INSIGHT ENTERPRISES INC - Annual Report: 2012 (Form 10-K)

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012

or

For the transition period from                      to                     .

Commission File Number: 0-25092

INSIGHT ENTERPRISES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

6820 South Harl Avenue, Tempe, Arizona 85283

(Address of principal executive offices, Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (480) 902-1001

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The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant, based upon the closing price of the registrant’s common stock as reported on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on June 29, 2012, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, was $737,598,548.

The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s common stock on February 15, 2013 was 44,624,799.

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Portions of the registrant’s Proxy Statement relating to its 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders have been incorporated by reference into Part III, Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

Year Ended December 31, 2012

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including statements in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of this report, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements may include: projections of matters that affect net sales, gross profit, operating expenses, earnings from operations, non-operating income and expenses, net earnings or cash flows, cash needs and the sufficiency of our capital resources and the payment of accrued expenses and liabilities; the effect of changes being implemented by our largest software partner to elements of its channel incentive program; our business strategy and our strategic initiatives, including our efforts to grow by expanding our sales team and technical expertise, adding to our services partner network in Europe and Canada, increasing our products and services to existing and new clients, and expanding and accelerating our cloud and SaaS offerings; the availability of competitive sources of products for our purchase and resale; industry pricing and consolidation trends; our intentions concerning the payment of dividends; our acquisition strategy; our strategy with respect to the effects of inflation and increasing interest rates; trends related to our effective tax rate; effects of acquisitions or dispositions; projections of capital expenditures in 2013; plans for future operations; the sufficiency of our capital resources and the availability of financing and our needs or plans relating thereto; the effect of new accounting principles or changes in accounting policies; the effect of indemnification obligations; projections about the outcome of ongoing tax audits; statements related to accounting estimates, including estimated stock-based compensation award forfeitures, the timing of the payment of restructuring obligations and the realization of deferred tax assets, the timing of the amortization of intangible assets and the resolution of uncertain tax positions; our positions and strategies with respect to ongoing and threatened litigation; our ability to grow sales to new and existing clients and increase our market share and the resulting effect on our results of operations and profitability; the timing of the effect of our initiatives to expand our international product and services offerings; that pricing pressures in the Information Technology (“IT”) industry will continue; that partner funding may be reduced or limited; our plans to develop 24x7 redundancies in our Remote Network Operation Centers; our position and prospects in the IT industry generally; our plans to consolidate, upgrade and integrate our IT systems, including the timing and costs relating thereto; the sufficiency of our facilities; the possibility that we may take future restructuring actions; our intentions to reinvest foreign earnings and plans relating thereto; our plans to use cash flow from operations for working capital, to pay down debt, make capital expenditures, repurchase shares of our common stock, and fund acquisitions; our exposure to off-balance sheet arrangements; statements of belief; and statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Forward-looking statements are identified by such words as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “will,” “may” and variations of such words and similar expressions and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Future events and actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying the forward-looking statements. There can be no assurances that results described in forward-looking statements will be achieved, and actual results could differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Some of the important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following:

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Additionally, there may be other risks that are otherwise described from time to time in the reports that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements in this report should be considered in light of various important factors, including the risks and uncertainties listed above, as well as others. We assume no obligation to update, and do not intend to update, any forward-looking statements. We do not endorse any projections regarding future performance that may be made by third parties.

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PART I

Item 1. Business

General

Insight Enterprises, Inc. (“Insight” or the “Company”) is a leading global provider of information technology (“IT”) solutions to businesses and public sector institutions. The Company is organized in the following three operating segments, which are primarily defined by their related geographies:

We provide integrated solutions to our clients through our extensive hardware, software and services offerings and efficient supply chain combined with highly skilled technology specialists and engineers with expertise in complex solutions such as virtualization, collaboration, security and cloud computing. With broad technical scope and capabilities, we offer a single source for our clients’ diverse IT requirements. We assess, design, deploy and manage IT solutions to help our clients enable, manage and secure their IT environments. Our product fulfillment and logistics capabilities, management tools and technical expertise make designing, deploying and managing IT solutions easier for our clients while helping them control their IT costs. Insight has locations in 22 countries (including the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong), and we have the capabilities to serve clients in more than 180 countries with software provisioning and related services, transacting business in 15 languages and 14 currencies. Currently, our offerings in North America and select countries in EMEA include a suite of IT hardware, software and services. Our offerings in the remainder of our EMEA segment and in APAC are almost entirely software and select software-related services. On a consolidated basis, hardware, software and services represented 52%, 43% and 5%, respectively, of our net sales in 2012 compared to 53%, 42% and 5%, respectively, in 2011.

We were incorporated in Delaware in 1991, as the successor to an Arizona corporation that commenced operations in 1988, and completed our initial public offering in 1995. Our corporate headquarters are located in Tempe, Arizona. We began operations in the U.S., expanded into Canada in 1997 and into the United Kingdom in 1998. In 2006, through our acquisition of Software Spectrum, Inc. (“Software Spectrum”), we expanded deeper into global markets in EMEA and APAC. In 2008, through our acquisitions of Calence, LLC (“Calence”) in North America and MINX Limited (“MINX”) in the United Kingdom, we enhanced our global technical expertise around higher-end networking and communications technologies, as well as managed services and security. Effective October 1, 2011, we enhanced our professional services capabilities by acquiring Tempe, Arizona-based Ensynch, Incorporated (“Ensynch”). Effective February 1, 2012, we expanded our hardware capabilities into key markets in our existing European footprint by acquiring Inmac GmbH and Micro Warehouse BV (“Inmac”), a broad portfolio business-to-business hardware reseller based in Frankfurt, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands servicing clients in Western Europe. Through the evolution of our business and these acquisitions, we have successfully migrated from a hardware reseller to a comprehensive IT solutions provider.

Values

We are focused on instilling a winning culture and have an established set of values that set the tone for our business and define who we are. Our core values are:

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We believe that these values strengthen the overall Insight experience for our teammates, clients and partners (we refer to our employees as “teammates,” our customers as “clients” and our suppliers as “partners”). By living these values, we believe we are able to attract, develop and retain great talent. We have identified ten tenets which we define as the “Insight Way” of living our core values:

Business Strategy

Our vision is to be the trusted advisor to our clients, helping them enhance business performance through innovative technology solutions. Our strategy is to grow profitable market share by delivering relevant IT solutions to our clients on a scalable support and delivery platform. With the continual emergence of new technologies and technology solutions in the IT industry, we believe businesses continue to seek technology providers to supply value-added advice to help them identify and deploy IT solutions, rather than to just provide product selection, price and availability. We believe that Insight has a unique position in the market and can gain profitable market share and provide enhanced value to our clients. We have a multi-partner approach and excel at providing broad product selection at competitive prices through an efficient supply chain. We have deep services and solutions capabilities, we have a multi-national footprint, and we serve a broad range of clients by type and by geography.

We believe that what differentiates Insight from our competitors is:

Our overarching strategy remains consistent with the past several years and includes three prongs:

Continue to grow our traditional core business and drive operational excellence. Our geographically aligned sales and delivery model continues to focus on organic, profitable growth and market share gain. We remain focused on selling into a specific set of targeted clients that are part of our total addressable market, or as we call it, our TAM. Key initiatives include a field go-to-market model that is centered on selected cities in North America where we are investing in sales, technical and delivery resources to drive growth with existing and new TAM clients as well as to drive expansion in specific service/solution areas with key partners. We are putting particular emphasis on increasing our share of the middle market client group, which is key to our strategy in all geographies. In all regions, we will also continue to target the public sector. We are addressing these opportunities to grow market share by investing in our sales and technical support teams in all geographies and investing in enhanced training initiatives.

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In addition to our focus on new clients, we seek to increase our share of our current clients’ annual IT budgets. We are investing in focused training programs in North America, and we are aligning our sales teammates with our specialists, who have more advanced technical expertise, to ensure that our sales teammates are able to sell across our portfolio of offerings. We have launched our new IT system in certain countries in EMEA and are deploying similar programs as necessary to ensure we are able to bring our hardware capabilities to our existing and new clients in selected additional markets. Our operating model, which includes a mix of trained teammates, management systems and IT systems, allows us to tailor offerings based on the size and complexity of our client. Accordingly, we believe that there are opportunities for Insight to expand our existing client relationships by increasing the types of products and services that our clients buy from us.

We are focused on selling solutions to both new and existing clients. We have identified, and are engaged with top IT partners in developing and deploying, solutions that combine hardware, software and services to meet the specific and critical needs of our clients. The practices identified are:

Additionally, our mobility solutions leverage technology from several of the above practices to meet the specific requirements of our clients. Our solutions can be provided through a variety of delivery mechanisms, including on-premise, through our remote operations center, or through a private or public cloud, to name a few.

