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Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

  

28405 Van Dyke Avenue

Warren, Michigan 48093

www.AssetAcceptance.com

Contact:

Mary Arraf

Asset Acceptance Capital Corp.

586-983-7087 / marraf@assetacceptance.com

Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results

Earnings per fully diluted share for the full year 2012 of $0.35; strong quarter of investment in
purchased receivables

Warren, Mich., March 6, 2013 – Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: AACC), a leading purchaser and collector of charged-off consumer debt, today reported results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.

In a separate press release, the Company also announced today that it had entered into an agreement in which Encore Capital Group, Inc. will acquire Asset Acceptance for $6.50 per share for a total equity value of approximately $200 million.

Fourth Quarter 2012 Financial Highlights

Cash collections for the fourth quarter of 2012 increased 4.3% compared to the same period of the prior year, to $85.7 million.

Fourth quarter revenues were $51.7 million, a decrease of 8.3% from the prior year period. The Company reported net impairments on purchased receivables of $0.9 million, which decreased revenues for the quarter, versus net impairment reversals of $2.6 million in the prior year period.

Rion Needs, President and CEO of Asset Acceptance Capital Corp, commented: “During the fourth quarter we continued to focus on our key initiatives, specifically, growing legal channel collections as well as identifying and implementing initiatives to improve our cost structure and productivity. Mr. Needs continued, “We continued to show progress in key performance metrics and have ambitious goals to further improve efficiency. While industry dynamics remained challenging, particularly the supply and pricing of charged-off receivables, we believe we remain well positioned to reach our operational and profitability goals in 2013 and beyond.”

Operating expenses were $46.8 million, an increase of $1.6 million compared to the prior year period. Results reflected a continued strategic investment in the Company’s legal channel and an increase in the related up-front costs ahead of associated collections. Legal investments increased to $9.4 million during the quarter compared to $7.2 million in the prior year period. Operating expenses also included restructuring charges in the fourth quarter of 2012 and 2011 of $0.4 million and $0.1 million, respectively. The restructuring charges were related to actions taken to close the Tempe, AZ and San Antonio, TX collection offices. Cost to collect for the quarter was 54.7%, an improvement of 40 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2011.

The Company reported net income of $0.2 million or $0.01 per fully diluted share during the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to net income of $4.2 million or $0.14 per fully diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2011. Results for the fourth quarter of 2011 included a charge of $1.1 million for the extinguishment of debt related to the refinancing the Company completed in November 2011.

Adjusted Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (“Adjusted EBITDA”) was $40.7 million, a 5.9% increase from $38.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. Please see a reconciliation of net income according to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) to Adjusted EBITDA on page 13.


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The Company acquired $60.9 million in charged-off consumer receivables with a face value of $1,334.4 million for a blended rate of 4.56% of face value. This compares to the prior year period when the Company purchased $26.7 million in charged-off consumer receivables with a face value of $1,180.0 million for a blended rate of 2.26% of face value. All purchase data is adjusted for buybacks.

Full Year 2012 Financial Highlights:

Cash collections for 2012 were $367.8 million compared to $350.0 million for 2011, an increase of 5.1%.

For the full year, revenues increased 4.1% to $226.9 million from $218.1 million in 2011. Net impairment reversals for the full year of 2012 were $8.5 million compared to net impairment reversals of $6.2 million for 2011.

Operating expenses were $192.1 million, or 52.2% of cash collections for 2012, an increase of $6.9 million from 2011 when operating expenses were 52.9% of cash collections. Results reflected a continued strategic investment in the Company’s legal channel and an increase in the related up-front costs ahead of associated collections. Legal investments increased to $35.2 million during the year compared to $28.6 million in the prior year. Operating expenses included restructuring charges in 2012 and 2011 of $0.7 million and $0.1 million, respectively. The restructuring charges were related to actions taken to close the Tempe, AZ and San Antonio, TX collection offices. The Company also recorded $1.7 million of charges related to settlement of an FTC matter in 2011. FTC charges were included as a component of “Administrative expense”.

The Company reported net income of $10.9 million, or $0.35 per fully diluted share, for 2012 compared to net income of $12.0 million, or $0.39 per fully diluted share in 2011. During 2011, the Company recorded a charge of $1.1 million for the extinguishment of debt related to the refinancing the Company completed in November.

Adjusted EBITDA for 2012 was $183.2 million, a 6.0% increase from $172.9 million in 2011.

