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Form: 11-K, Filing Date: 06/27/2008 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION FORM 11-K Annual report of employee stock purchase, savings and similar plans Filing Date: 2008-06-27 | Period of Report: 2007-12-31 SEC Accession No. 0001104659-08-042840 (HTML Version on secdatabase.com) FILER INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP Mailing Address Business Address 1 NEW ORCHARD RD 1 NEW ORCHARD ROAD CIK:51143| IRS No.: 130871985 | State of Incorp.:NY | Fiscal Year End: 1231 ARMONK NY 10504 ARMONK NY 10504 Type: 11-K | Act: 34 | File No.: 001-02360 | Film No.: 08923605 9144991900 SIC: 3570 Computer & office equipment Copyright © 2012 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 11-K (Mark One) x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 OR o TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to Commission file number 1-2360 A. Full title of the plan and address of the plan, if different from that of the issuer named below: IBM Savings Plan Director of Compensation and Benefits Capital Accumulation Programs IBM Corporation North Castle Drive Armonk, New York 10504 B. Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION New Orchard Road Armonk, New York 10504 IBM SAVINGS PLAN Table of Contents Page Copyright © 2012 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 4 Financial Statements and Schedule: Financial Statements: Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits at December 31, 2007 and 2006 5 Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits for the Year Ended December 31, 2007 6 Notes to Financial Statements 7 Supplemental Schedule*: Schedule H, Line 4i - Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year) 23 Exhibits: Exhibit 23 - Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 26 * Other schedules required by Section 2520.103-10 of the Department of Labor Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosures under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 are omitted because they are not applicable. 2 SIGNATURE The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized. IBM Savings Plan Date: June 27, 2008 By: /s/ James J. Kavanaugh James J. Kavanaugh Vice President and Controller 3 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm To the Members of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Retirement Plans Committee and the Participants of the IBM Savings Plan: In our opinion, the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the IBM Savings Plan (the Plan) at December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2007 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plans management. Our Copyright © 2012 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. Our audits were conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements taken as a whole. The supplemental schedule of assets (held at end of year) is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labors Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. This supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plans management. The supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audits of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole. /s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP New York, NY June 27, 2008 4 IBM SAVINGS PLAN STATEMENTS OF NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS AT DECEMBER 31, 2007 2006 (Dollars in thousands) Assets: Investments: Investments, at fair value (Note 7) $ 36,078,252 $ 34,233,370 Participant loans 281,775 290,576 Total investments 36,360,027 34,523,946 Receivables: Participant contributions 39,805 Employer contributions 11,865 Income, sales proceeds and other receivables 95,223 10,791 Total receivables 95,223 62,461 Total assets 36,455,250 34,586,407 Liabilities: Payable for cash collateral 3,592,169 3,724,956 Accrued expenses and other liabilities 10,353 4,835 Total liabilities 3,602,522 3,729,791 Net assets available for benefits, at fair value 32,852,728 30,856,616 Adjustment from fair value to contract value for fully benefit-responsive investment contracts (134,577) (106,555) Copyright © 2012 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document Net assets available for benefits $ 32,718,151 $ 30,750,061 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 5 IBM SAVINGS PLAN STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2007 (Dollars in thousands) Additions to net assets attributed to: Investment income: Net appreciation in fair value of investments (Note 7) $ 1,260,393 Interest income from investments 465,115 Dividends 138,839 1,864,347 Contributions: Participants 1,323,832 Employer 388,546 1,712,378 Transfers from other benefit plans, net 194,253 Total additions 3,770,978 Deductions from net assets attributed to: Distributions to participants 1,777,483 Administrative expenses 25,405 Total deductions 1,802,888 Net increase in net assets during the year 1,968,090 Net assets available for benefits: Beginning of year 30,750,061 End of year $ 32,718,151 The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 6 Copyright © 2012 www.secdatabase.com. All Rights Reserved. Please Consider the Environment Before Printing This Document IBM SAVINGS PLAN NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTE 1 - DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAN The following description of the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Savings Plan (herein the Plan) provides only general information. Participants should refer to the Plan prospectus (Summary Plan Description) for a complete description of the Plans provisions. General The Plan was established by resolution of IBMs Retirement Plans Committee (the Committee) effective July 1, 1983 and Plan assets are held in trust for the benefit of its participants. The Plan offers all eligible active, full-time and part-time regular and long-term supplemental United States (U.S.) employees of IBM and certain of its domestic related companies and partnerships an opportunity to defer from one to eighty percent of their eligible compensation for before-tax 401(k) contributions to any of twenty-three primary investment funds. The investment objectives of the primary funds are described in Note 3, Description of Investment Funds. In addition, participants are able to contribute up to ten percent of their eligible compensation on an after-tax basis. (After-tax contributions are not available for employees working in Puerto Rico.) Annual contributions are subject to the legal limits permitted by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations. Effective January 1, 2005, the Plan allowed participants to invest their account balances in more than 175 mutual fund investment options through a mutual fund window. Participants may direct investments into this mutual fund window in addition to the various primary investment funds offered by the Plan. Effective January 1, 2005, participants also were provided the choice to enroll in a disability protection program under which a portion of the participants account is used to pay premiums to purchase term insurance (underwritten by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company), which will pay the amount of their 401(k) deferral contributions and/or matching contributions into their accounts in the event the participant becomes disabled while insured. Effective January 1, 2008, participants are able to insure IBM automatic contributions and Special Savings Awards as defined in the Plan prospectus. Effective January 1, 2008, the IBM Savings Plan name was changed to the IBM 401(k)
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