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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 10-K

FOR ANNUAL AND TRANSITION REPORTS PURSUANT TO
SECTIONS 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission File Number: 0-15264

MANATRON, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (616) 567-2900

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act: None.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Portions of the definitive proxy statement for the Registrant's annual shareholders' meeting to be held Thursday, October 10, 2002, are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report.

MANATRON, INC.

INDEX TO FORM 10-K

PART I

General

          Manatron, Inc., a Michigan corporation, ("Manatron" or the "Company") was started in 1969 as a partnership and was incorporated in Michigan in 1972. Manatron initially provided in-house data processing services for local governmental units located in Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana. The Company's business was later extended into other states and it began to provide advanced microcomputer-based "turn-key" data processing systems for counties, cities, and townships. These "turn-key" data processing systems included both general purpose computer hardware produced by leading manufacturers, proprietary software developed or purchased by the Company, and related implementation and support services.

          Today, the Company designs, develops, markets, and supports a family of web-based and client/server application software products for county, city, and township governments. Manatron's products support the back-office processes for these government agencies and also facilitate the "Virtual Courthouse" by providing Internet access to information for industry professionals and the public or by processing transactions over the Internet such as the payment of property taxes. The Company also provides mass appraisal services through its Sabre Appraisal Division, assessing residential, commercial, and other types of properties to ensure updated and equitable property valuations. Currently, the Company operates out of regional offices in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and North Carolina and serves approximately 1,600 customers in 31 states and three Canadian provinces.

          The Company's vision is to be a nationally recognized, leading provider of innovative software and services that allow government agencies, taxpayers and private industry to efficiently process, manage and archive information, primarily focused on real estate, personal and other property taxes. The Company seeks to delight its customers with its products and services, to build a healthy culture with its employees, and to maximize shareholder value.

          As more fully explained in Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, which is incorporated herein by reference, the Company has two reportable segments for financial reporting purposes: (i) Software Systems and Services and (ii) Appraisal Services.

Products

          Technology

          The Company's legacy software products were built using several different programming tools including COBOL, Basic, Clipper, FoxPro, Uniface and Admins. This variety of tools is a result of technology improvements over time as well as different decisions that were made by the various businesses acquired by the Company. These products utilize several different operating systems including VMS, OS/400, MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Supporting this variety of platforms can be excessively complex. As a result, the Company has made some strategic platform decisions to ensure that its new generation products are built using common technologies and to leverage technical expertise both within the Company and from the outside resources it utilizes.

          All new Manatron software products are built with certain, specific design themes. First is database independence. Recognizing that the customer base has some level of built-in commitment to database technologies of choice, the Company has decided to support the popular relational database

engines. Currently, the Company supports Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix and Solid Server. The Company intends to support additional databases such as IBM DB2 if the customer base demands it.

          With respect to operating environments, the Company's new software products are built to run on Microsoft operating system platforms -- specifically Windows 2000 and Windows XP. This is the most common platform currently being used in the local government market. While the Company will support additional operating systems such as IBM AIX and Sun Solaris for the Oracle relational database engine, the user interface and business rules components are built for Microsoft's component standards (COM) and/or Microsoft Internet Information Server web server platform.

          The Company's product development teams now use a limited set of programming tools when building new products. In particular, Microsoft Visual Studio (Visual Basic and Visual C++) is the primary programming tool. The Company's analysts use Rational Rose to model, and they document designs using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Reporting is developed using the industry's leading reporting toolset, Crystal Reports from Crystal Decisions. All web-based applications are built with VBScript or components built in Visual Studio and are built to be browser-independent -- including support for America Online's web browser. This limited and standard tool set allows the development teams to focus on solving business problems rather than constantly learning new programming skills. It also enables them to build and leverage re-usable components. The result of this strategy is expected to be a suite of products that are interoperable with other systems (such as desktop pro ductivity applications, partner applications, state-sponsored systems and custom-written applications), a set of products that integrate tightly with the customers' operating environment, and a development force that is more productive and quickly able to bring new product features and extensions to market.

          The following is a general description of the features and functionality of the Company's major software product groups that it has developed, acquired or made arrangements to resell. The Company specializes in keeping its application software in compliance with the varying requirements of state statutes. In addition, many of the Company's software products are integrated, which eliminates duplicate functions. The Company anticipates providing additional capabilities as these products are enhanced in future years or new products are developed. In connection with these enhancements, the Company plans to continue to rationalize its product portfolio, further leveraging costs across the organization.

          Manatron Visual Property (MVP) Products

          The Company has been re-engineering its entire property suite of software into an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) type application suite for local government. MVP uses component-based development, object-oriented analysis and design, and UML for system documentation. MVP encompasses the Administration, Taxation, Appraisal or Valuation, Recording and Mapping (GIS) of real and personal property. It is designed from the ground up to be an integrated property management application. Clients can use the entire suite or opt to purchase only specific modules to integrate with their existing systems. The MVP architecture is based on Microsoft's COM and is designed with inherent interoperability with other Microsoft Windows-based applications such as Microsoft Office. MVP is designed with database independence and has an n-tier architecture giving it broad scalability options and inherent Internet interoperability.

          Taxation

          MVP Tax is a comprehensive tax software system, which maintains, bills, collects, distributes, and tracks properties and associated taxes. It is a flexible system that can be supported by a variety of operating systems, hardware platforms, network configurations and relational databases. Local government officials along with industry experts have been involved in the design and review of MVP

Tax from the beginning to ensure that it is in compliance with state standards, processes and laws and that it brings important new capabilities to tax billing and collection users.

