SEC Company Response from NITCHES INC (NICH) (CIK 0000772263) (NICH) — Jan 31, 2007
NITCHES INC (NICH) (CIK 0000772263)
Date: Jan. 31, 2007 · CIK: 0000772263 · Accession: 0001206774-07-000276
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Referenced dates: December 4, 2006
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NITCHES, INC.
10280 Camino Santa
Fe
San Diego, California 92121
January 31, 2007
VIA EDGAR
Mr. H. Christopher Owings, Assistant
Director
U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporate
Finance
One Station Place
701 First Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20002
Re:
Nitches, Inc.
Preliminary Proxy Statement on
Schedule 14A
Filed November 7,
2006
File No. 0-13851
Amended Form 10-Q/A for Fiscal
Quarter Ended May 31, 2006
Filed December 20,
2006
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended
August 31, 2006
Filed December 14,
2006
Form 10-Q for Fiscal Quarter
Ended November 30, 2006
Filed January 22,
2007
File No. 0-13851
Mr. Owings:
This letter
constitutes Nitches, Inc.'s response to your correspondence dated January 24,
2006 with respect to the above referenced filings. (File No.
0-13851).
We have prepared
this letter to facilitate your review. Set forth below are copies of the
comments from your letter, and our detailed responses.
Form 10-Q/A for Fiscal Quarter Ended May
31, 2006
1.
We note that in response to our
comments in our letter dated December 4, 2006, you filed a short-form
amended Form 10-Q/A for fiscal quarter ended May 31, 2006. Please refile
the full Form lO-Q for fiscal quarter ended May 31, 2006 in a subsequent
amendment that includes new 302 and 906
certifications.
We are
concurrently submitting a second amendment on Form 10-Q/A for the fiscal quarter
ended May 31, 2006 which includes the full Form 10-Q and new 302 and 906
certifications.
Controls and Procedures, page
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2.
We note your response to comment 3
in our letter dated December 4, 2006. In this regard, we note your added
disclosure that a "[c]ontrol system, no matter how well designed and
operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the
control system's objectives will be met." Please revise to state clearly,
if we, that your disclosure controls and procedures are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and
that your principal executive officer and principal financial officer
concluded that your disclosure controls and procedures are effective or
not effective at that reasonable assurance level. In the alternative,
please remove the reference to the level of assurance of your disclosure
controls and procedures. Please refer to Section II.F.4 of Management's
Reports on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Certification of
Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports, SEC Release No. 33-8238,
available on our website at <http://www.sec.gov/rules/final/33-8238.htm>.
We have revised
our disclosure to state clearly that our controls and procedures are designed to
provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and our chief
executive and financial officers' conclusion of their effectiveness at that
reasonable assurance level.
3.
We note your revised disclosure
that upon re-evaluation, your chief executive and financial officer
concluded that as of May 31, 2006, the design and operation of your
disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of May 31, 2006.
Please disclose in greater detail the nature of the material weakness
identified in your disclosure. In this regard, please also revise to
disclose the specific steps that you are taking or have taken, if any, to
remediate the material weakness. Further, please disclose when the
material weakness was identified, by whom it was identified and when the
material weakness first began.
We have expanded
our disclosure to describe the deficiency in more detail as well as the specific
steps taken to remediate the weakness.
Exhibits 31.1 and 32.1
4.
We note your response to comment 6
in our letter dated December 4, 2006. It appears, however, that you have
not used the exact wording of the certification provided in Item
601(b)(31) of Regulation S-K, as required. For example, paragraph 4(c)
does not include the parenthetical language. Please revise your 302
certification to use the exact wording of the certification provided in
Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-K.
We have revised
our 302 certification to use the exact wording of the certification provided in
Item 601(b)(31) of Regulation S-K.
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Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended August 31.
2006 and Form 10-Q for Fiscal Quarter Ended
November 30. 2006
5.
Please comply with comments issued on
the Form 10-Q/A for fiscal quarter ended May 31, 2006, as
applicable.
We are
concurrently submitting an amendment on Form 10-K/A for our fiscal year ended
August 31, 2006 and an amendment on Form 10-Q/A for our fiscal quarter ended
November 30, 2006 which contain revisions corresponding to the comments issued
on the Form 10-Q/A for the period ended May 31, 2006, as applicable.
Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended August 31,
2006
Controls and Procedures, page
33
6.
We note your disclosure that your
chief executive and financial officer "[o]riginally concluded that, as of
the end of such period, our disclosure controls and procedures were not
effective in recording, processing, summarizing and reporting...and are
effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed by us in
the reports that we me or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and
communicated..." It appears that you disclose your chief executive and
financial officers' original effectiveness conclusion, but not your chief
executive and financial officers' final effectiveness conclusion. Further,
please note that the effectiveness conclusion should not be bifurcated,
but rather stated as a single conclusion of the effectiveness of your
disclosure controls and procedures as a whole. Please revise your
disclosure accordingly.
We have revised
our disclosure to clarify our chief executive and financial officer's final
conclusion of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls in a single
integrated statement.
Thank you for
your assistance in this matter. Please call me at (858) 625-2636 or James Mercer
of Duane Morris LLP, counsel to Nitches, at (619) 744-2209 if you have any
questions, or if I can be of any assistance.
Sincerely,
/s/ Steven P. Wyandt
Chief Executive Officer
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