SEC Comment Letter for CHAPEAU INC (CIK 0000783211) — Mar 3, 2005
CHAPEAU INC (CIK 0000783211)
Date: March 3, 2005 · CIK: 0000783211 · Accession: 0000000000-05-010006
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Mail Stop 3-8
March 2, 2005
By Facsimile and U.S. Mail
Mr. Guy A. Archbold
Chief Executive Officer and
Chief Financial Officer
Chapeau Inc.
10 Greg Street
Sparks, NV 89431
Re: Form 10-KSB for the year ended June 30, 2004
Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended December 31,
2004
File No. 33-01289-D
Dear Mr. Archbold:
We have completed a limited review of the above referenced
filings and have the following comments. If you disagree, we will
consider your explanation as to why our comment is inapplicable or
a
revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed as necessary in
your
explanation. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide
us
with supplemental information so we may better understand your
disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may or may not
raise additional comments.
Form 10-KSB for the Year Ended June 30, 2004
General
1. Where a comment below requests additional disclosures or other
revisions to be made, please show us the additional disclosures
and
you should include these additional disclosures and revisions in
your
future annual and interim reports, as applicable.
Part I.
Item 1. Description of Business
Historical Overview
2. To the extent that it is significant to the reader`s
understanding
and to the description of your business, please refer to BluePoint
Energy, Inc., in the discussion of your organization and its
operations and your disclosures in Notes 1 and 4 as appropriate.
Supplementally please explain to us and disclose if BluePoint
Energy,
Inc. is a separate legal entity whose accounts are consolidated
into
Chapeau, Inc. See Item 101(a)(3) of Regulation S-B.
3. Please include a discussion disclosing significant patents,
trademarks, licenses and/or required government approvals that you
possess and that you are presently obtaining to enable your
proprietary cogeneration products to become commercially
acceptable
in the marketplace. See Item 101(b)(7) and (8) of Regulation S-B.
4. Please disclose the amount spent on research and development
activities in the last two fiscal years. See Item 101(b)(10) of
Regulation S-B.
Item 6. Management`s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation
5. In a separately captioned section of MD&A entitled "Off-Balance
Sheet Arrangements," please provide a more robust discussion of
your
financing agreement with Calim Private Equity, LLC and its future
effects on your liquidity, capital resources, market and credit
risk
support, the nature and amounts of any interests you will retain
and
the nature and amounts of any other obligations arising or
reasonably
likely to become triggering events that could cause such
obligations
to arise. See Item 303(c) of Regulation S-B.
Item 8A. Controls and Procedures
6. You disclose that you evaluated the effectiveness of the design
and operation of your disclosure controls and procedures pursuant
to
Exchange Act Rule 13a or Section 15(d). Disclosure controls and
procedures are now defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e).
Please
revise your evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures in
future filings.
Part III
Item 13. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K
7. Tell us why you have not filed a Form 8-K under Item 1.01 for
your
$5 million financial commitment by NJOCE for the combined heat and
power program nor included any written correspondence as an
exhibit
to the Form 8-K filed on October 22, 2004 regarding the departure
of
Thomas J. Manz as a director. Please refer to Release 33-8400 for
guidance.
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
8. In future filings, please describe the nature of the services
comprising the fees disclosed under the category "All Other Fees"
in
each of the last two fiscal years for products and services
provided
by the principal accountant, as required by Item 9(e)(4) of
Schedule
14A. Further, it appears that the aggregate amount of all
independent accountant services other than audit constitute more
than
5% of the total amount of revenues paid by you to your independent
accountants during fiscal years 2004 and 2003. Your independent
accountants are not independent as defined in section 10(A)(f) of
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 if the provision of services other
than audit, review or attest services were not entered into
pursuant
to pre-approval policies and procedures established by your audit
committee, if your policies and procedures are not detailed as to
the
particular services to be provided, if your audit committee is not
informed of each provided service and if your audit committee has
delegated such responsibilities to management. Please tell us how
your audit committee has satisfied the requirements of
administering
your audit engagement in accordance with paragraph (c)(7)(i) of
Rule
2-01 of Regulation S-X.
Report of Independent Certified Public Accountants
9. Please revise the heading of the report of your independent
accountants to refer to your independent accountants as
"registered"
rather than "certified" as required by Auditing Standard No. 1
issued
by The Public Accounting Oversight Board and effective for audit
reports issued or reissued on or after May 24, 2004. Please make
the
similar revision to your index to consolidated financial
statements.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
10. Please tell us your basis for classifying customer deposits as
current liabilities considering the amount has increased
approximately 33% year over year and the term "current" is
principally used, as it relates to this instance, for collections
received in advance of the delivery of goods or the performance of
services that are reasonably expected to occur within a relatively
short period of time, generally twelve months.
