1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies:

Description of Business:

Polycom is a leading global provider of high-quality, easy-to-use communications solutions that enable enterprise, government, education and healthcare customers to more effectively collaborate over distance, time zones and organizational boundaries. Our solutions are built on architectures that enable unified video, voice and content communications.

Principles of Accounting and Consolidation:

These Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated.

Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation as a result of the discontinued operations discussed in Note 3.

Use of Estimates:

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the Company’s financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents:

The Company considers all highly liquid investments with original maturities of 90 days or less at the time of purchase to be cash equivalents.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts:

The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of the Company’s customers to make required payments. The Company reviews its allowance for doubtful accounts quarterly by assessing individual accounts receivable over a specific aging and amount, and all other balances on a pooled basis based on historical collection experience. If the financial conditions of the Company’s customers were to deteriorate, adversely affecting their abilities to make payments, additional allowances would be required. Delinquent account balances are written off after management has determined that the likelihood of collection is remote.

Investments:

The Company’s short-term and long-term investments as of December 31, 2012 are comprised of U.S. and non-U.S. government securities, U.S. agency securities and corporate debt securities. Investments are classified as short-term or long-term based on their remaining maturities. All investments are held in the Company’s name at a limited number of major financial institutions. At December 31, 2012 and 2011, all of the Company’s investments were classified as available-for-sale and were carried at fair value based on quoted market prices, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency at the end of the reporting period. Unrealized gains and losses are recorded as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) in consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity. If these investments are sold at a loss or are considered to have other than temporarily declined in value, a charge against earnings is recorded. The specific identification method is used to determine the cost of securities disposed of, with realized gains and losses reflected in interest and other income (expense), net.

For strategic reasons, the Company has made various investments in private companies. The private company investments are carried at cost and written down to estimated market value when indications exist that these investments have other than temporarily declined in value. The Company reviews these investments for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that impairment may exist and makes appropriate reductions in carrying value, if necessary. The Company evaluates a number of factors, including price per share of any recent financing, expected timing of additional financing, liquidation preferences, historical and forecasted earnings and cash flows, cash burn rate, and technological feasibility of the investee company’s products to assess whether or not the investment is potentially impaired.

Inventories:

Inventories are valued at the lower of cost or market with cost computed on a first-in, first-out (FIFO) basis. Consideration is given to obsolescence, excessive levels, deterioration and other factors in evaluating net realizable value. The Company records write-downs for excess and obsolete inventory equal to the difference between the carrying value of inventory and the estimated future selling price based upon assumptions about future product life-cycles, product demand and market conditions. At the point of the loss recognition, a new, lower-cost basis for that inventory is established, and subsequent changes in facts and circumstances do not result in the restoration or increase in that newly established cost basis.

Property and Equipment:

Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Estimated useful lives are one to thirteen years. Amortization of leasehold improvements is computed using the straight-line method over the shorter of the remaining lease term or the estimated useful lives of the related assets, typically three to thirteen years. Disposals of capital equipment are recorded by removing the costs and accumulated depreciation from the accounts and gains or losses on disposals are included in the results of operations.

Goodwill:

Goodwill is not amortized but is regularly reviewed for potential impairment. In September 2011, the FASB issued authoritative guidance on goodwill impairment testing which provides entities an option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. The Company elected to early adopt this guidance in 2011 and such adoption did not have an impact to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements. The identification and measurement of goodwill impairment involves the estimation of the fair value of the Company’s reporting units. The estimated fair value of reporting units are based on the best information available as of the date of the assessment, which primarily incorporate management assumptions about expected future cash flows. Future cash flows can be affected by changes in industry or market conditions or the rate and extent to which anticipated synergies or cost savings are realized with newly acquired entities.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets:

Purchased intangible assets with finite lives are amortized using the straight-line method over the estimated economic lives of the assets, which range from several months to six years. Purchased intangible assets determined to have indefinite useful lives are not amortized. Long-lived assets, including intangible assets, are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Determination of recoverability is based on an estimate of undiscounted future cash flows resulting from the use of the asset or group of assets and their eventual disposition. Measurement of an impairment loss for long-lived assets that management expects to hold and use is based on the estimated fair value of the asset. Long-lived assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of carrying amount or estimated fair value less costs to sell.

