held both 
roles, it remains described as a Chairman and Chief 
Executive Officer’s report.

Overview

WANdisco’s software addresses a challenge hitherto 
considered unsolvable by many expert commentators: 
active-active replication over a wide area network 
(WAN). What does that mean?

David Richards
Chairman and Chief 
Executive Officer

Our technology enables multiple instances of the 
same data to be stored on any number of servers 
across the globe. It ensures that each version of this 
data is a to-the-second replica of its peers. Whilst similar 
solutions have been created within physical data centres 
or over a local area network, WANdisco’s technology 
is the first and only technology that enables this over 
a WAN.

Many factors cause data centre outages. Outages result 
in major financial and operational cost for businesses. 
WANdisco’s approach to this challenge ensures the 
highest degree of resilience available today.

Traditional data replication technology invariably relies 
on some type of master/slave arrangement under 
which there is a central transaction co-ordinator which 
determines the instance of master data at any point in 
time. The weakness with such schemas lies in the single 
point of failure the master co-ordinator represents. Put 
simply, if it fails, the entire system fails.

WANdisco’s approach avoids the exposure to any single 
points of failure. Under our schema, data is replicated 
across a wide area network so that an identical copy resides 
in as many distributed data centres as our customers 
require. If one data centre fails for whatever reason, all 
other data centres remain active. When that data centre 
comes back online, its peers update it so that, once again, 
it instantly replicates all other data centres in the network. 
There is no loss of data and no lost productivity.

In January 2013, the capability of our software was 
recognised by the US patent office as it granted WANdisco 
patent number 8,364,633 in the provision of Distributed 
Computing Systems.

This replication technology is called DConE (an acronym 
for Distributed Coordination Engine). So far, we have 
applied it successfully to two markets: more recently, 
the Big Data market and, originally, the application life 
cycle management market.

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  Corporate governance

page 19

86%

An expansion in our enterprise sales force 
has driven an 86% growth in bookings.

We have established strategic partnerships 
in the Big Data market with Cloudera 
and Hortonworks. 

Big Data

Unhelpfully, Big Data is a term used by many 
organisations to mean many different things. To us, 
it refers to very large pools of data taking a variety of 
forms, both structured and unstructured, and often 
changing at a very rapid rate. The sources of this data 
range from traditional enterprise software systems to 
data gathered from machines (e.g. lifts and monitors), 
social media sites, mobile phones and so on. This 
data takes several forms. It can be structured, meaning 
it can conveniently be stored in rows and columns 
in a traditional database, and it can be unstructured. 
This latter form would include photographs, video, 
mobile phone data and machine data.

Traditional means of data storage struggle to capture 
unstructured data. Furthermore, for most organisations, 
traditional storage is expensive making it economically 
challenging to store such data in great volume. 
Therefore, it has often been discarded.

Big Data recognises the potential of this wider pool 
of data to provide much greater insight and therefore 
competitive advantage. Its principal enabler is Hadoop. 
Hadoop is open source software, owned by the Apache 
Software Foundation, which enables organisations to 
store, curate and take advantage of peta-bytes of data. 
It uses commodity hardware meaning that a large pool 
of structured and unstructured data can be captured 
and retained at a fraction of the cost of traditional 
data storage.

Hadoop therefore initially developed as a source of low 
cost storage often of archived data not required for live 
transaction processing. Recently, though, this has changed. 
With the release of Hadoop 2.0 in September 2013, 
Hadoop has developed into a platform enabling live 
transaction processing. However, this presented a 
challenge as there is a single point of failure in Hadoop 
– known as the Name Node – which acted as a barrier 
to live transaction deployment.

By applying our DConE technology to Hadoop, 
we have replicated the Name Node and subsequently 
other single points of failure in the Hadoop technology 

stack so that, with our distribution partners, we 
can present an enterprise-ready, non-stop version 
of Hadoop. This removes a key barrier to deployment 
of Hadoop for live transaction processing.

Whilst an open source product, Hadoop has to 
be made enterprise-ready before it can be adopted 
responsibly by organisations. This has created a market 
for the provision of enterprise-ready Hadoop distributions, 
which is dominated by two businesses: Hortonworks Inc. 
and Cloudera Inc.

Application Life Cycle Management (ALM)

DConE was first applied to the ALM market. ALM refers 
to the management of software by large teams of 
engineers frequently collaborating from widely distinct 
geographical regions. Historically, the activities of these 
teams have been co-ordinated centrally with each 
engineer downloading sections of code from a central 
coordination server, editing that code and posting 
it back. The challenges frequently encountered were 
the failure of the central coordination engine resulting 
in downtime and lost data across the entire network. 
Furthermore, the time involved in downloading 
code across a wide area network resulted in 
material inefficiency.

WANdisco’s technology addresses these problems 
by creating a scenario where each local data centre 
contains an up to date version of the code. Read/write 
activities are therefore local resulting in significantly 
improved productivity and any loss of a data centre 
anywhere is almost immediately compensated by 
the redirection of resource to other data centres 
on the network. 

The most popular development tool used by software 
engineers is an open source product called Subversion. 
WANdisco supports both the open source version of 
this product and has its own, enterprise-ready versions 
– Subversion Multi-Site and Subversion Multi-Site Plus 
– incorporating our DConE platform which provide 
the active-active replication capability described above. 
We have also extended DConE to another increasing 
popular developer tool, GIT, with the same effect.

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Strategic review / Chairman and Chief Executive Officer’s report continued

Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) 
continued

We have sold this software to many large corporates 
operating with globally distributed software teams. 
Our customers are often large businesses and, as software 
increasingly defines products and services from insurance 
to automotive vehicles, they span multiple industries.

2013 Performance

It is the Big Data market which has developed most 
rapidly over the year and where we have made 
considerable in-roads. The November 2012 acquisition 
of Altostor proved to be the critical catalyst for our 
entry into this market and for our rapid progress. With 
Altostor came two of the original creators of Hadoop. 
Altostor therefore fused our active-active replication 
technology with profound knowledge of Hadoop. 

The combination of this expertise and know-how 
enabled WANdisco to rapidly release, as early as 
February 2013, its first Non-Stop Hadoop products 
deployed over a proprietary Hadoop distribution. In 
turn, this was followed by early customer wins in the 
form of a large UK telecommunications business and an 
OEM agreement with Nokia Systems Networks, a provider 
of 4G technology to mobile telephony operators.

The launch of Hadoop 2.0 in September 2013 was 
decisive. Hadoop 2.0 marked the elevation of Hadoop 
from a batch to a real-time platform. With it comes 
the opportunity for enterprises to achieve competitive 
differentiation through the leverage of vast amounts 
of structured and unstructured data for live data 
transaction processing. However, for Hadoop to 
serve this purpose, it first needs to be fully resilient 
to data outages, which is where Non-Stop Hadoop 
by WANdisco is essential. Our solution is the only 
means by which an enterprise can assure continuous 
availability of Hadoop over a wide area network.

At this time, we were approached by both Cloudera 
and Hortonworks to provide the continuous availability 
layer essential to the establishment of Hadoop as a 
live data transaction processing engine. Their interest 
in partnering with WANdisco resulted from feedback 
received from their customers regarding the importance 
of continuous availability. Accordingly, in Q3 and Q4 2013, 
we announced partnerships with Cloudera and Hortonworks 
to co-sell our product. We therefore discontinued the 
provision of our own Hadoop distribution. 

In March 2014, after the year end, we announced our 
first Big Data customer under this distribution model. 
Working with Hortonworks, we secured a contract 
with University of California, Irvine Health (UCI Health). 
Under this contract, we will provide UCI Health with 
continuous availability of data as it deploys Hadoop 
as a cornerstone of its vision to move from a reactive 
to proactive patient care model. The model is designed 
to leverage real-time data from multiple sources – from 
traditional patient health records to data produced by 
monitoring machines – to detect and stave off illness 
before it takes hold. This typifies the sort of innovative 
vision that Hadoop can address and that traditional 
platforms are unable to support.

On 20 March 2014, we announced that British Gas will 
deploy WANdisco’s Non-Stop Hadoop for Hortonworks. 
Initially the live production test deployment will cover 
a 100 node Hadoop cluster. British Gas is looking to 
replace its legacy enterprise data warehouse software 
due to its high cost, inflexibility and inability to handle 
the large volumes and variety of data required for new 
big data applications. As a part of this, British Gas has 
chosen Hadoop for Hortonworks to store and manage 
its business critical data. This will be supported by 
WANdisco’s Non-Stop Hadoop to ensure that this 
crucial data, such as customer and operational 
information, is continuously available, therefore 
meeting British Gas’s strict business continuity 
and regulatory requirements.

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It is our people who have driven our considerable 
progress this year and, on behalf of the Board, 
I would like to thank all of them for their dedication 
to our business.

Outlook

2013 has been a highly successful year for WANdisco. 
We have applied our patented technology to the Big Data 
market launching products that significantly broaden the 
opportunity to deploy Hadoop. We have established 
partnerships with the two key distributors of Hadoop 
well ahead of anticipated timeframes and, since the 
year end, have secured early customer wins through 
our partner channels. We have strengthened and 
continue to strengthen our team bringing in sales 
and engineering talent with the necessary experience 
to establish WANdisco as an essential component 
of Hadoop Big Data configurations.

Success in Big Data in 2014 will be defined by the number 
of enterprise customers deploying Hadoop, underpinned 
by our non-stop technology, for the first time. These will 
be highly strategic deals for WANdisco and over time, as 
these customers move into full production deployments, 
we anticipate they will scale into broader enterprise 
implementations.

David Richards
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

We see a developing pipeline of diverse use cases 
such as these. Typically, following a period of testing, 
we see customers deploying Hadoop in a controlled 
environment such as within a specific division or 
functional area. Consequently, these initial deployments 
typically cover relatively modest data pools. However, 
we believe early success will lead these enterprises 
to roll out Hadoop more expansively across a greater 
number of data nodes, resulting in further business 
for WANdisco.

People

None of this is possible without establishing the right 
team. In addition to developing a strong enterprise sales 
force, we have significantly strengthened our software 
engineering teams. Highly skilled engineers have been 
attracted to WANdisco by our exciting market proposition 
and by the opportunity to work alongside some of the 
most talented engineers in their field.

At a senior management level, I am delighted to 
have made a number of key additions to the team. 
In September 2013, Paul Harrison joined as CFO. Paul 
was, for 13 years, CFO of The Sage Group plc, a FTSE 
100 member and one of the largest software businesses 
in the world. Paul brings a wealth of experience in 
the capital markets and of developing fast growing 
businesses. Paul replaced Nick Parker who left the 
business in June following its successful transition to 
a public company. On behalf of the Board, I would like 
to thank Nick for his contribution in supporting that 
transformation and to wish him well for his future career.

On 20 March 2014, we were pleased to announce 
that Paul Walker, a non-executive director, assumed the 
role of Chairman, in line with best practice in corporate 
governance, which advocates the separating of the roles 
of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Paul has a wealth 
of experience having served on a variety of Boards currently 
including Experian plc, Halma plc and Perform Group plc. 
For 16 years, Paul was the chief executive officer of 
The Sage Group PLC. We are delighted that Paul has 
agreed to step up to this role.

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Strategic review / Case study – University of California, Irvine Health

Making a real shift 
in medical care 

UCI Health’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) 
application, its primary source of data used to 
provide patient care, needed a complementary 
solution that could provide real-time access to any 
type of patient data in a single source. This would 
enable them to do more than merely help patients 
when they are sick. It would make a new level 
of care possible that keeps patients well.

The challenge
Health care data shares many of the same 
attributes of data from the web – all types 
and formats including images, video, audio 
and machine data in virtually infinite volume. 
Existing enterprise data warehouse 
technology used to support EMR 
applications suffers from a lack of data 
liquidity. With an EMR system, the latest 
medical records often aren’t available 
for 24 hours and frequently depend 
on interfaces to external systems that 
suffer from their own availability and 
performance challenges.

In a medical emergency, data must be 
entered in real time and available for 
immediate retrieval and analysis. Health 
care professionals must know what just 
changed in the context of the patient’s 
entire medical history.

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Read more case studies and find out more 
about UC Irvine Health online at 
www.wandisco.com

Results
Devices such as heart monitors and 
ventilators generate massive amounts 
of machine data. Hospital staff with heavy 
patient loads can’t stay at every bedside. 
Now they receive real-time alerts when 
these devices indicate that vital signs have 
crossed a certain threshold, enabling them 
to focus attention on patients who need 
it most.

When patients leave the hospital 
environment, care can be proactive 
instead of reactive. Real-time access 
to data from home monitoring devices 
makes it possible to predict the likelihood 
of hospital readmission after discharge 
for serious conditions such as heart failure 
and pneumonia so that outpatient care 
can be provided.

The ability to analyse quickly massive 
amounts of clinical data in combination 
with the patient’s genetic information 
makes it possible to determine the best 
medication at the right dosage for an 
individual patient for virtually any disease.

Now, massive amounts of all types of 
patient data can be anonymised and 
accessed from a single source, giving 
medical researchers faster access to greater 
volumes of data than previously possible.

All types of data can be stored, retrieved and 
analysed at incredibly low cost in comparison 
to traditional data warehouse solutions.

“ WANdisco is enabling us to make a real shift in medical care. Rather than 
just helping people when they are sick, we are now able to identify what 
can be done to keep people well. We haven’t found any other technology 
that can provide us with the 100% uptime and performance we need 
to offer this level of care and save lives.”

Charles Boicey, Informatics Solutions Architect, UCI Health

The solution
UCI Health’s key consideration in 
choosing WANdisco’s Non-Stop Hadoop 
for Hortonworks was the elimination 
of unacceptable downtime in a hospital 
environment where a patient’s condition 
can change drastically in minutes. Unlike 
UCI Health’s EMR, Non-Stop Hadoop for 
Hortonworks provides a single source for 
real-time access to patient data in virtually 
any format.

WANdisco’s Non-Stop Hadoop for 
Hortonworks is easy to implement and 
complements UCI Health’s EMR system. 
No modification to UCI Health’s EMR 
was required.