          MVP Tax maintains multiple tax years, provides extensive security, and automates settlements, balances and roll-overs. It also manages real, personal, mobile homes, mineral, motor vehicle and special assessments. MVP Tax includes "On-line" and "What's This?" help, and provides easy-to-use "Wizards" to guide the user through multi-step or infrequently used processes. It provides user-defined tax units and rate tables, tracks property splits, combinations and transfers, and allows comprehensive searches and inquiries. It also automates delinquencies, tax sales, interest and penalty calculations, and incorporates a built-in report writer. MVP Tax was initially deployed in Indiana in January 2000, is being used in approximately twenty five counties and is now being extended to support additional states including Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

          The CPS acquisition included a UNIX-based, COBOL Classic Tax Manager application for Florida and Oklahoma. This product is also a tax billing and collection application with a rich delinquent property tax feature set. The Company recently introduced MVP Tax Manager, a Microsoft Windows-based, client/server offering, like MVP Tax, which has migrated the functionality found in Classic Tax Manager with the new architecture, technologies and capabilities available in modern application software. MVP Tax Manager is currently being deployed in the Florida market and Jefferson County, Alabama. Together, MVP Tax and MVP Tax Manager make up much of the core MVP product and are being promoted as Manatron's national tax billing and collection system.

          Appraisal or Valuation

          ProVal® is a Microsoft Windows-based property appraisal software product. It features a highly productive, integrated sketch package and an extremely accurate valuation engine for calculating property values. It is designed to be simple enough for beginners with the advanced features that professionals demand. ProVal is one of the most widely deployed, nationally recognized CAMA software products available today. It is presently being used in over 250 appraisal jurisdictions in twenty states and three Canadian provinces. Its underlying architecture and database independence allows ProVal to run efficiently in a variety of configurations.

          ProVal Plus is a technologically advanced (32 bit) and even easier-to-use version of ProVal that is expected to be released in fiscal 2003. Like ProVal, ProVal Plus offers all the traditional approaches to value, including the cost, market and income approaches, and conforms to strict national and international standards. It encapsulates advanced CAMA technology, provides integrated GIS (mapping) features, and integrates hearing scheduling and certified roll maintenance, while adhering to the CAMA business rules that have been developed and refined over the past 30 years. This ensures consistency and compatibility with previous versions. In addition, ProVal Plus offers an enhanced User Interface (GUI) and navigation designed to meet all current industry standards and set a new benchmark for usability for the CAMA software market.

          Using the familiar Microsoft Windows environment, ProVal Plus offers a mode of operation that is highly intuitive, easy to learn and easier still to use. Menu titles guide operators through the steps of property appraisals. Dialog boxes and pop-up menu selections ensure that required data is entered correctly. The ability to search by parcel number, address, owner name or user-defined sets, such as neighborhood, makes locating information fast and simple. Property descriptions are entered through a simple point-and-click sketch routine that produces professional quality renderings. In addition, the system will store and display complete appraisal history, and will easily print property record cards or digitized photographs. Users determine which fields affect value, what rates or coefficients are used and how they are applied. In addition, ProVal Plus provides a relational data model that is an event-driven, "point-in-time continuous" design. Official data is maintained separately from work-in-process data.

Full chain of ownership capability, with complete sales analysis as a by-product, makes market tracking easier. ProVal Plus' also includes pen computer and laptop compatibility for on-site inspection and appraisals and subsequent updating of the central database.

          Recording

          Manatron's Indexing, Recording, and Retrieval System (MVP MIRRS) is a national, flexible and powerful application that meets the indexing, recording and retrieval standards for numerous types of documents including deeds, mortgages, UCC financing statements, liens, vital records and military discharges in one simple-to-use application. MVP MIRRS includes: receipting, cashiering, indexing, integrated imaging, workflow analysis, accounts receivable, escrow, public inquiry, and Internet access. MVP MIRRS supports a variety of operating systems, hardware platforms, network configurations and relational databases. In addition, the system supports the storage of many types of data elements including: grantors and grantees, legal descriptions, associated document references, property addresses, parcel identification numbers and user defined data fields, as needed. County officials no longer have to look up records one at a time by party name or approximate time frame with the MVP MIRRS inquiry system. Rather, documents can be located by many different methods including: name, book/page or instrument number, platted or unplatted description, lot number, parcel number, property address, consideration amount and index and date range. MVP MIRRS is operational in approximately 60 Register of Deeds offices in six states.

          Mapping

          MVP GIS is a multi-featured and easy-to-use Geographical Information System used by approximately fifty customers in several states. It is a complete suite of integrated products including third party products such as AutoCAD Map®, ArcView®, and Visible Survey®, as well as Manatron's Soil Calculation module and Manatron's ManaLink System. MVP GIS allows users to access their GIS database and obtain information such as land parcels, roads, subdivisions, parcel boundaries and school districts.

          AutoCAD Map® automates repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as drawing revisions. It delivers efficient production drawing tools, intelligent database technology, a high performance graphic engine, Windows® integration and other time-saving features. ArcView is a powerful, easy-to-use tool that brings geographical information to the desktop. It clearly displays, queries, summarizes and organizes data geographically. Visible Survey provides complete legal descriptions (COGO) and survey drafting in AutoCAD®.

          Manatron's Soil Productivity Module calculates the productivity of agricultural land. Manatron's ManaLink system connects directly (on a real-time basis) to Manatron's other products such as MVP Tax, MVP MIRRS, ProVal, County Delinquents and Permits to display data in an easy-to-read format. Owner names, addresses, property values and taxes can all be quickly displayed in conjunction with a map of the selected property. In addition, the system provides easy access to scanned documents, topographic data, aerial photography and digital photographs of properties. When using ArcView with ManaLink, the user can query and analyze data in just a matter of minutes. Selected information can be exported to various types of formats or be used with Crystal Reports® to create letters, labels, and user-defined reports. The Company's focus for its GIS offerings is to include tightly integrated GIS functionality within its MVP Product Suite as the market demonstrates a high demand for these features.

          GovernMax.com Products

          The GovernMax.com Division provides software products and services that facilitate access to public information or provide e-commerce on the Internet. Taxpayers, industry professionals and others

with Internet access can now review current, formatted information relevant to their needs without leaving their home or office, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. GovernMax's products are written using Microsoft's leading edge Internet technologies, which use a SQL Server database. These tools have enabled GovernMax to develop one of the fastest, fully featured web-based applications available for local government today. From custom themes and table-driven field labels, to multi-language support, GovernMax offers choices that will give a site the look and feel that customers desire.

