UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

þQUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the quarterly period endedDecember 31, 2019September 30, 2020

 

or

 

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from _______________ to ___________________

 

Commission File Number:001-34711

 

CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Nevada 98-0557852
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
   

Hai Wai Hai Tongxin Mansion Floor 6

Gong Shu District, Hangzhou City

Zhejiang Province

P. R. China

 310008
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

+86 (571) 88077078

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

N/A

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class Trading Symbol(s) Name of each exchange on
which registered
Common stock, $0.001 par value CJJD NASDAQ Capital Market

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. YesþNo ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405(Sec.232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). YesþNo ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large Accelerated FilerAccelerated Filer
Non-accelerated filerþSmaller reporting companyþ
  Emerging growth company

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes ☐ Noþ

 

As of February 13,November 12, 2020, the registrant had 32,936,78637,961,790 shares of common stock outstanding.

 

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

TO QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q

 

FOR THE QUARTER ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019September 30, 2020

 

  Page
PART IFINANCIAL INFORMATION 
Item 1.Financial Statements1
 Unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 201920201
 Unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive lossincome (loss) for the three and ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019 and 20182
 Unaudited condensed consolidated statements of changes in stockholders’ equity for the three and ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019 and 20183
 Unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019 and 20184
 Notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements5
Item 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations3132
Item 3.Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk4143
Item 4.Controls and Procedures4244
   
PART IIOTHER INFORMATION 
Item 1A.Risk Factors43
Item 6.Exhibits4345
Signatures4446

 

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

 

All statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (“Form 10-Q”) for the registrant, other than statements of historical facts, that address future activities, events or developments are forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements containing the words “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect” and words of similar import. These statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by us in light of our experience and our assessment of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments as well as other factors we believe are appropriate under the circumstances. However, whether actual results will conform to the expectations and predictions of management is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially.

 

Such risks include, among others, the following: national and local general economic and market conditions: our ability to sustain, manage or forecast our growth; raw material costs and availability; new product development and introduction; existing government regulations and changes in, or the failure to comply with, government regulations; adverse publicity; competition; the loss of significant customers or suppliers; fluctuations and difficulty in forecasting operating results; changes in business strategy or development plans; business disruptions; the ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; the ability to protect technology; and other factors referenced in this and previous filings.

 

Consequently, all of the forward-looking statements made in this Form 10-Q are qualified by these cautionary statements and there can be no assurance that the actual results anticipated by management will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to or effects on our business operations.

 

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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1.FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(UNAUDITED)

 

  December 31,  March 31, 
  2019  2019 
ASSETS      
CURRENT ASSETS      
Cash $11,858,985  $9,322,463 
Restricted cash  12,035,385   15,422,739 
Financial assets available for sale  159,946   180,928 
Notes receivable  48,768   177,278 
Trade accounts receivable  11,465,402   8,692,514 
Inventories  10,962,677   13,955,202 
Other receivables, net  5,862,408   4,438,230 
Advances to suppliers  1,393,247   1,950,252 
Other current assets  1,505,995   2,063,375 
Total current assets  55,292,813   56,202,981 
         
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, net  8,097,428   8,727,358 
         
OTHER ASSETS        
Long-term investment  9,846   24,243 
Farmland assets  747,782   825,259 
Long term deposits  1,481,929   2,157,275 
Other noncurrent assets  1,134,643   1,196,197 
Operating lease right-of-use assets  15,318,428   - 
Intangible assets, net  3,715,629   3,597,323 
Total other assets  22,408,257   7,800,297 
         
Total assets $85,798,498  $72,730,636 
         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY        
CURRENT LIABILITIES        
Accounts payable, trade  15,870,874   23,106,230 
Notes payable  21,758,227   25,951,673 
Other payables  2,590,186   3,197,221 
Other payables - related parties  375,068   795,179 
Customer deposits  1,201,464   771,942 
Taxes payable  433,026   125,859 
Accrued liabilities  793,942   1,264,182 
Long-term loan - current portion  2,302,924   - 
Current portion of operating lease liabilities  409,756   - 
Total current liabilities  45,735,467   55,212,286 
         
Long-term loan  4,773,114   - 
Long term operating lease  liabilities  12,670,694   - 
Purchase option and warrants liability  120,000   465,248 
Financial liability  71,757   81,935 
Total liabilities  63,371,032   55,759,469 
         
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES        
         
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY        
Common stock; $0.001 par value; 250,000,000 shares authorized; 32,936,786 and 28,936,778 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019  32,937   28,937 
Preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; nil issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019  -   - 
Additional paid-in capital  54,209,301   44,905,664 
Statutory reserves  1,309,109   1,309,109 
Accumulated deficit  (33,415,600)  (30,587,468)
Accumulated other comprehensive income  1,926,259   2,508,964 
Total stockholders’ equity  24,062,006   18,165,206 
Noncontrolling interests  (1,634,540)  (1,194,039)
Total equity  22,427,466   16,971,167 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $85,798,498  $72,730,636 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements. 

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CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES 

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) 

(UNAUDITED)

  For the three months ended
December 31,
  For the nine months ended
December 31,
 
  2019  2018  2019  2018 
             
REVENUES, NET $33,363,282  $30,916,549  $86,997,845  $81,098,161 
                 
COST OF GOODS SOLD  26,079,910   23,780,763   66,959,671   62,548,471 
                 
GROSS PROFIT  7,283,372   7,135,786   20,038,174   18,549,690 
                 
SELLING EXPENSES  5,676,400   6,688,577   18,130,799   16,539,078 
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES  1,054,060   2,572,862   5,729,607   6,342,874 
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES  6,730,460   9,261,439   23,860,406   22,881,952 
                 
INCOME (LOSS) FROM OPERATIONS  552,912   (2,125,653)  (3,822,232)  (4,332,262)
                 
INTEREST INCOME  272,773   18,964   661,160   92,196 
OTHER INCOME (LOSS), NET  (302,408)  32,795   (437,118)  12,436 
                 
CHANGE IN FAIR VALUE OF DERIVATIVE LIABILITIES  (65,172)  (85,115)  345,248   (173,955)
                 
INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAXES  458,105   (2,159,009)  (3,252,942)  (4,401,585)
                 
PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES  2,184   47,958   16,274   104,712 
                 
NET INCOME (LOSS)  455,921   (2,206,967)  (3,269,216)  (4,506,297)
                 
ADD: NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO NONCONTROLLING INTEREST  75,861   528,736   441,084   594,796 
                 
NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC.  531,782   (1,678,231)  (2,828,132)  (3,911,501)
                 
Foreign currency translation adjustments  358,868   (130,619)  (582,705)  (957,646)
                 
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) $814,789  $(2,337,586) $(3,851,921) $(5,463,943)
                 
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF SHARES:                
Basic  32,936,786   28,936,778   32,776,786   28,936,778 
Diluted  32,936,786   28,936,778   32,776,786   28,936,778 
                 
EARNINGS PER SHARES:                
Basic $0.02  $(0.06) $(0.09) $(0.14)
Diluted $0.02  $(0.06) $(0.09) $(0.14)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.


CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(UNAUDITED)

                 Accumulated       
  Common Stock     Retained Earnings  other  Non-    
  Number of     Paid-in  Statutory     comprehensive  controlling    
  shares  Amount  capital  reserves  Unrestricted  income/(loss)  interest  Total 
BALANCE, March 31, 2018.  28,936,778   28,937   43,599,089   1,309,109   (29,661,190)  3,586,460   -   18,862,405 
                                 
Stock based compensation  -   -   49,140   -   -   -   -   49,140 
Sale of 10% of Jiuxin Medicine  -   -   -   -   -   -   (617,743)  (617,643)
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (645,852)  -   (50,763)  (696,615)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   621,634   -   621,634 
BALANCE, June 30, 2018.  28,936,778   28,937   43,648,229   1,309,109   (30,307,042)  4,208,094   (668,506)  18,218,821 
Stock based compensation  -   -   49,680   -   -   -   -   49,680 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (1,587,414)  -   (15,298)  (1,602,712)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   (1,448,661)  48,872   (1,399,789)
BALANCE, September 30, 2018.  28,936,778   28,937   43,697,909   1,309,109   (31,894,456)  2,759,433   (634,932)  15,266,000 
Stock based compensation  -   -   49,680   -   -   -   -   49,680 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (1,678,232)  -   (528,736)  (2,206,968)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   (130,619)  726,326   595,707 
BALANCE, December 31, 2018.  28,936,778   28,937   43,747,589   1,309,109   (33,572,688)  2,628,814   (437,342)  13,704,419 
                                 
BALANCE, March 31, 2019.  28,936,778   28,937   44,905,664   1,309,109   (30,587,468)  2,508,964   (1,194,039)  16,971,167 
                                 
Stock based compensation  4,000,008   4,000   34,560   -   -   -   -   38,560 
Financing of subsidiary  -   -   9,269,077   -   -   -   -   9,269,077 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (2,134,949)  -   (241,604)  (2,376,553)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   (405,238)      (405,238)
BALANCE, June 30, 2019.  32,936,786   32,937   54,209,301   1,309,109   (32,722,416)  2,103,726   (1,435,643)  23,497,014 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (1,224,963)  -   (122,004)  (1,346,967)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   (3)  (536,335)  9,708   (526,630)
BALANCE, September 30, 2019.  32,936,786   32,937   54,209,301   1,309,109   (33,947,382)  1,567,391   (1,547,939)  21,623,417 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   531,782   -   (75,861)  455,921 
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -       358,868   (10,740)  348,128 
BALANCE, December 31, 2019.  32,936,786   32,937   54,209,301   1,309,109   (33,415,600)  1,926,259   (1,634,540)  22,427,466 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.


CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(UNAUDITED)

  For the
nine months ended
December 31,
 
  2019  2018 
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:      
Net loss $(3,269,216) $(4,506,297)
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:        
Bad debt direct write-off and provision  (29,038)  1,266,994 
Depreciation and amortization  1,572,925   937,268 
Stock based compensation  34,560   121,547 
Change in fair value of purchase option derivative liability  (345,248)  173,955 
Accounts receivable, trade  (2,581,208)  (4,061,698)
Notes receivable  122,175   (43,024)
Inventories and biological assets  2,484,432   1,828,232 
Other receivables  (1,353,544)  (681,667)
Advances to suppliers  (222,928)  (911,061)
Other current assets  (1,758,533)  476,909 
Long term deposit  597,084   18,548 
Other noncurrent assets  17,744   23,206 
Accounts payable, trade  (6,397,104)  (3,945,980)
Other payables and accrued liabilities  (917,398)  815,725 
Customer deposits  458,415   (2,258,202)
Taxes payable  312,192   422,665 
Net cash used in operating activities  (11,274,690)  (10,322,880)
         
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:        
Disposal of financial assets available for sale  14,370   87,471 
Purchase of financial assets available for sale  -   (104,577)
Acquisition of equipment  (561,677)  (5,368,240)
Increase in intangible assets  (461,013)  (29,879)
Investment in a joint venture  -   - 
Additions to leasehold improvements  (705,856)  (1,432,060)
Net cash used in investing activities  (1,714,176)  (6,847,285)
         
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:        
Proceeds from third parties loan  7,085,406   - 
Proceeds from notes payable  36,537,832   32,903,549 
Repayment of notes payable  (39,784,592)  (24,930,903)
Increase in financial liability  (7,185)  82,167 
Proceeds from equity financing  9,273,077   7,544 
Repayment of other payables-related parties  (406,506)  (82,866)
Net cash provided by financing activities  12,698,032   7,979,491 
         
EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE ON CASH  (559,998)  (1,653,988)
         
DECREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH  (850,832)  (10,844,662)
         
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH, beginning of period  24,745,202   31,452,191 
         
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH, end of period $23,894,370  $20,607,529 
         
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:        
Cash paid for income taxes $17,215  $56,539 
  September 30,  March 31, 
  2020  2020 
ASSETS      
CURRENT ASSETS      
Cash and cash equivalents $21,646,487  $16,176,318 
Restricted cash  13,722,479   14,806,288 
Financial assets available for sale  163,818   157,159 
Notes receivable  73,494   57,005 
Trade accounts receivable  9,992,142   9,770,656 
Inventories  13,227,559   12,247,004 
Other receivables, net  5,225,418   5,069,442 
Advances to suppliers  1,929,273   1,174,800 
Other current assets  1,833,208   1,528,540 
Total current assets  67,813,878   60,987,212 
         
PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, net  6,768,478   7,633,740 
         
OTHER ASSETS        
Long-term investment  4,115,839   2,544,451 
Farmland assets  789,638   742,347 
Long term deposits  1,533,640   1,456,384 
Other noncurrent assets  1,077,100   1,046,763 
Operating lease right-of-use assets  19,946,821   21,711,376 
Intangible assets, net  3,440,046   3,393,960 
Total other assets  30,903,084   30,895,281 
         
Total assets $105,485,440  $99,516,233 
         
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY        
CURRENT LIABILITIES        
Short-term bank loan $2,204,820   1,410,130 
Accounts payable, trade  24,904,087   21,559,494 
Notes payable  23,327,972   26,605,971 
Other payables  1,888,563   2,522,330 
Other payables - related parties  574,103   490,218 
Customer deposits  1,262,520   708,140 
Taxes payable  245,203   119,247 
Accrued liabilities  653,409   753,612 
Long-term loan payable-current portion  2,375,729   2,287,742 
Current portion of operating lease liabilities  1,056,181   981,090 
Total current liabilities  58,492,587   57,437,974 
         
Long-term loan payable  3,089,373   4,115,958 
Long-term operating lease liabilities  16,500,499   19,049,575 
Employee Deposits  14,699   70,507 
Purchase option and warrants liability  36,306   64,090 
Total liabilities  78,133,464   80,738,104 
         
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES        
         
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY        
Common stock; $0.001 par value; 250,000,000 shares authorized; 37,961,790 and 32,936,786 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2020, respectively  37,962   32,937 
Preferred stock; $0.001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized; nil issued and outstanding as of September 30 and March 31, 2020, respectively  -   - 
Additional paid-in capital  63,568,876   54,209,301 
Statutory reserves  1,309,109   1,309,109 
Accumulated deficit  (38,126,065)  (36,400,837)
Accumulated other comprehensive income  2,565,454   1,440,424 
Total stockholders’ equity  29,355,336   20,590,934 
Noncontrolling interests  (2,003,360)  (1,812,805)
Total equity  27,351,976   18,778,129 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $105,485,440  $99,516,233 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

 


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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

(UNAUDITED)

  For the three months ended
September 30,
  For the six months ended
September 30,
 
  2020  2019  2020  2019 
             
REVENUES, NET $30,842,545  $28,353,779  $61,896,857  $53,634,563 
                 
COST OF GOODS SOLD  23,829,793   21,660,415   46,903,886   40,879,761 
                 
GROSS PROFIT  7,012,752   6,693,364   14,992,971   12,754,802 
                 
SELLING EXPENSES  6,475,512   6,485,848   12,747,919   12,454,399 
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES  2,061,559   1,823,935   4,181,725   4,675,547 
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES  8,537,071   8,309,783   16,929,644   17,129,946 
                 
LOSS FROM OPERATIONS  (1,524,319)  (1,616,419)  (1,936,673)  (4,375,144)
                 
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE):                
INTEREST INCOME  187,667   340,514   351,255   388,387 
INTEREST EXPENSE  (117,692)  -   (245,079)  - 
OTHER  (124,496)  (72,225)  (74,475)  (134,710)
CHANGE IN FAIR VALUE OF DERIVATIVE LIABILITIES  32,674   6,865   27,784   410,420 
                 
LOSS BEFORE INCOME TAXES  (1,546,166)  (1,341,265)  (1,877,188)  (3,711,047)
                 
PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES  (18,975)  5,702   38,595   14,090 
                 
NET LOSS  (1,527,191)  (1,346,967)  (1,915,783)  (3,725,137)
                 
LESS: NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO NONCONTROLLING INTEREST  (33,472)  (122,004)  (190,555)  (365,223)
                 
NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC.  (1,493,719)  (1,224,963)  (1,725,228)  (3,359,914)
                 
Foreign currency translation adjustments  1,031,461   (536,335)  1,125,030   (941,573)
                 
COMPREHENSIVE LOSS $(495,730) $(1,883,302) $(790,753) $(4,666,710)
                 
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF SHARES:                
Basic  37,961,790   32,936,786   36,232,144   32,696,348 
Diluted  37,961,790   32,936,786   36,232,144   32,696,348 
                 
EARNINGS PER SHARES:                
Basic $(0.04) $(0.04) $(0.05) $(0.10)
Diluted $(0.04) $(0.04) $(0.05) $(0.10)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.


CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(UNAUDITED)

                 Accumulated       
  Common Stock  Additional  Retained Earnings  other  Non-    
  Number of     Paid-in  Statutory  Accumulated  comprehensive  controlling    
  shares  Amount  capital  reserves  deficit  income/(loss)  interest  Total 
BALANCE, March 31, 2019.  28,936,778   28,937   44,905,664   1,309,109   (30,587,468)  2,508,964   (1,194,039)  16,971,167 
                                 
Stock based compensation  -   -   34,560   -   -   -   -   34,560 
Sale of stock and warrants  4,000,008   4,000   9,269,077   -   -   -   -   9,273,077 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (2,134,951)  -   (243,219)  (2,378,170)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   (403,620)      (403,620)
BALANCE, June 30, 2019.  32,936,786   32,937   54,209,301   1,309,109   (32,722,419)  2,105,344   (1,437,258)  23,497,014 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (1,224,963)  -   (122,004)  (1,346,967)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   (526,630)  -   (526,630)
BALANCE, September 30, 2019.  32,936,786   32,937   54,209,301   1,309,109   (33,947,382)  1,578,714   (1,559,262)  21,623,417 
                                 
BALANCE, March 31, 2020.  32,936,786   32,937   54,209,301   1,309,109   (36,400,837)  1,440,424   (1,812,805)  18,778,129 
Exercise of warrants  25,000   25   77,475   -   -   -   -   77,500 
Sale of stock and warrants  5,000,004   5,000   9,282,100   -   -   -   -   9,287,100 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (231,509)  -   (157,083)  (388,592)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   93,569       93,569 
BALANCE, June 30, 2020.  37,961,790   37,962   63,568,876   1,309,109   (36,632,346)  1,533,993   (1,969,888)  27,847,706 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   (1,493,719)  -   (33,472)  (1,527,191)
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   1,031,461   -   1,031,461 
BALANCE, September 30, 2020.  37,961,790   37,962   63,568,876   1,309,109   (38,126,065)  2,565,454   (2,003,360)  27,351,976 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.


CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(UNAUDITED)

  For the six months ended
September 30,
 
  2020  2019 
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:      
Net loss $(1,915,783) $(3,725,137)
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:        
Bad debt direct write-off and provision  (286,076)  767,250 
Depreciation and amortization  1,258,156   1,051,907 
Stock based compensation  -   34,560 
Change in fair value of purchase option derivative liability  (27,784)  (410,420)
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:        
Accounts receivable, trade  41,724   555,289 
Notes receivable  (13,675)  92,655 
Inventories and biological assets  (448,573)  975,170 
Other receivables  279,650   (206,247)
Advances to suppliers  (531,255)  (106,790)
Other current assets  (853,289)  (1,031,185)
Long term deposit  (15,106)  682,504 
Other noncurrent assets  13,619   13,791 
Accounts payable, trade  2,362,338   1,938,015 
Other payables and accrued liabilities  (845,411)  (568,457)
Customer deposits  509,549   744,912 
Taxes payable  123,082   165,692 
         
Net cash used in/provided by operating activities  (348,834)  973,509 
         
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:        
Disposal of financial assets available for sale  -   14,457 
Acquisition of equipment  (33,968)  (374,992)
Purchases of intangible assets  (55,038)  (462,266)
Investment in a joint venture  (1,422,193)  - 
Additions to leasehold improvements  (246,846)  (622,464)
Net cash used in investing activities  (1,758,045)  (1,445,265)
         
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:        
Proceeds from short-term bank loan  714,160   682,692 
Repayment of  third parties’ loan  (1,175,725)  - 
Proceeds from notes payable  22,668,388   21,745,277 
Repayment of notes payable  (26,949,176)  (24,862,363)
Decrease in Employee Deposits  (57,133)  - 
Exercise of warrants  77,500   - 
Proceeds from equity financing  9,205,173   9,273,077 
Repayment of other payables-related parties  68,994   (458,002)
Net cash provided by financing activities  4,552,181   6,380,681 
         
EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE ON CASH  1,941,058   (1,368,958)
         
INCREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH  4,386,360   4,539,967 
         
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH, beginning of period  30,982,606   24,745,202 
         
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH, end of period $35,368,966  $29,285,169 
         
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:        
    Cash paid for interest  247,371   - 
Cash paid for income taxes $3,457  $28,777 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.


Note 1 – DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION

 

China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc. (“Jo-Jo Drugstores” or the “Company”), was incorporated in Nevada on December 19, 2006, originally under the name of “Kerrisdale Mining Corporation”. On September 24, 2009, the Company changed its name to “China Jo-Jo Drugstores, Inc.” in connection with a share exchange transaction as described below.

 

On September 17, 2009, the Company completed a share exchange transaction with Renovation Investment (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. (“Renovation”), whereby 7,900,000 shares of the Company’s common stock were issued to the stockholders of Renovation in exchange for 100% of the capital stock of Renovation. The completion of the share exchange transaction resulted in a change of control. The share exchange transaction was accounted for as a reverse acquisition and recapitalization and, as a result, the consolidated financial statements of the Company (the legal acquirer) are, in substance, those of Renovation (the accounting acquirer), with the assets and liabilities, and revenues and expenses, of the Company being included effective from the date of the share exchange transaction. Renovation has no substantive operations of its own except for its holdings of Zhejiang Jiuxin Investment Management Co., Ltd. (“Jiuxin Management”), Zhejiang Shouantang Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (“Shouantang Technology”), and Hangzhou Jiutong Medical Technology Co., Ltd (“Jiutong Medical”), and Hangzhou Jiuyi Medical Technology Co. Ltd. (“Jiuyi Technology”), its wholly-owned subsidiaries.

