Yacht Finders, Inc.
56 Laenani Street
Haiku, HI 96708
April 12, 2012
By EDGAR Transmission and by USPS
Kathleen Collins
Accounting Branch Chief
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
100 F Street N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549.
Re:
Yacht Finders, Inc.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2011
Filed March 28, 2012
File No. 000-52528
Ladies and Gentlemen:
On behalf of Yacht Finders, Inc. (the “Company”), we hereby submit the Company’s response to the comment of the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission set forth in the Staff’s letter, dated April 6, 2012, providing the Staff’s comments with respect to the above referenced report.
For the convenience of the Staff, each of the Staff’s comments is included and is followed by the corresponding response of the Company. References in this letter to “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the Company unless the context indicates otherwise.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2011
Item 9 A. Controls and Procedures
1. Amend your fiscal 2011 Form 10-K to provide management’s report on internal control over financial reporting in a format consistent with the requirements of Item 308(a) of Regulation S-K. Also please be advised that you will also need to file newly signed officer certifications with your revised Form 10-K. Prior to filing your amendment, you may provide us with your proposed disclosures in your response letter.
COMPANY RESPONSE:
The Company intends to file an amended Form 10-K incorporating the following language under Item 9A:
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“ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that the Company files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedure include, without limitations, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by an issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the issuer’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
In accordance with Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15, an evaluation was completed by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report. Based on that evaluation, the Company’s sole officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective in providing reasonable assurance that the information required to be disclosed in the Company’s reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act was recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) or 15d-15(f) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the company’s principal executive and principal financial officers and effected by the company’s board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and includes those policies and procedures that:
● | Pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; |
● | Provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and |
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● | Provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements. |
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation. Because of the inherent limitations of internal control, there is a risk that material misstatements may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis by internal control over financial reporting. However, these inherent limitations are known features of the financial reporting process. Therefore, it is possible to design into the process safeguards to reduce, though not eliminate, this risk.
As of December 31, 2011 management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the criteria for effective internal control over financial reporting established in Internal Control--Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission ("COSO") and SEC guidance on conducting such assessments. Based on that evaluation, they concluded that, during the period covered by this report, such internal controls and procedures were not effective to detect the inappropriate application of US GAAP rules as more fully described below. This was due to deficiencies that existed in the design or operation of our internal controls over financial reporting that adversely affected our internal controls and that may be considered to be material weaknesses.
The matters involving internal controls and procedures that our management considered to be material weaknesses under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board were: (1) lack of a functioning audit committee, resulting in ineffective oversight in the establishment and monitoring of required internal controls and procedures; (2) inadequate segregation of duties consistent with control objectives; and (3) ineffective controls over period end financial disclosure and reporting processes. The aforementioned material weaknesses were identified by our management in connection with the review of our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2011.
Management believes that the material weaknesses set forth in items (2) and (3) above did not have an effect on our financial results. However, management believes that the lack of a functioning audit committee and the lack of a majority of outside directors on our board of directors results in ineffective oversight in the establishment and monitoring of required internal controls and procedures, which could result in a material misstatement in our financial statements in future periods.
This annual report does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management's report was not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the SEC
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that permit us to provide only the management's report in this annual report.
Management’s Remediation Initiatives
Given the financial resources available to the Company, the Company is not in a position to institute any realistic remediation of the identified material weaknesses and other deficiencies and enhance our internal controls. As such time as the Company commences operations and has the financial resources to address and eliminate the identified weaknesses, we intend to create take action to do so. Unfortunately, until the Company has such financial resources, the identified weaknesses will continue to exist.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting.During the last quarter of the Company's fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, there were no changes in the Company's internal control over financial reporting during the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting.
Limitations on the Effectiveness of Controls.A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues, if any, within a company have been detected.”
The Company will also provide newly-signed Officer Certifications in the amended filing.
Please be further advised that the Company acknowledges the following:
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the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filings;
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staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filings; and
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the Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
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If you would like to discuss any of the responses to the Staff’s comments or if you would like to discuss any other matters, please contact the Company’s counsel, Robert L. B. Diener, at (310) 396-1691.
Sincerely,
YACHT FINDERS, INC.
By:
/s/ Thomas W. Colligan
Thomas W. Colligan
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