Further, we intend to take advantage of the trends impacting the technology market, including cloud computing, big data, bring-your-own-device programs and mobility, by aggressively building our solutions capabilities through a combination of tuck-in acquisitions and organic growth. We are committed to taking advantage of and leveraging opportunities as manufacturers, publishers and service providers develop new technologies and as new channels for buying and supplying technology gain market acceptance.

We define operational excellence in terms of our productivity, or how we align our organizational and departmental goals to our daily work effort. We measure our productivity based on the ratio of our selling and administrative expenses to gross profit dollars and to net sales. In order to improve productivity, we have implemented a series of initiatives, including upgrading our IT systems to garner efficiencies in our business, standardizing the process by which we measure and reward the productivity of our account representatives, defining and setting expectations for productivity levels for all teammates, embedding these metrics into job descriptions, benchmarking ourselves internally and externally and utilizing a formalized management system to review our progress through quarterly business reviews. We have established clear roles and accountabilities for all teammates and aligned compensation models and business processes to continue our focus on productivity improvements across our business.

Utilizing metrics and a management system to track our performance and a weekly sales management commitment process, we have visibility into our business to ensure resources are aligned to drive results. We believe that our continuous focus on operational excellence, business intelligence and improvement for every business process will yield a significant long-term benefit to Insight.

Build a robust services business. While Insight’s business was primarily built on hardware and software product sales, which are still the foundation of many of our client relationships today, we believe our services capabilities differentiate Insight in the marketplace and enhance our profitability. Although our services capabilities are most mature in our United States business, we are growing our capabilities in the United Kingdom and are selectively launching the offering of such services in Canada and other countries in our EMEA and APAC segments.

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During 2012, we further defined our go-to-market services strategy in the United States by introducing practice teams structured to support our solutions domains. In bringing the right solutions to market, the practice teams play a critical role in developing domain knowledge and best practices, generating demand, providing sales support and overseeing project delivery. We have analyzed our set of service offerings to determine if each service is aligned with our practices, is market relevant, is differentiated and is profitable, repeatable and scalable. As a result of this objective evaluation, we redeployed resources and further focused our portfolio of solutions.

In addition, we are developing our capabilities and expanding our service partner network in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Canada to deliver select hardware-related services to clients in those markets.

In other countries where we do not currently sell hardware, we intend to continue to enhance our software offerings by introducing “Software as a Service” (“SaaS”) cloud solutions, expanding our software-related services capabilities, and extending our client reach with middle market and public sector clients. In addition, we intend to maintain our global software capabilities to support our multinational clients. For a discussion of risks associated with international operations, see “Risk Factors – There are risks associated with our international operations that are different than the risks associated with our operations in the United States, and our exposure to the risks of a global market could hinder our ability to maintain and expand international operations,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Capitalize on the cloud. Cloud computing represents an evolution in the IT world. Private and/or public cloud solutions provide flexible, reliable and affordable solutions for delivering critical IT functions, such as email, data security, data center hosting and more. To date, Insight has sold more than three million seats in various public cloud offerings. We are developing solutions and services to make the transition from the traditional IT computing model to cloud computing easier for our clients.

Our vision is to help our clients succeed in the cloud. We plan to do this by becoming a leading single-source provider of the best-in-class cloud computing solutions, providing a wide range of cloud solutions, support services and an enhanced shopping experience through our single central aggregation point.

Building on our value as a technology solutions provider, we launched the InsightCloud Solutions Center, which offers clients in North America and EMEA a new way to learn about, shop for and manage and provision cloud computing solutions. The InsightCloud Solutions Center provides an array of cloud offerings from industry leaders, complete with client care support services and expert presale resources to assist in client decision making and implementation. The InsightCloud Solutions Center acts as our “as-a-service” aggregation portal linked to Insight.com, which enables integrated procurement and provisioning, a utility billing system, solution administration support and on-demand services.

Hardware, Software and Services Offerings

Hardware Offerings. We currently offer our clients in North America and select countries in EMEA a comprehensive selection of IT hardware products. We offer products from hundreds of manufacturers, including such industry leaders as Hewlett-Packard (“HP”), Cisco, Lenovo, Dell, Apple and IBM. Our scale and purchasing power, combined with our efficient, high-volume and cost effective direct sales and marketing model, allow us to offer competitive prices. We believe that offering choices from multiple partners enables us to better serve our clients by providing a variety of product solutions to best address their specific business needs. These needs may be based on particular client preferences or other criteria, such as real-time best pricing and availability, or compatibility with existing technology.

The four hardware technology categories we have identified as key to our solutions selling focus are:

In addition to our distribution facilities, we have “direct-ship” programs with many of our partners, including manufacturers and distributors, allowing us to expand our product offerings without increasing inventory, handling costs or inventory risk exposure. As a result, we are able to provide a product offering with billions of dollars of products in virtual inventory. Convenience and product options among multiple brands are key competitive advantages against manufacturers’ direct selling programs, which are generally limited to their own brands and may not offer clients a complete or best in class solution across all product categories.

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Software Offerings. Our clients acquire software applications from us in the form of licensing agreements with software publishers, boxed products, or through SaaS, whereby clients subscribe to software that is hosted either by the software publisher or a dedicated third-party hosting company on the internet. We offer products from hundreds of publishers, including such industry leaders as Microsoft, Adobe, VMware and Symantec. The majority of our clients obtain their software applications through licensing agreements, which we believe is a result of their ease of administration and cost-effectiveness. Licensing agreements, or right-to-copy agreements, allow a client to either purchase a license for each of its users in a single transaction or periodically report its software usage, paying a license fee based on the number of users.

As software publishers choose different models for implementing licensing agreements, businesses must evaluate the alternatives to ensure that they select the appropriate agreements and comply with the publishers’ licensing terms when purchasing and managing their software licenses. We work closely with our clients to understand their licensing requirements and to educate them regarding the options available under publisher licensing agreements. Many of our clients who have elected to purchase software licenses through licensing agreements have also entered into software maintenance agreements, which allow clients to receive new versions, upgrades or updates of software products released during the maintenance period, in exchange for a specified annual fee. We assist our clients and partner publishers in tracking and renewing these agreements. In connection with certain enterprise-wide licensing agreements, publishers may choose to bill and collect from clients directly. In these cases, we earn a referral fee directly from the publisher.

The four software and licensing technology categories we have identified as key to our solutions selling focus are:

Additionally, we help our clients standardize their software environments while reducing costs and limiting risk through optimal license use and compliance management. We offer clients a portfolio of Software Asset Management (“SAM”) services, including SAM consultations, assessment of ISO standard attainment, and license reconciliations. We help clients determine their license rights and utilization rates, reconcile the difference, and then proactively track, analyze, and manage their software portfolio from procurement to retirement.

Services Offerings. We currently offer a suite of consulting, technical and managed services in the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Germany via our own personnel, augmented by service partners to fill gaps in our geographic coverage or capabilities. We also utilize partners to deliver these services in Canada and selected services in the rest of EMEA and APAC. We believe that developing the breadth and quality of these capabilities internally or through targeted acquisitions over time will be a key differentiator for us. We have, and intend to continue to develop, an array of technical expertise and service capabilities to help identify, acquire, implement and manage technology solutions to allow our clients to address their business needs.

As discussed previously, to grow profitable market share, we have identified and are focused on select practices. Within these practices, we offer the following end-to-end capabilities:

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We know that our clients have limited resources to provide reliable support to their end users and to maximize the life cycle and value of their IT investments. Our consulting services are focused on assessment, architecture and design in networking, collaboration and office productivity. Insight’s technical services span multi-site deployment, on-site programs and maintenance with support across a wide range of hardware and software partners. Our managed services create an extension of our client’s team and include our Remote Network Operation Center (“RNOC”), our integration labs, our service desk and our National Repair Center (“NRC”). The RNOC provides 24x7 remote monitoring of clients’ infrastructure, including network, server and storage. Our ISO certified labs deliver a range of services from imaging to configuration to remote testing of product in a client’s IT environment via secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections. The NRC offers repair, remarketing and overnight hot-swap services. A smaller RNOC is based in London, England and offers selected similar services. Over time, we intend to develop our two RNOCs to provide full 24x7 redundancies.

Further, we can help our clients preserve capital and expand limited resources by delivering business-critical applications and programs from the cloud. With low upfront costs and no need for in-house maintenance, “as-a-service” offerings are an effective alternative to potentially more expensive on-premise solutions. We partner with providers to deliver solutions around collaboration and messaging, managed security and data management, including Microsoft, Symantec, CA Technologies, IBM, McAfee and Apptix. We plan to aggressively add additional partners with new offerings in 2013 as we accelerate cloud solution offerings.

