During the three months ended March 31, 2012, the company issued 155,000 shares with a fair value of $5,735 to settle accounts payable with a carrying value of $8,100. Because the fair value of the common shares was less than the carrying value of the related payables, the Company recognized a gain on settlement of payables of $2,365. In addition, the company issued 290,099 common shares to settle advances from a key officer. The fair value of the common stock issued was $8,703 and no gain or loss was recognized.
Finally, a total of 4,930,671 shares with a fair value of $164,126 were issued for services during the three months ended March 31, 2012. The company also received $25,000 in cash proceeds from two individual investors in a private placement for 1,000,000 shares of common stock.
NOTE 4 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
The following table summarizes the common shares issued subsequent to March 31, 2012 and their related amounts for cash proceeds from private placement offerings, stock-based compensation and expense reimbursements as well as settlement of loans payable:
| | | | | |
Cash Proceeds from Offerings | Stock-Based Compensation and Expense Reimbursements | Settlement of Loans Payable |
Common Shares | Amount | Common Shares | Amount | Common Shares | Amount |
- | $ - | 2,064,442 | $ 92,900 | - | $ - |
Subsequent to March 31, 2012, the Company received $8,000 from a key officer.
NOTE 5 – CONTINGENCIES
On March 5 2012, the Company received a complaint from a certain attorney seeking collection of his invoices in the amount of $167,167, plus interest and litigation expenses. The Company believes the likelihood of loss in this case is remote and has requested dismissal of the charges. The Company has already recognized $15,763 as a liability at March 31, 2012.
On or about May 8, 2012, the Company received a complaint from a certain former employee seeking collection of his charges as a distributor and as an employee in the amount of $409,525, plus interest and litigation expenses. The Company believes the likelihood of loss in this case is remote and intends to offset for certain expenditures made by the Company caused by employee. The Company has already recognized $37,500 as a liability at March 31, 2012.
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ITEM 2
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-looking Statements
This report may contain "forward-looking" statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (a) projections of revenues, capital expenditures, growth, prospects, dividends, capital structure and other financial matters; (b) statements of plans and objectives of our management or Board of Directors; (c) statements of our future economic performance; (d) statements of assumptions underlying other statements and statements about us and our business relating to the future; and (e) any statements using the words "anticipate," "expect," "may," "project," "intend" or similar expressions.
Overview
We are a materials-technology development company focused on health and wellness-related markets. The Company has evolved from a specialty filter products Company that developed a state-of-the-art air filtration technology for removing infectious bacteria and viruses in air flow systems into a Company providing a proprietary line of antibacterial and antimicrobial products for the hospital, clinic and health industry. Such products now include our Nano Zyme line of products which offer a multi-enzyme hospital pre-soak and cleaning solution, as well as other complementary products in the line. Another line of products surrounds our new Nano Silver Hospital Curtains which offer excellent anti microbial efficacies against a wide spectrum of organisms. These products have been developed by partnering with innovative technology companies. The new product lines are in addition to our traditional anti-viral, antibacterial and disposable mask, a protective filtration face mask which we continue to improve upon. Largely, the evolution to this broader spectrum of products only began in 2010.
Since its inception, the Company has been involved in the development of its technology. Through March 31, 2012, revenues have not been adequate to cover operating expenses and thus, the Company has reported a loss in each of its years of existence. As of the current report date, the Company has funded itself through a series of private equity placements and unsecured loans which has offset its accumulated equity deficit in this manner.
Results of Operations for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2012 compared with 2011
Revenues: During the three months ended March 31, 2012, revenues amounted to $218,350 of which virtually all sales represented our Nano Silver Products. Reportable revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2011 were $150, due to three reasons: 1) the Company’s election late in 2006 to suspend sales of the NanoMask™ and related filters until FDA clearance could be obtained which was anticipated as late as July, 2008; 2) the Company’s efforts thereafter until March 1, 2010 to develop a new anti-viral, antibacterial and disposable mask; and 3) the Company’s marketing efforts after March 1, 2010 to sell its new Nano Zyme and Nano Silver Hospital Products.
