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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2001

Commission File Number 0-25346

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TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
Class A Common Stock, $.005 par value

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    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.

Yes  X  No   

    Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  / /

    The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant on December 19, 2001, based upon the last sale price of the Class A Common Stock on that date, was approximately $349,926,776. For purposes of this calculation, executive officers, directors and holders of 10% or more of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock of the registrant are deemed to be affiliates of the registrant.

    As of December 19, 2001, there were 35,271,522 shares of the registrant's Class A Common Stock outstanding (including 636,367 Exchangeable Shares of TSA Exchangeco Limited which can be exchanged on a one-for-one basis for shares of the registrant's Class A Common Stock and 18,992 options to purchase shares of the registrant's Class A Common Stock at an exercise price of one cent per share issued to MessagingDirect Ltd. shareholders).

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

    Portions of the registrant's definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on February 19, 2002 are incorporated by reference in Part III herein. The Company intends to file such Proxy Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission no later than 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Form 10-K.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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PART I
Item 1.		Business		3
Item 2.		Properties		12
Item 3.		Legal Proceedings		12
Item 4.		Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders		13
Item 4A.		Executive Officers of the Registrant		13
PART II
Item 5.		Market for the Registrant's Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters		15
Item 6.		Selected Financial Data		16
Item 7.		Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		17
Item 7A.		Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk		28
Item 8.		Financial Statements and Supplementary Data		28
Item 9.		Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure		28
PART III
Item 10.		Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant		29
Item 11.		Executive Compensation		29
Item 12.		Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management		29
Item 13.		Certain Relationships and Related Transactions		29
PART IV
Item 14.		Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules and Reports on Form 8-K		30
Signatures				34

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PART I

Item 1.  BUSINESS

General

    Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. ("TSA" or the "Company") develops, markets, installs and supports a broad line of software products and services primarily focused on facilitating electronic payments ("e-payments") and electronic commerce ("e-commerce"). In addition to its own products, TSA distributes or acts as a sales agent for software developed by third parties. The products and services are used principally by financial institutions, retailers and e-payment processors, both in domestic and international markets.

    The Company's products and services are organized into the following business units: (1) ACI Worldwide (previously referred to as Consumer e-Payments), (2) Insession Technologies (previously referred to as Electronic Business Infrastructure) and (3) IntraNet, Inc. (previously referred to as Corporate Banking e-Payments).

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ACI Worldwide — Products in this business unit represent the Company's largest product line and include its most mature and well-established applications. Within this business unit are three primary software product suites — Payment Engines, Secure Commerce and Payments Management. The Payment Engines suite includes the Company's BASE24, Enterprise Payment System, WINPAY24 and NET24 applications. The Secure Commerce suite includes the Company's e-Courier and e-Courier for Billing delivery solutions, Virtual Wallet, Commerce Gateway and Chip Card Manager applications. The Payments Management suite includes the Company's Proactive Risk Manager and a variety of other payments management solutions. Financial institutions, retailers and e-payment processors use the Company's products to route and process transactions for Automated Teller Machine ("ATM") networks; process transactions from traditional Point-of-Sale ("POS") devices, wireless devices and the Internet; handle PC and phone banking transactions; control fraud and money laundering; authorize checks; establish frequent shopper programs; automate transaction settlement, card management and claims processing; and issue and manage multi-functional applications on smart cards. The Company also offers community banking products within this business unit, primarily for phone and Internet banking.

Products in the ACI Worldwide business unit represent approximately 76% of the Company's fiscal 2001 revenue. ACI Worldwide sells and supports most of its products through distribution networks covering three geographic regions: the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa ("EMEA") and Asia/Pacific. Each distribution network has its own sales force and supplements this with reseller and/or distributor networks. The community banking products are marketed and supported through Regency Systems, Inc. ("Regency"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of TSA. During fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999, approximately 65%, 61% and 60%, respectively, of the Company's total ACI Worldwide revenues resulted from international operations. During fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999, approximately 60%, 55% and 66%, respectively, of the Company's total revenues were derived from licensing the BASE24 family of products and providing related services and maintenance, and approximately 79%, 76% and 84%, respectively, of ACI Worldwide revenues were derived from licensing the BASE24 family of products and providing related services and maintenance.

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Insession Technologies — Products in this business unit facilitate communication, data movement, monitoring of systems and business process automation across computing systems involving mainframes, distributed computing networks and the Internet and its products include ICE, Enguard, WorkPoint and Extractor/Replicator. Insession Technologies products represent approximately 14% of the Company's fiscal 2001 revenue. The Insession Technologies business unit has its own global sales and support organization. During fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999,

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approximately 31%, 37% and 32%, respectively, of the Company's total Insession Technologies revenues resulted from international operations. In fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999, approximately 58%, 71% and 73%, respectively, of Insession Technologies revenues were derived from licensing and maintenance of the ICE family of products.

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IntraNet, Inc. — Products in this business unit include solutions for high value payments processing, bulk/recurring payments processing, wire room processing, global messaging, integrated payments management and Continuous Link Settlement processing and are collectively referred to as PaymentWare. The high value payments processing product is Money Transfer System ("MTS") and is used by financial institutions to facilitate business-to-business e-payments. The bulk and recurring payments processing product is CoACH and is used by financial institutions to automatically deposit paychecks and process other automated clearing house ("ACH") transactions. Products in the IntraNet, Inc. business unit represent approximately 10% of the Company's fiscal 2001 revenue. The IntraNet, Inc. business unit has its own global sales and support organization. During fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999, approximately 31%, 36% and 8%, respectively, of the Company's total IntraNet revenues resulted from international operations. During fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999, approximately 67%, 54% and 70%, respectively, of IntraNet revenues were derived from licensing of the MTS product, and providing services and maintenance, and approximately 18%, 32% and 11%, respectively, of IntraNet revenues were derived from licensing of the CoACH product, and providing services and maintenance.

    In the third quarter of fiscal 2001, the Company transferred its 70 percent ownership in Hospital Health Plan Corporation ("HHPC"), which comprised the majority of its Health Payment Systems business unit, to the minority shareholder. HHPC's products allow large corporations and healthcare payment processors to automate claims eligibility determination, claims capture and claims payments. The remaining portion of the Health Payment Systems business unit, consisting of a health and drug claims adjudication facilities management services organization, was integrated into the ACI Worldwide business unit at the beginning of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001.

Business Strategy

    The Company's objective is to be the leading global provider of software solutions to facilitate e-payments and e-commerce. The Company's key markets, on a global basis, are financial institutions, retailers and e-payment processors. Key elements of the Company's business strategy include:

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Expand the Company's relationship with existing customers and attract new customers. The Company offers a broad range of software and services, and has been successful selling new solutions to existing customers. The Company will seek to broaden its relationship with existing customers, through focused sales and marketing activities, and executive management communication with senior customer management, with the objective of identifying new sales opportunities. In addition, the Company will seek to increase its market share by adding new customers which will expand its position as one of the leaders in the consumer e-payments market.



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Further international expansion. The Company has customers in 81 countries and 57% of its revenue resulted from international operations in fiscal 2001. Certain international markets have expanding, relatively sophisticated e-payment environments. The Company believes that its solutions will be readily accepted once the Company establishes a local presence in these markets. Specific areas being considered include Continental Europe, including Spain, Germany and the Benelux countries. Many of these markets are characterized by e-payment solutions developed by in-house information technology groups, which are difficult to maintain or enhance as e-payment transaction volumes increase and become more complex.

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Extend the Company's technology leadership. The Company's solutions today are well-positioned to address the requirements for scale, complexity, availability and integration in large-scale e-payment environments. The Company continues to introduce new products and technologies designed to enhance its customers' abilities to offer innovative e-payment services. The Company's research and development efforts include solutions aimed at acquiring e-payment transactions from the Internet and wireless devices. The Company's goal is to allow its customers to integrate new transaction-acquiring technologies with their existing e-payment infrastructures and to open up new markets for its solutions.



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Seek strategic alliance opportunities. The consumer e-payments market is in a state of innovation and change. New technologies, standards and features are emerging, often from early-stage innovators. The Company will continue to pursue alliances which enhance its solutions, skill sets and technology base as it seeks to offer its customers the broadest range of e-payment solutions. The Company may also seek alliances with companies that can help it expand into high-growth e-payment markets, leverage its international sales and support infrastructure, or help build market presence for the Company's existing solutions.



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Improve profitability. Throughout fiscal 2001, the Company spent considerable time and effort reviewing existing products and sales distribution channels with an emphasis on eliminating or reducing under-achieving or non-performing groups. The Company will continue to review the strategic importance of all products, services and sales distribution channels with an emphasis on improving the profitability, both near-term and long-term, of the Company.

The Electronic Payments and Electronic Commerce Market

    The consumer e-payments market is comprised of debit and credit card issuers, switch interchanges, transaction acquirers and transaction generators, including ATM networks, retail merchant locations and the Internet. The routing, control and settlement of electronic payments is a complex activity due to the large number of locations and variety of sources from which transactions can be generated, the large number of issuers in the market, high transaction volumes, geographically dispersed networks, differing types of authorization and varied reporting requirements. These activities are typically performed online and must be conducted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

    ACI Worldwide software products carry transactions from the transaction generators to the acquiring institutions. The software then uses regional or national switches to access the card issuers for approval or denial of the transactions. The software returns messages to the sources, thereby completing the transactions. Electronic payments software may be required to interact with dozens of devices, switch interchanges and communication protocols around the world.

    Insession Technologies' market is comprised of financial institutions and other large corporations with the need to move business data or financial information and process business transactions electronically over public and private communication networks. These financial institutions and large companies typically have many different computing systems that were not originally designed to operate together and they typically want to preserve their investments in existing mainframe computer systems.

    IntraNet, Inc.'s market is comprised of global, super-regional and regional financial institutions, which provide treasury management services to large corporations. In addition, the market includes non-bank financial institutions with the need to conduct their own internal treasury management activities.

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ACI Worldwide Software Products

    An overview of major software products within the ACI Worldwide business unit follows:

Payment Engines

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BASE24. BASE24 is an integrated family of products marketed to customers operating electronic payment networks in the consumer banking and retail industries. The modular architecture of the product enables customers to select the application and system components that are required to operate their networks. The Company believes that BASE24 has a more complete range of features and functions for electronic payments processing than products offered by its competitors. BASE24 allows customers to adapt to changing network needs by supporting over 30 different types of ATM and POS terminals, over 100 interchange interfaces and various authorization and reporting options. The majority of ACI Worldwide's revenues were derived from licensing the BASE24 family of products and providing related services and maintenance.

The BASE24 product line runs exclusively on Compaq NonStop Himalaya servers. The NonStop Himalaya parallel-processing environment offers fault-tolerance, linear expandability and distributed processing capabilities. The combination of features offered by BASE24 and the NonStop Himalaya are important characteristics in high volume, 24-hour per day electronic payment systems. The Company believes that the NonStop Himalaya platform will continue to be a widely accepted platform for transaction processing in the electronic payments market, although there is no assurance that it will continue to be.

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Enterprise Payment System ("EPS"). EPS is an integrated e-payments processing engine that provides application software to acquire and authenticate, route, switch and authorize transactions, regardless of the channel in which they originate. Organizations can use EPS to process transactions from any endpoint, including Internet shopping networks, mobile phones, Web ATMs and home banking systems. The software can also be used to upgrade legacy ATM and POS systems, adding support for new features such as smart card programs and electronic check processing.

Running on the IBM eServer platform, EPS provides flexible integration points to other applications and data within enterprises to support 24-hour per day access to money, services and information.

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WINPAY24. WINPAY24 is an electronic payment and authorization system that facilitates a broad range of applications for retailers. These applications include debit and credit card processing, ACH processing, electronic benefits transfer, card issuance and management, check authorization, customer loyalty programs and returned check collection. The WINPAY24 products operate on the Windows NT platform.



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NET24. NET24 is a message-oriented middleware product that acts as the layer of software that manages the interface between application software and computer operating systems and helps customers perform network and legacy systems integration projects. The NET24 product operates on the Compaq NonStop Himalaya platform.

Secure Commerce

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e-Courier and e-Courier for Billing. e-Courier delivers statements and recurring documents via the Internet directly, securely and reliably. e-Courier for Billing delivers bills and recurring documents via the Internet directly, securely and reliably, and facilitates bill payment. Customers receive documents through the most widely used Internet application — e-mail — or through multiple delivery channels. Documents are delivered directly to customers' e-mail accounts,

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eliminating the need for retrieval from Web sites. Documents are authentic and private, delivered through built-in industry-standard encryption and digital signature capabilities.

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Virtual Wallet. Virtual Wallet is a server-based consumer digital wallet that combines an address book, receipt collector and transaction-tracking device, along with a gateway to secure, convenient shopping online. Virtual Wallet helps reduce "cart" abandonment by giving consumers the convenience and confidence they need to make purchases quickly and securely over the Internet. Virtual Wallet helps issuers reduce costs associated with fraud and chargebacks by putting secure payment technology into the hands of their consumers, including Secure Electronic Transactions ("SET"), Pseudo Card Numbers ("PCN"), Visa Authenticated Payment protocols ("VAP") and MasterCard Secure Payment Applications ("SPA").



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Commerce Gateway. Commerce Gateway merchant interface is the SET and Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") payment interface to the merchant Web storefront. It provides access to plug-ins that quickly enable merchants to accept SET and SSL-based Internet transactions. When customers are ready to pay for items, the merchant interface module initiates the wallet component and encrypts the purchase request into a SET or SSL message and delivers it to the relevant payment gateway. The merchant interface module supports full SET, MOSET (merchant originated SET) and SSL-based transactions.



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Chip Card Manager. The Company's Chip Card Manager solutions allow the use of stored-value and chip card authorization applications at smart card-enabled devices. The solutions facilitate authorization of funds transfers from existing accounts to cards. They also leverage chip technology to enhance debit/credit card authentication and security. The Chip Card Manager solutions preserve legacy investment by allowing the integration of these emerging technologies into existing electronic delivery environments.

Payments Management

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Proactive Risk Manager ("PRM"). PRM is a neural network-based fraud detection system to help card issuers, merchants, acquirers and financial institutions combat fraud schemes. The system combines the pattern recognition capability of neural-network transaction scoring with custom risk models of expert rules-based strategies and advanced client/server account management software. There are four editions of PRM, which are tailored for specific industry needs. The four editions are debit and credit, merchant, private label, and money laundering detection.



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Payments Management Solutions. Payments Management solutions are integrated products bringing value-added solutions to information captured during online processing. The suite of products includes management of dispute processing; card management and card statement products; merchant accounting applications; and settlement and reconciliation solutions for online and offline payment processing. The suite also includes a transaction warehouse product that accumulates and stores electronic payment transaction information for subsequent transaction inquiry via browser-based presentation allowing transaction monitoring, alerting and executive analysis. These products operate on a variety of hardware platforms, including Windows NT, Compaq NonStop Himalaya UNIX servers and IBM mainframes.

Community Banking

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The Company markets, through its Regency subsidiary, a family of products that provide small to mid-sized banks the opportunity to market voice and Internet banking solutions to their customers. Regency has an interactive voice response ("IVR") software product that allows banks to offer their customers answers to routine questions such as balance inquiry, last deposit, maturity dates, transaction history, interest information, payment dates and amounts via telephone or

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personal computer inquiry. The Internet banking and IVR software products are targeted at small to mid-sized community banks and run on IBM's OS/2 operating system and Windows NT.