          GovernMax currently has over 105 clients in 13 states. They host data for 81 of these clients, accounting for over 6 million parcels, with 29 of these clients utilizing the e-commerce feature of the systems. These customers have contracted for or are using one or more of the following GovernMax products.

          GovernMax hosts these applications for its customers in a highly secure, scalable, web farm with maximum redundancy. The web farm includes audited/monitored Internet security, physical access security, triple redundant power backup and access to the Internet via three different backbone providers for quick uptime and security.

          GovernMax distinguishes itself from many dot.com competitors by tying its Internet products to the "back-office" software applications running in the various jurisdictions, many of which were developed or provided by Manatron. This "end-to-end" solution minimizes errors and results in more accurate and up-to-date information via the Internet, bringing both the governmental units and the public/commercial consumer of the information closer together than ever before. This improved information access for the public or commercial users also frees the governmental units from their traditional roles of routinely helping them gather this information, which allows elected officials to focus their time and energy on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of other services.

          Financial Management Products

          Open Windows Series

          Manatron supports several legacy financial management systems.  The most widely used system is the Open Window Financial System, which was designed and developed by Manatron.  There are over 200 government entities using this system, which includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Receipting, Bank Reconciliation, Purchase Orders, Payroll, and a Treasurer's module.  In addition, Manatron has approximately 200 other customers using other character based legacy financial systems that were developed and supported by Manatron.

          Intuit Fundware

          On December 1, 2001 Manatron entered into a strategic partnership with American FundWare, Inc. to market, sell, implement, and support their financial management software.  American Fundware, Inc. is based in Denver, Colorado.  It has over 3,000 customers in the government and not-for-profit markets. Its financial management software, FundWare, has been rated first out of nineteen systems tested by the Non-Profit Financial Center.  Also, "CPA Software News" gave it a five-star rating.

          FundWare is industry-standard accounting software that delivers the unique functionality required by nonprofit and governmental organizations. FundWare addresses the special reporting and budgetary control requirements of organizations in the public sector, through a comprehensive suite of solutions, ensuring regulatory compliance with GASB, GAAFR, and GAAP. FundWare provides controls consistent with an organization's practices and policies and has a variety of other features which include:

          FundWare provides an extremely flexible chart of accounts design plus the ability to assign multiple attributes to every account for use in different groupings of accounts for different reporting purposes. Additionally, reports can be created for any user-defined period of time or customized by "fiscal year" for individual projects, grants, or contracts. FundWare's graphical interface is the result of twenty five years of experience and careful collaboration with its clients, resulting in a product designed to delight data entry personnel and management alike. An intuitive drag-and-drop report writer interface can be used to quickly create customized reports, or to use one of the more than 60 standard reports for immediate access to mission-critical financial data. All reports are formatted to work with a unique chart of accounts and can be modified to save time.

          FundWare's Budget Control module can be integrated with the Purchase Orders and Accounts Payable systems, to provide an early warning of any possible budget problems before the purchase is authorized. In addition, government organizations may activate the encumbrance feature built into Purchase Orders, while nonprofits may choose to use the "commitment" feature. Both of these options enhance an organization's ability to compare the budget not only to what has already been spent, but also to planned expenditures. FundWare excels at handling an organization's allocation needs. From simple allocations using a table of percentages to complex formulas for the redistribution of indirect costs across programs, grants, or contracts, the FundWare Allocation Management enhances recovery of indirect costs from funding sources. Through other partnerships Intuit Public Sector Solutions Division has developed, Manatron intends to market several other modules including F ixed Assets and Human Resources.

          American FundWare was acquired by Intuit, Inc. on June 1, 2002. It will now operate as Intuit Public Sector Solutions Division. Through other partnerships Intuit Public Sector Solutions Division has developed, Manatron can market several other modules including Fixed Assets and Human Resources.

          Utility Billing

          The Company has also developed utility billing software, which encompasses an integrated system from engineering through meter reading, billing, and accounting. The system accommodates water, sewer, gas, electric, garbage collection, and other related services. Utility billing also allows for an unlimited number of services per customer and can accommodate complicated electric rate tables. This software also supports hand-held reading devices, peak-to-peak billing, budget billing, and demand meters. The system can be used by small rural districts that tend to bill few services, as well as larger municipal customers that bill many types of services.

          Judicial Information Products

          Gavel and Writs

          The Company has developed flexible and user definable judicial information systems that are available for all levels of government and consist of the following modules: (i) Case Management; (ii) Court Accounting; (iii) Prosecution Management; (iv) Probation Tracking; (v) Jury Management; (vi) Child Support; and (vii) Voter Registration, which is described subsequently. In addition, the Company has added the capability of searching court dates through the Internet. The Case Management module encompasses civil, criminal, traffic fine, and court docket functions. The Court Accounting module tracks all fines, court costs, and bonds in addition to providing necessary reports to a governmental unit. The Prosecution Tracking module is a management record keeping and financial module for prosecutors in trial courts. The Probation Tracking module is a case tracking, record keeping, and financial system for probation departments. The Jury Management module facilitates the s election of jurors as well as payments to jurors for jury duty. The Child Support module provides for a complete financial accounting of divorce, paternity, and alimony cases, including Title IV-D reporting. The Voter Registration module oversees the legal record keeping requirements, jury selection, and maintenance of an unlimited voting history and can be integrated with imaging, which facilitates the storage of signatures. Each module can be used alone or can be interfaced with the other modules to produce a complete and thorough court management system.

          Visual Voter

          Manatron also offers a windows based voter registration system that runs in a client server environment. Using an industry standard, SQL compatible relational database, Visual Voter is easy to use and offers a robust set of features. It conforms to the requirements of the national voter registration act as well as state specific requirements. Visual Voters features include, but are not limited to reporting all county election record totals for a specific period, checking against felony conviction records, interacting with state systems for updates, activity, etc., handling all aspects of jury selection, including reporting, and assigning voters to the proper district, precinct, and polling location.