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Strategic review / Financial review

Continued substantial growth 
and a sound financial platform

Financial performance

The Group delivered substantial growth in recurring 
subscription revenues. Bookings for the year were $14.7 
million (2012: $7.9 million) representing 86% year-on-year 
growth. We report bookings as this is a key forward 
indicator of activity in a subscription business where 
revenue – recognised rateably over the life of the contract 
– is primarily a reflection of historic performance. Looking 
at our two markets, bookings remain heavily weighted 
toward the well-established ALM market. Here bookings 
were $14.5 million (2012: $7.9 million) representing 
84% growth. In the Big Data market, bookings were 
$0.2 million (2012: $0 million) reflecting the nascent 
nature of this market.

Customer loyalty is a strong characteristic of our 
business. We find that once our software is adopted, 
it is highly likely that annual contracts will be renewed. 
Consequently, we are pleased to report that all customers 
whose contract was due for renewal actually renewed 
in the year. Several of those customers renewed on a 
multi-year basis making a strong statement of confidence 
in our product. As a consequence, we are now disclosing 
the Annualised Value of Bookings (AVB) as a means of 

ensuring a consistent comparison of results. AVB includes 
the first year’s element of any multi-year booking. The year 
ended 31 December 2013 saw strong growth of 45% 
in AVB.

Revenue for the year grew by 33% to $8.0 million (2012: 
$6.0 million) or by 57% if perpetual licences sold in the 
year ended 31 December 2012 are excluded. No perpetual 
licences were sold in the year ended 31 December 2013.

The successful strategy of securing multi-year, forward 
revenue saw deferred revenue grow 106% to $13.1 million 
(2012: $6.4 million). One of the attractive features of 
a subscription license model is that it secures forward 
revenue. Consequently, out of a total deferred revenue 
at 31 December 2013 of $13.1m, $6.3m will be released 
and therefore represents secured revenue for the year 
ending 31 December 2014.

Headcount

Sales

Marketing

Engineering

Support

Product management

Finance, HR and admin

31 December 31 December
2012

2013

31

8

71

13

5

15

143

14

6

51

6

2

11

90

Paul Harrison
Chief Financial Officer

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  Corporate governance

page 19

Financial statements
page 24

The adjusted EBITDA loss for the year of $7.8 million 
(2012: $3.0 million) resulted from the significant investment 
required to take advantage of the high growth markets we 
address. In particular, we invested and continue to invest 
in attracting talented sales executives and engineers. 
At 31 December 2013, our headcount stood at 143 heads 
(2012: 90 heads). We will increase our investment in 
2014 consistent with the need to recruit the necessary 
talent to drive the expansion of the business.

Net cash stood at $25.7 million at 31 December 2013 
(2012: $14.5 million). This reflects both the investment 
referred to above and the successful equity placing 
in September 2013 which raised a further $29.7 million 
(net) to support future growth.

Paul Harrison
Chief Financial Officer

66.2%

4,213,000

1,475,000

468,000

212,000

Deferred revenue release
2012

3.3%

7.3%

23.2%

$6.37m

  2013

  2014

  2015

  2016+

Deferred revenue release
2013

11.6%

14.6%

26.0%

  2014

  2015

  2016

  2017+

$13.12m

47.8%

6,280,000

3,414,000

1,913,000

1,517,000

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Governance / Board of Directors

1. David Richards

2. James Campigli

3. Paul Harrison

Position
President, CEO and co‑founder

Committees
Remuneration
(retired on 20 March 2014)

Experience
David is President, CEO and 
co‑founder of WANdisco. 

Since co‑founding the Company in 
Silicon Valley in 2005, David has led 
WANdisco on a course for rapid 
international expansion, opening 
offices in the UK, Japan and China. 
David spearheaded the acquisition 
of AltoStor, which accelerated the 
development of WANdisco’s first 
products for the big data market.

With over 15 years’ executive 
experience in the software industry, 
David sits on a number of advisory 
and executive boards of Silicon 
Valley start‑up ventures. A passionate 
advocate of entrepreneurship, he has 
established many successful start‑up 
companies in enterprise software and 
is recognised as an industry leader 
in enterprise application integration 
and its standards. David is also a 
non‑executive director of 1Spatial plc.

David is a frequent commentator 
on a range of business and 
technology issues, appearing 
regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC. 

Position
Chief Marketing Officer 
and co‑founder

Committees
Audit
(retired on 5 December 2013)

Experience
James has over 25 years of 
software industry experience at both 
early‑stage and public companies. In 
his current role James is responsible 
for WANdisco’s marketing activities. 
In his previous role as a founder 
and chief technology officer (CTO) 
of Librados, an application integration 
software provider, James was 
responsible for overall product 
strategy and product messaging.

Prior to Librados, James was 
the vice president of product 
management for Insevo, a 
middleware company specialising 
in enterprise application integration. 
James also held senior product 
management, product marketing 
and consulting management 
positions at BEA Systems 
and SAP AG.

Position
Chief Financial Officer

Committees
None

Experience
Prior to joining WANdisco in 
September 2013, Paul spent over 
16 years with The Sage Group plc, 
the UK’s largest software business 
and a member of the FTSE 100. 
Paul joined Sage in 1997, becoming 
its CFO in 2000. During that time, 
Sage grew its revenues from £152 
million to £1,340 million, its profit 
before taxation from £38 million 
to £356 million, its employee base 
from 1,900 to 13,500 and its country 
presence from four to 25. It also 
supplemented organic growth 
with the conclusion of over 
100 acquisitions.

Paul is also a non‑executive 
director of Hays plc, one of the 
world’s largest specialist recruiters. 
He joined Hays in 2007, becoming 
its Senior Independent Director 
in 2011. He also chairs Hays’ 
remuneration committee.

A chartered accountant, Paul’s earlier 
career was spent in professional 
practice, latterly with PwC where 
he was a senior manager.

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4. Paul Walker 

Position
Non‑executive Director 
and Chairman Designate

Committees
Nomination, Remuneration 
and Audit

Experience
Paul Walker served as Chief 
Executive Officer of The Sage 
Group Plc from 1994 to 2010. Paul 
joined Sage as company accountant 
in 1984 and served as its Finance 
Director from 1987 until 1994. Paul 
has been a non‑executive director 
of Experian plc since June 2010. 
He has also served as non‑executive 
Chairman of Perform plc since 2011 
and as non‑executive director and 
Chairman of Halma plc since April 
2013. Paul is Chair of the Newcastle 
Science City Partnership and a 
director of the Entrepreneurs’ 
Forum. He previously served as 
a non‑executive director of 
Diageo plc and MyTravelplc.

5. Ian Duncan 

Position
Non‑executive Director 

Committees
Nomination, Remuneration 
and Audit

Experience
Ian was Group Finance Director 
of Royal Mail Holdings plc from 
2006 to 2010. Prior to Royal Mail 
Holdings plc, Ian served for eight 
years as Chief Financial Officer 
and Senior Vice President of 
Westinghouse Electric Company 
LLC in Pennsylvania, US. Between 
1993 and 1998 Ian was at British 
Nuclear Fuels plc, latterly as 
corporate finance director. Prior 
to this he worked at Lloyds and 
Kleinworts specialising in mergers 
and acquisitions. Ian qualified as 
a chartered accountant at Deloitte 
and Touche in 1985. Ian is currently 
a non‑executive director and Chair 
of the audit committee at Babcock 
International Group plc and the 
Mouchel Group. He previously 
served as a non‑executive 
director of Fiberweb plc.

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Governance / Directors’ report

The Directors present their report and the audited financial 
statements for the year ended 31 December 2013.

Principal activity

The principal activity of the Group is the development 
and provision of global collaboration software.

The Directors benefited from qualifying third party 
indemnity provisions in place during the financial year 
and at the date of this report.

Information on Directors’ remuneration and share 
option rights is given in the Remuneration Committee 
Report on pages 17 and 18.

Business review and future developments

Substantial shareholders

A review of the Group’s operations and future 
developments is covered in the Chairman and 
Chief Executive Officer’s Report on pages 4 to 7. 
This report includes sections on strategy and markets 
and considers key risks and key performance indicators.

Financial results

Details of the Group’s financial results are set out 
in the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive 
Income and other components on pages 25 to 48.

Dividends

The Directors do not recommend the payment 
of a dividend.

Going concern

After making enquiries, the Directors have confidence 
the Group has adequate resources to continue in 
operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this 
reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis 
in preparing the Report and Accounts. This is described 
in more detail in Note 2.

Annual General Meeting

On page 50 is the notice of the Company’s second 
Annual General Meeting to be held at 12.00 noon 
on 4 June 2014 at the offices of DLA Piper UK LLP 
in Sheffield.

Directors

The Directors who served on the Board and on Board 
Committees during the year are set out on pages 
12 and 13. One‑third of the Directors are required to 
retire at the Annual General Meeting and can offer 
themselves for re‑election. 

The Company is informed that, at 31 March 2014, 
individual registered shareholdings of more than 3% 
of the Company’s issued share capital were as follows:

Cazenove Capital
Dr Yeturu Aahlad
David Richards
James Campigli
Blackrock Investment 
Management

Number
of
shares

2,980,611
2,825,021
2,783,153
1,544,143

% of issued 
Ordinary
Share
capital

12.57%
11.92%
11.74%
6.51%

1,500,584

6.33%

Directors’ shareholdings

The beneficial interests of the Directors in the share 
capital of the Company at 31 December 2013 and 
at 31 March 2014 were as follows:

Executive Directors
David Richards
James Campigli
Paul Harrison
Non‑executive Directors
Paul Walker
Ian Duncan

Number
of
shares

% of issued
Ordinary
Share
capital

2,783,153
1,544,143
—

111,111
—

11.74%
6.51%
—

0.47%
—

None of the Directors had any interest in the share 
capital of any subsidiary company. Further details 
of options held by the Directors are set out in the 
Remuneration Committee Report on pages 17 and 18.

The middle market price of the Company’s Ordinary 
Shares on 31 December 2013 was 1,230 pence and the 
range during the year was 440 pence to 1,524 pence 
with an average price of 880 pence.

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Research and development

The Group expended $7,443,000 during the year 
(2012: $2,912,000) on research and development, 
of which $7,443,000 (2012: $2,912,000) was capitalised 
within intangible assets and $nil (2012: $nil) was charged 
to the income statement. In addition, an amortisation 
charge of $3,670,000 (2012: $1,801,000) has been 
recognised against previously capitalised costs.

Derivatives and financial instruments

The Group’s policy and exposure to derivatives 
and financial instruments is set out in Note 20.

Employee involvement

It is the Group’s policy to involve employees in its 
progress, development and performance. Applications 
for employment by disabled persons are fully considered, 
bearing in mind the respective aptitudes and abilities of 
the applicants concerned. The Group is a committed 
equal opportunities employer and has engaged 
employees with broad backgrounds and skills.

It is the policy of the Group that the training, career 
development and promotion of a disabled person 
should, as far as possible, be identical to that of a 
person who is fortunate enough not to suffer from 
a disability. In the event of members of staff becoming 
disabled, every effort is made to ensure that their 
employment with the Group continues.

Political and charitable donations

During the year ended 31 December 2013 the Group 
made political donations of $nil (2012: $nil) and 
charitable donations of $409 (2012: $nil).

Supplier payment policy and practice

The Group does not operate a standard code in respect 
of payments to suppliers. The Group agrees terms of 
payment with suppliers at the start of business and then 
makes payments in accordance with contractual and 
other legal obligations.

The ratio, expressed in days, between the amount 
invoiced to the Group by its suppliers during the year 

ended 31 December 2013 and the amount owed to 
its trade creditors at 31 December 2013 was 45 days 
(2012: 45 days).

Risks relating to the Group and its business

Dependence on key executives and personnel 
and recruitment and retention of new talent
The Group’s future success is dependent on its senior 
management and key technical personnel. Whilst much 
of the Group’s proprietary know‑how is documented, 
members of the technical team each contribute 
valuable skills and know‑how to the business and, 
despite contractual confidentiality agreements in favour 
of the Group, there can be no guarantee that those 
individuals will not join the Group’s competitors or 
establish themselves in competition with the Group 
in the future. 

Failure to retain the services of any of these people 
may adversely affect the Group’s business and growth 
prospects. Additionally, the Group is expanding rapidly and 
recruiting new resource, particularly in the engineering and 
sales functions. It is essential that the right talent is attracted, 
retained and motivated to drive the Group’s success. 

The Group has recently strengthened its human 
resources function with the appointment of an 
experienced Chief People Officer. This function has 
responsibility for working with senior management 
to strengthen recruitment, retention, reward and the 
development of talent. This function will also oversee 
internal employee communications to ensure, given our 
rapidly developing markets, that our people understand 
our strategic direction and are therefore able to make 
a meaningful contribution to the achievement of our 
goals. In addition, stock‑based compensation has 
proven to be an important component of retaining 
and motivating key talent and we will continue 
to deploy stock selectively. 

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Risks relating to the Group and its business 
continued

Competition risk
There can be no guarantee that the Group’s competitors 
have not already developed and/or will not develop 
products and services which are competitive to those 
supplied by the Group. 

The Group protects its intellectual property by securing 
patents whenever possible. Furthermore, the Group 
continues to dedicate significant resource to the constant 
enhancement of our core intellectual property.

Customer and channel risk
Whilst the Group invests in functions dedicated to 
customer management and post‑sales support, its rapid 
expansion could place strain on the quality of these 
services. We serve our Big Data market in partnership 
with key distributors of Hadoop. This form of distribution 
is new to the business and there is risk that we mis‑manage 
partner relationships. 

As part of its current recruitment plan, the Group 
is adding experienced resource to these areas.

Resource allocation and operational 
execution risk
WANdisco addresses a significant and rapidly growing 
market with limited internal resource. This resource 
takes the form of people and capital. Over time it will 
be essential to grow this resource but at all times it 
will remain essential that we ensure that resource is 
effectively directed to addressing and delivering on 
our strategic goals.

We have significantly improved internal reporting 
to include segmental reporting of our key markets. 
These reports are regularly monitored by both the 
management team and the Board.

Product risks
The Group’s products and the software on which they are 
based are complex and may contain undetected defects 
when first introduced and problems may be discovered 
from time to time in existing, new or enhanced products. 
Undetected defects could damage the Group’s reputation, 
ultimately leading to an increase in the Group’s costs 
or reduction in its revenues.

We have invested significantly in both people and 
quality control processes within our engineering teams. 
We have also strengthened our sales engineering team 
which helps to ensure that commitments made 
to customers in terms of product capability are 
wholly deliverable.

