Business Services Industry

Epicor® Provides Preliminary 2008 First Quarter Non-GAAP Revenue, EPS Expectations

Business Wire, April 17, 2008

Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to changes in the demand for enterprise resource planning products, particularly in light of competitive offerings; the timely availability and market acceptance of new products and upgrades; the impact of competitive products and pricing; the discovery of undetected software errors; changes in the financial condition of Epicor's major commercial customers and Epicor's future ability to continue to develop and expand its product and service offerings to address emerging business demand and technological trends; Epicor's ability to integrate the NSB acquisition and recognize expected synergies; Epicor's ability to continue to support NSB's customers and add functionality to NSB's products; and other factors discussed in Epicor's annual report on Form 10K for the year ended December 31, 2007. As a result of these factors the business or prospects expected by the Company as part of this announcement may not occur. Epicor undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release contains non-GAAP financial measures. In evaluating the Company's performance, management uses certain non-GAAP financial measures to supplement consolidated financial statements prepared under GAAP.

Non-GAAP Earnings and Revenue Measures. The Company uses non-GAAP earnings and revenue measures and adjusted EBITDA in this press release. Management believes these non-GAAP measures help indicate the Company's baseline performance before gains, losses or charges that are considered by management to be outside on-going operating results. Accordingly, management uses these non-GAAP measures to gain a better understanding of the Company's comparative operating performance from period-to-period and as a basis for planning and forecasting future periods. Management believes these non-GAAP measures, when read in conjunction with the Company's GAAP financials, provides useful information to investors by offering:

* the ability to make more meaningful period-to-period comparisons of the Company's on-going operating results;

* the ability to better identify trends in the Company's underlying business and perform related trend analysis;

* a better understanding of how management plans and measures the Company's underlying business; and

* an easier way to compare the Company's most recent results of operations against investor and analyst financial models.

The non-GAAP guidance measures for 2008 used by the Company is defined to include deferred revenues from NSB that are expected to be written off as required by purchase accounting in accordance with GAAP reporting, and to exclude amortization of intangible assets and stock-based compensation expense.

Management believes that the expense associated with the amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets is appropriate to be excluded because a significant portion of the purchase price for acquisitions may be allocated to intangible assets that have short lives and exclusion of the amortization expense allows comparisons of operating results that are consistent over time for both the Company's newly acquired and long-held businesses. Management also believes that the exclusion of stock-based compensation allows for more accurate comparisons of our operating results to our peer companies because of varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of award types which effect the calculations of stock based compensation. Finally, management believes it is appropriate to exclude restructuring and other charges, which included costs associated with the integration of NSB into Epicor, because these charges are not related to the Company's ongoing business operations and it allows for more accurate comparisons of our operating results to our peer companies.

 

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