Insession Technologies Software Products

    The Insession Technologies business unit markets and supports a suite of electronic infrastructure software products that facilitate network monitoring, connectivity, management and integration. Software products within this business unit include ICE, Enguard, WorkPoint, Extractor/Replicator ("E/R"), WebGate, Discover, Partner, SQL Magic, VersaTest, Relate and AutoDBA. ICE is a networking software product that allows applications running on the Compaq NonStop Himalaya platform to connect with applications running on, or access data stored on, computers that use the Systems Network Architecture protocol. Enguard is a proactive monitoring, alarm and dispatching software tool. WorkPoint enables enterprises to model processes over a distributed corporate network. E/R, a product of Golden Gate Software, Inc. offered to customers under a sales agency agreement, is a data center management enhancement software product that copies data from one computer system and delivers it to another at the same time it is being recorded by the first system. WebGate is a product suite that allows Compaq NonStop Himalaya computers to communicate with applications using web-based technology. Discover, Partner and SQL Magic are software products that are designed to improve system and database administration for Compaq NonStop Himalaya computers. VersaTest and Relate are software products that provide online testing, simulation and support utilities for Compaq NonStop Himalaya computers. AutoDBA, a product on Senware, Inc., helps manage and tune Oracle databases.

IntraNet, Inc. Software Products

    The majority of revenues from IntraNet, Inc.'s PaymentWare solution set are derived from the high-value and bulk/recurring payments processing products. The high value payments processing products are used for generating, authorizing, routing, settling and controlling high-value wire transfer transactions in domestic and international environments. These products communicate over proprietary networks using a variety of messaging formats, including CHIPS, S.W.I.F.T., Telex, FedWire and Fed Book Entry Securities. The PaymentWare high value payments processing products operate on Digital's VAX VMS operating system, the IBM RS/6000 platform and Compaq's NonStop Himalaya servers. The bulk/recurring payments product is targeted at large ACH originators with high transaction volumes. In addition to large domestic ACH originators, the Company is marketing its bulk payments product to international markets, where standards similar to those in the U.S. for automated check clearing are emerging. The bulk payments product operates exclusively on Compaq's NonStop Himalaya servers.

Services

    Each business unit within the Company offers its customers a wide range of services, including analysis, design, development, implementation, integration and training. The Company's services organization has historically performed most of the work associated with installing and integrating its software products, rather than relying on third-party integrators. The Company's service professionals have extensive experience developing custom software for clients operating on a range of computing platforms. The Company offers the following types of services for its customers:

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Technical Services. The majority of the Company's technical services are provided to customers who have licensed one or more of the Company's software products. Services offered by the Company include programming and programming support, day-to-day systems operations, network operations, help desk staffing, quality assurance testing, problem resolution, system design, and performance planning and review. Technical services are priced on a weekly basis according to the level of technical expertise required and the duration of the project.

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Project Management. The Company offers a Project Management and Implementation Plan ("PMIP") which provides customers using the Company's software products with a variety of support services, including on-site product integration reviews, project planning, training, site preparation, installation, testing and go-live support, and project management throughout the project life cycle. The Company offers additional services, if required, on a fee basis. PMIPs are offered for a fee that varies based on the level and quantity of included support services.



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Facilities Management. The Company offers facilities management services whereby the Company operates a customer's electronic payments system for multi-year periods. Pricing and payment terms for facilities management services vary on a case-by-case basis giving consideration to the complexity of the facility or system to be managed, the level and quantity of technical services required, and other factors relevant to the facilities management agreement.

Customer Support

    Each business unit of the Company provides its customers with product support that is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week. If requested by a customer, each business unit's product support group can remotely access that customer's systems on a real-time basis. This allows the product support groups to help diagnose and correct problems to enhance the continuous availability of a customer's business-critical systems. The Company offers its customers both a general maintenance plan and an extended service option:

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General Maintenance. After software installation and project completion, the Company provides maintenance services to customers for a monthly fee. Maintenance services include:



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Hardware operation system compatibility



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User group membership

    The Company provides new releases of its products on a periodic basis. New releases of the product, which often contain product enhancements, are typically included at no additional fee. The Company's agreements with its customers permit the Company to charge for substantial product enhancements that are not provided as part of the maintenance agreement.

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Enhanced Support Program. Under the extended service option, referred to as the Enhanced Support Program, each customer is assigned an experienced technician to work with its system. The technician typically performs functions such as:



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Strategic Alliances

    The Company markets the products of other software companies. These relationships extend the Company's product portfolio, improve the Company's ability to get its solutions to market rapidly and enhance the Company's ability to deliver market-leading solutions. The Company shares revenues with these product partners based on relative responsibilities for the customer account. The agreements with product partners generally grant the Company the right to distribute or represent their products on a worldwide basis and have a term of several years.

    The following is a list of currently active product partners within the Insession Technologies business unit:

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Golden Gate Software, Inc.



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Merlon Software Corporation



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SoftSell Business Systems, LLC



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Gresham Computing, PLC



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Senware, Inc.

    Additionally, the Company offers a wide range of consumer e-payment applications for both Compaq and IBM platforms. The Company is an advanced member of IBM's PartnerWorld program, a worldwide program designed to help software developers reach broader markets, lower their costs of doing business and take their products to market faster. In addition, the Company is a long-time premier member of the Compaq Alliance partner program.

Research and Development

    The Company's product development efforts focus on new products and improved versions of existing products. The Company believes that the timely development of new applications and enhancements is essential to maintain its competitive position in the market.

    The Company organizes user groups, generally around geographic regions and product lines. The groups help the Company determine its product strategy, development plans and aspects of customer support.

    In developing new products, the Company works closely with its customers and industry leaders to determine requirements. The Company works with device manufacturers, such as NCR and Diebold, to ensure compatibility with the latest ATM technology. The Company works with interchange vendors, such as Visa and MasterCard, to ensure compliance with new regulations or processing mandates. The Company works with platform vendors, such as Compaq and IBM, to ensure compatibility with new operating system releases and generations of hardware. Customers often provide additional information on requirements and serve as beta-test partners.

    The Company's total research and development expenses, excluding capitalized software development costs, during fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999 were $40.2 million (excluding $0.3 million of restructuring costs in fiscal 2001), $38.8 million and $34.6 million, or 13.4%, 12.8% and 9.8% of total revenues, respectively.

Customers

    The Company provides software products and services to customers in a range of industries worldwide, with financial institutions, retailers and e-payment processors comprising its largest industry segments. As of September 30, 2001, the Company's customers include 109 of the 500 largest banks in the world, as measured by asset size, and 23 of the top 100 retailers in the United States, as measured

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by revenue. As of September 30, 2001, the Company had 2,371 customers in 81 countries on six continents. Of this total, 2,033 are in the Americas region (including 1,590 community banking customers), 190 in the EMEA region and 148 in the Asia/Pacific region. No single customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company's consolidated revenues during fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999.

Sales and Marketing

    The Company's primary method of distribution is direct sales by employees assigned to specific regions or specific products. In addition, the Company uses distributors and sales agents to supplement its direct sales force in countries where business practices or customs make it appropriate, or where it is uneconomical to have a direct sales staff. As of September 30, 2001, the Company had arrangements with 21 distributors and sales agents. The Company generates a majority of its sales leads through existing relationships with vendors, customers and prospects, or through referrals.

    In addition to its principal sales office in Omaha, the Company has primary sales offices located in Boston and Dallas, and outside the United States in Amsterdam, Bahrain, Buenos Aires, Edmonton, Johannesburg, London, Melbourne, Mexico City, Naples, Oslo, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Wiesbaden. The offices are responsible for direct and distributor or sales agent-facilitated sales for designated regions.

    The Company distributes the products of other vendors as complements to its existing product lines. The Company is typically responsible for sales and marketing as well as first-line support. These agreements involve revenue sharing based on relative responsibilities.

Competition

    The e-payments and e-commerce markets are highly competitive and subject to rapid change. Competitive factors affecting the market for the Company's products and services include product functionality and features, price, availability of customer support, ease of implementation, product and company reputation, and a commitment to continued investment in research and development.

    The Company's most significant competitors in the ACI Worldwide business unit are eFunds Corporation, S2 Systems, Inc., SLMsoft.com Inc., Mosaic Software Ltd. and Oasis Technology. As markets continue to emerge in the Internet banking, e-commerce, smart card, and electronic bill presentment and payment sectors, the Company will encounter new competitors to its products. In addition, the Company encounters competition from third-party processors and from other vendors offering software on a wide range of product platforms. As electronic payments transaction volumes increase and banks face higher processing costs, third-party processors will constitute stronger competition to the Company's efforts to market its solutions to smaller institutions. In the larger institution market, the Company believes that third-party processors will be less competitive since large institutions attempt to differentiate their electronic payments product offerings from their competition. The most significant competitor for the Insession Technologies business unit is Compaq Computers, Inc. In the IntraNet, Inc. business unit, the Company's most significant competitors are Fundtech and Checkfree. Additionally, the Company's business units experience competition from in-house information technology departments of existing and potential customers.

Proprietary Rights and Licenses

    The Company relies on a combination of trade secret and copyright laws, license agreements, contractual provisions and confidentiality agreements to protect its proprietary rights. The Company distributes its software products under software license agreements that typically grant customers nonexclusive licenses to use the products. Use of the software products is usually restricted to designated computers at specified locations and is subject to terms and conditions prohibiting unauthorized

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reproduction or transfer of the software products. The Company also seeks to protect the source code of its software as a trade secret and as a copyrighted work.

    Despite these precautions, there can be no assurance that misappropriation of the Company's software products and technology will not occur. Although the Company believes that its intellectual property rights do not infringe upon the proprietary rights of third parties, there can be no assurance that third parties will not assert infringement claims against the Company. Further, there can be no assurance that intellectual property protection will be available for the Company's products in certain foreign countries.

Employees

    As of September 30, 2001, the Company had a total of 1,839 employees of whom 1,330 were in the ACI Worldwide business unit, 170 in the Insession Technologies business unit and 211 in the IntraNet, Inc. business unit. Additionally, 128 employees were in corporate administration positions, including executive management, legal, human resources, finance, information systems, investor relations and facility operations, providing supporting services to each of the three business units.

    The Company's success is dependent upon its ability to attract and retain qualified employees. None of the Company's employees are subject to a collective bargaining agreement. The Company believes that its relations with its employees are good.

Segment and Geographic Information

    The Company has three operating segments at September 30, 2001, referred to throughout this Form 10-K as business units. The Company's chief operating decision makers review business unit financial information, presented on a consolidated basis, accompanied by disaggregated information about revenues and operating income by business unit. The Company's three business units are ACI Worldwide, Insession Technologies and IntraNet, Inc. For more information relating to the Company's business units, see Business — General, as well as Note 11 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. The Company's products are sold and supported through distribution networks covering the geographic regions of the Americas, EMEA and Asia/Pacific.

Item 2. PROPERTIES

    The Company leases office space in Omaha, Nebraska, for its corporate headquarters, principal product development group, and sales and support groups for the Americas. The leases for these facilities expire in fiscal 2002 through 2008, with the principal lease terminating in fiscal 2008. The Company's EMEA headquarters are located in Watford, England. The leases for these facilities expire in fiscal 2009 and 2011, with the principal lease terminating in fiscal 2009. The Company's Asia/Pacific headquarters are located in Singapore with other principal offices in Japan and Australia. The Singapore lease terminates in fiscal 2004, the Australia lease terminates in fiscal 2002 and the Japan lease terminates in fiscal 2003. The Company also leases office space in numerous locations in the United States and in many other countries.

    The Company believes that its current facilities are adequate for its present and short-term foreseeable needs and that additional suitable space will be available as required. The Company also believes that it will be able to extend leases as they terminate. See Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding the Company's obligations under its facilities leases.

Item 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

    From time to time, the Company is involved in litigation relating to claims arising out of its operations in the normal course of business. The Company is not currently a party to any legal proceedings, the

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adverse outcome of which, individually or in the aggregate, would have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.

Item 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

    No matters were submitted to a vote of security holders during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001.

Item 4A.  EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

    The executive officers of the Company, their ages as of December 15, 2001, and their positions are as follows:

Name		Age		Position
Larry G. Fendley		60		Interim Chief Executive Officer
Dwight G. Hanson		43		Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Senior Vice President
David P. Stokes		45		Vice President — Legal and Secretary
Jeffrey S. Hale		43		Senior Vice President — Strategic Business Development
Mark R. Vipond		42		Senior Vice President — ACI Worldwide
Anthony J. Parkinson		49		Senior Vice President — Insession Technologies
Dennis D. Jorgensen		53		Senior Vice President — IntraNet, Inc.
Edward C. Fuxa		38		Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President and Controller

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On May 1, 2001, Mr. William E. Fisher resigned his positions of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. On that day, Mr. Larry G. Fendley, a TSA Board member, assumed the role of Interim Chief Executive Officer. On May 9, 2001, Mr. David C. Russell resigned his position as President.

On December 5, 2001, a news release was issued announcing that Mr. Gregory D. Derkacht, age 54, has joined the Company as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Derkacht was previously President of e-PROFILE, the Internet banking subsidiary of Sanchez Computer Associates. Prior to that, he held numerous positions with firms such as Fiserv Incorporated, Envision Financial Technologies and American Data Services. Mr. Derkacht will begin full-time in this position effective January 2, 2002. At that time, Mr. Fendley will serve as the Company's Chief Operating Officer during a short-term transition period.

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    Mr. Fendley has been a Director of the Company since November 1996. Prior to serving as Interim Chief Executive Officer, he provided consulting services to transaction processing and software companies, and served as a consultant to eOnline, inc., an SAP-Certified Application Service Provider. From April 1999 until April 2000, he served as Senior Vice President of Operations of eOnline, inc. Until mid-1998, he was Executive Vice President — Product Delivery Services for CSG Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of CSG Systems International, Inc.

    Mr. Hanson serves as Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Treasurer. He joined the Company in 1991 as Corporate Controller, was promoted to Vice President of Corporate Finance and Administration in 1997 and was named Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Treasurer in March 2000. Prior to joining the Company, he worked as a Certified Public Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand.

    Mr. Stokes serves as Vice President — Legal and Secretary. He began his employment with the Company in 1988 as Assistant Counsel and was named General Counsel in 1991. Prior to joining the Company, he was a partner at a private law firm in Omaha.

    Mr. Hale serves as a Senior Vice President with primary responsibility over Strategic Business Development. He joined the Company in 1987 and has served in various sales, marketing and strategic planning positions. He was named Senior Vice President of Strategic Business Development in 1998. Prior to joining the Company, he was a manager in the management information consulting division of Arthur Andersen LLP.

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    Mr. Vipond serves as a Senior Vice President with primary responsibility over the ACI Worldwide business unit. He joined the Company in 1985 and has served in various capacities, including National Sales Manager of ACI Canada, Vice President of the Emerging Technologies and Network Systems divisions, President of the USSI, Inc. operating unit, and Senior Vice President of Consumer Banking. Prior to joining the Company, he was a Systems Engineer at IBM.

    Mr. Parkinson serves as a Senior Vice President with primary responsibility over the Insession Technologies business unit. He joined the Company in 1984 and has served in various capacities, including Director of Sales and Marketing for EMEA, Vice President of the Emerging Technologies and Network Systems divisions, Vice President of System Solutions Sales, and Senior Vice President of the Enterprise Solutions Group. Prior to joining the Company, he was a Vice President within Bank of America's electronic commerce division.

    Mr. Jorgensen serves as a Senior Vice President with primary responsibility over the IntraNet, Inc. business unit. He was an employee of the Company from 1984 to 1986 and rejoined the Company in 1998 as Vice President of Corporate Marketing. Prior to rejoining the Company in 1998, he was CEO of the American Marketing Association, a professional association for marketing practitioners and academics.

    Mr. Fuxa serves as Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President and Controller. He joined the Company as Controller in 1997, was named Chief Accounting Officer in March 2000 and was named Vice President in October 2001. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Corporate Controller at InfoUSA and also worked as a Certified Public Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand.