General risks

Economic conditions and current 
economic weakness
Any economic downturn either globally or locally in any 
area in which the Group operates may have an adverse 
effect on the demand for the Group’s products. A more 
prolonged economic downturn may lead to an overall 
decline in the volume of the Group’s sales, restricting 
the Group’s ability to realise a profit.

The markets in which the Group offers its services are 
directly affected by many national and international 
factors that are beyond the Group’s control.

Disclosure of information to auditor

The Directors who held office at the date of approval 
of this Directors’ Report confirm that, so far as they are 
aware, there is no relevant audit information of which 
the Company’s auditor is unaware; and each Director 
has taken all the steps that he or she ought to have 
taken to make himself or herself aware of any relevant 
audit information and to establish that the Company’s 
auditor is aware of that information.

Auditor

A resolution for the re‑appointment of KPMG LLP 
as auditor of the Company is to be proposed at the 
forthcoming Annual General Meeting.

By order of the Board

Paul Harrison
Chief Financial Officer
15 April 2014

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As an AIM listed Company, WANdisco plc is not 
required to comply with schedule 8 to the Large and 
Medium‑sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and 
Report) Regulations 2008. The content of this report 
is unaudited unless stated.

Membership of the Remuneration Committee

During the year, the Remuneration Committee 
comprised the Non‑executive Chairman (Paul Walker), 
the Independent Non‑executive Director (Ian Duncan) 
and the Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 
(David Richards). David Richards retired from the 
Remuneration Committee on 20 March 2014.

The Remuneration Committee reviews the 
performance of the Executive Directors and makes 
recommendations to the Board on matters relating 
to remuneration, terms of service, granting of share 
options and other equity incentives.

The Remuneration Committee meets at least twice a year.

Equity incentives

To enable the Company to continue to attract, 
retain and motivate the necessary talent to deliver 
its ambitious growth strategy, the Committee intends 
to extend its dilution guideline for equity incentives 
to allow for no more than 15% dilution through the 
issuance of new shares in any ten year period.

Remuneration policy

The objectives of the remuneration policy are to ensure 
that the overall remuneration of Executive Directors 
is aligned with the performance of the Group and 
preserves an appropriate balance of income and 
shareholder value.

Non‑executive Directors

Remuneration of the Non‑executive Directors is 
determined by the Executive Directors. Non‑executive 
Directors are not entitled to pensions, annual bonuses 
or employee benefits. They are entitled to participate 
in share option arrangements relating to the Company’s 
shares but neither of them does at this time. Each of the 
Non‑executive Directors has a letter of appointment stating 
his annual fee and that his appointment is initially for a term 
of three years. Their appointment may be terminated with 
three months’ written notice at any time.

Directors’ remuneration

The normal remuneration arrangements for Executive 
Directors consist of Directors’ fees, basic salary and annual 
performance‑related bonuses. In addition, they receive 
private health care. The Committee intends to make further 
awards under the Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) during 
2014. Details of any awards will be disclosed in next 
year’s Remuneration Committee Report.

During the year, the Board appointed Paul Harrison 
as Chief Financial Officer. Paul is a former FTSE 100 CFO 
and brings a wealth of experience in order to support 
WANdisco in delivering its ambitious growth strategy. 
As a consequence, the salary level for Paul was set 
commensurate with the experience he brings to the role. 
In September 2013, Paul was awarded nominal‑cost 
options under the LTIP (see table overleaf), which 
become exercisable in four tranches from January 2014 
to September 2015, and are subject to further restrictions 
relating to employment until September 2016 as outlined 
in the RNS announcement on 27 September 2013. 
Nick Parker resigned as CFO on 1 September 2013 
and a termination payment was made as set out 
in the table overleaf.

2013 annual bonus

In the year ended 31 December 2012 the basis of the 
executive bonus scheme was as laid out in the Admission 
Document, being based upon the level of growth in the 
customer bookings number in 2012 relative to that 
achieved in 2011. That bonus scheme also included 
arrangements for 2013 and 2014 with bonuses based 
on revenue growth and EPS, respectively. Following the 
Admission of the shares to listing on AIM, it was considered 
appropriate to review these arrangements and assess the 
extent to which they were in line with best practice for 
the current and subsequent years.

It was agreed by the Remuneration Committee and 
the Board as a whole that, while bonuses of up to 150% 
might reflect not only the operational performance of 
the Group during the period but also the achievement of 
significant corporate objectives such as the successful IPO, 
in terms of operational parameters a maximum bonus of 
100% of base salary seemed more appropriate and this 
was reflected in the agreed bonus plan for 2013, which 
comprised a target bonus of 75% of salary and a maximum 
bonus opportunity of 100% of salary. The level of the bonus 
was dependent upon the customer bookings achieved 
during the year.

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2013 annual bonus continued

The Company made good progress during 2013, exceeding its bookings target. This resulted in a total bonus 
paying out between target and maximum for 2013 at 93% of salary.

Similar bonus principles will be adopted for 2014, but the performance conditions will be modified to incorporate 
targets for the delivery of bookings for Big Data.

Directors’ interests

Details of the Directors’ shareholdings are included in the Directors’ Report on page 14.

Directors’ share options

Aggregate emoluments disclosed below do not include any amounts for the value of options to acquire Ordinary Shares in 
the Company granted to or held by the Directors. Details of options for Directors who served during the year are as follows:

Executive
David Richards
James Campigli
Paul Harrison (appointed 1 September 2013)
Nick Parker (resigned 1 September 2013)

Non‑executive
Paul Walker
Ian Duncan

Number of
options at
31 December
2013

—
—
296,870
273,685

—
—

Exercise
price

—
—
$0.16
$0.36

—
—

In addition to the above options, Paul Harrison was granted an option over an additional number of shares to be 
determined with a value equal to 200% of his base salary at 1 September 2014, provided he is still in employment 
by the Group at that date.

Nick Parker exercised 126,315 share options on 26 September 2013.

This table is audited.

Payment
currency

Salary/fees
’000

Termination
payments
’000

Bonus
’000

Benefits
’000

31 December
2013
Total
’000

31 December
2012
Total
’000

Executive
David Richards
James Campigli
Paul Harrison
Nick Parker

Non‑Executive
Paul Walker
Ian Duncan

$
$
$
£

£
£

350
300
160
119

40
40

—
—
—
201

—
—

326
279
149
100

—
—

16
16
8
17

—
—

692
595
317
437

40
40

899
757
—
556

27
27

The total Directors’ remuneration for the period ended 31 December, in US Dollars, was $2,409,000 (2012: $2,619,000).

Paul Ashton Walker
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
15 April 2014

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2012 FRC UK Corporate Governance Code

Whilst the Company is listed on the AIM, it is not 
required to adopt the provisions of the Code on 
Corporate Governance (“the Code”). The Board, 
however, is committed to the maintenance of high 
standards of corporate governance and after due 
consideration it has adopted many, although not 
all, aspects of the Code as described below.

The Board of Directors and Committees 
of the Board of Directors

The Board comprises three Executive and two 
Non‑executive members. This ensures compliance with 
the Code which states that a smaller company should 
have at least two independent directors. On 20 March 
2014, Paul Walker, an independent Non‑executive 
Director, assumed the role of Chairman of the Board. 
David Richards remains Chief Executive Officer. This 
change was made in light of best corporate governance 
practice which advocates a separation of these roles. 

The Board met regularly throughout the year, with ad hoc 
meetings also being held. The role of the Board is to 
provide leadership of the Group and to set strategic 
aims but within a framework of prudent and effective 
controls which enable risk to be managed. 

The Board has agreed the Schedule of Matters reserved 
for its decision which includes ensuring that the necessary 
financial and human resources are in place to meet its 
obligations to its shareholders and others. It also approves 
acquisitions and disposals of businesses, major capital 
expenditure, annual financial budgets and recommends 
interim and final dividends. It receives recommendations 
from the Audit Committee in relation to the appointment 
of the auditor, its remuneration and the policy relating to 
non‑audit services. The Board agrees the framework for 
Executive Directors’ remuneration with the Remuneration 
Committee and determines fees paid to Non‑executive 
Directors. Recommendations for the appointment 
of new directors are received from the Nomination 
Committee. Board papers are circulated before Board 
meetings in sufficient time to be meaningful.

The performance of the Board is evaluated on an 
ongoing basis informally with reference to all aspects 
of its operation including, but not limited to: the 
appropriateness of its skill level; the way its meetings 

are conducted and administered (including the content 
of those meetings); the effectiveness of the various 
Committees; whether corporate governance issues 
are handled in a satisfactory manner; and whether 
there is a clear strategy and objectives.

A new Director, on appointment, is briefed on the 
activities of the Group. Professional induction training 
is also given as appropriate. The Chairman briefs 
Non‑executive Directors on issues arising at Board 
meetings if required and Non‑executive Directors have 
access to the Chairman at any time. Ongoing training 
is provided as needed. Directors are updated on a 
frequent and regular basis on the Group’s business 
and on issues covering employment, social, ethical, 
environmental and health and safety matters 
by means of Board presentations.

In the furtherance of his duties or in relation to acts 
carried out by the Board or the Company, each 
Director has been informed that he is entitled to seek 
independent professional advice at the expense of the 
Company. The Company maintains appropriate cover 
under a Directors’ and Officers’ insurance policy in the 
event of legal action being taken against any Director.

Each Director’s performance is appraised through 
the normal appraisal process. The Executive Board 
members are appraised by the Chief Executive and the 
Non‑executive Board members by the Chairman. Each 
Director has access to the services of the Company 
Secretary if required.

The Non‑executive Directors are considered by the 
Board to be independent of management and are free 
to exercise independence of judgement. They have 
never been employees of the Company nor do they 
participate in the Company’s bonus arrangements. 
They receive no other remuneration from the 
Company other than the Directors’ fees. 

Consistent with the appointment of Paul Walker 
as Chairman, David Richards retired from the 
Remuneration Committee on 20 March 2014. 
In addition, James Campigli retired from the 
Audit Committee on 5 December 2013.

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The Board of Directors and Committees of the Board of Directors continued

The table below shows the number of Board meetings, Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committee meetings 
held during the year and the attendance of each Director.

Board meetings

Audit

Remuneration

Nomination

Possible

Attended

Possible

Attended

Possible

Attended

Possible

Attended

Committee meetings 

Executive Directors
David Richards
James Campigli
Paul Harrison
Non‑executive 
Directors
Paul Walker
Ian Duncan

4
4
2

4
4

4
4
2

4
4

—
4
—

4
4

—
4
—

4
4

3
—
—

3
3

3
—
—

3
3

—
—
—

1
1

—
—
—

1
1

The Audit Committee 

The Audit Committee (“the Committee”) is established 
by and is responsible to the Board. It has written terms 
of reference. Its main responsibilities are:

• 

• 

• 

 to monitor and be satisfied with the truth and 
fairness of the Group’s financial statements before 
submission to the Board for approval, ensuring 
their compliance with the appropriate accounting 
standards, the law and the Listing Rules of the 
Financial Conduct Authority;

 to monitor and review the effectiveness of the 
Group’s system of internal control;

 to make recommendations to the Board in relation 
to the appointment of the external auditor and 
its remuneration, following appointment by the 
shareholders in general meeting, and to review 
and be satisfied with the auditor’s independence, 
objectivity and effectiveness on an ongoing 
basis; and

• 

 to implement the policy relating to any non‑audit 
services performed by the external auditor.

Ian Duncan is the Chairman of the Committee. 
The other member of the Committee is Paul Walker. 
James Campigli retired from the Committee on 
5 December 2013. The Board considers Ian Duncan 
to have relevant and recent financial experience given 
his biography set out on page 13.

The Committee meets with external auditors, without 
the Executive Directors being present, at least once 
a year. 

The Committee is authorised by the Board to seek 
and obtain any information it requires from any officer 
or employee of the Group and to obtain external legal 
or other independent professional advice as is deemed 
necessary by it.

Meetings of the Committee are held at least three times 
per year to coincide with the review of the scope of the 
external audit and observations arising from its work in 
relation to internal control and to review the financial 
statements. The external auditor is invited to these 
meetings and meets with the Committee at least three 
times a year. At its meeting, it carries out a full review 
of the year‑end financial statements and of the audit, 

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using as a basis the Report to the Committee prepared 
by the external auditor and taking into account any 
significant accounting policies, any changes to them 
and any significant estimates or judgements. Questions 
are asked of management of any significant or unusual 
transactions where the accounting treatment could 
be open to different interpretations.

The Committee receives reports from management 
on the effectiveness of the system of internal controls. 
It also receives from the external auditor a report of matters 
arising during the course of the audit which the auditor 
deems to be of significance for the Committee’s attention. 
The statement on internal controls and the management 
of risk, which is included in the Annual Report, is approved 
by the Committee.

The 1998 Public Interest Disclosure Act (“the Act”) aims 
to promote greater openness in the workplace and ensures 
“whistle blowers” are protected. The Group voluntarily 
maintains a policy in accordance with the Act, which allows 
employees to raise concerns on a confidential basis if they 
have reasonable grounds in believing that there is serious 
malpractice within the Group. The policy is designed to 
deal with concerns, which must be raised without malice 
and in good faith, in relation to specific issues which are 
in the public interest and which fall outside the scope of 
other Group policies and procedures. There is a specific 
complaints procedure laid down and action will be taken 
in those cases where the complaint is shown to be justified. 
The individual making the disclosure will be informed of 
what action is to be taken and a formal written record will 
be kept of each stage of the procedure. Any issues arising 
under this policy are reported to the Committee.

The external auditor is required to give the 
Committee information about policies and processes 
for maintaining its independence and compliance 
regarding the rotation of audit partners and staff. 
The Committee considers all relationships between 
the external auditor and the Company to ensure that 
they do not compromise the auditor’s judgement 
or independence particularly with the provision 
of non‑audit services.

The Remuneration Committee

The Remuneration Committee is chaired by 
Paul Walker; the other members of the Committee are 
Ian Duncan and David Richards. David Richards retired 
from the Remuneration Committee on 20 March 2014. 
The Remuneration Committee meets at least twice 
a year with the other Board members in attendance 
as appropriate. It has written terms of reference. 
The Remuneration Committee agrees the framework 
for Executive Directors’ remuneration with the Board.

The Nomination Committee

The Nomination Committee is chaired by Paul Walker, 
the other member of the committee is Ian Duncan. 
The Nomination Committee meets at least once 
a year, with the Chief Executive Officer in attendance 
as appropriate. The Nomination Committee considers 
appointments to the Board.