The Company acquired $164.7 million of charged-off consumer receivables with a face value of $4,980.5 million for a blended rate of 3.31% of face value in 2012. This compares to the prior year when the Company purchased $160.6 million in charged-off consumer receivables with a face value of $5,320.6 million for a blended rate of 3.02% of face value. All purchase data is adjusted for buybacks.

Fourth Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call

Given the aforementioned acquisition by Encore Capital Group, Inc., the Company will no longer host its previously scheduled earnings call this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. Eastern.


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About Asset Acceptance Capital Corp.

For over 50 years, Asset Acceptance has provided credit originators, such as credit card issuers, consumer finance companies, retail merchants, utilities and others an efficient alternative in recovering defaulted consumer debt. For more information, please visit www.AssetAcceptance.com.

Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains certain statements, including the Company’s plans and expectations regarding its operating strategies, charged-off receivables, collections and costs, which are forward-looking statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include reference to the Company’s presentations and webcasts. These forward-looking statements reflect the Company’s views, expectations and beliefs at the time such statements were made with respect to such matters, as well as the Company’s future plans, objectives, events, portfolio purchases and pricing, collections and financial results such as revenues, expenses, income, earnings per share, capital expenditures, operating margins, financial position, expected results of operations and other financial items. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions (“Risk Factors”) that make the timing, extent, likelihood and degree of occurrence of these matters difficult to predict. Words such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “should,” “could,” “will,” variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.

There are a number of factors, many of which are beyond the Company’s control, which could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These Risk Factors include the Risk Factors discussed under “Item 1A Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and in other SEC filings, in each case under a section titled “Risk Factors” or similar headings and those discussions regarding risk factors as well as the discussion of forward-looking statements in such sections are incorporated herein by reference. Other Risk Factors exist, and new Risk Factors emerge from time to time that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Factors that could affect our results and cause them to materially differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements include the following:

 

   

failure to comply with government regulation;

 

   

limitation on our ability to collect under federal, state and local laws;

 

   

unknown effect of additional regulation under the Dodd-Frank Act;

 

   

our ability to purchase charged-off receivable portfolios or purchase on acceptable terms and in sufficient amounts;

 

   

intense competition that could impair our ability to achieve our goals;

 

   

instability in the financial markets and continued economic weakness or recession impacting our ability to acquire and collect on charged-off receivable portfolios and our operating results;

 

   

our ability to maintain existing, and to secure additional financing on acceptable terms;

 

   

the costs, uncertainties and other effects of legal and administrative proceedings impacting our ability to collect on judgments in our favor;


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changes in relationships with third parties collecting on our behalf;

 

   

ongoing risks of litigation in our litigious industry, including individual and class actions under consumer credit, collections and other laws;

 

   

our ability to respond to technology downtime and changes in technology to remain competitive;

 

   

our ability to substantiate our application of tax rules against examinations and challenges made by tax authorities;

 

   

concentration of a significant portion of our portfolio purchases during any period with a small number of sellers;

 

   

our ability to make reasonable estimates of the timing and amount of future cash receipts and assumptions underlying the calculation of the net impairment charges or IRR increases for purposes of recording purchased receivable revenues;

 

   

our ability to collect sufficient amounts from our purchases of charged-off receivable portfolios;

 

   

our ability to diversify beyond collecting on our purchased receivables portfolios into ancillary lines of business;

 

   

our ability to successfully hire, train, integrate into our collections operations and retain in-house account representatives;

 

   

a decrease in collections as a result of negative attention or news regarding the debt collection industry and debtors’ willingness to pay the debt we acquire; and

 

   

other unanticipated events and conditions that may hinder our ability to compete.

Given these risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. Furthermore, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update, amend or clarify forward-looking statements.


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Supplemental Financial Data

Quarterly trends for certain financial metrics are shown in the table below.