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PART II

Item 5.  MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

    The Company's Class A Common Stock trades on The Nasdaq National Market ("NASDAQ/NMS") under the symbol TSAI. The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high and low sale prices of the Class A Common Stock as reported by NASDAQ/NMS.

    On December 19, 2001, the last sale price of the Company's Class A Common Stock as reported by NASDAQ/NMS was $12.89 per share. As of December 19, 2001, there were 391 holders of record of the Company's Class A Common Stock.

Dividends

    The Company has never declared or paid cash dividends on its Class A Common Stock. The Company currently intends to retain earnings to finance the growth and development of its business and does not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Any payment of cash dividends in the future will depend upon the financial condition, capital requirements and earnings of the Company, as well as other factors the Board of Directors may deem relevant.

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Item 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

    The following selected financial data have been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements of the Company. This data should be read together with "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Form 10-K. The financial information below is not necessarily indicative of the results of future operations. Amounts presented are in thousands, except earnings per share amounts:

				Year Ended September 30,
				2001			2000			1999			1998			1997
Statements of Income Data:
Revenues:
	Software license fees			$	173,796		$	176,295		$	210,002		$	166,875		$	131,138
	Maintenance fees				70,246			68,727			63,933			57,077			48,714
	Services				55,759			58,543			80,859			75,297			64,297
		Total revenues			299,801			303,565			354,794			299,249			244,149
Expenses:
	Cost of software license fees				43,466			45,967			44,079			36,294			29,538
	Cost of maintenance and services				73,490			70,681			72,096			69,886			57,821
	Research and development				40,528			38,832			34,612			26,260			20,070
	Selling and marketing				76,273			75,539			70,121			62,013			50,168
	General and administrative				77,008			62,416			58,725			51,873			45,517
	Amortization of goodwill and purchased intangibles				13,933			8,388			4,901			1,435			1,008
		Total expenses			324,698			301,823			284,534			247,761			204,122
Operating income (loss)					(24,897	)		1,742			70,260			51,488			40,027
Other income (expense):
	Interest income				4,397			3,481			2,947			3,204			2,291
	Interest expense				(2,004	)		(912	)		(401	)		(242	)		(178	)
	Other				267			(718	)		(936	)		(2,715	)		(652	)
	Non-recurring items				(22,574	)		—			—			—			—
		Total other income (expense)			(19,914	)		1,851			1,610			247			1,461
Income (loss) before income taxes					(44,811	)		3,593			71,870			51,735			41,488
Income tax benefit (provision)					1,794			(1,482	)		(27,170	)		(19,476	)		(14,325	)
Net income (loss)				$	(43,017	)	$	2,111		$	44,700		$	32,259		$	27,163
Earnings per share information (1):
	Weighted average shares outstanding:
		Basic			34,116			31,744			31,667			30,298			29,829
		Diluted			34,116			32,117			32,363			31,193			30,707
	Earnings per share:
		Basic		$	(1.26	)	$	0.07		$	1.41		$	1.04		$	0.85
		Diluted		$	(1.26	)	$	0.07		$	1.38		$	1.01		$	0.82
Balance Sheet Data:
	Working capital			$	63,355		$	68,506		$	94,141		$	86,994		$	62,914
	Total assets				327,453			330,152			323,318			226,307			176,891
	Current portion of long-term debt				12,559			18,396			501			1,078			1,292
	Long-term debt				761			532			991			2,002			2,379
	Stockholders' equity				218,668			210,360			225,169			145,877			109,346

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Prior to their acquisitions in May 1997 and August 1998, Regency Systems, Inc. and IntraNet, Inc. were taxed primarily as a partnership and a Subchapter S corporation, respectively. In addition, prior to its acquisition in November 1998, the earnings of Media Integration BV were not subject to income taxes. The earnings per share amounts for fiscal 1999, 1998 and 1997 reflect a pro forma tax provision for income taxes on the results of operations of these entities for the periods prior to their acquisition. See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further details.

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Item 7.  MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Overview

    The Company develops, markets, installs and supports a broad line of software products and services primarily focused on facilitating electronic payments and electronic commerce. In addition to its own products, TSA distributes or acts as a sales agent for software developed by third parties. The products and services are used principally by financial institutions, retailers and e-payment processors, both in domestic and international markets.

Business Segments

    The Company's products and services are organized into three active business units: (1) ACI Worldwide (previously referred to as Consumer e-Payments), (2) Insession Technologies (previously referred to as Electronic Business Infrastructure) and (3) IntraNet, Inc. (previously referred to as Corporate Banking e-Payments). Another business unit, Health Payment Systems, was disbanded in fiscal 2001. Most of the Company's products and services are marketed and supported through distribution networks covering three geographic regions: the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa ("EMEA") and Asia/Pacific. Each distribution network has its own sales force and supplements this with reseller and/or distributor networks.

    In the third quarter of fiscal 2001, the Company transferred its 70 percent ownership in Hospital Health Plan Corporation ("HHPC"), which comprised the majority of its Health Payment Systems business unit, to the minority shareholder. HHPC's products allow large corporations and healthcare payment processors to automate claims eligibility determination, claims capture and claims payments. The remaining portion of the Health Payment Systems business unit, consisting of a health and drug claims adjudication facilities management services organization, was integrated into the ACI Worldwide business unit at the beginning of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001. Prior period segment information has been restated to reflect this change.

    The following are revenues and operating income for these business units for fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999 (in thousands):

    Included in fiscal 2001 operating losses are $14.6 million of restructuring charges that are included in the following business units: $12.5 million in ACI Worldwide, $1.5 million in Insession Technologies and $0.6 million in IntraNet, Inc. See Note 2 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of these restructuring charges.

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Acquisitions

    The Company completed several acquisitions during fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 in order to enhance its solutions, skill sets and technology base as the Company seeks to offer its customers the broadest range of e-payments and e-commerce solutions. In addition, the Company completed several acquisitions during the past three years to diversify into new markets where management believed there to be synergistic, high-growth opportunities.

    Acquisitions completed to enhance and broaden the ACI Worldwide business unit's offering of e-payment solutions include Media Integration BV ("MINT") and SDM International, Inc. ("SDM") in fiscal 1999, and MessagingDirect Ltd. ("MDL") in fiscal 2001. The Company acquired Insession Inc. ("Insession") in fiscal 1999 and WorkPoint Systems, Inc. ("WorkPoint") in fiscal 2000 to enhance product offerings in the Insession Technologies business unit. MINT was acquired using the pooling-of-interests method of accounting. All other acquisitions were accounted for under the purchase method of accounting.

Revenue Recognition

    The Company generates revenues from licensing software and providing postcontract customer support (maintenance or "PCS") and other professional services. The Company uses written contracts to document the elements and obligations of arrangements with its customers. Arrangements that include the licensing of software typically include PCS, and at times, include other professional services. PCS includes the right to unspecified upgrades on a when-and-if-available basis and ongoing technical support. The other professional services may include training, installation or consulting. The Company also performs services for customers under arrangements that do not include the licensing of software.

    Revenue under multiple-element arrangements, which may include several software products or services sold together, are allocated to each element based upon the residual method in accordance with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Statement of Position ("SOP") 98-9, "Software Revenue Recognition, With Respect to Certain Transactions." Under the residual method, the fair value of the undelivered elements is deferred and subsequently recognized. The Company has established sufficient vendor specific objective evidence of fair value for PCS and other professional services based upon the price charged when these elements are sold separately. Accordingly, software license fee revenues are recognized under the residual method in arrangements in which the software is licensed with PCS and/or other professional services, and the undelivered elements of the arrangements are not essential to the functionality of the delivered software.

    The Company recognizes software license fees upon execution of the signed contract, delivery of the software to the customer, determination that the software license fees are fixed or determinable, and determination that the collection of the software license fees is probable. The software license is typically for a term of up to 60 months and does not include a right of return. The term for the PCS element of a software arrangement is typically for a period shorter than the term of the software license, and can be renewed by the customer over the remaining term of the software license. PCS or maintenance revenues are recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement on a straight-line basis. The other professional services element of a software arrangement is typically accounted for separately as the services are performed for time-and-materials contracts or on a percentage-of-completion basis for fixed-price contracts. In those instances where the services are essential to the functionality of any other element of the arrangement, contract accounting is applied to both the software and services elements of the arrangement.

    The Company follows two methods for pricing its software licenses. Under the first method, the software license is priced based upon the number of transactions processed by the customer ("transaction-based pricing"). Under transaction-based pricing, the customer is allowed to process a contractually predetermined maximum volume of transactions per month for a specified period of time. Once the

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customer's transaction volume exceeds this maximum volume level, the customer is required to pay additional license fees for each incremental volume level. Under the second method, the software license is priced on a per copy basis and tiered to recognize different performance levels of the customer's processing hardware ("designated-equipment-group pricing"). Under designated-equipment-group pricing, the customer pays a license fee for each copy of the software for a specified period of time.

    Licensees are typically given two payment options. Under the first payment option, the licensee can pay a combination of an Initial License Fee ("ILF"), where the licensee pays a portion of the total software license fees at the beginning of the software license term, and a Monthly License Fee ("MLF"), where the licensee pays the remaining portion of the software license fees over the software license term. In certain arrangements, the customer is contractually committed to making MLF payments for a minimum number of months. If the customer decides to terminate the arrangement prior to paying the minimum MLF payments, the remaining minimum MLF payments become due and payable. Under the second payment option, the Company offers a Paid-Up-Front ("PUF") payment option, whereby the total software license fees are due at the beginning of the software license term. Under either payment option, the Company is not obligated to refund any payments received from the customer. In the combination ILF and MLF payment option, the Company recognizes the ILF portion of the software license fees upon delivery of the software, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria were met. In the PUF payment option, the Company recognizes the total software license fees upon delivery of the software, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria were met.

    In addition to SOP 98-9, the Company accounts for its software arrangements in accordance with SOP 97-2, "Software Revenue Recognition." The primary software revenue recognition criteria outlined in SOP 97-2 include: evidence of an arrangement; delivery; fixed or determinable fees; and collectibility. SOP 97-2 specifies that extended payment terms in a software licensing arrangement may indicate that the software license fees are not deemed to be fixed or determinable. In addition, if payment of a significant portion of the software license fees is not due until more than twelve months after delivery, the software license fees should be presumed not to be fixed or determinable, and thus should be recognized as the payments become due. However, SOP 97-2 specifies that if the Company has a standard business practice of using extended payment terms in software licensing arrangements and has a history of successfully collecting the software license fees under the original terms of the software licensing arrangement without making concessions, the Company can overcome the presumption that the software license fees are not fixed or determinable. If the presumption is overcome, the Company should recognize the software license fees when all other SOP 97-2 revenue recognition criteria are met.

    The Company has concluded that for certain BASE24 and ICE software arrangements where the customer is contractually committed to make MLF payments that extend beyond twelve months, the "fixed or determinable" presumption has been overcome and software license fees revenue should be recognized upon meeting the other SOP 97-2 revenue recognition criteria. In making this determination, the Company considered the characteristics of the software product, the customer purchasing the software, the similarity of the economics of the software arrangements with previous software arrangements and the actual history of successfully collecting under the original terms without providing concessions. The software license fees recognized under these arrangements are referred to as "Recognized-Up-Front MLFs". For all other products, it has been concluded that (1) the Company does not have a standard business practice of using extended payment terms, and/or (2) the Company does not have a long-range history of successful collections for those products.

    The present value of Recognized-Up-Front MLFs, net of third party royalties, recognized in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 totaled approximately $21.3 million, $30.3 million and $60.5 million, respectively. The discount rates used to determine the present value of these software license fees, representing the Company's incremental borrowing rates, ranged from 9.25% to 11.00% in fiscal 2001, from 10.25% to 11.00% in fiscal 2000 and from 9.5% to 10.25% in fiscal 1999. Recognized-Up-Front MLFs that have been

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recognized in software license fees revenues by the Company, but not yet billed, are reflected in accrued receivables in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

Backlog

    The following table sets forth the Company's recurring and non-recurring revenue backlog, by business unit, at each balance sheet date (in thousands):

		Recurring Revenue Backlog						Non-recurring Revenue Backlog
		Sept. 30, 2001			Sept. 30, 2000			Sept. 30, 2001			Sept. 30, 2000
ACI Worldwide		$	96,800		$	102,500		$	34,300		$	41,400
Insession Technologies			15,500			19,200			4,100			2,100
IntraNet, Inc.			17,000			16,100			15,100			12,900
Health Payment Systems (HHPC only)			—			1,400			—			—
		$	129,300		$	139,200		$	53,500		$	56,400

    The Company defines recurring revenue backlog to be all monthly license fees, maintenance fees and facilities management fees specified in executed contracts to the extent that the Company contemplates recognition of the related revenue within one year. The Company includes in its non-recurring revenue backlog all fees (other than recurring) specified in executed contracts to the extent that the Company contemplates recognition of the related revenue within one year. There can be no assurance that contracts included in recurring or non-recurring revenue backlog will actually generate the specified revenues or that the actual revenues will be generated within the one-year period.

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Results of Operations

    The following table sets forth certain financial data and the percentage of total revenues of the Company for the periods indicated (amounts in thousands):

				Year Ended September 30,
				2001					2000					1999
				Amount			% of Revenue		Amount			% of Revenue		Amount			% of Revenue
Revenues:
	ILFs and PUFs			$	102,737		34.3%		$	88,348		29.1	%	$	95,002		26.8	%
	MLFs (other than Recognized-Up-Front MLFs)				49,748		16.6			57,681		19.0			54,500		15.4
	Recognized-Up-Front MLFs				21,311		7.1			30,266		10.0			60,500		17.0
	Software license fees				173,796		58.0			176,295		58.1			210,002		59.2
	Maintenance fees				70,246		23.4			68,727		22.6			63,933		18.0
	Services				55,759		18.6			58,543		19.3			80,859		22.8
		Total revenues			299,801		100.0			303,565		100.0			354,794		100.0
Expenses:
	Cost of software license fees				43,466		14.5			45,967		15.1			44,079		12.4
	Cost of maintenance and services				73,490		24.5			70,681		23.3			72,096		20.3
	Research and development				40,528		13.5			38,832		12.8			34,612		9.8
	Selling and marketing				76,273		25.4			75,539		24.9			70,121		19.8
	General and administrative				77,008		25.7			62,416		20.5			58,725		16.5
	Amortization of goodwill and purchased intangibles				13,933		4.7			8,388		2.8			4,901		1.4
		Total expenses			324,698		108.3			301,823		99.4			284,534		80.2
Operating income (loss)					(24,897	)	(8.3	)		1,742		0.6			70,260		19.8
Other income (expense):
	Interest income				4,397		1.5			3,481		1.1			2,947		0.8
	Interest expense				(2,004	)	(0.7	)		(912	)	(0.3	)		(401	)	(0.1	)
	Other				267		0.1			(718	)	(0.2	)		(936	)	(0.2	)
	Non-recurring items				(22,574	)	(7.5	)		—		—			—		—
		Total other			(19,914	)	(6.6	)		1,851		0.6			1,610		0.5
Income (loss) before income taxes					(44,811	)	(14.9	)		3,593		1.2			71,870		20.3
Income tax benefit (provision)					1,794		0.6			(1,482	)	(0.5	)		(27,170	)	(7.7	)
Net income (loss)				$	(43,017	)	(14.3	)%	$	2,111		0.7	%	$	44,700		12.6	%

    Revenues.  Total revenues for fiscal 2001 decreased 1.2%, or $3.8 million, from fiscal 2000. The decrease is the result of a $2.5 million, or 1.4%, decrease in software license fees revenue and a $2.8 million, or 4.8%, decrease in services revenue, offset by a $1.5 million, or 2.2%, increase in maintenance fees revenue.