 

The Company is an online and offline retailer and wholesale distributor of pharmaceutical and other healthcare products in the People’s Republic of China (“China” or the “PRC”). The Company’s offline retail business is comprised primarily of pharmacies, which are operated by Hangzhou Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd. (“Jiuzhou Pharmacy”), a company that the Company controls through contractual arrangements. On March 31, 2017, Jiuxin Management established a subsidiary, Lin’An Jiuzhou Pharmacy Co., Ltd (“Lin’An Jiuzhou”) to operatesoperate drugstores in Lin’an City.

  

During the nine months ended December 31, 2019,On January 9, 2020, in order to continue expanding and strengthening its local drugstore network, the Company dissolved eight independent pharmacies. Amongacquired a local drugstores chain with ten stores at a price of $0.14 (RMB 1). The acquired chain agreed to cease their stores’ business and liquidate all of the eight dissolved pharmacies, two stores have merged into‘accounts after Jiuzhou Pharmacy acquired them. In March 2020, the chain was dissolved and became Jiuzhou Pharmacy stores in Hangzhou. The other six stores’ licenses ofits government medical insurance which qualify the stores for government reimbursement werecertificates have been transferred to six Jiuzhou Pharmacy stores in Hangzhou City.Pharmacy.

  

The Company’s offline retail business also includes threefour medical clinics through Hangzhou Jiuzhou Clinic of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine (“Jiuzhou Clinic”) and Hangzhou Jiuzhou Medical and Public Health Service Co., Ltd. (“Jiuzhou Service”), both of which are also controlled by the Company through contractual arrangements. In May 2014, Shouantang Technology established Hangzhou Shouantang Bio-technology Co., Ltd. (“Shouantang Bio”). In May 2016, Shouantang Bio set up and held 49% of Hangzhou Kahamadi Bio-technology Co., Ltd.(“Kahamadi Bio”), a joint venture specializing in brand name development for nutritional supplements. In 2018, Jiuzhou Pharmacy invested a total of $741,540 (RMB5,100,000) in and held 51% of Zhejiang Jiuzhou Linjia Medical Investment and Management Co. Ltd (“Linjia Medical”), which operates two new clinics in Hangzhou as of March 31, 2019.2020. On March 29, 2019, Jiuzhou Pharmacy formed and currently holds 51% of the equity of Zhejiang AyiGe Medical Health Management Co., Ltd.(“ (“Ayi Health”), which is intended to provide technical support such as IT and customer support to our health management business in the future.

 

The Company currently conducts its online retail pharmacy business through Jiuzhou Pharmacy, which holds the Company’s online pharmacy license. On September 10, 2015, Renovation set up Jiuyi Technology to provide additional technical support such as webpage development to our online pharmacy business. In November 2015, the technical support function was transferred back to Jiuzhou Pharmacy, which hosts our online pharmacy.

 

The Company’s wholesale business is primarily conducted through Zhejiang Jiuxin Medicine Co., Ltd. (“Jiuxin Medicine”), which is licensed to distribute prescription and non-prescription pharmaceutical products throughout China. Jiuzhou Pharmacy acquired Jiuxin Medicine on August 25, 2011. On April 20, 2018, 10% of Jiuxin MedcineMedicine shares were sold to Hangzhou Kangzhou Biotech Co. Ltd. for a total proceeds of $79,625 (RMB 507,760).

 

The Company’s herb farming business is conducted by Hangzhou Qianhong Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. (“Qianhong Agriculture”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jiuxin Management. Due to the complexity of the cultivation business, Qianhong Agriculture has not grown herbs in the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019.September 30, 2020. 


The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements reflect the activities of the Company and each of the following entities:

 

Entity Name Background Ownership
Renovation ●     Incorporated in Hong Kong SAR on September 2, 2008 100%
     
Jiuxin Management 

●     Established in the PRC on October 14, 2008

100%

●     Deemed a wholly foreign owned enterprise (“WFOE”) under PRC law

●     Registered capital of $14.5$23.5 million fully paid

 100%
     
Shouantang Technology 

●     Established in the PRC on July 16, 2010 by Renovation with registered capital of $20 million

100%

●     Registered capital requirement reduced by the SAIC to $11 million in July 2012 and is fully paid

●     Deemed a WFOE under PRC law

●     Invests and finances the working capital of Quannuo Technology

Qianhong Agriculture● Established in the PRC on August 10, 2010 by Jiuxin Management

 100%
     
Qianhong Agriculture  

●     Established in the PRC on August 10, 2010 by Jiuxin Management

●     Registered capital of RMB 10 million fully paid

●     Carries out herb farming business

 100% 
     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy (1) 

●     Established in the PRC on September 9, 2003

●     Registered capital of RMB 5 million fully paid  

●     Operates the “Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy” stores in Hangzhou

 VIE by contractual arrangements (2)
     
● Registered capital of RMB 5 million fully paid
● Operates the “Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy” stores in Hangzhou
Jiuzhou Clinic (1) 

●     Established in the PRC as a general partnership on October 10, 2003

●     Operates a medical clinic adjacent to one of Jiuzhou Pharmacy’s  stores

 VIE by contractual arrangements (2)
     
Jiuzhou Service (1) 

●     Established in the PRC on November 2, 2005  

●     Registered capital of RMB 500,000 fully paid

●     Operates a medical clinic adjacent to one of Jiuzhou Pharmacy’s stores

 
Jiuzhou Service (1)● Established in the PRC on November 2, 2005

VIE by contractual arrangements (2)

● Registered capital of RMB 500,000 fully paid
● Operates a medical clinic adjacent to one of Jiuzhou Pharmacy’s stores

     
Jiuxin Medicine   

●     Established in PRC on December 31, 2003

 

●     Acquired by Jiuzhou Pharmacy in August 2011

●     10% of shares sold On April 20, 2018 

●     Registered capital of RMB 10 million fully paid

●     Carries out pharmaceutical distribution services

 VIE by contractual arrangements as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jiuzhou Pharmacy (2)
     
● 10% of shares sold
● Registered capital of RMB 10 million fully paid
● Carries out pharmaceutical distribution services
Jiutong Medical   

●     Established in the PRC on December 20, 2011 by Renovation

100%

●     Registered capital of $2.6 million fully paid  

●     Currently has no operation

 100% 


Entity Name Background Ownership
Shouantang Bio 

●     Established in the PRC in October, 2014 by Shouantang Technology

●     100% held by Shouantang Technology 

●     Registered capital of RMB 1,000,000 fully paid

●     Sells nutritional supplements under its own brand name

 100%
     
Jiuyi Technology  ● 100% held by Shouantang Technology
● Registered capital of RMB 1,000,000 fully paid
● Sells nutritional supplements under its own brand name
Jiuyi Technology

●     Established in the PRC on September 10, 2015

●     100% held by Renovation 

●     Technical support to online pharmacy

 100%
     
Kahamadi Bio  ● 100% held by Renovation
● Technical support to online pharmacy
Kahamadi Bio

●     Established in the PRC in May 2016

●     49% held by Shouantang Bio

●     Registered capital of RMB 10 million

●     Develop brand name for nutritional supplements

 49%
     
Lin’An Jiuzhou  ● 49% held by Shouantang Bio
● Registered capital of RMB 10 million
● Develop brand name for nutritional supplements
Lin’An Jiuzhou

●     Established in the PRC in March 31, 2017

100%

●     100% held by Jiuxin Management

●     Registered capital of RMB 5 million

●     Explore retail pharmacy market in Lin’An City

 100%
     
Linjia Medical 

●     Established in the PRC in September 27,September27, 2017

 

●     51% held by Jiuzhou Pharmacy

●     Registered capital of RMB 20 million

●     Operates local clinics

 VIE by contractual arrangements as a controlled subsidiary of Jiuzhou Pharmacy (2)
● Registered capital of RMB 20 million
● Operates local clinics
     
Ayi Health 

●     Established in the PRC in March 29, 2019

 

●     51% held by Jiuzhou Pharmacy

●     Registered capital of RMB 10 million

●     Provide technical Support for medial service

 VIE by contractual arrangements as a controlled subsidiary of Jiuzhou Pharmacy (2)
● Registered capital of RMB 10 million
● Provide technical Support for medial service

  

(1)Jiuzhou Pharmacy, Jiuzhou Clinic and Jiuzhou Service had been under the common control of Mr. Lei Liu   Mr. Chong’an Jin and Ms. Li Qi, (thethe three shareholders collectively, the(the “Owners”) since their respective establishment dates, pursuant to agreements among the Owners to vote their interests in concert as memorialized in a voting rights agreement. Based on such voting agreement, the Company has determined that common control exists among these three companies. The Owners have operated these three companies in conjunction with one another since each company’s respective establishment date. Jiuxin Medicine is also deemed under the common control of the Owners as a subsidiary of Jiuzhou Pharmacy.
  
(2)To comply with certain foreign ownership restrictions of pharmacy and medical clinic operators, Jiuxin Management entered into a series of contractual arrangements with Jiuzhou Pharmacy, Jiuzhou Clinic and Jiuzhou Service on August 1, 2009. These contractual arrangements are comprised of five agreements: a consulting services agreement, operating agreement, equity pledge agreement, voting rights agreement and option agreement. Because such agreements obligate Jiuxin Management to absorb all of the risks of loss from the activities of Jiuzhou Pharmacy, Jiuzhou Clinic and Jiuzhou Service, and enable the Company (through Jiuxin Management) to receive all of their expected residual returns, the Company accounts for each of the three companies (as well as subsidiaries of Jiuzhou Pharmacy) as a variable interest entity (“VIE”) under the accounting standards of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”). Accordingly, the financial statements of Jiuzhou Pharmacy, Jiuzhou Clinic and Jiuzhou Service, as well as the subsidiarysubsidiaries under the control of Jiuzhou Pharmacy, Jiuxin Medicine and Shouantang Bio are consolidated into the financial statements of the Company.


Note 2 – LIQUIDITY

 

OurThe Company’s accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) on a going concern basis. The going concern basis assumes that assets are realized and liabilities are extinguished in the ordinary course of business at amounts disclosed in the financial statements. OurThe Company’s ability to continue as a going concern depends upon aligning ourits sources of funding (debt and equity) with ourits expenditure requirements and repayment of the short-term debts as and when they become due.

 

The drug retail business is a highly competitive industry in the PRC. Several large drugstore chains and a variety of single stores operate in Hangzhou City and Zhejiang Province. In order to increase ourthe Company’s competitive advantages and gain more local retail pharmacy market share, duringfrom fiscal year 2018, we opened fifty-sevenfifty-nine new stores in Hangzhou. As a result, wethe Company incurred significant incremental expense related to rental, labor hiring and training, and marketing activities. As the retail pharmaceutical market becomes more competitive in recent years, a new store usually cannot make profit in its operation until a year later. In fact, wethe Company incurred significant expenseexpenses with limited incremental revenue in the period weit opened new stores. At their openings, except for four stores, almost all of the new stores were without government insurance reimbursement certificates. In fact, it usually takes more than one year for a new store to apply for and obtain the local government insurance reimbursement certificate. As of December 31, 2019, we haveSeptember 30, 2020, the Company had obtained thirty-fiveforty-seven reimbursement certificates for stores opened in fiscal 2018 and later.thereafter. Historically sales reimbursed from the government insurance agency contributedin a mature store, more than half of the total revenue in a mature store. We arewere collected from the individual customers’ government insurance program. The Company is in the process of actively applying certificates for all of ourits new stores. In the future, as more and more stores obtain certificates, wethe Company expect ourits new store revenue to increase and eventually contribute positive operating cash flow.

 

The Company’s principal sources of liquidity consist of existing cash, equity financing, and bank facilities from local banks as well as personal loans from its principal shareholders if necessary. On April 15, 2019, the Company closed a registered direct offering of 4,000,008 shares of common stock at $2.50 per share with gross proceeds of $10,000,020 from its effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement dated April 11, 2019 (the “2019 Securities Purchase Agreement”), by and among the Company and the investors named therein. On June 3, 2020, the Company closed a registered direct offering of 5,000,004 shares of common stock at $2.00 per share with gross proceeds of $10,000,008 from its effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement dated June 1, 2020 (the “2020 Securities Purchase Agreement”), by and among the Company and the investors named therein.

The Company has a credit line agreement from a local bank as displayed in detail in Note 14.16. As of December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, approximately $3.05$3.11 million of the aforementioned bank credit line was still available for further borrowing. Additionally, Jiuzhou Pharmacy obtained a credit line of approximately $7,175,000 (RMB50,000,000) from Haihui Commercial Factoring (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. (“Haihui Commercial”) for three years beginning July 26, 2019. As of September 30, 2020, the full amount has been borrowed from Haihui Commercial. Any borrowing thereunder is guaranteed by a third-party guarantor company and secured by the Company’s assets pursuant to a collateral agreement, as well as personal guarantees of some of its principal shareholders.

 

The Company has also obtained additional government insurance reimbursement certificates for its stores opened in the last two years. As the sales reimbursed from the government account for more than half of sales in a mature store, the certificates may significantly increase the sales of these stores in the next 12 months. Additionally, with the proceeds from the registered direct financing closed on April 15, 2019 and June 3, 2020, and increased credit line, the Company believes it can support its operations for at least the next 12 months. However, in the event the banks withdraw their credit lines with us, or our existing store performance suddenly deteriorates due to unexpected government policy change, possible deterioration of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, including Hangzhou, where the Company is headquartered, or our operating license is canceled as a result of violation of industry regulation, the Company may or may not obtain alternative financing resources to support its continuing operation. At that time, the Company may not be able to continue to present itself on a going concern basis.


Note 3 – SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Basis of presentation and consolidation

 

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP.GAAP”). The condensed consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiaries and VIEs. All significant inter-company transactions and balances between the Company, its subsidiaries and VIEs are eliminated upon consolidation.

 

Consolidation of variable interest entities

 

In accordance with accounting standards regarding consolidation of variable interest entities, VIEs are generally entities that lack sufficient equity to finance their activities without additional financial support from other parties or whose equity holders lack adequate decision making ability. All VIEs with which the Company is involved must be evaluated to determine the primary beneficiary of the risks and rewards of the VIE. The primary beneficiary is required to consolidate the VIE for financial reporting purposes.

 

The Company has concluded, based on the contractual arrangements, that Jiuzhou Pharmacy (including its subsidiaries and controlled entities), Jiuzhou Clinic and Jiuzhou Service are each a VIE and that the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Jiuxin Management, absorbs a majority of the risk of loss from the activities of these companies, thereby enabling the Company, through Jiuxin Management, to receive a majority of their respective expected residual returns.

 

Control and common control are defined under the accounting standards as “an individual, enterprise, or immediate family members who hold more than 50 percent of the voting ownership interest of each entity.” Because the Owners collectively own 100% of Jiuzhou Pharmacy, Jiuzhou Clinic and Jiuzhou Service, and have agreed to vote their interests in concert since the establishment of each of these three companies as memorialized in the voting rights agreement, the Company believes that the Owners collectively have control and common control of the three companies. Accordingly, the Company believes that Jiuzhou Pharmacy, Jiuzhou Clinic and Jiuzhou Service were constructively held under common control by Jiuxin Management as of the time the Contractual Agreements were entered into, establishing Jiuxin Management as their primary beneficiary. Jiuxin Management, in turn, is owned by Renovation, which is owned by the Company.

 

Risks and Uncertainties

 

The operations of the Company are located in the PRC. Accordingly, the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations may be influenced by political, economic, and legal environments in the PRC, as well as by the general state of the PRC economy. The Company’s operations in the PRC are subject to special considerations and significant risks not typically associated with companies in North America and Western Europe. These include risks associated with, among others, the political, economic and legal environment and foreign currency exchange. The Company’s results may be adversely affected by changes in the political, regulatory and social conditions in the PRC. Although the Company has not experienced losses from these situations and believes that it is in compliance with existing laws and regulations including its organization and structure disclosed in Note 1, this may not be indicative of future results.

 

The Company has significant cash deposits with suppliers in order to obtain and maintain inventory. The Company’s ability to obtain products and maintain inventory at existing and new locations is dependent upon its ability to post and maintain significant cash deposits with its suppliers. In the PRC, many vendors are unwilling to extend credit terms for product sales that require cash deposits to be made. The Company does not generally receive interest on any of its supplier deposits, and such deposits are subject to loss as a result of the creditworthiness or bankruptcy of the party who holds such funds, as well as the risk from illegal acts such as conversion, fraud, theft or dishonesty associated with the third party. If these circumstances were to arise, the Company would find it difficult or impossible, due to the unpredictability of legal proceedings in China, to recover all or a portion of the amount on deposit with its suppliers.

 

Members of the current management team own controlling interests in the Company and are also the Owners of the VIEs in the PRC. The Company only controls the VIEs through contractual arrangements which obligate it to absorb the risk of loss and to receive the residual expected returns.  As such, the controlling shareholders of the Company and the VIEs could cancel these agreements or permit them to expire at the end of the agreement terms, as a result of which the Company would not retain control of the VIEs.

 

Use of estimates

 

The preparation of unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with US GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The significant estimates made in the preparation of the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements relate to the assessment of the carrying values of accounts receivable, advances to suppliers and related allowance for doubtful accounts, useful lives of property and equipment, inventory reserve and fair value of its purchase option derivative liability. Because of the use of estimates inherent in the financial reporting process, actual results could materially differ from those estimates.


Fair value measurements

 

The Company establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy of valuation techniques based on observable and unobservable inputs, which may be used to measure fair value and include the following:

 

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

 

Level 2 – Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

 

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

 

Classification within the hierarchy is determined based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.

 

The Company’s financial assets and liabilities, which include financial instruments as defined by FASB ASC 820, include cash, and cash equivalents and restricted cash, financial assets available for sales, trade accounts receivable, notes receivables, other receivable, accounts payable, other payable, notes payable, long-term debtloan payable, employee deposits and derivatives.warrants liability. The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, financial assets available for sales,restricted cash, accounts receivable, notes receivables, and accounts payable are a reasonable approximation of fair value due to the short maturities of these instruments (Level 1). The carrying amount of notes payable approximates fair value based on borrowing rates of similar bank loan currently available to the Company (Level 2) (See Note 14)16). The carrying amount of Long-term loan payable approximates fair value based on borrowing rates of similar bank loan currently available to the Company (Level 2) (See Note 17). The carrying amount of the Company’s derivative instruments is recorded at fair value and is determined based on observable inputs that are corroborated by market data (Level 2) (See Note 21). The carrying amount of the Financialfinancial assets available for sale is recorded at fair value and is determined based on unobservable inputs (Level 3) (See Note 4). AsThe carrying amount of December 31, 2019, the fair values of our derivative instruments were carriedemployee deposits is recorded at fair value and is determined based on unobservable inputs (Level 3) (See Note 19)22). As of December 31, 2019, the fair values of our financial liability were carried at fair value (See Note 20)

 

 Active
Market
for Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
 Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
 Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
 Total
Carrying
Value
 
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash  23,894,370   -  $-   23,894,370 
(amount in absolute value) Active Market
for Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
 Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
 Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
 Total
Carrying
Value
 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $35,368,966   -   -  $35,368,966 
Financial assets available for sale  -   -   159,946   159,946   -   -   163,818   163,818 
Trade accounts receivable  9,992,142   -   -   9,992,142 
Notes receivable  73,494   -   -   73,494 
Other receivable  5,225,418   -   -   5,225,418 
Accounts payable  24,904,087   -   -   24,904,087 
Notes payable  -   21,758,227   -   21,758,227   -   23,327,972   -   23,327,972 
Financial liability  -   -   71,757   71,757 
Other payable  1,888,563   -   -   1,888,563 
Long-term loan payable  -   3,089,373   -   3,089,373 
Employee Deposits  -   -   14,699   14,699 
Warrants liability  -   120,000  $-   120,000   -   36,306   -   36,306 
                                
Total  23,894,370   21,878,227  $231,703   46,004,300  $77,452,670   26,453,651   178,517  $104,084,838 

 

Revenue recognition

 

Effective March 31, 2018, the Company began recognizing revenue under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”), using the modified retrospective transition method. The impact of adopting the new revenue standard was not material to the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The core principle of this new revenue standard is that a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The following five steps are applied to achieve that core principle:

 

 Step 1: Identify the contract with the customer

 

 Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract
   
 Step 3: Determine the transaction price

 

 Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract

 

 Step 5: Recognize revenue when the company satisfies a performance obligation

 


In order to identify the performance obligations in a contract with a customer, a company must assess the promised goods or services in the contract and identify each promised good or service that is distinct. A performance obligation meets ASC 606’s definition of a “distinct” good or service (or bundle of goods or services) if both of the following criteria are met:

 

 The customer can benefit from the good or service either on its own or together with other resources that are readily available to the customer (i.e., the good or service is capable of being distinct).
   
 The entity’s promise to transfer the good or service to the customer is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract (i.e., the promise to transfer the good or service is distinct within the context of the contract).

 


If a good or service is not distinct, the good or service is combined with other promised goods or services until a bundle of goods or services is identified that is distinct.

 

The transaction price is the amount of consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring promised goods or services to a customer, excluding amounts collected on behalf of third parties (for example, some sales taxes). The consideration promised in a contract with a customer may include fixed amounts, variable amounts, or both. Variable consideration is included in the transaction price only to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved.

 

The transaction price is allocated to each performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis. The transaction price allocated to each performance obligation is recognized when that performance obligation is satisfied, at a point in time or over time as appropriate.

 

The Company’s revenue is net of value added tax (“VAT”) collected on behalf of the PRC tax authorities with respect to the sales of merchandise. VAT collected from customers, net of VAT paid for purchases, is recorded as a liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets until it is paid to the relevant PRC tax authorities.

 

Certain contract liabilities primarily represent the Company’s obligation to transfer additional goods or services to a customer for which the Company has received consideration, for example, membership points. The consideration received remains a contract liability until goods or services have been provided to the retail customer. The estimated amount based on accrued membership points was deducted from sales revenue.

