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FORM 11-K


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549


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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001

OR

o TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission file number 001-31308


Full title of the plan:
Tom Brown, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Plan

Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office:

TOM BROWN, INC.
555 SEVENTEENTH STREET, SUITE 1850
DENVER, COLORADO 80202

Total number of pages herein is 13.

The Exhibit Index appears on page 12.

Reference is hereby made to the Financial Statements attached hereto.





SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the trustees of the Plan have duly caused this annual report to be signed by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

    TOM BROWN, INC. 401(k) Retirement Plan
         
Date: June 27, 2002   By:   /s/  DANIEL G. BLANCHARD      
Daniel G. Blanchard
Executive Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer and Treasurer

TOM BROWN, INC.
401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN

Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedule

December 31, 2001 and 2000

(With Independent Auditors' Report Thereon)

EIN 95-1949781


TOM BROWN, INC.
401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN


Table of Contents

 
  Page
Independent Auditors' Report   1

Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits—
December 31, 2001 and 2000

 

2

Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits—
Years ended December 31, 2001 and 2000

 

3

Notes to Financial Statements

 

4

Supplemental Schedule

 

 

Schedule H, Line 4i—Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)—
December 31, 2001

 

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Independent Auditors' Report

The Plan Administrator
Tom Brown, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Plan:

We have audited the accompanying statement of net assets available for benefits of the Tom Brown, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Plan (the Plan) as of December 31, 2001, and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. The statement of net assets available for benefits and the statement of changes in net assets available for benefits as of and for the year ended December 31, 2000, were audited by other auditors whose report dated September 10, 2001 expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements.

We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. 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. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan as of December 31, 2001, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the year then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Our audit was performed 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) as of December 31, 2001 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 Labor's Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan's management. The supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit 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.

    KPMG LLP
     
Denver, Colorado
June 14, 2002
   


TOM BROWN, INC.
401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN

Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits

December 31, 2001 and 2000

 
  2001
  2000
Assets:          
  Investments, at fair value:          
    Cash and cash equivalents   $ 1,296   749,866
    Mutual funds     8,808,487   6,720,446
    Tom Brown, Inc. common stock     718,331   1,139,545
   
 
      9,528,114   8,609,857
    Participant loans     206,493   229,738
   
 
      Total investments     9,734,607   8,839,595
   
 
  Receivables:          
    Employer contributions     95,099   40,836
    Participant contributions     61,273   86,884
   
 
      Total receivables     156,372   127,720
   
 
      Net assets available for benefits   $ 9,890,979   8,967,315
   
 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

2



TOM BROWN, INC.
401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN

Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits

Years ended December 31, 2001 and 2000

 
  2001
  2000
 
Additions to net assets attributed to:            
  Investment income (loss):            
    Interest and dividends   $ 190,560   483,034  
    Net depreciation in fair value of investments, including realized and unrealized gains and losses     (914,959 ) (139,651 )
   
 
 
      Total investment income (loss)     (724,399 ) 343,383  
   
 
 
  Contributions:            
    Employer     851,552   498,130  
    Participant     1,454,836   1,098,091  
    Rollovers     213,375   121,099  
   
 
 
      Total contributions     2,519,763   1,717,320  
   
 
 
      Total additions     1,795,364   2,060,703  

Deductions from net assets attributed to:

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Benefits paid to participants     (871,700 ) (1,181,451 )
   
 
 
      Net increase     923,664   879,252  

Net assets available for benefits:

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Beginning of year     8,967,315   8,088,063  
   
 
 
      End of year   $ 9,890,979   8,967,315  
   
 
 

See accompanying notes to financial statements.

3



TOM BROWN, INC.
401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN

Notes to Financial Statements
December 31, 2001 and 2000

(1)    Description of Plan

        (a)    General

        (b)    Eligibility

        (c)    Trustee and Asset Custodian

        (d)    Contributions

4


        (e)    Participant Accounts

        (f)    Investment Options

5


        (g)    Vesting

Years of service

  Vested percentage
 
Less than 2   0 %
2   40  
3   60  
4   80  
5   100  

        (h)    Forfeitures

        (i)    Payment of Benefits

6


        (j)    In-Service Withdrawals and Loans

(2)    Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

        (a)    Basis of Accounting

        (b)    Valuation of Investments and Income Recognition

        (c)    Payment of Benefits

        (d)    Administrative Expenses

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(3)    Investments

 
  2001
  2000
Cash and cash equivalents:          
  Vanguard Prime Money Market Fund   $   697,929