    Total revenues for fiscal 2000 decreased 14.4%, or $51.2 million, from fiscal 1999. The decrease is a result of a $33.7 million, or 16.1%, decrease in software license fees revenue and a $22.3 million, or 27.6%, decrease in services revenue, offset by a $4.8 million, or 7.5%, increase in maintenance fees revenue.

    During the first quarter of fiscal 2000, the Company's large bank and merchant customers and potential new customers, in effect, locked down their systems in preparation for the Year 2000. This Year 2000 lock-down had a negative impact on the Company's ACI Worldwide software license fees and

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services revenues due to the less than expected demand by customers and potential new customers to upgrade and enhance their current systems. In addition, since the Year 2000 cutover, the Company has found its customers increasingly scrutinizing their information technology purchases, which has led to further delays in software and services purchases. The Company believes overall demand for its products and services is increasing at a gradual pace. However, the Company believes that customer demand for its products and services will be slow to return to growth levels experienced prior to fiscal 2000.

    In fiscal 2001, the Company changed its sales compensation plans for its ACI Worldwide and Insession Technologies sales forces to emphasize PUF contracts for both customer renewals and new customers rather than emphasizing ILF/MLF contracts. This change resulted in an increase in PUF revenue and a decrease in MLF and Recognized-Up-Front MLF revenues for fiscal 2001.

    The increase in MLF revenue in fiscal 2000 is a result of growth of the installed base of customers licensing products under ILF/MLF type contracts in the Company's ACI Worldwide and Insession Technologies business units.

    The increase in maintenance fees revenue in both fiscal 2001 and 2000 resulted from growth in the installed base of the Company's software products in all three of the Company's business units.

    The decrease in services revenue in both fiscal 2001 and 2000 is primarily the result of a decreased demand for technical and project management services, which is primarily the result of a decrease in the sale of the Company's products.

    Corporate Restructuring and Other Charges.  During fiscal 2001, the Company incurred restructuring and other charges in the amount of $37.2 million. These charges are reflected in the accompanying consolidated statement of income as follows (in millions):

    These charges relate to closing or significantly reducing the size of certain product development organizations and geographic sales offices, executive management changes, transfer of ownership in HHPC to the minority shareholder, write-down for declines in carrying value of investment holdings, and expensing of initial public offering ("IPO") costs associated with the withdrawn IPO of Insession Technologies, Inc.

    Expenses.  Total operating expenses for fiscal 2001 increased 2.8%, or $8.3 million (excluding $14.6 million of restructuring charges mentioned in the preceding section), over fiscal 2000. Total operating expenses for fiscal 2000 increased 6.1%, or $17.3 million, over fiscal 1999. During fiscal 2001 and 2000, the Company incurred increases in amortization expense of $9.5 million and $7.9 million, respectively, resulting primarily from acquisitions accounted for using the purchase method of accounting. The increase in fiscal 2001 amortization expense over fiscal 2000 relates primarily to the acquisition of MDL, which is part of the ACI Worldwide business unit. The increase in fiscal 2000 amortization expense over fiscal 1999 related to the acquisitions of Insession and WorkPoint, which are part of the Insession Technologies business unit, was $4.0 million; SDM, which is part of the ACI Worldwide business unit, was $0.9 million; and HHPC, which was $0.5 million. Also in fiscal 2001, total operating expenses decreased by $1.2 million resulting from cost savings generated by the restructuring activities, offset by an increase in operating expenses (other than amortization) associated with the acquisition of

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MDL. The remaining increase in total operating expenses of $9.4 million in fiscal 2000 is due to an increase in costs to support the Company's products and services, as well as additional facilities and personnel costs arising from the Company's acquisitions, including wages, benefits, travel, rents and insurance, along with cost of living salary adjustments. Total staff (including both employees and independent contractors) was 1,839, 2,096 and 2,194 at September 30, 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. Other significant changes in operating expense line items are discussed below.

    Cost of software license fees for fiscal 2001 decreased $2.5 million, or 5.4%, as compared to fiscal 2000. This decrease was due primarily to a decrease in royalties owed to the owners of third-party products resulting from decreases in third-party product sales volumes and a decrease in the royalty rate for one third-party product.

    Research and development ("R&D") costs for fiscal 2001 increased $1.4 million, or 3.6% (excluding $0.3 million of restructuring charges), over fiscal 2000. R&D costs for fiscal 2000 increased $4.2 million, or 12.2%, over fiscal 1999. R&D consists primarily of compensation and related costs for R&D employees and contractors. R&D costs (excluding $0.3 million of restructuring and other charges in fiscal 2001) as a percentage of total revenues were 13.4%, 12.8% and 9.8% in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. The majority of R&D costs have been charged to expense as incurred, with capitalization of certain internally-developed software when the resulting products reach technological feasibility. Software development costs capitalized in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 totaled approximately $3.7 million, $8.6 million and $3.6 million, respectively.

    Selling and marketing costs (excluding $0.3 million of restructuring charges in fiscal 2001) as a percentage of total revenues were 25.3%, 24.9% and 19.8% in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. The increase for fiscal 2000 is due to an increase in sales personnel and marketing activities in each of the business units.

    General and administrative costs for fiscal 2001 increased $2.8 million, or 4.5% (excluding $11.8 million of restructuring charges), over fiscal 2000. General and administrative costs for fiscal 2000 increased $3.7 million, or 6.3%, over fiscal 1999. The increase for fiscal 2001 is attributable to an increase in bad debts expense and occupancy costs, primarily from the MDL acquisition, offset by a decrease in personnel-related expenses. The decrease in personnel-related expenses is due to the consolidation of the Company's Consumer Banking, Electronic Commerce and Internet Banking operating units into the ACI Worldwide business unit during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000. The increase for fiscal 2000 is attributable to an increase in personnel and facilities requirements related to Company acquisitions.

    Other Income and Expenses.  The increase in interest expense in fiscal 2001 and 2000 is due to increased borrowings on the Company's line-of-credit facilities. The increase in interest income is due primarily to the recognition of the interest component of Recognized-Up-Front MLFs. Other income (expense) resulted primarily from foreign currency translation gains and losses recognized by the Company. Other expenses in fiscal 1999 also includes non-recurring expenses totaling $0.7 million associated with the acquisition of MINT, which was accounted for using the pooling of interests method of accounting.

    In fiscal 2001, the Company transferred its 70% ownership in HHPC to the minority shareholder. As a result of the transfer, the Company recorded a non-recurring charge of $7.4 million related to the Company's carrying value in HHPC. Also during fiscal 2001, after considering current market conditions for technology companies and specific information regarding those companies in which the Company has an ownership interest, the Company determined that the declines in market value for certain of its investment holdings were "other than temporary" and charges to earnings of $13.3 million for the declines in market values were required. The Company also expensed costs associated with the withdrawn IPO of Insession Technologies, Inc. totaling $1.9 million in fiscal 2001.

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    Income Taxes.  The effective tax rate for fiscal 2001 was a benefit of approximately 4%, compared to a provision of 41% for fiscal 2000 and 38% for fiscal 1999. The effective tax rate for fiscal 2001 was primarily impacted by non-deductible amortization expense associated with acquisitions accounted for as purchases, non-recognition of tax benefits for operating losses in certain foreign locations and non-recognition of tax benefits for write-offs due to asset impairments and investment holdings.

    As of September 30, 2001, the Company has deferred tax assets of $41.5 million and deferred tax liabilities of $1.1 million. Each year, the Company evaluates its historical operating results as well as its projections for the future to determine the realizability of the deferred tax assets. This analysis resulted in a valuation allowance of $18.1 million being recorded as of September 30, 2001. The Company intends to analyze the realizability of the net deferred tax assets at each future reporting period. Such analysis may indicate that the realization of various deferred tax benefits has changed and, therefore, the valuation reserve may be adjusted accordingly.

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Selected Quarterly Information

    The following table sets forth certain unaudited financial data for each of the quarters within fiscal 2001 and 2000. This information has been derived from the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements and in management's opinion, reflects all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring adjustments) necessary for a fair presentation of the information for the quarters presented. The operating results for any quarter are not necessarily indicative of results for any future period. Amounts presented are in thousands, except per share data:

				Quarter Ended
				Sept. 30, 2001			June 30, 2001			March 31, 2001			Dec. 31, 2000			Sept. 30, 2000			June 30, 2000			March 31, 2000			Dec. 31, 1999
Revenues:
	Software license fees			$	44,454		$	41,716		$	45,159		$	42,467		$	48,036		$	46,498		$	46,508		$	35,253
	Maintenance fees				18,474			18,387			17,420			15,965			17,498			17,340			17,204			16,685
	Services				12,074			13,568			13,913			16,204			16,623			15,064			11,677			15,179
		Total revenues			75,002			73,671			76,492			74,636			82,157			78,902			75,389			67,117
Expenses:
	Cost of software license fees				9,919			10,723			11,233			11,591			12,207			11,851			11,084			10,825
	Cost of maintenance and services				16,457			20,311			18,011			18,711			18,673			17,952			17,264			16,792
	Research and development				8,883			10,854			10,722			10,069			10,279			10,125			9,968			8,460
	Selling and marketing				17,848			20,483			18,247			19,695			20,937			18,837			18,204			17,561
	General and administrative				18,318			26,513			16,050			16,127			16,434			16,185			15,159			14,638
	Amortization of goodwill and purchased intangibles				3,860			4,293			3,413			2,367			2,418			2,035			1,758			2,177
		Total expenses			75,285			93,177			77,676			78,560			80,948			76,985			73,437			70,453
Operating income (loss)					(283	)		(19,506	)		(1,184	)		(3,924	)		1,209			1,917			1,952			(3,336	)
Other income (expense):
	Interest income				1,132			1,725			716			824			832			985			717			947
	Interest expense				(287	)		(349	)		(749	)		(619	)		(599	)		(178	)		(72	)		(63	)
	Other				1,896			(914	)		(988	)		273			215			(1,065	)		(51	)		183
	Non-recurring items				(857	)		(7,406	)		—			(14,311	)		—			—			—			—
		Total other income (expense)			1,884			(6,944	)		(1,021	)		(13,833	)		448			(258	)		594			1,067
Income (loss) before income taxes					1,601			(26,450	)		(2,205	)		(17,757	)		1,657			1,659			2,546			(2,269	)
Income tax benefit (provision)					(5,147	)		4,935			(1,399	)		3,405			(729	)		(644	)		(995	)		886
Net income (loss)				$	(3,546	)	$	(21,515	)	$	(3,604	)	$	(14,352	)	$	928		$	1,015		$	1,551		$	(1,383	)
Earnings per share:
	Basic				(0.10	)		(0.61	)		(0.10	)		(0.45	)		0.03			0.03			0.05			(0.04	)
	Diluted				(0.10	)		(0.61	)		(0.10	)		(0.45	)		0.03			0.03			0.05			(0.04	)

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

    As of September 30, 2001, the Company's principal sources of liquidity consisted of $32.3 million of cash and cash equivalents, and available bank lines of credit. The Company has a $25 million bank line-of-credit with a large United States bank secured by certain trade receivables of TSA. The line-of-credit agreement provides that the Company must satisfy certain specified earnings, working capital and minimum tangible net worth requirements, as defined, and places restrictions on the Company's ability to, among other things, sell assets, incur debt, pay dividends, participate in mergers and make investments or guarantees. The Company also has a line-of-credit with a large foreign bank in the amount of 3.0 million British Sterling, which translates to approximately $4.4 million. The foreign line requires the Company to maintain minimum tangible net worth within the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, ACI Worldwide (EMEA) Ltd. The Company is in compliance with all debt covenants as of September 30, 2001. As of September 30, 2001, outstanding borrowings totaled $12.0 million. The remaining $17.4 million is available to the Company for future borrowings.

    The Company's net cash provided by operating activities for fiscal 2001 was $22.8 million. Net cash used in operating activities in fiscal 2000 was $13.6 million and net cash provided by operating activities for fiscal 1999 was $40.3 million. In an effort to enhance upfront software license fee payments in fiscal 2001, the Company adopted an initiative to pursue PUF payment options for its software licensing rather than ILF/MLF payment options. Under the PUF payment option, the licensee pays the license fee at the beginning of the software term whereas under the ILF/MLF payment option, the licensee pays a portion of the software license fees at the beginning of the software term and the remaining portion over the software license term. The improvement in operating cash flows in fiscal 2001 as compared to fiscal 2000 was primarily due to a decrease in billed and accrued receivables, which is due in part to the Company's emphasis on PUF contracts rather than ILF/MLF contracts. The decrease in fiscal 2000 as compared to fiscal 1999 of $53.9 million is due primarily to a decrease in net income and an increase in billed and accrued receivables. These amounts were offset, in part, by an increase in amortization resulting from acquisitions.

    An important contributor to the cash management program is the Company's factoring of accrued receivables, whereby interest in its receivables are transferred on a non-recourse basis to third party financial institutions in exchange for cash. During fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999, the Company generated operating cash flows from the factoring of accrued receivables of $19.2 million, $19.9 million and $30.9 million, respectively.

    During fiscal 2001, the Company incurred restructuring and other charges in the amount of $37.0 million. These charges are comprised of $1.7 million of cash used in fiscal 2001, $4.3 million of cash expected to be used in fiscal 2002 and $30.9 million of non-cash charges.

    The Company's net cash flows used in investing activities totaled $9.9 million, $32.7 million and $20.2 million in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. The decrease in cash used in investing activities in fiscal 2001 as compared to 2000 is due to a decrease in acquisition-related expenditures, and decreased purchases of software, property and equipment. The increase in cash used in investing activities in fiscal 2000 as compared to 1999 is due to an increase in purchases of software and distribution rights and an increase in investments and notes receivable.

    In fiscal 1999, the Company purchased 1.25 million shares of Digital Courier Technologies, Inc. ("DCTI") Common Stock for $6.5 million. The Company also received warrants to purchase an additional 1.0 million shares of DCTI Common Stock at an exercise price of $5.20 per share. During fiscal 2000, the Company exercised these warrants and acquired the additional 1.0 million shares for $5.2 million. During fiscal 2000, the Company sold 536,500 shares of DCTI Common Stock for $4.0 million, resulting in a gain of $1.2 million. In fiscal 2001, after considering current market conditions and specific information regarding DCTI, the Company determined that the decline in market value for DCTI was

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"other than temporary" and a non-cash charge to earnings in the amount of $8.9 million, the Company's carrying value in DCTI, was recorded.

    The Company's net cash flows used in financing activities was $4.2 million, $40,000 and $13.5 million in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999, respectively. During fiscal 2001, the Company had net payments on its bank line-of-credit facilities of $5.9 million as compared to net borrowings of $17.9 million during fiscal 2000. In fiscal 1999, the Company's Board of Directors approved the repurchase of up to 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock through February 2001. Under this repurchase program, the Company acquired 1,000,300 shares in fiscal 2000 at an average cost of $21.00 per share totaling $21.0 million and 475,000 shares in fiscal 1999 at an average cost of $29.98 per share totaling $14.2 million. The Company used cash flow from operations to fund the Common Stock repurchases.

    The Company believes that its existing sources of liquidity, including cash provided by operating activities along with cash generated from its factoring program and borrowings under its line-of-credit facilities, will satisfy the Company's projected working capital and other cash requirements for the foreseeable future.

