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2013 Annual Report
2014 Form 10-K 90
MFG provides the manufacturers in automotive and transportation, industrial machinery, consumer products and building
products with comprehensive digital prototyping solutions that bring together design data from all phases of the product
development process to develop a single digital model created in Autodesk Inventor software. Autodesk’s solutions for digital
prototyping enable a broad group of manufacturers to realize benefits with minimal disruption to existing workflows. MFG’s
revenue primarily includes revenue from the sales of licenses of Autodesk Product Design Suites, AutoCAD Mechanical, and
Autodesk Moldflow products.
M&E consists of two product groups: Animation, including design visualization, and Creative Finishing. Animation
products, such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites, provide tools for digital
sculpting, modeling, animation, effects, rendering and compositing, for design visualization, visual effects and games
production. M&E products are also included in a number of PSEB, AEC, and MFG focused suites. Creative Finishing products
provide editing, finishing and visual effects design and color grading.
All of Autodesk’s reportable segments distribute their respective products primarily through authorized resellers and
distributors and, to a lesser extent, through direct sales to end-users.
The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as those described in Note 1, “Business and Summary of
Significant Accounting Policies.” Autodesk evaluates each segment’s performance on the basis of gross profit. Autodesk
currently does not separately accumulate and report asset information by segment, except for goodwill, which is disclosed in
Note 1, “Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.”