Our practice teams are made up of industry-, technical- and product-certified engineers, consultants and specialists who are current on best practices and the latest developments in their respective practice areas.

We are a Cisco Gold Certified partner in the United States and the United Kingdom and have Master Certifications in unified communications and security in the United States. Our data center practice in the United States is an HP Authorized Enterprise Provider and holds HP Storage Elite, HP Blade Elite and HP Services Elite partner status. We hold Microsoft Gold certifications in identity and security, portals and collaboration, virtualization, server platform, systems management, software asset management and volume licensing and are a Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Partner. We also have been awarded premier partner status by a number of other partners, such as IBM, EMC and VMware.

Our Information Technology Systems

We have committed significant resources to the IT systems we use to manage our business and believe that our success is dependent upon our ability to provide prompt and efficient service to our clients based on the accuracy, quality and utilization of the information generated by our IT systems. Because these systems affect our ability to manage our sales, client service, partner relationships and programs, distribution, inventories and accounting systems and our voice and data networks, we have built redundancy into certain systems, maintain system outage policies and procedures and have comprehensive data backup. We are focused on driving improvements in sales productivity through upgraded IT systems to support higher levels of client satisfaction and new client acquisition, as well as garnering efficiencies in our business.

In 2012, one of our key initiatives was to deliver a standardized system across North America. As part of this initiative, we consolidated systems and removed operational barriers created by the multiple IT environments inherited in past acquisitions. Implementation began in May, proceeded as planned, and was substantially completed in 2012. We are currently completing the integration of our software business and anticipate that all of our North America operations will be on one system by the end of the first half of 2013.

This systems integration strategy in North America allows us to:

We also converted a number of our EMEA operations to a new IT system that allows us to expand our sales of hardware and services, in addition to software, to clients in that region. To date, we have successfully deployed the new system in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Ireland and Russia. We expect to continue our deployment in the remainder of EMEA into 2013.

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In 2013, we plan to migrate our APAC operations to the same IT system platform used in North America.

For a discussion of risks associated with our IT systems, see “Risk Factors – Disruptions in our IT systems and voice and data networks, including the integration and upgrade of our IT systems, could affect our ability to service our clients and cause us to incur additional expenses,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Competition

The IT hardware, software and services industry is very fragmented and highly competitive. We compete with a large number and wide variety of marketers and resellers of IT hardware, software and services, including:

The competitive landscape in the industry is continually changing as various competitors expand their product and service offerings. In addition, emerging models such as cloud computing are creating new competitors and opportunities.

For a discussion of risks associated with the actions of our competitors, see “Risk Factors – The IT hardware, software and services industry is intensely competitive, and actions of our competitors, including manufacturers and publishers of products we sell, can negatively affect our business,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Partners

During 2012, we purchased products and software from approximately 6,100 partners. Approximately 68% (based on dollar volume) of these purchases were directly from manufacturers or software publishers, with the balance purchased through distributors. Purchases from Microsoft, Ingram Micro (a distributor) and HP accounted for approximately 28%, 10% and 10%, respectively, of our aggregate purchases in 2012. No other partner accounted for more than 10% of purchases in 2012. Our top five partners as a group for 2012 were Microsoft, Ingram Micro, HP, Cisco and Tech Data (a distributor), and approximately 63% of our total purchases during 2012 came from this group of partners. Although brand names and individual products are important to our business, we believe that competitive sources of supply are available in substantially all of our product categories such that, with the exception of Microsoft, we are not dependent on any single partner for sourcing products.

During 2012, sales of Microsoft, HP and Cisco products accounted for approximately 30%, 15% and 10%, respectively, of our consolidated net sales. No other manufacturer’s products accounted for more than 10% of our consolidated net sales in 2012. Sales of product from our top five manufacturers/publishers as a group (Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Lenovo and Adobe) accounted for approximately 65% of Insight’s consolidated net sales during 2012.

We obtain incentives from certain product manufacturers, software publishers and distribution partners based typically upon the volume of sales or purchases of their products and services. In other cases, such incentives may be in the form of participation in our partner programs, which may require specific services or activities with our clients, discounts, marketing funds, price protection or rebates. Manufacturers and publishers may also provide mailing lists, contacts or leads to us. We believe that these incentives (or partner funding) and other marketing assistance allow us to increase our marketing reach and strengthen our relationships with leading manufacturers and publishers. This funding is important to us, and any elimination or substantial reduction would increase our costs of goods sold or marketing expenses, resulting in a corresponding decrease in our earnings from operations.

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We are focused on understanding our partners’ objectives and developing plans and programs to grow our mutual businesses. We measure partner satisfaction regularly and hold quarterly business reviews with our largest partners to review business results from the prior quarter, discuss plans for the future and obtain feedback. Additionally, we host annual partner conferences in North America, EMEA and APAC to articulate our plans for the upcoming year.

As we move into new service areas, we may become even more reliant on certain partner relationships. For a discussion of risks associated with our reliance on partners, see “Risk Factors – We rely on our partners for product availability and competitive products to sell, and we also compete with many of our partners” and “– We rely on our partners for marketing funds and purchasing incentives,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Teammates

As of December 31, 2012, we employed 5,405 teammates, of whom 3,036 were engaged in management, support services and administration activities (including over 1,000 skilled, certified consulting and service delivery professionals), 2,200 were engaged in sales related activities, and 169 were engaged in distribution activities. Our teammates are not represented by a labor union, and we have never experienced a labor related work stoppage.

For a discussion of risks associated with our dependence on certain personnel, including sales personnel, see “Risk Factors – We depend on certain personnel,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Seasonality

We experience some seasonal trends in our sales of IT hardware, software and services. For example:

These trends create overall seasonality in our consolidated results such that sales and profitability are expected to be higher in the second and fourth quarters of the year. For a discussion of risks associated with seasonality see “Risk Factors – Our net sales and gross profit have historically varied, making our future operating results less predictable,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Backlog

The majority of our backlog historically has been and continues to be open cancelable purchase orders. We do not believe that backlog as of any particular date is predictive of future results.

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Intellectual Property

We do not maintain a traditional research and development group, but we do develop and seek to protect a range of intellectual property, including trademarks, service marks, copyrights, domain name rights, trade dress, trade secrets and similar intellectual property relying, for such protection, on applicable statutes and common law rights, trade-secret protection and confidentiality and license agreements, as applicable, with teammates, clients, partners and others to protect our intellectual property rights. Our principal trademark is a registered mark, and we also license certain of our proprietary intellectual property rights to third parties. We have registered a number of domain names, applied for registration of other marks in the U.S. and in select international jurisdictions, and, from time to time, filed patent applications. We believe our trademarks and service marks, in particular, have significant value, and we continue to invest in the promotion of our trademarks and service marks and in our protection of them. For a description of risks associated with our intellectual property, see “Risk Factors – We may not be able to protect our intellectual property adequately, and we may be subject to intellectual property infringement claims,” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.

Available Information

Our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to such reports filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the reports of beneficial ownership filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act are available free of charge on our web site at www.insight.com, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file them with, or furnish them to, the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information contained on our web site is not included as a part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

We rely on our partners for product availability and competitive products to sell, and we also compete with many of our partners. We acquire products for resale both directly from manufacturers and publishers and indirectly through distributors, and the loss of a significant partner relationship could cause a disruption in the availability of products to us. Many of our manufacturer and publisher partners are also our competitors, as many sell directly to business customers, particularly larger corporate customers. There is no assurance that, as manufacturers and publishers continue to sell both through the reseller channel and directly to end users, they will not limit or curtail the availability of their product to resellers like us. In addition, the manner in which publishers distribute software is changing, and many publishers now offer their programs as cloud, hosted or SaaS solutions. These changes in distribution may intensify competition and increase the volume of software made available directly to end users through these competitive programs. Any significant increase in such sales could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We rely on our partners for marketing funds and purchasing incentives. Certain manufacturers, publishers and distributors provide us with substantial incentives in the form of rebates, marketing funds, purchasing incentives, early payment discounts, referral fees and price protections. Partner funding is used to offset, among other things, inventory costs, costs of goods sold, marketing costs and other operating expenses. Certain of these funds are based on our volume of sales or purchases, growth rate of net sales or purchases and marketing programs. If we do not meet the goals of these programs or if we are not in compliance with the terms of these programs, there could be a material negative effect on the amount of incentives offered or paid to us by manufacturers and publishers. We anticipate that in the future the incentives that many partners make available to us may either be reduced or that the requirements for earning the available amounts will change. If we are unable to react timely to any fundamental changes in the programs of publishers or manufacturers, including the elimination of, or significant reductions in, funding for some of the activities for which we have been compensated in the past, particularly related to incentive programs with our largest partners, HP and Microsoft, the changes could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. No assurance can be given that we will continue to receive such incentives.