 

The following is a discussion of the Company’s revenue recognition policies by segment under the new revenue recognition accounting standard:

 

Pharmacy retail sales

 

The physical pharmacies sell prescription drugs, over-the-counter (“OTC”) drugs, traditional Chinese medicine, nutritional supplements, medical devices and sundry products. Revenue from sales of prescription medicine at drugstores is recognized when the prescription is filled and the customer picks up and pays for the prescription. Revenue from sales of other merchandise at drugstores is recognized at the point of sale, which is when a customer pays for and receives the merchandise. Usually the majority of our merchandise, such as prescription and OTC drugs, are not refundable after the customers leave the counter. Returns of other products, such as sundry products, are minimal. Sales of drugs reimbursed by the local government medical insurance agency and receivables from the agency are recognized when a customer pays for the drugs at a store. BasedThe Company based on historical experience, a reserve for potential losses from denial of reimbursement on certain unqualified drugs is made to the receivables from the government agency. Additionally, several onsite clinics adjacent to our pharmacies provide limited medical services. Revenue from medical services is recognized after the service has been rendered to a customer. As revenue from medical services is minimal compared to pharmacy retail sales, it is included as part of the pharmacy retail sales.

 

The Company deduct the membership rewards directly from the retail revenue, and present such amounts in net sales as opposed to the current reduction of operation expense classification. Membership rewards, usually membership points, are accumulated by customers based on their historical spending levels. The Company has determined that there is an additional performance obligation to those customers at the time of the initial transaction. The customers can then redeem these points against the prices of merchandises they purchase in the future. At the end of each period, unredeemed membership rewards are reflected as a contract liability.


Online pharmacy sales

 

The online pharmacy segment sells various health products except for prescription drugs. Revenue from online pharmacy sales is recognized when merchandise is shipped to customers. While most deliveries take one day, certain deliveries may take longer depending on a customer’s location. Any loss caused in a shipment will be reimbursed by the Company’s courier company. OurThe Company’s sales policy allows for the return of certain merchandises without reason within seven days after a customer’s receipt of the applicable merchandise. Historically, sales returns seven days after merchandise receipts have been minimal.

 

Wholesale

Jiuxin Medicine purchases medicine in quantity and distributes products primarily to local pharmacies and medical products dealers. Revenue from sales of merchandise to non-retail customers is recognized when the merchandise is transferred to customers. Historically, sales returns have been minimal.

 

The Company’s revenue is net of VAT collected on behalf of PRC tax authorities in respect to the sales of merchandise. VAT collected from customers, net of VAT paid for purchases, is recorded as a liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets until it is paid to the relevant PRC tax authorities.

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Disaggregation of Revenue

 

The following table disaggregatestables disaggregate the Company’s revenue by major source in each segment for the three and ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019:

 

For the three months ended December 31 2019 2018 
For the three months ended September 30 2020 2019 
Retail drugstores
Prescription drugs $7,496,469  $6,756,073  $5,982,706  $6,022,934 
OTC drugs  10,260,883   9,393,148   7,617,159   7,463,201 
Nutritional supplements  1,602,407   1,869,351   1,664,265   1,676,974 
TCM  1,416,126   1,342,768   1,054,378   1,954,500 
Sundry products  188,484   248,729   338,112   290,750 
Medical devices  611,597   1,257,180   1,273,876   592,914 
Total retail revenue $21,575,966  $20,867,249  $17,930,496  $18,001,273 
Online pharmacy                
Prescription drugs $-  $-  $1,758,516  $- 
OTC drugs  1,981,871   837,126   1,983,034   1,126,655 
Nutritional supplements  245,249   220,776   208,062   136,513 
TCM  42,331   28,785   72,349   21,969 
Sundry products  729,179   573,993   411,494   374,457 
Medical devices  966,393   832,526   913,557   691,670 
Total online revenue $3,965,023  $2,493,206  $5,347,012  $2,351,264 
Drug wholesale                
Prescription drugs $6,358,031  $3,933,441  $5,850,267  $6,816,035 
OTC drugs  1,310,927   3,341,676   1,563,344   1,048,542 
Nutritional supplements  47,736   167,069   27,104   35,048 
TCM  67,507   77,216   78,333   81,130 
Sundry products  19,789   5,949   18,760   5,338 
Medical devices  18,303   30,743   27,229   15,149 
Total wholesale revenue $7,822,293  $7,556,094  $7,565,037  $8,001,242 
Total revenue $33,363,282  $30,916,549  $30,842,545  $28,353,779 

 

For the nine months ended December 31 2019 2018 
For the six months ended September 30 2020 2019 
Retail drugstores
Prescription drugs $19,214,689  $17,835,700  $13,389,480  $11,718,220 
OTC drugs  24,964,312   24,018,263   14,435,643   14,703,429 
Nutritional supplements  4,510,514   4,750,013   3,012,034   2,908,107 
TCM  4,474,676   4,615,033   2,003,390   3,058,550 
Sundry products  777,432   799,554   760,663   588,948 
Medical devices  2,370,604   2,953,326   3,139,760   1,759,007 
Total retail revenue $56,312,227  $54,971,889  $36,740,970  $34,736,261 
Online pharmacy                
Prescription drugs $-  $-  $3,628,159  $- 
OTC drugs  4,133,128   2,412,057   3,305,845   2,151,257 
Nutritional supplements  488,956   575,862   429,093   243,707 
TCM  77,981   54,417   95,548   35,650 
Sundry products  1,542,372   2,128,282   958,214   813,193 
Medical devices  2,517,455   1,467,304   1,842,987   1,551,062 
Total online revenue $8,759,892  $6,637,922  $10,259,846  $4,794,869 
Drug wholesale                
Prescription drugs $18,054,557  $11,708,683  $11,816,415  $11,696,526 
OTC drugs  3,433,730   7,246,356   2,478,490   2,122,803 
Nutritional supplements  104,475   240,666   86,945   56,739 
TCM  247,465   156,525   107,300   179,958 
Sundry products  30,809   21,479   21,357   11,020 
Medical devices  54,690   114,641   385,534   36,387 
Total wholesale revenue $21,925,726  $19,488,350  $14,896,041  $14,103,433 
Total revenue $86,997,845  $81,098,161  $61,896,857  $53,634,563 

 

Contract Balances

 

Contract liabilities primarily represent the Company’s obligation to transfer additional goods or services to a customer for which the Company has received consideration, for example membership points.points and membership rewards. The consideration received remains a contract liability until goods or services have been provided to the retail customer.

 


The following table provides information about receivables and contract liabilities from contracts with customers:

 December 31,
2019
 March 31,
2019
  September 30,
2020
 March 31,
2020
 
Trade receivable(included in accounts receivable, net) $11,465,402  $8,692,514 
Trade receivable (included in accounts receivable, net) $9,992,142  $9,770,656 
Contract liabilities (included in accrued expenses)  1,634,032   1,689,099   1,546,126   1,106,982 

 

Restricted cash

 

The Company’s restricted cash consists of cash and long-term deposits in a bank as security for its notes payable. The Company has notes payable outstanding with the bank and is required to keep certain amounts on deposit that are subject to withdrawal restrictions. The notes payable are generally short term in nature due to their short maturity period of six to nine months; thus, restricted cash is classified as a current asset.

 


The following represents a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents in the Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets to total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash in the Consolidated Condensed Statements of Cash Flows as of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019:2020:

 

 December 31,
2019
 March 31,
2019
  September 30,
2020
 March 31,
2020
 
Cash and cash equivalents $11,858,985  $9,322,463  $21,646,487  $16,176,318 
Restricted cash  12,035,385   15,422,739   13,722,479   14,806,288 
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $23,894,370  $24,745,202  $35,368,966  $30,982,606 

 

Accounts receivable

 

Accounts receivable representrepresents the following: (1) amounts due from banks relating to retail sales that are paid or settled by the customers’ debit or credit cards, (2) amounts due from government social security bureaus and commercial health insurance programs relating to retail sales of drugs, prescription medicine, and medical services that are paid or settled by the customers’ medical insurance cards, (3) amounts due from non-bank third party payment instruments such as Alipay and certain e-commerce platforms and (4) amounts due from non-retail customers for sales of merchandise.

 

Accounts receivable are recorded at net realizable value consisting of the carrying amount less an allowance for uncollectible accounts, as necessary. In the Company’s retail business, accounts receivable mainly consist of reimbursements due from the government insurance bureaus and commercial health insurance programs and are usually collected within two or three months. The Company directly writes off delinquent account balances, which it determines to be uncollectible after confirming with the appropriate bureau or program each month. Additionally, the Company also makes estimated reserves on related outstanding accounts receivable based on historical trends.

 

In the Company’s online pharmacy business, accounts receivable primarily consist of amounts due from non-bank third party payment instruments such as Alipay and certain e-commerce platforms. To purchase pharmaceutical products from an e-commerce platforms such as Tmall, customers are required to submit payment to certain non-bank third party payment instruments, such as Alipay, which, in turn, reimburse the Company within seven days to a month. Except for customer returns of sold products, the receivables from these payments instruments are rarely uncollectible.

 

In its wholesale business, the Company uses the aging method to estimate the allowance for anticipated uncollectible receivable balances. Under the aging method, bad debt percentages are determined by management, based on historical experience and the current economic climate, are applied to customers’ balances categorized by the number of months the underlying invoices have remained outstanding. At each reporting period, the allowance balance is adjusted to reflect the amount computed as a result of the aging method. When facts subsequently become available to indicate that the allowance provided requires an adjustment, a corresponding adjustment is made to the allowance account as a change in estimate.

 

Advances to suppliers

 

Advances to suppliers consist of prepayments to ourits vendors, such as pharmaceutical manufacturers and other distributors. Since the acquisition of Jiuxin Medicine, wethe Company have transferred almost all logistics services of ourits retail drugstores to Jiuxin Medicine. Jiuzhou Pharmacy only directly purchases certain non-medical products, such as certain nutritional supplements. As a result, almost all advances to suppliers are made by Jiuxin Medicine.

 

Advances to suppliers for ourits drug wholesale business consist of prepayments to ourits vendors, such as pharmaceutical manufacturers and other distributors. WeThe Company typically receive products from vendors within three to nine months after making prepayments. WeThe Company continuously monitor delivery from, and payments to, ourits vendors while maintaining a provision for estimated credit losses based upon historical experience and any specific supplier issues, such as discontinuing of inventory supply, that have been identified. If we have difficulty receiving products from a vendor, we take the following steps: cease purchasing products from such vendor, ask for return of our prepayment promptly, and if necessary, take legal action. If all of these steps are unsuccessful, management then determines whether the prepayments should be reserved or written off.


Inventories

 

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Cost is determined using the first in first out (FIFO) method. The Company carries out physical inventory counts on a monthly basis at each store and warehouse location. Herbs that the Company cultivatesfarms are recorded at their cost, which includes direct costs such as seed selection, fertilizer, labor costs expendedthat are spent in growing herbs on the leased farmland, and indirect costs such as amortization of farmland development cost. All costs are accumulated until the time of harvest and then allocated to harvested herbs costs when the herbs are sold. The Company periodically reviews its inventory and records write-downs to inventories for shrinkage losses and damaged merchandise that are identified. The Company provides a reserve for estimated inventory obsolescence or excess quantities on hand equal to the difference, if any, between the cost of the inventory and its estimated realizable value.

 

Farmland assets

 

Herbs that the Company cultivatesfarms are recorded at their cost, which includes direct costs such as seed selection, fertilizer, and labor costs that are spent in growing herbs on the leased farmland, and indirect costs such as amortization of farmland development costs. Since April 2014, amortization of farmland development costs has been expensed instead of allocated into inventory due to unpredictable future market value of planted gingko trees.

 

All related costs described in the above are accumulated until the time of harvest and then allocated to harvested herbs when they are sold.

 

Property and equipment

 

Property and equipment are stated at cost, net of accumulated depreciation or amortization. Depreciation is calculated on the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, taking into consideration the assets’ estimated residual value. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of lease term or remaining lease period of the underlying assets. Following are the estimated useful lives of the Company’s property and equipment:

 

  Estimated
Useful Life
Leasehold improvements 3-10 years
Motor vehicles 3-5 years
Office equipment & furniture 3-5 years
Buildings 35 years

 

Maintenance, repairs and minor renewals are charged to expenses as incurred. Major additions and betterment to property and equipment are capitalized.

 

Intangible assets

 

Intangible assets are acquired individually or as part of a group of assets, and are initially recorded at their fair value.  The cost of a group of assets acquired in a transaction is allocated to the individual assets based on their relative fair values.

 

The estimated useful lives of the Company’s intangible assets are as follows:

 

  Estimated
Useful Life
Land use rights 50 years
Software 3 years
LicenseInfinite

 

The Company evaluates intangible assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the assets might be impaired.

 


Impairment of long lived assets

 

The Company evaluates long lived tangible and intangible assets for impairment, whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable from its estimated future cash flows. Recoverability is measured by comparing the assets’ net book value to the related projected undiscounted cash flows from these assets, considering a number of factors including past operating results, budgets, economic projections, market trends and product development cycles. If the net book value of the asset exceeds the related undiscounted cash flows, the asset is considered impaired, and a second test is performed to measure the amount of impairment loss. There were no fixed assets and farmland assets impaired for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019.

 

Notes payable

 

During the normal course of business, the Company regularly issues bank acceptance bills as a payment method to settle outstanding accounts payables with various material suppliers. The Company records such bank acceptance bills as notes payable. Such notes payable are generally short term in nature due to their short maturity period of six to nine months.


Long-term loans

Long-term loans from non-banking financial institutions are stated at their cost. The loan term is up to three years. The Company makes installment payments on principal and interest every month. Interest expense is paid and recorded every month. The principal amount due within a year will be classified as current portion of long-term loan.

 

Income taxes

 

The Company followsaccounts for income taxes following the liability method pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 740 “Income Taxes,” which requires the recognition ofTaxes”. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities forare determined based on the expected future tax consequences of events that have been included indifference between the financial statements or tax returns. Under this method, deferred income taxes are recognized for the tax consequences in future years of differences between thereporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities and their financial reporting amounts at each period end based onusing enacted tax laws and statutory tax rates applicable tothat will be in effect in the periodsperiod in which the differences are expected to affect taxable income. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary,reverse. The Company records a valuation allowance to reduceoffset deferred tax assets toif, based on the amount expected toweight of available evidence, it is more-likely-than-not that some portion, or all, of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The effect on deferred taxes of a change in tax rate is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date.

 

The accounting standards clarifyCompany also follows FASB ASC 740, which addresses the accounting and disclosure requirements for uncertaindetermination of whether tax positions and prescribe a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for recognition and measurement of a tax position takenbenefits claimed or expected to be taken inclaimed on a tax return.return should be recorded in the financial statements. The accounting standardsCompany may recognize the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the financial statements from such a position should be measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than fifty percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. ASC 740 also provideprovides guidance on de-recognition,recognition, classification, interest and penalties on income taxes, accounting in interim periods disclosures, and transition. No significantrequires increased disclosures. As of September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2020, the Company did not have a liability for unrecognized tax benefits. It is the Company’s policy to include penalties uncertain tax provisions orand interest relatingexpense related to income taxes were incurred duringas a component of other expense and interest expense, respectively, as necessary. The Company’s historical tax years will remain open for examination by the periods ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.local authorities until the statute of limitations has passed.

 

Under ASC 740-270, entities calculate the income tax provision for an interim period by distinguishing between elements recognized in the income tax provision through (1) applying an estimated annual effective tax rate (ETR) to a measure of year-to-date operating results referred to as “ordinary income (or loss),” and (2) discretely recognizing specific events (referred to as “discrete items”) as they occur. Entities should revise the ETR, as necessary, as of the end of each successive interim period during its fiscal year based on changes to any of these estimates and judgments.

The ETR expected to apply for the full fiscal year is applied to year-to-date ordinary income (or loss) at the end of each interim period to compute the year-to-date income tax (or benefit) applicable to ordinary income or loss. Income tax expense (or benefit) related to each discrete item is individually determined and recognized in the interim period when the discrete item occurs. As a result, the income tax provision (or benefit) for an interim period might include elements that apply to ordinary income or loss, as well as elements related to discrete items. Discrete items include significant items that are unusual or that occur infrequently. Determining which items are unusual or infrequent often requires a significant degree of judgment.

Under ASC 740-270-30-36, entities subject to income taxes in multiple jurisdictions should apply one overall ETR instead of separate ETRs for each jurisdiction when calculating the interim-period income tax or benefit related to consolidated ordinary income (or loss) for the year-to-date interim period, except in certain circumstances. The income tax provision or benefit for each interim period is the difference between the year-to-date amount for the current period and the year-to-date amount for the prior period.


Value added tax

 

Sales revenue represents the invoiced value of goods, net of VAT. All of the Company’s products are sold in the PRC and are subject to a VAT on the gross sales price. The VAT rates range up to 17%13%, depending on the type of products sold. The VAT may be offset by VAT paid by the Company on raw materials and other materials included in the cost of producing or acquiring its finished products. The Company recorded a VAT payable net of payments in the accompanying financial statements.

 

Stock based compensation

 

The Company follows the provisions of FASB ASC 718, “Compensation — Stock Compensation,” which establishes accounting standards for non-employee and employee stock-based awards. Under the provisions of FASB ASC 718, the fair value of stock issued is used to measure the fair value of services received as the Company believes such approach is a more reliable method of measuring the fair value of the services. For non-employee stock-based awards, fair value is measured based on the value of the Company’s common stock on the date that the commitment for performance by the counterparty has been reached or the counterparty’s performance is complete. The fair value of the equity instrument is calculated and then recognized as compensation expense over the requisite performance period. For employee stock-based awards, share-based compensation cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized as expense with graded vesting on a straight–line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award.

 

Advertising and promotion costs

 

Advertising and promotion costs are expensed as incurred and amounted to $60,781$60,308 and $259,064$76,938 for the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Advertising and 2018, respectively,promotion costs are expensed as incurred and $217,768amounted to $137,376 and $657,968$156,987 for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively. Such costs consist primarily of costs of print and promotional materials such as flyers to local communities.


Foreign currency translation

 

The Company uses the United States dollar (“U.S. dollars” or “USD”) for financial reporting purposes. The Company’s subsidiaries and VIEs maintain their books and records in their functional currency the Renminbi (“RMB”), the currency of the PRC.

 

Generally,In general, for consolidation purposes, the Company translates the assets and liabilities of its subsidiaries and VIEs into U.S. dollars using the applicable exchange rates prevailing as ofat the balance sheet date, and the statements of income and cash flows are translated at average exchange rates during the reporting period. As a result, amounts related to assets and liabilities reported on the statement of cash flows will not necessarily agree with changes in the corresponding balances on the balance sheet. Equity accounts are translated at historical rates. Adjustments resulting from the translation of the financial statements of the subsidiaries and VIEs are recorded as accumulated other comprehensive income.

 

The balance sheet amounts, with the exception of equity, at December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and at March 31, 20192020 were translated at 1 RMB to 0.14350.1470 USD and at 1 RMB to 0.14900.1410 USD, respectively. The average translation rates applied to income and cash flow statement amounts for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018 were at 1 RMB to 0.14370.1428 USD and at 1 RMB to 0.14940.1446 USD, respectively.

 


Concentrations and credit risk

 

Certain financial instruments, which subject the Company to concentration of credit risk, consist of cash and restricted cash. The Company has cash balances at financial institutions located in Hong Kong and PRC. Balances at financial institutions in Hong Kong may, from time to time, exceed Hong Kong Deposit Protection Board’s insured limits. Since March 31, 2015, balances at financial institutions and state-owned banks within the PRC are covered by insurance up to RMB 500,000 (USD 72,800) per bank. As of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020, and March 31, 2019,2020, the Company had deposits totaling $23,884,133$35,327,793 and $24,730,736$30,974,714 that were covered by such limited insurance, respectively. Any balance over RMB 500,000 (USD 72,800) per bank in PRC will not be covered. To date, the Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts.

 

For the three months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, two largest vendors accounted for 45.1%44.6% of the Company’s total purchases and one vendor accounted for 24.4%22.5% of the Company’s total advances to suppliers. For the three months ended December 31, 2018, threeSeptember 30, 2019, two largest vendors accounted for 70.3%52.2% of the Company’s total purchases and one vendor accounted for 32.6%28.2% of the Company’s total advances to suppliers.

 

For the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, two vendors accounted for 48.7%39.7% of the Company’s total purchases and two vendors accounted for more than 10% of total advances to suppliers. For the ninesix months ended December 31, 2018,September 30, 2019, two vendors accounted for 46.9%51.0% of the Company’s total purchases and two vendors accounted for more than 10% of total advances to suppliers.

 

For the three months and nine months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, no customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s total sales and more than 10% of total accounts receivable. For the three months and ninesix months ended December 31, 2018,September 30, 2020 and 2019, no customer accounted for more than 10% of the Company’s total sales andor more than 10% of total accounts receivable.

 

Leases

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02,Leases(Topic 842). Lessees are required to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for virtually all of their leases (other than leases that meet the definition of a short-term lease). The liability is equal to the present value of lease payments. The asset is based on the liability, subject to certain adjustments, such as for initial direct costs. For income statement purposes, a dual model was retained, requiring leases to be classified as either operating or finance leases. Operating leases result in straight-line expense (similar to operating leases under the prior accounting standard) while finance leases result in a front-loaded expense pattern (similar to capital leases under the prior accounting standard). Lessor accounting is similar to the prior model, but updated to align with certain changes to the lessee model (e.g., certain definitions, such as initial direct costs, have been updated) and the new revenue standard, ASU 2014-9.


The Company adopted this new accounting standard on April 1, 2019 on a modified retrospective basis and applied the new standard to all leases through a cumulative-effect adjustment to beginning retained earnings. As a result, comparative financial information has not been restated and continues to be reported under the accounting standards in effect for those periods. The Company elected the package of practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance within the new standard, which includes, among other things, the ability to carry forward the existing lease classification. On April 1, 2019, the Company recorded an after-tax transition adjustment to increase retained earnings by approximately $422,354. The new standard had a material impact on the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet, but did not materially impact the Company’s consolidated operating results and had no impact on the Company’s cash flows. The following is a discussion of the Company’s lease policy under the new lease accounting standard:

 


The Company determines if an arrangement contains a lease at the inception of a contract. Right-of-use assets represent the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Company’s obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Right-of-use assets and lease liabilities are recognized at the commencement date based on the present value of the remaining future minimum lease payments. As the interest rate implicit in the Company’s leases is not readily determinable, the Company utilizes its incremental borrowing rate, determined by class of underlying asset, to discount the lease payments. The operating lease right-of-use assets also include lease payments made before commencement and exclude lease incentives.

