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| Significant figures | Significant figures (also known as the significant digits, precision or resolution) of a number in positional notation are digits in the number that are reliable and necessary to indicate the quantity of something.\nIf a number expressing the result of a measurement (e.g., length, pressure, volume, or mass) has more digits than the number of digits allowed by the measurement resolution, then only as many digits as allowed by the measurement resolution are reliable, and so only these can be significant figures. |
| Significant other | The term significant other (SO) has different uses in psychology and in colloquial language. Colloquially "significant other" is used as a gender-neutral term for a person's partner in an intimate relationship without disclosing or presuming anything about marital status, relationship status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. |
| Bit numbering | In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number.\n\n\n== Bit significance and indexing ==\n\nIn computing, the least significant bit (LSB) is the bit position in a binary integer representing the binary 1s place of the integer. |
| Significant Others | The term significant other (SO) has different uses in psychology and in colloquial language. Colloquially "significant other" is used as a gender-neutral term for a person's partner in an intimate relationship without disclosing or presuming anything about marital status, relationship status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. |
| Significant Mother | Significant Mother is an American television sitcom created by Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith. Starring Josh Zuckerman, Nathaniel Buzolic and Krista Allen, it premiered on The CW network on August 3 and ended its run on October 5, 2015. |
| Arithmetic | Arithmetic (from Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós) 'number', and τική [τέχνη] (tikḗ [tékhnē]) 'art, craft') is an elementary part of mathematics that consists of the study of the properties of the traditional operations on numbers—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots. In the 19th century, Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano formalized arithmetic with his Peano axioms, which are highly important to the field of mathematical logic today. |
| Operation Mincemeat | Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison, dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain (Acting Major) William Martin. |
| Special Activities Center | The Special Activities Center (SAC) is a division of the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert operations and paramilitary operations. The unit was named Special Activities Division (SAD) prior to 2015. |
| Operations management | Operations management is an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as few resources as needed and effective in meeting customer requirements. |
| Operations research | Operations research (British English: operational research), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of advanced analytical methods to improve decision-making. It is sometimes considered to be a subfield of mathematical sciences. |
| Emergency operations center | An emergency operations center (EOC) is a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management functions at a strategic level during an emergency, and ensuring the continuity of operation of a company, political subdivision or other organization.\nAn EOC is responsible for strategic direction and operational decisions and does not normally directly control field assets, instead leaving tactical decisions to lower commands. |
| Surgery | Surgery is a medical or dental specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function, appearance, or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.\nThe act of performing surgery may be called a surgical procedure, operation, or simply "surgery". |
| Bitwise operation | In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits. It is a fast and simple action, basic to the higher-level arithmetic operations and directly supported by the processor. |
| Operation (mathematics) | In mathematics, an operation is a function which takes zero or more input values (called operands) to a well-defined output value. The number of operands (also known as arguments) is the arity of the operation. |
| Common stock | Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security. The terms voting share and ordinary share are also used frequently outside of the United States. |
| Common stock dividend | A common stock dividend is the dividend paid to common stock owners from the profits of the company. Like other dividends, the payout is in the form of either cash or stock. |
| Preferred stock | Preferred stock (also called preferred shares, preference shares, or simply preferreds) is a component of share capital that may have any combination of features not possessed by common stock, including properties of both an equity and a debt instrument, and is generally considered a hybrid instrument. Preferred stocks are senior (i.e., higher ranking) to common stock but subordinate to bonds in terms of claim (or rights to their share of the assets of the company, given that such assets are payable to the returnee stock bond) and may have priority over common stock (ordinary shares) in the payment of dividends and upon liquidation. |
| Matthiola incana | Matthiola incana is a species of flowering plant in the cabbage family Brassicaceae. Common names include Brompton stock, common stock, hoary stock, ten-week stock, and gilly-flower. |
| Consolidation (business) | In business, consolidation or amalgamation is the merger and acquisition of many smaller companies into a few much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, consolidation refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a group company as consolidated financial statements. |
| Stock market | A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange, as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies which are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms. Investment is usually made with an investment strategy in mind. |
| New York Stock Exchange | The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$30.1 trillion as of February 2018. |
| Treasury stock | A treasury stock or reacquired stock is stock which is bought back by the issuing company, reducing the amount of outstanding stock on the open market ("open market" including insiders' holdings). \nStock repurchases are used as a tax efficient method to put cash into shareholders' hands, rather than paying dividends, in jurisdictions that treat capital gains more favorably. |
| Convertible bond | In finance, a convertible bond or convertible note or convertible debt (or a convertible debenture if it has a maturity of greater than 10 years) is a type of bond that the holder can convert into a specified number of shares of common stock in the issuing company or cash of equal value. It is a hybrid security with debt- and equity-like features. |