Services

          In connection with the installation of its "turn-key" systems, the Company provides ongoing hardware integration and maintenance, software support, project management, implementation services, conversions, training, and other customer services through regional offices described under the caption "Properties" below. The Company typically maintains an office in each region or state where it has a significant nucleus of customers, so it can more efficiently respond to their needs. Each regional office includes customer service personnel who are able to assist with the installation of the Company's "turn-key" systems and provide technical support on site before and after the installation. In addition, Company personnel respond on a daily basis to customer telephone inquiries regarding the use of Manatron systems. A number of these regional offices also are staffed with employees who are trained to identify and respond to customers' hardware and other technical inquiries.

          Many of the software packages described above can be used in conjunction with software enhancement options, such as the use of a laser pen to decipher bar coding for efficient storage and retrieval of information. In addition, laser printing and CD-ROM storage services are provided by the Company and through alliances with other companies. Laser printing and CD-ROM services reduce the amount of paper needed to store documents and, accordingly, save storage space. Laser printing produces copies that look like originals because data is printed electronically from magnetic computer tape onto paper, which results in improved print quality, and offers the option of multiple fonts and graphics.

Through the use of laser printing and CD-ROM storage, Manatron's customers are able to keep historical data in a user's department, which permits retrieval and printing, often within seconds of command.

          Through its Sabre Appraisal Division, Manatron provides mass revaluation appraisal services to local governments. The real estate services are a natural product extension for the Company, as many Manatron "turn-key" systems customers also contract periodically for mass appraisal services. Sabre is one of the largest vendors of mass appraisal services in the United States. A typical mass appraisal engagement is performed under a fixed-price contract over an 18 to 24 month time frame. Using the technology of its appraisal software products, Sabre has developed a flexible, innovative methodology for appraisal delivery, which enables it to service jurisdictions of any size and accommodate the specific requirements of an individual client. Through physical inspection, computer analysis, and sound judgment of professional appraisers, Sabre assesses a value to each parcel of property in a jurisdiction. Sabre supports these values on behalf of the jurisdiction th rough the hearings process and finalizes the tax rolls to enable the jurisdiction to create tax bills.

Recent Acquisitions

          In June of 1999, Manatron acquired by merger all of the outstanding stock of ProVal Corporation, a 26-year old computer software company with headquarters in Springfield, Ohio. At the time of the acquisition, ProVal Corporation had revenues of approximately $1.5 million and had installed its PC-based, computer assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) software, trademarked as ProVal, in approximately 150 jurisdictions, in 16 states and in three Canadian provinces.

          In March of 2000, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Texas, approved Manatron's bid for selected assets and certain contracts of Dallas-based CPS Systems, Inc ("CPS"). Manatron successfully bid for the Florida, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and North Carolina property tax, appraisal and integrated voice response software source code, software support and licensing agreements, and other related assets, such as contract deposits and accounts receivable at a public auction conducted by the Bankruptcy Trustee for CPS. At the time of acquisition, these operations had annual recurring revenues of approximately $2.3 million from approximately 60 customers, the majority of which were in Florida.

Sales and Marketing

          The Company primarily markets its products through a direct sales force out of its regional offices in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The Company also has a number of National Account Representatives, who market its products and service in other states. These Company sales and marketing personnel provide local government with Manatron-specific solutions, customized to their data processing and state specific needs. They also respond to requests for proposals.

          Manatron has developed a branding initiative under which its products can showcase their individual distinctiveness, yet maintain the look and corporate image of the Company. Manatron's marketing efforts are developed under this brand umbrella and include media advertising in select industry specific publications, targeted direct response sales generation programs and participation in tradeshows and conferences. The Company also develops user groups and provides industry and product research. The Company's sales and marketing personnel are also responsible for the development of product literature, presentations and seminars for prospects and customers. They also develop product specific newsletters and turn-key, income generating programs for the Company's Internet customers.

Customer Base

          The Company's customers are primarily county, city, and township governments in the United States. Revenue derived from Canada, which is the only other country in which the Company has customers, is less than 1% of the Company's total revenues. Currently, the Company has approximately 390 counties, 250 cities and 300 townships as customers. There are approximately 3,000 counties, 19,000 cities, and 16,000 townships in the United States. Within each of these governmental units, the Company generally works with elected officials such as tax collectors, auditors, treasurers, assessors, recorders, and clerks. The Company's sales are highly dependent on the quality of the relationships it has with these elected officials within each county, city, and township government as well as their demand for its products and services. The Company does not believe that the loss of any single customer would have a materially adverse effect on the Company; however, a material decline in the Company's sales to various governments could have such an effect. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania accounted for approximately 11% and 19% of total revenues in fiscal 2001 and 2000, respectively. However, in fiscal 2002, this customer accounted for less than 1% of the Company's total revenues.

Competition

          Competition for the Company's data processing systems, related services, and mass appraisal services is intense. The Company competes primarily on the basis of name recognition, financial stability, industry expertise, range of products, and reputation for providing good customer service.

          The Company's major competitors for both segments are generally small local software and service firms, which often are able to offer less expensive solutions or have developed long-term relationships with key governmental officials. Generally, these smaller firms can sell hardware and services at reduced amounts because of their small amount of overhead. The Company also competes with a number of larger national public companies such as Tyler Technologies, Associated Computer Systems, HTE, and ESRI. The Company could be adversely affected if a large computer manufacturer, technology or professional service firm such as IBM, Accenture, KPMG, EDS, Peoplesoft, etc. targets the local government market, or if any large property services or database company acquires, merges, or associates itself with a competing firm. Furthermore, applications software also is developed periodically by or for public agencies for use by governments. If the funding and distribution of gove rnmentally developed or funded software becomes more widespread, such products could compete with the Company's products.