 

The Company leases premises for retail drugstores, and offices under non-cancellable operating leases. Operating lease payments are expensed over the term of lease using straight line method. A majority of the Company’s retail drugstore leases have a 3 to 10 year term. Usually within one to three months prior to the expiration date of a lease, the Company is required to notify the lessor and has a priority to continue renting the lease property if a lessor intends to lease property. The lease itself does not have restriction or covenants. If both parties agree to continue, a new lease contract with new lease terms has to been signed by both parties. Usually the rent may increase year by year based on the lease contract. Sublease is typically not allowed. Any damage, if made by the lessee, to the property and equipment within the property has to been fixed or reimbursed by the lessee. The Company does not have any leases entered into but which have not yet commenced. The Company has historically been able to renew a majority of its drugstores leases. The weighted average remaining lease term is 4.252.9 years and the weighted average discount rate is 4.19%. Under the terms of the lease agreements, the Company has no legal or contractual asset retirement obligations at the end of the leases. See Note 1214 “Leases” for additional information.

 

Impact of New Lease Standard on Balance Sheet Line Items

As a result of applying the new lease standard using a modified retrospective method, the following adjustments were made to accounts on the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of April 1, 2019:

  Impact of Change in Accounting Policy 
  As Reported     Adjusted 
  March 31,
2019
  Adjustments  April 1,
2019
 
Other current assets  2,063,375   (717,414)  1,345,961 
Total current assets  56,202,981   (717,414)  55,485,567 
Operating lease right-of-use assets  -   15,276,388   15,276,388 
Total assets  72,730,636   14,558,974   87,289,610 
             
Current portion of operating lease liabilities  -   4,718,610   4,718,610 
Total current liabilities  55,212,286   4,718,610   59,930,896 
Long-term operating lease liabilities  -   9,418,011   9,418,011 
Total liabilities  55,759,469   14,136,621   69,896,090 
             
Retained earnings  (30,587,468)  422,354   (30,165,114)
Total shareholders’ equity  18,165,206   422,354   18,587,560 
Total  equity  16,971,167   422,354   17,393,521 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting pronouncements adopted

 

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments,” providing financial statement users with more decision-useful information about the expected credit losses on financial instruments and other commitments to extend credit held by a reporting entity at each reporting date. For public business entities that are U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filers, the amendments in this Update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those fiscal years. The FASB has voted to defer the effective date for public companies that are smaller reporting companies to fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022. All entities may adopt the amendments in this Update earlier as of the fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. We are currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of ASU 2016-13 on the Company’s our consolidated financial statements.

 

In August 2016,2018, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230):Classification of Certain Cash Receipts2018-13 Disclosure Framework — Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement, which eliminates, adds, and Cash Payments,” addressing eight specific cash flow issues with the objective of reducing the existing diversity in practice. Themodifies certain disclosure requirements for fair value measurements under ASC 820. This ASU is to be applied on a prospective basis for certain modified or new disclosure requirements, and all other amendments in this Updatethe standard are to be applied on a retrospective basis. The new standard is effective for public business entities for fiscal yearsinterim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted, including adoption in an interim period. If an entity early adopts the amendments in an interim period, any adjustments should be reflected as of the beginning of the fiscal year that includes that interim period. An entity that elects2019, with early adoption must adopt all of the amendments in the same period. The amendments in this Update should be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. If it is impracticable to apply the amendments retrospectively for some of the issues, the amendments for those issues would be applied prospectively as of the earliest date practicable. The impact of adoption on our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for any period presented is not material.

In July 2017, the FASB issuedpermitted. ASU No. 2017-11, “Earnings Per Share (Topic 260), Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity (Topic 480), Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): I. Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Down Round Features; II. Replacement of the Indefinite Deferral for Mandatorily Redeemable Financial Instruments of Certain Nonpublic Entities and Certain Mandatorily Redeemable Noncontrolling Interests with a Scope Exception”. Part I of this Update addresses the complexity of accounting for certain financial instruments with down round features. Part II of this Update addresses the difficulty of navigating Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity, because of the existence of extensive pending content in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification®. ASU No. 2017-112018-13 has no impact on ourthe Company’s its consolidated financial statements.

 

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-04, “Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment” (“ASU 2017-04”), which removes Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. An entity will apply a one-step quantitative test and record the amount of goodwill impairment as the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value, not to exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to the reporting unit. The new guidance does not amend the optional qualitative assessment of goodwill impairment. Public business entity that is a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filer should adopt the amendments in this ASU for its annual or any interim goodwill impairment test in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. The Company adopted ASU 2017-4 has no2017-04 on January 1, 2020. The adoption of the ASU 2017-04 did not have a material impact on ourthe Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 


Accounting pronouncements not yet effective to adopt

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12, “Income Taxes” (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes (“ASU 2019-12”). ASU 2019-12 will simplify the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740. The amendments also improve consistent application of and simplify GAAP for other areas of Topic 740 by clarifying and amending existing guidance. For public business entities, the amendments in this Update are effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2020. For all other entities, the amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022. The Company does not expect that the requirements of ASU 2019-12 will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

Note 4 – FINANCIAL ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR SALE

As of September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2020, financial assets available for sale amounted to $163,818 (RMB 1,114,500) and $157,159 (RMB 1,114,500), respectively. As of September 30, 2020, the fair value of an investment in a limited partner (LP) in a private equity fund (PE fund), which is intended to invest in retail pharmaceutical business, is $75,625 (RMB514,500). Additionally, the Company has invested in Inner Mongolia Songlu Pharmaceutical Co.(“Songlu Pharmaceutical”). As of September 30, 2020, the fair value of the investment is $88,193 (RMB600,000), which accounts for 0.5% shares of Songlu Pharmaceutical.

NOTE 4

Note 5 – TRADE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

 

Trade accounts receivable consisted of the following:

 

 December 31,
2019
 March 31,
2019
  September 30,
2020
 March 31,
2020
 
Accounts receivable $13,856,012  $11,939,364  $12,215,726  $12,034,726 
Less: allowance for doubtful accounts  (2,390,700)  (3,246,850)  (2,223,584)  (2,264,070)
Trade accounts receivable, net $11,465,402  $8,692,514  $9,992,142  $9,770,656 

 

For the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, $28,589 and 2018, $47,110 and $36,077$101,660 in accounts receivable were directly written off, respectively. For the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, $55,423 and 2018, $184,838 and $64,412$137,728 in accounts receivable were directly written off, respectively. As of December 31, 2019, $1,179,741September 30, 2020, $398,415 were pledged as collateral for borrowings from financial institutions. As of March 31, 2019, no trade accounts receivables2020, $627,055 were pledged as collateral for borrowings from financial institutions.

 

Note 56 – OTHER CURRENT ASSETS

 

Other current assets consisted of the following:

 

 December 31,
2019
 March 31,
2019
  September 30,
2020
 March 31,
2020
 
Rental deposits(1) $1,304,177  $1,979,852  $1,693,517  $1,364,975 
Prepaid and other current assets  201,818   83,523   139,691   163,565 
Total $1,505,995  $2,063,375  $1,833,208  $1,528,540 

 

(1)The balance as of DecemberSeptember 30, 2020 and March 31, 20192020 includes short-term refundable rental security deposits only, while the balance as of March 31, 2019 includes security deposits of $1,444,026 and prepaid rental of $535,826.deposits.

 

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Note 67 – PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT

 

Property and equipment consisted of the following:

 

 December 31,
2019
 March 31,
2019
  September 30,
2020
 March 31,
2020
 
Building $5,984,927  $6,436,297  $6,129,801  $5,880,627 
Leasehold improvements  9,321,200   8,944,025   9,426,295   9,209,136 
Farmland development cost  1,716,340   1,781,627   1,757,887   1,686,430 
Office equipment and furniture  5,664,322   5,470,084   5,762,776   5,632,955 
Motor vehicles  566,993   551,927   363,866   504,327 
Total  23,253,782   23,183,960   23,440,625   22,913,475 
Less: Accumulated depreciation  (12,897,207)  (12,111,409)  (14,358,203)  (13,059,852)
Impairment*  (2,259,147)  (2,345,193)  (2,313,944)  (2,219,883)
Property and equipment, net $8,097,428  $8,727,358  $6,768,478  $7,633,740 

 

*The variance of impairment from March 31, 20192020 to December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 is solely caused by exchange rate variance.

 

Depreciation expenses for property and equipment totaled $413,411$413,008 and $338,946$497,430 for the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively. Depreciation expenses for property and equipment totaled $1,352,400$1,108,159 and $770,919$938,989 for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively. There were no fixed assets impaired in the three and ninesix months ended December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and December 31, 2018.September 30, 2019.

Note 8 – LONG-TERM INVESTMENT

Long-term investment consists of the following:

  September 30,
2020
  March 31,
2020
 
Kahamadi Bio (1) $175* $6,217*
Zhetong Medical (2)  4,115,664   2,538,234 
Long-term investment $4,115,839  $2,544,451 

(1)It represents 49% investment in Kahamadi Bio. The investment is recorded using the equity method. Kahamadi Bio suffered loss of $6,127 in the six months ended September 30, 2020.

(2)It represents 39% investment in Zhejiang Zhetong Medical Co., Ltd. (“Zhetong Medical”). Zhetong Medical was established in March 2020 to target potential acquisitions or cooperate with local pharmacies. By attracting more funds from local investors, the Company expects to continue growing its local network in the future. In the six months ended September 30, 2020, Jiuzhou Pharmacy injected funds of approximately $1,577,430 into Zhetong Medical. The investment is recorded based on equity method.

 

Note 79 – ADVANCES TO SUPPLIERS

 

Advances to suppliers consist of deposits, with or advances to, outside vendors for future inventory purchases. Most of the Company’s suppliers require a certain amount of money to be deposited with them as a guarantee that the Company will receive its purchase on a timely basis. This amount is refundable and bears no interest. As of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019,2020, advance to suppliers consist of the following:

 

  December 31,
2019
  March 31,
2019
 
Advance to suppliers* $2,609,083  $2,477,226 
Less: allowance for unrefundable advances  (1,215,836)  (526,974)
Advance to suppliers, net $1,393,247  $1,950,252 
  September 30,
2020
  March 31,
2020
 
Advance to suppliers $2,838,746  $2,198,863 
Less: allowance for nonrefundable advances  (909,473)  (1,024,063)
Advance to suppliers, net $1,929,273  $1,174,800 

 

For the three and ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, none of the advances to suppliers were written off against previous allowance for non-refundableunrefundable advances, respectively.

 


Note 810 – INVENTORY

 

Inventory consisted of finished goods, valued at $10,962,677$13,227,559 and $13,955,202$12,247,004 as of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019,2020, respectively. The Company constantly monitors its potential obsolete products and is allowed to return products close to their expiration dates to its suppliers. Any loss on damaged items is immaterial and will be recognized immediately. As a result, no reserves were made for inventory as of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019.2020.

 

Note 911 – FARMLAND ASSETS

 

Farmland assets consist of ginkgo trees planted in 2012 and expected to be harvested and sold in several years. As of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019,2020, farmland assets are valued as follows:

 

 December 31, March 31,  September 30, March 31, 
 2019 2019  2020 2020 
Farmland assets $2,208,497  $2,341,537  $2,285,712  $2,177,606 
Less: Impairment*  (1,460,715)  (1,516,278)  (1,496,074)  (1,435,259)
Farmland assets, net $747,782  $825,259  $789,638  $742,347 

 

*As of March 31, 2018, the book value of the Ginkgo trees planted in Qianhong Agriculture’s farmland, including their cultivation cost and land lease amortization expense, was approximately $2,416,839. Based on an independent appraisal report, the value of the Ginkgo trees was approximately $796,286 as of March 31, 2018. As a result, the Company recorded an agricultural inventory impairment of $1,620,553 as of March 31, 2018. The variance ofdifference between the recorded impairment loss and impairment balance in the above is caused byprimarily due to the exchange rate variance.variance over years. There are no leasehold impairment expense in the six months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.

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Note 1012 – LONG TERM REFUNDABLE DEPOSITS, LANDLORDS

 

As of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019,2020, long term deposits amounted to $1,481,929$1,533,640 and $2,157,275,$1,456,384, respectively. Long term deposits are money deposited with, or advanced to, landlords for the purpose of securing retail store leases that the Company does not anticipate being returned within the next twelve months. Most of the Company’s landlords require a minimum payment of nine months’ rent, paid upfront,up front, plus additional deposits.

 

Note 1113 – OTHER NONCURRENT ASSETS

 

Other noncurrent assets consisted of the following:

 

 December 31,
2019
 March 31,
2019
  September 30,
2020
 March 31,
2020
 
Forest land use rights* $1,024,851  $1,103,235  $1,010,782  $994,558 
Others  109,792   92,962   66,318   52,205 
Total $1,134,643  $1,196,197  $1,077,100  $1,046,763 

 

*The prepayment for lease of forest land use rights is a payment made to a local government in connection with entering into an operating land lease agreement. The land is currently used to cultivate Ginkgo trees. The forest rights certificate from the local village extends the life of the lease to January 31, 2060.

 

The amortization of the prepayment for the lease of forest land use right was approximately $12,652$6,790 and $6,812$6,697 for the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively. The amortization of the prepayment for the lease of forest land use right was approximately $37,957$13,418 and $20,487$13,582 for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively.

 

The Company’s amortizations of the prepayment for lease of land use right for the next five years and thereafter are as follows:

 

For the year ending December 31, Amount 
2020 $26,966 
For the year ending September 30, Amount 
2021  26,966  $26,838 
2022  26,966   26,838 
2023  26,966   26,838 
2024  26,966   26,838 
2025  26,838 
Thereafter  755,191  $876,592 

 


Note 1214LeasesLEASES

 

The Company leases most of its retail stores and corporate offices under operating leases, typically with initial terms of 3 to 10 years. Usually within one to three months prior to the expiration date of a lease, the Company is required to notify the lessor and has a priority to continue renting the lease property if a lessor intends to lease property. The lease itself does not have restriction or covenants. If both parties agree to continue, a new lease contract with new lease terms has to been signed by both parties. Usually the rent may increase year by year based on the lease contract. Sublease is typically not allowed. Any damage, if made by the lessee, to the property and equipment within the property has to been fixed or reimbursed by the lessee. The Company does not have any leases entered into but which have not yet commenced. The net lease cost for the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 is $4,029,285.$3,425,594. The Company does not have finance lease according to the definition of ASU 2016-02,Leases(Topic 842). Supplemental cash flow information related to leases for the ninesix months ended DecemberSeptember 30, 20192020 is as follows:

 

Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:      
Operating cash flows paid for operating leases $4,846,933  $3,425,594 
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:        
Operating leases  -   - 

Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases as of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 is as follows:

 

Operating leases:      
Operating lease right-of-use assets $15,318,428  $19,946,821 
        
Current portion of operating lease liabilities $409,756  $1,056,181 
Long-term operating lease liabilities  12,670,694   16,500,499 
Total operating lease liabilities $13,080,450  $17,556,680 
        
Weighted average remaining lease term        
Operating leases  4.00   2.9 
        
Weighted average discount rate        
Operating leases  4.19%  4.19%

  

The following table summarizes the maturity of lease liabilities under operating leases as of December 31, 2019:September 30, 2020:

 

 Operating  Operating 
For the year ending December 31, Leases 
2020 $4,680,826 
For the year ending September 30, Leases 
2021  3,812,529  $1,070,963 
2022  2,782,493   6,245,719 
2023  1,913,469   4,440,048 
2024  1,135,072   3,226,584 
2025  1,964,284 
Thereafter  1,536,028   2,534,667 
Total lease payments(2)  15,860,417   19,482,265 
Less: imputed interest  (2,779,967)  (1,925,585)
Total lease liabilities $13,080,450  $17,556,680 


Note 1315 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS

 

Net intangible assets consisted of the following at:

 

 December 31,
2019
 March 31,
2019
  September 30,
2020
 March 31,
2020
 
License(1) $1,853,749  $1,909,700  $2,337,529  $2,220,512 
Software(2)  1,097,928   676,336   1,162,623   1,083,024 
Land use rights(3)  1,399,484   1,452,718   1,433,361   1,375,095 
Total intangible assets  4,351,161   4,038,754   4,933,513   4,678,631 
Less: accumulated amortization  (635,532)  (441,431)  (850,283)  (667,633)
Less: impairment(4)  (643,184)  (617,038)
Intangible assets, net $3,715,629  $3,597,323  $3,440,046  $3,393,960 

 

Amortization expense of intangibles amounted to $107,666$84,608 and $50,342$44,423 for the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Amortization expense of intangibles amounted to $149,997 and 2018, respectively, and $210,555 and $166,349$102,889 for the ninesix months ended December 31, 2018September 30, 2020 and 2017,2019, respectively.

 

(1)This represents the fair value of the licenses of insurance applicable drugstores acquired from a variety of drugstores such as Sanhao Pharmacy a drugstore chain Jiuzhou Pharmacy acquired in 2014.and several local stores. The licenses allow patients to pay by using insurance cards at stores. The stores are reimbursed from the Human Resource and Social Security Department of Hangzhou City. In 2014, the Company acquired Sanhao Pharmacy, a drugstore chain. In September 2017, the Company acquired several new stores for the purpose of the Municipal Social Medical Reimbursement Qualification Certificates. On January 9, 2020, the Company acquired a local drugstore chain. The owners of these acquired drugstores agreed to ceaseceased their stores’ business and liquidateliquidated all of the stores’ accounts beforeafter Jiuzhou Pharmacy acquired them. As a result, Jiuzhou PharmacyIn March 2020, the drugstore chain has not obtained any assets or liabilities from the stores, but was abledissolved and its certificates were transferred to transfer the certificates to our new stores opened at the same time.
  
(2)They areThese balances primarily include the SAP ERP system, the Internet Clinic Diagnosis Terminal system and the Chronic Disease Management system. In 2017, we havethe Company installed a leading ERP system, SAP from Germany. SAP is a well-known management system used by many fortune 500 companies. It is being amortized over three years since its installation. As of December 31, 2019,In 2020, the SAP system has a total value of $280,439 (RMB1,954,091). TheCompany installed an internet Clinic Diagnosis System costs approximately $385,867 (RMB 2,688,709). The system is used to strengthen ourits ability to perform online diagnosis which may increase more customer spending.spending and a Chronic Disease costs approximately $16,702 (RMB116,379) and isManagement System used to better manage and monitor ourits members’ health. As of September 30, 2020, the SAP system has a net value of $739,257 (RMB 5,029,372), the internet Clinic Diagnosis System has a net value of approximately $395,208 (RMB 2,688,709), and the Chronic Disease Management System has a net value of approximately $17,106 (RMB 116,379).
  
(3)In July 2013, the Company purchased the land use rights of a plot of land in Lin’an, Hangzhou, intended for the establishment of an herb processing plant in the future. However, as ourthe Company’s farming business in Lin’an has not grown, the Company does not expect the completion of the plant in the near future.
(4)In the year ended March 31, 2020, the Company evaluated the licenses of insurance applicable drugstores acquired in the past based on the discounted positive cash value. Due to the stricter government insurance policy in fiscal year 2021, the value of these licenses has declined. As a result, the Company recorded an impairment. There are no impairment expenses in the six months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.

 

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Note 1416 – NOTES PAYABLE

 

The Company has credit facilities with Hangzhou United Bank (“HUB”) that provided working capital in the form of the following bank acceptance notes at December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019:2020:

 

   Origination Maturity December 31, March 31,    Origination Maturity September 30, March 31, 
Beneficiary(1) Endorser date date 2019 2019  Endorser date date 2020 2020 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 11/06/18 05/06/19      500,857  HUB 10/09/19 04/09/20  -   3,478,259 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 12/12/18 06/12/19      2,236,559 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 12/20/18 06/20/19      1,072,606 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 12/29/18 06/29/19      5,504,943 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 02/14/18 08/14/19      2,587,331 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 03/06/18 09/06/19      6,600,727 
Jiuxin Medicine(1) HUB 10/11/18 04/11/19      4,461,531 
Jiuxin Medicine(1) HUB 11/06/18 05/06/19      2,987,119 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 07/05/19 01/05/20  608,499     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 07/17/19 01/17/20  1,435,140     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 08/08/19 02/08/20  1,877,491     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 09/06/19 03/06/20  2,934,013     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 10/09/19 04/09/20  3,539,950     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 11/06/19 05/06/20  167,501     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 12/05/19 06/05/20  3,161,570     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 12/07/19 03/17/20  294,103     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB 12/31/19 06/30/20  2,329,911     
Jiuxin Medicine(1) HUB 12/26/19 06/26/20  1,396,325     
Jiuxin Medicine(1) HUB 12/31/19 06/30/20  4,013,724     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy(1) HUB      -   - 
              
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 11/06/19 05/06/20  -   164,582 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 12/05/19 06/05/20  -   3,106,474 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 12/31/19 06/30/20  -   2,289,308 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 01/06/20 07/06/20  -   129,457 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 02/19/20 08/19/20  -   5,105,096 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 03/10/20 09/10/20  -   5,324,871 
Jiuxin Medicine HUB 12/26/19 06/26/20  -   1,371,992 
Jiuxin Medicine HUB 12/31/19 06/30/20  -   3,943,776 
Jiuxin Medicine HUB 03/31/20 09/30/20  -   1,692,156 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 04/10/20 10/10/20  3,085,420     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 04/29/20 10/29/20  568,293     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 05/09/20 11/09/20  3,952,523   - 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 06/24/20 12/24/20  1,461,063   - 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 06/30/20 12/30/20  926,024   - 
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 11/08/20 02/11/21  4,185,848     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 08/31/20 03/01/21  455,663     
Jiuzhou Pharmacy HUB 09/08/20 03/08/21  3,695,447     
Jiuxin Medicine HUB 06/30/20 12/30/20  4,997,691   - 
Total       $21,758,227  $25,951,673        $23,327,972  $26,605,971 

 

(1)As of December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, the Company had $21,758,227$23,327,972 (RMB 151,610,485)158,706,646) of notes payable from HUB. The Company is required to hold restricted cash in the amount of $12,037,319$13,359,236 (RMB 83,875,575)90,886,577) with HUB as collateral against these bank notes. Included in the restricted cash is a total of $7,709,089$8,326,870 three-year deposit (RMB 53,716,636)56,650,000) deposited into HUB as a collateral for current and future notes payable from HUB.  As of March 31, 2019,2020, the Company had $25,951,673$26,605,971 (RMB 174,203,868)188,677,437) of notes payable from HUB. The Company is required to hold restricted cash in the amount of $15,114,740$14,596,179 (RMB 101,459,590)103,509,456) with HUB as collateral against these bank notes. Included in the restricted cash is a total of $10,446,381$8,763,958 three-year deposit (RMB 70,122,647)62,150,000) deposited into HUB as a collateral for current and future notes payable from HUB.