Guarantees:

Warranty

The Company provides for the estimated costs of product warranties at the time revenue is recognized. The specific terms and conditions of those warranties vary depending upon the product sold. In the case of hardware manufactured by the Company, warranties generally start from the date of purchase and continue for one to three years depending on the product purchased. Software products generally carry a 90-day warranty from the date of purchase. The Company’s liability under warranties on software products is to provide a corrected copy of any portion of the software found not to be in substantial compliance with the agreed upon specifications. Factors that affect the Company’s warranty obligation include product failure rates, material usage and service delivery costs incurred in correcting product failures. The Company assesses the adequacy of the recorded warranty liabilities every quarter and makes adjustments to the liability if necessary.

Changes in the warranty obligation during the period, which is included as a component of “Other accrued liabilities” on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, are as follows (in thousands):

Deferred Services Revenue

The Company offers maintenance contracts for sale on most of its products which allow for customers to receive service and support in addition to, or subsequent to, the expiration of the contractual product warranty. The Company also provides managed services to its customers under contractual arrangements. The Company recognizes the maintenance and managed services revenue from these contracts over the life of the service contract.

Deferred services revenue, of which $156.5 million and $136.5 million is short-term and included as a component of “Deferred revenue” as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively; and $85.3 million and $75.7 million is long-term and is included as a component of “Long-term deferred revenue” as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Changes during 2012 and 2011 are as follows (in thousands):

The cost of providing these services for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, and 2010 was $137.8 million, $98.4 million, and $78.8 million, respectively.

Officer and Director Indemnifications

As permitted or required under Delaware law and to the maximum extent allowable under that law, the Company has certain obligations to indemnify its current and former officers and directors for certain events or occurrences while the officer or director is, or was serving, at the Company’s request in such capacity. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these indemnification obligations is unlimited; however, the Company has a director and officer insurance policy that mitigates the Company’s exposure and enables the Company to recover a portion of any future amounts paid. As a result of the Company’s insurance policy coverage, the Company believes the estimated fair value of these indemnification obligations is not material.

Other Indemnifications

As is customary in the Company’s industry, as provided for in local law in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, the Company’s standard contracts provide remedies to its customers, such as defense, settlement, or payment of judgment for intellectual property claims related to the use of its products. From time to time, the Company indemnifies customers against combinations of loss, expense, or liability arising from various trigger events related to the sale and the use of its products and services. In addition, from time to time the Company also provides protection to customers against claims related to undiscovered liabilities, additional product liabilities or environmental obligations.

Revenue Recognition:

The Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, title and risk of loss have transferred, product payment is not contingent upon performance of installation or service obligations, the price is fixed or determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured. In instances where final acceptance of the product or service is specified by the customer, revenue is deferred until all acceptance criteria have been met. Additionally, the Company recognizes maintenance service revenues on its hardware and software products ratably over the service periods of one to five years, and other services upon the completion of installation or professional services provided.

Some of the Company’s products are integrated with software that is essential to the functionality of the equipment. Additionally, the Company provides unspecified software upgrades and enhancements related to most of these products through maintenance contracts.

An entity is required to allocate revenue in an arrangement using estimated selling price (“ESP”) of deliverables if a vendor does not first have vendor-specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) of selling price or secondly does not have third-party evidence (“TPE”) of selling price and to allocate revenue based on the relative selling price method.

A multiple-element arrangement includes the sale of one or more tangible product offerings with one or more associated services offerings, each of which are individually considered separate units of accounting. The determination of the Company’s units of accounting did not change with the early adoption of the revenue recognition guidance. The Company allocates revenue to each element in a multiple-element arrangement based upon the relative selling price of each deliverable. When applying the relative selling price method, the Company determines the selling price for each deliverable using VSOE of selling price, if it exists, or TPE of selling price. If neither VSOE nor TPE of selling price exist for a deliverable, the Company uses its best estimate of selling price for that deliverable. Revenue allocated to each element is then recognized when the other revenue recognition criteria are met for each element.

VSOE is established based on the Company’s standard pricing and discounting practices for the specific product or service when sold separately. In determining VSOE, the Company requires that a substantial majority of the selling prices for a product or service fall within a reasonably narrow pricing range.

When VSOE cannot be established, the Company attempts to establish the selling price of each element based on TPE. TPE is determined based on competitor prices for similar deliverables when sold separately.