          Although state and local governments traditionally have lagged behind both the federal government and the private sector in computer automation, the application of microcomputer and personal computer technology to local governmental units recently has been subject to rapid development and change. The ability of the Company to develop new applications software programs utilizing modern technology is critical to its ability to compete successfully. Manatron regularly reviews and updates its software to meet the needs of its customers and to ensure that the software can be utilized in connection with the new technologies that are available.

          The most significant barriers to entry into the Company's market are industry expertise, relationships with customers or prospects, and personnel needed to develop software. Since software systems and services and appraisal services are not highly capital intensive, barriers to entry into these industries are relatively low. In addition, because there are now new tools and technologies available to speed up the development of software at reduced costs, increased price competition may be expected in the future.

Research and Development

          Manatron's success depends on its ability to respond quickly to changing technology, market demands, and the needs of its customers. Manatron emphasizes research and development and has been investing significant amounts of its revenue for the last three years to support and further its role as a leader in the markets it serves. The Company's research and development expenditures relate primarily to the design, development, testing and deployment of computer software. Systems programming and support expenses that were not capitalized were approximately $4.7 million, $4.6 million, and $3.6 million for the fiscal years ended April 30, 2002, 2001, and 2000, respectively. Certain software development costs have been capitalized in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 86, "Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased, or Otherwise Marketed" as described in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements contained in this Form 10-K. The amount of software capitalized increased by 188% from approximately $397,000 to $1,142,000 for the years ended April 30, 2001 and 2002, respectively due to increased development activities associated with the MVP and Internet products and the increased utilization of outsourced third-party developers in fiscal 2002.

          Manatron continued its investment in GovernMax, the Company's Internet division, during fiscal 2002 and, as a result, experienced record growth for the division. During fiscal 2002, GovernMax had new product and services sales of over $1.1 million and exceeded $1 million in revenue. The continual investment also produced new products and product features including VoiceMax. GovernMax's VoiceMax solution was released in November 2001 in Sarasota County Florida for the Sarasota County Tax Collector. The system allows phone access to tax information and the ability for the user to pay their property taxes over a phone line. During fiscal 2002, VoiceMax and CollectMax (GovernMax's Internet collection system) combined to process over 2,600 transactions accounting for over $4 million in property taxes. GovernMax also continued its investment and deployment of its proprietary "Reach-in" technology where data can be retrieved "live" over the Internet fr om a jurisdiction's operating database. Reach-in is currently being used to retrieve document images and current tax information as well as post payments real-time back into the operational databases of its clients.

          In fiscal 2002, the Company continued to invest heavily in its new, MVP product architecture. A major focus during the year was the continued development and deployment of MVP Tax. The Company made significant investments in the product, processes and staffing to meet the growing demand for the product and to ready the product for Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and to stabilize it for Indiana. Substantial new features were added to the product including numerous features needed nationally.

          In addition, through the combined efforts of the ProVal and SMDA 2000 development teams, the Company has continued the development and improvement of its CAMA software products, including work on the newest ProVal releases, ProVal Plus and MVP CAMA, for Ohio. These efforts are also intended to more tightly integrate the Company's CAMA software offerings with its tax products.

          The result of this research and development is expected to be a robust, highly-scalable, feature-rich suite of products built on a common, reliable, scalable architecture centered around Microsoft's .NET platform. Through these efforts, the Company seeks to provide an outstanding product that it could deploy across its entire client-base. The Company remains committed to this ambitious and rewarding goal.

Suppliers

          The Company generally maintains more than one alternative supplier. All computers, peripherals, disks, printers, plotters, digitizers, operating system software, office automation software, and other equipment required by the Company presently are available from at least two sources. Hardware is

purchased on original equipment manufacturer or distributor terms at discounts from retail. The Company has not experienced any significant supply problems.

Backlog

          At April 30, 2002, the Company's backlog of orders for hardware, software, and services (including mass real estate appraisal) was approximately $19.2 million, compared with approximately $20.7 million at April 30, 2001. This backlog value does not include recurring revenue associated with monthly, quarterly, and annual support and maintenance contracts, which accounted for approximately 35% and 31% of net revenues in fiscal 2002 and 2001, respectively. Backlog for the Company's software and services business can fluctuate significantly from quarter to quarter primarily because of the seasonality of government ordering patterns. Accordingly, a comparison of backlog from quarter to quarter is not necessarily informative and may not be indicative of eventual actual shipments. See Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for further information concerning the Company's backlog of orders.

Intellectual Property

          The Company regards certain features of its operations, products and services to be confidential and proprietary and relies on measures such as contractual restrictions and trade secret laws to protect its intellectual property. Due to the rapid rate of technological development in the computer software industry, the Company believes that protection of intellectual property is less important than the knowledge, ability and experience of the Company's employees, frequency of improvements, and timeliness and quality of support services.

          The Company incorporates programming on software disks to make unauthorized duplication of the software more difficult. The Company typically licenses its software products under exclusive license agreements, which are generally non-transferable and have a perpetual term. The Company does not have any patents. The Company has registered certain trademarks and may apply for registration of additional trademarks at appropriate times in the future.

Environmental

          Due to the nature of the Company's business, compliance with federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations governing discharges into the environment is not a significant issue nor is it expected to have a material effect upon future capital expenditures, earnings, or competitive position of the Company.

Employees

          As of June 30, 2002, the Company had 362 full-time employees, 21 duration employees, 29 temporary employees, and 9 part-time employees. For assistance on specific mass appraisal projects, the Company hires duration and temporary employees, whose employment generally lasts for the duration of a project. Duration and temporary employees generally do not receive the same benefits as regular full-time employees.

          An approximate breakdown of the Company's full time employees is as follows:

          The principal executive and administration offices are located in a building owned by Manatron in Portage, Michigan, which consists of approximately 25,000 square feet. Fifty percent of this building is owned by the Company. The Company's Software Systems and Services segment rents office and/or warehouse space in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The Company's Appraisal Services segment rents office space in Ohio and New York. Rental payments for the Company's leased office and warehouse space for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2002, totaled approximately $917,000.