 

As of December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, the Company had a credit line of approximately $12.77$13.08 million in the aggregate from HUB, and BOH.HUB. By putting up a three-year deposit of $7.71million$8.33 million and the restricted cashadditional short-term deposits of $4.33$5.03 million deposited in the banks, the total credit line was $24.81$26.44 million. As of December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, the Company had approximately $21.76$23.33 million of bank notes payable and approximately $3.05$3.11 million bank credit line was still available for further borrowing. The bank notes are secured by three shopsdrugstores of Jiuzhou Pharmacy and guaranteed by the Company’s major shareholders.

 

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Note 1517Loan PayableLOAN PAYABLE

 

On August 2, 2019 and December 11, 2019, the Company borrowed $717,570$717,810 and $6,458,130$6,460,290 from Haihui Commercial, , respectively. After deducting processing fee and deposits which are refundable at the end of loan period, the Company received $617,084$617,317 and $5,876,885$5,878,864 respectively. The Company is required to pledge accounts receivable of three drugstores to Haihui Commercial. As of December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, the remaining loan balance is $7,076,038.$5,465,102. The Company is scheduled to make monthly repayments, among which $2,302,924$2,375,729 is due within a year. The Company has an option to pay off the debts earlier than the repayment schedule upon approval from Haihui Commercial.

 

Note 1618 – TAXES

 

Income tax

 

Income tax expense includes a provision for federal, state and foreign taxes based on the annual estimated effective tax rate applicable to the Company and its subsidiaries, adjusted for items which are considered discrete to the period.

The Company accountseffective tax rate based on forecasted annual results for the FYE 2021 is 5.46%. The effective tax rates on income before income taxes under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the futuresix months ended September 30, 2020 was (2.1)%. The (2.1)% rate adjustments for the six months ended September 30, 2020 represent expenses that primarily include stock option expenses and legal, accounting and other expenses incurred by the Company that are not deductible for PRC income tax. The effective tax consequences attributable to differences betweenrate is based on forecasted annual results and these amounts may fluctuate significantly through the financial statement carrying amountsrest of existing assetsthe year as a result of the unpredictable impact of COVID-19 on its operating activities.

The effective tax rate on income before income taxes for the six months ended September 30, 2019 was (0.4)%. The (0.4)% rate adjustments for the six months ended September 30, 2019 represent expenses that primarily include stock option expenses and liabilitieslegal, accounting and their respective tax basis, operating losses and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilitiesother expenses incurred by the Company that are calculated using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxablenot deductible for PRC income intax.

A reconciliation of the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in the period that includes the enactment date. Valuation allowances are provided against deferred income tax assets for amounts which are not considered “more likely than not” to be realized.provision at the federal statutory rate and the effective rate is as follows:

  For the six months Ended
September 30
 
  2020  2019 
U.S. Statutory rates  21.0%  21.0%
Foreign income not recognized in the U.S.  (21.0)  (21.0)
China income taxes  25.0   25.0 
Change in valuation allowance  (25.0)  (25.0)
Non-deductible expenses-permanent difference  (2.1)  (0.4)
Effective tax rate  (2.1)%  (0.4)%

 

The Company is subject to income taxes on an entity basis on income arising in or derived fromhas recorded $0 unrecognized benefit as of September 30, 2020. On the tax jurisdiction in which each entity is domiciled.

EntityIncome Tax Jurisdiction
Jo-Jo DrugstoresUnited States
RenovationHong Kong, PRC
All other entitiesMainland, PRC

For the three and nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, the components of income tax expense consist of the following:

  For the three months ended  For the nine months ended 
  December 31,  December 31, 
  2019  2018  2019  2018 
Current:            
Federal  -   -   -   - 
State  -   -   -   - 
Foreign  2,184   47,958   16,274   104,712 
   2,184   47,958   16,274   104,712 
                 
Deferred:                
Federal  -   -   -   - 
State  -   -   -   - 
Foreign  -   -   -   - 
   -   -   -   - 
Provision for income taxes  2,184   47,958   16,274   104,712 

The following table reconciles the U.S. statutory tax rates with the Company’s effective tax rate for the three and nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:

  For the three months ended  For the nine months ended 
  December 31,  December 31, 
  2019  2018  2019  2018 
U.S. Statutory rates  21.0%  21.0%  21.0%  21.0%
Foreign income not recognized in the U.S.  (21.0)  (21.0)  (21.0)  (21.0)
China income taxes  25.0   25.0   25.0   25.0 
Change in valuation allowance (1)  (25.0)  (25.0)  (25.0)  (25.0)
Non-deductible expenses-permanent difference (2)  0.5   (2.2)  (0.5)  (2.4)
Effective tax rate  0.5%  (2.2)%  (0.5)%  (2.4)%

(1)Represents a non-taxable expense reversal due to overall decrease in allowance for accounts receivable and advances to suppliers.

(2)The 0.5% and (2.2)% rate adjustments for the three months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 and the (0.5)% and (2.4)% rate adjustments for the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 represent expenses that primarily include stock option expenses and legal, accounting and other expenses incurred by the Company that are not deductible for PRC income tax.


The components of the Company’s net deferred tax assets are as follows:

  As of
December 31,
2019
  As of
March 31,
2019
 
       
Allowance  943,258   986,665 
Long-lived assets impairment  564,787   586,298 
Depreciation and Amortization  -   - 
Accrued expense  1,628,865   1,569,683 
Net operating loss carry forward  1,589,447   1,164,735 
Foreign Tax Credit Carryover  195,000   195,000 
Total deferred tax assets (liabilities):  4,921,357   4,502,381 
         
Valuation allowance  (4,921,357)  (4,502,381)
Net deferred tax assets (liabilities)  -   - 

The Company regularly assesses the reliability of its deferred tax assets and establishes a valuation allowance if it is more-likely-than-not that some portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. We weigh allinformation currently available, positive and negative evidence, including earnings history and results of recent operations, scheduled reversals of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and tax planning strategies. Assumptions used to forecast future taxable income often require significant judgment. More weight is given to objectively verifiable evidence. In the event we determine that we would not be able to realize all or part of our net deferred tax assets in the future, a valuation allowance will be established against deferred tax assets in the period in which we make such determination. The need to establish a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets may cause greater volatility in our effective tax rate.

As of December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019, the estimated net operating loss carry forwards for U.S. income tax purposes amounted to $816,908, which may be available to reduce future years’ taxable income. These carry forwards will expire if not utilized by 2032. In addition, the Company carriesdoes not anticipate a foreign tax credit of $195,000. As of December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019, the estimated net operating loss carry forwards for Hong Kong income tax purposes amountedsignificant increase or decrease to $2,125,465 and $1,960,933, which may be available to reduce future years’ taxable income. As of December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2019, the estimated net operating loss carry forwards for China income tax purposes amounted to $4,268,778 and $2,678,523, which may be available to reduce future years’ taxable income. These carry forwards will expire if not utilized inits unrecognized benefit within the next five years.

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. federal government enacted the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “2017 Tax Act”). The 2017 Tax Act includes a number of changes in existing tax law impacting businesses, including the transition tax, a one-time deemed repatriation of cumulative undistributed foreign earnings and a permanent reduction in the U.S. federal statutory rate from 35% to 21%, effective on January 1, 2018. ASC 740 requires companies to recognize the effect of tax law changes in the period of enactment, accordingly, the effects must be recognized on companies’ calendar year-end financial statements, even though the effective date for most provisions is January 1, 2018. As a result, we re-measured our net U.S. deferred tax assets at the 21% future tax rate. As of December 31, 2017, for estimating our foreign undistributed earnings according to the 2017 Tax Act, we estimated an aggregate deficit in “accumulated earnings and profits,” which is how foreign undistributed earnings are determined for the one-time transition tax and for U.S. income tax purposes. As a result, the one-time transition tax did not have a significant impact on the Company’s fiscal 2018 tax provision and there was no undistributed accumulated earnings and profits as of December 31, 2019.

The Company recorded net unrecognized tax benefits of $0 as of December 31, 2019. It is our policy to classify accrued interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in the provision for income taxes.

Audit periods remain open for review until the statute of limitations has passed, which in the PRC is usually 5 years as the Company’s most significant tax jurisdiction. The completion of review or the expiration of the statute of limitations for a given audit period could result in an adjustment to the Company’s liability for income taxes. Any such adjustment could be material to the Company’s results of operations for any given quarterly or annual period based, in part, upon the results of operations for the given period.12 months.

 

Note 1719EMPLOYEE SOCIALPOSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS

 

Regulations in the PRC require the Company to contribute to a defined medical, employment injury, unemployment, birth, andcontribution retirement plan for all permanent employees. The contribution for each employee is based on a percentage of the employee’s current compensation as required by the local government. The Company contributed $364,477$255,252 and $338,083$340,297 in employment benefits and pension for the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively. The Company contributed $1,045,798$459,790 and $1,039,163$681,321 in employment benefits and pension for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively.

 

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Note 1820 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS

 

Amounts payable to related parties are summarized as follows:

 

  December 31,
2019
  March 31,
2019
 
Due to a director and CEO(1) :  375,068   795,179 
Total $375,068  $795,179 
  September 30,
2020
  March 31,
2020
 
Due to a director and CEO (1) : $574,103  $490,218 

 

(1)Due to foreign exchange restrictions, the Company’s director and CEO, Mr. Lei Liu personally lent U.S. dollars to the Company to facilitate its payments of expenses in the United States. In the nine months ended December 31, 2019, the Company paid certain borrowings back to CEO.

 

The Company leases from Mr. Lei Liu a retail space; the lease expires in September 2020. Rent expenses totaled $6,572$6,691 and $16,136$6,599 for the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively. Rent expenses totaled $19,956$13,223 and $25,100$13,384 for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively. The amounts owed under the lease for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018 were not paid to Mr. Liu as of December 31, 2019.September 30, 2020.

 

On April 28, 2018, 10% of Jiuxin Medicine was sold to Hangzhou Kangzhou Biotech Co. Ltd. for a total proceeds of approximately $75,643 (RMB507,760)(RMB507, 760). Mr. Lei Liu owns 51% of Hangzhou Kangzhou Biotech Co. Ltd.

 

Note 1921 – WARRANTS

 

In connection with the registered direct offering closed on July 19, 2015, the Company issued to an investor a warrant to purchase up to 600,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.10 per share. The warrant became exercisable on January 19, 2016 and will expire on January 18, 2021. In connection with the offering, the Company also issued a warrant to theits placement agent of this offering, pursuant to which the agent may purchase up to 6% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock sold in the offering, i.e. 72,000 shares. Such warrant has the same terms as the warrant issued to the investor in the offering.

 

On June 1, 2020, one investor exercised 25,000 warrants at the price of $3.10 per share in cash. As of September 30, 2020, 647,000 warrants had not been exercised. The fair value of the warrants issued to purchase 647,000 and 672,000 shares as of September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2020, as described above was estimated by using the binominal pricing model with the following assumptions:

 

  Common Stock
Warrants
  Common Stock
Warrants
 
  December 31,
2019(1)
  March 31,
2019
 
       
Stock price $1.82  $2.62 
Exercise price $3.10  $3.10 
Annual dividend yield  0%  0%
Expected term (years)  1.05   1.80 
Risk-free interest rate  1.59%  2.27%
Expected volatility  66.64%  67.69%

(1)As of December 31, 2019, the warrants had not been exercised.
  Common Stock
Warrants
  Common Stock
Warrants
 
  September 30,
2020
  

March 31,

2020

 
       
Stock price $0.97  $1.77 
Exercise price $3.10  $3.10 
Annual dividend yield  -%  -%
Expected term (years)  0.30   0.81 
Risk-free interest rate  0.10%  0.71%
Expected volatility  158.08%  62.08%

  

Upon evaluation, the warrants meet the definition of a derivative under FASB ASC 815, as the Company cannot avoid a net cash settlement under certain circumstances. Accordingly, the fair value of the warrants was classified as a liability of $496,217$64,090 as of March 31, 2017.2020. For the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019, and December 31, 2018, the Company recognized a lossgain of $65,172$32,674 and a lossgain of $85,115$6,865 for the investor warrant and placement agent warrant, from the change in fair value of the warrant liability. For the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2019, and December 31, 2018, the Company recognized a gain of $345,248$27,784 and a lossgain of $173,955$410,420 for the investor warrant and placement agent warrant, from the change in fair value of the warrant liability. As a result, the warrant liability is carried on the consolidated balance sheets at the fair value of $54,828$36,306 and $465,248$64,090 for the investor warrant and placement agent warrant, collectively, as of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019.2020.

 

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Note 2022FINANCIAL LIABILITYEMPLOYEE DEPOSITS

 

To encourage operating team, which consists of doctors and nurses, to devote their efforts to run clinics, Linjia Medical allows them to put deposits in the clinic where doctors and nurses work, and take shares in any profit of the clinic. The principal amounts of these deposits are refundable in the event the doctors and nurses leave the clinic. In order to properly reflect Linjia Medical’s liabilities, the Company reclassified the deposit of $71,757$14,699 (RMB100,000) and $70,507 (RMB500,000) as financial liability as of DecemberSeptember 30, 2020 and March 31, 2019.2020.

 

Note 2123 – STOCKHOLDER’S EQUITY

 

Common stock

 

On April 15, 2019, wethe Company closed a registered direct offering of 4,000,008 shares of common stock at $2.50 per share with gross proceeds of $10,000,020 from ourits effective shelf registration statement. In

On June 1, 2020, an investor exercised 25,000 warrants at the price of $3.10 per share in cash. The Company issued 25,000 shares of common stock as a concurrent private placement we issued toresult.

On June 3, 2020, the investors unregistered warrants to purchase up to an aggregateCompany closed a registered direct offering of 3,000,0065,000,004 shares of common stock at an exercise price$2.00 per share with gross proceeds of $3.00 per share. The placement agent receives warrants to purchase up to 240,000 shares of the common stock with an exercise price of $3.125 per share.$10,000,008 from its effective shelf registration statement.

 

Stock warrants

 

Concurrent with the registered direct offering of common stock that closed on April 15, 2019, the Company issued to several investors in a private placement warrants to purchase up to 3,000,006 shares of common stock. In connection with the offering, the Company also issued a warrant to its placement agent of this offering, pursuant to which the agent may purchase up to 6% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock sold in the offering, i.e. 240,000 shares at an exercise price of $3.125 per share. The warrant became exercisable on October 11, 2019 and will expire on April 11, 2024.

 

Concurrent with the registered direct offering of common stock that closed on June 3, 2020, the Company issued to several investors in a private placement warrants to purchase up to 3,750,003 shares of common stock. In connection with the offering, the Company also issued warrants to its placement agent of this offering, pursuant to which the agent may purchase up to 6.5% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock sold in the offering, i.e. 300,000 shares at an exercise price of $2.57 per share. The warrant becomes exercisable on December 2, 2020 and will expire on June 2, 2025.

Upon evaluation, both the warrants issued in April 2019 does notand June 2020 meet the definition of an equity transaction under FASB ASCFASBASC 815. Accordingly, the fair value of the warrants is recorded as a part of additional paid-in capital.

  

Stock-based compensation

 

The Company accounts for share-based payment awards granted to employees and directors by recording compensation expense based on estimated fair values. The Company estimates the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as an expense over the requisite service periods in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations. Share-based awards are attributed to expenses using the straight-line method over the vesting period. The Company determines the value of each option award that contains a market condition using a Monte Carlo Simulation valuation model, while all other option awards are valued using the Black-Scholes valuation model as permitted under FASB ASC 718 “Compensation - Stock Compensation.” The assumptions used in calculating the fair value of share-based payment awards represent the Company’s best estimates. The Company’s estimates of the fair values of stock options granted and the resulting amounts of share-based compensation recognized may be impacted by certain variables including stock price volatility, employee stock option exercise behaviors, additional stock option modifications, estimates of forfeitures, and the related income tax impact.

 

On March 30, 2018, the Company granted a total of 3,947,100 shares of restricted common stock to its key employees in its retail drugstores and online pharmacy under the Company’s 2010 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Plan”). The stock awards vested on the grant date. On June 28, 2018, the compensation committee of the Company canceled 225,000 shares granted to the CEO in order to conform aggregate issuances to the 675,000 share limitation set forth in the Plan. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 removed the 162(m) qualified performance based compensation exemption to the $1 million cap on deductions for compensation to covered executives. Section 1.3.2 was in the Plan to permit grants under the Plan to fit within that exemption. As that exemption no longer applies for grants made in 2018 or thereafter, the Plan has been amended to remove the provisions intended to comply with that exemption, including the one in Section 1.3.2 of the Plan. All $5,328,585 of such expense has been recorded as a service compensation expense in the year ended March 31, 2018.

Stock option

 

On November 18, 2014, the Company granted a total of 967,000 shares of stock options under the Plan to a group of a total of 46 grantees including directors, officers and employees. The exercise price of suchthe stock optionsoption is $2.50. The options vestedoption vests on November 18, 2017, provided that the grantees are still employed by the Company on thatsuch a date. The options will be exercisable for five years from the vesting date, or from November 18, 2017 throughuntil November 17, 2022. For the six months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, none was recorded as compensation expense. As of November 18, 2017, the vesting date,September 30, 2020, all compensation costs related to stock option compensation arrangements granted have been recognized. For the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, no compensation costs related to stock option compensation arrangements were recorded as compensation expense.


Statutory reserves

 

Statutory reserves represent restricted retained earnings. Based on their legal formation, the Company is required to set aside 10% of its net income as reported in itstheir statutory accounts on an annual basis to the Statutory Surplus Reserve Fund (the “Reserve Fund”). Once the total amount set aside in the Reserve Fund reaches 50% of the entity’s registered capital, further appropriations become discretionary. The Reserve Fund can be used to increase the entity’s registered capital upon approval by relevant government authorities or eliminate its future losses under PRC GAAP upon a resolution by its board of directors. The Reserve Fund is not distributable to shareholders, as cash dividends or otherwise, except in the event of liquidation.

 

Appropriations to the Reserve Fund are accounted for as a transfer from unrestricted earnings to statutory reserves. During the three and ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, the Company did not make appropriations to statutory reserves.

 

There are no legal requirements in the PRC to fund the Reserve Fund by transfer of cash to any restricted accounts, and the Company does not do so.

 

Note 2224Earnings (LOSS) LOSS PER SHARE

 

The Company reports earnings per share in accordance with the provisions of the FASB’s related accounting standard. This standard requires presentation of basic and diluted earnings per share in conjunction with the disclosure of the methodology used in computing such earnings per share. Basic earnings per share excludes dilution, but includes vested restricted stocks and is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted average common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share takes into account the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised and converted into common stock.

 

The following is a reconciliation of the basic and diluted (loss) earnings (loss) per share computation:

 

 Three months ended
December 31,
 Nine months ended
December 31,
  Three months ended
September 30,
 Six months ended
September 30,
 
 2019 2018 2019 2018  2020 2019 2020 2019 
Net income (loss) attributable to controlling interest $531,782  $(1,678,231) $(2,828,132) $(3,911,501)
Net income attributable to controlling interest $(1,493,719) $(1,224,963) $(1,725,228) $(3,359,914)
Weighted average shares used in basic computation  32,936,786   28,936,778   32,776,786   28,936,778   37,961,790   32,936,786   36,232,144   32,696,348 
Diluted effect of purchase options and warrants  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
Weighted average shares used in diluted computation  32,936,786   28,936,778   32,776,786   28,936,778   37,961,790   32,936,786   36,232,144   32,696,348 
Income per share – Basic:                                
Net income (loss) attributable to controlling interest $0.02  $(0.06) $(0.09) $(0.14)
Net loss attributable to controlling interest $(0.04) $(0.04) $(0.05) $(0.10)
Loss per share – Diluted:                                
Net income (loss) attributable to controlling interest $0.02  $(0.06) $(0.09) $(0.14)
Net loss attributable to controlling interest $(0.04) $(0.04) $(0.05) $(0.10)

 

For the three and ninesix months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, 967,000 shares underlying employee stock options and 600,000575,000 shares underlying outstanding purchase warrantoptions to an investor, and 72,000 shares underlying outstanding purchase warrantoption to an investment placement agent and a total of 3,240,006 warrants issued in S-3 financing in April 2019 were excluded from the calculation of diluted loss per share as the warrantsoptions were anti-dilutive.

 

Note 2325 – SEGMENTS

 

The Company operates within four main reportable segments: retail drugstores, online pharmacy, drug wholesale and herb farming. The retail drugstores segment sells prescription and OTCover-the-counter (“OTC”) medicines, TCM, dietary supplements, medical devices, and sundry items to retail customers. The online pharmacy sells OTC drugs, dietary supplements, medical devices and sundry items to customers through several third-party platforms such as Alibaba’s Tmall, JD.com and Amazon.com, and the Company’s own platform all over China. The drug wholesale segment includes supplying the Company’s own retail drugstores with prescription and OTC medicines, TCM, dietary supplement, medical devices and sundry items (which sales have been eliminated as intercompany transactions), and also selling them to other drug vendors and hospitals. The Company’s herb farming segment cultivates selected herbs for sales to other drug vendors. The Company is also involved in online sales and clinic services that do not meet the quantitative thresholds for reportable segments and are included in the retail drugstores segment. The segments’ accounting policies are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies. The Company evaluates performance based on profit or loss from operations before interest and income taxes not including nonrecurring gains and losses.

 

The Company’s reportable business segments are strategic business units that offer different products and services. Each segment is managed separately because the business segmentsthey require different operations and markets to distinct classes of customers.

 


The following table presents summarized information by segment of the continuing operations for the three months ended December 31, 2019.September 30, 2020.

