Company: PAYC
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-024136
Chunk: 46

Company: Paycom Software, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 46
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 local, regional or national politics, culture, economics, market conditions and commerce;

•complexities and difficulties in obtaining protection for and enforcing our intellectual property rights;

•difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations; 

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•financial risks, such as the impact of local and regional financial crises on demand for our products and exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations;

•natural disasters, political and economic instability, including wars, terrorism and political unrest, outbreak of disease, boycotts, curtailment of trade and other business restrictions;

•certain expenses including, among others, expenses for travel, translation and insurance; and

•regulatory and compliance risks that relate to maintaining accurate information and control over sales and activities that may fall within the purview of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, its books and records provisions or its anti-bribery provisions, as well as similar laws in foreign jurisdictions.

Our expansion into international markets requires significant resources and management attention and subjects us to regulatory, economic and political risks that differ from those in the United States. Because of our inexperience with international operations, we cannot ensure that our expansion into international markets will be successful, and the impact of such expansion may adversely affect our business, operating results or financial condition.

Our business depends in part on the success of our relationships with third parties. 

We rely on third-party couriers to deliver payroll checks and tax forms and on financial and accounting processing systems and various financial institutions to perform financial services in connection with our applications, such as providing automated clearing house (“ACH”) and wire transfers as part of our payroll and payroll tax payment services and facilitating our Vault Visa® Payroll Card. We also rely on third parties to provide technology and content support, manufacture time clocks and process background checks. We anticipate that we will continue to depend on various third-party relationships in order to provide these and other services. Identifying, negotiating and documenting relationships with these third parties and integrating third-party content and technology requires significant time and resources. Our agreements with third parties typically are non-exclusive and do not prohibit them from working with our competitors. In addition, these third parties may not perform as expected under our agreements, which could hinder our ability to deliver certain services to our clients and negatively affect our brand and reputation. A global economic slowdown could also adversely affect the businesses of our third-party providers, hindering their ability to provide the services on which we rely. If we are unsuccessful in establishing or maintaining our relationships with these third parties, or the services provided by third parties fail