When the Company is unable to establish the selling price using VSOE or TPE, the Company uses ESP in its allocation of arrangement consideration. ESP represents the price at which the Company would transact a sale if the element were sold on a stand-alone basis. The Company determines ESP for a product by considering multiple factors including, but not limited to, geographies, market conditions, competitive landscape, and pricing practices. The determination of ESP is made based on review of historical sales price, taking into consideration the Company’s go-to-market strategy. Generally, the Company uses historical net selling prices to establish ESP. The Company regularly reviews its basis for establishing VSOE, TPE and ESP. The Company does not expect a material impact in the near term from changes in VSOE, TPE or ESP.

Channel Partner Programs and Incentives

The Company records estimated reductions to revenues for channel partner programs and incentive offerings including special pricing agreements, promotions and other volume-based incentives. The Company also accrues for co-op marketing funds as a marketing expense if the Company receives an identifiable benefit in exchange and can reasonably estimate the fair value of the identifiable benefit received; otherwise, it is recorded as a reduction to revenues.

Research and Development Expenditures:

Research and development expenditures are charged to operations as incurred and consist primarily of compensation costs, including stock-based compensation, outside services, expensed materials, depreciation and an allocation of overhead expenses, including facilities and IT costs. Software development costs incurred prior to the establishment of technological feasibility are included in research and development and are expensed as incurred. After technological feasibility is established, material software development costs are capitalized. The capitalized cost is amortized on a straight-line basis over the estimated product life, or on the ratio of current revenues to total projected product revenues, whichever is greater. To date, the period between achieving technological feasibility, which the Company has defined as the establishment of a working model, which typically occurs when beta testing commences, and the general availability of such software has been short and software development costs qualifying for capitalization have been insignificant. Accordingly, the Company has not capitalized any software development costs.

Advertising:

The Company expenses the production costs of advertising as expenses are incurred. The production costs of advertising consist primarily of trade shows, online media, magazine and radio advertisements, agency fees and other direct production costs. Advertising expense for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, and 2010 was $26.8 million, $21.3 million, and $20.9 million, respectively.

Income Taxes:

The Company accounts for income taxes under the liability method, which recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities based on the difference between the financial statement and tax basis of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established to reduce deferred tax assets when, based on available objective evidence, it is more likely than not that the benefit of such assets will not be realized.

The Company recognizes and measures benefits for uncertain tax positions using a two-step approach. The first step is to evaluate the tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained upon audit, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes. For tax positions that are more likely than not to be sustained upon audit, the second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more than 50% likely to be realized upon settlement. Significant judgment is required to evaluate uncertain tax positions. The Company evaluates its uncertain tax positions on a quarterly basis. Evaluations are based upon a number of factors, including changes in facts or circumstances, changes in tax law, correspondence with tax authorities during the course of audits and effective settlement of audit issues. Changes in the recognition or measurement of uncertain tax positions could result in material increases or decreases in income tax expense in the period in which the change is made, which could have a material impact on the Company’s effective tax rate and operating results. The Company recognizes interest and/or penalties related to income tax matters in income tax expense.

Foreign Currency Translation:

Assets and liabilities of non-U.S subsidiaries, where that local currency is the functional currency, are translated to U.S. dollars at exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet date and income and expense accounts are translated at average exchange rates in effect during the period. The resulting translation adjustments are directly recorded to a separate component of “Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).” Foreign exchange transaction gains and losses from the remeasurement of non-functional currency denominated assets and liabilities have not been significant to date and are included in the Company’s results of operations as part of “Interest and other income (expense), net”.

As a result of the sale of the Company’s former enterprise wireless voice solutions (the “EWS”) business (see Note 3 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements) in December 2012, which included a wholly owned Danish subsidiary with a Danish Krone functional currency, the Company recognized its associated currency translation adjustment balance of $1.1 million which effectively reduced the gain from sale of the discontinued operations.

The following table sets forth the change of foreign currency translation adjustments during each reporting period and the balances as of December 31 (in thousands):

Derivative Instruments:

The accounting for changes in the fair value of a derivative depends on the intended use of the derivative and the resulting designation. For a derivative instrument designated and qualifying as a cash flow hedge, the effective portion of the derivative’s gain or loss is initially reported as a separate component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and is subsequently reclassified into earnings when the hedged exposure affects earnings. The excluded and ineffective portions of the gain or loss are reported in earnings immediately. For derivative instruments that are not designated as cash flow hedges, changes in fair value are recognized in earnings in the period of change. The Company does not hold or issue derivative financial instruments for speculative trading purposes. The Company enters into derivatives only with counterparties that are among the largest U.S. banks, ranked by assets, in order to minimize its credit risk.