Changes in the IT industry and/or rapid changes in technology may reduce demand for the IT hardware, software and services we sell or change who makes purchasing decisions for IT hardware, software and services. Our results of operations are influenced by a variety of factors, including the condition of the IT industry, shifts in demand for, or availability of, IT hardware, software, peripherals and services, and industry innovation and the introduction of new products. The IT industry is characterized by rapid technological change and the frequent introduction of new products, which can decrease demand for current products and can disrupt purchasing patterns. If we fail to react in a timely manner to such changes, we may have to record write-downs of obsolete inventory. In addition, in order to satisfy client demand, protect ourselves against product shortages, obtain greater purchasing discounts and react to changes in original equipment manufacturers’ terms and conditions, we may decide to carry inventory products that may have limited or no return privileges. There can be no assurance that we will be able to avoid losses related to inventory obsolescence on these products. Additionally, if purchasing power within our clients shifts from centralized procurement functions to business units or individual end users and we are unable to react timely to any such changes, shifts in purchasing power could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

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The cloud and “as a service” models are disrupting the IT market and introducing new products, services and competitors to the market. In many cases, these new distribution models allow enterprises to obtain the benefits of commercially licensed, internally operated software with less complexity and lower initial set-up, operational and licensing costs, increasing competition for us. There can be no assurance that we will be able to adapt to, or compete effectively with, current or future distribution channels or competitors or that the competitive pressures we face will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Disruptions in our IT systems and voice and data networks, including the integration and upgrade of our IT systems, could affect our ability to service our clients and cause us to incur additional expenses. We believe that our success to date has been, and future results of operations will be, dependent in large part upon our ability to provide prompt and efficient service to our clients. Our ability to provide that level of service is largely dependent on the ease of use, accuracy, quality and utilization of our IT systems, which affects our ability to manage our sales, client service, distribution, inventories and accounting systems, and the reliability of our voice and data networks and managed services offerings. We are in the process of integrating and converting IT systems in all of our business segments. There can be no assurances that these integration and conversion projects will be completed when planned and will not cause disruptions in our business, and any such delay or disruption could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition. If existing technology is determined to have a shorter useful life or the value of the existing system is impaired, we could incur additional depreciation expense and/or impairment charges. We are developing a formal enterprise resiliency plan to help avoid business or data interruptions or loss, but substantial interruption in our IT systems or in our voice and data networks, however caused, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

The IT hardware, software and services industry is intensely competitive, and actions of our competitors, including manufacturers and publishers of products we sell, can negatively affect our business. Competition in the industry is based on price, product availability, speed of delivery, credit availability, quality and breadth of product lines, and, increasingly, on the ability to tailor specific solutions to client needs. In addition to the manufacturers and publishers of products we sell, we compete with a large number and wide variety of providers and resellers of IT hardware, software and services. We believe our industry will see further consolidation as product resellers and direct marketers combine operations or acquire or merge with other resellers, service providers and direct marketers to increase efficiency, service capabilities and market share. Moreover, current and potential competitors have established or may establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties to enhance their product and service offerings. Accordingly, it is possible that new competitors or alliances among competitors may emerge and acquire significant market share. Generally, pricing is very aggressive in the industry, and we expect pricing pressures to continue. There can be no assurance that we will be able to negotiate prices as favorable as those negotiated by our competitors or that we will be able to offset the effects of price reductions with an increase in the number of clients, higher net sales, cost reductions, greater sales of services, which are typically at higher gross margins, or otherwise. Price reductions by our competitors that we either cannot or choose not to match could result in an erosion of our market share and/or reduced sales or, to the extent we match such reductions, could result in reduced operating margins, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Certain of our competitors in each of our operating segments have greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources than we do. In addition, some of these competitors may be able to respond more quickly to new or changing opportunities, technologies and client requirements. Many current and potential competitors also have greater name recognition and engage in more extensive promotional activities, offer more attractive terms to their customers and adopt more aggressive pricing policies than we do. Additionally, some of our competitors have higher margins and/or lower operating cost structures, allowing them to price more aggressively. There can be no assurance that we will be able to compete effectively with current or future competitors or that the competitive pressures we face will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

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General economic conditions, including unfavorable economic conditions in a particular region, business or industry sector, may lead our clients to delay or forgo investments in IT hardware, software and services, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results. Weak economic conditions generally or any broad-based reduction in IT spending adversely affects our business, operating results and financial condition. A prolonged slowdown in the global economy or similar crisis, or in a particular region or business or industry sector, such as the debt levels and financial viability of some European countries, or tightening of credit markets, could cause our clients to have difficulty accessing capital and credit sources, delay contractual payments, or delay or forgo decisions to (i) upgrade or add to their existing IT environments, (ii) license new software or (iii) purchase products or services (particularly with respect to discretionary spending for hardware, software and services). Further, the U.S. Government may implement significant reductions in program funding, and we are not able, at present, to predict the effect of any such reductions. Such events could adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.

The failure of our clients to pay the accounts receivable they owe to us or the loss of significant clients could have a significant negative impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition or liquidity. A significant portion of our working capital consists of accounts receivable from clients. If clients comprising a significant amount of accounts receivable (in number or dollar amount) were to become insolvent or otherwise unable to pay for products and services, our business, results of operations, financial condition or liquidity could be adversely affected. Economic or industry downturns could result in longer payment cycles, increased collection costs and defaults in excess of management’s expectations. A significant deterioration in our ability to collect on accounts receivable could also impact the cost or availability of financing under our accounts receivable securitization program.

The failure to comply with the terms and conditions of our commercial and public sector contracts could result in, among other things, damages, fines or other liabilities. Sales to commercial clients are based on stated contract terms, the terms and conditions on our website or terms contained in purchase orders on a transaction by transaction basis. Sales to public sector clients are derived from sales to federal, state and local governmental departments and agencies, as well as to educational institutions, through open market sales and various contracts and programs. Noncompliance with contract terms, particularly in the highly regulated public sector business, or with government procurement regulations could result in fines or penalties against us or termination of contracts, and, in the public sector, could also result in civil, criminal, and administrative liability. With respect to our public sector business, the government’s remedies may include suspension or debarment. In addition, almost all of our contracts have default provisions, and substantially all of our contracts in the public sector are terminable at any time for convenience of the contracting agency. The effect of any of these possible actions or the adoption of new or modified procurement regulations or practices could materially adversely affect our business, financial position and results of operations.

Failure to adequately maintain the security of our electronic and other confidential information could materially adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. We are dependent upon automated information technology processes. Privacy, security, and compliance concerns have continued to increase as technology has evolved to facilitate commerce and as cross-border commerce increases. As part of our normal business activities, we collect and store certain confidential information, including personal information of teammates and information about partners and clients which may be entitled to protection under a number of regulatory regimes. In the course of normal and customary business practice, we may share some of this information with vendors who assist us with certain aspects of our business. Moreover, the success of our operations depends upon the secure transmission of confidential and personal data over public networks, including the use of cashless payments. Any failure on the part of us or our vendors to maintain the security of data we are required to protect, including via the penetration of our network security and the misappropriation of confidential and personal information, could result in business disruption, damage to our reputation, financial obligations to third parties, fines, penalties, regulatory proceedings and private litigation with potentially large costs, and also result in deterioration in our teammates’, partners’ and clients’ confidence in us and other competitive disadvantages, and thus could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The integration and operation of acquired businesses may disrupt our business and create additional expenses, and we may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the acquisitions. Integration of an acquired business involves numerous risks, including assimilation of operations of the acquired business and difficulties in the convergence of IT systems, the diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns, risks of entering markets in which we have had no or only limited direct experience, assumption of unknown or unquantifiable liabilities, the potential loss of key teammates and/or clients, difficulties in completing strategic initiatives already underway in the acquired companies, and unfamiliarity with partners of the acquired company, each of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. The success of our integration of acquired businesses typically assumes certain synergies and other benefits. We cannot assure that these risks or other unforeseen factors will not offset the intended benefits of the acquisitions, in whole or in part.