11. If you have cash equivalents please revise your description of
cash on your consolidated balance sheet and statement of cash
flows
to be consistent with the line item "increase in cash and cash
equivalents" presented in your consolidated statements of cash
flows.
Alternatively, if you do not have cash equivalents then please
revise
your description of the increase to remove the reference to cash
equivalents. See paragraph 7 of SFAS No. 95
12. Please tell us why you classify the deposits toward the
purchase
of inventories as inventory as of each balance sheet date and
provide
us your basis in GAAP for doing so. See paragraph 3, Chapter 4 of
ARB No. 43.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1-Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting
Policies
Revenue Recognition
13. Please disclose in your policy for revenue recognition whether
collectibility of sales is reasonably assured, if there is
evidence
of an arrangement and as well as how you account for product
returns.
Specifically tell us your accounting treatment for the
cogeneration
system returned during the year ended June 30, 2004. Tell us if
you
currently perform any installation and technical assistance
services
related to the sale of a cogeneration system, whether your sales
involve consideration in the form of fixed fee or fixed fee
coupled
with a continuing payment stream and if so whether the continuing
payment stream is fixed or variable based on your future
performance.
If you determine that you do participate in multiple-deliverable
revenue arrangements, please tell us how you allocate
consideration
among the separate units of accounting. In your response please
provide the revised disclosures that you will include in future
filings. Refer to EITF 00-21.
Property and Equipment
Research and Development Costs
14. Please include disclosures to satisfy the requirements of
paragraph 46.a. and b. of SFAS No. 142 for your impairment of in-
process research and development acquired and paragraph 26.c. of
SFAS
No. 144 for your impairment of property and equipment.
Note 3-Promissory Notes, Convertible Bonds and Warrants
15. Please tell us if the creditor of your convertible bonds has
waived or subsequently lost the right to demand repayment for more
than one year from the balance sheet date or if the convertible
bonds
have a grace period where you may cure the violation and it is at
least probable that you have cured the violation within the stated
grace period and prevented the obligation from being callable and
permitted your continued classification of the convertible bonds
as
long term obligations. If these conditions do not exist, please
explain your basis in GAAP for classifying the convertible bonds
as
long-term liabilities at the balance sheet date. See paragraph 5
of
SFAS No. 78.
Note 4-Common Stock
16. Please tell us how you determined the fair value and accounted
for the warrants to acquire 4,666,668 and 1,250,000 shares of
common
stock issued in March through May 2003 and issued in April 2004 in
connection with your private placements of common stock. Please
tell us and disclose the principal assumptions you used in valuing
the warrants. Also tell us how you accounted for the issuance of
250,000 common shares exchanged for services including in your
discussion the assumptions used to determine the measurement date,
fair value and the weighted average price.
Form 10-QSB for the quarter ended December 31, 2004
Item 2. Management`s Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation,
page 10
Recent Accounting Pronouncements, page 15
17. Your disclosures do not discuss your adoption of FIN 46(R)
which
is effective for the quarter ended December 31, 2004. Tell us if
and
how you have determined if you have a variable interest in either
Calim PE or Calim BPEP I, whether either entity is a variable
interest entity who has been identified as the primary beneficiary
in
the variable interest entity, if applicable, and your basis for or
against consolidation. Please provide us with a response that
addresses the pertinent provisions of FIN 46(R).. Also, please
tell
us the nature of your financing agreement with Calim PE and Calim
BPEP I, including which entity provides financing to third
parties,
whether your cogeneration systems are purchased or leased by
either a
third party end user or a Calim entity. If the cogeneration
systems
are leased please tell us if there is a guaranteed residual value
and
if so, who provides the guarantee and the amount. We may have
further comment upon review of your response.
Please respond to these comments within 10 business
days,
or tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please
provide
us with a supplemental response letter that keys your responses to
our comments and provides any requested supplemental information.
Detailed letters greatly facilitate our review. Please file your
supplemental response on EDGAR as a correspondence file. Please
understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing
your
responses to our comments.
We urge all persons who are responsible for the accuracy and
adequacy of the disclosure in the filing reviewed by the staff to
be
certain that they have provided all information investors require
for
an informed 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 writing, a statement from the company acknowledging that:
* the company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in the filing;
* staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff
comments 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.
If you have any questions regarding our comments, please
direct them to Brian V. McAllister at (202) 824-5664 or, Milwood
Hobbs at (202) 942-2846, or in their absence, to the undersigned
at
(202) 942-2823.
Sincerely,
Michael Moran
Accounting Branch
Chief
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Mr. Archbold
Chapeau Inc.
March 2, 2005
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