Re‑election

Directors are subject to re‑election at the Annual General 
Meeting following their appointment. In addition, at each 
Annual General Meeting one‑third (or whole number less 
than one‑third) of the Directors will retire by rotation.

Shareholder communications

The Chief Executive and the Chief Financial Officer 
regularly meet with institutional shareholders to foster 
a mutual understanding of objectives. 

The Directors encourage the participation of all 
shareholders, including private investors, at the Annual 
General Meeting and as a matter of policy the level 
of proxy votes (for, against and vote withheld) lodged 
on each resolution is declared at the meeting.

The Annual Report and Accounts is published 
on the Company’s website, www.wandisco.com, 
and can be accessed by shareholders.

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Governance / Corporate governance continued

Internal controls

The Board is responsible for the Group’s system 
of internal controls and for reviewing its effectiveness. 
Such a system is designed to manage rather than eliminate 
the risk of failure to achieve business objectives and can 
only provide reasonable and not absolute assurance 
against material misstatement or loss.

Executive management considers the potential financial 
and non‑financial risks which may impact on the business 
as part of the quarterly management reporting procedures. 
The Board receives these quarterly management reports 
and monitors the position at Board meetings.

The Board confirms that there are ongoing processes 
for identifying, evaluating and mitigating the significant 
risks faced by the Group. The processes have been in 
place from throughout the year and up to the date of 
approval of the Annual Report and Accounts, consistent 
with the guidance for Directors on internal control 
issued by the Financial Reporting Council.

The Group’s internal financial control and monitoring 
procedures include:

• 

• 

• 

• 

 clear responsibility on the part of line and financial 
management for the maintenance of good financial 
controls and the production of accurate and timely 
financial management information;

 the control of key financial risks through 
appropriate authorisation levels and segregation 
of accounting duties;

 detailed monthly budgeting and reporting of trading 
results, balance sheets and cash flows, with regular 
review by management of variances from budget;

 reporting on any non‑compliance with internal 
financial controls and procedures; and 

• 

review of reports issued by the external auditor.

The Audit Committee on behalf of the Board 
reviews reports from the external auditor together with 
management’s response regarding proposed actions. 
In this manner it has reviewed the effectiveness of the 
system of internal controls for the year under review.

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Statement of Directors’ responsibilities

in respect of the Annual Report and the financial statements

The Directors are responsible for keeping proper 
accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy 
at any time the financial position of the Company and 
enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply 
with the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991. They are also 
responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company 
and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention 
and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Directors are responsible for preparing the financial 
statements in accordance with applicable law and 
International Financial Reporting Standards.

Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial 
statements for each financial year which give a true and 
fair view of the state of affairs of the Group and of the 
profit or loss of the Group for that period. As required 
by the AIM Rules of the London Stock Exchange, they 
are required to prepare the financial statements in 
accordance with International Financial Reporting 
Standards as adopted by the EU and applicable law. 
In preparing these financial statements, the Directors 
are required to:

• 

• 

• 

• 

 select suitable accounting policies and apply 
them consistently;

 make judgements and estimates which are 
reasonable and prudent;

 state whether they have been prepared in 
accordance with International Financial Reporting 
Standards as adopted by the EU; and

 prepare the financial statements on the going 
concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume 
that the Company will continue in business.

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Financial statements / Independent auditor’s report

to the members of WANdisco plc

We have audited the Group financial statements of WANdisco plc for the year ended 31 December 2013 which comprise the Consolidated 
Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position, the Consolidated Cash Flow Statement, the 
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their 
preparation is applicable law and International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the EU.

This report is made solely to the Company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Article 113A of the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991. 
Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company’s members those matters we are required to state to them 
in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone 
other than the Company and the Company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed. 

Respective responsibilities of Directors and auditors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities set out on page 23, the Directors are responsible for the preparation 
of financial statements which give a true and fair view. Our responsibility is to audit, and express an opinion on, the financial statements in 
accordance with applicable law and International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Those standards require us to comply with the 
Auditing Practices Board’s Ethical Standards for Auditors.

Scope of the audit of the financial statements

An audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements sufficient to give reasonable assurance 
that the financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of: whether 
the accounting policies are appropriate to the Group’s circumstances and have been consistently applied and adequately disclosed; the 
reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by the Directors; and the overall presentation of the financial statements. In addition, 
we read all the financial and non-financial information in the Annual Report to identify material inconsistencies with the audited financial 
statements and to identify any information that is apparently materially incorrect based on, or materially inconsistent with, the knowledge 
acquired by us in the course of performing the audit. If we become aware of any apparent material misstatements or inconsistencies 
we consider the implications for our report.

Opinion on financial statements

In our opinion the financial statements:

• 

 give a true and fair view, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the EU of the state of the 
Group’s affairs as at 31 December 2013 and of the Group’s loss for the year then ended; and

•  have been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

•  proper accounting records have not been kept by the Company; or

•  proper returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

• 

the Company financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

•  we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Johnathan Pass
for and on behalf of KPMG LLP
Chartered Accountants
15 April 2014

Notes

• 

• 

 The maintenance and integrity of the WANdisco.com website is the responsibility of the Directors; the work carried out by auditors 
does not involve consideration of these matters and accordingly, KPMG LLP accepts no responsibility for any changes that may have 
occurred to the financial statements or our audit report since 15 April 2014. KPMG LLP has carried out no procedures of any nature 
subsequent to 15 April 2014 which in any way extends this date.

 Legislation in Jersey governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. 
The Directors shall remain responsible for establishing and controlling the process for doing so, and for ensuring that the financial 
statements are complete and unaltered in any way.

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Consolidated statement of comprehensive income

for the year ended 31 December 2013

Year ended 31 December 2013

Year ended 31 December 2012

5

6

9

8, 9

8

11

Revenue

Cost of sales

Gross profit

Operating expenses

Loss from operations

Finance income

Finance expense

Loss before tax

Taxation

Loss for the year

Other comprehensive income
Items that are or may in the future be reclassified 
to the Income Statement:

Foreign currency translation differences 
– foreign operations

Other comprehensive income for the period net of tax

Pre-
exceptional
$’000

Exceptional
items
$’000

Notes

Pre-
exceptional
$’000

Exceptional
items
$’000

8,012

(1,579)

6,433

— 

—

—

Total
$’000

8,012

(1,579)

6,031

(497)

6,433

5,534

Total
$’000

6,031

(497)

5,534

— 

—

—

(23,425)

(2,276)

(25,701)

(11,419)

(2,656)

(14,075)

(16,992)

(2,276)

(19,268)

(5,885)

(2,656) 

(8,541)

52

(294)

—

(484)

52

(778)

79

(295)

776

—

855

(295)

(17,234)

(2,760)

(19,994)

(6,101)

(1,880) 

(7,981)

263

—

263

—

—

—

(16,971)

(2,760)

(19,731)

(6,101)

(1,880)

(7,981)

136

136

—

—

136

136

16

16

—

—

16

16

Total comprehensive income for the period

(16,835)

(2,760)

(19,595)

(6,085) 

(1,880) 

(7,965) 

Loss per share

Basic and diluted

12

$0.90

$0.49

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Financial statements / Consolidated statement of financial position

as at 31 December 2013

Assets

Intangible assets

Property, plant and equipment

Total non-current assets

Trade and other receivables

Cash and cash equivalents

Total current assets

Total assets

Liabilities

Trade and other payables

Deferred income

Deferred government grant

Provisions

Total current liabilities

Deferred tax

Non-current liabilities

Total liabilities

Net assets

Equity

Share capital

Share premium

Translation reserve

Merger reserve

Retained earnings

Total equity

Notes

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

13

14

16

18

17

17

19

11

21

21

21

21

21

8,092

311

5,541

129

8,403

5,670

10,511

25,673

2,486

14,545

36,184

17,031

44,587

22,701

(2,543)

(13,124)

(242)

—

(3,665)

(6,368)

(36)

(393) 

(15,909)

(10,462) 

(5)

(5)

(5)

(5)

(15,914)

(10,467) 

28,673

12,234 

3,755

3,388

53,882

23,332

142

1,247

6

1,247

(30,353)

(15,739)

28,673

12,234

The financial statements on pages 25 to 48 were approved by the Board of Directors on 15 April 2014 and signed on its behalf by:

David Richards  
Chief Executive Officer 

Paul Harrison
Chief Financial Officer

Company registered number 110497

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Consolidated statement of changes in equity 

for the year ended 31 December 2013

Share
premium
$’000

Translation
reserve
$’000

Merger
reserve
$’000

Retained
earnings
$’000

Total
$’000

Balance at 1 January 2012

Total comprehensive income for the period 

Loss for the year 

Other comprehensive income 

Total comprehensive income for the period 

Transactions with owners recorded directly in equity 

Issue of shares by WANdisco, Inc.

Shares issued by WANdisco plc in exchange for WANdisco, Inc. shares

Share
capital
$’000

448

—

—

 — 

2,761

(1,247)

 — 

—

—

 — 

—

—

Shares issued by WANdisco plc

Share issue costs 

Shares allotted under share option scheme

Shares issued as part of AltoStor acquisition

Share-based payments charge

Total contributions by and distributions to owners

Balance at 31 December 2012

Balance at 1 January 2013

Total comprehensive income for the period 

Loss for the year 

Other comprehensive income 

Total comprehensive income for the period 

Transactions with owners recorded directly in equity 

Shares issued by WANdisco plc

Share issue costs 

Shares issued as part of TortoiseSVN.net IP purchase

Shares allotted under share option scheme

Share-based payments charge

1,289

21,908

—

54

83

—

(1,946)

95

3,275

—

2,940

 23,332 

3,388

 23,332 

3,388

 23,332 

—

—

—

—

—

—

323

30,381

—

8

36

—

(1,034)

674

529

—

Total contributions by and distributions to owners

367

30,550

(10) 

 — 

(6,011)

(5,573) 

—

16

16

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

 — 

 6 

 6 

—

136

136

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(7,981)

(7,981)

—

16

 — 

(7,981)

(7,965)

—

1,247

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(2,560)

813

2,761

—

23,197

(1,946)

149

798

813

 1,247 

(1,747)

25,772

 1,247 

(15,739)

 12,234 

 1,247 

(15,739)

 12,234 

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(19,731)

(19,731)

—

136

(19,731)

(19,595)

—

—

(682)

—

30,704

(1,034)

—

565

5,799

5,799

5,117

36,034

Balance at 31 December 2013

3,755

53,882

142

1,247

(30,353)

28,673

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Financial statements / Consolidated statement of cash flows 

for the year ended 31 December 2013

Cash flows from operating activities

Loss before taxation

Adjustments for:

Depreciation

Amortisation of intangibles

Finance costs

Foreign exchange

Change in trade and other receivables

Change in trade and other payables

Change in deferred income

Grant income received

Grant income released

Change in provisions

Share-based payment charge

Interest received/(paid)

Net cash used in operating activities

Cash flows from investing activities

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

Purchase of intangible assets

Acquisition of subsidiary

Development expenditure in respect of intangible assets

Net cash used in investing activities

Cash flow from financing activities

Net proceeds from share issues

Proceeds from loans

Repayment of borrowings

Net cash generated from financing activities

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

Effect of exchange rate fluctuations on cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at the start of the period

Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

(19,994)

(7,981)

138

4,918

242

484

52

2,017

216

(776)

(8,060)

(1,394)

(1,122)

6,756

109

(447)

(393)

5,799

17

1,093

1,902

139

(105)

(21)

813

(101)

(11,553)

(4,146)

(320)

—

—

(7,443)

(138)

(1,000)

(1,500)

(2,912)

(7,763)

(5,550) 

30,235

24,161

—

—

—

(770)

30,235

23,391

10,919

 13,695 

209

14,545

776

74

25,673

 14,545 

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Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013

1. Reporting entity

WANdisco plc is a public limited company incorporated and domiciled in Jersey. The Company’s ordinary shares are traded on AIM. 
The consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2013 comprise the Company and its subsidiaries 
(together referred to as “the Group”).

2. Basis of preparation

(a) Statement of compliance
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as endorsed by the EU, 
IFRIC Interpretations, and under the historical cost accounting convention, and with those parts of Jersey Law (1991) applicable to companies 
under IFRS.

Under article 105(11) of the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991, a parent company preparing consolidated financial statements need not present 
solus (parent company only) financial information, unless required to do so by an ordinary resolution of the company’s members.

(b) Going concern
As at 31 December 2013 the Group had net assets of $28,673,000 (31 December 2012: $12,234,000) as set out in the Consolidated 
Statement of Financial Position on page 26. The Directors have prepared detailed forecasts of the Group’s performance over the coming 
years. As a consequence, the Directors believe that WANdisco plc and the Group are well placed to manage its business risks successfully 
despite the current uncertain economic outlook. After making enquiries the Directors have a reasonable expectation that WANdisco plc 
and the Group have sufficient working capital available for its present requirements, that is for the next twelve months from the date of this 
report. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Group financial statements.

(c) Functional and presentational currency
The consolidated financial statements are presented in US dollars, which is also the presentational currency of the Group. Billings to the 
Group’s customers during the year were all in US dollars by WANdisco, Inc. with certain costs being incurred by WANdisco International 
Limited in sterling. All financial information has been rounded to the nearest thousand US dollars unless otherwise stated.

(d) Use of estimates and judgements
The preparation of financial information in conformity with adopted IFRSs requires management to make judgements, estimates 
and assumptions that affect the application of accounting policies and the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, income and expenses. 
Actual results may differ from these estimates.

Estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period 
in which the estimates are revised and in any future periods affected.

The accounting policy descriptions set out the areas where judgement needs to be exercised, the most significant of which are revenue 
recognition, research and development and intangible assets.

Information about significant areas of estimation uncertainty in applying accounting policies that have the most significant effect 
on the amounts recognised in the consolidated financial information is included in the following notes:

•  Note 13 – valuation of intangible assets;

•  Note 19 – provisions; and

•  Note 22 – valuation of share-based payments.

3. Significant accounting policies

The accounting policies set out below have been applied consistently to all periods presented in these consolidated financial statements.

(a) Basis of consolidation
The Group financial statements consolidate those of the Company and its subsidiary undertakings. Subsidiaries are entities controlled by 
the Group. Control exists when the Group has the power, directly or indirectly, to govern the financial and operating policies of an entity 
so as to obtain benefits from its activities. In assessing control, potential voting rights that are currently exercisable or convertible are taken 
into account. The financial information of subsidiaries is included from the date that control commences until the date that control ceases.