 

(Unaudited, $ in Millions, except collections per account representative)    Q4 ‘12     Q3 ‘12     Q2 ‘12     Q1 ‘12     Q4 ‘11  

Total revenues

   $ 51.7      $ 54.7      $ 58.7      $ 61.8      $ 56.4   

Cash collections

   $ 85.7      $ 89.2      $ 91.9      $ 101.1      $ 82.1   

Operating expenses to cash collections

     54.7     54.5     52.7     47.8     55.1

Call center collections

   $ 39.2      $ 44.1      $ 48.8      $ 58.7      $ 44.7   

Legal collections

   $ 46.5      $ 45.1      $ 43.1      $ 42.4      $ 37.4   

Amortization rate

     39.8     39.0     36.4     39.1     31.6

Core amortization (1)

     45.1     44.4     42.0     44.7     36.9

Collections on fully amortized portfolios

   $ 10.0      $ 10.9      $ 12.2      $ 12.7      $ 11.8   

Investment in purchased receivables (2)

   $ 60.9      $ 23.9      $ 58.7      $ 21.1      $ 26.7   

Face value of purchased receivables (2)

   $ 1,334.4      $ 766.1      $ 2,076.4      $ 803.5      $ 1,180.0   

Average cost of purchased receivables (2)

     4.56     3.13     2.83     2.63     2.26

Number of purchased receivable portfolios

     40        17        28        27        26   

Collections per account representative FTE (3)

   $ 65,608      $ 47,593      $ 49,873      $ 60,482      $ 42,282   

Average account representative FTE’s (3)

     271        413        446        480        546   

 

(1) The core amortization rate is calculated as total amortization divided by collections on amortizing portfolios.
(2) All purchase data is adjusted for buybacks.
(3) Historical information has not been adjusted for collection center closings.


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The Company provided the following details of purchased receivable revenues by year of purchase:

 

     Three months ended December 31, 2012  

Year of

Purchase

   Collections      Revenue      Amortization
Rate (1)
    Monthly
Yield (2)
    Net
Impairments

(Reversals)
    Zero Basis
Collections
 

2007 and prior

   $ 16,260,135       $ 11,996,775         N/M        N/M      $ 264,000      $ 9,242,311   

2008

     7,156,962         4,636,696         35.2     7.63     —          763,427   

2009

     11,355,315         7,549,136         33.5        8.11        —          27,783   

2010

     13,602,296         7,648,238         43.8        4.38        —          —     

2011

     21,770,722         10,510,392         51.7        3.22        656,000        —     

2012

     15,518,400         9,212,228         40.6        2.84        —          —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

        

 

 

   

 

 

 

Totals

   $ 85,663,830       $ 51,553,465         39.8     4.96   $ 920,000      $ 10,033,521   
  

 

 

    

 

 

        

 

 

   

 

 

 
     Three months ended December 31, 2011  

Year of

Purchase

   Collections      Revenue      Amortization
Rate (1)
    Monthly
Yield (2)
    Net
Impairments

(Reversals)
    Zero Basis
Collections
 

2006 and prior

   $ 17,357,551       $ 15,255,161         N/M        N/M      $ (2,271,500   $ 10,456,372   

2007

     7,538,493         3,812,409         49.4     5.32     (287,000     174,322   

2008

     9,796,825         5,862,608         40.2        5.74        —          1,152,640   

2009

     14,391,756         9,314,485         35.3        6.21        —          24,694   

2010

     16,340,975         8,750,466         46.5        3.21        —          —     

2011

     16,678,314         13,168,059         21.0        3.17        —          —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

        

 

 

   

 

 

 

Totals

   $ 82,103,914       $ 56,163,188         31.6     5.34   $ (2,558,500   $ 11,808,028   
  

 

 

    

 

 

        

 

 

   

 

 

 
     Year ended December 31, 2012  

Year of

Purchase

   Collections      Revenue      Amortization
Rate (1)
    Monthly
Yield (2)
    Net
Impairments
(Reversals)
    Zero Basis
Collections
 

2007 and prior

   $ 82,771,834       $ 67,738,984         N/M        N/M      $ (10,237,000   $ 41,467,615   

2008

     35,678,469         22,836,556         36.0     7.65     —          4,182,909   

2009

     54,963,200         36,874,552         32.9        8.12        (2,304,000     177,780   

2010

     64,486,104         32,964,588         48.9        3.93        —          —     

2011

     94,940,993         45,066,231         52.5        2.93        4,083,000        —     

2012

     34,993,346         20,568,316         41.2        2.90        —          —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

        

 

 

   

 

 

 

Totals

   $ 367,833,946       $ 226,049,227         38.5     5.45   $ (8,458,000   $ 45,828,304   
  

 

 

    

 

 

        

 

 

   

 

 

 
     Year ended December 31, 2011  

Year of

Purchase

   Collections      Revenue      Amortization
Rate (1)
    Monthly
Yield (2)
    Net
Impairments
(Reversals)
    Zero Basis
Collections
 

