SEC Company Response from MIKRON INFRARED INC (CIK 0000787809) — Apr 15, 2005
MIKRON INFRARED INC (CIK 0000787809)
Date: April 15, 2005 · CIK: 0000787809 · Accession: 0001144204-05-011612
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Referenced dates: March 28, 2005
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[LOGO] MIKRON
INFRARED
April 15, 2005
Ms. Kate Tillan
Reviewing Accountant
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Mikron Infrared, Inc.
Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004 Form 10-QSB for
the fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2005 File # 0-15486
Dear Ms. Tillan,
After discussing with our counsel, the substance of his conversation with you
and your colleagues last week, I have set forth below, our responses to the
points raised in your letter dated March 28, 2005 regarding our above-referenced
filings.
FORM 10-KSB/A AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2004 FILED MARCH 21, 2005
Item 8A-Controls and Procedures - Page 27
1. We note your response to comment 5, but disagree with some of the
statements included in that response. Please note that it is never
appropriate to qualify your conclusion with respect to the
effectiveness of your disclosure controls and procedures. Your
disclosure controls and procedures must be either "effective" or
"not effective," it is not appropriate to qualify that conclusion
with language such as "subject to the limitations set forth above"
or otherwise. Please supplementally acknowledge your understanding
of the foregoing. In addition, in future filings, please omit the
"to provide reasonable assurance that" language that currently
appears after the word "effective" in the penultimate paragraph of
your Item 8A discloses in your amended Form 10-KSB. While you may,
if desired, state that your disclosure controls and procedures are
effective "at the reasonable assurance level," we do not believe
that the "to provide reasonable assurance that" language is
consistent with the definition of disclosure controls and procedures
set forth in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act.
Response: As reflected in the amendments to the Forms 10-KSB and 10-QSB
that we filed on March 21, 2005, we deleted all words of limitation with
regard to our disclosures pertaining to the effectiveness of our controls
and procedures. However, based upon our review of the controls and
procedures disclosures made by a number of other filers, we believed that
we were justified in lodging our philosophical disagreement with regard to
the position that you took in comment 5 of your letter dated March 9,
Mikron Infrared, Inc.
16 Thornton Road, Oakland, New Jersey 07436 USA
Telephone: (201) 405-0900 Fax: (201) 405-0090
www.mikroninfrared.com o www.irimaging.com
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2005. Based upon the statements that you and your colleagues made to our
counsel, we have a better understanding of the Staff's position in this
regard. Accordingly, we assure you that, until such time as a
pronouncement is made by the Commission, the Division of Corporation
Finance or the Staff that would permit Exchange Act filers to qualify
their disclosures regarding the effectiveness of their controls and
procedures, we shall only disclose that our disclosure controls and
procedures are either "effective" or "not effective."
In addition, we will omit the phrase "to provide reasonable assurance
that" in the controls and procedures disclosures that we make in future
Exchange Act filings.
2. We note your response to prior comment 7, and your revised
disclosures on page 28 of the Form 10-KSB/A. We note you continue to
state that there have been "no changes in [your] disclosure controls
and procedures..." item 308(c) of Regulation S-I requires you to
disclose any changes in internal control over financial reporting
that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially
affect, your internal control over financial reporting. The terms
disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over
financial reporting have two distinct definitions in the Exchange
Act. Please supplementally tell us whether there were any changes in
your internal control over financial reporting that materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, your
internal control over financial reporting. In addition, revise
future filings to comply with item 308(c) of Regulation S-B. Please
note this comment also applies to your Form 10-QSB as of January 31,
2005.
Response: There were no changes in our internal control over financial
reporting that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially
affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Our future Exchange Act filings will comply with item 308(c) of Regulation
S-B.
Pursuant to your instructions, we have filed this cover letter on EDGAR.
Of course, if you have any further questions or comments, please do not hesitate
to contact the undersigned at your convenience.
Cordially yours,
Mikron Infrared, Inc.
By:
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Paul A. Kohmescher, Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer
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