SEC Comment Letter for RELIV INTERNATIONAL INC (CIK 0000768710) — Nov 9, 2005
RELIV INTERNATIONAL INC (CIK 0000768710)
Date: Nov. 9, 2005 · CIK: 0000768710 · Accession: 0000000000-05-056916
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Via Facsimile and U.S. Mail
Mail Stop 6010
November 8, 2005
Mr. Steven D. Albright
Chief Financial Officer
Reliv` International, Inc.
136 Chesterfield Industrial Boulevard
Chesterfield, Missouri 63005
Re: Reliv` International, Inc.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004
Filed March 16, 2005
File No. 000-19932
Dear Mr. Albright:
We have limited our review of your filing to those issues we
have addressed in our comments. In our comments we ask you to
provide us with information so we may better understand your
disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may raise
additional comments.
Please understand that the purpose of our review process is
to
assist you in your compliance with the applicable disclosure
requirements and to enhance the overall disclosure in your filing.
We look forward to working with you in these respects. We welcome
any questions you may have about our comments or on any other
aspect
of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers
listed
at the end of this letter.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 filed on March 16,
2005
Item No. 9A - Controls and Procedures
Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures
1. Please confirm to us, if true, that your disclosure controls
and
procedures were designed to provide "reasonable assurance" that
the
controls and procedures will meet their objectives. We are
requesting this information to determine whether the objective for
the design of the disclosure controls and procedures is consistent
with your principal executive officer and principal financial
officer`s conclusion that your disclosure controls and procedures
are
effective at that "reasonable assurance" level. If true, please
represent to us that you will clarify this in future filings. If
not
true, please provide us an explanation.
Form 10-Q for the six months ended June 30, 2005 filed August 9,
2005
Note 7 - Related Party Transactions
2. Please provide us the following information:
* How you allocated the excess purchase price over par between
additional paid-in capital and accumulated deficit in the various
treasury stock transactions disclosed that reduced stockholders`
equity by $9,485,000 as of June 30, 2005.
* How your accounting for retirement of treasury stock complies
with
paragraphs 12 and 13 of APB Opinion 6.
* A reconciliation of your disclosures here with your related
balance
sheet and statement of cash flows disclosures. For example, tell
us
the number of shares purchased with cash and the number of shares
purchased by issuing a promissory note, including the date and
amount
of each transaction.
Please respond to these comments within 10 business days of
the
date of this letter or tell us when you will provide us with a
response. Please furnish a letter that keys your responses to our
comments and provides any requested information. Detailed letters
greatly facilitate our review. You should file the letter on
EDGAR
under the form type label CORRESP.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filing to be certain that the
filing include all information required under the Securities
Exchange
Act of 1934 and that they have provided all information investors
require for an informed investment decision. Since the company
and
its management are in possession of all facts relating to a
company`s
disclosure, they are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of
the
disclosures they have made.
In connection with responding to our comments, please
provide,
in your letter, a statement from the company acknowledging that:
* the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in the filings;
* staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments in the filings reviewed by the staff do not foreclose the
Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and
* 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.
In addition, please be advised that the Division of
Enforcement
has access to all information you provide to the staff of the
Division of Corporation Finance in our review of your filing or in
response to our comments on your filing.
You may contact Christine Allen, Staff Accountant, at (202)
551-3652 or Don Abbott, Senior Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3608
if
you have questions regarding the comments. In this regard, do not
hesitate to contact me, at (202) 551-3679.
Sincerely,
Jim B. Rosenberg
Senior Assistant Chief Accountant
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Mr. Steven D. Albright
Reliv' International, Inc.
November 8, 2005
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