Cost of Sales: Cost of sales during the three months ended March 31, 2012 amounted to $138,913, thereby providing a gross margin of 36.4%. For the corresponding period in 2011, cost of sales amounted to $90. This amounted to 40.0% gross profit margin.
Operating Expenses: During the three months ended March 31, 2012, the Company has experienced an approximate $67,000 increase in general and administrative expenses or an approximate 48% increase from levels reported in the similar period of 2011, due to increased salaries ($23,000), travel ($14,000), audit fees ($14,000), legal fees ($6,000) and other ($10,000).
Other Income:For the three months ended March 31, 2012, we reported other expense of $8,258, consisting primarily of a gain on settlement of outstanding liabilities offset by interest expense. For the three months ended March 31, 2011, we reported other income of $217,584 comprising interest expense offset by a gain on settlement of liabilities.
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Research and development: Research and development (R&D costs) relates to product development efforts and includes related FDA testing. Only $115 of R&D costs was incurred in the three months ended March 31, 2012 compared to $0 of R&D expense in the three months ended March 31, 2011. If resources are available in the future, the Company intends to bring additional products to market, assuming those products are still viable at the time the resources are available. The significant components of the Company’s research and development costs ordinarily include prototype development and materials, governmental filings and laboratory testing.
Net Loss:We experienced a net loss of $135,549 for the three months ended March 31, 2012 compared to net income of $77,941 in the prior year. The increase in net loss during 2012 was primarily due to the recognition in 2011 of a $226,271gain on the settlement of outstanding liabilities.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We have not been able to generate sufficient net cash inflows from operations to sustain our business efforts as well as to accommodate our growth plans. Cash used in our operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011was funded primarily by the sale of common stock for cash and from the issuance of short term notes payable. During 2012, the Company received cash advances from an executive officer for $4,700. In the meantime, two other officers advanced and paid $4,719 for company expenses. Also, during the three months ended March 31, 2012, the Company received $25,000 in cash through its private placement with two investors for 1,000,000 shares of common stock. For the three months ended March 31, 2011, the Company issued a short term note payable of $25,000 and received advances from an executive officer for $31,500.
Cash Flows from Operating Activities: The cash outflow totaled $100,229 in the three months of 2012 compared to a cash outflow of $58,503 in 2011, primarily due to significantly reduced settlements of accounts payable that had generated gains of $226,271 in 2011 compared to only $2,635 in 2012.
Cash Flows from Investing Activities: No cash was used in investing activities during the three months of 2012 or 2011.
Cash Flows from Financing Activities: Cash flows from financing activities in the three months of 2012 totaled $38,725. The Company was able to obtain $25,000 in proceeds from the issuance of common stock for cash and $4,306 from a short term note, net of re-payments. In the three months of 2011, a short term note payable of $25,000 was issued. At the same time, the company obtained advances from an executive officer amounting to $4,700 in 2012. At the same time, two other officers advanced and paid $4,719 for company expenses. This compared with the advances received during 2011 amounting to $31,500.
Management and board members are continuing to discuss other alternative financing options, but no definitive proposals or agreements have been reached.
Beginning in the third quarter of 2008, the United States has been experiencing a severe and widespread recession accompanied by, among other things, instability in the financial markets and reduced credit availability, all of which are likely to continue to have far reaching effects on economic activity in the country for an indeterminate period. The effects and probable duration of these conditions and related risks and uncertainties on the Company's ability to obtain financing, success in its marketing efforts and ultimately, profitable operations and positive cash flows, cannot be estimated at this time.
The Company does not believe, however, that it currently has sufficient capital to sustain its business efforts for the next twelve months. Accordingly, the Company will need to raise additional capital in the near future to sustain operations. The Company is also working on minimizing operating expenses, to the extent possible, by reducing overhead costs, salaries, and other consulting and professional fees, in order to conserve available cash.
Accordingly, for these and other reasons, there is significant uncertainty regarding the Company’s future, and the Company’s auditors expressed substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern in their report on the Company’s 2011 audited financial statements.