| Financial condition report | In accounting, a financial condition report (FCR) is a report on the solvency condition of an insurance company that takes into account both the current financial status, as reflected in the balance sheet, and an assessment of the ability of the company to survive future risk scenarios. Risk assessment in an FCR involves dynamic solvency testing, a type of dynamic financial analysis that simulates management response to risk scenarios, to test whether a company could remain solvent in the face of deteriorating economic conditions or major disasters. |
| Balance sheet | In financial accounting, a balance sheet (also known as statement of financial position or statement of financial condition) is a summary of the financial balances of an individual or organization, whether it be a sole proprietorship, a business partnership, a corporation, private limited company or other organization such as government or not-for-profit entity. Assets, liabilities and ownership equity are listed as of a specific date, such as the end of its financial year. |
| Financial ratio | A financial ratio or accounting ratio is a relative magnitude of two selected numerical values taken from an enterprise's financial statements. Often used in accounting, there are many standard ratios used to try to evaluate the overall financial condition of a corporation or other organization. |
| Financial analysis | Financial analysis (also referred to as financial statement analysis or accounting analysis or Analysis of finance) refers to an assessment of the viability, stability, and profitability of a business, sub-business or project. \nIt is performed by professionals who prepare reports using ratios and other techniques, that make use of information taken from financial statements and other reports. |
| Form 10-K | A Form 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that gives a comprehensive summary of a company's financial performance. Although similarly named, the annual report on Form 10-K is distinct from the often glossy "annual report to shareholders," which a company must send to its shareholders when it holds an annual meeting to elect directors (though some companies combine the annual report and the 10-K into one document). |
| Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac | In September 2008 the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it would take over the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). Both government-sponsored enterprises, which finance home mortgages in the United States by issuing bonds, had become illiquid as the market for those bonds collapsed in the subprime mortgage crisis. |
| Equity (finance) | In finance, equity is ownership of assets that may have debts or other liabilities attached to them. Equity is measured for accounting purposes by subtracting liabilities from the value of the assets. |
| Shareholders' agreement | A shareholders' agreement (sometimes referred to in the U.S. as a stockholders' agreement) (SHA) is an agreement amongst the shareholders or members of a company. In practical effect, it is analogous to a partnership agreement. |
| Jessica Stockholder | Jessica Stockholder (born 1959) is a Canadian-American artist known for site-specific installation works and sculptures that are often described as "paintings in space." She came to prominence in the early 1990s with monumental works that challenged boundaries between artwork and display environment as well as between pictorial and physical experience. Her art often presents a "barrage" of bold colors, textures and everyday objects, incorporating floors, walls and ceilings and sometimes spilling out of exhibition sites. |
| Derivative suit | A shareholder derivative suit is a lawsuit brought by a shareholder on behalf of a corporation against a third party. Often, the third party is an insider of the corporation, such as an executive officer or director. |
| Friedman doctrine | The Friedman doctrine, also called shareholder theory or stockholder theory, is a normative theory of business ethics advanced by economist Milton Friedman which holds that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. This shareholder primacy approach views shareholders as the economic engine of the organization and the only group to which the firm is socially responsible. |
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| There can be no assurance that Ansoft’s revenue and net income will grow or be sustained in future periods or that Ansoft will be profitable in any future period |
| Future operating results will depend on many factors, including the degree and the rate of growth of the markets in which Ansoft competes and the accompanying demand for Ansoft’s products, the level of product and price competition, the ability of Ansoft to develop and market new products and to control costs, the ability of Ansoft to expand its direct sales force and the ability of Ansoft to attract and retain key personnel |
| We are unable to accurately forecast our future revenues primarily because of the emerging nature of the market in which we compete |
| Our revenues and operating results generally depend on the size, timing and structure of licenses |
| These factors have historically been, and are likely to continue to be, difficult to forecast |
| In addition, our current and future expense levels are based largely on our operating plans and estimates of future revenues and are, to an extent, fixed |
| We may be unable to adjust spending sufficiently or quickly enough to compensate for any unexpected revenue shortfall |
| Accordingly, any significant shortfall in revenues in relation to our planned expenditures would seriously harm our business, financial condition and results of operations |
| Such shortfalls in our revenue or operating results from levels expected by public market analysts and investors could seriously harm the trading price of our common stock |
| Additionally, we may not learn of such revenue shortfalls, earnings shortfalls or other failure to meet market expectations until late in a fiscal quarter, which could result in an even more immediate and serious harm to the trading price of our common stock |
| Our quarterly operating results have varied, and it is anticipated that our quarterly operating results will vary, substantially from period to period depending on various factors, many of which are outside our control |
| Due to the foregoing factors, we cannot predict with any significant degree of certainty our quarterly revenue and operating results |
| Further, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our operating results are not necessarily a meaningful indication of future performance |
| The trading price of our common stock has fluctuated significantly in the past, and the trading price of our common stock is likely to be highly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in price in response to such factors as: • Actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results; • Announcements of technological innovations and new products by us or our competitors; • New contractual relationships with strategic partners by us or our competitors; • Proposed acquisitions by us or our competitors; and • Financial results that fail to meet public market analyst expectations of performance |