Forward-Looking Statements

    This report contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Generally, forward-looking statements include words or phrases such as "management anticipates," "the Company believes," "the Company anticipates," "the Company expects," "the Company plans," "the Company will", and words and phrases of similar impact, and include but are not limited to statements regarding future operations, business strategy and business environment. The forward-looking statements are made pursuant to safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, the following:

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The Company will continue to derive a majority of its total revenue from international operations and is subject to risks of conducting international operations including: difficulties in staffing and management, reliance on independent distributors, longer payment cycles, volatilities of foreign currency exchange rates, compliance with foreign regulatory requirements, variability of foreign economic conditions, and changing restrictions imposed by U.S. export laws.



•

The Company will continue to derive a substantial majority of its total revenue from licensing its BASE24 family of software products and providing services and maintenance related to those products. Any reduction in demand for, or increase in competition with respect to, BASE24 products would have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition and results of operations.



•

The Company will continue to derive a substantial portion of its revenues from licensing of software products that operate on Compaq computers. Any reduction in demand for these computers or in Compaq's ability to deliver products on a timely basis could have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition and results of operations. Compaq has announced that it is planning to consolidate its high-end performance enterprise servers on the Intel Corp. Itanium microprocessor by 2004. Also, Compaq is contemplating a merger with Hewlett-Packard Co. The Company has not determined whether the consolidation of the high-end servers, if it occurs as announced, or the merger, if consummated, would materially affect the Company's business, financial position or results of operation.



•

The Company's business is concentrated in the banking industry, making it susceptible to a downturn in that industry. Further, banks are continuing to consolidate, decreasing the overall number of potential buyers of TSA's products and services.

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•

New accounting standards, or additional interpretations or guidance regarding existing standards, could be issued in the future, which could lead to unanticipated changes in the Company's current financial accounting policies. These changes could affect the timing of revenue or expense recognition and cause fluctuations in operating results.



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Fluctuations in quarterly operating results may result in volatility in the Company's stock price. No assurance can be given that operating results will not vary. The Company's stock price may also be volatile, in part, due to external factors such as announcements by third parties or competitors, inherent volatility in the high-technology sector and changing market conditions in the industry.



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The Company has expanded and may seek to continue to expand its operations through the acquisition of additional businesses. Acquisitions involve many risks that could have a material adverse effect on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations. Management's negotiations of potential acquisitions and the integration of acquired businesses or technologies could divert their time and resources. Further, the Company may not be able to properly integrate acquired businesses or technology with its existing operations, train and motivate personnel from the acquired business, or combine potentially different corporate cultures.

Item 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

    The Company is exposed to market risks associated primarily related to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. The Company conducts business in all parts of the world. As a general rule, the Company's revenue contracts are denominated in U.S. dollars. Thus, any decline in the value of local foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar will result in the Company's products and services being more expensive to a potential foreign buyer, and in those instances where the Company's goods and services have already been sold, will result in the receivables being more difficult to collect. The Company does at times enter into revenue contracts that are denominated in the currency of the country in which it has substantive operations, principally the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Singapore. This practice serves as a natural hedge to finance the expenses incurred in those locations. The Company has not entered into, nor does it currently anticipate entering into, any foreign currency hedging transactions.

    The Company is exposed to market risks associated with changes in interest rates. The Company had outstanding borrowings of $12.0 million on its bank line-of-credit as of September 30, 2001. Interest on the bank line-of-credit accrues at an annual rate equal to the bank's prime rate less .25%, which was 5.75% as of September 30, 2001. The Company does not utilize any derivative financial instruments for purposes of managing its interest rate risk.

    The Company does not purchase or hold any derivative financial instruments for the purpose of speculation or arbitrage.

Item 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

    The required financial statements and related notes are included in this Form 10-K and are listed in Part IV, Item 14 of this Form 10-K.

Item 9.  CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

    None.

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PART III

Item 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

    The information required by this item with respect to directors of the registrant is contained in the Registrant's Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on February 19, 2002 ("the Proxy Statement") and is incorporated herein by reference.

    The information required by this item with respect to executive officers of the registrant is set forth in Item 4A, "Executive Officers of the Registrant" in Part I of this Form 10-K.

Item 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

    The information required by this item is contained in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

    The information required by this item is contained in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

    The information required by this item is contained in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

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PART IV

Item 14. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES, AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K

(a) Documents filed as part of the report:

(1) Financial Statements

    Index to consolidated financial statements filed as part of this Form 10-K:

		Page
Report of Independent Public Accountants		35
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2001 and 2000		36
Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2001		37
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2001		38
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2001		39
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements		40

(2) Financial Statement Schedules

    All schedules have been omitted because they are not applicable or the required information is included in the consolidated financial statements or notes thereto.

(3) Exhibits

Exhibit Number		Decription
2.01 (2)		Senior Convertible Preferred Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement among ACI Holding, Inc. and the Several Named hasers Named therein, dated as of December 31, 1993
2.02 (2)		Stock Purchase Agreement between and among Tandem Computers Incorporated, Tandem Computers Limited, Applied Communications, Inc., Applied Communications Inc Limited and ACI Holding, Inc., dated November 8, 1993, and amendments thereto
2.03 (2)		Stock Purchase Agreement between and among U S Software Holding, Inc., Michael J. Scheier, Trustee, Michael J. Scheier and ACI Holding, Inc., dated December 13, 1993, and amendments thereto
2.04 (2)		Stock and Warrant Holders Agreement, dated as of December 30, 1993
2.05 (2)		Credit Agreement among ACI Transub, Inc., ACI Holding, Inc., certain lenders and Continental Bank N.A., as Agent, dated December 31, 1993, including Amendment No. 1 to Credit Agreement and Amendment No. 2 to Credit Agreement and Consent
2.06 (2)		Letter Agreement among ACI Holding, Inc., Alex. Brown and Sons, Incorporated and Kirkpatrick Pettis Smith Polian, Inc., and amendment thereto
2.07 (2)		ACI Management Group Investor Subscription Agreement, dated as of December 30, 1993

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2.08 (3)		Asset Purchase Agreement Between 1176484 Ontario Inc. and TXN Solution Integrations dated June 3, 1996
2.09 (4)		Stock Exchange Agreement by and among the Company, Grapevine Systems, Inc. and certain principal shareholders of Grapevine Systems, Inc., dated as of July 15, 1996
2.10 (9)		Stock Exchange Agreement dated April 17, 1997 by and among the Company and Regency Voice Systems, Inc. and related entities.
2.11 (10)		Agreement and Plan of Merger dated April 27, 1998 among the Company, I.N. Acquisition Corp. and IntraNet
2.12 (16)		Combination Agreement, dated as of October 24, 2000, among Transaction Systems Architects, Inc., Transaction Systems Architects Nova Scotia Company, TSA Exchangeco Limited and MessagingDirect Ltd.
2.13 (16)		Plan of Arrangement under Section 186 of the Business Corporations Act (Alberta)
2.14 (16)		Voting and Exchange Trust Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2001, among Transaction Systems Architects, Inc., Transaction Systems Architects Nova Scotia Company, TSA Exchangeco Limited and Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, National Association
2.15 (16)		Support Agreement, dated as of January 11, 2001, among Transaction Systems Architects, Inc., Transaction Systems Architects Nova Scotia Company and TSA Exchangeco Limited
3.01 (2)		Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, and amendments thereto
3.02 (13)		Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, and First Amendment thereto
4.01 (2)		Form of Common Stock Certificate
10.01 (2)		ACI Holding, Inc. 1994 Stock Option Plan and UK Sub-Plan
10.02 (2)		ACI Holding, Inc. Employees Stock Purchase Plan
10.03 (2)		Applied Communications, Inc. First Restated Profit Sharing Plan and Trust
10.04 (2)		Applied Communications, Inc. Profit Sharing/401(k) Plan and Amendment No. 1 thereto
10.05 (2)		U.S. Software, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and Trust
10.06 (7)		Consulting Agreement between Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. and Michael J. Scheier and U.S. Software Holding dated December 31, 1995
10.07 (12)		Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. 1996 Stock Option Plan
10.08-.12		(Intentionally omitted)
10.13 (2)		Voting Agreement among ACI Holding, Inc. and certain investors, dated as of December 30, 1993
10.14 (2)		Registration Rights Agreement between ACI Holding, Inc. and certain stockholders, dated December 30, 1993
10.15-.16		(Intentionally omitted)
10.17 (2)		Lease respecting facility at 330 South 108th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska
10.18 (2)		Lease respecting facility at 218 South 108th Avenue, Suite 3, Omaha, Nebraska
10.19 (2)		Lease respecting facility at 230 South 108th Avenue, Suite 3, Omaha, Nebraska
10.20 (2)		Lease respecting facility at 230 South 108th Avenue (North half), Omaha, Nebraska
10.21 (5)		Lease respecting facility at 206 South 108th Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska
10.22 (2)		Lease respecting facility at 2200 Abbott Drive, Carter Lake, Iowa
10.23 (5)		Lease respecting facility at 182 Clemenceau Avenue, Singapore
10.24 (8)		Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. 1997 Management Stock Option Plan
10.25 (1)		Leases respecting facility at 55 and 59 Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

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10.26 (14)		Credit Facility Letter Agreement and Promissory Note with Wells Fargo Bank Nebraska, N.A.
10.26a (15)		Amendment to Credit Facility Letter Agreement & Interim Promissory Note with Wells Fargo Bank Nebraska, N.A.
10.27 (2)		Software House Agreement, as amended, between Tandem Computers Incorporated and Applied Communications, Inc.
10.28 (1)		Lease respecting facility at 236 South 108th Avenue, Suite 2, Omaha, Nebraska
10.29 (3)		Second Amendment to Software House Agreement between Tandem Computers Incorporated and Applied Communications, Inc.
10.30 (11)		Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan
10.31 (11)		Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan Trust Agreement
10.32 (13)		Severance Compensation Agreements between Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. and certain employees
10.33 (14)		Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. 2000 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan
10.34 (15)		Advice of Borrowing Terms for ACI Worldwide (EMEA) Ltd.
10.35 (17)		Credit Agreement with U.S. Bank National Association
10.36 (18)		Stock Option Agreement between Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. and Gregory J. Duman
21.01 (4)		Subsidiaries of the Company
23.01		Consent of Independent Public Accountants

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(1)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registration Statement No. 33-94338 on Form S-1.

(2)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Registration Statement No. 33-88292 on Form S-1.

(3)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 3, 1996.

(4)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Registration Statement No. 333-09811 on Form S-4.

(5)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1995.

(6)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 1996.

(7)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 1995.

(8)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 1997.

(9)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 13, 1997.

(10)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 7, 1998.

(11)

Incorporated by reference to exhibits 4.1 and 4.2 to the Registration Statement No. 333-67987 on Form S-8.

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(12)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit with the same number to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1996.

(13)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit with the same number to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1999.

(14)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q/A Amendment No. 1 for the period ended June 30, 2000.

(15)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended December 31, 2000.

(16)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2001.

(17)

Incorporated by reference to the exhibit of the same number to the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2001.

(18)

Incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Registration Statement No. 333-75964 on Form S-8.

(b) Reports on Form 8-K

    None.

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SIGNATURES

    Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on the 26th day of December, 2001.

		TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC. (Registrant)
		By:		/s/ LARRY G. FENDLEY    Larry G. Fendley Interim Chief Executive Officer

    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Name		Title		Date
/s/ LARRY G. FENDLEY    Larry G. Fendley		Interim Chief Executive Officer and Director		December 26, 2001
/s/ DWIGHT G. HANSON    Dwight G. Hanson		Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Senior Vice President		December 26, 2001
/s/ EDWARD C. FUXA    Edward C. Fuxa		Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President and Controller		December 26, 2001
/s/ GREGORY J. DUMAN    Gregory J. Duman		Chairman of the Board and Director		December 26, 2001
/s/ CHARLES E. NOELL, III    Charles E. Noell, III		Director		December 26, 2001
/s/ ROGER K. ALEXANDER    Roger K. Alexander		Director		December 26, 2001
/s/ JIM D. KEVER    Jim D. Kever		Director		December 26, 2001

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

To Transaction Systems Architects, Inc.:

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. (a Delaware corporation) and Subsidiaries as of September 30, 2001 and 2000, and the related consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income, stockholders' equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2001. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. and Subsidiaries as of September 30, 2001 and 2000, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended September 30, 2001, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP

Omaha, Nebraska,
October 26, 2001

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TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share amounts)

				September 30,
				2001			2000
ASSETS
Current assets:
	Cash and cash equivalents			$	32,252		$	23,400
	Marketable securities				2,650			8,106
	Billed receivables, net of allowances of $8,700 and $5,941, respectively				50,277			63,556
	Accrued receivables				50,932			51,659
	Prepaid income taxes				1,911			2,710
	Deferred income taxes				8,700			11,208
	Other				10,990			13,134
		Total current assets			157,712			173,773
Property and equipment, net					14,580			19,614
Software, net					27,954			26,757
Intangible assets, net					82,327			65,254
Long-term accrued receivables					24,916			27,018
Investments and notes receivable					1,309			8,146
Deferred income taxes					13,627			2,958
Other					5,028			6,632
		Total assets		$	327,453		$	330,152
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
	Current portion of long-term debt			$	12,559		$	18,396
	Accounts payable				13,542			16,023
	Accrued employee compensation				9,030			7,472
	Accrued liabilities				23,369			20,003
	Deferred revenue				35,857			43,373
		Total current liabilities			94,357			105,267
Long-term debt					761			532
Long-term deferred revenue					12,610			13,993
Other					1,057			—
		Total liabilities			108,785			119,792
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' equity:
	Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, $.01 par value; 5,450,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2001 and 2000				—			—
	Redeemable Convertible Class B Common Stock and Warrants, $.005 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2001 and 2000				—			—
	Class A Common Stock, $.005 par value; 50,000,000 shares authorized; 36,687,658 and 33,100,967 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2001 and 2000, respectively				184			165
	Class B Common Stock, $.005 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2001 and 2000				—			—
	Additional paid-in capital				222,501			170,946
	Retained earnings				42,016			85,033
	Treasury stock, at cost, 1,476,145 shares at September 30, 2001 and 2000				(35,258	)		(35,258	)
	Accumulated other comprehensive income				(10,775	)		(10,526	)
		Total stockholders' equity			218,668			210,360
		Total liabilities and stockholders' equity		$	327,453		$	330,152

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

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TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

(in thousands, except per share amounts)

				Year Ended September 30,
				2001			2000			1999
Revenues:
	Software license fees			$	173,796		$	176,295		$	210,002
	Maintenance fees				70,246			68,727			63,933
	Services				55,759			58,543			80,859
		Total revenues			299,801			303,565			354,794
Expenses:
	Cost of software license fees				43,466			45,967			44,079
	Cost of maintenance and services				73,490			70,681			72,096
	Research and development				40,528			38,832			34,612
	Selling and marketing				76,273			75,539			70,121
	General and administrative				77,008			62,416			58,725
	Amortization of goodwill and purchased intangibles				13,933			8,388			4,901
		Total expenses			324,698			301,823			284,534
Operating income (loss)					(24,897	)		1,742			70,260
Other income (expense):
	Interest income				4,397			3,481			2,947
	Interest expense				(2,004	)		(912	)		(401	)
	Other				267			(718	)		(936	)
	Non-recurring items				(22,574	)		—			—
		Total other income (expense)			(19,914	)		1,851			1,610
Income (loss) before income taxes					(44,811	)		3,593			71,870
Income tax benefit (provision)					1,794			(1,482	)		(27,170	)
Net income (loss)				$	(43,017	)	$	2,111		$	44,700
Earnings per share information:
	Weighted average shares outstanding:
		Basic			34,116			31,744			31,667
		Diluted			34,116			32,117			32,363
	Earnings per share:
		Basic		$	(1.26	)	$	0.07		$	1.41
		Diluted		$	(1.26	)	$	0.07		$	1.38
Comprehensive income information:
	Net income (loss)			$	(43,017	)	$	2,111		$	44,700
	Other comprehensive income:
		Foreign currency translation adjustments			(3,702	)		(2,470	)		(178	)
		Change in unrealized loss on investments			3,453			(2,760	)		(231	)
	Comprehensive income (loss)			$	(43,266	)	$	(3,119	)	$	44,291