Computation of Net Income Per Share:

Basic net income per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted net income per share reflects the additional dilution from potential issuances of common stock, such as stock issuable pursuant to the exercise of stock options and warrants outstanding and shares of common stock subject to repurchase. Potentially dilutive shares are excluded from the computation of diluted net income per share when their effect is antidilutive.

On June 1, 2011, the Company announced that its Board of Directors approved a two-for-one stock split of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock effected in the form of a 100% stock dividend (“the stock split”). The stock split entitled each stockholder of record at the close of business on June 15, 2011 to receive one additional share of common stock for every one share of common stock owned as of that date, payable by the Company’s transfer agent on July 1, 2011. The par value of the Company’s common stock was maintained at the pre-split amount of $0.0005 per share. The Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto, including all share and per share data, have been restated as if the stock split had occurred as of the earliest period presented.

Fair Value Measurements:

The Company has certain financial assets and liabilities recorded at fair value which have been classified as Level 1, 2 or 3 within the fair value hierarchy. Fair values determined by Level 1 inputs utilize quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the Company has the ability to access. Fair values determined by Level 2 inputs utilize data points that are observable such as quoted prices for similar assets in active markets, or identical or similar assets in inactive markets, interest rates and yield curves. Fair values determined by Level 3 inputs utilize unobservable data points for the asset or liability.

The carrying amounts reflected in the consolidated balance sheets for cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and other accrued liabilities approximate fair value due to their short-term maturities.

Stock-Based Compensation:

The Company’s stock-based compensation programs consist of grants of stock-based awards to employees and non-employee directors, including stock options, restricted stock units and performance shares, as well as the Company’s employee stock purchase plan. The estimated fair value of these awards is charged against income over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period.

The fair value of stock option and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”) awards is estimated at the grant date using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. The fair value of restricted stock units is based on the market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. Compensation expense for restricted stock units, including the effect of forfeitures, is recognized over the applicable service period. The fair value of performance shares is based on the market price of the Company’s stock on the date of grant and assumes that the performance criteria will be met and the target payout level will be achieved. Compensation cost is adjusted for subsequent changes in the outcome of performance-related conditions until the award vests. The fair value of a performance share with a market condition is estimated on the date of award, using a Monte Carlo simulation model to estimate the total return ranking of the Company’s stock in relation to the target index of companies over each performance period. Compensation cost on performance shares with a market condition is not adjusted for subsequent changes regardless of the level of ultimate vesting.

Business Combinations:

The Company recognizes separately from goodwill the fair value of assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. Goodwill as of the acquisition date is measured as the excess of consideration transferred and the net of the acquisition date fair values of the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. While the Company uses its best estimates and assumptions as a part of the purchase price allocation process to value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date, the Company’s estimates are inherently uncertain and subject to refinement. As a result, during the measurement period, which may be up to one year from the acquisition date, the Company may record adjustments retrospectively to the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the fair value of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

In addition, uncertain tax positions and tax-related valuation allowances assumed in connection with a business combination are initially estimated as of the acquisition date. The Company reevaluates these items quarterly and records any adjustments to the Company’s preliminary estimates to goodwill provided that the Company is within the measurement period and the Company continues to collect information in order to determine their estimated fair values as of the date of acquisition. Subsequent to the measurement period or the Company’s final determination of the tax allowance’s estimated value, changes to these uncertain tax positions and tax related valuation allowances will affect the Company’s provision for income taxes in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

Recent Pronouncements:

In December 2011, the FASB issued an accounting standard update that requires disclosure of the effect or potential effect of offsetting arrangements on a company’s financial position as well as enhanced disclosure of the rights of setoff associated with a company’s recognized assets and liabilities. In January 2013, the FASB issued another accounting standard update to clarify the scope of the standard issued in December 2011. These accounting standard updates are effective for reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013. The Company does not believe that there will be a material impact on its consolidated financial statements upon the adoption of this guidance.

In July 2012, the FASB issued an accounting standard update intended to simplify how an entity tests indefinite-lived intangible assets other than goodwill for impairment by providing entities with an option to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether further impairment testing is necessary. This accounting standard update will be effective for the Company beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2013. The Company does not believe that there will be a material impact on its consolidated financial statements upon the adoption of this guidance.