2006 and prior

   $ 79,506,740       $ 65,073,002         N/M        N/M      $ (8,344,400   $ 43,649,643   

2007

     36,610,606         17,261,410         52.9     4.65     (170,000     1,037,961   

2008

     47,668,069         25,465,249         46.6        5.02        —          5,965,147   

2009

     69,121,427         38,523,502         44.3        5.28        2,304,000        36,428   

2010

     76,629,430         38,987,433         49.1        3.09        —          —     

2011

     40,462,024         31,609,322         21.9        3.25        —          —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

        

 

 

   

 

 

 

Totals

   $ 349,998,296       $ 216,919,918         38.0     5.34   $ (6,210,400   $ 50,689,179   
  

 

 

    

 

 

        

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1) “N/M” indicates that the calculated percentage is not meaningful.
(2) The monthly yield is the weighted-average yield determined by dividing purchased receivable revenues recognized in the period by the average of the beginning monthly carrying values of the purchased receivables for the period presented.


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Purchased Receivable Revenues

The table on the following page shows components of revenue from purchased receivables, the amortization rate and the core amortization rate. We use the core amortization rate to monitor performance of pools with remaining balances, and to determine if impairments, impairment reversals, or yield increases should be recorded. Core amortization trends may identify over or under performance compared to forecasts for pools with remaining balances.

The following factors contributed to the change in amortization rates from prior years:

 

   

Total amortization and the amortization rate increased for the quarter and full year 2012 compared to prior year periods. The amortization rate increased primarily because of higher collections on amortizing pools and lower zero basis collections. Portfolio balances that amortize too slowly in relation to current or expected collections may lead to impairments. If portfolio balances amortize too quickly and we expect collections to continue to exceed expectations, previously recognized impairments may be reversed, or if there are no impairments to reverse, we may increase assigned yields;

 

   

total amortization of receivables balances for the quarter and full year 2012 increased compared to prior year periods as a result of higher collections on amortizing pools;

 

   

net impairments are recorded as additional amortization, and increase the amortization rate, while net reversals have the opposite effect. Net impairments in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to net impairment reversals in the prior year contributed to the higher quarterly amortization rate, while higher net impairment reversals during the full year 2012 reduced total amortization compared to the prior year; and

 

   

declining zero basis collections for the fourth quarter and full year 2012 compared to prior year periods increased the amortization rate because 100% of these collections are recorded as revenue and do not contribute towards portfolio amortization.


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     Three Months  Ended
December 31,
    Twelve Months  Ended
December 31,
 
($ in millions)    2012     2011     2012     2011  

Cash collections:

        

Collections on amortizing pools

   $ 75.7      $ 70.3      $ 322.0      $ 299.3   

Zero basis collections

     10.0        11.8        45.8        50.7   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total collections

   $ 85.7      $ 82.1      $ 367.8      $ 350.0   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Amortization:

        

Amortization of receivables balances

   $ 33.2      $ 28.3      $ 150.1      $ 137.3   

Impairments

     0.9        —          4.3        2.8   

Reversals of impairments

     —          (2.6     (12.8     (9.0

Cost recovery amortization

     —          0.2        0.2        2.0   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total amortization

   $ 34.1      $ 25.9      $ 141.8      $ 133.1   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Purchased receivable revenues, net

   $ 51.6      $ 56.2      $ 226.0      $ 216.9   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Amortization rate

     39.8     31.6     38.5     38.0

Core amortization rate (1)

     45.1     36.9     44.0     44.5

 

(1) The core amortization rate is calculated as total amortization divided by collections on amortizing portfolios.


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Asset Acceptance Capital Corp.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

(Unaudited)

 

     Three months ended December 31 ,     Twelve months ended December 31,  
     2012     2011     2012     2011  

Revenues

        

Purchased receivable revenues, net

   $ 51,553,465      $ 56,163,188      $ 226,049,227      $ 216,919,918   

Gain on sale of purchased receivables

     1        —          7,728        —     

Other revenues, net

     149,959        212,940        884,233        1,156,150   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenues

     51,703,425        56,376,128        226,941,188        218,076,068   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Expenses

        