Mutual funds:

 

 

 

 

 
  Principal Stable Value Fund     1,028,381  
  Principal Large Cap Stock Index Separate Account     2,590,232  
  Neuberger Berman Focus Tr Cl Fund     785,499  
  Fidelity Advisor Equity Growth I Fund     1,231,041  
  Putnam International Growth A Fund     583,633  
  Vanguard 500 Index Fund       1,472,996
  Vanguard Balanced Index       449,188
  Vanguard Growth and Income Fund       1,263,930
  Vanguard International Growth Fund       598,247
  Vanguard Morgan Growth Fund       551,297
  Vanguard Windsor II Fund       679,555

Common stock:

 

 

 

 

 
  Tom Brown, Inc.     718,331   906,462
 
  2001
  2000
 
Mutual funds   $ (728,585 ) (834,119 )
Common stocks     (186,374 ) 694,468  
   
 
 
    $ (914,959 ) (139,651 )
   
 
 

(4)    Plan Termination

(5)    Federal Income Taxes

(6)    Related Party Transactions

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(7)    Risks and Uncertainties

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TOM BROWN, INC.
401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN

Schedule H, Line 4i—Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)

December 31, 2001

Identity of issue,
borrower, lessor,
or similar party

  Description of investment
  Fair
value

    Cash and cash equivalents      
Banker's Trust Company N.A.   * Fidelity Institutional Money Market Government Fund CLI   $ 1,296

 

 

Mutual funds:

 

 

 
Principal Financial Group   * Principal Stable Value Fund     1,028,381
    * Principal Bond Mortgage Separate Account     267,037
    * Principal Large Cap Stock Index Separate Account     2,590,232
    * Principal LifeTime Strategic Income Separate Account     1,599
    * Principal LifeTime 2010 Separate Account     1,979
    * Principal LifeTime 2020 Separate Account     6,839
    * Principal LifeTime 2030 Separate Account     4,604
    * Principal LifeTime 2040 Separate Account     1,215
    * Principal LifeTime 2050 Separate Account     1,797
    * Principal Real Estate Separate Account     33,418
    * Russell LifePoints® Consev Strategy (D) Separate Account     41,767
    * Russell LifePoints® Moderate Strategy (D) Separate Account     69,082
    * Russell LifePoints® Balanced Strategy (D) Separate Account     450,251
    * Russell LifePoints® Agg Strategy (D) Separate Account     70,907
    * Russell LifePoints® Eqty Agg Strategy (D) Separate Account     2,214
    * Principal Mid-Cap Stock Index Separate Account     11,000
    * Principal Partners Small-Cap Value Separate Account     3,221
    * Principal Small-Cap Stock Index Separate Account     379,376
    * Principal International Small Company Separate Account     6,007
    * T. Rowe Price Science Technology Fund     1,459
    * Neuberger Berman Focus Tr Cl Fund     785,499
    * Vanguard Health Care Fund     128,015
    * Fidelity Advisor Equity Growth I Fund     1,231,041
    * Vanguard Explorer Fund     46,023
    * American Century Value Inv Fund     50,185
    * T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund     302,380
    * T. Rowe Price New Era Fund     236,783
    * Putnam International Growth A Fund     583,633
    * Fidelity Advisor Mid Cap I Fund     73,410
    * Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Fund     399,133
       
            Total mutual funds     8,808,487
       

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Common stocks:

 

 

 
Edward Jones   * Tom Brown, Inc. Common Stock     701,990
Banker's Trust Company N.A.   * Tom Brown, Inc. Common Stock     16,341
       
            Total common stocks     718,331

 

 

Participants loans (interest rates ranging from 8.5% to 11.5%), various maturity dates

 

 

206,493
       
            Total investments   $ 9,734,607
       

* Represents a party-in-interest.

See accompanying independent auditors' report.

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Exhibit Index

Exhibit Number

  Document
  Sequential
Page Number

23   Consent of KPMG LLP   13



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SIGNATURES
Table of Contents
Independent Auditors' Report
TOM BROWN, INC. 401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits December 31, 2001 and 2000
TOM BROWN, INC. 401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN Statements of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits Years ended December 31, 2001 and 2000
TOM BROWN, INC. 401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN Notes to Financial Statements December 31, 2001 and 2000
TOM BROWN, INC. 401(k) RETIREMENT PLAN Schedule H, Line 4i—Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year) December 31, 2001
Exhibit Index