Intra-group balances and transactions, and any unrealised income and expenses arising from intra-group transactions, are eliminated 
in preparing the consolidated financial information.

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

3. Significant accounting policies continued

(a) Basis of consolidation continued
Business combinations
All business combinations are accounted for by applying the acquisition method. Business combinations are accounted for using 
the acquisition method as at the acquisition date, which is the date on which control is transferred to the Group. 

Acquisitions on or after 1 January 2009
For acquisitions on or after 1 January 2009, the Group measures goodwill at the acquisition date as:

• 

• 

• 

• 

the fair value of the consideration transferred; plus 

the recognised amount of any non-controlling interests in the acquiree; plus

the fair value of the existing equity interest in the acquiree; less

the net recognised amount (generally fair value) of the identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed. 

When the excess is negative, the negative goodwill is recognised immediately in profit or loss.

Costs related to the acquisition, other than those associated with the issue of debt or equity securities, are expensed as incurred.

(b) Foreign currency
(i) Foreign currency transactions
Transactions in foreign currencies are translated to the respective functional currencies of Group entities at the foreign exchange rate ruling 
at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies at the balance sheet date are retranslated 
to the functional currency at the foreign exchange rate ruling at that date. Foreign exchange differences arising on translation are recognised 
in the income statement. Non-monetary assets and liabilities that are measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are translated 
using the exchange rate at the date of the transaction. Non-monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies that are stated 
at fair value are retranslated to the functional currency at foreign exchange rates ruling at the dates the fair value was determined.

(ii) Foreign operations
The assets and liabilities of foreign operations, including goodwill and fair value adjustments arising on consolidation, are translated to the 
Group’s presentational currency, US dollars, at foreign exchange rates ruling at the balance sheet date. The revenues and expenses of foreign 
operations are translated at an average rate for the year, where this rate approximates to the foreign exchange rates ruling at the dates 
of the transactions.

Exchange differences arising from this translation of foreign operations are reported as an item of other comprehensive income 
and accumulated in the translation reserve or non-controlling interest, as the case may be. 

(c) Financial instruments
(i) Non-derivative financial instruments
Non-derivative financial instruments comprise trade and other receivables, cash and cash equivalents, loans and borrowings, and trade 
and other payables.

Trade and other receivables
Trade and other receivables are recognised initially at fair value. Subsequent to initial recognition they are measured at amortised cost using 
the effective interest method, less any impairment losses.

Trade and other payables
Trade and other payables are recognised initially at fair value. Subsequent to initial recognition they are measured at amortised cost using 
the effective interest method.

Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash balances and call deposits. Bank overdrafts that are repayable on demand and form an integral 
part of the Group’s cash management are included as a component of cash and cash equivalents.

Interest-bearing borrowings
Interest-bearing borrowings are recognised initially at fair value less attributable transaction costs. Subsequent to initial recognition, 
interest-bearing borrowings are stated at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any impairment losses.

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3. Significant accounting policies continued

(c) Financial instruments continued
(ii) Classification of financial instruments issued by the Group
Following the adoption of IAS 32, financial instruments issued by the Group are treated as equity only to the extent that they meet 
the following two conditions: 

(a)   they include no contractual obligations upon the Group to deliver cash or other financial assets or to exchange financial assets 

or financial liabilities with another party under conditions that are potentially unfavourable to the Group; and 

(b)   where the instrument will or may be settled in the Group’s own equity instruments, it is either a non-derivative that includes no 

obligation to deliver a variable number of the Company’s own equity instruments or is a derivative that will be settled by the Company’s 
exchanging a fixed amount of cash or other financial assets for a fixed number of its own equity instruments.

To the extent that this definition is not met, the proceeds of issue are classified as a financial liability. Where the instrument so classified 
takes the legal form of the Company’s own shares, the amounts presented in these financial statements for called up share capital and 
share premium account exclude amounts in relation to those shares. 

(d) Property, plant and equipment
(i) Recognition and measurement
Items of property, plant and equipment are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses. The cost 
of property, plant and equipment at 1 January 2009, the Group’s date of transition to IFRS, was determined by reference to its carrying 
value under UK and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

(ii) Depreciation
Depreciation is recognised in profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of each part of an item of property, plant 
and equipment.

The estimated useful lives for the current and comparative periods are as follows:

• 
• 
• 

–  3 years
computer equipment 
fixtures and fittings 
–  3 years
leasehold improvements  –  3 years

Depreciation methods, useful lives and residual values are reviewed at each reporting date.

(e) Intangible assets and goodwill
(i) Goodwill
Goodwill is stated at cost less any accumulated impairment losses. Goodwill is allocated to cash-generating units and is not amortised 
but is tested annually for impairment.

(ii) Research and development
Expenditure on research activities, undertaken with the prospect of gaining new technical knowledge and understanding, is recognised 
in profit or loss when incurred.

Development activities relate to software development and involve a plan or design for the production of new or substantially improved 
products and processes. Development expenditure is capitalised only if development costs can be measured reliably, the product or 
process is technically and commercially feasible, future economic benefits are probable, and the Group intends to, and has sufficient 
resources to, complete development and to use or sell the asset.

The expenditure capitalised includes direct labour and overhead costs that are directly attributable to preparing the asset for its intended use.

Capitalised development expenditure is measured at cost less accumulated amortisation and accumulated impairment losses.

(iii) Amortisation
Amortisation of capitalised research and development costs is recognised in profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful 
life of two years.

Intangibles in relation to acquired software are amortised over an estimated useful life of two years.

Amortisation of the intangible asset recognised on the acquisition of AltoStor is recognised in profit or loss on a straight-line basis over 
the estimated useful life of three years.

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

3. Significant accounting policies continued

(f) Impairment (excluding deferred tax assets)
Financial assets (including receivables)
A financial asset not carried at fair value through profit or loss is assessed at each reporting date to determine whether there is objective evidence 
that it is impaired. A financial asset is impaired if objective evidence indicates that a loss event has occurred after the initial recognition of the asset 
and that the loss event had a negative effect on the estimated future cash flows of that asset that can be estimated reliably.

An impairment loss in respect of a financial asset measured at amortised cost is calculated as the difference between its carrying amount 
and the present value of the estimated future cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. Interest on the impaired 
asset continues to be recognised through the unwinding of the discount. When a subsequent event causes the amount of impairment loss 
to decrease, the decrease in impairment loss is reversed through profit or loss.

Non-financial assets
The carrying amounts of the Group’s non-financial assets are reviewed at each reporting date to determine whether there is any indication 
of impairment. If any such indication exists, then the asset’s recoverable amount is estimated. For goodwill, and intangible assets that have 
indefinite useful lives or that are not yet available for use, the recoverable amount is estimated each year at the same time.

The recoverable amount of an asset or cash-generating unit is the greater of its value in use and its fair value less costs to sell. In assessing 
value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount rate that reflects current market 
assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the asset. For the purpose of impairment testing, assets that cannot be 
tested individually are grouped together into the smallest group of assets that generates cash inflows from continuing use that are largely 
independent of the cash inflows of other assets or groups of assets (the “cash-generating unit”). The goodwill acquired in a business combination, 
for the purpose of impairment testing, is allocated to cash-generating units (CGUs). Subject to an operating segment ceiling test, for the 
purposes of goodwill impairment testing, CGUs to which goodwill has been allocated are aggregated so that the level at which impairment 
is tested reflects the lowest level at which goodwill is monitored for internal reporting purposes. Goodwill acquired in a business 
combination is allocated to groups of CGUs that are expected to benefit from the synergies of the combination.

An impairment loss is recognised if the carrying amount of an asset or its CGU exceeds its estimated recoverable amount. Impairment losses 
are recognised in profit or loss. Impairment losses recognised in respect of CGUs are allocated first to reduce the carrying amount of any 
goodwill allocated to the units and then to reduce the carrying amounts of the other assets in the unit (group of units) on a pro rata basis.

An impairment loss in respect of goodwill is not reversed. In respect of other assets, impairment losses recognised in prior periods are 
assessed at each reporting date for any indications that the loss has decreased or no longer exists. An impairment loss is reversed if there 
has been a change in the estimates used to determine the recoverable amount. An impairment loss is reversed only to the extent that the 
asset’s carrying amount does not exceed the carrying amount that would have been determined, net of depreciation or amortisation, 
if no impairment loss had been recognised.

(g) Employee benefits
(i) Pension plans
There are no Group pension schemes to which the Group entities contribute or have any liabilities.

The Group is not obliged to make any contributions to the UK stakeholder scheme and it currently has no members.

(ii) Termination benefits
Termination benefits are recognised as an expense when the Group is demonstrably committed, without realistic possibility of withdrawal, 
to a formal detailed plan to either terminate employment before the normal retirement date or to provide termination benefits as a result 
of an offer made to encourage voluntary redundancy.

(iii) Short-term benefits
Short-term employee benefit obligations are measured on an undiscounted basis and are expensed as the related service is provided.

A liability is recognised for the amount expected to be paid under short-term cash bonus or commission plans where the Group has 
a present legal or constructive obligation to pay this amount as a result of past service provided by the employee and the obligation 
can be estimated reliably.

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3. Significant accounting policies continued

(g) Employee benefits continued
(iv) Share-based payment transactions
The grant date fair value of share-based payment awards granted to employees is recognised as an employee expense, with 
a corresponding increase in equity, over the period that the employees unconditionally become entitled to the awards. The amount 
recognised as an expense is adjusted to reflect the number of awards for which the related service and non-market vesting conditions are 
expected to be met, such that the amount ultimately recognised as an expense is based on the number of awards that do meet the related 
service and non-market performance conditions at the vesting date. For share-based payment awards with non-vesting conditions, the 
grant date fair value of the share-based payment is measured to reflect such conditions and there is no true-up for differences between 
expected and actual outcomes.

Share-based payment arrangements in which the Group receives goods or services as consideration for its own equity instruments are 
accounted for as equity-settled share-based payment transactions, regardless of how the equity instruments are obtained by the Group.

No cash-settled share-based payment awards have been granted to employees.

(h) Revenue recognition
(i) Software licences
Sales of software licences are recognised once the licence has been granted and the customer has been provided with access to 
the software. Revenue derived from sales of licences is spread over the period of the licence. Where licences are perpetual, revenue 
is recognised in full once the agreement is in place.

(ii) Support subscriptions
Sales of support subscriptions are recognised on a straight-line basis over the period of the contract.

(iii) Maintenance, training and other services
Sales of maintenance, training and other services are recognised on a straight-line basis over the period of the contract.

(iv) Customer bookings
Customer bookings are the amounts committed to by customers for software licences, subscriptions and services, net of discounts 
and sales taxes.

(i) Operating lease payments
Payments made under operating leases are recognised in profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.

(j) Finance income and expenses
Finance expenses comprise interest expense on borrowings and the use of debt factoring facilities.

(k) Taxation
Income tax expense comprises current and deferred tax. Income tax expense is recognised in profit or loss except to the extent that 
it relates to items recognised directly in equity, in which case it is recognised in equity.

Current tax is the expected tax payable on the taxable income for the year, using tax rates enacted or substantively enacted at the 
reporting date, and any adjustment to tax payable in respect of previous years.

Deferred tax is recognised using the statement of financial position method, providing for temporary differences between the carrying 
amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for taxation purposes. Deferred tax is not recognised 
in respect of temporary differences, relating to investments in subsidiaries to the extent that it is probable that they will not reverse in the 
foreseeable future. Deferred tax is measured at the tax rates that are expected to be applied to temporary differences when they reverse, 
based on the laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date.

A deferred tax asset is recognised to the extent that it is probable that future taxable profits will be available against which the temporary 
difference can be utilised. Deferred tax assets are reviewed at each reporting date and are reduced to the extent that it is no longer 
probable that the related tax benefit will be realised.

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

3. Significant accounting policies continued

(l) Government grants
Government grants are recognised where there is reasonable assurance that the grant will be received and all attaching conditions 
will be complied with.

When the grant relates to an expense item, it is recognised as income over the period necessary to match the grant on a systematic basis 
to the costs that it is intended to compensate. Where the grant relates to an asset, the fair value is credited to a deferred income account 
and is released to the statement of comprehensive income over the expected useful life of the assets.

(m) Segmental reporting
The Directors consider there to be one operating segment, being that of development and sale of licences for software and 
related maintenance.

The Group has adopted IFRS 8 “Operating Segments” from the date of transition to IFRS. IFRS 8 requires the Group to determine and 
present its operating segments based on information which is provided internally to the chief operating decision maker (“the CODM”). 
The CODM, who is responsible for allocating resources and assessing the performance of the operating segment, has been identified 
as the Chief Executive Officer.

(n) Provisions
Provisions are created where the Group has a present legal or constructive obligation as a result of a past event, where it is probable it will 
result in an outflow from the Group.

(o) Cost of sales
Cost of sales includes commissions earned on sales and direct costs relating to software supply.

(p) Exceptional items
Exceptional items comprise items of income and expense that are material in amount and unlikely to recur and which merit separate 
disclosure in order to provide an understanding of the Group’s underlying financial performance.

(q) New accounting standards and amendments
(i) New and amended standards adopted by the Group
There are no new IFRSs or IFRIC interpretations that are effective for the first time for the financial year beginning on or after 1 January 2013 
that have had a material impact on the Group.

(ii) New standards, amendments and interpretations issued but not effective for the financial year beginning 1 January 2013 
and not early adopted:
IFRS 9 “Financial Instruments” – 1 January 2015. First chapters of new standard on accounting for financial instruments which will replace 
IAS 39 “Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement”. 

IFRS 10 “Consolidated Financial Statements”, IAS 27 “Separate Financial Statements”, IFRS 11 “Joint Arrangements” and amendments to IAS 28 
“Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures” – 1 January 2014. Part of a new suite of standards on consolidation and related standards, 
replacing the existing accounting for subsidiaries and joint ventures (now joint arrangements), and making limited amendments in relation 
to associates.

IFRS 12 “Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities” – 1 January 2014. Contains the disclosure requirements for entities that have interests 
in subsidiaries, joint arrangements (i.e. joint operations or joint ventures), associates and/or unconsolidated structured entities.

IFRS 13 “Fair Value Measurement” – 1 January 2013. New standard to replace existing guidance on fair value measurement in different 
IFRSs with a single definition of fair value, a framework for measuring fair values and disclosures about fair value measurements.