2. Business Combinations:

During 2011, the Company completed three business combinations. On March 21, 2011, the Company completed the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of Accordent Technologies, Inc. (“Accordent”), a privately-held video content management and delivery solutions company. On July 27, 2011, the Company acquired the assets of the Hewlett-Packard Visual Collaboration (“HPVC”) business, including the Halo Products and Managed Services business. In May 2012, the Company completed the purchase of certain additional equipment from HP Financing Services for approximately $5.0 million that was agreed to in conjunction with the HPVC acquisition. On October 14, 2011, the Company acquired ViVu, Inc. (“ViVu”), a privately-held video collaboration software company. The total net cash paid in 2011 for these business combinations was $163.6 million, plus non-cash consideration of $0.2 million. The Company has included the financial results of Accordent, HPVC and ViVu in its Consolidated Financial Statements from their respective dates of acquisition. Pro forma results of operations for the acquisitions completed during the years have not been presented because the effects of the acquisitions, individually and in the aggregate, were not material to the Company’s financial results.

The following table summarizes the allocation of the total purchase consideration to the assets and liabilities assumed in 2011 as of the acquisition dates (in thousands):

Goodwill is not deductible for tax purposes. The goodwill generated from the Company’s business combinations completed during the year ended December 31, 2011 is primarily attributable to expected synergies. The fair values of intangible assets were calculated based on the income and cost approaches and are being amortized over eight months to six years. The acquisition-related costs were expensed as incurred. In 2012, the Company made adjustments, which were not material, to the preliminary purchase price allocation after giving consideration to final valuation reports and obtaining more information regarding, among other things, asset valuations, liabilities assumed, and revisions of preliminary estimates.

3. Discontinued Operations:

On May 10, 2012, the Company entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Mobile Devices Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability corporation (“Mobile Devices”), pursuant to which the Company would divest its enterprise wireless voice solutions (“EWS”) business to an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. On October 22, 2012, the Purchase Agreement was amended (the “Amended Purchase Agreement”). Per the terms of the Amended Purchase Agreement, Mobile Devices would acquire SpectraLink Corporation (“SpectraLink”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, by purchasing all of the outstanding stock and an intercompany note of SpectraLink from the Company. On December 4, 2012, the Company completed the disposition of the assets of its EWS business to Mobile Devices and received cash consideration of approximately $50.7 million. Additional cash consideration of up to $57.0 million is payable over the next four years subject to certain conditions, including meeting certain agreed-upon EBITDA-based milestones. Such additional cash consideration will be accounted for as a gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes, when it is realized or realizable. In accordance with accounting guidance, the Company has reported the results of operations and financial position of EWS in discontinued operations within its consolidated statements of operations and balance sheets for all periods presented.

Summarized results from discontinued operations were as follows (in thousands):

The carrying amounts of the net assets sold at December 4, 2012 were as follows (in thousands):

The Company recorded a gain of $35.4 million in 2012 on the sale of discontinued operations (net of taxes) which was calculated as follows (in thousands):

See Note 14 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for discussion of income tax benefit on gain from sale of discontinued operations.

4. Accounts Receivable Financing

In 2012, the Company launched a customer financing program and entered into a financing agreement (the “Financing Agreement”) with an unrelated third party financing company. The program offers channel partners, distributors, and resellers direct or indirect financing on their purchases of the Company’s products and services. Pursuant to the terms of the Financing Agreement, the Company transfers accounts receivable from these customers, without recourse, to the financing company. In return, the Company agrees to pay the financing company a fee based on a pre-defined percentage of the transaction amount financed. If the transaction meets the applicable criteria under ASC 860 and is accounted for as a sale of financial assets, the accounts receivable are excluded from the balance sheet upon the third party financing company’s payment remittance to the Company. In certain legal jurisdictions, the arrangement fees that involve maintenance services or products bundled with maintenance at one price do not qualify as a sale of financial assets in accordance with the authoritative guidance. Accordingly, accounts receivable related to these arrangements are accounted for as a secured borrowing in accordance with ASC 860, and the Company records a liability for any cash received, while maintaining the associated accounts receivable balance until the end-customer remits payment to the third-party financing company.