| In addition, the stock market in general, the NASDAQ National Market and the market for technology companies in particular has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of such companies |
| These broad market and industry factors may seriously harm the market price of our common stock in future periods |
| We have acquired a number of technologies, assets and companies in recent years, including the Agilent Technologies’ HFSS™ product line within the past five years |
| As part of our efforts to increase revenue and expand our product and services offerings we may acquire additional companies in the future |
| In addition to direct costs, acquisitions pose a number of risks, including potential dilution of earnings per share, delays and other problems of integrating the acquired products and employees into our business, the failure to realize expected synergies or cost savings, the failure of acquired products to achieve projected sales, the drain on management time for acquisition-related activities, possible adverse effects on customer buying patterns due to uncertainties resulting from an acquisition, and assumption of unknown liabilities |
| The foregoing factors could seriously harm our business, financial condition and results of operations |
| Ansoft’s success depends, in part, upon its proprietary technology |
| We rely on a combination of trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and contractual commitments to protect our proprietary rights in our software products |
| We generally enter into confidentiality or license agreements with our employees, distributors and customers, and limit access to and distribution of our software, documentation and other proprietary information |
| Despite these precautions, a third party may still copy or otherwise obtain and use our products or technology without authorization, or develop similar technology independently |
| In addition, effective patent, copyright and trade secret protection may be unavailable or limited in certain foreign countries |
| It is possible that we may fail to adequately protect our proprietary rights |
| This would seriously harm Ansoft’s business, operating results and financial condition |
| Ansoft’s future operating results depend in large part upon the continued services of its key technical and management personnel |
| Ansoft does not have employment contracts with any executive officer |
| Ansoft’s future 9 _________________________________________________________________ [60]Table of Contents success will also depend in large part on its ability to continue to attract and retain highly skilled technical, marketing and management personnel |
| The competition for such personnel, as well as for qualified EDA engineers, is intense |
| If Ansoft is unable to attract, hire and retain qualified personnel in the future, the development of new products and the management of Ansoft’s increasingly complex business would be impaired |
| This could seriously harm Ansoft’s business, operating results and financial condition |
| International revenue, principally from Asian customers, accounted for approximately 62prca and 57prca of our total revenue in the years ended April 30, 2006 and 2005, respectively |
| We expect that international license and service revenue will continue to account for a significant portion of our total revenue for the foreseeable future |
| Our international business activities are subject to a variety of potential risks, including: • The impact of recessionary environments in foreign economies; • Longer receivables collection periods and greater difficulty in accounts receivable collection; • Difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations; • Political and economic instability; • Unexpected changes in regulatory requirements; • Reduced protection of intellectual property rights in some countries; and • Tariffs and other trade barriers |
| Currency exchange fluctuations in countries in which we license our products could also seriously harm our business, financial condition and results of operations |
| In addition, the laws of certain countries do not protect our products and intellectual property rights to the same extent, as do the laws of the United States |
| Moreover, it is possible that we may fail to sustain or increase revenue derived from international licensing and service or that the foregoing factors will seriously harm our future international license and service revenue, and, consequently, seriously harm our business, financial condition and results of operations |
| Ansoft’s ability to manage growth effectively will require it to continue to improve its operational and financial systems, hire and train new employees and add additional space, both domestically and internationally |
| Ansoft may not be successful in addressing such risks, and the failure to do so would seriously harm Ansoft’s business, financial condition and results of operations |
| Ansoft is dependent upon the communications and semiconductor industry and, more generally, the electronics industry |
| These industries are characterized by rapid technological change, short product life cycles, fluctuations in manufacturing capacity and pricing and gross margin pressures |
| Segments of these industries have from time to time experienced significant economic downturns characterized by decreased product demand, production over-capacity, price erosion, work slowdowns and layoffs |
| Any significant downturn could be especially severe 10 _________________________________________________________________ [61]Table of Contents on Ansoft |
| During such downturns, the number of new integrated circuit design projects often decreases |
| Since acquisitions of new licenses from Ansoft are largely dependent upon the commencement of new design projects, any slowdown in these industries could seriously harm Ansoft’s business, financial condition and results of operations |
| Our executive officers, who are also principal stockholders, own approximately 26prca of the outstanding shares of Ansoft common stock |
| As a result, they have the ability to effectively control us and direct our affairs, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions |
| This concentration of ownership also may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company and may make some transactions more difficult or impossible without the support of these stockholders |
| The interests of these stockholders may conflict with those of other stockholders |
| We have adopted a number of provisions that could have anti-takeover effects |
| The Board of Directors has the authority to issue up to 1cmam000cmam000 shares of Preferred Stock without any further vote or action by Ansoft’s stockholders |
| This and other provisions of Ansoft’s Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws and Delaware Law may have the effect of deterring hostile takeovers or delaying or preventing changes in control or management, including transactions in which the stockholders of Ansoft might otherwise receive a premium for their shares over then current market prices |