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We depend on certain personnel. We rely on key management teammates to execute our strategy to grow profitable market share. The loss of one or more of these leaders, or a failure to attract and retain new executives, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. We also believe that our future success will be largely dependent on our continued ability to attract and retain highly qualified management, sales, service and technical teammates, and we make a significant investment in the training of our sales account executives and services engineers. If we are not able to retain such personnel or to train them quickly enough to meet changing market conditions, we could experience a drop in the overall quality and efficiency of our sales and services teammates, and that could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our net sales and gross profit have historically varied, making our future operating results less predictable. Our operating results are highly dependent upon our level of gross profit as a percentage of net sales, which fluctuates due to numerous factors, including changes in prices from partners, changes in the amount and timing of partner funding, volumes of purchases, changes in client mix, the relative mix of products sold during the period, general competitive conditions, and strategic product and services pricing and purchasing actions. In addition, our expense levels are based, in part, on anticipated net sales and the anticipated amount and timing of partner funding. Therefore, we may not be able to reduce spending quickly enough to compensate for any unexpected net sales shortfall, and any such inability could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

In addition, a reduction in the amount of credit granted to us by our partners could increase our need for and cost of working capital and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

There are risks associated with our international operations that are different than the risks associated with our operations in the United States, and our exposure to the risks of a global market could hinder our ability to maintain and expand international operations. We have operation centers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the U.S., and the United Kingdom, as well as sales offices throughout EMEA and APAC. In the regions in which we do not currently have a physical presence, we serve our clients through strategic relationships. In implementing our international strategy, we may face barriers to entry and competition from local companies and other companies that already have established global businesses, as well as the risks generally associated with conducting business internationally. The success and profitability of international operations are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control, such as:

In addition, changes in policies and/or laws of the U.S. or foreign governments resulting in, among other changes, higher taxation, tariffs or similar protectionist laws, currency conversion limitations or the nationalization of private enterprises could reduce the anticipated benefits of international operations and could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

We have currency exposure arising from both sales and purchases denominated in foreign currencies, including intercompany transactions outside the U.S., and we currently conduct limited hedging activities. In addition, some currencies are subject to limitations on conversion into other currencies, which can limit the ability to otherwise react to rapid foreign currency devaluations. We cannot predict with precision the effect of future exchange-rate fluctuations on our business and operating results, and significant rate fluctuations could have a material adverse effect on results of operations and financial condition.

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International operations also expose us to currency fluctuations as we translate the financial statements of our foreign operations to U.S. dollars.

Changes in, interpretations of, or enforcement trends related to, tax rules and regulations may adversely affect our effective income tax rates or operating margins and we may be required to pay additional tax assessments. We conduct business globally and file income tax returns in various U.S. and foreign tax jurisdictions. Our effective tax rate could be adversely affected by various factors, many of which are outside of our control, including:

The determination of our worldwide provision for income taxes and other tax liabilities requires estimation, judgment and calculations in situations where the ultimate tax determination may not be certain. Our determination of tax liabilities is always subject to review or examination by tax authorities in various jurisdictions. Any adverse outcome of such review or examination could have a negative impact on our operating results and financial condition. The results from various tax examinations and audits may differ from the liabilities recorded in our financial statements and may adversely affect our financial results and cash flows.

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property adequately, and we may be subject to intellectual property infringement claims. To protect our intellectual property, we rely on copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, unpatented proprietary know-how, and patents, as well as confidentiality, invention assignment, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements. There can be no assurance that these measures will afford us sufficient protection of our intellectual property, and it is possible that third parties may copy or otherwise obtain and use our proprietary information without authorization or otherwise infringe on our intellectual property rights. The disclosure of our trade secrets could impair our competitive position and could have a material adverse effect on our business relationships, results of operations, financial condition and future growth prospects.

In addition, our registered trademarks and trade names are subject to challenge by third parties. This may affect our ability to continue using those marks and names. Likewise, many businesses are actively investing in, developing and seeking protection for intellectual property in the areas of search, indexing, e-commerce and other Web-related technologies, as well as a variety of on-line business models and methods, all of which are in addition to traditional research and development efforts for IT products and application software, and non-practicing entities continue to invest in acquiring patent portfolios for the purpose of turning the portfolios into income-generating assets, whether through licensing campaigns or litigation. As a result, disputes regarding the ownership of and the right to use these technologies are likely to arise in the future, and, from time to time, parties do assert various infringement claims against us, either because of our practices or because we resell allegedly infringing hardware or software, in the form of cease-and-desist letters, licensing inquiries, lawsuits and other communications and demands. If there is a determination that we have infringed the proprietary rights of others, we could incur substantial monetary liability, be forced to stop selling infringing products or providing infringing services, be required to enter into costly royalty or licensing agreements, if available, or be prevented from using the rights, which could force us to change our business practices or hardware, software or services offerings in the future. Additionally, as we increase the geographic scope of our operations and the types of services provided under the Insight brand, there is a greater likelihood that we will encounter challenges to our trade names, trademarks and service marks. We may not be able to use our principal mark without modification in all geographies for all of our offerings, and these challenges may come from either governmental agencies or other market participants. These types of claims could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

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Item 2. Properties

Our principal executive offices are located in Tempe, Arizona. We believe that our facilities will be suitable and adequate for our present purposes, and we anticipate that we will be able to extend our existing leases on terms satisfactory to us or, if necessary, to locate substitute facilities on acceptable terms. At December 31, 2012, we owned or leased a total of approximately 1.4 million square feet of office and warehouse space, and, while approximately 70% of the square footage is in the United States, we own or lease office and warehouse facilities in 11 countries in EMEA and we lease office facilities in five countries in APAC.

Information about significant sales, distribution, services and administration facilities in use as of December 31, 2012 is summarized in the following table:

In addition to those listed above, we have leased sales offices in various cities across North America, EMEA and APAC. For additional information on operating leases, see Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report. These properties are not included in the table above. A portion of the administration facilities that we own in Tempe, Arizona included in the table above is currently leased to Revana, formerly known as Direct Alliance Corporation, a discontinued operation that was sold to a third party in 2006.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

For a discussion of legal proceedings, see Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

None.

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PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Market Information

Our common stock trades under the symbol “NSIT” on The Nasdaq Global Select Market. The following table shows, for the calendar quarters indicated, the high and low sales price per share for our common stock as reported on The Nasdaq Global Select Market.

As of February 15, 2013, we had 44,624,799 shares of common stock outstanding held by 83 stockholders of record. This figure does not include an estimate of the number of beneficial holders whose shares are held of record by brokerage firms and clearing agencies.

We have never paid a cash dividend on our common stock. We currently intend to reinvest all of our earnings into our business and do not intend to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Our senior revolving credit facility contains restrictions on the payment of cash dividends.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Although we did not repurchase shares of our common stock during the year ended December 31, 2012, on February 13, 2013, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $50 million of the Company’s common stock. The Company’s share repurchases will be made on the open market, through block trades, through 10b5-1 plans or otherwise. The amount of shares purchased and the timing of the purchases will be based on working capital requirements, general business conditions and other factors. The Company intends to retire the repurchased shares.

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Stock Price Performance Graph

Set forth below is a graph comparing the percentage change in the cumulative total stockholder return on our common stock with the cumulative total return of the Nasdaq Stock Market U.S. Companies (Market Index) and the Nasdaq Retail Trade Stocks (Peer Index) for the period starting January 1, 2008 and ending December 31, 2012. The graph assumes that $100 was invested on January 1, 2008 in our common stock and in each of the two Nasdaq indices, and that, as to such indices, dividends were reinvested. We have not, since our inception, paid any cash dividends on our common stock. Historical stock price performance shown on the graph is not necessarily indicative of future price performance.

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Financial Statements and the Notes thereto in Part II, Item 8 and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of this report. The selected consolidated financial data presented below under the captions “Consolidated Statements of Operations Data” and “Consolidated Balance Sheet Data” as of and for each of the years in the five-year period ended December 31, 2012 is derived from our audited consolidated financial statements. The consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2012, which have been audited by KPMG LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, are included in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION

AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of our operations should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto included in Part II, Item 8 of this report. Our actual results could differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those discussed in “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A and elsewhere in this report.

Overview

We are a global provider of information technology (“IT”) hardware, software and services solutions to businesses and public sector institutions in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa (“EMEA”) and Asia-Pacific (“APAC”). Currently, our offerings in North America and select countries in EMEA include IT hardware, software and services. Our offerings in the remainder of our EMEA segment and in APAC are almost entirely software and select software-related services.

Our vision is to be the trusted advisor to our clients, helping them enhance business performance through innovative technology solutions. Our strategy is to grow market share and profitability by delivering relevant product, service and solutions offerings to our clients on a scalable support and delivery platform.

Overall, we believe that 2012 was a productive year for our business. Market conditions were softer as macro-economic concerns globally led to lower capital spending for IT products. However, we executed well on our strategic initiatives in the environment; we improved the overall profitability of our sales, investing strategically in sales and services resources, successfully integrating two acquisitions, and essentially completing significant IT systems integration projects in Europe and North America. At the same time, we kept a disciplined focus on our expenses.

On a consolidated basis, for the year ended December 31, 2012, our net sales remained flat at $5.3 billion, as growth in the public sector and mid market were offset by lower spending by large enterprise clients. Our resulting gross profit increased by $10.5 million, or 1%, while gross margin increased 20 basis points to 13.6%. Selling and administrative expenses increased 2% in 2012 compared to 2011 as we invested in our sales force globally. We reported earnings from operations of $148.2 million in 2012, an improvement of 1% compared to the prior year, which represented 2.8% of net sales, consistent with the prior year. Our effective tax rate in 2012 was 35.9% compared to 29.3% in 2011 and 34.5% in 2010. Net earnings and diluted net earnings per share were $92.8 million and $2.07, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2012. In 2011, we reported net earnings of $100.2 million and diluted net earnings per share of $2.18. In 2010, we reported net earnings of $75.5 million and diluted earnings per share of $1.61.

The results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012 include the following items:

The results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2011 include the following items:

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION

AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

The results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2010 include the following items:

Net of tax amounts referenced above were computed using the statutory tax rate for the taxing jurisdictions in the operating segment in which the related expenses were recorded.

Effective February 1, 2012, we acquired Inmac, a broad portfolio business-to-business hardware reseller based in Frankfurt, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands servicing clients in Western Europe. We believe that this acquisition supports our strategic plan to expand hardware capabilities into key markets in our existing European footprint.

Effective October 1, 2011, we acquired Ensynch, a leading professional services firm with multiple Microsoft Gold competencies across the complete Microsoft solution set, including cloud migration and management. The acquisition of Ensynch did not have a significant effect on results of operations in 2011.

During 2012, we generated $67.4 million of cash flows from operations. We utilized $34.0 million to fund capital investments primarily associated with our IT systems upgrades and the acquisition of Inmac. During the year, we made combined net repayments of $35.0 million under our senior revolving credit facility and our accounts receivable securitization financing facility, which were offset by $22.9 million of net borrowings under our inventory financing facility. We ended the year with $152.1 million of cash and cash equivalents and $80.0 million of debt outstanding under our long-term facilities.

As we have previously disclosed, our largest software partner has informed its resellers, including the Company, about changes to certain elements of its channel incentive program that have been impacting resellers since the program changes first became effective in late 2011. The changes affect our financial results over a three-year period as our client contracts are renewed under the new program. In addition, as additional details of the new programs are announced and differing aspects of the program changes are clarified, we are continually assessing the anticipated effect that these changes will have on our results of operations and financial position. Based on our known client contracts renewing in 2013, program information currently available and certain mitigating actions, we expect the full year 2013 effect to be a reduction of gross profit of between $8 to $12 million, as compared to the amount we earned in 2012.

Details about segment results of operations can be found in Note 18 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

Our discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is intended to assist in the understanding of our consolidated financial statements, the changes in certain key items in those consolidated financial statements from year to year and the primary factors that contributed to those changes, as well as how certain critical accounting estimates affect our consolidated financial statements.

Critical Accounting Estimates

General

Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). For a summary of significant accounting policies, see Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, net sales and expenses. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results, however, may differ from estimates we have made. Members of our senior management have discussed the critical accounting estimates and related disclosures with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors.

We consider the following to be our critical accounting estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements:

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION

AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS (continued)

Sales Recognition

Sales are recognized when title and risk of loss are passed to the client, there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement for sale, delivery has occurred and/or services have been rendered, the sales price is fixed or determinable and collectibility is reasonably assured. Our standard sales terms are F.O.B. shipping point or equivalent, at which time title and risk of loss have passed to the client. However, because we either (i) have a general practice of covering client losses while products are in transit despite title and risk of loss contractually transferring at the point of shipment or (ii) have specifically stated F.O.B. destination contractual terms with the client, delivery is not deemed to have occurred until the point in time when the product is received by the client.

We make provisions for estimated product returns that we expect to occur under our return policy based upon historical return rates. Our manufacturers warrant most of the products we market, and it is our policy to request that clients return their defective products directly to the manufacturer for warranty service. On selected products, and for selected client service reasons, we may accept returns directly from the client and then either credit the client or ship a replacement product. We generally offer a limited 15- to 30-day return policy for unopened products and certain opened products, which are consistent with manufacturers’ terms; however, for some products we may charge restocking fees. Products returned opened are processed and returned to the manufacturer or partner for repair, replacement or credit to us. We resell most unopened products returned to us. Products that cannot be returned to the manufacturer for warranty processing, but are in working condition, are sold to inventory liquidators, to end users as “previously sold” or “used” products, or through other channels to reduce our losses from returned products.

We record the freight we bill to our clients as net sales and the related freight costs we pay as costs of goods sold. We report sales net of any sales-based taxes assessed by governmental authorities that are imposed on and concurrent with sales transactions.

Revenue is recognized from software sales when clients acquire the right to use or copy software under license, but in no case prior to the commencement of the term of the initial software license agreement, provided that all other revenue recognition criteria have been met (i.e., evidence of the arrangement exists, the fee is fixed or determinable and collectibility of the fee is probable).

The sale of hardware and software products may also include the provision of services, and the associated contracts may contain multiple elements or non-standard terms and conditions. Services that are performed by us in conjunction with hardware and software sales that are completed in our facilities prior to shipment of the product are recognized upon delivery, when title passes to the client, for the hardware sale. Net sales of services that are performed at client locations are often service-only contracts and are recorded as sales when the services are performed. If the services are performed at a client location in conjunction with a hardware, software or other services sale, we recognize net sales for each portion of the overall arrangement fee that is attributable to the items as they are delivered or the services are performed. At the inception of the arrangement, the total consideration for the arrangement is allocated to all deliverables using the relative selling price method. The relative selling price method allocates any discount in the arrangement proportionately to each deliverable on the basis of each deliverable’s selling price. We determine our best estimate of selling price in a manner that is consistent with that used to determine the price to sell the deliverable on a standalone basis. The revenue allocation is based on vendor-specific objective evidence of fair value of the products. We currently do not have any material instances in which we account for revenue from multiple element arrangements when vendor-specific evidence does not exist. If vendor-specific objective evidence were not available, we would utilize third-party evidence to allocate the selling price. If neither vendor-specific objective evidence nor third-party evidence were available, estimated selling price would be used for allocation purposes.

We sell certain third-party service contracts and software maintenance or subscription products for which we are not the primary obligor. These sales do not meet the criteria for gross sales recognition and, thus, are recorded on a net sales recognition basis. As we enter into contracts with third-party service providers or vendors, we evaluate whether the subsequent sales of such services should be recorded as gross sales or net sales. We determine whether we act as a principal in the transaction and assume the risks and rewards of ownership or if we are simply acting as an agent or broker. Under gross sales recognition, the selling price is recorded in sales and our cost to the third-party service provider or vendor is recorded in costs of goods sold. Under net sales recognition, the cost to the third-party service provider or vendor is recorded as a reduction to sales, resulting in net sales equal to the gross profit on the transaction, and there are no costs of goods sold.

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We recognize revenue for sales of services ratably over the time period over which the service will be provided if there is no discernible pattern of recognition of the cost to perform the service. Billings for such services that are made in advance of the related revenue recognized are recorded as deferred revenue and recognized as revenue ratably over the billing coverage period. Revenue from certain arrangements that allow for the use of a product or service over a period of time without taking possession of software are also accounted for ratably over the time period over which the service will be provided.

We recognize revenue for professional services engagements that are on a time and materials basis based upon hours incurred as the services are performed and amounts are earned.

Additionally, we sell certain professional services contracts on a fixed fee basis. Revenues for fixed fee professional services contracts are recognized based on the ratio of costs incurred to total estimated costs. Net sales for these service contracts are not a significant portion of our consolidated net sales.

Partner Funding

We receive payments and credits from partners, including consideration pursuant to volume sales incentive programs, volume purchase incentive programs and shared marketing expense programs. Partner funding received pursuant to volume sales incentive programs is recognized as it is earned as a reduction to costs of goods sold. Partner funding received pursuant to volume purchase incentive programs is allocated as a reduction to inventories based on the applicable incentives earned from each partner and is recorded in costs of goods sold as the related inventory is sold. Partner funding received pursuant to shared marketing expense programs is recorded as it is earned as a reduction of the related selling and administrative expenses in the period the program takes place only if the consideration represents a reimbursement of specific, incremental, identifiable costs. Consideration that exceeds the specific, incremental, identifiable costs is classified as a reduction of costs of goods sold. Changes in estimates of anticipated achievement levels under individual partner programs may materially affect our results of operations and our cash flows.

See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of our accounting policies related to partner funding.