 

  Retail
drugstores
  Online
Pharmacy
  Drug
wholesale
  Herb
farming
  Total 
Revenue $21,575,965  $3,965,023   7,822,294         -   33,363,282 
Cost of goods  15,388,580   3,639,995   7,051,335   -   26,079,910 
Gross profit $6,187,385  $325,028   770,959   -   7,283,372 
Selling expenses  4,836,140   507,393   332,867   -   5,676,400 
General and administrative expenses  1,403,350   61,193   (410,483)  -   1,054,060*
Income (Loss) from operations $(52,105) $(243,558)  848,575   -   552,912 
Depreciation and amortization $459,184  $-   36,402   -   495,586 
Total capital expenditures $277,480  $-       -   277,480 

* The Company negotiated with certain customers and collected certain aged accounts receivable after making its collection efforts and reversed the allowance made on these accounts.

  Retail drugstores  Online Pharmacy  Drug wholesale  Herb
farming
  Total 
Revenue $17,930,496  $5,347,012   7,565,037   -   30,842,545 
Cost of goods  12,326,579   4,744,725   6,758,489   -   23,829,793 
Gross profit $5,603,917  $602,287   806,548   -   7,012,752 
Selling expenses  5,437,046   621,883   416,583   -   6,475,512 
General and administrative expenses  1,412,325   62,110   587,124   -   2,061,559 
Loss from operations $(1,245,454) $(81,706)  (197,159)  -   (1,524,319)
Depreciation and amortization $491,356  $-   6,259   -   497,615 
Total capital expenditures $149,049  $-       -   149,049 

 

The following table presents summarized information by segment of the continuing operations for the three months ended December 31, 2018.September 30, 2019.

 

  Retail
drugstores
  Online
Pharmacy
  Drug
wholesale
  Herb
farming
  Total 
Revenue $20,867,250  $2,493,205   7,556,094         -   30,916,549 
Cost of goods  14,903,761   2,232,994   6,644,008   -   23,780,763 
Gross profit $5,963,489  $260,211   912,086   -   7,135,786 
Selling expenses  4,819,081   438,235   1,431,261   -   6,688,577 
General and administrative expenses  1,443,634   47,703   1,081,525   -   2,572,862 
Income(Loss) from operations $(299,226) $(225,727)  (1,600,700)  -   (2,125,653)
Depreciation and amortization $449,893  $-   433   -   450,326 
Total capital expenditures $6,415,414  $-   314   -   6,415,728 

  Retail drugstores  Online Pharmacy  Drug wholesale  Herb
farming
  Total 
Revenue $18,001,273  $2,351,264   8,001,242   -   28,353,779 
Cost of goods  12,471,047   2,032,464   7,156,904   -   21,660,415 
Gross profit $5,530,226  $318,800   844,338   -   6,693,364 
Selling expenses  5,395,626   462,154   628,068   -   6,485,848 
General and administrative expenses  1,259,535   60,476   503,924   -   1,823,935 
Loss from operations $(1,124,935) $(203,830)  (287,654)  -   (1,616,419)
Depreciation and amortization $531,569  $-   22,852   -   554,421 
Total capital expenditures $236,961  $-       -   236,961 

 

The following table presents summarized information by segment of the continuing operation by segmentoperations for the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019:September 30, 2020.

 

 Retail
drugstores
 Online
pharmacy
 Drug
wholesale
 Herb
farming
 Total  Retail drugstores Online Pharmacy Drug wholesale Herb
farming
 Total 
Revenue $56,312,226  $8,759,892   21,925,727         -   86,997,845  $36,740,970  $10,259,846   14,896,041   -   61,896,857 
Cost of goods  39,542,348   7,769,309   19,648,014   -   66,959,671   24,728,761   8,973,136   13,201,989   -   46,903,886 
Gross profit $16,769,878  $990,583   2,277,713   -   20,038,174  $12,012,209  $1,286,710   1,694,052   -   14,992,971 
Selling expenses  15,067,432   1,442,927   1,620,440   -   18,130,799   10,414,093   1,326,759   1,007,067   -   12,747,919 
General and administrative expenses  4,396,589   176,792   1,156,226   -   5,729,607*  

2,540,408

   121,121   1,520,196   -   

4,181,725

 
Income (Loss) from operations $(2,694,143) $(629,136)  (498,953)  -   (3,822,232)
Loss from operations $(942,292) $(161,170)  (833,211)  -   (1,936,673)
Depreciation and amortization $1,495,216  $-   67,740   -   1,562,956  $1,241,854  $-   16,301   -   1,258,155 
Total capital expenditures $1,267,614  $-   -   -   1,267,614  $318,856  $-       -   318,856 

 

The following table presents summarized information by segment of the continuing operation by segmentoperations for the ninesix months ended December 31, 2018:September 30, 2019.

 

 Retail
drugstores
 Online
pharmacy
 Drug
wholesale
 Herb
farming
 Total  Retail
drugstores
 Online
pharmacy
 Drug
wholesale
 Herb
farming
 Total 
Revenue $54,971,889  $6,637,922   19,488,350          -   81,098,161  $34,736,261  $4,794,869   14,103,433       53,634,563 
Cost of goods  39,344,927   5,883,301   17,320,243   -   62,548,471   24,153,768   4,129,314   12,596,679       40,879,761 
Gross profit $15,626,962  $754,621   2,168,107   -   18,549,690  $10,582,493  $665,555   1,506,754       12,754,802 
Selling expenses  12,453,077   1,316,945   2,769,056   -   16539,078   10,231,292   935,534   1,287,573       12,454,399 
General and administrative expenses  4,644,077   292,544   1,406,081   -   6,342,874*  2,993,239   115,599   1,566,709       4,675,547 
Income (Loss) from operations $(1,470,364) $(854,868)  (2,007,030)  -   (4,332,262)
Loss from operations $(2,642,038) $(385,578)  (1,347,528)      (4,375,144)
Depreciation and amortization $980,845  $-   7,446   -   988,291  $1,036,032  $-   31,338       1,067,370 
Total capital expenditures $6,789,129  $-   1,437   -   6,790,566  $990,134  $-           990,134 

 


The Company does not have long-lived assets located outside the PRC. In accordance with the enterprise-wide disclosure requirements of FASB’s accounting standard, thestandard.

The Company’s net revenue from external customers through its retail drugstores by main product category for the three and ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018 were as follows:

 

 Three months ended
December 31,
 Nine months ended
December 31,
  Three months ended
September 30,
 Six months ended
September 30,
 
 2019 2018 2019 2018  2020 2019 2020 2019 
Prescription drugs $7,496,469  $6,756,073  $19,214,689  $17,835,700  $5,982,706  $6,022,934  $13,389,480  $11,718,220 
OTC drugs  10,260,883   9,393,148   24,964,312   24,018,263   7,617,159   7,463,201   14,435,643   14,703,429 
Nutritional supplements  1,602,407   1,869,351   4,510,514   4,750,013   1,664,265   1,676,974   3,012,034   2,908,107 
TCM  1,416,126   1,342,768   4,474,676   4,615,033   1,054,378   1,954,500   2,003,390   3,058,550 
Sundry products  188,484   248,729   777,432   799,554   338,112   290,750   760,663   588,948 
Medical devices  611,597   1,257,180   2,370,604   2,953,326   1,273,876   592,914   3,139,760   1,759,007 
Total $21,575,966  $20,867,249  $56,312,227  $54,971,889  $17,930,496  $18,001,273  $36,740,970  $34,736,261 

 

The Company’s net revenue from external customers through online pharmacy by main product category is as follows:

 

 Three months ended
December 31,
 Nine months ended
December 31,
  Three months ended
September 30,
 Six months ended
September 30,
 
 2019 2018 2019 2018  2020 2019 2020 2019 
Prescription drugs $-  $-  $-  $-  $1,758,516  $-  $3,628,159  $- 
OTC drugs  1,981,871   837,126   4,133,128   2,412,057   1,983,034   1,126,655   3,305,845   2,151,257 
Nutritional supplements  245,249   220,776   488,956   575,862   208,062   136,513   429,093   243,707 
TCM  42,331   28,785   77,981   54,417   72,349   21,969   95,548   35,650 
Sundry products  729,179   573,993   1,542,372   2,128,282   411,494   374,457   958,214   813,193 
Medical devices  966,393   832,526   2,517,455   1,467,304   913,557   691,670   1,842,987   1,551,062 
Total $3,965,023  $2,493,206  $8,759,892  $6,637,922  $5,347,012  $2,351,264  $10,259,846  $4,794,869 

 

The Company’s net revenue from external customers through wholesale by main product category is as follows:

 

 Three months ended
December 31,
 Nine months ended
December 31,
  Three months ended
September 30,
 Six months ended
September 30,
 
 2019 2018 2019 2018  2020 2019 2020 2019 
Prescription drugs $6,358,031  $3,933,441  $18,054,557  $11,708,683  $5,850,267  $6,816,035  $11,816,415  $11,696,526 
OTC drugs  1,310,927   3,341,676   3,433,730   7,246,356   1,563,344   1,048,542   2,478,490   2,122,803 
Nutritional supplements  47,736   167,069   104,475   240,666   27,104   35,048   86,945   56,739 
TCM  67,507   77,216   247,465   156,525   78,333   81,130   107,300   179,958 
Sundry products  19,789   5,949   30,809   21,479   18,760   5,338   21,357   11,020 
Medical devices  18,303   30,743   54,690   114,641   27,229   15,149   385,534   36,387 
Total $7,822,293  $7,556,094  $21,925,726  $19,488,350  $7,565,037  $8,001,242  $14,896,041  $14,103,433 

 

Note 26 24 – Subsequent Events

 

In January 2020, in order to continue expanding and strengthening its local drugstore network,Management of the Company acquired a local drugstore chain with ten stores.has evaluated subsequent events through the date of the report, and there was no material subsequent event requiring adjustments to the financial statements or disclosure.  


ITEM 2.MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.

 

The following management’s discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto and the other financial information appearing elsewhere in this item. In addition to historical information, the following discussion contains certain forward-looking statements within the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to our future plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. These statements may be identified by the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “could,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “plan,” “predict,” and similar terms or terminology, or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. Although we believe the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions within the bound of our knowledge of our business, our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in these statements. Factors that could contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of this report and of our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 20192020 and filed with the SEC on July 1, 2019.10, 2020 (the “Annual Report for FY2020”). We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason even if new information becomes available or other events occur in the future.

 

Our financial statements are prepared in U.S. Dollars and in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. See “Exchange Rates” below for information concerning the exchanges rates at which Renminbi (“RMB”) were translated into U.S. Dollars (“USD” or “$”) at various pertinent dates and for pertinent periods.

 

Overview

 

We currently operate in four business segments in China: (1) retail drugstores, (2) online pharmacy, (3) wholesale of products similar to those that we carry in our pharmacies, and (4) farming and selling herbs used for traditional Chinese medicine (“TCM”).

 

Our drugstores offer customers a wide variety of pharmaceutical products, including prescription and over-the-counter (“OTC”) drugs, nutritional supplements, TCM, personal and family care products, medical devices, and convenience products, including consumable, seasonal, and promotional items. Additionally, we have licensed doctors of both western medicine and TCM on site for consultation, examination and treatment of common ailments at scheduled hours. As of December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, we had 114115 pharmacies in Hangzhou city and its adjacent town Lin’an under the store brand of “Jiuzhou Grand Pharmacy”. and 4 independent pharmacies controlled by Jiuzhou Pharmacy. During the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, we dissolved eight independentthree pharmacies. Among the eight dissolved pharmacies, two stores have merged into Jiuzhou Pharmacy and became Jiuzhou Pharmacy stores in Hangzhou. The other six stores’ licenses of government medical insurance, which qualify the stores for reimbursement from government, were transferred to six Jiuzhou Pharmacy stores in Hangzhou City.

In January 2020, in order to continue expanding and strengthening our local drugstore network, we acquired a local drugstore chain with ten stores. We are currently in the process of restructuring these newly acquired stores, which will be operated under the same brand “Jiuzhou Pharmacy” at the end.

 

Since May 2010, we have also been selling certain OTC drugs, medical devices, nutritional supplements and other sundry products online. Our online pharmacy sells through several third-party platforms such as Alibaba’s Tmall, JD.com, Amazon.com and the Company’s own platform all over China. Our sales through our own platform are primarily generated by customers who use their private commercial medical insurances packages.

 

We operate a wholesale business through Jiuxin Medicine distributing third-party pharmaceutical products (similar to those carried by our pharmacies) primarily to trading companies throughout China. We also planted ginkgogingkgo trees but have not incurred sales in the three and nine months ended December 31, 2019.September 30, 2020.

 

Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, we experienced a decline in the number of customer visits. To avoid face-to-face contact, customers tend to shop online. In order to keep pace with customers’ change in their ways of shopping, we strengthened our O2O service team, which takes orderts online, i.e. via mobile phone app, and delivers products to local community from our stores. The spread of the disease has been effectively controlled in China in the past few months. The number of the new infected daily has become limited. People tend to work and live as usual. As a result, we believe the negative impacts on our operations are temporary. However, the extent to which the COVID-19 impacts our operations will depend on its future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including the duration of the outbreak, new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the coronavirus and the actions to contain the coronavirus or minimize its harm, among others.


Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

The preparation of condensedIn preparing our audited consolidated financial statements in conformityaccordance with US GAAP requires usaccounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, we are required to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affectaffect: (i) the reported amounts of our assets and liabilities andliabilities; (ii) the disclosure of our contingent assets and liabilities asat the end of the date of the financial statements,each reporting period; and (iii) the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reportedeach reporting period. IfWe continually evaluate these estimates based on our own historical experience, knowledge and assessment of current business and other conditions, our expectations regarding the future based on available information and reasonable assumptions, which together form our basis for making judgments about matters that are not readily apparent from other sources. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, our actual results could differ significantlymaterially from those estimates.

We believe that any reasonable deviation from those judgments and estimates would not have a material impact on our financial condition or results of operations. To the extent that the estimates used differ from actual results, the impacthowever, adjustments to the condensed consolidatedstatement of operations and corresponding balance sheet accounts would be necessary. These adjustments would be made in future financial statements.

When reading our financial statements, may be material. Except foryou should consider: (i) our critical accounting policies; (ii) the adoptionjudgment and other uncertainties affecting the application of ASU 2016-02,Leases(Topic 842) as disclosed in Note 12, there have been no materialsuch policies; and (iii) the sensitivity of reported results to changes in ourconditions and assumptions. The critical accounting policies and related judgments and estimates from those disclosedused to prepare our financial statements are identified in Note 2 to our audited consolidated financial statements accompanying in the annual report on Form 10-KAnnual Report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019. Please refer to Part II, Item 7 of such a report for a discussion of our critical accounting policies and estimates.FY2020.

 

Recent Accounting PronouncementsRevenue recognition

 

For detailsIn May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, which creates Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The new guidance outlines a single comprehensive model for entities to use in accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers. The core principle of applicable new accounting standards, please, referthe guidance is that an entity should recognize revenue to Recent Accounting Pronouncementsdepict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in Note 3an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods and services. Additionally, the guidance requires improved disclosure to help users of our condensed consolidated financial statements better understand the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue that is recognized. The new guidance supersedes most current revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance. The standard is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within that reporting period, and permits early adoption on a limited basis. The update permits the use of either the retrospective or cumulative effect transition method. On April 1, 2018, we adopted the guidance in this report.ASC 606 and all the related amendments and applied the new revenue standard to all contracts using the modified retrospective method. Based on the new standard our revenue recognition policies related to membership rewards programs has changed. Membership rewards, usually membership points, are accumulated by customers based on their historical spending levels. The Company has determined that there is an additional performance obligation to those customers at the time of the initial transaction. The customers can then redeem these points against the prices of merchandises they purchase in the future. At the end of each period, unredeemed membership rewards are reflected as a contract liability. The adoption of the new revenue standard was not material and is not expected to be material to our net income on an ongoing basis.

 

Impairment of definite-lived intangible assets

31

 

The Company evaluates the recoverability of definite-lived intangible assets whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable. These long-lived assets are grouped and evaluated for impairment at the lowest level at which individual cash flows can be identified. When evaluating these long-lived assets for potential impairment, the Company first compares the carrying amount of the asset group to the asset group’s estimated future cash flows (undiscounted and without interest charges). If the estimated future cash flows are less than that carrying amount of the asset group, an impairment loss calculation is prepared. The impairment loss calculation compares the carrying amount of the asset group to the asset group’s estimated future cash flows (discounted and with interest charges). If required, an impairment loss is recorded for the portion of the asset group’s carrying value that exceeds the asset group’s estimated future cash flows (discounted and with interest charges).

The long-lived asset impairment loss calculation contains uncertainty since management must use judgment to estimate each asset group’s future sales, profitability and cash flows. When preparing these estimates, the Company considers historical results and current operating trends and consolidated sales, profitability and cash flow results and forecasts. These estimates can be affected by a number of factors including, but not limited to, general economic and regulatory conditions, efforts of third party organizations to reduce their prescription drug costs and/or increased member co-payments, the continued efforts of competitors to gain market share and consumer spending patterns.

The long-lived asset impairment loss calculation contains uncertainty since management must use judgment to estimate each asset group’s future sales, profitability and cash flows. When preparing these estimates, the Company considers historical results and current operating trends and consolidated sales, profitability and cash flow results and forecasts. These estimates can be affected by a number of factors including, but not limited to, general economic and regulatory conditions, efforts of third party organizations to reduce their prescription drug costs and/or increased member co-payments, the continued efforts of competitors to gain market share and consumer spending patterns. There were no material impairment losses for definite-lived intangible assets recognized in the three and six months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.


Results of Operations

 

Comparison of the three months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019 and 2018

 

The following table summarizes our results of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and 2018:2019:

 

 Three months ended December 31,  Three months ended September 30, 
 2019  2018  2020 2019 
 Amount  Percentage
of total
revenue
  Amount  Percentage
of total
revenue
  Amount Percentage
of total
revenue
 Amount Percentage
of total
revenue
 
Revenue $33,363,282   100.0% $30,916,549   100.0% $30,842,545   100.0% $28,353,779   100.0%
Gross profit $7,283,372   21.8.% $7,135,786   23.1% $7,012,752   22.7% $6,693,364   23.6%
Selling expenses $5,676,400   17.0% $6,688,577   21.6% $6,475,512   21.0% $6,485,848   22.9%
General and administrative expenses $1,054,060   3.2% $2,572,862   8.3% $2,061,559   6.7% $1,823,935   6.4%
Income(Loss) from operations $552,912   1.7% $(2,125,653)  (6.9)%
Interest income $272,773   0.8% $18,964   0.1%
Interest expenses $-   -% $-   -%
Other income (loss), net $(302,408)  (0.9)% $32,795   0.1%
Loss from operations $(1,524,319)  (4.9)% $(1,616,419)  (5.7)%
Other Income(expense), net $(54,521)  (0.2)% $268,289   0.9%
Change in fair value of derivative liability $(65,172)  (0.2)% $(85,115)  (0.3)% $32,674   0.1% $6,865   0.0%
Income tax expense $2,184   0.0% $47,958   0.2% $(18,975  (0.1)% $5,702   0.0%
Net income(loss) $455,921   1.4% $(2,206,967)  (7.1)%
Net loss $(1,527,191)  (5.0)% $(1,346,967)  (4.8)%

 

Revenue

 

Due to the growth in our retail drugstores and online pharmacy, business, revenue increased by $2,446,733$2,488,766 or 7.9%8.8% for the three months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, as compared to the three months ended December 31, 2018.September 30, 2019.

 

Revenue by Segment

 

The following table breaks down the revenue of our four business segments for the three months ended December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and 2018:2019:

 

 For the three months ended December 31,        For the three months ended September 30,     
 2019  2018        2020 2019     
 Amount  % of total
  revenue
  Amount  % of total
revenue
  Variance by
amount
  % of
change
  Amount % of total
  revenue
 Amount % of total
revenue
 Variance
by amount
 % of
change
 
Revenue from retail drugstores $21,575,965   64.7% $20,867,249   67.5% $708,716   3.4% $17,930,496   58.2% $18,001,273   63.5% $(70,777)  (0.4)%
Revenue from online sales  3,965,023   11.9%  2,493,206   8.1%  1,471,817   59.0%  5,347,012   17.3%  2,351,264   8.3%  2,995,748   127.4%
Revenue from wholesale business  7,822,294   23.4%  7,556,094   24.4%  266,200   3.5%  7,565,037   24.5%  8,001,242   28.2%  (436,205)  (5.5)%
Revenue from farming business  -   -%  -   -%  -   -%  -   -%  -   -%  -   -%
Total revenue $33,363,282   100.0% $30,916,549   100.0% $2,446,733   7.9% $30,842,545   100.0% $28,353,779   100.0% $2,488,766   8.8%

 


Retail drugstores sales, which accounted for approximately 64.7%58.1% of total revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2019, increasedSeptember 30, 2020, decreased by $708,716,$70,777, or 3.4%0.4% compared to the three months ended December 31, 2018,September 30, 2019, to $20,867,249. However, the RMB depreciates dramatically against USD from the three months ended December 31, 2018. Excluding exchange rate variance, the retail drugstores$17,930,496. Same-store sales increaseddecreased by approximately 5.7%. Same-store sales increased by approximately $523,299,$1,020,093, or 2.6%. New5.9%, while new stores contributed approximately $150,338$745,753 in revenue in the three months ended DecemberSeptember 30, 2020.

The slight decrease in our retail drugstore sales is primarily due to our strategical abandoning of the sales of certain low-profit margin products reimbursed by National Healthcare Security Administration (“NHSA” hereafter) due to its overall budget, elimination of a variety of drugs off the list of drugs reimbursed by the local NHSA since September 1, 2020, and the negative effect on the overall economy from COVID-19.

In the first half of Calendar 2020, to boost our sales, we promoted sale of DTP (Direct-to-Patient) drugs. DTP drugs are usually new medicines not sold at hospitals with low profit margin. As part of the PRC’s recent medical reform package, local governments require the revenue percentage from drug sales at public hospitals to decline. In order to achieve lower drug sales percentage out of their total revenue, the public hospitals chose to abandon sales of low-profit-margin DTP products first. As the biggest local drugstore network in Hangzhou City, Jiuzhou Pharmacy had quite a few of our stores located adjacent to local hospitals. Additionally, we have actively contacted local vendors of certain DTP products that we were previously not selling and were able to sell these DTP products in our stores. By setting special counters selling DTP products at our stores, sales in our drugstores have increased especially in the first half of Calendar 2020. However, sales of quite a few DTP drugs are reimbursed by local NHSA and counted into our stores reimbursement budget. If we continue to sell large quantity of products reimbursed by the NHSA, the agency may refuse to pay us eventually. As a result, we chose to actively control sales of certain low-profit margin products covered by NHSA.

In order to further balance its budget, the local NHSA announced to eliminate a variety of medicines, including nutritional supplements, off its list of reimbursed drugs beginning from September 1, 2020. Certain eliminated items are quite popular at the market. As these products are not reimbursed by their insurance program, customers usually choose to order less on these products. As a result, our overall sales were affected. However, as we quickly searched for substitute products favored by our customers, we expect to recover our sales in the future.

Although local economy has quickly recovered from COVID-19, the economy growth has slowed down in general. Local people have become more conservative in consumption. However, as the spread of COVID-19 has been effectively controlled, we expect the local consumption will surge again in the future.

Our online pharmacy sales increased by approximately $2,995,748, or 127.4% for the three months ended September 30, 2020, as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2019. The increase was primarily caused by an increase in sales of prescription drugs via e-commerce platforms such as Tmall. Prescription drugs used to be prohibited from sales online due to safety concern. However, because the nation has lifted the ban order, online prescription drug sales become popular. As a result, the sale of prescription drugs was $1,758,516 in the three months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to none in the three month ended September 30, 2019. Additionally, we maintained a membership care program targeted at chronic disease customers. We have closely interacted with our members via WeChat by providing healthcare knowledge and reminding our customers to refill medicine. By implementing a personalized customer care program, we were able to promote our sales.

Wholesale revenue decreased by $436,205 or 5.5%. The sale of our wholesale business may vary based on customer’s need. Usually we resell certain products, which our retail stores made large order on, to other vendors. As our retail drugstores achieved large quantity sales of certain brand name products, we were able to bargain for lower purchase prices than the market level on these merchandises. As a result, vendors who were unable to obtain a better price than ours, turned to us for these products. In the three months ended September 30, 2020, a key salesperson was sick and slowed certain business with customers. As a result, overall business decreased slight. On the other side, hospitals are still the dominant drug retailers in China. Local hospitals usually have strong ties with their existing suppliers and we have not been able to make significant progress in becoming a major supplier to local hospitals. 

In the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, we have not generated revenue from our farming business. We planted ginkgo and maidenhair trees during the year ended March 31, 2013, more than seven years ago. A ginkgo tree may have a growth period of up to twenty-three months before it is mature enough for harvest. Usually, the longer a ginkgo tree grows the more valuable it becomes. Therefore, we have not yet harvested our ginkgo trees. We plan to continue cultivating the trees in order to maximize their market value in the future. We will continue to grow ginkgo trees in the future.


Gross Profit

Gross profit increased by $319,388 or 4.8% period over period primarily as a result of an increase in gross profit provided by retail pharmacy business, which increased significantly in the three months ended September 30, 2020. At the same time, gross margin decreased slightly from 23.6% to 22.7% due to lower online pharmacy profit margins. The average gross margins for each of our four business segments are as follows:

  For the three months ended
September 30,
 
  2020  2019 
Average gross margin for retail drugstores  31.3%  30.7%
Average gross margin for online sales  11.3%  13.6%
Average gross margin for wholesale business  10.7%  10.6%
Average gross margin for farming business  N/A   N/A 

Retail gross margins increased primarily because of the control on sale of low profit margin products reimbursed by NHSA, introducing certain popular products with high profit margin, and renegotiating prices with our suppliers continuously. As described above, in order to meet the NHSA budget, we chose to actively control sales of certain low-profit margin products covered by NHSA. In order to promote our sales and profits, we specifically selected a series of popular products such as radix bupleuri, which we believe are suitable to local community. As a result, we were able to keep up with our sales profit margin. Additionally, we continuously renegotiate with our vendors and press price down to acceptable levels. For example, we explore more suppliers to search for lower prices. We also try to directly purchase from manufacturers instead of local vendors to cut off middle-man expenses. We expect to keep our profit margin at a reasonable level in the future.

Gross margin of online pharmacy sales decreased primarily due to intense market competition. We conduct our business either through certain e-commerce platforms such as Tmall and JD.com or via our own official online pharmacy website, www.dada360.com. The online prices of healthcare products are transparent as customers can easily compare prices from websites. In order to promote our sales through e-commerce platforms, we have to lower our prices leading to lower profit margin. As a way to retain new customers from insurance companies, we also kept low prices on our official online pharmacy websites. As a result, our profit margin for online sales decreased.

Wholesale gross margin increased primarily due to various products with different profit margin we carried and sold to certain pharmaceutical vendors. Although we have attempted to market our products to major local hospitals and other pharmacies, we have not been able to make significant progress. Until we are able to obtain status as a provincial or national exclusive sale agent for certain popular drugs or have sales access to large local hospitals, we may have to maintain low profit margins in order to drive sales on our wholesale business.

Selling and Marketing Expenses

Selling and marketing expenses decreased by $10,336, or 0.2%, as compared to the same period of last fiscal year, primarily due to the control of in-store advertising expense, offset by the increase in fee charged by various platforms as a result of sale increase in our online pharmacy. In responses to the cut on sales of products reimbursed by NHSA, we scrutinized and strictly controlled unnecessary expense such as in-store ads expense. On the other side, our online pharmacy sales more than doubled in the three months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to the same period last year. We incurred service fee from third-party platforms such as Tmall and JD.com, which usually charge their fee based on a proportion of our sales via their platforms. The service fee increased by $177,526 period over period. Overall, such expenses as a percentage of our revenue were 21.0% and 22.9% respectively, in the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.

General and Administrative Expenses

General and administrative expenses increased by $237,624, or 13.0%, as compared to the same period of last year. Such expenses as a percentage of revenue increased to 6.7% from 6.4% for the same period of last year. In the three months ended September 30, 2020, we reversed bad debt allowance of $304,397 as compared to an increase in bad debt allowance of $9,018 in the same period of last year. Excluding such effect, the general and administrative expenses increased by $551,039 period over period, which reflects the increase in staff and administration expense.


Loss from Operations

As a result of the above, we had loss from operations of $1,524,319 in the quarter ended September 30, 2020, as compared to loss from operations of $1,616,419 a year ago. Our operating margin for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 was (4.9)% and (5.7)%, respectively.

Income Taxes

Our income tax expense decreased by $24,677 period over period due to a decrease in overall profit.

Net Loss

As a result of the foregoing, net loss is $1,527,191 in the three months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to a net loss of $1,346,967 in the three months ended September 30, 2019.

Comparison of the six months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019

The following table summarizes our results of operations for the six months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019:

  Six months ended September 30, 
  2020  2019 
  Amount  Percentage
of total
revenue
  Amount  Percentage
of total
revenue
 
Revenue $61,896,857   100.0% $53,634,563   100.0%
Gross profit $14,992,971   24.2% $12,754,802   23.8%
Selling expenses $12,747,919   20.6% $12,454,399   23.2%
General and administrative expenses $4,181,725   6.8% $4,675,547   8.7%
Loss from operations $(1,936,673)  (3.1)% $(4,375,144)  (8.2)%
Other Income(expense), net $

31,701

  0.1% $253,677   0.5%
Change in fair value of derivative liability $27,784   0.0% $410,420   0.8%
Income tax expense $38,595   0.1% $14,090   0.0%
Net loss $(1,915,783)  (3.1)% $(3,725,137)  (6.9)%

Revenue

Due to the growth in our retail drugstores business, online pharmacy and wholesale business, revenue increased by $8,262,294 or 15.4% for the six months ended September 30, 2020, as compared to the six months ended September 30, 2019.

Revenue by Segment

The following table breaks down the revenue of our four business segments for the six months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019:

  For the six months ended September 30,       
  2020  2019       
  Amount  % of total
  revenue
  Amount  % of total
revenue
  Variance
by amount
  % of
change
 
Revenue from retail drugstores $36,740,970   59.4% $34,736,261   64.8% $2,004,709   5.8%
Revenue from online sales  10,259,846   16.6%  4,794,869   8.9%  5,464,977   114.0%
Revenue from wholesale business  14,896,041   24.0%  14,103,433   26.3%  792,608   5.6%
Revenue from farming business  -   -%  -   -%  -   -%
Total revenue $61,896,857   100.0% $53,634,563   100.0% $8,262,294   15.4%


Retail drugstores sales, which accounted for approximately 59.4% of total revenue for the six months ended September 30, 2020, increased by $2,004,709, or 5.8% compared to the six months ended September 30, 2019, to $34,736,261. Same-store sales increased by approximately $590,758, or 1.8%, while new stores contributed approximately $1,204,827 in revenue in the six months ended September 30, 2020.

 

The increase in our retail drugstore sales is primarily attributabledue to the consumer-facing benefits we provided, such as emphasis on on-site medical care, chronic disease management services, incremental “Direct-to-Patient” (“DTP”)DTP business caused by continuous hospital medical reform, partially offset by the decline in sale reimbursed by NHSA in the second quarter of fiscal 2021, and maturing of stores opened a year ago. Although our primary business focus has been selling pharmaceutical products, simple and convenient on-site medical services have proven to be our competitive advantage to attract customers. Convenient on-site medical support at our pharmacies has been our hallmark from the beginning of our business. Suitable medical support from our doctors has proven to be critical to our superior store sales. Linking doctor care with drug sales has become our business guidance for the future. By adding more doctor-provided services at stores, we have been able to promote our store sales.

Chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes and hyperlipidemia become more and more prevalent nationwide. These types of patients usually visit doctors who prescribe chronic disease drugs every couple weeks. In January 2019,order to attract these patients to continuously purchase products at our stores, we hadcreated chronic disease management program. Once a grand opening of another flagshippatient visits our store, we will record their information, type in south Hangzhou. The store hosts both our drugstoreelectronic system and clinicthen closely monitor these patients. After they become members in our chronic disease management program, we send regular reminders and is expectedhealth tips to expandthem. Usually these patient are old people, which have more spare time than the young people. We provide in-store spaces for them to take free tests such as blood pressure test, talk to our business model.doctors and listen to specialists. As a result, more chronic diseases patients became our loyal members and spent more in purchasing our products.

 

DTP drugs are usually new medicines not sold at hospitals with low profit margins.margin. As part of the PRC’s recent medical reform package, local governments require decreases inthe revenue percentage from drug sales at public hospitals.hospitals to decline. In order to achieve lower drug sales percentage out of their total revenue, the public hospitals chose to abandon sales of low-profit-margin DTP products first. As a result, the DTP drug manufacturers or vendors switched to local drugstores to explore the market. As the biggest drugstore network in Hangzhou City, Jiuzhou Pharmacy had quite a few of our stores located adjacent to local hospitals. Additionally, we have actively approachedcontacted local vendors of certain DTP products whichthat we havewere previously not sold atselling and were able to sell these DTP products in our stores in the past.stores. By setting special counters selling DTP products at our stores, sales in our drugstores have increased.increased in the first quarter of fiscal 2021. However, in the second quarter of fiscal 2021, we controlled the sales of products reimbursed by NHSA as described in the above.

 

Furthermore, infrom fiscal years 2018 and 2019,to 2020, we have accelerated our expansion of new stores, which is expected to generatehave generated more retail drugstore revenues. Among the new stores, thirty-fiveforty seven stores have become qualified for municipal government insurance reimbursement after operation of a year or more. Sales reimbursed from municipal government insurance program usually account for more than 50% of our total sales at maturing stores. As these stores gained such qualifications, their sales increased quickly as compared to the previous year. We closed all of our nine single stores, among which, seven of their licenses of government medical insurance were transferred to existing Jiuzhou Pharmacy stores that do not have the licenses, and two were reopened as a Jiuzhou Pharmacy stores. Additionally, we closed a store under Jiuzhou Pharmacy. As a result, ourOur store count is 115 at September 30, 2020 and 114 at December 31, 2019 and 122 at December 31, 2018.September 30, 2019.

 

Our online pharmacy sales increased by approximately $1,471,817,$5,464,977, or 59.0%114.0% for the threesix months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, as compared to the threesix months ended December 31, 2018.September 30, 2019. The increase was primarily caused by an increase in sales of prescription drugs via e-commerce platforms such as Tmall, offset slightlyTmall. Prescription drugs used to be prohibited from sales online due to safety concern. However, because the nation has lifted the ban order, online prescription drug sales become popular. As a result, the sale of prescription drugs was $3,628,159 in the six months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to none in the six month ended September 30, 2019. Additionally, we maintained a membership care program targeted at chronic disease customers. We have closely interacted with our members via WeChat by the decline in sales viaproviding healthcare knowledge and reminding our official site. Popular products at reasonable prices are keycustomers to success in online business. In orderrefill medicine. By implementing a personalized customer care program, we were able to promote our sales, we focused on selection of medical equipment suitable to local customers. For example, sales of blood glucose meters and contact lens contributed significantly to our revenue in the three months ended December 31, 2019 as compared to the same period a year ago. Additionally, as more and more customers switch to online OTC drug shopping, our OTC drug sales grew too.sales.

 

Wholesale revenue increased by $266,200$792,608 or 3.5%5.6% primarily as a result of our ability to resell certain products, which our retail stores made large order on, to other vendors. As our retail drugstores achieved large quantity sales of certain brand name products, we were able to bargain for lower purchase prices than the market level on these merchandises. As a result, vendors who were unable to obtain a better price than ours, turned to us for these products, causing the increase in the wholesale volume. Although in August and September, the sales slowed down due to the absence of a key salesperson caused by the personal health condition, we believe the sales volume will recover in the future. However, hospitals are still the dominant drug retailers in China. Local hospitals usually have strong ties with their existing suppliers and we have not been able to make significant progress in becoming a major supplier to local hospitals.

 

In the threesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, we have not generated revenue from our farming business. We planted ginkgo and maidenhair trees during the year ended March 31, 2013, more than sixseven years ago. A ginkgo tree may have a growth period of up to twenty years before it is mature enough for harvest. Usually, the longer a ginkgo tree grows the more valuable it becomes. Therefore, we have not yet harvested our ginkgo trees. We plan to continue cultivating the trees in order to maximize their market value in the future. We will continue to grow ginkgo trees in the future.


Gross Profit

 

Gross profit increased by $147,586$2,238,169 or 2.1%17.5% period over period primarily as a result of an increase in gross profit provided by retail pharmacy business, which increased significantly in the threesix months ended December 31, 2019.September 30, 2020. At the same time, gross margin decreasedincreased slightly from 23.1%23.8% to 21.8%24.2% due to lower wholesale business and online saleshigher retail pharmacy profit margins. The average gross margins for each of our four business segments are as follows:

 

 For the three months ended
December 31,
  For the six months ended
September 30,
 
 2019  2018  2020 2019 
Average gross margin for retail drugstores  28.7%  28.6%  32.7%  30.5%
Average gross margin for online sales  8.2%  10.4%  12.5%  13.9%
Average gross margin for wholesale business  9.9%  12.1%  11.4%  10.7%
Average gross margin for farming business  N/A   N/A   N/A   N/A 

 

Retail gross margins increased primarily because we introducedof introducing certain popular products with high profit margin, and renegotiatedrenegotiating prices with our suppliers continuously. In order to promote our sales and profits, we specifically selected a series of popular products such as radix bupleurum,bupleuri, which we believe are suitable to local community. As a result, we were able to keep up with our sales profit margin. Additionally, we continuously renegotiate with our vendors and press price down to acceptable levels. For example, we consistently explore more suppliers to search for lower prices. We also try to directly purchase from manufacturers instead of local vendors to cut off middle-man expenses. We expect to keep our profit margin at a reasonable level in the future.

 

Gross margin of online pharmacy sales decreased primarily due to profit margin decrease in products we sold via third-partyintense market competition. We conduct our business either through certain e-commerce platforms such as Tmall and slight decline in profit margin of salesJD.com or via our own official online pharmacy website, www.dada360.com. The online prices of healthcare products are transparent as customers can easily compare prices from websites. In order to promote our sales at national events such as “Double 11” hosted by Tmall,through e-commerce platforms, we providedhave to lower our merchandise at competitive prices.prices leading to lower profit margin. As a way to retain new customers from insurance companies, we also kept low prices on our official online pharmacy websites. As a result, our online profit margin declined. However, as ourfor online sales increased by 59% period over period, our overall gross profit increased.decreased.

 

Wholesale gross margin decreasedincreased primarily due to various products with different profit margin we carried and sold to certain pharmaceutical vendors. Although we have attempted to market our products to major local hospitals and other pharmacies, we have not been able to make significant progress. Until we are able to obtain status as a provincial or national exclusive sale agent for certain popular drugs or have sales access to large local hospitals, we may have to maintain low profit margins in order to drive sales on our wholesale business.

 


Selling and Marketing Expenses

 

For the three months ended December 31, 2019, sellingSelling and marketing expenses decreasedincreased by $1,012,177,$293,520, or 15.1%2.4%, as compared to the same period of last fiscal year, primarily because we have outsourced logistic servicedue to Astro Boy Cloud Pan (Hangzhou) Storage and Logistic Co. Ltd (“Astro Boy Logistic”) since April 2019. Priorincrease in fee charged by various platforms as a result of sale increase in our online pharmacy. As our online pharmacy sales more than doubled in the six months ended September 30, 2020 as compared to the outsourcing, we ransame period last year. We incurred service fee from third-party platforms such as Tmall and JD.com, which usually charge their fee based on a proportion of our own warehouse and incurred logisticsales via their platforms. The service expense of approximately $0.91 million in the three months ended December 31, 2018. Excluding such an effect, selling and marketing expenses decreasedfee increased by approximately $0.1 million.$399,069 period over period. Overall, such expenses as a percentage of our revenue were 17.0%20.6% and 21.6%,23.2% respectively, in the threesix months ended December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and 2018.2019.

 

General and Administrative Expenses

 

For the three months ended December 31, 2019, generalGeneral and administrative expenses decreased by $1,518,802,$493,822, or 59.0%10.6%, as compared to the same period of last year. Such expenses as a percentage of revenue decreased to 3.2%6.8% from 8.3%8.7% for the same period of last year. AsIn the medical reform has been moving along in China, the central government of China promulgated a series of policies to significantly push down the prices of certain drugs covered by the National Health Insurance. Local government even deferred payments to certain clinics and drugstores on the drugs which the local government believes were sold above the government’s designated price range. The price restriction and potential payment deferral may cut the profit and affect our operating cash flow. To be safe, in the threesix months ended December 31, 2019, we actively negotiated with certain customers and made efforts to collect certain aged accounts receivable. As a result,September 30, 2020, we reversed bad debt allowance of $0.79 million. In comparison, we recorded additional$286,076 as compared to an increase in bad debtsdebt allowance of $0.37 million$767,249 in the three months ended December 31, 2018.same period of last year. Excluding such an effect, from bad debt allowance, G&A expensethe general and administrative expenses increased by approximately $0.36 million$559,503 period over period, which primarily reflects the additional expenses occurredincreases in connection with the increase in the size ofstaff and administration expense as our management team due to expansion of our stores and online business.business grew.

 

Income (Loss) from Operations

As a result of the above, we had income from operations of $552,912 in the quarter ended December 31, 2019, as compared to loss from operations of $2,125,653 for the same period a year ago. Our operating margin for the three months ended December 31, 2019 was 1.7% and operating loss for the three months ended December 31, 2018 was 6.9%, respectively.

Income Taxes

Our income tax expense decreased by $45,774 period over period although the overall profit increased. This is because such profit caused by reversal of bad debts allowance is not taxable. As a result, the overall tax expenses decreased.

Net Income (Loss)

As a result of the foregoing, our net income is $455,921 in the three months ended December 31, 2019 as compared to a net loss of $2,206,967 in the three months ended December 31, 2018.

Comparison of nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018

The following table summarizes our results of operations for the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:

  Nine months ended December 31, 
  2019  2018 
  Amount  Percentage
of total
revenue
  Amount  Percentage
of total
revenue
 
Revenue $86,997,845   100.0%  81,098,161   100.0%
Gross profit $20,038,174   23.0%  18,549,690   22.9%
Selling expenses $18,130,799   20.8%  16,539,078   20.4%
General and administrative expenses $5,729,607   6.6%  6,342,874   7.8%
Loss from operations $(3,822,232)  (4.4)%  (4,332,262)  (5.3)%
Interest income $661,160   0.8%  92,196   0.1%
Other income (loss), net $(437,118)  (0.5)%  12,436   0.0%
Change in fair value of derivative liability $345,248   0.4%  (173,955)  (0.2)%
Income tax expense $16,274   0.0%  104,712   0.1%
Net loss $(3,269,216)  (3.8)%  (4,506,297)  (5.6)%

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Revenue

Primarily due to the increase in our wholesale and online sales business, our revenue increased by $5,899,684 or 7.3% for the nine months ended December 31, 2019, as compared to the nine months ended December 31, 2018. The following table breaks down the revenue for our four business segments for the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.

Nine Months’ Revenue by Segment

The following table breaks down the revenue for our four business segments for the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:

  Nine months ended December 31,       
  2019  2018       
  Amount  % of total
revenue
  Amount  % of total
revenue
  Variance by
amount
  % of
change
 
Revenue from retail drugstores $56,312,226   64.7% $54,971,889   67.8% $1,340,337   2.4%
Revenue from online sales  8,759,892   10.1%  6,637,922   8.2%  2,121,970   32.0%
Revenue from wholesale business  21,925,727   25.2%  19,488,350   24.0%  2,437,377   12.5%
Revenue from farming business  -   -%  -   -%  -   -%
Total revenue $86,997,845   100.0% $81,098,161   100.0% $5,899,684   7.3%

Retail drugstores sales, which accounted for approximately 64.7% of total revenue for the nine months ended December 31, 2019, increased by $1,340,337, or 2.4% as compared to the nine months ended December 31, 2018, to $54,971,889. However, the RMB depreciates dramatically against USD from the nine months ended December 31, 2018. Excluding exchange rate variance, the retail drugstores sales increased by approximately 7.0%. Same-store sales increased by approximately $1,138,846, or 2.2%. New stores contributed approximately $413,598 in revenue in the nine months ended December 31, 2019.

The increase in our retail drugstore sales is primarily attributable to the consumer-facing benefits we provided, such as onsite medical care, chronic disease management, incremental DTP business caused by continuous hospital medical reform, and maturing of stores opened a year ago. Convenient onsite medical support at our pharmacies has been our hallmark from the beginning of our business. Suitable medical support from our doctors has proven to be critical to our superior store sales. It is our long-term goal to add more medical care into our store chain and create a new retail drugstore model. By adding more medical service at stores, we have been able to promote our store sales.