          Management considers all of its offices to be well maintained, in good operating condition, and suitable and adequate for their intended purposes.

          The Company is not a party to any material pending legal proceedings other than routine litigation incidental to its business. In the opinion of management, the liabilities resulting from these proceedings, if any, will not be material to the Company's consolidated financial position or results of operations. See Note 11 (Contingent Liabilities) to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information concerning legal proceedings involving the Company, which is incorporated herein by reference.

          No matter was submitted during the fourth quarter of the fiscal year covered by this Annual Report to a vote of security holders, through the solicitation of proxies or otherwise.

Supplemental Item.          Executive Officers of the Registrant.

          Executive officers of the Company are generally elected by the Board of Directors at its organizational meeting following the annual meeting of shareholders and serve until their successors are elected and qualified.

          The following information includes the names and ages of the executive officers of the Company who are not directors as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the officers' present position with the Company, and the business experience of the officers during the past five years.

          Mary Gephart (age 43) has been the Vice President of Human Resources and Administration since July of 2002. She joined the Company in 1994 as the Manager of Human Resources. Ms. Gephart served in that position until 1998 when she was promoted to Director of Human Resources. In July of 2000, Ms. Gephart was promoted to Vice President of Human Resources and in July of 2002, Administration was added to her title. She is primarily responsible for directing and coordinating human

resources activities, such as employment, compensation, employee relations, benefits, training, and employee services.

          Krista L. Inosencio (age 28) was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in July of 2002. She joined the Company in March of 2000 as the Director of Accounting and Finance. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Inosencio was employed by Arthur Andersen LLP, an accounting firm, and worked in the audit division from 1995 through 2000. She is primarily responsible for accounting, insurance, banking, purchasing, securities compliance and taxes.

          G. William McKinzie (age 36) has been Chief Operating Officer since July of 2002. He joined the Company in April 2002 as an Executive Vice President. Prior to joining Manatron, Mr. McKinzie served as Vice President of Information Services for Kellogg Company's International operations, based in Battle Creek, Michigan from 2001 to 2002. From 1996 through 2000, Mr. McKinzie also served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer of both Kellogg's European operations based in the United Kingdom and its Latin American operations based in Mexico. He is primarily responsible for product management, including marketing, support, pricing and strategy.

          Early L. Stephens (age 39) has served as Chief Technology Officer since June of 1996 when he rejoined the Company. He originally joined the Company in 1986 and worked as a programmer/analyst until 1988. From 1988 until June of 1996, Mr. Stephens was a Project Manager in the Management Information Systems department at Western Michigan University where he successfully led the migration from legacy software applications to client/server and web-based applications. He is primarily responsible for all software product development and the establishment of technology standards for the Company's products and services.

PART II

          Manatron's common stock is traded over-the-counter and is regularly quoted on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market under the symbol "MANA."

          The following table shows the range of high and low bid information reported by the Nasdaq SmallCap Market for the years ended April 30, 2002 and 2001:

          These over-the-counter market quotations reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail markup, markdown or commissions, and may not necessarily represent actual transactions.

          The Company historically has not paid cash dividends. The Company has, however, distributed 5% stock dividends in 1992, 1993, and 1994. The Company currently does not anticipate paying cash or stock dividends on its common stock in the foreseeable future, but instead intends to retain its earnings, if any, for the operation and expansion of the Company's business.

          As of July 1, 2002, the Company's common stock was held by approximately 1,300 shareholders, 235 of which were record holders.

          The following table sets forth selected financial data of the Company and its subsidiary for the fiscal years ended April 30, and has been derived from and should be read in connection with the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements, the related notes and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" appearing elsewhere in this Form 10-K or in Form 10-K's previously filed by the Company.

Five-Year Operating and Financial Summary

          The following section provides a narrative discussion about Manatron's financial condition, changes in financial condition and results of operations. The comments that follow should be read in conjunction with the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes thereto appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

          Management's discussion and analysis of its results of operations and financial condition are based upon the Company's consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires the Company to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. On an on-going basis, the Company evaluates its estimates, including those related to intangible assets, bad debts, long-term service contracts, contingencies and litigation. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sou rces. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. The Company believes the following critical accounting policies affect its more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of its consolidated financial statements.

          The Company maintains allowances for doubtful accounts, including billed retainages, which are provided at the time the revenue is recognized. The Company also provides for reserves on revenues earned in excess of billings and retainages on long-term contracts. Because of the nature of its customers, which are predominantly governmental entities, the Company does not generally incur losses resulting from the inability of its customers to make required payments. Alternatively, customers may become dissatisfied with the functionality of the software products and/or the quality of the services provided and request a reduction to the aggregate contract price. While the Company engages in extensive product and service quality programs and processes, the Company's allowances for such contract price reductions are continually monitored by management. In connection with its customer contracts and the related adequacy of its reserves and measures of progress towards completi on, the Company's project managers are charged with the responsibility of continually reviewing the status of each customer on a specific contract basis. In addition, management reviews on a quarterly basis significant past due account receivables and the related adequacy of the Company's reserves.

          For software arrangements that include customization of the software which is considered essential to its functionality and for real estate appraisal outsourcing projects, the Company recognizes revenue and profit as the work progresses using the percentage-of-completion method. This method relies on estimates of total expected contract revenue, billings and collections and expected contract costs. The Company follows this method since reasonably dependable estimates of the revenue and costs applicable to various stages of a contract can be made. At times, the Company performs additional and/or non-contractual services for little to no incremental fee, to satisfy the customers expectations. Recognized revenues and profit are subject to revisions such as the type just described as the contract progresses to completion. Revisions to future profit estimates are charged to income in the period in which the facts that give rise to the revision first become known.

          The Company evaluates the carrying amounts of tangible and intangible assets annually to determine if they may be impaired. If the carrying amounts of the assets are not recoverable based upon undiscounted cash flow analysis, they are reduced by the estimated shortfall of fair value compared to the recorded value.