Stock-Based Compensation

We recognize stock-based compensation net of an estimated forfeiture rate and only recognize compensation expense for those shares expected to vest over the requisite service period of the award. We primarily issue service-based and performance-based restricted stock units (“RSUs”). The number of RSUs ultimately awarded under performance-based RSUs varies based on whether we achieve certain financial results. We record compensation expense each period based on our estimate of the most probable number of RSUs that will be issued under the grants of performance-based RSUs. For any stock options awarded, modifications to previous awards or awards of RSUs that are tied to specified market conditions, we use option pricing models or lattice (binomial) models to determine fair value of the awards.

The estimated fair value of stock options is determined on the date of the grant using the Black-Scholes-Merton (“Black-Scholes”) option-pricing model. The Black-Scholes model requires us to apply highly subjective assumptions, including expected stock price volatility, expected life of the option and the risk-free interest rate. A change in one or more of the assumptions used in the option-pricing model may result in a material change to the estimated fair value of the stock-based compensation.

See Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of stock-based compensation.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Our allowance for doubtful accounts is determined using estimated losses on accounts receivable based on evaluation of the aging of the receivables, historical write-offs and the current economic environment. Should our clients’ or vendors’ circumstances change or actual collections of client and vendor receivables differ from our estimates, adjustments to the provision for losses on accounts receivable and the related allowances for doubtful accounts would be recorded. See further information on our allowance for doubtful accounts in Note 17 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

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Inventories

We evaluate inventories for excess, obsolescence or other factors that may render inventories unmarketable at expected margins. Write-downs are recorded so that inventories reflect the approximate net realizable value and take into account our contractual provisions with our partners governing price protection, stock rotation and return privileges relating to obsolescence. Because of the large number of transactions and the complexity of managing the price protection and stock rotation process, estimates are made regarding write-downs of the carrying amount of inventories. Additionally, assumptions about future demand, market conditions and decisions by manufacturers/publishers to discontinue certain products or product lines can affect our decision to write down inventories. If our assumptions about future demand change or actual market conditions are less favorable than those projected, additional write-downs of inventories may be required. In any case, actual values could be different from those estimated.

Valuation of Long-Lived Assets Including Purchased Intangible Assets and Goodwill

We review property, plant and equipment and purchased intangible assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable. If such events or changes in circumstances indicate a possible impairment, our asset impairment review assesses the recoverability of the assets based on the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset plus net proceeds expected from disposition of the asset (if any) and compares that value to the carrying value. Such impairment test is based on the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other groups of assets and liabilities. If the carrying value exceeds the undiscounted future cash flows, an impairment loss is recognized for the difference between fair value and the carrying amount. This approach uses our estimates of future market growth, forecasted net sales and costs, expected periods the assets will be utilized and appropriate discount rates.

We perform an annual review of our goodwill in the fourth quarter of every year, or more frequently if indicators of potential impairment exist, to determine if the carrying value of our recorded goodwill is impaired. We continually assess whether any indicators of impairment exist, and that assessment requires a significant amount of judgment. Events or circumstances that could trigger an impairment review include a significant adverse change in legal factors or in the business climate, unanticipated competition, significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or the strategy for our overall business, significant negative industry or economic trends, significant declines in our stock price for a sustained period or significant underperformance relative to expected historical or projected future cash flows or results of operations. Any adverse change in these factors, among others, could have a significant effect on the recoverability of goodwill and could have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements.

The goodwill impairment test is performed at the reporting unit level. A reporting unit is an operating segment or one level below an operating segment (referred to as a “component”). A component of an operating segment is a reporting unit if the component constitutes a business for which discrete financial information is available and management of the segment regularly reviews the operating results of that component. When two or more components of an operating segment have similar economic characteristics, the components may be aggregated and deemed a single reporting unit. An operating segment shall be deemed to be a reporting unit if all of its components are similar, if none of its components is a reporting unit, or if the segment comprises only a single component. Insight has three reporting units, which are equivalent to our operating segments.

We may first perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. If it is concluded that this is the case, it is necessary to perform a quantitative two-step goodwill impairment test. Otherwise, the two-step goodwill impairment test is not required. In completing a quantitative test for a potential impairment of goodwill, we first compare the estimated fair value of each reporting unit in which the goodwill resides to its book value, including goodwill. Management must apply judgment in determining the estimated fair value of our reporting units. Multiple valuation techniques can be used to assess the fair value of the reporting unit, including the market and income approaches. All of these techniques include the use of estimates and assumptions that are inherently uncertain. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the determination of fair value or goodwill impairment, or both. These estimates and assumptions primarily include, but are not limited to, an appropriate control premium in excess of the market capitalization of the Company, future market growth, forecasted sales and costs and appropriate discount rates. Due to the inherent uncertainty involved in making these estimates, actual results could differ from those estimates. Management evaluates the merits of each significant assumption, both individually and in the aggregate, used to determine the fair value of the reporting units. If the estimated fair value exceeds book value, goodwill is considered not to be impaired and no additional steps are necessary. To ensure the reasonableness of the estimated fair values of our reporting units, we perform a reconciliation of our total market capitalization to the estimated fair value of all of our reporting units.

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If the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its book value, then we are required to perform the second step of the impairment analysis by comparing the carrying amount of the goodwill with its implied fair value. In step two of the analysis, we utilize the fair value of the reporting unit computed in the first step to perform a hypothetical purchase price allocation to the fair value of the assets and liabilities of the reporting unit. The difference between the fair value of the reporting unit calculated in step one and the fair value of the underlying assets and liabilities of the reporting unit is the implied fair value of the reporting unit’s goodwill. Management must also apply judgment in determining the estimated fair value of these individual assets and liabilities and may include independent valuations of certain internally generated and unrecognized intangible assets, such as trademarks. Management also evaluates the merits of each significant assumption, both individually and in the aggregate, used to determine the fair values of these individual assets and liabilities. If the carrying amount of our goodwill exceeds the implied fair value of that goodwill, an impairment loss would be recognized in an amount equal to the excess.

See further information on the carrying value of goodwill in Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

Income Taxes

Our effective tax rate includes the effect of certain undistributed foreign earnings for which no U.S. taxes have been provided because such earnings are planned to be reinvested indefinitely outside the U.S. Earnings remittance amounts are planned based on the projected cash flow needs as well as the working capital and long-term investment requirements of our foreign subsidiaries and our domestic operations. Material changes in our estimates of cash, working capital and long-term investment requirements could affect our effective tax rate.

We record a valuation allowance to reduce our deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. We consider past operating results, future market growth, forecasted earnings, historical and projected taxable income, the mix of earnings in the jurisdictions in which we operate, prudent and feasible tax planning strategies and statutory tax law changes in determining the need for a valuation allowance. If we were to determine that it is more likely than not that we would not be able to realize all or part of our net deferred tax assets in the future, an adjustment to the deferred tax assets would be charged to earnings in the period such determination is made. Likewise, if we later determine that it is more likely than not that all or part of the net deferred tax assets would be realized, then all or part of the previously provided valuation allowance would be reversed. Any change in a valuation allowance and uncertain tax positions established in purchase accounting will generally affect income tax expense.

We establish liabilities for potentially unfavorable outcomes associated with uncertain tax positions taken on specific tax matters. These liabilities are based on management’s assessment of whether a tax benefit is more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by tax authorities. There may be differences between the anticipated and actual outcomes of these matters that may result in subsequent recognition or derecognition of a tax position based on all the available information at the time. If material adjustments are warranted, it could affect our effective tax rate.

Additional information about the valuation allowance and uncertain tax positions can be found in Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

Contingencies

From time to time, we are subject to potential claims and assessments from third parties. We are also subject to various governmental, client and vendor audits. We continually assess whether or not such claims have merit and warrant accrual. An accrual is made if it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Such estimates are subject to change and may affect our results of operations and our cash flows. Additional information about contingencies can be found in Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report.

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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following table sets forth certain financial data as a percentage of net sales for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010:

Throughout this “Results of Operations” section of “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” we refer to changes in net sales, gross profit and selling and administrative expenses in EMEA and APAC excluding the effects of foreign currency movements. In computing these change amounts and percentages, we compare the current year amount as translated into U.S. dollars under the applicable accounting standards to the prior year amount in local currency translated into U.S. dollars utilizing the average translation rate for the current year.