As the PRC medical reform goes on, more and more drug prescriptions have flowed out of hospitals. DTP drugs are usually new medicines with low profit margins. As part of such medical reform package, local governments require the revenue percentage from drug sales at public hospitals to decline year by year. In order to achieve lower drug sales percentage out of their total revenue, the public hospitals chose to abandon sales of low profit margin DTP products first. As a result, the DTP drug manufacturers or vendors switched to local drugstores to explore the market. As the biggest drugstore network in Hangzhou City, quite a few of our stores are located adjacent to local hospitals. Additionally, we have actively approached local vendors of certain DTP products, which we have not sold at our stores in the past. By opening special counters at some stores and selling more DTP products, sales in our drugstores increased.

Furthermore, starting in fiscal year 2018, we have accelerated our new store expansion, which is expected to generate more retail drugstore revenues in the future. In fact, 35 stores have become qualified for municipal government insurance reimbursement after operating for approximately one year. Sales reimbursed from municipal government insurance program usually account for more than 50% of our total store sales. As these stores gained the qualification, their sales increased quickly as compared to the previous year. As explained above, our store count is 114 at December 31, 2019 and 122 at December 31, 2018.

Our online pharmacy sales increased by approximately $2,121,970, or 32.0% for the nine months ended December 31, 2019, as compared to the nine months ended December 31, 2018. The increase was primarily caused by an increase in sales via e-commerce platforms such as Tmall, offset slightly by the decline in sales via our official site. Popular products at reasonable prices are key to success in online business. In order to promote our sales, we focused on the selection of medical equipment suitable to local customers. For example, sales of blood glucose meters and contact lens contributed significantly to our revenue in the nine months ended December 31, 2019 as compared to the same period a year ago. The sales via our official website were primarily made by certain pharmacy benefit management providers. Although the business with these providers declined slightly, we have signed a contract with a giant health insurance carrier to provide suitable health products to its health insurance policy holders in fiscal year 2020. We believe the close cooperation with the insurance carrier may contribute to our sales via our official website.


Wholesale revenue increased by $2,437,377 or 12.5%, primarily as a result of our ability to resell certain products, for which our retail stores made large orders, to other vendors. As our retail drugstores achieved large quantity sales of certain brand name products, we were able to bargain lower purchase prices than the market level on these merchandises. As a result, vendors who were unable to obtain a better price than ours, turned to us for these products, causing the wholesale volume to grow. However, hospitals still act as a major source of drug retailers in China. Local hospitals usually have stronger ties with their existing suppliers and we have not been able to make significant progress in becoming a major supplier to local hospitals.

In the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we have not harvested and generated revenue from our farming business. We planted ginkgo and maidenhair trees during the year ended March 31, 2013. A ginkgo tree may have a growth period of up to twenty years before it is mature enough for harvest. Usually, the longer it grows the more valuable it becomes. We plan to continue cultivating the trees in order to maximize their market value in the future. During the nine months ended December 31, 2019, we have been evaluating feasibility of planting other herbs with short period of growth. We anticipate that we will continue to grow ginkgo trees and start cultivating other herbs in the future.

Gross Profit

Gross profit increased by $1,488,484 or 8.0% period over period primarily as a result of an increase in gross margin of retail drugstores. At the same time, gross margin increased from 22.9% to 23.0% due to higher retail profit margins. The average gross margins for each of our four business segments are as follows:

  Nine months ended
December 31,
 
  2019  2018 
Average gross margin for retail drugstores  29.8%  28.4%
Average gross margin for online sales  11.3%  11.4%
Average gross margin for wholesale business  10.4%  11.1%
Average gross margin for farming business  N/A   N/A 

Retail gross margins increased primarily because we introduced certain popular products with high profit margin, and renegotiated prices with our suppliers continuously. In order to promote our sales and profits, we specifically selected a series of popular products such as radix bupleuri, which we believe are suitable to local community. As a result, we were able to keep up with our sales profit margin. Additionally, we continuously renegotiate with our vendors and press price down to acceptable levels. For example, we consistently explore more suppliers to search for lower prices. We also try to directly purchase from manufacturers instead of local vendors to cut off middle-man expenses. We expect to keep our profit margin at a reasonable level in the future.

Gross margin of online pharmacy sales slightly decreased primarily due to profit margin decrease in products we sold via third-party platforms. We focus on sales promotion at a reasonable profit margin instead of pursuing a high profit margin. The slight increase is primarily a payback as a result of our hard work in areas such as careful selection of suppliers, price negotiation with suppliers and more purchase rebate based on the increased sales volume. On the other side, our gross profit margin of sales via our official website decreased, which is in line with the decrease in the sales via our official website. As a result, the overall effect is slight. Consequently, our overall online sales profit margin decreased in the nine months ended December 31, 2019.

Wholesale gross margin decreased primarily due to various products with different profit margins we carried and sold to certain pharmaceutical vendors. In the nine months ended December 31, 2019, certain prescription drugs we sold are at low profit margin. As a result, the overall profit margin is lower as compared to the same period last year. Although we have attempted to market our products to major local hospitals and other pharmacies, we have not been able to make significant progress. Until we are able to obtain status as a provincial or national exclusive sale agent for certain popular drugs or have sales access to large local hospitals, we may have to maintain low profit margins in order to drive sales on our wholesale business.

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Selling and Marketing Expenses

For the nine months ended December 31, 2019, sales and marketing expenses increased by $1,591,721 or 9.6% period over period, primarily due to increase in labor related to our store expansions and rising local living cost. We opened over 50 stores at the end of calendar year 2017 and early in calendar year 2018. Thirty-five stores have become qualified for municipal government insurance reimbursement after the operation of a year or more. As a result, sales of these stores have increased. In order to keep up with the sales growth, we hired additional staff or increased bonus to staff in current stores. Overall, such expenses as a percentage of our revenue kept at 20.8% and 20.4% in the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

General and Administrative Expenses

For the nine months ended December 31, 2019, general and administrative expenses decreased by $613,267 or 9.7% period over period. Such expenses as a percentage of revenue decreased to 6.6% from 7.8% for the same period a year ago. In the nine months ended December 31, 2019, we reversed bad debt allowance of $0.2 million. In comparison, we recorded additional bad debts allowance of $1.27 million for the nine months ended December 31, 2018. Excluding such an effect from bad debt allowance, G&A expense increased by approximately $0.67 million period over period, which primarily reflects the additional expenses occurred in connection with the increase in the size of our management team due to expansion of our stores and online business.

Loss from Operations

 

As a result of the above, we had loss from operations of $3,822,232 for$1,936,673 in the nine monthsquarter ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, as compared to loss from operations of $4,332,262 for the same period$4,375,144 a year ago. Our operating lossmargin for the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 and 2019 was (3.1) % and 2018(8.2) %, respectively. The decrease in loss from operations was 4.4%mainly because of introducing certain popular products with high profit margin and 5.3%, respectively.renegotiating prices with our suppliers continuously in the six months ended September 30, 2020.

 

Income Taxes

 

Our income tax expense decreasedincreased by $88,438$24,505 period over period due to overallan increase in operation loss in retailoverall profit.

 

Net Loss

 

As a result of the foregoing, our net loss decreased by $1,237,081 period over period foris $1,915,783 in the ninesix months ended December 31,September 30, 2020 as compared to a net loss of $3,725,137 in the six months ended September 30, 2019.

 

Accounts receivable

 

Accounts receivable, which are unsecured, are stated at the amount we expect to collect. We continuously monitor collections and payments from our customers (our distributors) and maintain a provision for estimated credit losses. To prepare for potential loss in such accounts, we made corresponding reserves.

 

Our accounts receivable aging was as follows for the periods described below:

 

From date of invoice to customer Retail
drugstores
  Online
Pharmacy
  Drug
wholesale
  Herb
farming
  Total
amount
  Retail
drugstores
 Online
Pharmacy
 Drug
wholesale
 Herb
farming
 Total
amount
 
1- 3 months $7,700,491  $525,559  $2,041,345  $           -  $10,267,395  $7,522,572  $386,473  $374,722  $    -  $8,283,767 
4- 6 months  461,181   408,410   64,904   -   934,495   232,995   132,078   769,058   -   1,134,131 
7- 12 months  631,781   94,449   7,213   -   733,443   68,937   6,884   446,664   -   522,485 
Over one year  1,742,111   153,771   24,887   -   1,920,769   1,873,563   -   401,780       2,275,343 
Allowance for doubtful accounts  (2,080,599)  (258,670)  (51,431)  -   (2,390,700)  (1,950,006)  (13,222)  (260,356)      (2,223,584)
Total accounts receivable $8,454,965  $923,519  $2,086,918  $-  $11,465,402  $7,748,061  $512,213  $1,731,868  $-  $9,992,142 

 

Accounts receivable from our retail business mainly consist of reimbursements from government health insurance bureaus and commercial health insurance programs. In the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, we wrote off an approximately $184,838$55,423 collectible from provincial and Hangzhou City government insurance, as such amount has been determined by the health insurance bureaus to be unqualified for reimbursement. In addition, as we gained experience in operating online pharmacy with good reputation, we have provided online operating and network technical support to an online business, which used to run an online health products shop in Hong Kong in 2016. As a result, we recognized revenue and incurred accounts receivables. As the online business company was not able to make profit from its online shop, it has not paid off its account on time. As a result, we made additional reserve on these aged accounts.

 


Accounts receivablereceivables from our online pharmacy business mainly consistsconsist of collectiblesreceivables from insurance company and a service company handling with insurance companies. As we continue to expand our business with commercial insurance company, our receivables from them increased. Additionally, certain receivables are from third-party platforms such as Tmall and JD.com where we sell products. Usually the third-party platforms will collect from customer orderscustomers ordering on their platforms and then reimburse us in times rangingat a later date. Such reimbursement periods range from several days to a month after orders are placed.

 

Accounts receivable from our drug wholesale business and herb farming business consist of receivables from our customers such as pharmaceutical distributors. Our drugdistributors and local drugstores primarily in Zhejiang Province. In fiscal 2019, we accelerated collection of certain aged accounts from customers which we no longer or rarely sold products to. By doing so, we are able to take better use of our cash. However, as our wholesale business transitioned awaykept growing in a steady rate, receivable from focusingwholesale customers increased accordingly. We usually put reserve on sales volume beginning innew accounts based on historical collection experience. As a result, the second half of fiscal 2013, and it tightened its customer credit policy and strengthened monitoring of uncollected receivables. Furthermore, the new management team expended significant efforts in clearing outstanding balances with certain customers and suppliers and has made progresses.overall reserve on wholesale accounts receivables increased slightly.

 

Subsequent to December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 and through JanuaryOctober 31, 2020, we collected approximately $4.89$3.2 million in receivables relating to our drugstore business, among which approximately $0.62$0.3 million in receivables were relatedrelating to our online pharmacy business, approximately $1.52$1.1 million were relatedrelating to our wholesale business, and $0 was relatedrelating to our herb farming business.

 

Advances to suppliers

 

Advances to suppliers are mainly prepayments to secure certain products or services at favorable pricing. The aging of our advances to suppliers is as follows for the periods described below:

 

From date of cash prepayment to suppliers Retail
drugstores
  Online
Pharmacy
  Drug
wholesale
  Herb
farming
  Total
amount
  Retail
drugstores
 Online
Pharmacy
 Drug
wholesale
 Herb
farming
 Total
amount
 
1- 3 months $190,791  $-  $293,818  $-  $484,609  $418,409  $     -  $570,833  $     -  $989,242 
4- 6 months  63,179          -   183,744               -   246,923   89,578   -   761,333   -   850,911 
7- 12 months  85,171   -   1,065,700   -   1,150,871   23,614   -   81,690   -   105,304 
Over one year  110,578   -   616,101   -   726,679   190,015   -   703,274   -   893,289 
Allowance for doubtful accounts  (161,329)  -   (1,054,506)  -   (1,215,835)  (129,749)  -   (779,724)  -   (909,473)
Total advances to suppliers $288,390  $-  $1,104,857  $-  $1,393,247  $591,867  $-  $1,337,406  $-  $1,929,273 

 

Since the acquisition of Jiuxin Medicine, we have gradually transferred almost all logistics services of our retail drugstores to Jiuxin Medicine. Jiuzhou Pharmacy only makes purchases of certain non-medical products. As a result, our retail chain had little advances to suppliers as of December 31, 2019.September 30, 2020. In the six months ended September 30, 2020, we had outstanding advances to suppliers with which we have ceased doing business. These advances have been fully reserved.

 

Advances to suppliers for our drug wholesale business consist of prepayments to our vendors such as pharmaceutical manufacturers and other distributors. We typically receive products from vendors within three to nine months after making prepayments. We continuously monitor delivery from and payments to our vendors while maintaining a provision for estimated credit losses based upon past experience and any supplier-specific issues such as the discontinuation of inventory supply that have been identified. If we are having difficulty receiving products from a vendor, we take the following steps: ceasing purchasing products from the vendor, asking for return of our prepayment promptly, and if necessary, taking legal actions. If all of these steps are unsuccessful, management then determines whether or not the prepayments should be reserved or written off. In fiscal year 2019, in order to use our cash more efficiently, we accelerated the collection of deposits from quite a few suppliers, especially aged accounts. We chose to only leave deposits with critical suppliers who supply large quantities of merchandise. As a result, the outstanding advances to suppliers decreased dramatically.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Our cash flows for the periods indicated are as follows:

 

 For the nine months ended
December 31,
  For the six months ended
September 30,
 
 2019  2018  2020 2019 
Net cash used in operating activities $(11,274,690) $(10,322,880)
Net cash used in/provided by operating activities $(348,834) $973,509 
Net cash used in investing activities $(1,714,176) $(6,847,285) $(1,758,045) $(1,445,265)
Net cash provided by financing activities $12,698,032  $7,979,491  $4,552,181  $6,380,681 

 


For the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, cash used in operating activities amounted to $11,274,690,$(348,834), as compared to cash used in operating activities of $10,322,880$973,509 for the same period a year ago. The change is primarily attributable to a decrease in cash provided by other payablesinventories and accrued liabilitiesbiological assets of $1,733,123,$1,423,743, a decrease in cash provided by accounts payablereceivable of $2,451,124,$513,565, a decrease in cash provided by other current assetsbad debt direct write-off and provision of $2,235,442,$1,053,326 offset by an increase of $2,716,617$424,323 in customer deposits, an increase in cash provided by accounts receivable of $1,480,490,payable, and an increase in cash provided by advances to supplierschange in fair value of $688,133.purchase option derivative liability of $382,636.

 

For the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, net cash used in investing activities amounted to $1,714,176,$(1,758,045), as compared to $6,847,285$(1,445,265) provided by investing activities for the same period a year ago. The change is primarily attributable to a decrease in cash provided by investment in a joint venture of $1,422,193, offset by an increase in additions to leasehold improvements and the acquisition of equipment in the nine months ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.increase intangible assets.

 

For the ninesix months ended December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, net cash provided by financing activities amounted to $12,698,032,$4,552,181, as compared to $7,979,491$6,380,681 net cash used in financing activities for the same period a year ago. The increasechange is primarily due to the receiptrepayment of notes payable and proceeds from equity financing and proceeds of loans from Haihui Commercial Factoring (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (“Haihui Commercial”). On April 15, 2019, we closed a registered direct offering of 4,000,008 shares of our common stock at a price of $2.50 per share with gross proceeds of $10,000,020 from our effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3. In the nine months ended December 31, 2019,financing. Additionally, we borrowed a totalone-year loan of approximately $7,175,700(RMB50,000,000)$714,160 from Haihui Commercial, a financial institute.Beijing Bank.

 

As of December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, we had cash of approximately $11,858,985.$21,646,487. Our total current assets as of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020, were $55,292,813$67,813,878 and total current liabilities were $45,735,467,$58,492,587, which resulted in a working capital of $9,557,346.$9,321,291.

 

Contractual Obligations and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

Contractual Obligations

 

The following table summarizes our contractual obligations:

 

Contractual obligations Payments due by period 
  Total  Less than
1 year
  1-3 years  3-5 years  More than
5 years
 
Long-Term Debt Obligations $-   -   -   -   - 
Capital Lease Obligations  -   -   -   -   - 
Operating lease liabilities  13,080,450   409,756   7,474,648   3,455,147   1,740,899 
Purchase Obligations  -   -   -   -   - 
Financial Liability  71,757   -   71,757   -   - 
Other Long-Term Liabilities Reflected on the Registrant’s Balance Sheet under GAAP*  120,000   120,000   -   -   - 
Total $13,272,207   529,756   7,546,405   3,455,147   1,740,899 

Contractual obligations Payments due by period 
  Total  Less than
1 year
  1-3 years  3-5 years  More than
5 years
 
Short-term loan payable $2,204,820   2,204,820   -   -   - 
Notes payable  23,327,972   23,327,972   -   -   - 
Long-term loan payable  3,089,373   -   3,089,373   -   - 
Long-Term Debt Obligations  -   -   -   -   - 
Capital Lease Obligations  -   -   -   -   - 
Operating Lease Obligations  17,556,680   1,056,181   9,576,753   4,652,138   2,271,608 
Purchase Obligations  -   -   -   -   - 
Other Long-Term Liabilities Reflected on the Registrant’s Balance Sheet under GAAP*  36,306   -   36,306   -   - 
Total $46,215,151   26,588,973   12,702,432   4,652,138   2,271,608 

 

*This refers to warrants to purchase shares of common stock issued to an institutional investor and a placement agent (See Note 19).

 

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Off-balance Sheet Arrangements

 

We do not have any outstanding financial guarantees or commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. We have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our shares and classified as stockholder’s equity or that are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. We do not have any variable interest in any unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.

 

Exchange Rates

 

Our subsidiaries and affiliated companies in the PRC maintain their books and records in RMB, the lawful currency of the PRC. In general, for consolidation purposes, we translate their assets and liabilities into USD using the applicable exchange rates prevailing at the balance sheet date, and the statement of income is translated at average exchange rates during the reporting period. Adjustments resulting from the translation of their financial statements are recorded as accumulated other comprehensive income.

 

The exchange rates used to translate amounts in RMB into USD for the purposes of preparing the audited consolidated financial statements or otherwise disclosed in this report were as follows:

 

  December 31,September 30,
20192020
 

March 31,
2019

2020

Balance sheet items, except for the registered and paid-up capital, as of end of period USD1: RMB0.1435RMB 0.1470 USD1: RMB0.1490RMB 0.1410
     
Amounts included in the statement of Operations and statement of cash flows for the period ended USD1: RMB0.1437RMB 0.1428 USD1: RMB0.1491RMB 0.1446

 

Inflation

 

We believe that inflation has not had a material effect on our operations to date.

 

ITEM 3.QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.

 

Not applicable.

 


ITEM 4.CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

As of December 31, 2019,September 30, 2020, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Based upon such evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were ineffective. Such conclusion is based on the presence of the following material weakness in internal control over financial reporting as described in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2019:2020:

 

Accounting and Finance Personnel Weaknesses - As noted in Item 9A of our annual reports on Form 10-K for the preceding fiscal years, management concluded that in light of the inexperience of our accounting staff with respect to the requirements of USU.S. GAAP-based reporting and SEC rules and regulations, we did not maintain effective controls and did not implement adequate and proper supervisory review to ensure that significant internal control deficiencies can be detected or prevented.

 

Management’s assessment of the control deficiency over accounting and finance personnel as of December 31, 2019September 30, 2020 considered the same factors, including:

 

 the number of adjustments proposed by our independent auditors during our quarterly review and annual audit processes;
   
 how adequately we complied with USU.S. GAAP on transactions; and
   
 how accurately we prepared supporting information to provide to our independent auditors on a quarterly and annual basis.

 

Based on the above factors, management concluded that the lack of timely reconciliation of booking and recording from China GAAP to US GAAP and lack of accounting staff with sufficient USU.S. GAAP experiences are material weaknesses.

 

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting, other than the following:

 

Remediation of Material Weakness for the quarter ended December 31, 2019September 30, 2020

 

Subsequent to the identification of the material weakness, we have enhanced existing controls and design and implemented new controls. We have devoted significant time and attention to remediate the above material weakness. For example, we redesigned our system to retrieve data faster, so we are able to identify and reconcile the GAAP difference more efficiently. We implemented a series of submodules in SAP system to facilitate our business control. In addition, we trained our accounting staff with USU.S. GAAP knowledge, so they can meet the requirement from our auditors more efficiently. These improvements to our internal control infrastructure were implemented, and were in place in connection with the preparation of our financial statements for the threesix months ended December 31, 2019.September 30, 2020. As such, we believe that the remediation initiative outlined above will be sufficient to remediate as the changes become operational for future years the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting as discussed.

 

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PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

 

ITEM 1ARISK FACTORS.

We face risks related to health epidemics that could impact our sales and operating results.

Our business could be adversely affected by the effects of a widespread outbreak of contagious disease, including the recent outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Any outbreak of contagious diseases, and other adverse public health developments, particularly in China, could have a material and adverse effect on our business operations. These could include disruptions or restrictions on our ability to travel or to distribute our products, as well as temporary closures of our facilities or the facilities of our suppliers or customers. Any disruption or delay of our suppliers, manufacturers or customers would likely impact our sales and operating results. In addition, a significant outbreak of contagious diseases in the human population could result in a widespread health crisis that could adversely affect the economies and financial markets of China and many other countries, resulting in an economic downturn that could affect demand for our products and significantly impact our operating results.

ITEM 6.EXHIBITS.

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number
 Description
31.1 Section 302 Certification by the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer
31.2 Section 302 Certification by the Corporation’s Chief Financial Officer
32.1 Section 906 Certification by the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
101.INS XBRL Instance Document  
101.SCH XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document  
101.CAL XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document  
101.DEF XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document  
101.LAB XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document  
101.PRE XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document  

 


SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

 

 CHINA JO-JO DRUGSTORES, INC.
                      (Registrant)
   
Date: February 14,November 12, 2020By:/s/ Lei Liu
  

Lei Liu

Chief Executive Officer

   
Date: February 14,November 12, 2020By:/s/ Ming Zhao
  Ming Zhao
  Chief Financial Officer

 

 

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