IAS 32 “Offsetting Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities” – 1 January 2014. The amendments clarify the offsetting criteria.

The adoption of these standards and amendments is not expected to have a material impact on the accounts.

4. Determination of fair values

A number of the Group’s accounting policies and disclosures require the determination of fair value, for both financial and non-financial 
assets and liabilities. Fair values have been determined for measurement and/or disclosure purposes based on the following methods. 
When applicable, further information about the assumptions made in determining fair values is disclosed in the notes specific to that asset 
or liability.

(a) Intangible assets
Whilst development costs are valued at cost less amortisation, their carrying values are assessed to ensure that they do not exceed the 
recoverable amount at the end of each reporting period. The recoverable amount of other intangible assets is based on the discounted 
cash flows expected to be derived from the use and eventual sale of products developed.

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4. Determination of fair values continued

(b) Trade and other receivables
The fair value of short-term trade and other receivables is deemed to be its book value less any impairment provision. The effect 
of discounting is considered to be immaterial.

(c) Non-derivative financial liabilities
Fair value, which is determined for disclosure purposes, is calculated based on the present value of future principal and interest cash flows, 
discounted at the market rate of interest at the reporting date.

5. Segmental analysis

Operating segments
The Directors consider there to be one operating segment, being that of development and sale of licences for software 
and related maintenance.

Geographical segments
The Group recognises revenue in three geographical regions based on the location of customers, as set out in the following table:

North America

Europe

Rest of the world

Total

2013
$’000 

2012
$’000 

7,069

5,257

660

283

589

185

8,012

6,031

Management makes no allocation of costs, assets or liabilities between these segments since all trading activities are operated as a single 
business unit.

The Group has no (2012: two) customers representing individually over 10% of revenue.

6. Operating expenses

Loss for the year has been arrived at after charging:

Staff costs (see Note 10)

Research and development – amortisation charge

Amortisation of intangibles

Depreciation of fixed assets

Auditor’s remuneration (see Note 7)

2013
$’000 

12,133

3,670

1,248

138

262

2012
$’000 

5,911

1,801

216

52

 1,178 

Reconciliation of operating loss to earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA)

Operating loss

Adjusted for:

Amortisation and depreciation

Exceptional items within operating expenses

EBITDA before exceptional items

Adjusted for share-based payments

Adjusted EBITDA before exceptional items

2013
$’000 

2012
$’000 

(19,268)

(8,541)

5,056

2,276

2,070

2,656

(11,936)

(3,815)

4,104

813

(7,832)

(3,002)

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

7. Auditor’s remuneration

Audit of these financial statements

Amounts receivable by auditor in respect of:

Audit of financial statements of subsidiaries pursuant to legislation

Other services related to taxation

Advisory work in respect of AIM listing

Other services pursuant to legislation

8. Exceptional items

Exceptional items comprise the following:

Expenses related to Admission to AIM

Share based payment charge in relation to acquisitions

Reorganisation costs

Currency exchange loss/(gain)

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

65

13

99

—

85

79

16

41

1,020

22

262

 1,178 

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

—

2,656

1,695

581

484

—

—

(776)

2,760

1,880

The Group incurred one-off legal and professional fees in the year ended 31 December 2012 in relation to the placing of Ordinary Shares 
and Admission to AIM.

The share-based payment charges recognised in the year in relation to the acquisition of AltoStor ($1,459,000) and the purchase 
of the intellectual property of TortoiseSVN.net ($236,000) have been classified as exceptional. See Note 22 for further details.

Reorganisation costs relate to certain specific organisational change activities in both the UK and the US.

The exchange loss (2012: gain) is a result of certain Group cash balances being held in sterling denominated accounts.

9. Net finance income/(costs) (pre-exceptionals)

Interest receivable – bank

Interest receivable – promissory notes (see Note 25)

Exchange losses

Interest payable on bank borrowings

Bank charges

10. Staff numbers and costs

Wages and salaries

Social security costs

Other pension costs

Share-based payments (see Note 22)

Less capitalised costs

Total staff costs

2013
$’000

52

—

(259)

(12)

(23)

(242)

2013
$’000

12,229

1,418

34

4,104

2012
$’000

78

1

(215)

(44)

(36)

(216)

2012
$’000

6,888

647

145

813

(5,652)

(2,582)

12,133

5,911

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10. Staff numbers and costs continued

The average number of persons employed by the Group (including Directors), analysed by category, was as follows:

Software development

Selling and distribution

Administration

Total number of employees

Remuneration of key management personnel

2013
Number

2012
Number

74

34

13

121

2013
Total
$’000

41

18

8

67

2012
Total
$’000

Short-term employee benefits of key management personnel

3,445

3,298

Included in the above is $314,000 in relation to termination payments. There were no other long-term benefits or post-employment 
benefits in the year ended 31 December 2013 (2012: $nil).

In addition to the above, a share-based payment charge of $1,822,000 in relation to share options granted to key management personnel, 
was incurred in the year ended 31 December 2013 (2012: $441,380).

Further details on the remuneration, share options and pension entitlement of the Directors are included in the Remuneration Committee 
Report on pages 17 and 18.

11. Taxation

Current tax expense

Current year

Adjustment for prior years

Deferred tax expense

Origination and reversal of timing differences

Impact of changes in tax rates

Adjustment in respect of prior years

Total tax credit

Reconciliation of effective tax rate

Loss before taxation

Expected tax credit based on the Group’s domestic tax rate of 40% 

Effects of:

Non-deductible expenses

Tax rates in foreign jurisdictions

R&D tax credits

Losses not recognised for current or deferred tax

Taxation credit for the year

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

—

263

—

—

—

—

263

2012
%

40%

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

2012
$’000

7,981

3,192

2013
%

40%

2013
$’000

19,994

7,998

(13.4%)

(2,683)

(16.6%)

(1,327)

1.2%

3.2%

247

633

(0.1%)

2.8%

(11)

229

(29.7%)

(5,932)

(26.1%)

(2,083)

1.3%

263

—

—

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

11. Taxation continued

Factors affecting the current and future tax charges
Reductions in the UK Corporation Tax rate from 26% to 24% (effective 1 April 2012) and 23% (effective 1 April 2013) were substantively 
enacted on 26 March 2012 and 3 July 2012 respectively. Further reductions to 21% (effective from 1 April 2014) and 20% (effective from 
1 April 2015) were substantively enacted on 2 July 2013. This will reduce the Group’s future current tax charge accordingly. The deferred 
taxation liability for UK tax resident members of the Group at 31 December 2013 has been calculated based on the rate of 20% 
substantively enacted at the balance sheet date.  

Deferred tax assets and liabilities
Deferred tax liabilities are attributable to the following temporary differences in respect of property, plant and equipment:

Deferred tax liability at 1 January

Recognised in profit or loss

Deferred tax liabilities at 31 December

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

(5)

—

(5)

(5)

—

(5)

The Group has unrecognised deferred tax assets of $7,473,000 (2012: $1,505,000) in respect of tax losses arising in the Group.

The Directors consider that there is not sufficient certainty over the availability of future taxable profits against which these losses may 
be offset and no asset has therefore been recognised.

12. Loss per share

Basic loss per share
Basic loss per share is calculated based on the loss attributable to Ordinary Shareholders and a weighted average number of Ordinary 
Shares outstanding:

Loss for the year attributable to Ordinary Shareholders

Weighted average number of Ordinary Shares

At start of year

Effect of shares issued in the year

Weighted average number of Ordinary Shares during the year

Basic loss per share

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

19,731

7,981

2013
‘000s
of shares

21,421

586

2012
‘000s
of shares

4,549

11,831

22,007

16,380

$

0.90

$

0.49

Adjusted loss per share
Adjusted loss per share is based on the result attributable to Ordinary Shareholders before exceptional items and the cost of share-based 
payments, and the weighted average number of Ordinary Shares outstanding:

Loss for the year attributable to Ordinary Shareholders

Add back:

Exceptional items

Share-based payments

Adjusted basic loss

Adjusted loss per share

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

19,731

7,981

(2,760)

(4,104)

(1,880)

(813)

12,867

5,288

$

$

0.58

0.33

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12. Loss per share continued

Diluted loss per share
Due to the Group having losses in each of the years, the fully diluted loss per share for disclosure purposes, as shown in the Consolidated 
Statement of Comprehensive Income, is the same as for the basic loss per share.

13. Intangible assets

Cost

At 1 January 2012

Acquisitions through business combinations 

Additions – externally purchased

Additions – own work capitalised

Effect of movement in foreign exchange

Disposals

At 31 December 2012

At 1 January 2013

Acquisitions through business combinations 

Additions – externally purchased

Additions – own work capitalised

Effect of movement in foreign exchange

Disposals

At 31 December 2013

Amortisation

At 1 January 2012

Amortisation charge for the year

Impairment charge for the year

Effect of movement in foreign exchange

Disposals

At 31 December 2012

At 1 January 2013

Amortisation charge for the year

Impairment charge for the year

Effect of movement in foreign exchange

Disposals

At 31 December 2013

Net book value

At 31 December 2012

At 31 December 2013

Other Development
costs
$’000

intangible
$’000

Software
$’000

Total
$’000

—

3,392

2,298

10

—

—

—

—

—

2,912

—

—

2,308

6,304

2,308

6,304

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

7,443

—

—

—

—

1,000

—

(5)

—

995

995

—

35

—

—

—

 3,392 

2,298

1,010

 2,912 

(5)

 — 

 9,607 

 9,607 

—

35

7,443

—

—

2,308

13,747

1,030

17,085

—

(94)

—

—

—

(94)

(94)

(766)

—

—

—

(2,049)

(1,801)

—

(2,049) 

(122)

(2,017) 

—

—

—

—

—

—

 — 

 — 

 — 

(3,850)

(122)

(4,066)

(3,850)

(3,670)

(122)

(482)

(4,066)

(4,918)

—

—

—

—

(9)

—

—

(9)

—

(860)

(7,520)

(613)

(8,993)

2,214

2,454

1,448

6,227

873

417

 5,541

8,092

The carrying amount of the intangible assets is allocated across cash-generating units (CGUs). A CGU is defined as the smallest group of 
assets that generate cash inflows from continuing use, that are largely independent of the cash inflows of other assets or groups thereof. 
The recoverable amount of the CGUs are determined using Value In Use (VIU) calculations. As at 31 December 2013 the Group had one 
CGU, the DConE CGU. The Group’s patented DConE replication technology forms the basis of the Group’s products for the ALM market. 
This technology also underpins the enterprise-ready, Apache-Hadoop products we have developed for the Big Data market.

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

13. Intangible assets continued

Development costs are predominantly capitalised staff costs associated with new products and services. Development costs are allocated to the 
DConE CGU. The recoverable amount of the DConE CGU has been calculated on a VIU basis at both 31 December 2013 and 31 December 2012. 
These calculations use cash flow projections based on financial forecasts and appropriate long-term growth rates. To prepare VIU calculations, 
the cash flow forecasts are discounted back to present value using a pre-tax discount rate of 8.0% The Directors have reviewed the recoverable 
amount of the CGU and do not consider there to be any indication of impairment.

Other intangibles arose as part of the acquisition of AltoStor, Inc. in November 2012. The intangibles arising as part of the AltoStor 
acquisition are allocated to the DConE CGU. The recoverable amount of which has been determined on a VIU basis as described above.

On 19 September 2012 WANdisco International Limited purchased an item of software from SyntevoGmBH for consideration of $1 million. 
This software is being amortised over a period of two years and is allocated to the DConE CGU as described above.

The above amortisation charge forms part of operating expenses in the Statement of Comprehensive Income. 

14. Property, plant and equipment

Leasehold
improvements
$’000

Fixtures and 
fittings
$’000

Computers
$’000

Total
$’000

Cost

At 1 January 2012

Additions

Disposals

At 31 December 2012

At 1 January 2013

Additions

Disposals

At 31 December 2013

Depreciation

At 1 January 2012

Depreciation charge for the year

Effect of movement in foreign exchange

Disposals

At 31 December 2012

At 1 January 2013

Depreciation charge for the year

Effect of movement in foreign exchange

Disposals

At 31 December 2013

Net book value

At 31 December 2012

At 31 December 2013

—

30

—

30

30

66

—

96

—

(2)

—

—

(2)

(2)

(29)

—

—

86

65

—

151

151

138

—

289

(50)

(28)

—

—

(78)

(78)

(58)

—

—

83

43

(18)

108

108

116

—

224

(76)

(22)

—

18

(80)

(80)

(51)

—

—

169

138

(18)

289

289

320

—

609

(126)

(52)

—

18

(160)

(160)

(138)

—

—

(31)

(136)

(131)

(298)

28

65

73

153

28

93

129

311

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15. Investments in subsidiaries

The Group has the following investments in subsidiaries:

Country of
incorporation

Holding

Proportion
of shares held

WANdisco International Limited

WANdisco, Inc.

AltoStor, Inc.

UK

US

US

Ordinary Shares

100%

Ordinary Shares

100%

Ordinary Shares

100%

WANdisco Software (Chengdu) Ltd

China

Ordinary Shares

100%

Nature of business

Development and provision 
of global collaboration software

Development and provision
of global collaboration software

Development and provision
of global collaboration software

Development and provision
of global collaboration software

All of the above entities are included in the consolidated financial statements.

16. Trade and other receivables

Trade receivables 

Other receivables (including $4,668,000 deferred revenues relating to multi-year agreements)

Corporation tax

Prepayments

Included in other receivables is $3,252,000 which falls due after more than one year (2012: $nil).

The Directors consider that the carrying amount of trade and other receivables approximates to their fair value.

Ageing of trade receivables:

Due from current month

Due from previous month

Due from earlier months

Total trade receivables

All trade receivables are denominated in US dollars.

17. Trade and other payables

Trade payables

Other payables and accruals

Finance lease payable

Deferred income

Finance lease payable includes amounts payable after more than one year of $8,000 (2012: $nil).

2013
$’000

4,511

5,374

263

363

2012
$’000

2,301

82

—

103

10,511

2,486

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

2,764

2,248

894

853

8

45

4,511

2,301

2013
$’000

854

1,654

35

2012
$’000

830

2,835

—

13,124

6,368

15,667

 10,033 

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

17. Trade and other payables continued

Deferred income
Deferred income represents contracted sales for which services to customers will be provided in future years.