Results of Operations:  Fiscal Year 2002 Compared to Fiscal Year 2001

          Net revenues of $11,424,743 and $41,131,718 for the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2002, were comparable to the net revenues of $11,412,226 and $41,126,586 that were reported for the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2001. However, the prior year three and twelve month revenues included $925,000 and $1,850,000, respectively, of non-recurring retention revenue associated with

Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) described below. When these amounts are excluded, net revenues actually increased by 9% and 5% for the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2002, respectively, over the prior year comparable periods. Net revenues generally include software license fees, hardware sales, forms and supplies sales, and various related services, such as mass real estate appraisals (revaluations), software support, data conversions, installation, training, project management, hardware maintenance, forms processing and printing.

          Excluding the $925,000 and $1,850,000 of retention revenue noted above, Appraisal Service segment net revenues have decreased by approximately 18% and 21% for the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2002, in comparison to the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2001. The Allegheny County project accounted for 2% of the Appraisal Service segment's net revenues for the year ended April 30, 2002 in comparison to 30% for the year ended April 30, 2001. The Company's backlog for appraisal services at April 30, 2002, decreased by approximately $5.6 million to $5.8 million compared to approximately $11.4 million at April 30, 2001. Both the decrease in current year revenues and backlog are due primarily to the wind down of the $24 million Allegheny County contract and the cyclical nature of this business. In particular, the Ohio market is on a six-year cycle and the Allegheny County project was an unusually large and non-recurring contract. While the Company has been actively pursuing new business to replenish the backlog for appraisal services, its efforts are being confined to its traditional markets in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania where it has historically had a more profitable execution rate.

          As noted in the prior year, the Company had reserved 100% of retainage revenue related to the Allegheny County appraisal project and 15% of the retainage revenue on all other appraisal service projects due to the high degree of uncertainty regarding their ultimate collection associated with the political nature of this segment. Typically, the end result of appraisal service contracts is increased property valuations and taxes for many county constituents, which results in additional work on the back end of these contracts to defend challenged values. During the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2001, the Company collected and recognized approximately $925,000 and $1,850,000, respectively, of retention revenue on the Allegheny County project. As of April 30, 2002 and 2001, the total reserve against retainage revenue remaining under all appraisal service projects (including Allegheny County) was approximately $777,000 and $869,000, respectively. As of April 30, 2 002 and 2001, the total reserve against retainage revenue remaining under the Allegheny County project was approximately $418,000 and $260,000, respectively. The Company continues to believe it is appropriate to reserve 100% of the remaining unpaid Allegheny retention as well as certain other monies due for the performance of services since certain officials at Allegheny County have continually contested the payment of such amounts and their ultimate collection is pending an order from the judge who initially ordered the reassessment.

          Software Systems and Services segment revenues increased by approximately 21% and 18% for the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2002, versus the prior year comparable periods. This growth is primarily attributable to the execution of a number of new MVP Tax and MVP Tax Manager software contracts in the Florida, Indiana, and Ohio regions as well as a number of new ProVal contract executions in the Indiana region. In addition, overall business has picked up given that the prior year was negatively impacted by the national election and the post-Y2K slowdown.

          Cost of revenues of $6,987,375 for the three months ended April 30, 2002 decreased 4.2% compared to $7,291,356 for the three months ended April 30, 2001. Annual cost of revenues decreased by 6.7% from $27,649,284 in the prior fiscal year to $25,799,035 for the year ended April 30, 2002. These decreases are primarily due to the reduction in appraisal service revenues noted above. Cost of revenues for the current year were adversely effected by approximately $1 million due to a number of appraisal service contracts in the Northeast that were not completed on time or on budget. However, there still was an 8% improvement in gross margins for both the three and twelve-month periods ended April 30, 2002 over the comparable prior year periods, when the impact of the Allegheny retention

revenue mentioned above is excluded, as the costs associated with these revenues were incurred in prior periods. This is due to a favorable shift in the mix of revenues from appraisal services to software and services. Software license fees typically yield a higher gross margin than appraisal services revenues and have become a larger portion of total revenues, year over year.

          Selling, general, and administrative expenses have increased by approximately 9% to $4,089,952 for the three months ended April 30, 2002 compared to $3,736,722 for the three months ended April 30, 2001. Selling, general, and administrative expenses have increased 2.7% from $14,338,249 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2001 to $14,729,624 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2002. These increases are primarly due to increases in workers' compensation premiums, salary increases, a ramp up in sales and marketing activities and higher sales commissions over the prior year comparable period.

          As a result of the factors noted above, the Company reported substantial improvements in its operating income. Excluding the impact of the retention revenue noted above, operating income increased $888,268 for the three months and $3,314,006 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2002. Net interest income for the twelve months ended April 30, 2002, was approximately $55,000 compared to net interest expense of $254,000 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2001. This improvement is directly related to the reduction in the Company's bank borrowings and increase in cash balances.

          The Company's provision for federal income taxes generally fluctuates with the level of pretax income. The effective tax rate for both the three and twelve month periods ended April 30, 2002 was approximately 64%. This effective tax rate is substantially higher than the statutory rate of 34% primarily because of the large amount of non-deductible goodwill amortization related to certain of the Company's acquisitions relative to the level of pretax income.

          As a result of the factors noted above, the Company reported a $111,360 increase in its net income to $151,223 or $.04 per diluted share for the three months ended April 30, 2002, compared to $39,863 or $.01 per diluted share for the comparable period in the prior fiscal year. In addition, the Company reported a $1,168,344 increase in its net income of $227,714 or $.06 per diluted share for the year ended April 30, 2002, versus a net loss of $940,630 or $.27 per diluted share for the year ended April 30, 2001. Diluted weighted average outstanding common shares increased by approximately 328,000 shares for the twelve months ended April 30, 2002, compared to the prior year. This increase was primarily due to the fact that potentially dilutive shares were excluded from the earnings per share calculations in the prior year due to the net loss that was reported.

