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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS<br />
10 ASSOCIATE STOCK PURCHASE RETIREMENT PLAN<br />
The <strong>Cerner</strong> <strong>Corporation</strong> Associate Stock Purchase Retirement Plan (<strong>the</strong> Plan) is established under Section 401(k) of <strong>the</strong> Internal<br />
Revenue Code. All full-time associates are eligible to participate. Participants may elect to make pretax contributions from 1%<br />
to 15% of compensation to <strong>the</strong> Plan, subject to annual limitations determined by <strong>the</strong> Internal Revenue Service. Participants may<br />
direct contributions into mutual funds, a money market fund, or a Company stock fund. The Company makes matching<br />
contributions to <strong>the</strong> Plan, on behalf of participants, in an amount equal to 20% of <strong>the</strong> participant’s contribution, limited to an<br />
annual maximum of $600 per participant. The Company’s expense for <strong>the</strong> plan amounted to $1,005,000, $761,000, and<br />
$560,000 for 1998, 1997, and 1996, respectively.<br />
11 COMMITMENTS<br />
The Company is committed under operating leases for office space through December 2004. Rent expense for office<br />
and warehouse space for <strong>the</strong> Company’s regional and international offices for 1998, 1997, and 1996 was $1,847,000,<br />
$1,759,000, and $1,580,000, respectively. Aggregate minimum future payments (in thousands) under <strong>the</strong>se noncancelable<br />
leases are as follows:<br />
Years<br />
1999 $ 2,438<br />
2000 1,437<br />
2001 935<br />
2002 438<br />
2003 238<br />
2004 171<br />
12 REAL ESTATE LEASE REVENUE<br />
The Company leases space to unrelated parties in its Kansas City headquarters complex under noncancelable operating leases.<br />
Included in o<strong>the</strong>r revenues is rental income of $1,795,000, $1,694,000, and $2,383,000 in 1998, 1997, and 1996, respectively.<br />
Future minimum lease revenues (in thousands) under <strong>the</strong>se noncancelable operating leases expiring through 2002 are as<br />
follows:<br />
Years<br />
1999 $ 685<br />
2000 303<br />
2001 32<br />
2002 26<br />
13 STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY<br />
At <strong>the</strong> end of 1998 and 1997, <strong>the</strong> Company had 1,000,000 shares of authorized but unissued preferred stock,<br />
$.01 par value.<br />
C ERNER<br />
CORPORATION<br />
ANNUAL R EPORT 13