2012 Compared to 2011

Net Sales. Net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012 remained flat at $5.3 billion compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. Our net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

Net sales in North America decreased $46.1 million or 1% for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. Net sales of software increased 7% year over year, while net sales of hardware and services decreased 4% and 13%, respectively, year to year. The software growth was primarily driven by new client wins and stable demand for business productivity software across the large, mid-market and public sector client groups. Our public sector business in particular saw strong growth in 2012 in this category, gaining market share in the federal and state and local markets with new client wins. Hardware sales in the mid-market increased year to year, but we experienced a decline in purchases by our large enterprise clients as we believe they rationalized investment dollars and the timing of projects. Hardware and services sales comparisons also reflect large client deployments in the prior year that concluded in the second half of 2011 and were not completely replaced in 2012 by new client engagements.

Net sales in EMEA increased $65.2 million or 5%, in U.S. dollars, for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, net sales were up 10% compared to the prior year. Net sales of hardware and services were up 23% and 17%, respectively, year over year, while net sales of software declined 4% year to year. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, hardware, software and services increased 25%, 2% and 23%, respectively, compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. The growth in hardware was attributable to the acquisition of Inmac, which contributed $102.3 million in net sales during the year ended December 31, 2012, and low single digit organic growth. The increase in software sales was due to higher sales of business productivity software products. The increase in net sales of services was due primarily to higher volume and new client engagements.

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Net sales in APAC decreased $4.8 million or 2% for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. The decrease primarily resulted from a higher mix of public sector software sales that were reported on a net basis. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, net sales also decreased 2% compared to the prior year.

Net sales by category for North America, EMEA and APAC were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011:

Gross Profit. Gross profit increased 1% to $719.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011, with gross margin increasing to 13.6% year over year. Our gross profit and gross profit as a percent of net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

North America’s gross profit for the year ended December 31, 2012 remained relatively flat compared to the year ended December 31, 2011, but as a percentage of net sales, gross margin increased by approximately 20 basis points year over year, due primarily to an increase in margin of 11 basis points related to agency fees for enterprise software agreements and an increase in margin of 10 basis points due to improved inventory management resulting in a decrease in the write-downs of inventories year to year.

EMEA’s gross profit increased 3% in U.S. dollars for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, gross profit was up 8% compared to the prior year. As a percentage of net sales, gross margin decreased by approximately 30 basis points year to year due primarily to a 41 basis point decline in margin from agency fees for enterprise software agreements and a 6 basis point decline in margin from services sales. The decrease in agency fees was due to program changes from our largest software partner that became effective in the fourth quarter of 2011 and were only partially offset by net new agreements and higher renewals during 2012. These decreases in gross margin were offset partially by a 22 basis point increase in product margin, which includes partner funding and freight, primarily driven by higher margin hardware sales associated with the acquisition of Inmac in 2012.

APAC’s gross profit increased 9% for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. As a percentage of net sales, gross margin increased by approximately 170 basis points, due primarily to higher partner funding and a higher mix of netted software sales, partially offset by a decrease in services margins and a decrease in agency fees from enterprise software agreements. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, gross profit also increased 9% compared to the prior year.

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Operating Expenses.

Selling and Administrative Expenses. Selling and administrative expenses increased $8.5 million or 2% for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. Selling and administrative expenses increased 20 basis points as a percentage of net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011. Selling and administrative expenses as a percent of net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

North America’s selling and administrative expenses decreased 2%, or $7.2 million, for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011, and as a percentage of net sales, selling and administrative expenses decreased approximately 10 basis points to 9.9% of net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012. During the year ended December 31, 2012, we continued our focus on control of selling and administrative expenses and also recognized a $2.0 million reduction in legal expenses associated with the recovery of legal fees incurred in previous periods (see further discussion under “Legal Proceedings” in Note 16 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report) and a gain of $1.2 million on the sale of a portfolio of non-core service contracts during the year.

EMEA’s selling and administrative expenses increased 9%, or $14.7 million, for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011, and, as a percentage of net sales, selling and administrative expenses increased 50 basis points to 12.3% of net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, selling and administrative expenses increased 14% compared to the prior year. The year over year increase in selling and administrative expenses is attributable to increases in salaries and benefits due to investments in headcount to support the roll-out of our hardware sales capability in the Netherlands and France and the acquisition of Inmac in February 2012.

APAC’s selling and administrative expenses increased 4%, or $977,000, for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 31, 2011 and as a percentage of net sales, selling and administrative expenses increased 70 basis points to 12.1% of net sales for the year ended December 31, 2012. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, selling and administrative expenses also increased 4% compared to the prior year. The year over year increase in selling and administrative expenses is primarily driven by increases in salaries and benefits due to investments in headcount associated with specialty sales and professional services positions.

Severance and Restructuring Expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2012, North America and EMEA recorded severance expense, net of adjustments, totaling $2.8 million and $3.5 million, respectively, related to restructuring activities. These charges were associated with severance costs for the elimination of certain positions based on a re-alignment of roles and responsibilities. In North America and EMEA, $3.0 million and $4.0 million, respectively, in new severance costs were offset by $188,000 and $490,000, respectively, of adjustments to prior severance accruals due to changes in estimates during 2012. During the year ended December 31, 2011, North America and EMEA recorded severance expense of $2.4 million and $2.7 million, respectively. See Note 8 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of severance and restructuring activities.

Non-Operating (Income) Expense.

Interest Income. Interest income for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 was generated through short-term investments. The decrease in interest income year over year is primarily due to lower interest rates.

Interest Expense. Interest expense primarily relates to borrowings under our financing facilities and our capital lease obligation and imputed interest under our inventory financing facility. Interest expense declined 12% for the year ended December 31, 2012 compared to the year ended December 30, 2011 due primarily to lower average borrowing rates and lower average daily debt balances year to year. Imputed interest under our inventory financing facility was $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2012, compared to $2.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2011. The decrease was due to lower average balances outstanding under the facility.

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Gain on Bargain Purchase. Our EMEA operating segment reported a non-operating gain on bargain purchase of $2.0 million in 2012 as the fair value of the Inmac net assets we acquired exceeded the purchase price.

Net Foreign Currency Exchange Gains/Losses. These gains/losses result from foreign currency transactions, including foreign currency derivative contracts and intercompany balances that are not considered long-term in nature. The change in net foreign currency exchange gains/losses is due primarily to the underlying changes in the applicable exchange rates, mitigated by our use of foreign exchange forward contracts to hedge certain non-functional currency assets and liabilities against changes in exchange rate movements.

Other Expense, Net. Other expense, net, consists primarily of bank fees associated with our cash management activities.

Income Tax Expense. Our effective tax rate for the year ended December 31, 2012 was 35.9% compared to 29.3% for the year ended December 31, 2011. The effective tax rate in 2012 was slightly higher than the federal statutory rate of 35.0% primarily due to state taxes in the U.S. and to increases in the liability associated with unrecognized tax benefits, partially offset by lower taxes on earnings in foreign jurisdictions. The effective tax rate in 2011 was less than the federal statutory rate of 35.0% primarily due to the reorganization of certain of our foreign operations during the fourth quarter that resulted in the recognition of foreign tax credits. See Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements in Part II, Item 8 of this report for further discussion of income tax expense.

2011 Compared to 2010

Net Sales. Net sales for the year ended December 31, 2011 increased 10% to $5.3 billion compared to the year ended December 31, 2010. Our net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 were as follows (dollars in thousands):

Net sales in North America increased $332.3 million or 10% for the year ended December 31, 2011 compared to the year ended December 31, 2010, primarily as a result of higher volume with the year over year improvement in the demand environment for IT products. Net sales of hardware, software and services increased 9%, 10% and 17%, respectively, year over year. The increase in services sales was primarily related to a higher volume of professional services and managed services projects.

Net sales in EMEA increased $87.9 million or 7%, in U.S. dollars, for the year ended December 31, 2011 compared to the year ended December 31, 2010. Excluding the effects of foreign currency movements, net sales were up 2% in 2011 compared to 2010. Net sales of hardware grew 3% year over year in U.S. dollars, but declined 1% year to year excluding the effects of foreign currency movements. Software net sales increased 8% year over year in U.S. dollars, 3% excluding the effects of foreign currency movements. Net sales from services increased 23% year over year in U.S. dollars, 18% excluding the effects of foreign currency movements. The decrease in hardware sales primarily resulted from a decrease in spending in the public sector market, while the increases in software and services sales primarily resulted from higher volume and new client engagements.

Net sales in APAC increased $57.1 million or 36%, in U.S. dollars, for the year ended December 31, 2011 compared to the year ended December 31, 2010, 24% excluding the effects of foreign currency movements. The increase primarily resulted from higher volume and new client engagements, particularly with public sector clients.

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Net sales by category for North America, EMEA and APAC were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010:

Gross Profit. Gross profit increased 10% to $709.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2011 compared to the year ended December 31, 2010, with gross margin remaining steady at 13.4%. Our gross profit and gross profit as a percent of net sales by operating segment for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 were as follows (dollars in thousands):