Results of Operations:  Fiscal Year 2001 Compared to Fiscal Year 2000

          Net revenues of $11,412,226 for the three months ended April 30, 2001, increased 5.2% over the net revenues of $10,848,579 that were reported for the fourth quarter in fiscal 2000. Net revenues of $41,126,586 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2001, were 5.8% lower than the $43,645,377 of net revenues that were reported for the twelve months ended April 30, 2000. The components of revenues were essentially the same as noted for fiscal 2002.

          Excluding the Allegheny County retention revenue discussed below, Appraisal Service segment revenues decreased by approximately 32% and 26%, respectively, for the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2001, in comparison to the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2000. These decreases were primarily attributed to the cyclical nature of the appraisal services market and the wind down of the Allegheny County project, which was substantially completed as of April 30, 2001. The Allegheny project accounted for 11% of the Company's net revenues for the year ended April 30, 2001 in comparison to 19% for the year ended April 30, 2000. In addition, the Company had a few jobs on the East Coast that were behind schedule and, accordingly, the related revenues were lower than initially

anticipated. The Company's backlog for appraisal services at April 30, 2001, decreased by approximately $3.5 million to $11.4 million compared to approximately $14.9 million at April 30, 2000.

          As noted previously, the Company had reserved 100% of retainage revenue related to the Allegheny County appraisal project and 15% of the retainage revenue on all other appraisal service projects due to the high degree of judgment involved in estimating the percentage of completion on these projects and the uncertainty regarding their ultimate collection. During the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2001, the Company collected and recognized approximately $925,000 and $1,850,000, respectively, of retention revenue on the Allegheny County project. As of April 30, 2001 and 2000, the total reserve against retainage revenue remaining under all appraisal service projects (including Allegheny County) was $868,636 and $1,992,093, respectively. As of April 30, 2001 and 2000, the total reserve against retainage revenue remaining under the Allegheny County project was $260,000 and $1,854,394, respectively.

          Software Systems and Services segment revenues increased by approximately 19% for the three months ended April 30, 2001 versus the fiscal 2000 comparable quarter; however, they were flat for the year ended April 30, 2001 in comparison with fiscal 2000. The growth in the fourth quarter was attributed to the execution of various MVP Tax contracts in Indiana. Revenues associated with hardware and software sales declined in aggregate over the prior year due to a significant reduction in new sales due to the fact that 2000 was an election year for many of our customers. In addition, many local government officials scaled back their systems spending following all of the Y2K upgrades that took place in the prior year. Growth in recurring software support, primarily attributable to the CPS acquisition, allowed the Company's revenues to remain comparable overall with prior year revenue levels.

          Cost of revenues of $7,291,356 for the three months ended April 30, 2001, increased 2.8% compared to $7,093,056 for the three months ended April 30, 2000. Annual cost of revenues decreased by 4.9% from $29,058,922 in fiscal 2000 to $27,649,284 for the year ended April 30, 2001. These changes were primarily due to the movement in net revenues noted above. Margins between years were comparable at 33%. However, when you exclude the $925,000 of retention revenue recognized during the three months ended April 30, 2001, and $1,850,000 of retention revenue recognized during the year ended April 30, 2001, gross margin declined by approximately 4% to approximately 30% for both the three and twelve months ended April 30, 2001. This decrease was primarily related to the fixed nature of labor costs, which do not fluctuate immediately with declined revenue levels.

          Selling, general, and administrative expense increased by approximately 11.8% to $3,736,722 for the three months ended April 30, 2001 compared to $3,342,500 for the three months ended April 30, 2000. Selling, general, and administrative expenses increased 14.6% from $12,506,825 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2000 to $14,338,249 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2001. These increases were due to a full year of goodwill amortization and overhead costs associated with the CPS Systems acquisition, significant investments in research and development, a decreasing trend in capitalized software development costs and increased sales and marketing activities. Also, Manatron experienced higher personnel-related costs in the fourth quarter because of a number of new hires to handle the additional software business and higher-than-usual workers' compensation and health insurance expenses, which Manatron partially self-funds. The amount of software capitalized declined by 54% from approximately $870,000 to $397,000 for the years ended April 30, 2000 and 2001, respectively. Finally, deferred compensation expense increased from approximately $324,000 to $394,000 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2001, as a result of restricted stock grants in fiscal 2001, including those associated with the Manatron, Inc. Executive Stock Plan of 2000, which was approved at the 2000 Annual Shareholders' meeting.

          As a result of the factors noted above, the Company reported slightly lower operating income of $384,148 for the three months ended April 30, 2001, versus operating income of $413,023 for the three

months ended April 30, 2000. For the year ended April 30, 2001 a net operating loss of $860,947 was reported versus operating income of $2,079,630 for fiscal 2000.

          Interest expense increased from $41,712 for the year ended April 30, 2000 to $331,844 for the year ended April 30, 2001 due to the use of cash and debt required to fund operations in fiscal 2001, the acquisitions of CPS Systems, Inc. and ProVal Corporation, and the purchase of a new corporate office building in fiscal 2000.

          As noted previously, the Company's provision for federal income taxes generally fluctuates with the level of pretax income. In addition, the effective tax rate generally is impacted because of non-deductible goodwill amortization related to the Company's acquisitions. However, in fiscal 2001, the Company recorded a credit for federal taxes of $174,000 due to the net loss position for that year.

          As a result of the factors noted above, the Company reported a 87.7% decrease in its net income to $39,863 or $.01 per diluted share for the three months ended April 30, 2001, versus income of $322,800 or $.09 per diluted share for the comparable period in the fiscal 2000. In addition, the Company reported a net loss of $940,630 or $.27 per diluted share for the year ended April 30, 2001, versus income of $1,603,845 or $.45 per diluted share for the year ended April 30, 2000.

Quarterly Results

          The following table sets forth selected unaudited quarterly financial data for the last eight quarters: