Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Constellation Software Inc. Conference Call and Webcast Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mark Miller, President, please go ahead.

Mark Miller
President, COO & Director

Good morning, everyone. I just wanted to start off by reminding everyone we have the Annual General Meeting coming up this Friday, and we're hoping today to take some quarterly questions on the financial results for Q1. And so thank you all for attending, and I have both Bernie and Jamal with me to help answer any of those questions. So over to you.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Thanos with BMO Capital.

Thanos Moschopoulos
BMO Capital Markets Equity Research

Maybe one for Jamal to start. So just on the margins for the quarter, I know you have the Q1 payroll taxes and that there were some Synchronoss-related costs. And then is there anything else that you might call out in terms of the margin dynamic this quarter or nothing unusual of note?

Jamal Baksh
CFO & Director

Yes. I mean there were some -- a couple of other acquisitions that were a bit of a drag on margins, like the Q1 cohort of acquisitions themselves were actually a negative margin for the quarter, which we totally plan