In 2012, total transactions entered pursuant to the terms of the Financing Agreement were approximately $28.3 million, of which $22.9 million are related to the sale of the financial assets arrangement. The financing of these receivables accelerated the collection of the Company’s cash and reduced its credit exposure. The amount due from the financing company as of December 31, 2012 was approximately $15.4 million, of which $12.4 million was related to the accounts receivable sold, and is included in “Trade receivables” in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets. Fees incurred pursuant to the Financing Agreement were approximately $0.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2012, and were recorded as a reduction to revenues.

5. Goodwill and Purchased Intangibles:

Goodwill is tested for impairment at the reporting unit level, which is one level below or the same as an operating segment. The Company adopted the amended accounting guidance, which permits the Company to choose to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If based on this assessment the Company determines it is not more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then performing the two-step impairment test is unnecessary.

Polycom’s business is organized around four major geographic theaters: North America, Central America/Latin America (“CALA”), Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) and Asia Pacific (“APAC”), which are considered its reporting units. In the fourth quarter of 2012 and 2011, the Company performed the qualitative assessment of its four reporting units and concluded that for the four reporting units, performing the two-step impairment test was unnecessary, and no impairment charge was required in 2012 or 2011.

In 2012, each reporting unit had an estimated fair value in excess of its carrying value by more than 50%, based on a valuation of the Company’s reporting segments performed in May 2012 in connection with the announcement of the divestiture of its EWS business. For each reporting unit, the Company weighed the relative impact of factors that are specific to the reporting unit as well as industry and macroeconomic factors. The reporting unit specific factors that were considered included the results of the most recent impairment tests, as well as financial performance and changes to the reporting units’ carrying amounts since the most recent impairment tests. For the industry in which the reporting units operate, the Company considered growth projections from independent sources and significant developments or transactions within the industry during 2012, where applicable. The Company concluded that each of the reporting unit specific and industry factors had either a positive or neutral impact on the fair value of each of the reporting units. The Company also determined that macroeconomic factors during 2012 did not have a significant impact on the discount rates and growth rates used for the valuation performed.

The following table presents the changes in carrying amount of goodwill in each of the Company’s segments as of December 31, 2012 (in thousands):

The following table presents details of the Company’s total purchased intangible assets as of the following period (in thousands):

In 2012, 2011, and 2010, the Company recorded amortization expense related to purchased intangibles of $9.8 million, $5.5 million, and $1.4 million, respectively, which is included in “Amortization of purchased intangibles” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. In 2012, 2011, and 2010, the Company recorded approximately $7.6 million, $5.7 million, and $2.6 million, respectively, of amortization of purchased intangibles to “Cost of Product Revenues” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Amortization of intangibles is not allocated to the Company’s segments.

The Company determined that a purchased trade name intangible of $0.9 million had an indefinite life as the Company expects to generate cash flows related to this asset indefinitely. Consequently, this trade name is not amortized but is reviewed for impairment annually or sooner when indicators of potential impairment exist. Development on products associated with in-process research and development (“IPR&D”) previously capitalized was completed in 2012 and the underlying products were made available for general release. The associated IPR&D of $1.4 million was reclassified to core and developed technology and is amortized over the estimated lives of the products commencing in 2012.

The Company evaluates its purchased intangibles for possible impairment on an ongoing basis. When impairment indicators exist, the Company performs an assessment to determine if the intangible asset has been impaired and to what extent. The assessment of purchased intangibles impairment is conducted by first estimating the undiscounted future cash flows to be generated from the use and eventual disposition of the purchased intangibles and comparing this amount with the carrying value of these assets. If the undiscounted cash flows are less than the carrying amounts, impairment exists and future cash flows are discounted at an appropriate rate and compared to the carrying amounts of the purchased intangibles to determine the amount of the impairment. There were no such impairments recorded during the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011, and 2010.

The estimated future amortization expense of purchased intangible assets as of December 31, 2012 is as follows (in thousands):

6. Balance Sheet Details:

Inventories consist of the following (in thousands):

Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following (in thousands):

Property and equipment, net, consist of the following (in thousands):

Deferred revenues consist of the following (in thousands):

Other accrued liabilities consist of the following (in thousands):

7. Restructuring Costs:

In 2012, 2011, and 2010, the Company recorded $22.0 million, $9.4 million, and $8.1 million, respectively, related to restructuring actions that included the elimination or relocation of various positions and the consolidation and elimination of certain facilities. These actions are generally intended to streamline and focus the Company’s efforts and more properly align the Company’s cost structure with its projected future revenue streams.

The following table summarizes the activity of the Company’s restructuring reserves (in thousands):