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Impact of Inflation
At this time, the Company does not expect that inflation will have a material impact on its current or future operations.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Except with regard to the estimated useful lives of patents and acquired technology, the net realizable value of the Company’s inventory due to shelf-life issues and design, the allowance for bad debts on accounts receivable, and the effective provision of a 100% deferred income tax asset valuation allowance, the Company does not employ any critical accounting policies or estimates that are either selected from among available alternatives or require the exercise of significant management judgment to apply or that if changed are likely to materially affect future periods.
Management reviews the carrying value of the technology assets annually based on its current marketing activities, plans and expectations, and the perceived effects of competitive factors and possible obsolescence, whether any write-downs should be taken or whether the estimated useful lives should be shortened.
Management also reviews the carrying value of its inventory periodically for evidence of declines in estimated fair value and considers, based on its current marketing activities, plans and expectations, and the perceived effects of competitive factors and possible obsolescence due to shelf-life issues on the environmental filters, whether any write-downs should be taken.
Management also reviews the collectability of outstanding receivables based upon historical collection history from each customer, the age of the receivables, and the customers wherewithal to pay the outstanding balance, and records an estimated allowance for bad debts sufficient to cover any potential losses to be incurred for non-collections.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
While there have been FASB pronouncements made effective subsequent to the issuance of these financial statements, none would have required restatement of the financial statements herein nor have they had any significant effect on future financial statements of the Company.
ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Smaller reporting companies are not required to provide the information required by this item
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
We maintain a system of disclosure controls and procedures that are designed for the purpose of ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our SEC reports is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer and the Principal Accounting Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
For the period ended March 31, 2012, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) or Rule 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. In the course of this evaluation, our management considered the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2011. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report on Form 10-Q, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is (i) recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC rules and forms and (ii) accumulated and communicated to the registrant’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding disclosure. To overcome this
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weakness, our principal executive and financial officers have reviewed and provided additional substantive accounting information and data in connection with the preparation of this quarterly report. Therefore, despite the weaknesses identified, our principal executive and financial officers believe that there are no material inaccuracies or omissions of material facts necessary to make the statements included in this report not misleading in light of the circumstances under which they are made.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We will continue to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our internal controls and procedures and our internal controls over financing reporting on an ongoing basis and are committed to taking further action and implementing additional enhancements or improvements, as necessary and as funds allow.
There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended March 31, 2012 that have materially affected, or were reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II
OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1 - LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
On December 29, 2010, the Company received a complaint from Applied Nanoscience, Inc., a Nevada corporation, filed in the District Court of Clark County in Nevada (Case No. A-10-631192-C) and which seeks collection of notes payable to Applied in the amount of $453,500, including accrued interest and related legal expenses. On February 1, 2011, we countersued for breach of contract and claims related thereto. Our management believes that the value of its counterclaim will exceed the value of the claims asserted against the Company but cannot fully assess the outcome of the action at this time. Accordingly, management believes adequate provision has been made in the accompanying financial statements related to this complaint.
On March 5, 2012, the Company received a complaint from a certain attorney seeking collection of his invoices, plus interest and litigation expenses of $167,167.25. The Company does not believe the claim has any merit and has requested dismissal of the charges. The claim, Case No. 110907934 DC, was filed in the Second District Court of Weber County in the State of Utah.
On or about May 8, 2012, the Company received a complaint from a certain former employee seeking collection of his charges as a distributor and as an employee in the amount of $409,525, plus interest and litigation expenses. Case No. CU12-01141 for the complainant was filed in the Second District Court of Washoe County in the State of Nevada. The Company does not believe that the claim has any merit and intends to offset for certain Company expenditures caused by the employee.
ITEM 2 - UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
In the three months ended March 31, 2012, the Company authorized issuance of 1,000,000 common shares for $25,000 in cash.
These shares were issued in reliance on the exemption from registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Act set forth in Section 3(b) and/or Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and the regulations promulgated hereunder.
ITEM 3 - DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None.
ITEM 4 - RESERVED
ITEM 5 - OTHER INFORMATION
None.
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ITEM 6 - EXHIBITS