Salaries and benefits

     13,618,963        15,772,454        59,500,796        67,475,414   

Collections expense

     28,047,406        24,875,873        112,830,333        98,704,750   

Occupancy

     1,307,773        1,420,091        5,595,393        5,722,350   

Administrative

     2,355,175        1,834,531        8,874,206        9,025,145   

Depreciation and amortization

     1,132,327        1,171,646        4,788,112        4,166,279   

Restructuring charges

     367,987        74,664        726,454        74,664   

(Gain) loss on disposal of equipment and other assets

     6,907        82,116        (167,544     (4,066
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     46,836,538        45,231,375        192,147,750        185,164,536   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income from operations

     4,866,887        11,144,753        34,793,438        32,911,532   

Other income (expense)

        

Interest expense

     (4,935,171     (3,828,286     (20,768,016     (11,760,564

Interest income

     5,267        39        28,152        322   

Loss on extinguishment of debt

     —          (1,110,850     —          (1,110,850

Other

     (24,871     (30,412     8,708        (32,052
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income (loss) before income taxes

     (87,888     6,175,244        14,062,282        20,008,388   

Income tax expense (benefit)

     (324,921     1,965,691        3,144,701        7,983,828   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

   $ 237,033      $ 4,209,553      $ 10,917,581      $ 12,024,560   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted-average number of shares:

        

Basic

     30,925,324        30,794,320        30,883,936        30,763,388   

Diluted

     31,112,684        30,828,366        31,057,465        30,833,245   

Earnings (loss) per common share outstanding:

        

Basic

   $ 0.01      $ 0.14      $ 0.35      $ 0.39   

Diluted

   $ 0.01      $ 0.14      $ 0.35      $ 0.39   


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Asset Acceptance Capital Corp.

Consolidated Statements of Financial Position

 

     December 31,
2012
    December 31,
2011
 
ASSETS   

Cash

   $ 14,012,541      $ 6,990,757   

Purchased receivables, net

     370,899,893        348,710,787   

Income taxes receivable

     620,096        354,241   

Property and equipment, net

     12,568,066        14,488,659   

Goodwill

     14,323,071        14,323,071   

Other assets

     12,314,572        11,172,804   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 424,738,239      $ 396,040,319   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY   

Liabilities:

    

Accounts payable

   $ 3,467,348      $ 3,296,905   

Accrued liabilities

     22,416,766        20,018,561   

Income taxes payable

     426,353        1,925,761   

Notes payable

     182,911,146        172,122,870   

Capital lease obligations

     37,020        221,420   

Deferred tax liability, net

     65,422,456        60,474,041   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     274,681,089        258,059,558   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

    

Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding

     —          —     

Common stock, $0.01 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized; issued shares — 33,443,347 and 33,334,281 at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively

     334,433        333,343   

Additional paid in capital

     151,749,449        150,449,620   

Retained earnings

     40,080,226        29,162,645   

Accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax

     (548,948     (532,592

Common stock in treasury; at cost, 2,672,237 and 2,649,729 shares at December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively

     (41,558,010     (41,432,255
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

     150,057,150        137,980,761   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 424,738,239      $ 396,040,319   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 


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Asset Acceptance Capital Corp.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

 

     For the Years Ended December 31,  
     2012     2011  

Cash flows from operating activities

    

Net income (loss)

   $ 10,917,581      $ 12,024,560   

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:

    

Depreciation and amortization

     4,788,112        4,166,279   

Amortization of deferred financing costs and debt discount

     3,537,064        1,688,493   

Loss on extinguishment of debt

     —          1,110,850   

Amortization of de-designated hedge

     116,696        175,077   

Deferred income taxes

     4,847,149        6,919,657   

Share-based compensation expense

     1,266,880        1,012,272   

Net impairment reversal of purchased receivables

     (8,458,000     (6,210,400

Non-cash revenue

     (7,515     (2,276

(Gain) loss on disposal of equipment and other assets

     (167,544     (4,066

Gain on sale of purchased receivables

     (7,728     —     

Non-cash restructuring charges and impairment of assets

     198,103        11,982   

Changes in assets and liabilities:

    

(Increase) decrease in other assets

     (2,337,087     (2,478,970

(Decrease) increase in accounts payable and other accrued liabilities

     2,456,220        (2,950,657

(Increase) decrease in net income taxes receivable

     (1,765,263     3,924,457   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

     15,384,668        19,387,258   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities

    

Investment in purchased receivables, net of buybacks

     (164,061,855     (160,470,910

Principal collected on purchased receivables

     150,250,234        139,291,054   

Proceeds from sale of purchased receivables

     95,758        —     

Purchases of property and equipment

     (3,148,165     (5,781,414

Payments made for asset acquisition

     —          —     

Proceeds from sale of property and equipment

     354,576        99,000   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (16,509,452     (26,862,270
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities

    

Repayments of term loan facility

     (8,750,000     (133,359,956

Borrowings under term loan facility, net of discount

     —          163,625,000   

Net borrowings (repayments) on revolving credit facility

     17,200,000        (15,700,000

Payments of deferred financing costs

     (3,469     (5,515,070

Repayments of capital lease obligations

     (208,247     (113,143

Purchase of treasury shares

     (125,755     (106,565

Proceeds from stock options exercised

     34,039        —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

     8,146,568        8,830,266   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase in cash

     7,021,784        1,355,254   

Cash at beginning of year

     6,990,757        5,635,503   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash at end of year

   $ 14,012,541      $ 6,990,757   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information

    

Cash paid for interest, net of capitalized interest

   $ 17,408,043      $ 9,541,748   

Net cash paid (received) for income taxes

   $ 62,816      $ (2,860,286

Non-cash investing and financing activities:

    

Change in fair value of swap liability

   $ 31,786      $ (1,955,204

Change in unrealized loss on cash flow hedge

   $ (16,356   $ 1,147,778   

Capital lease obligations incurred

   $ 23,847      $ 132,084   


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Reconciliation of GAAP Net Income or Loss to Adjusted EBITDA (Unaudited)

This press release includes a discussion of “Adjusted EBITDA,” which is a non-GAAP financial measure. The Company defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income or loss plus (a) the provision for income taxes, (b) interest expense, (c) depreciation and amortization, (d) share-based compensation, (e) gain or loss on sale of assets, net, (f) non-cash restructuring charges and impairment of assets, (g) purchased receivables amortization, (h) loss on extinguishment of debt, and (i) in accordance with our Credit Agreement, certain FTC related charges and cash restructuring charges (not to exceed $2.25 million for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters).

The Company believes this non-GAAP financial measure provides important supplemental information to management and investors. This non-GAAP financial measure reflects an additional way of viewing aspects of the Company’s operations that, when viewed with the GAAP results and the accompanying reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting the Company’s business and results of operations.

Management uses Adjusted EBITDA for planning purposes, including the preparation of internal budgets and forecasts; in communications with the Board of Directors, stockholders, analysts and investors concerning its financial performance; as a key component in management’s annual incentive compensation plan; and as a measure of operating performance for the financial covenants in the Company’s amended credit agreement. The Company also believes that analysts and investors use Adjusted EBITDA as supplemental measures to evaluate the overall operating performance of companies in its industry.

Adjusted EBITDA, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, net income or loss prepared on a GAAP basis. Management strongly encourages investors to review the Company’s consolidated financial statements in their entirety and to not rely on any single financial measure. Because non-GAAP financial measures are not standardized, it may not be possible to compare this financial measure with other companies’ non-GAAP financial measures having the same or similar names. In addition, the Company expects to continue to incur expenses similar to the non-GAAP adjustments described above, and exclusion of these items from the Company’s non-GAAP measure should not be construed as an inference that these costs are unusual, infrequent or non-recurring.


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The Company provided the following table which reconciles GAAP net income, as reported, to Adjusted EBITDA.

 

     Three Months Ended December 31,     Twelve Months Ended December 31,  
     2012     2011     2012     2011  

Net income

   $ 237,033      $ 4,209,553      $ 10,917,581      $ 12,024,560   

Adjustments:

        

Income tax (benefit) expense

     (324,921     1,965,691        3,144,701        7,983,828   

Interest expense

     4,935,171        3,828,286        20,768,016        11,760,564   

Loss on extinguishment of debt

     —          1,110,850        —          1,110,850   

Depreciation and amortization

     1,132,327        1,171,646        4,788,112        4,166,279   

Share-based compensation

     245,501        (60,969     1,266,880        1,012,272   

Loss (gain) on sale of assets, net

     6,907        82,116        (175,272     (4,066

Non-cash restructuring charges and impairment of assets

     3,000        11,982        198,103        11,982   

Purchased receivables amortization

     34,110,365        25,940,726        141,784,719        133,078,378   

Cash restructuring charges

     364,987        62,682        528,351        62,682   

FTC related charges

     —          103,013        7,898        1,700,573   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ 40,710,370      $ 38,425,576      $ 183,229,089      $ 172,907,902