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

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TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
(in thousands, except share amounts)

		Class A Common Stock			Class B Common Stock			Additional Paid-in Capital			Retained Earnings			Treasury Stock			Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income			Total
Balance, September 30, 1998		$	150		$	6		$	112,398		$	38,222		$	(12	)	$	(4,887	)	$	145,877
Issuance of Class A Common Stock for purchase of Insession Inc.			4			—			28,421			—			—			—			28,425
Issuance of Class A Common Stock for purchase of SDM International, Inc.			2			—			14,485			—			—			—			14,487
Sale of Class A Common Stock pursuant to Employee Stock Purchase Plan			—			—			1,339			—			—			—			1,339
Conversion of Class B Common Stock to Class A Common Stock			6			(6	)		—			—			—			—			—
Purchase of 475,000 shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to a stock repurchase program						—			—			—			(14,238	)		—			(14,238	)
Exercise of stock options			1			—			2,216			—			—			—			2,217
Tax benefit of stock options exercised			—			—			2,771			—			—			—			2,771
Change in unrealized investment holding loss			—			—			—			—			—			(231	)		(231	)
Net income			—			—			—			44,700			—			—			44,700
Foreign currency translation adjustments			—			—			—			—			—			(178	)		(178	)
Balance, September 30, 1999			163			—			161,630			82,922			(14,250	)		(5,296	)		225,169
Issuance of Class A Common Stock for purchase of WorkPoint Systems, Inc.			1			—			3,982			—			—			—			3,983
Issuance of Class A Common Stock for purchase of Hospital Health Plan Corp.			—			—			1			—			—			—			1
Sale of Class A Common Stock pursuant to Employee Stock Purchase Plan			—			—			1,883			—			—			—			1,883
Purchase of 1,000,300 shares of Class A Common Stock pursuant to a stock repurchase program			—			—			—			—			(21,008	)		—			(21,008	)
Exercise of stock options			1			—			2,005			—			—			—			2,006
Tax benefit of stock options exercised			—			—			1,445			—			—			—			1,445
Change in unrealized investment holding loss			—			—			—			—			—			(2,760	)		(2,760	)
Net income			—			—			—			2,111			—			—			2,111
Foreign currency translation adjustments			—			—			—			—			—			(2,470	)		(2,470	)
Balance, September 30, 2000			165			—			170,946			85,033			(35,258	)		(10,526	)		210,360
Issuance of Class A Common Stock for purchase of MessagingDirect, Ltd.			17			—			49,504			—			—			—			49,521
Sale of Class A Common Stock pursuant to Employee Stock Purchase Plan			1			—			1,464			—			—			—			1,465
Exercise of stock options			1			—			374			—			—			—			375
Tax benefit of stock options exercised			—			—			213			—			—			—			213
Change in unrealized investment holding loss			—			—			—			—			—			3,453			3,453
Net loss			—			—			—			(43,017	)		—			—			(43,017	)
Foreign currency translation adjustments			—			—			—			—			—			(3,702	)		(3,702	)
Balance, September 30, 2001		$	184		$	—		$	222,501		$	42,016		$	(35,258	)	$	(10,775	)	$	218,668

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

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TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in thousands)

						Year Ended September 30,
						2001			2000			1999
Cash flows from operating activities:
	Net income (loss)					$	(43,017	)	$	2,111		$	44,700
	Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities:
		Depreciation					7,896			8,478			8,270
		Amortization					30,632			21,135			13,206
		Non-recurring items					22,574			—			—
		Gain on sale of marketable securities					—			(1,221	)		—
		Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
			Billed and accrued receivables, net				17,628			(22,668	)		(23,902	)
			Other current assets				743			(5,913	)		(2,550	)
			Other assets				4,201			(3,285	)		(1,261	)
			Accounts payable				(3,635	)		7,488			(2,424	)
			Accrued employee compensation				1,531			(480	)		(1,332	)
			Accrued liabilities				61			1,367			(9,616	)
			Income tax liabilities				(7,220	)		(22,691	)		3,239
			Deferred revenue				(9,693	)		2,040			11,932
			Other liabilities				1,057			—			—
				Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities			22,758			(13,639	)		40,262
Cash flows from investing activities:
	Purchases of property and equipment						(3,389	)		(6,574	)		(7,322	)
	Purchases of software and distribution rights						(4,968	)		(12,361	)		(6,891	)
	Purchases of marketable securities						—			(5,200	)		(6,500	)
	Proceeds from sale of marketable securities						—			4,011			—
	Acquisitions of businesses, net of cash received						226			(7,959	)		(8,949	)
	Proceeds from sale of business						—			—			10,093
	Additions to investments and notes receivable						(772	)		(2,577	)		(602	)
	Note receivable from executive officer						(1,000	)		(2,000	)		—
				Net cash used in investing activities			(9,903	)		(32,660	)		(20,171	)
Cash flows from financing activities:
	Proceeds from issuance of Class A Common Stock						1,465			1,883			1,339
	Proceeds from sale and exercise of stock options						375			2,006			2,216
	Purchases of Class A Common Stock						—			(21,008	)		(14,238	)
	Net borrowings on lines of credit						(5,925	)		17,925			—
	Payments of long-term debt						(65	)		(846	)		(2,792	)
				Net cash used in financing activities			(4,150	)		(40	)		(13,475	)
Effect of exchange rate fluctuations on cash							147			(743	)		218
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents							8,852			(47,082	)		6,834
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period							23,400			70,482			63,648
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period						$	32,252		$	23,400		$	70,482
Supplemental cash flow information:
	Income taxes paid					$	5,826		$	24,394		$	24,039
	Interest paid						2,021			839			397

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the consolidated financial statements.

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TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1.  Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Nature of Business

    Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. ("the Company" or "TSA"), a Delaware corporation, develops, markets and supports a broad line of software products and services primarily focused on facilitating electronic payments and electronic commerce. In addition to its own products, the Company distributes software developed by third parties. The products are used principally by financial institutions, retailers and e-payment processors, both in domestic and international markets.

    The Company derives a substantial portion of its total revenues from licensing its BASE24 family of software products and providing services and maintenance related to those products. During fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999, approximately 60%, 55% and 66%, respectively, of the Company's total revenues were derived from licensing the BASE24 family of products and providing related services and maintenance. BASE24 products operate on Compaq Inc.'s NonStop Himalaya servers. The Company's future results depend, in part, on market acceptance of Compaq's NonStop Himalaya servers and the financial success of Compaq, Inc.

Consolidated Financial Statements

    The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Use of Estimates in Preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements

    The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Revenue Recognition

    The Company generates revenues from licensing software and providing postcontract customer support (maintenance or "PCS") and other professional services. The Company uses written contracts to document the elements and obligations of arrangements with its customers. Arrangements that include the licensing of software typically include PCS, and at times, include other professional services. PCS includes the right to unspecified upgrades on a when-and-if-available basis and ongoing technical support. The other professional services may include training, installation or consulting. The Company also performs services for customers under arrangements that do not include the licensing of software.

    Revenue under multiple-element arrangements, which may include several software products or services sold together, are allocated to each element based upon the residual method in accordance with American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Statement of Position ("SOP") 98-9, "Software Revenue Recognition, With Respect to Certain Transactions." Under the residual method, the fair value of the undelivered elements is deferred and subsequently recognized. The Company has established sufficient vendor specific objective evidence of fair value for PCS and other professional services based upon the price charged when these elements are sold separately. Accordingly, software license fee revenues are recognized under the residual method in arrangements in which the software is licensed with PCS and/or other professional services, and the undelivered elements of the arrangements are not essential to the functionality of the delivered software.

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    The Company recognizes software license fees upon execution of the signed contract, delivery of the software to the customer, determination that the software license fees are fixed or determinable, and determination that the collection of the software license fees is probable. The software license is typically for a term of up to 60 months and does not include a right of return. The term for the PCS element of a software arrangement is typically for a period shorter than the term of the software license, and can be renewed by the customer over the remaining term of the software license. PCS or maintenance revenues are recognized ratably over the term of the arrangement on a straight-line basis. The other professional services element of a software arrangement is typically accounted for separately as the services are performed for time-and-materials contracts or on a percentage-of-completion basis for fixed-price contracts. In those instances where the services are essential to the functionality of any other element of the arrangement, contract accounting is applied to both the software and services elements of the arrangement.

    The Company follows two methods for pricing its software licenses. Under the first method, the software license is priced based upon the number of transactions processed by the customer ("transaction-based pricing"). Under transaction-based pricing, the customer is allowed to process a contractually predetermined maximum volume of transactions per month for a specified period of time. Once the customer's transaction volume exceeds this maximum volume level, the customer is required to pay additional license fees for each incremental volume level. Under the second method, the software license is priced on a per copy basis and tiered to recognize different performance levels of the customer's processing hardware ("designated-equipment-group pricing"). Under designated-equipment-group pricing, the customer pays a license fee for each copy of the software for a specified period of time.

    Licensees are typically given two payment options. Under the first payment option, the licensee can pay a combination of an Initial License Fee ("ILF"), where the licensee pays a portion of the total software license fees at the beginning of the software license term, and a Monthly License Fee ("MLF"), where the licensee pays the remaining portion of the software license fees over the software license term. In certain arrangements, the customer is contractually committed to making MLF payments for a minimum number of months. If the customer decides to terminate the arrangement prior to paying the minimum MLF payments, the remaining minimum MLF payments become due and payable. Under the second payment option, the Company offers a Paid-Up-Front ("PUF") payment option, whereby the total software license fees are due at the beginning of the software license term. Under either payment option, the Company is not obligated to refund any payments received from the customer. In the combination ILF and MLF payment option, the Company recognizes the ILF portion of the software license fees upon delivery of the software, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria were met. In the PUF payment option, the Company recognizes the total software license fees upon delivery of the software, assuming all other revenue recognition criteria were met.

    In addition to SOP 98-9, the Company accounts for its software arrangements in accordance with SOP 97-2, "Software Revenue Recognition." The primary software revenue recognition criteria outlined in SOP 97-2 include: evidence of an arrangement; delivery; fixed or determinable fees; and collectibility. SOP 97-2 specifies that extended payment terms in a software licensing arrangement may indicate that the software license fees are not deemed to be fixed or determinable. In addition, if payment of a significant portion of the software license fees is not due until more than twelve months after delivery, the software license fees should be presumed not to be fixed or determinable, and thus should be recognized as the payments become due. However, SOP 97-2 specifies that if the Company has a standard business practice of using extended payment terms in software licensing arrangements and has a history of successfully collecting the software license fees under the original terms of the software

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licensing arrangement without making concessions, the Company can overcome the presumption that the software license fees are not fixed or determinable. If the presumption is overcome, the Company should recognize the software license fees when all other SOP 97-2 revenue recognition criteria are met.

    The Company has concluded that for certain BASE24 and ICE software arrangements where the customer is contractually committed to make MLF payments that extend beyond twelve months, the "fixed or determinable" presumption has been overcome and software license fees revenue should be recognized upon meeting the other SOP 97-2 revenue recognition criteria. In making this determination, the Company considered the characteristics of the software product, the customer purchasing the software, the similarity of the economics of the software arrangements with previous software arrangements and the actual history of successfully collecting under the original terms without providing concessions. The software license fees recognized under these arrangements are referred to as "Recognized-Up-Front MLFs". For all other products, it has been concluded that (1) the Company does not have a standard business practice of using extended payment terms, and/or (2) the Company does not have a long-range history of successful collections for those products.

    The present value of Recognized-Up-Front MLFs, net of third party royalties, recognized in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 totaled approximately $21.3 million, $30.3 million and $60.5 million, respectively. The discount rates used to determine the present value of these software license fees, representing the Company's incremental borrowing rates, ranged from 9.25% to 11.00% in fiscal 2001, from 10.25% to 11.00% in fiscal 2000 and from 9.5% to 10.25% in fiscal 1999. Recognized-Up-Front MLFs that have been recognized in software license fees revenues by the Company, but not yet billed, are reflected in accrued receivables in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

    Software license fee revenues for fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 consisted of the following (in thousands):

Cash and Cash Equivalents

    The Company considers all highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.

Factoring of Accrued Receivables

    During fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999, the Company sold the rights to future payment streams under software arrangements that involved Recognized-Up-Front MLFs and received cash of approximately $19.2 million, $19.9 million and $30.9 million, respectively. These fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 factoring transactions had no impact on total revenues, but instead resulted in a reduction in accrued receivables related to software license fees. The cash received under the factoring transactions included the PCS element of the software arrangements, which the Company has recorded as deferred revenue and is recognizing over the term of the PCS agreement.

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Financial Instruments with Market Risk and Concentrations of Credit Risk

    In the normal course of business, the Company is exposed to credit risk resulting from the possibility that a loss may occur from the failure of another party to perform according to the terms of a contract. The Company regularly monitors credit risk exposures. Potential concentration of credit risk in the Company's receivables with respect to the banking, other financial services and telecommunications industries, as well as with retailers, processors and networks is mitigated by the Company's credit evaluation procedures and geographical dispersion of sales transactions. The Company generally does not require collateral or other security to support accounts receivable. The activity in the Company's allowance for uncollectible accounts receivable for the years ending September 30 is as follows (in thousands):

Deferred Revenue

    Deferred revenues result when the Company is able to bill for elements of a software arrangement in advance of revenue recognition of those elements. Examples of situations causing deferred revenues to be recorded include: (1) cash is received at the time of contract signing, even though delivery of the software has not yet occurred, (2) the Company bills for PCS or services prior to the PCS or services being provided to the customer, (3) the Company bills the customer in advance (often in quarterly or annual amounts) for monthly software license fees, which are then amortized over the contract period to which these billings relate, and (4) cash is received under factoring transactions where a portion of the future payment streams being sold relates to the PCS element of the software arrangement.

Property and Equipment

    Property and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is generally computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, ranging from three to seven years. Assets under capital leases are amortized over the shorter of the asset life or the lease term.

Software

    Software consists of internally-developed software and purchased software. In accordance with SFAS No. 86, "Accounting for Costs of Computer Software to be Sold, Leased, or Otherwise Marketed," the Company capitalizes costs related to certain internally-developed software when the resulting products reach technological feasibility. Technological feasibility is determined upon completion of a detailed program design or internal specification. The internal specification establishes that the product can be produced to meet its design specifications including functions, features and technical performance requirements. Software development costs capitalized in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 totaled $3.7 million, $8.6 million and $3.6 million, respectively. Purchased software consists of software to be marketed externally that was acquired primarily as the result of a business acquisition ("acquired software") and costs of computer software obtained for internal use that were capitalized in accordance with SOP 98-1, "Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use" ("internal-use software"). During fiscal 2001, the Company recorded acquired software related to the acquisition of MessagingDirect Ltd. of $13.6 million. During fiscal 1999, the Company recorded

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acquired software, primarily related to the acquisitions of Insession Inc. and SDM International, Inc., of $20.7 million. Amortization of internally-developed software costs begins when the products are available for licensing to customers and is computed separately for each product as the greater of (a) the ratio of current gross revenue for a product to the total of current and anticipated gross revenue for the product or (b) the straight-line method over three years. Due to competitive pressures, it may be possible the anticipated gross revenue or remaining estimated economic life of the software products will be reduced significantly. As a result, the carrying amount of the software product may be reduced accordingly. Amortization of acquired and internal-use software is generally computed using the straight-line method over its estimated useful life of approximately three years. Software amortization expense in fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 totaled $14.9 million, $11.3 million and $7.1 million, respectively.