The movement on the deferred income balance is as follows:

At 1 January

Customer bookings

Released to revenue

At 31 December

2013
$’000

6,368

14,768

2012
$’000

4,466

7,916

(8,012)

(6,014)

13,124

6,368

Included in the 31 December 2013 year-end balance are amounts falling due after more than one year of $6,844,000 (2012: $2,166,000).

18. Cash and cash equivalents

Cash at bank and in hand

Short-term deposits

Total cash and cash equivalents

19. Provisions

At 1 January 2012

Provisions established in the year

Provisions utilised in the year

Provisions released in the year

At 31 December 2012

At 1 January 2013

Provisions established in the year

Provisions utilised in the year

Provisions released in the year

At 31 December 2013

2013
$’000

2012
$’000

25,673

1,158

—

13,387

25,673

14,545

Employee

 claim US penalties Reorganisation
$’000
$’000
$’000

95

—

(95)

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

319

—

(187)

—

132

132

—

—

(132)

—

—

468

(207)

—

261

261

—

(261)

—

—

Total
$’000

414

468

(489)

—

393

393

—

(261)

(132)

—

Penalties levied by US state and federal tax authorities related to charges for late payment of payroll taxes in the year ended 31 December 2011 
and prior years. Management believes that full and final settlement has now been made and so the remaining provision has been released 
during the year.

The reorganisation provision was the Directors’ best estimate of the costs associated with the IPO process and related Group reorganisation 
that took place in the year ended 31 December 2012.

A full settlement was agreed and made in the year ended 31 December 2012 in relation to the claim from a former employee.

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20. Financial instruments and risk management

The Group’s principal financial instruments are cash and trade receivables.

The Group has exposure to the following risks from its use of financial instruments:

Market risk
The Group may be affected by general market trends, which are unrelated to the performance of the Group itself. The Group’s success will 
depend on market acceptance of the Group’s products and there can be no guarantee that this acceptance will be forthcoming. Market 
opportunities targeted by the Group may change and this could lead to an adverse effect upon its revenue and earnings.

Credit risk
Credit risk arises from cash and cash equivalents and credit exposure to the Group’s customers.

Credit ratings of institutions which hold the Group’s financial assets are regularly monitored to ensure they meet the minimum credit 
criteria set by the Board through the Group treasury policy.

The credit quality of customers is assessed by taking into account their financial position, past experience and other factors.

Liquidity risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Group will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due. The Board is responsible for ensuring 
that the Group has sufficient liquidity to meet its financial liabilities as they fall due and does so by monitoring cash flow forecasts and 
budgets. The Board has considered the cash flow forecasts for the next twelve months which show that the Group expects to operate 
within its working capital facilities throughout the year. 

Any excess cash balances are held in short-term, interest-bearing deposit accounts.

Capital management 
The Group defines the capital that it manages as its total equity. The Group’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard 
the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern and support the growth of the business.

Foreign currency risk
The Group’s operations are split between the US, the UK, mainland Europe and China, and as a result the Group incurs costs in currencies 
other than its presentational currency of US dollars. The Group also holds cash and cash equivalents in non-US dollar denominated 
bank accounts. 

The following table shows the denomination of the year-end cash and cash equivalents balance:

2013 cash and cash equivalents

2012 cash and cash equivalents

GBP
$’000

10,886

14,258

US dollar
$’000

14,787

287

Total
$’000

25,673

14,545

Had the foreign exchange rate between US dollar and sterling changed by 5%, this would affect the loss for the year and net assets 
of the Group by $544,000.

Fair values of financial assets and financial liabilities
There are no material differences between the fair value and the book value of the Group’s financial assets and liabilities. 

21. Share capital and reserves

Share capital

Allotted and fully paid

2013
Number

2013
$’000

2012
Number

2012
$’000

23,692,555

3,755 21,420,788

3,388

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

21. Share capital and reserves continued

The Ordinary Share capital of WANdisco plc is designated in sterling.

At 1 January 2012

Loss for the year

Shares issued by WANdisco, Inc.

Shares issued by WANdisco plc in exchange 
for WANdisco, Inc. shares

Shares issued by WANdisco plc

Share issue costs 

Shares allotted under option scheme

Shares issued in AltoStor acquisition

Foreign exchange

Share-based payment charge

At 31 December 2012

At 1 January 2013

Loss for the year

Shares issued by WANdisco plc

Share issue costs 

Shares allotted under option scheme

Shares issued in TortoiseSVN.net IP purchase

Foreign exchange

Share-based payment charge

At 31 December 2013

Share
premium
$’000

Translation
reserve
$’000

Merger
reserve
$’000

Share
capital
$’000

448

—

2,761

(1,247)

—

—

—

—

1,289

21,908

—

54

83

—

—

(1,946)

95

3,275

—

—

 3,388 

 23,332 

 3,388 

 23,332 

—

323

—

36

8

—

—

—

30,381

(1,034)

529

674

—

—

3,755

53,882

Retained
losses
$’000

(6,011)

(7,981)

—

—

—

—

—

(2,560)

—

813

—

—

—

1,247

—

—

—

—

—

—

 1,247 

(15,739)

 1,247 

(15,739)

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

(19,731)

—

—

—

(682)

—

5,799

1,247

(30,353)

(10)

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

16

—

6

6

—

—

—

—

—

136

—

142

Share capital and share premium
On 1 October 2013, the Company issued an additional 2,000,000 Ordinary Shares at a price of £9.50 each, raising funds of $29.3 million 
net of transaction costs.

Costs relating directly to the new issue of shares have been deducted from the share premium account. 

During the year, an additional 221,767 Ordinary Shares were issued as a result of employees exercising share options.

Translation reserve
The translation reserve comprises all foreign exchange differences arising from the translation of the financial statements of foreign operations.

Merger reserve
The acquisition by WANdisco plc of the entire share capital of WANdisco, Inc. in 2012 was accounted for as a reverse acquisition. 
Consequently the previously recognised book values and assets and liabilities were retained and the consolidated financial information 
for the period to 16 May 2012 has been presented as a continuation of the WANdisco business which was previously wholly owned by the 
WANdisco Inc. Group. 

The share capital for the period covered by these consolidated financial statements and the comparative periods is stated at the nominal 
value of the shares issued pursuant to the above share arrangement. The difference between the nominal value of these shares and the 
nominal value of WANdisco, Inc. shares at the time of the acquisition has been transferred to the reverse acquisition reserve.

22. Share-based payments

WANdisco plc operates share option plans for qualifying employees of the Group. Options in the plans are settled in equity in the Company 
and are normally subject to a vesting schedule but not conditional on any performance criteria being achieved.

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22. Share-based payments continued

The terms and conditions of the share option grants between 16 May 2012 (the date WANdisco plc acquired WANdisco, Inc.) 
and 31 December 2013 are as follows:

Date of grant

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

21 June 2012

7 December 2012

21 January 2013

1 February 2013

25 February 2013

18 March 2013

1 April 2013

8 April 2013

6 May 2013

13 May 2013

20 May 2013

1 July 2013

15 July 2013

29 July 2013

15 August 2013

16 September 2013

27 September 2013

27 September 2013

15 October 2013

1 November 2013

11 November 2013

27 November 2013

27 December 2013

Expected
term
(years)

Exercisable between

Commencement

Lapse

Exercise
price

Vesting
schedule
(see below)

Outstanding
at
31 December
2013

1

5

6

7

7

7

8

8

8

9

9

9

9

9

9

9

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

3

3

10

10

10

10

10

16 May 2012

30 November 2012

16 May 2012

9 November 2017

16 May 2012

26 September 2018

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

5 January 2019

3 August 2019

3 August 2019

16 May 2012

15 September 2020

16 May 2012

16 May 2012

7 October 2020

7 October 2020

16 May 2012

14 September 2021

16 May 2012

20 September 2021

16 May 2012

20 September 2021

11 July 2012

20 September 2021

22 July 2012

14 September 2021

22 July 2012

20 September 2021

1 August 2012

20 September 2021

13 January 2013

12 January 2022

13 January 2013

30 January 2022

21 June 2015

21 June 2022

7 December 2012

7 December 2022

21 January 2013

21 January 2023

1 February 2013

1 February 2023

25 February 2013

25 February 2023

18 March 2013

18 March 2023

1 April 2013

8 April 2013

6 May 2013

13 May 2013

20 May 2013

1 July 2013

15 July 2013

29 July 2013

1 April 2023

8 April 2023

6 May 2023

13 May 2023

20 May 2023

1 July 2023

15 July 2023

29 July 2023

15 August 2013

15 August 2023

£0.24

$0.36

$0.36

$0.36

£0.24

$0.36

$0.36

$0.36

£0.45

$0.36

£0.46

£0.46

£0.46

$0.36

£0.46

£0.46

$0.36

£0.23

£2.00

£4.55

£5.68

£6.40

£8.20

£7.47

£8.03

£7.75

£9.11

£9.80

£9.98

£9.38

£9.55

£9.25

£9.25

16 September 2013

16 September 2023

£11.68

27 September 2013

27 September 2013

15 March 2016

15 March 2016

15 October 2013

15 October 2023

1 November 2013

1 November 2023

11 November 2013

11 November 2023

27 November 2013

27 November 2023

27 December 2013

27 December 2023

£0.10

£0.10

£11.54

£11.65

£12.71

£14.30

£11.93

1

1

1

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

4

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

5

6

7

5

5

5

5

5

—

—

—

—

1,146

7,500

50,000

200,000

15,386

1,459

11,805

—

—

85,000

125,000

2,000

458,000

742,685

61,525

562,137

25,000

30,000

20,000

25,000

25,000

10,000

10,000

25,000

5,000

35,000

65,000

40,000

20,000

5,000

200,000

96,870

30,000

20,000

20,000

40,000

300,000

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

22. Share-based payments continued

The following vesting schedule applies:

1. Fully vested as date of grant.

2. Partially vested at grant date; 1/48 of granted option shares vest monthly thereafter.

3. 25% of option vests on exercisable commencement date; 1/48 of granted option shares vest monthly thereafter.

4. Option vests on third anniversary of the date of grant.

5. Option vests 25% on first anniversary of the vesting commencement date, with the balance vesting monthly thereafter until final vesting date.

6. Option vests 50% on 1 September 2014 and 50% on 1 September 2015.

7. Option vests 40% on 1 January 2014 and 50% on 1 January 2015.

Share-based payments charges related to acquisitions and software purchases
As part of the acquisition of AltoStor Inc. in November 2012, a total of 375,651 restricted shares were issued to the former owners 
of the AltoStor Inc. business. These shares were treated as contingent payments and have been accounted for under IFRS 2 “Share-based 
Payments” rather than as part of the acquisition consideration under IFRS 3 “Business Combinations”.

A share-based payment charge of $1,459,000 has been recognised in the year ended 31 December 2013 in relation to these restricted shares.

In June 2013, the Group purchased TortoiseSVN.net community website. As part of the transaction, 50,000 restricted shares in WANdisco plc 
were issued to the lead developer of the website. These shares have been treated as contingent payments and have been accounted for 
under IFRS 2 “Share-based Payments” as employee benefit expenses.

A share-based payment charge of $236,000 has been recognised in the year ended 31 December 2013 in relation to these restricted shares.

The number and weighted average exercise price of share options (including previous options in WANdisco, Inc.) were as follows:

Balance at the start of the period

Granted (WANdisco, Inc.)

Forfeited (WANdisco, Inc.)

Lapsed (WANdisco, Inc.)

Exercised (WANdisco, Inc.)

Granted (WANdisco plc)

Forfeited (WANdisco plc)

Exercised (WANdisco plc)

Balance at the end of the period 

Exercisable at the end of the period 

Vested at the end of the period 

Weighted average exercise price for:

Shares granted (WANdisco, Inc.)

Shares forfeited (WANdisco, Inc.)

Options exercised (WANdisco, Inc.)

Shares granted (WANdisco plc)

Shares forfeited (WANdisco plc)

Options exercised (WANdisco plc)

Exercise price in the range:

From

To

2013
Number

2012
Number

2,681,470 6,909,912

— 3,084,000

—

—

(14,500)

—

— (7,669,522)

1,046,870

811,525

(201,372)

(99,678)

(221,767)

(340,267)

3,305,201 2,681,470

364,465

201,397

1,075,550

214,927

2013
$

—

—

—

11.97

5.52

2.46

0.16

22.37

2012
$

0.36

0.58

0.36

6.71

1.26

0.38

0.36

7.19

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22. Share-based payments continued

Share-based payments charges related to acquisitions and software purchases continued

Weighted average contractual life remaining

2013
Years

7.8

2012
Years

9.1

The fair value of each option grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following 
weighted average assumptions:

Dividend yield

Risk-free interest rate

Stock price volatility

Expected life (years)

Weighted average fair value of options granted during the period:

WANdisco, Inc.

WANdisco plc

2013

2012

0.00%

2.19%

30%

3.2

—

$9.54

0.00%

3.50%

40%

5

$0.15

$2.46

The dividend yield is based on the Company’s forecast dividend rate and the current market price of the underlying common stock 
at the date of grant.

Expected life in years is determined from the average of the time between the date of grant and the date on which the options lapse.

Expected volatility is based on the historical volatility of shares of listed companies with a similar profile to the Company.

The risk-free interest rate is based on the treasury bond rates for the expected life of the option.

23. Commitments

Operating lease commitments
The total amounts payable under non-cancellable operating leases are as follows:

Land and buildings

Within one year

Between two and five years

In five years or more

2013
$’000

250

574

—

824

2012
$’000

340

781

—

 1,121 

Capital commitments
At 31 December 2013 the Group had no capital commitments (2012: $nil).

24. Contingent liabilities

Given the nature of the business there are potentially claims which could arise against the Group. The Directors have made a provision 
for any known claims based on their assessment of the likely outcome.

25. Related parties and related party transactions

Identity of related parties 
The Group has a related party relationship with its subsidiaries and with its Directors.

Transactions with subsidiaries
WANdisco plc recharges certain costs to its subsidiaries for provision of management services. In addition the costs incurred for software 
development in WANdisco International Limited have been recharged to WANdisco, Inc.

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Financial statements / Notes to the consolidated financial statements

for the year ended 31 December 2013 continued

25. Related parties and related party transactions continued

Transactions with Directors
During the year ended 31 December 2012 certain Directors held positions in another private entity that resulted in them having control 
or significant influence over the financial or operating policies of that entity. 

The aggregate value of transactions and outstanding balances relating to related party transactions between the Company and the related 
entity were as follows:

Creditor at the start of the year

Loan advances

Loan repayments

Loans waived

Creditor at the end of the year

2013
$’000

—

—

—

—

—

2012
$’000

535

 —

 (535)

 —

 —

David Richards together with James Campigli, Mohammad Akhtar and Dr Yeturu Aahlad exercised a number of stock options that they 
held in WANdisco, Inc. on 17 January 2012 and 16 February 2012. The exercise of 500,000 shares for David Richards and 450,000 shares 
for James Campigli was paid for in cash totalling $342,000. The exercise of a further 2,299,904 shares for David Richards, 1,346,851 shares 
for James Campigli, 2,179,047 shares for Dr Yeturu Aahlad and 737,262 shares for Mohammad Akhtar were funded by the issue of certain 
promissory notes to each of these individuals by WANdisco, Inc.

The promissory notes were for a three-year period and had an interest rate of 0.21% per annum. They were secured by a pledge given 
by each of the individuals over the number of shares that were issued upon exercise of the options.

The aggregate value of transactions and outstanding balances relating to the promissory notes were as follows:

Balance at the start of the year

Issue of promissory notes

Interest

Repayment of promissory notes

26. Post-balance sheet events

There are no significant or disclosable post-balance sheet events.

2013
$’000

—

—

—

—

—

2012
$’000

 —

2,363

1

 (2,364)

 —

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31 December

Customer bookings

Bookings growth

Revenue

Revenue growth

Deferred revenue

Growth in deferred revenue

Net cash

Operating loss

Development costs and software amortised

Depreciation

Exceptional items

EBITDA before exceptional costs

Add back share-based payment charges

Annual Report and Accounts 2013 / WANdisco plc / 49

2009
$’000

2,3101

n/a

2,476

n/a

3,437

n/a

2010
$’000

3,080

33%

2,984

21%

3,726

8%

2011
$’000

4,618

50%

3,878

30%

4,466

20%

2012
$’000

7,916

71%

6,031

56%

2013
$’000

14,768

87%

8,012

33%2

6,368

13,124

43%

106%

(163)

(554)

74

14,545

25,673

(2,172)

(1,860)

(1,154)

(8,541)

(19,268)

308

18

6

597

49

204

(1,840)

(1,010)

325

182

980

46

205

77

73

2,018

52

2,656

4,918

138

2,276

(3,815)

(11,936)

813

4,104

Adjusted EBITDA before exceptional items

(1,515)

(828)

150

(3,002)

(7,832)

Capitalised development costs

602

1,103

1,207

2,912

7,443

Note:
1) Customer bookings in 2009 excludes one unusually large booking of $3.25 million.
2) Revenue growth in 2013 is 57% after excluding the impact of perpetual licences in the year ended 31 December 2012.

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Financial statements / Notice of Annual General Meeting

Notice is given that the second Annual General Meeting of WANdisco plc (“the Company”) will be held at the offices of DLA Piper UK LLP, 
1 St Paul’s Place, Sheffield S1 2JX on 4 June 2014 at 12 noon for the following purposes:

To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions as ordinary resolutions:

1. 

 That the Company’s Annual Accounts and Directors’ and Auditor’s Reports for the year ended 31 December 2013 be received 
and considered.

2.  That Paul Harrison be appointed as a Director of the Company.

3.  That, James Campigli, who retires by rotation as a Director of the Company, be re-appointed as a Director of the Company.

4.  That, Ian Duncan, who retires by rotation as a Director of the Company, be re-appointed as a Director of the Company.

5.  That KPMG LLP be re-appointed as auditor of the Company.

6.  That the Directors be authorised to determine the remuneration of the auditor.

7. 

 That in substitution for all existing authorities but without prejudice to any allotment, offer or agreement already made pursuant 
thereto, the Directors be and are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised pursuant to Article 2.3 of the Company’s Articles 
of Association (“Articles”) to exercise all powers of the Company to allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of relevant securities 
(as that term is defined in the Articles) in respect of up to an aggregate nominal amount of £789,752, provided that (unless previously 
revoked, varied or renewed) this authority shall expire on the earlier of the date which is 15 months after the date the resolution was 
passed and the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company, save that the Company may before such expiry 
make an offer or agreement which would or might require relevant securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors 
may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power had not expired.

To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolutions as special resolutions:

8. 

 That, subject to the passing of resolution 7 and pursuant to Article 2.10 of the Articles, the Directors be and are hereby generally 
empowered to allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of equity securities (within the meaning of the Articles) wholly for cash, 
pursuant to the general authority described in resolution 7 above, as if pre-emption rights did not apply to any such allotment, such 
power being limited to:

8.1 

 the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue, open offer or pre-emptive offer to holders on the register of the 
ordinary shares in the capital of the Company (“Ordinary Shares”) on a date fixed by the Directors where the equity securities respectively 
attributable to the interests of all those shareholders are proportionate (as nearly as practicable) to their respective holdings on that date 
subject to any exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may consider necessary or expedient in relation to fractional 
entitlements, legal or practical problems under the law of any territory or the regulations or requirements of any relevant 
regulatory authority or stock exchange in any territory; and

8.2 

 the allotment (other than pursuant to resolution 8.1 above) wholly for cash of Ordinary Shares up to an aggregate nominal 
amount of £236,926, 

 provided that (unless previously revoked, varied or renewed), such authorities shall expire on the earlier of the date which is 15 months 
after the date the resolution was passed and the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company, save that the Company 
may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and 
the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the power had not expired.

9. 

 That the Directors be and are hereby authorised pursuant to Article 13 of the Articles and Article 57 of the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991, 
as amended (“the Law”) to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares, subject to the following conditions:

9.1 

 the maximum number of Ordinary Shares authorised to be purchased may not be more than 15% of the issued share capital 
of the Company as at the date of this notice;

9.2 

the minimum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share is £0.001; and

9.3 

the maximum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for an Ordinary Share shall not exceed:

9.3.1 

 an amount equal to 105% of the average middle market quotation for Ordinary Shares taken from the London Stock 
Exchange plc Daily Official List for the five business days immediately preceding the date on which such shares are 
to be contracted to be purchased; and

9.3.2 

 the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock 
Exchange plc Daily Official List at the time,

 such authority to expire on the earlier of the date which is 15 months after the date the resolution was passed and the conclusion 
of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company, unless such authority is varied, revoked or renewed prior to such date.

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To consider and, if thought fit, to pass the following resolution as an ordinary resolution:

10.   That, pursuant to Article 58A(1)(b) of the Law and Article 13 of the Articles, an Ordinary Share purchased pursuant to resolution 9 above 

may be held by the Company as treasury shares in accordance with Articles 58A and 58B of the Law.

By order of the Board

David Richards
Company Secretary 
15 April 2014 

Registered office
47 Esplanade 
St Helier 
Jersey 
JE1 0BD

Registered in Jersey under the Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 with company number 110497.

Notes

Entitlement to attend and vote
1. 

 In accordance with Article 40(1) of the Companies (Uncertificated Securities) (Jersey) Order 1999, the right to vote at the meeting is 
determined by reference to the register of members. Only those shareholders registered in the register of members of the Company 
as at 6:00pm on 2 June 2014 (or, if the meeting is adjourned, 6:00pm on the date which is two working days before the date of the 
adjourned meeting) shall be entitled to attend and vote at the meeting in respect of the number of shares registered in their name at 
that time. Changes in entries in the register of members after that time shall be disregarded in determining the rights of any person 
to attend or vote (and the number of votes they may cast) at the meeting.

Proxies
2. 

 A shareholder is entitled to appoint another person as his or her proxy to exercise all or any of his or her rights to attend and to speak 
and vote at the meeting and on a poll, vote instead of him or her. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company.

 A shareholder may appoint more than one proxy in relation to the meeting, provided that each proxy is appointed to exercise the rights 
attached to a different share or shares held by that shareholder. Failure to specify the number of shares each proxy appointment relates 
to or specifying a number which when taken together with the numbers of shares set out in the other proxy appointments is in excess 
of the number of shares held by the shareholder may result in the proxy appointment being invalid.

 A special resolution means a resolution passed by a majority of three-quarters of the holders who (being entitled to do so) vote in person, 
or by proxy, at a general meeting of the Company or at a separate meeting of a class of members of the Company.

3.  A proxy may only be appointed in accordance with the procedures set out in Note 4 and the notes to the proxy form.

The appointment of a proxy will not preclude a shareholder from attending and voting in person at the meeting.

 CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies or to give an instruction to a proxy (whether previously appointed or otherwise) 
by utilising the capital and CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so in relation to the meeting, and any adjournment(s) 
thereof, by utilising the procedures described in the CREST Manual. In order for a proxy appointment made by means of CREST to be 
valid, the appropriate CREST message must be transmitted via the CREST system so as to be received by Neville Registrars Limited 
(whose CREST ID is 7RA11) by the latest time for receipt of proxy appointments specified above. For this purpose, the time of receipt 
will be taken to be the time (as determined by the time stamp applied to the message by the CREST Applications Host) from which 
the Company’s agent is able to retrieve the message by enquiry to CREST in the manner prescribed. The Company may treat as 
invalid a CREST Proxy Instruction in the circumstances set out in the Companies (Uncertificated Securities) (Jersey) Order 1999.

 A proxy does not need to be a member of the Company but must attend the Annual General Meeting to represent you. Details of how 
to appoint the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting or another person as your proxy using the proxy form are set out in the notes 
to the proxy form. You may appoint more than one proxy to attend on the same occasion.

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Financial statements / Notice of Annual General Meeting continued

Notes continued

Proxies continued
4. 

 A form of proxy is enclosed. When appointing more than one proxy, complete a separate proxy form in relation to each appointment. 
Additional proxy forms may be obtained by the proxy form being photocopied. State clearly on each proxy form the number of shares 
in relation to which the proxy is appointed.

 A vote withheld is not a vote in law, which means that the vote will not be counted in the calculation of votes for or against the resolution. 
If no voting indication is given in the proxy form, your proxy will vote or abstain from voting at his or her discretion. Your proxy will vote 
(or abstain from voting) as he or she thinks fit in relation to any other matter which is put before the AGM.

 In the case of joint holders, where more than one of the joint holders purports to appoint a proxy, only the appointment submitted 
by the most senior holder will be accepted. Seniority is determined by the order in which the names of the joint holders appear in the 
Company’s register of members in respect of the joint holding (the first-named being the most senior).

 To be valid, a proxy form must be received by post or (during normal business hours only) by hand at the offices of the Company’s 
registrar, Neville Registrars Limited, 18 Laurel Lane, Halesowen, West Midlands B63 3DA, no later than 12.00pm on 2 June 2014 
(or, if the meeting is adjourned, no later than 48 hours (excluding any part of a day that is not a working day) before the time of any 
adjourned meeting).

 To change your proxy instructions simply submit a new proxy appointment using the methods set out above. Any amended proxy 
appointment received after the time specified above will be disregarded.

 Where you have appointed a proxy using the hard-copy proxy form and would like to change the instructions using another hard-copy 
proxy form, please contact Neville Registrars Limited.

 If you submit more than one valid proxy appointment, the appointment received last before the latest time for the receipt of proxies 
will take precedence.

 In order to revoke a proxy instruction you will need to inform the Company by sending a signed hard-copy notice clearly stating your 
intention to revoke your proxy appointment to Neville Registrars Limited. In the case of a member which is a company, the revocation 
notice must be executed under its common seal or signed on its behalf by a duly authorised officer of the company or an attorney for 
the company. Any power of attorney or any other authority under which the revocation notice is signed (or a notarially certified copy 
of such power or authority) must be included with the revocation notice. The revocation notice must be received by Neville Registrars 
Limited no later than the commencement of the Annual General Meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or, in the 
case of a poll taken more than 48 hours after it is demanded, before the time appointed for taking the poll.

 If you attempt to revoke your proxy appointment but the revocation is received after the time specified then your proxy appointment 
will remain valid.

Corporate representatives
5. 

 A shareholder which is a corporation may authorise one or more persons to act as its representative(s) at the meeting. Each such 
representative may exercise (on behalf of the corporation) the same powers as the corporation could exercise if it were an individual 
shareholder, provided that (where there is more than one representative and the vote is otherwise than on a show of hands) they do 
not do so in relation to the same shares. A director, the secretary or other person authorised for the purpose by the secretary may 
require all or any such persons to produce a copy of the resolution of authorisation certified by an officer of the corporation before 
permitting him to exercise his powers.

Method of voting
6. 

 Voting on all resolutions will be decided on a show of hands unless, before or on declaration of the result of, a vote on the show 
of hands, or on the withdrawal of any other demand for a poll, a poll is duly demanded.

Documents available for inspection
7. 

 The following documents will be available for inspection during normal business hours at the registered office of the Company and at the 
Company’s business address, Electric Works, Sheffield Digital Campus, Sheffield S1 2BJ, from the date of this notice until the time of the 
meeting. They will also be available for inspection at the place of the meeting from at least 15 minutes before the meeting until it ends:

7.1 

copies of the service contracts of the Executive Directors; and

7.2 

copies of the letters of appointment of the Non-executive Directors. 

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Legal advisers

DLA Piper UK LLP
1 St Paul’s Place
Sheffield S1 2JX

Carey Olsen
47 Esplanade
St. Helier
Jersey JE1 0BD

Bankers

Barclays Bank PLC
St Paul’s Place
121 Norfolk Street
Sheffield S1 2JW

Lloyds Banking Group Bank plc
14 Church Street
Sheffield S1 1HP

Registrars

Neville Registrars Limited
18 Laurel Lane
Halesowen
West Midlands B63 3DA

Secretary and advisers

Secretary

David Richards

UK office

Electric Works
Sheffield Digital Campus
Sheffield S1 2BJ

US office

5000 Executive Parkway
Suite 270
San Ramon, CA 94583 USA

Registered office

47 Esplanade
St. Helier
Jersey JE1 0BD

Nominated adviser and joint broker

Panmure Gordon & Co
One New Change 
London EC4M 9AF

Joint broker

UBS Investment Bank
1 Finsbury Avenue
London EC2M 2PP

Auditor

KPMG LLP
1 The Embankment
Neville Street
Leeds LS1 4DW

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Electric Works 
Sheffield Digital Campus 
Sheffield S1 2BJ