Intangible Assets

    Intangible assets consist of goodwill arising from various acquisitions and are amortized using the straight-line method over a range of five to ten years. As of September 30, 2001 and 2000, accumulated amortization of intangible assets was $31.2 million and $18.8 million, respectively. The Company evaluates at least annually the recoverability of its excess cost of businesses acquired over related net assets. In assessing recoverability, the current and future profitability of the related operations are considered, along with management's plans with respect to the operations and the projected undiscounted cash flows.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

    In accordance with SFAS No. 121, "Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to be Disposed of," the Company reviews its long-lived assets, including intangible assets, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. If the sum of the expected future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset (undiscounted and without interest charges) is less than the carrying amount of the asset, an impairment loss would be recognized. The impairment loss would equal the difference between the carrying amount and the fair value of the asset.

Translation of Foreign Currencies

    The Company's foreign subsidiaries use the local currency of the countries in which they are located as their functional currency. Their assets and liabilities are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date. Revenues and expenses are translated at the average exchange rates during the period. Translation gains and losses (net of tax), if material, are reflected in the consolidated financial statements as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income. Transaction gains and losses related to intercompany accounts are not material and are included in the determination of net income.

Stock-Based Compensation

    The Company accounts for its stock-based compensation plans in accordance with Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees" and follows the disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 123 "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation."

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

    In December 1999, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") released Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 101, "Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements" which provides guidance on the recognition, presentation and disclosure of revenue in financial statements filed with the SEC. SAB No. 101 requires, among other things, that license and other up-front fees be recognized over the

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term of the agreement, unless the fees are in exchange for products delivered or services performed that represent the culmination of a separate earnings process. The adoption of SAB No. 101 did not have a material impact on the Company's financial condition or results of operations as the Company's revenue recognition policies already conformed to the provisions of SAB No. 101.

    In June 2001, the FASB issued SFAS No. 141, "Business Combinations," and SFAS No. 142, "Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets." These statements prohibit pooling-of-interests accounting for transactions initiated after June 30, 2001, require the use of the purchase method of accounting for all combinations after June 30, 2001, and establish new standards for accounting for goodwill and other intangibles acquired in business combinations. Goodwill will continue to be recognized as an asset, but will not be amortized as previously required by APB Opinion No. 17, "Intangible Assets." Certain other intangible assets with indefinite lives, if present, may also not be amortized. Instead, goodwill and other intangible assets will be subject to periodic (at least annual) tests for impairment, and recognition of impairment losses in the future could be required based on a new methodology for measuring impairments prescribed by these pronouncements. The revised standards include transition rules and requirements for identification, valuation and recognition of a much broader list of intangibles as part of business combinations than prior practice, most of which will continue to be amortized. The Company is required to be in conformity with the provisions of SFAS No. 142 no later than the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2002; however, the Company is permitted to apply the provisions of SFAS No. 142 during its fiscal year beginning October 1, 2001. The Company is currently reviewing SFAS No. 142 and has not determined the impact of its adoption on the Company's financial position or results of operations.

    In August 2001, the FASB released SFAS No. 144, "Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets," which addresses financial accounting and reporting for the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets, and supersedes SFAS No. 121, "Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to be Disposed Of," and the accounting and reporting provisions of APB Opinion No. 30, "Reporting the Results of Operations — Reporting the Effects of Disposal of a Segment of a Business, and Extraordinary, Unusual and Infrequently Occurring Events and Transactions," for the disposal of a segment of a business. SFAS No. 144 establishes a single accounting model for long-lived assets disposed of by sale. The Company is required to be in conformity with the provisions of SFAS No. 144 no later than the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2002. The adoption of SFAS No. 144 is not expected to have a material effect on the Company's financial position or results of operations.

Reclassifications

    Certain amounts previously reported have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

2.  Corporate Restructuring and Other Charges

    The Company continually evaluates its investment holdings and long-lived assets for evidence of impairment. During fiscal 2001, after considering current market conditions for technology companies and specific information regarding those companies in which the Company has an ownership interest, the Company determined that the declines in market value for certain of its investment holdings were "other than temporary" and a charge to earnings for the declines in market value was required. Therefore, the Company recorded non-cash charges of $12.4 million and $0.9 million during the first and fourth quarters of fiscal 2001, respectively.

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    In addition, due to unfavorable market conditions in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000, the Company postponed its planned initial public offering ("IPO") of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Insession Technologies, Inc. Due to the time period which had elapsed without proceeding with this transaction and continuing uncertainty in market conditions, the Company expensed costs associated with the planned IPO totaling $1.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2001.

    During the third quarter of fiscal 2001, the Company closed or significantly reduced the size of certain product development organizations and geographic sales offices. The Company also made executive management changes and transferred its 70% ownership in Hospital Health Plan Corporation ("HHPC") to the minority shareholder. These actions resulted in a charge of $22.0 million reflected in the accompanying fiscal 2001 statement of income. The allocation of this amount is as follows: $2.2 million in cost of maintenance and services, $0.3 million in research and development, $0.3 million in selling and marketing, $11.8 million in general and administrative, and $7.4 million as a non-recurring item. Charges associated with the corporate restructuring and included in operating expenses were as follows (in thousands):

    Asset impairments relate to the write-off of property and equipment in vacated office facilities and other-than-temporary declines in the fair value of certain notes receivables. Lease obligations relate to vacated corporate office facilities. Where possible, the Company is actively seeking third parties to purchase abandoned property and equipment or sub-lease vacated office facilities. Amounts expensed represent estimates of undiscounted future cash outflows, offset by anticipated third-party purchases or sub-leases. Termination benefits are comprised of severance-related payments for all employees terminated in connection with the operational restructuring and the partial forgiveness of a note receivable from an executive officer. Termination benefits do not include any amounts for employment-related services prior to termination. Other restructuring charges include settlement costs and allowance provisions for customers under related contractual obligations. At September 30, 2001, the remaining accrued liability associated with the restructuring and other charges described above consisted of $1.4 million in lease obligations, $1.5 million in termination benefits and $1.1 million in other restructuring charges.

    The Company transferred its 70% ownership in HHPC to the minority shareholder. As a result of the transfer, the Company recorded a non-recurring charge of $7.4 million, related to the Company's carrying value in HHPC, in the third quarter of fiscal 2001.

3.  Acquisitions

    During fiscal 1999, the Company acquired all of the outstanding securities of Media Integration BV ("MINT"), which is located in the Netherlands. MINT's products are used to issue and manage multi-functional applications on smart cards. Shareholders of MINT received 740,000 shares of Class A Common Stock. The stock exchange was accounted for as a pooling-of-interests.

    Also during fiscal 1999, the Company acquired all of the outstanding securities of Insession Inc., SDM International, Inc. ("SDM"), US Processing, Inc. ("USPI") and the remaining 49% of its South

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African distributor (Applied Communications (Propriety) Limited) in separate transactions. These companies are principally engaged in the development and sale of electronic payments software products, services or transaction processing. All transactions were accounted for using the purchase method of accounting. The aggregate purchase price for all these transactions was 1,205,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, with a fair market value at the time of the purchases of approximately $43 million, $19.6 million in cash and the forgiveness of $5.6 million of debt owed to TSA. The excess purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net tangible assets acquired amounted to $84.5 million, of which $66.3 million was allocated to goodwill, which is being amortized over ten years, and $18.2 million was allocated to software, which is being amortized over three years. On September 30, 1999, the Company sold USPI for $10.1 million in cash, which approximated its carrying value.

    During fiscal 2000, the Company acquired all of the outstanding shares of WorkPoint Systems, Inc. ("WorkPoint"). WorkPoint is a provider of multi-user software that enables enterprises to model processes over a distributed corporate network. This software can be used to create graphical models that provide a visual representation of and automatically execute various steps in a business process. Shareholders of WorkPoint received 164,680 shares of Class A Common Stock with a fair market value at the time of purchase of approximately $4.0 million. The stock exchange was accounted for using the purchase method of accounting. Accordingly, the excess purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net tangible assets acquired totaling $4.7 million was allocated to goodwill. This goodwill is being amortized using the straight-line method over five years.

    Also during fiscal 2000, the Company acquired a 70 percent ownership in HHPC, a business that offers a suite of products designed to facilitate the automatic adjudication of medical claims. HHPC was acquired for $4.6 million in cash and $3.3 million in assumed liabilities. This acquisition was accounted for using the purchase method of accounting. Accordingly, the excess purchase price over the estimated fair value of the net tangible assets acquired totaling $7.8 million was allocated to goodwill, which was being amortized using the straight-line method over five years. In fiscal 2001, the Company transferred its 70 percent ownership in HHPC to the minority shareholder. As a result of the transfer, the Company recorded a non-recurring charge of $7.4 million, related to the Company's carrying value in HHPC.

    During fiscal 2001, the Company acquired all of the outstanding securities of MessagingDirect Ltd. ("MDL"). MDL provides software applications to facilitate the secure delivery and e-processing of electronic statements and bills. Shareholders of MDL received 3,357,351 shares of Class A Common Stock (or Exchangeable Shares of TSA Exchangeco Limited which can be converted on a one-for-one basis for shares of TSA Class A Common Stock or options to purchase shares of TSA Class A Common Stock) with a fair market value at the time of purchase of approximately $49.5 million. The share exchange was accounted for using the purchase method of accounting. An independent valuation of MDL was performed and used as an aid in determining the fair market value of each identifiable intangible asset. Accordingly, the excess purchase price over the estimated fair value of each identifiable tangible and intangible asset acquired was allocated to goodwill, which is being amortized using the straight-line method over five years. Approximately $38.3 million of the purchase price was allocated to goodwill and $11.8 million to software.

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    The following represents unaudited pro forma results of operations for the MDL acquisition as if it had occurred as of the beginning of each period presented (in thousands, except per share amounts):

    The pro forma financial information is shown for illustrative purposes only and is not necessarily indicative of the future results of operations of the Company or results of operations of the Company that would have actually occurred had the transaction been in effect for the periods presented.

4.  Marketable Securities

    In fiscal 1999, the Company entered into a transaction with Digital Courier Technologies, Inc. ("DCTI"), whereby the Company acquired 1.25 million shares of DCTI's Common Stock for $6.5 million. In addition, the Company received warrants to purchase an additional 1.0 million shares at an exercise price of $5.20 per share. DCTI supplies financial institutions, businesses and major web portals with e-commerce, payments processing and content delivery software. During fiscal 2000, the Company exercised these warrants and acquired the additional 1.0 million shares for $5.2 million. Also during fiscal 2000, the Company sold 536,500 shares of DCTI Common Stock for $4.0 million, resulting in a gain on sale of marketable securities of $1.2 million. During fiscal 2001, the Company recorded a non-cash charge to earnings totaling $8.9 million for the "other than temporary" decline in the market value of its investment in DCTI.

    The Company also owns 2.5 million shares of Nestor, Inc. ("Nestor") Common Stock. Nestor is a provider of neural-network solutions for financial, internet and transportation industries. The Company distributes Nestor's PRISM intelligent fraud detection product.

    The Company has accounted for the investments in DCTI and Nestor Common Stock in accordance with SFAS No. 115, "Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities." The investments in marketable securities have been classified as available-for-sale and recorded at fair market value, which is estimated based on quoted market prices. Net unrealized holding losses at September 30, 2001 and 2000 were $2.4 million and $5.8 million, respectively, and are reflected in the consolidated financial statements as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income. Gains and losses are determined by specific identification.

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5.  Property and Equipment

    Property and equipment consists of the following (in thousands):

6.  Software

    Software consists of the following (in thousands):

7.  Line-of-Credit Facilities

    The Company has a $25.0 million bank line-of-credit with a large United States bank secured by certain trade receivables. The line-of-credit agreement provides that the Company must satisfy certain specified earnings, working capital and minimum tangible net worth requirements, as defined, and places restrictions on the Company's ability to, among other things, sell assets, incur debt, pay dividends, participate in mergers and make investments or guarantees. The Company is in compliance with all debt covenants as of September 30, 2001. The Company also has a line-of-credit with a large foreign bank in the amount of 3.0 million British Sterling, which translates to approximately $4.4 million. The foreign line requires the Company to maintain minimum tangible net worth within the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, ACI Worldwide (EMEA) Ltd.

    Interest on the U.S. line-of-credit accrues at an annual rate equal to either the bank's prime rate less .25% or the LIBOR rate plus 1.75% and is payable monthly. Interest on the foreign line-of-credit accrues at an annual rate of 1% above the bank's "base rate." During fiscal 2001 and 2000, the Company recorded interest expense of $1.5 million and $0.5 million, respectively, related to its line-of-credit facilities. The carrying amounts of the Company's line-of-credit facilities approximate fair value due to their variable interest rates. Current U.S. line-of-credit borrowings outstanding totaled $12.0 million as of September 30, 2001, with an interest rate on these borrowings of 5.75%. The remaining $17.4 million is available to the Company for future borrowings. The U.S. line-of-credit expires in June 2002 and the foreign bank line-of-credit expires in August 2002.

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8.  Treasury Stock

    The Company's Board of Directors approved the repurchase of up to 2,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock through February 2001, at market prices in open-market, negotiated or block transactions. The purpose of the stock repurchase program was to replace the shares issued in the SDM acquisition completed in July 1999, and to fund a reserve of shares for future employee stock option grants, acquisitions or other corporate purposes. Pursuant to this stock repurchase program, the Company acquired 1,000,300 shares at an average cost of $21.00 per share in fiscal 2000 and 475,000 shares at an average cost of $29.98 per share in fiscal 1999.

9.  Common Stock and Earnings Per Share

    Exchangeable Shares and options received by shareholders of MDL (see Note 3) that have not yet been converted into TSA Class A Common Stock are included in Class A Common Stock for presentation purposes on the September 30, 2001 consolidated balance sheet, and are included in common shares outstanding for earnings per share ("EPS") computations for fiscal 2001.

    EPS has been computed in accordance with SFAS No. 128, "Earnings Per Share." Basic EPS is calculated by dividing net income available to common stockholders (the numerator) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period (the denominator). Diluted EPS is computed by dividing net income available to common stockholders, adjusted for the effect of any outstanding dilutive securities (the numerator), by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding, adjusted for the dilutive effect of any outstanding dilutive securities (the denominator). No reconciliation of the basic and diluted EPS numerators is necessary as net income is used as the numerator for all periods presented. For fiscal 2001, basic and diluted EPS are the same, as any outstanding dilutive securities were antidilutive due to the net loss. The differences between the basic and diluted EPS denominators for fiscal 2000 and 1999, which amounted to approximately 373,000 shares and 696,000 shares, respectively, were due to the dilutive effect of the Company's outstanding stock options using the treasury stock method.

    Weighted average shares from stock options of 3,321,014 for fiscal 2000 and 96,025 for fiscal 1999 were excluded from the computation of diluted EPS because the exercise prices of the stock options were greater than the average market price of the Company's common shares.

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10. Comprehensive Income

    The Company has adopted SFAS No. 130, "Reporting Comprehensive Income," which establishes standards for reporting and display of comprehensive income and its components in a financial statement for the period in which they are recognized. The Company's components of accumulated other comprehensive income were as follows (in thousands):

    Since the Company has established an asset valuation allowance against its net deferred tax assets, the components of accumulated other comprehensive income have not been tax effected.

11. Segment Information

    The Company has adopted SFAS No. 131, "Disclosures About Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information." The Company's products and services are organized into three active business units: (1) ACI Worldwide (previously referred to as Consumer e-Payments), (2) Insession Technologies (previously referred to as Electronic Business Infrastructure) and (3) IntraNet, Inc. (previously referred to as Corporate Banking e-Payments). Another business unit, Health Payments Systems, was disbanded in fiscal 2001.

    ACI Worldwide products represent the Company's largest product line and include its most mature and well-established applications, which are used primarily by financial institutions, retailers and e-payment processors. Its products are used to route and process transactions for automated teller machine networks; process transactions from traditional point of sale devices, wireless devices and the Internet; handle PC and phone banking transactions; control fraud and money laundering; process electronic benefit transfer transactions; authorize checks; establish frequent shopper programs; automate settlement, card management and claims processing; and issue and manage multi-functional applications on smart cards. Insession Technologies products facilitate communication, data movement, monitoring of systems and business process automation across computing systems, involving mainframes, distributed computing networks and the Internet. IntraNet, Inc. products offer high-value payments processing, bulk/recurring payments processing, wire room processing, global messaging, integration payments management and continuous link settlement processing.

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    In the third quarter of fiscal 2001, the Company transferred its 70 percent ownership in HHPC, which comprised the majority of its Health Payment Systems business unit, to the minority shareholder. HHPC's products allow large corporations and healthcare payment processors to automate claims eligibility determination, claims capture and claims payments. The remaining portion of the Health Payment Systems business unit, consisting of a health and drug claims adjudication facilities management services organization, was integrated into the ACI Worldwide business unit at the beginning of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2001. Prior period segment information has been restated to reflect this change.

    The Company's chief operating decision makers review business unit financial information, presented on a consolidated basis, accompanied by disaggregated information about revenues and operating income by business unit. The Company does not track assets by business unit. The following are revenues and operating income for these business units for fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999 (in thousands):

    Included in fiscal 2001 operating losses are $14.6 million of restructuring charges that are included in the following business units: $12.5 million in ACI Worldwide, $1.5 million in Insession Technologies and $0.6 million in IntraNet, Inc. See Note 2 for further discussion of these restructuring charges.

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    Most of the Company's products are sold and supported through distribution networks covering the geographic regions of the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa ("EMEA") and Asia/Pacific. The following are revenues and long-lived assets for these geographic regions for fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999 (in thousands):

    No single customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company's consolidated revenues during fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999.

12. Stock-Based Compensation Plans

Stock Incentive Plans

    The Company has a 1994 Stock Option Plan whereby 1,910,976 shares of the Company's Class B Common Stock have been reserved for issuance to eligible employees of the Company and its subsidiaries. Shares issuable upon exercise of these options will be Class A Common Stock. The stock options are granted at a price set by the Board of Directors provided that the minimum price shall be $2.50 per share for 955,488 shares and $5 per share for 955,488 shares. The term of the outstanding options is ten years. The stock options vest ratably over a period of four years.

    The Company has a 1996 Stock Option Plan and a 1999 Stock Option Plan whereby a total of 1,008,000 and 3,000,000 shares, respectively, of the Company's Class A Common Stock have been reserved for issuance to eligible employees of the Company and its subsidiaries and non-employee members of the Board of Directors. The stock options are granted at a price not less than the fair market value of the Company's Class A Common Stock at the time of the grant. The term of the outstanding options is ten years. The options generally vest annually over a period of four years for the 1996 Stock Option Plan and three years for the 1999 Stock Option Plan.

    The Company has a 1997 Management Stock Option Plan whereby 1,050,000 shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock have been reserved for issuance to eligible management employees of the Company and its subsidiaries. The stock options are granted at a price not less than the fair market value of the Company's Class A Common Stock at the time of the grant and require the

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participant to pay $3 for each share granted. The term of the outstanding options is ten years. The options vest annually over a period of four years.

    The Company has a 2000 Non-employee Director Stock Option Plan whereby 25,000 shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock were granted to eligible non-employee directors of the Company. The stock options were granted at a price equal to the fair market value of the Company's Class A Common Stock at the time of the grant. The term of the outstanding options is ten years. The options vest annually over a period of three years.

    During 2001, the Company approved the adoption of MDL's Amended and Restated Employee Share Option Plan (the "MDL Plan"). As adopted, options outstanding under the MDL Plan were converted at the time of the MDL acquisition to options to purchase 167,964 shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock. These options have an exercise price of one cent per share of TSA Class A Common Stock as, pursuant to the terms of the acquisition, the number of shares covered by the options was reduced by a formula intended to replicate a cashless exercise. The Options became 100% vested upon the acquisition and have a term of 8 years from the original date of grant by MDL.

    On August 1, 2001, the Company announced a voluntary stock option exchange program (the "Exchange Program") offering to exchange all outstanding options to purchase shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock granted under the 1994 Stock Option Plan, 1996 Stock Option Plan and 1999 Stock Option Plan held by eligible employees or eligible directors for new options under the same option plans. The Exchange Program required that any person tendering an option grant for exchange would be required to also tender all subsequent option grants with a lower exercise price received by that person during the six months immediately prior to the date the options accepted for exchange are cancelled. Options to acquire a total of 3,089,100 shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock with exercise prices ranging from $2.50 to $45.00 were eligible to be exchanged under the Exchange Program. The offer expired on August 28, 2001, and the Company subsequently cancelled 1,946,550 shares tendered by 578 employees. As a result of the Exchange Program, the Company is obliged to grant replacement stock options to acquire 1,946,550 shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock. The exercise price of the replacement options will be the fair market value of the Company's Class A Common Stock on the grant date of the new options, which will be on or about March 4, 2002 (a date at least six months and one day after the date of cancellation). The new shares will have a vesting schedule of ¹/18 per month beginning on the grant date of the new options, except that if executive officers tender options under the 1994 Stock Option Plan, their new options will vest 25% annually on each anniversary of the grant date of the new options. The Exchange Program was designed to comply with the Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 44, "Accounting for Certain Transactions Involving Stock Compensation," and is not expected to result in any additional compensation charges or variable-award accounting.

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    A summary of the stock options issued under the Stock Incentive Plans previously described and changes during the years ending September 30 are as follows:

		2001					2000					1999
		Shares Under Option		Weighted Average Exercise Price			Shares Under Option		Weighted Average Exercise Price			Shares Under Option		Weighted Average Exercise Price
Outstanding, beginning of period		4,288,393		$	24.43		3,352,974		$	23.91		2,811,507		$	20.30
Granted		743,414			9.61		1,268,802			24.42		894,890			30.57
Exercised		228,859			1.64		185,821			10.77		285,445			7.53
Cancellations		2,624,840			27.69		147,562			17.03		67,978			31.76
Outstanding, end of period		2,178,108		$	17.83		4,288,393		$	24.43		3,352,974		$	23.91
Options exercisable at end of year		1,713,387		$	18.36		2,025,657		$	21.61		1,497,100		$	17.09
Shares available on September 30 for options that may be granted		3,359,665					251,135					347,375
Weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the year — exercise price equals stock market price at grant				$	4.77				$	13.52				$	14.10

    The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding at September 30, 2001:

		Options Outstanding							Options Exercisable
Range of Exercise Prices		Number Outstanding		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life		Weighted Average Exercise Price			Number Exercisable		Weighted Average Exercise Price
$0.01		19,519		8.55		$	0.01		19,519		$	0.01
$2.50		172,388		2.37			2.50		172,388			2.50
$5.00		249,783		3.08			5.00		249,658			5.00
$5.84 to $11.81		185,247		9.22			8.81		115,894			8.72
$12.00 to $18.56		344,514		8.90			14.28		27,795			15.67
$20.25 to $24.75		817,650		5.43			24.00		817,216			24.00
$25.06 to $29.50		246,942		6.60			25.90		206,430			25.92
$30.00 to $45.00		142,065		6.80			32.34		104,487			32.24
		2,178,108		6.04		$	17.83		1,713,387		$	18.36

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

    Under the Company's 1996 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "1996 Plan"), a total of 900,000 shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock ("Shares") were reserved for sale to eligible employees of the Company and its subsidiaries. The 1996 Plan was, pursuant to its terms, operative from April 1, 1996 to March 31, 1999. Under the 1996 Plan, participating employees were permitted to designate up to the lesser of $5,000 or 10% of their annual base compensation for the purchase of Shares. The price for Shares purchased under the 1996 Plan was 85% of the lower of the Shares' market value on either the first or last day of each three-month participation period. Purchases of Shares were made at the end of

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each fiscal quarter. 94,836 Shares were purchased and issued before the 1996 Plan terminated pursuant to its terms on March 31, 1999. There were 25,069 Shares issued under the 1996 Plan during the year ended September 30, 1999.

    Under the Company's presently operative 1999 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the "1999 Plan"), a total of 750,000 Shares have been reserved for sale to eligible employees of the Company and its subsidiaries. Under the 1999 Plan, participating employees are permitted to designate up to the lesser of $25,000 or 10% of their annual base compensation for the purchase of Shares. The price for Shares purchased under the 1999 Plan is 85% of the lower of the shares' market value on either the first or last day of each three-month participation period. Purchases made under the 1999 Plan are made one calendar month after the end of each fiscal quarter. Shares issued under the 1999 Plan for the years ended September 30, 2001, 2000 and 1999 totaled 168,487, 111,432 and 23,083, respectively.

    No compensation expense relating to either the 1996 Plan or the 1999 Plan has been recorded.

Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation Plans

    The Company has adopted the disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 123. No compensation cost has been recognized for the stock incentive plans. Had compensation expense for the Company's stock-based compensation plans been based on the fair value of the stock options at the grant dates for awards under those plans consistent with the fair value based method of SFAS No. 123, the Company's net income and net income per common share for fiscal 2001, 2000 and 1999 would approximate the pro forma amounts as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):

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

    The effects of applying SFAS No. 123 in this pro forma disclosure are not indicative of future amounts. SFAS No. 123 applies only to options granted since fiscal year 1996, and additional awards in future years are anticipated.

13. Employee Benefit Plans

TSA 401(k) Plan

    The TSA 401(k) Plan is a defined contribution plan covering all domestic employees of TSA. Participants may contribute up to 15% of their annual wages. The Company matches participant

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contributions 160% on every dollar deferred to a maximum of 4% of compensation, not to exceed $4,000. Company contributions charged to expense during the years ended September 30, 2001, 2000 and 1999 were $2,784,000, $2,780,000 and $2,318,000, respectively.

ACI Worldwide EMEA Group Personal Pension Scheme

    The ACI Worldwide EMEA Group Personal Pension Scheme is a defined contribution plan covering substantially all ACI Worldwide (EMEA) Limited ("ACI-EMEA") employees. The plan was formed on December 1, 2000. ACI-EMEA employees have the ability to elect to participate in the plan. For those employees who elect to participate in the plan, ACI-EMEA will contribute a minimum of 8.5% of eligible compensation to the plan for those employees employed at December 1, 2000, up to a maximum of 15.5% for those employees aged over 55 years on December 1, 2000. ACI-EMEA contributes 6.0% of eligible compensation to the plan for those employees employed subsequent to December 1, 2000. ACI-EMEA contributions charged to expense during the year ended September 30, 2001 was $1,157,000. The ACI Worldwide EMEA Group Personal Pension Scheme replaced the Applied Communications Inc Limited ("ACIL") Pension Plan, which was discontinued on December 1, 2000. The plan assets of the ACIL Pension Plan were transferred to the ACI-EMEA Group Personal Pension Scheme on December 1, 2000. At the time of the transfer, the ACIL Pension Plan obligations exceeded the plan assets by $1.2 million. This funding deficit is recorded as a liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2001. The Company intends to fund this deficit during fiscal 2002.

ACIL Pension Plan

    The ACIL Pension Plan was a defined benefit pension plan. Benefits were based on years of service and the employees' compensation during employment. Contributions to the plan were determined by an independent actuary on the basis of periodic valuations using the projected unit cost method. Participants contributed 5% of their pensionable salaries and ACIL contributed at the rate of 10% of pensionable salaries. Net periodic pension expense included the following components (in thousands):

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    The following table summarizes the funded status of the plan and the related amounts recognized in the Company's consolidated balance sheet (in thousands):

    The most significant actuarial assumptions used in determining the pension expense and funded status of the plan are as follows:

14. Commitments and Contingencies

Operating Leases

    The Company leases office space and equipment under operating leases that run through February 2011. Aggregate minimum lease payments under these agreements for the years ending September 30 are as follows (in thousands):

    Total rent expense for fiscal years 2001, 2000 and 1999 was $16,433,000, $14,134,000 and $12,556,000, respectively.

Legal Proceedings

    From time to time, the Company is involved in litigation relating to claims arising out of its operations in the normal course of business. The Company is not currently a party to any legal proceedings, the adverse outcome of which, individually or in the aggregate, would have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition or results of operations.

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15. Income Taxes

    The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with SFAS No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes." SFAS No. 109 requires an asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes. The objectives are to recognize (a) the amount of taxes payable or refundable for the current year and (b) deferred tax liabilities and assets for the future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in the Company's financial statements or tax returns. In estimating future tax consequences, SFAS No. 109 generally considers all expected future events other than enactments or changes in the tax law or rates.

    The provision (benefit) for income taxes consists of the following (in thousands):

		Year Ended September 30,
		2001									2000									1999
		Current			Deferred			Total			Current			Deferred			Total			Current			Deferred			Total
Federal		$	2,155		$	(4,708	)	$	(2,553	)	$	4,766		$	(2,526	)	$	2,240		$	18,360		$	(2,413	)	$	15,947
State			425			(2,094	)		(1,669	)		600			(1,163	)		(563	)		3,171			(341	)		2,830
Foreign			2,304			124			2,428			379			(574	)		(195	)		8,393			—			8,393
Total		$	4,884		$	(6,678	)	$	(1,794	)	$	5,745		$	(4,263	)	$	1,482		$	29,924		$	(2,754	)	$	27,170

    The difference between the income tax provision computed at the statutory federal income tax rate and the financial statement provision for income taxes is summarized as follows (in thousands):

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    The deferred tax assets and liabilities result from differences in the timing of the recognition of certain income and expense items for tax and financial accounting purposes. The sources of these differences are as follows (in thousands):

    At September 30, 2001, management evaluated its 2001, 2000 and 1999 operating results, as well as its future tax projections, and concluded that it was more likely than not that certain of the deferred tax assets would be realized. Accordingly, the Company has recognized a net deferred tax asset of $22.3 million as of September 30, 2001. For income tax purposes, the Company had foreign tax credit carryforwards at September 30, 2001 and 2000 of approximately $6.8 million and $2.4 million, respectively. These credits will expire in 2006 and 2005.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I

Item 1. BUSINESS
Item 2. PROPERTIES
Item 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
Item 4A. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

PART II

Item 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
Item 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

Item 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Item 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

PART III

Item 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
Item 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
Item 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

PART IV

Item 14. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES, AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K

SIGNATURES
TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (in thousands, except share amounts)
TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (in thousands, except per share amounts)
TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (in thousands)
TRANSACTION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTS, INC. NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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Ex. 23.01

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

    As independent public accountants, we hereby consent to the incorporation of our report included in this Form 10-K, into the Company's previously filed Registration Statement File No. 33-93900, Registration Statement File No. 333-02592, Registration Statement File No. 333-02594, Registration Statement File No. 333-22473, Registration Statement File No. 333-56309, Registration Statement File No. 333-67987, Registration Statement File No. 333-73027, Registration Statement File No. 333-82097, Registration Statement File No. 333-33728, Registration Statement File No. 333-49804, Registration Statement File No. 333-53504, Registration Statement File No. 333-59632, Registration File No. 333-59630, and Registration Statement File No. 333-75964.

Omaha, Nebraska
    December 21, 2001

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Ex. 23.01

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS